Recent content by dmanharris

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    Low Budget Challenge

    Ok, to answer targeted use. (I'm a grad student doing lot's of theoretical politics stuff... data analysis big time.) Primarily a work machine: Full Office, Internet, ect. But also a numbers cruncher. Lot's of statistical information processing, and I mean lots. (we're talking about millions...
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    My email filters out any direct invites from Gmail but I'd love a personal invite that will come through the filters

    Both my Yahoo and University Spam fillters (The university one is aparently powered by some Yahoo subsidiary) filter out all the official Gmail invitations, and therefore I'm left in a really hard place trying to get one. I'd really appretiate it if someone sent me one as a personal email, that...
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    Low Budget Challenge

    Rather then make it a boring question about my personal difficulties, I decided to put a spin on it... Who can make the best bare bones set-up for under $500? The Rules are: 1. The essential parts that need to be included are: Case, PSU, Motherboard, CPU, Fan (can be supplied in retail)...
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    ALBATRON PX865PE PRO II

    I'm looking at the ALBATRON PX865PE PRO II ( http://www.buyxtremegear.com/mb142139.html ) and am wondering how reliable of a board it is, or if there are perhaps better boards, or boards with a similar feature set available for less money. At this point I'm looking to do a system overhaul, as...