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HOA's are a deal killer for me when house shopping. It's not worth it to be told what to do with your own property by some old asshats with nothing better to do than get mad that your lawn is too long or you have a basketball hoop. They are almost always crooked as hell, siphoning money to...

I actually just bought another house with a new mortgage, while still having a mortgage on the current house. My current house is under water and it wasn't an issue. However we were required to sign forms that we intended to rent out our current property, which we do plan to do. We are however...

You were fine. It's your house, you can yell at anyone you want. Fuck that kid and his pussy father.

Meh, we get them from the inlaw's chickens all the time and they're good but I wouldn't say amazingly different.

On that note, I will make shit up on occasion. Usually in an effort to get someone to leave me alone though.

We just call these people full of shit. Harmless, but totally full of shit. Usually make shit up to try and impress. Many times it's simple things like trying to look like they are an authority on a subject, or have good buddies who are important (when in reality they are mere acquaintances...

The stock intel HSF's are actually fairly good noise wise if you aren't pushing it. Make sure you have your fan speed set for quiet or silent in your BIOS first. I use one in an HTPC and during media playback it can't be heard from across the room.

Give the guys at either Parts Express or Madisound a call and give them the model numbers/driver info. Or you can probably email too. You could provide them with the list of things that are supposedly wrong too. They should be able to suggest proper replacement drivers that shouldn't cost you...

Because Asus spends a lot of money telling you they are the only good motherboard manufacturer.

Because the drive started clicking but passed all the tests in Seatools. They still just sent me a new refurb drive (different serial numbers, and this one doesn't click). Most of the time they are too lazy to bother testing your drive right then and there and just ship you out a refurb as...

I've sent drives back to Seagate without a seatools code (thereis a generic one for no code available) and got a refurbished back without issue.

I have an ECS h61 board with HDMI and I use the igpu from a Celeron G530. And yes you get audio over HDMI.

You are shit out of luck. They are not responsible for your data. Rma it. And learn to backup.

G530 by a mile. Especially if you plan to run the Netflix app from within Windows Media Center. I don't think it's even really a comparison. The E-350's integrated graphics is okay but it really barely matches sandybridge's iGPU. This is only in gaming which neither is really useable for...

I remember wanting Matrox to get a good 3D card on the market for so long. Their 2D picture quality was amazing compared to anything else out there, and their 3D on products like the G200 had great quality but very sluggish. Rendition was a big player at first too, but they couldn't keep up...