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    YMMV; BestBuy Geek Squad UPS on clearance

    Test yours first. I do have one EA500 that works fine with a stepped sine wave UPS. Update - the 2 of mine that don't work with stepped sine wave UPS's are EA500D, which I believe are newer ones made by Delta. The 1 that does work is an older EA500 (without the D) that I believe was made by...
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    YMMV; BestBuy Geek Squad UPS on clearance

    I ended up replacing my 2 EA500's with Corsair power supplies. I found a statement from one of their employees in an on-line forum (don't remember which one) that their PS's with active PFC work with stepped sine wave UPS's. I don't have a large sample size, but I've tested the 2 I bought and...
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    YMMV; BestBuy Geek Squad UPS on clearance

    Yep, some work, some don't. I have three EA500's, and only 1 works with simulated sine wave UPS's. I have 2 CyberPower, 4 APC Back-Ups, and 1 old Belkin and 2 of my 3 EA500's refuse to work with any of the UPS's. The 3rd EA500 works with all of the UPS's. I tried to get Antec to replace the...
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    YMMV; BestBuy Geek Squad UPS on clearance

    Best Buy in Webster, TX had one returned 1285 in a beat-up box left - and they wanted the regular shelf price for it.
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    YMMV; BestBuy Geek Squad UPS on clearance

    You might want to give it a try and return it if it doesn't work. I actually have one Antec EA500 that works with a simulated sine wave UPS, so I'm 1 for 3. You might get lucky. For my 2 that don't, I found it to be cheaper to replace the power supplies than to get a true sine wave UPS...
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    YMMV; BestBuy Geek Squad UPS on clearance

    This is a very good price, but note that these do not produce a true sine wave when on battery. Some computer power supplies with Power Factor Correction don't like anything but pure sine wave. For example, I have 2 Antec Earthwatts 500s that won't work with a CyberPower 1500VA. However, a...
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    e5300 plus asus p5kpl $99

    Picked one up yesterday at Frys in Webster, TX - it's a retail CPU :thumbsup:
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    ***DEAD*** Fry's q9550 & ecs mobo $229.99 B&M

    Webster, TX Fry's is bundling retail box CPUs (mine is a SLB8V). I haven't put it together yet so I don't know if the board has a recent enough BIOS to support the chip.
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    Intel E8400 $159 with free ECS motherboard

    Interesting... I've purchased 2 E8400 combos at Fry's, both with retail boxed CPUs. The first was several months ago, and the second was this week (w/ ECS G31T-M for $160) . This is at the SE Houston Fry's (Webster).
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    [Expired] TechNet Plus subscription $99 for students

    From what I understand, technet doesn't have any development tools, e.g., Visual Studio. You need an MSDN account to get those.
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    FRYS Intel E8400 Box + ECS or Gigabyte MB $269.99 or $309.99

    I would have personally preferred an ASUS P35 MB, but the Gigabyte has a good reputation, too. There seemed to be plenty at the SE Houston (Webster) Fry's.
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    Hot? or Not?

    The HD channels are already in digital form, so the I'm fairly sure that no encoding is needed. I believe that the card just saves the data to hard drive as a transport stream.
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    Radeon HD 3450 for $49.99 + shipping

    I get the same result with audio. The audio device installs and claims to be working, but no audio from the TV via HDMI. Unfortunately, I don't have another TV or HDMI equiped computer to test with, so I can't be certain which device is at fault. I do know that my TV will only accept...
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    Hot? or Not?

    The HD Homerun does look interesting, but I'm sticking with internal cards because of the flexibility. I have 3 computers with HD TV capture cards, and they can all independently watch/record without impacting each other or the home network. I don't know how well you can stream HD content over...
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    Hot? or Not?

    To find out what Over The Air (OTA) HD you might be able to get (and the size of antenna required), you can check www.antennaweb.org