Recent content by Howeird

I think I grabbed the last Abit IP35-E from the Microcenter in Santa Clara, but if anyone wants an Abit IP35-E, you might want to check out your local microcenter b&m stores. The IP35-E is $99.99 - $20MIR = $79.99, microcenter sku 916619 has been pulled from their online site, but might still...

Oh wow! I paid $10 more each! XD Oh well, you win some, you lose some.

Fry's has the Patriot 4gb (2 sticks of 2gb) DDR2 PC6400 for $99 with no rebates to worry about. There's probably better prices elsewhere after rebates, but I'm lazy and I've had good experience with Patriot memory, and there's also the instant gratification aspect. The price is valid in the...

lol, geez, I just bought the 3520A last week for $42.99 with free shipping, and now I just placed an order for the 3540A for $43.99 with free shipping AND a cheapo cd wallet. How low can they go? I just might need to replace the optical drives in all my computers with these NEC burners. XD

I'm running an ancient computer and was wondering what the ideal DX9 video card would be where my cpu/chipset/ram isn't such a glaring bottleneck. AMD Athlon XP 1600+ (Palomino core o/ced to 2100+) MSI K7T Turbo2 (Via KT133A chipset with 4xAGP...ancient, I know) 3 sticks of Crucial 256mb...

nuts, and i just bought the nec 3520a for $42.99 just on tuesday from newegg, and it's been shipped =/ should've waited 2 days to get the 3540a for $48 instead, oh well.

41021XXXXX for the Maxtor, 40921XXXXX for the Samsung. The Maxtor one says NetDisk NDAS on the center top and XIMETA on the tiny black bezel on the front, the Samsung one says GenDisk NDAS and plain tiny black bezel on the front. I wish the two I got were both Samsung drives, the Maxtor has a...

Scored 2 yesterday, then had it price adjusted today. All I have to say is schweet! One has a Maxtor drive in it, 114gb formatted, the other has a Samsung, 111gb formatted. The Samsung one was very nice and quiet, almost Seagate like, the Maxtor was slightly more audible but not as bad as the...

woohoo! I just grabbed the last one from the santana row bestbuy in santa clara unless they stashed more elsewhere in the store. Although I paid the same price for an 80gig barracuda IV a year and a half ago after rebates from fry's, this is still a steal for a seagate harddrive without rebates.

staples has the samsung digimax 360 (sku 512605) for $179.94, same camera minus the schnieder brand lens i think. there's a code found at f4t wallet that'll knock off $30 from a $150 purchase, making the camera only $149.94 with no rebates to worry about. this camera is about $100 less than...

I just picked up 2 today and think they're great for only $12 each, just don't expect antec/enermax/delta/etc quality. Raidmax RD-350W (350W) +3.3V = 16A +5V = 25A +12V = 14A 3.3V & 5V = 178W Antec PP-303XP (300W) +3.3V = 20A +5V = 30A +12V = 15A 3.3V & 5V = 180W The raidmax psu has 4 regular...

the online pdf rebate can be found here, good ONLY for the I/O Magic (rebadged BTC) 52x cdrom, NOT the Prime Peripherals (rebadged Afreey) 50x cdrom. I agree with the above posts, the build quality on these drives are probably e-machines level, maybe even as low as the defunct packard bell...

did a quick search for "officemax" and didn't find reference to this, so...... this is a b&m only afaik. I've been looking for cdrom with decent dae speed since my old dvd drive ripped at 2x (yes, 2x >_<) and stumbled across officemax's flyer for $14 50x cdrom. There are 2 drive sku# listed...

i don't know if this is a repost or not since i can't do an advance search, so..... goto officemax.com and search for item #01210424 for o'sullivan desk. It's $79.98 for a semi-decent desk. it's large, almost 6ft by 6ft, the top is 1in thick, while the rest of the desk uses 5/8in thick...

great price on a highpower p/s. highpower is the oem maker of power supplies for enlight desktop cases, afaik. so these are also found on standard enlight 7237-0X3 cases. these power supplies are definitely heavier (larger capacitors = cleaner consistant signal) than generics like Deer and...