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At CompUSA: ASUS M5A97 econo shipping would be $4.89 for me You can put the 16 gig of that GSkill DDR3 in the 4 memory slots (32G max.) Can use Phenom II, Athlon II, FX Bulldozer CPUs. SATA III, USB 3. CrossfireX. no onboard video.

VirtualLarry, I see from your prodigious posts that you have an encyclopedic knowledge of these kind of things. Please let me tap into some of that. I have never bought a high performance PCI-e video card, just the bargain < $40 kind, although I may someday if insanity strikes, as it has a...

There's Fedora 11 now. PClinuxOS 2009, but still only 32 bit versions available. OpenSuse 11.1 Ubuntu 9.04 Mint 7 is a spiffier looking version of Ubuntu And for Windows there is a free software DVD (OpenDisc) that has Open Office, the MS Office replacement on it, among many other things...

The power supply at Frys 350 watts is good enough. 90 day warranty

If your computer now does not freeze with the new SATA drive disconnected but does with it connected, sorry to say probably your drive died a sudden and early death. The BIOS is probably set to auto detect the drives, and hangs up when the drive only gives back junk in response. This is...

A pretty common problem is an extra or misplaced stand-off shorting something on the back of the motherboard. They recommend setting the mobo on a box (or something) beside the computer case to eliminate this possibility. Don't laugh. Everybody screws up sometimes. Myself, I just had a...

Frozentech This is a bump for an old thread that is archived now and apparently can't be bumped. There is good info (and some funny stuff... well it's supposed to be) in the thread, but the prices, some links and distro numbers are out of date. archive link Frozentech, although not as...

Actually they didn't verify the mobo was bad. I was assuming too much when the status showed "Your RMA is now in repair, testing or replacement." They returned the original mobo in its original condition. That is: dead. It doesn't beep and there is no video. The CPU fan spins and that's it. The...

I have gotten a total of 5 refurbs from newegg over the last 3 years, two of which were flakey when booting to begin with and then died within a day or two by never booting again. A video board I got was good, but I think some one returned it because it didn't hardly OC, which was why it was OK...

Yesterday, the first day after the holiday, after finally getting my check last Friday, I got a second $90 check for the rebate, dated 1 day after the first. I have no idea why. What goes on at onrebate? Today I got an email from onrebate, after getting no reply in response to my emails, and...

Did you have a bad experience?

Well, I emailed onrebate again on November 28 at a different email address I found on their help page, and received no response at all, as expected, but a few days afterward the info on their page about my rebate changed to "check sent" with a black X next to it and no date. I still hadn't...

500 gig maxtor at Frys.com. People seemed to think 500 G for $150 was good, so maybe they'll like this.

>I see people talking all the time about having a dual core, and playing an intensive game, > running a virus scan, burning a DVD all at the same time with no lag. I'm thinking, how? As you mention, there are plenty of tasks that can and will use 100% of the CPU time available. If they...

Bump time again. It seems to get a few hundred looks each time. A lot of updated distos at Frozentech Opensuse 10.2 is available. (I only have Opensuse 10.1) Although Suse has not been as comprehensible as Ubuntu, it is gorgeously classy (perfect fonts and font sizes, customized program...