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Personally, I just went out to B&M stores and comparison shopped, wrote down the dimensions of frames that I liked and compared those measurements with what I could find online. Without at least seeing similar glasses on your face, it's hard to really make a smart decision. ;)

Ordered a pair from Zenni (bendable titanium, silver, anti-reflective but otherwise standard lenses) and received them a little less than a month ago. They seem fine, if a little on the flimsy-seeming side. I was expecting something a little different from something called "bendable", but...

Cheap exams would scare me...

All I know is that my system runs Call of Duty 2 smooth as silk with 2x1GB Corsair XMS (had to manually adjust timings and voltage, of course; SPD is such a joke). At the time that I bought it, it was the cheapest CAS2 option; my advice is to stick with CAS2 options and just buy the cheapest...

What's the point of getting an EPS compliant PSU at this point (short of those few individuals actually building home servers)? Just curious.

BB has a $10 off videogames coupon floating around out there (good until March2006) that might spice up that Battlefield2 deal.

Good thing I have an inside line on the date...that remote viewing training is going to pay off big! ;) P.S. - Threw out my shot in the dark; here's hoping that I get an xbox360 in the mail come December 2006. :)

I had no problem at all contacting XFX and having them provide me an RMA for a mixup (packaging error: their manufacturer mislabeled and boxed up some of the UDE7 models, the ones with Molex connector, as UDF7 models, the ones with PCI-e connectors); I haven't received my replacement so far, but...

Yeah, I was hoping for a 7200.9, but it turned out to be a 7200.8. Bummer, but hopefully it works fine (the 10% reliability score at storagereview makes me wary, though...seeing as how it will be paired up with an apparently already failing Hitachi SATA; doesn't leave me with a lot of options...

That's because the $10 rebate was for 11/25/05 only.

If so, I'll be a very happy man in 8-10 weeks ($0.14/GB after shipping would be an insane deal for a large capacity drive; as it is, I'm happy with $0.26/GB after shipping...only thing that could sweeten the deal would be for it to magically change into a SATA drive). ;) Of course, Seagate...

The CompUSA ad had it listed with a $50 MIR (the scan I saw last week, anyway), whereas this is $25. $10 extra to have less "invested" in the rebate seems like a good deal, especially since you won't have to wait in a BF line to get the thing. P.S. - Use a Discover card to buy it at Newegg...

Coupon image for the lazy

I got one of those last year for ~$45 shipped from amazon. It's not a bad player, if your interest is in playing DivX/Xvid stuff...the remote is lacking, the firmware is in major need of an overhaul, it's a little on the loud side, and the display is certainly not top notch, but for a cheap...

How does this compare to the Infinity Theater pack (Primus c25 center channel, Primus 140 fronts and surrounds) w/ Dayton 10" sub? (can be had for just about the same price; only issue would be picking up a receiver to go with it...say, the Panasonic XR55 for $200) I know, $200 extra (for...