Recent content by Ualdayan

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    RIP Gamers, not even the 1080 Ti will save you now.

    If it makes you feel any better, I RMA'd a card through MSI earlier last year, and they did the same thing. When they got the card I got this email: "Dear customer, Replacement is not available for your RMA. Would you accept below refund amount? Please respond via email within 3-5 business...
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    Real world speeds from T-Mo's 42Mbps network

    Which one? The link he did or the picture he posted? In my experience LTE is usually around 10Mbps on the upload (20Mbps on the download) with spikes up to (in my area anyway) 35Mbps down/12Mbps up. Tmobile doesn't seem to be matching/beating LTE, but then again $30 prepaid sure beats the...
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    Real world speeds from T-Mo's 42Mbps network

    Snapdragon has asynchronous cores so while Exynos is faster, Snapdragon should have longer battery life because it can downclock cores independently.
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    BitCoin: making money with DC - literally!

    No, there is a Gmail employee involved with Bitcoin, he got the CSV file going around on bitcoin.org and he pre-emptively flagged all the accounts in the leaked file to have password changes in the hopes people would all change their password in case it was the same as what they had on MtGox...
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    HTPC/server/transcoding and the role of the cpu?

    I went with virtualization instead of building multiple computers. It actually was pretty easy, and works well. I run a WHS VM, and a Linux VM on a W7 HTPC setup. That way it's all on one machine, I save power versus 3 setups, and it's incredible easy to back up my entire WHS onto a spare...
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    ILLINOIS MICRO CENTER: Motherboard scams Again!

    I'm more inclined to believe him myself, because of a similar incident that happened to me. I had an EVGA motherboard go bad on me (working to no post at all). I tried to read how long their RMAs usually take, and saw a lot of people claiming they'd be accused of having bent pins when they...
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    Convince me not to get a Macbook Pro

    Honestly, if you started out wanting a Macbook Pro you might be able to find cheaper or faster laptops but you're still going to wish you had got the Macbook Pro.
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    Realtek USB WiFi-N adapter with high gain antenna $13 shipped -$3 (LIVE AGAIN 10/19)

    The download link the person posted in this thread earlier includes a setup.exe that installs a rather useful Realtek program. Normally I just do device manager->install driver, but by using their setup.exe it installed a program to show you signal strength and link quality by 0-100&#37...
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    Comprehensive List of Bobcat mainboards and Laptops

    I'm definitely waiting for mini-ITX. Figures the first board to show up is the one I'm the least interested in. (partially because of size and partially because of terrible customer service in the past from Asus)
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    Realtek USB WiFi-N adapter with high gain antenna $13 shipped -$3 (LIVE AGAIN 10/19)

    It's in the spec list: Specification: RF Chipset: Realtek RTL8191SU 1T2R 802.11n MIMO (One Transmit and Two Receive path) Standard: IEEE 802.11b/g/n. 802.3, 802.3u Software AP supported
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    Realtek USB WiFi-N adapter with high gain antenna $13 shipped -$3 (LIVE AGAIN 10/19)

    The Cisco E4200 has been shown to surpass it. $149.99 at Best Buy with $6 ground shipping, or $179.99 at the Cisco store with overnight shipping included. Faster routing, and faster wireless, but $40 more. Review here...
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    First laptop: Acer vs. ASUS

    I made the mistake of getting an Asus because of the warranty only to find their support department to be one of the worst I've ever encountered. (so much so that I ended up giving up on getting the HD replaced under warranty on a 3 month old notebook and I just ordered a HD from Amazon to...
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    New Netgear routers announced at CES

    The WNDR3800 has more features, but the WNDR4000 is faster (450Mbps).
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    BCLK overclocking not a problem for LGA2011 platform

    If there is a car coming right at you the time for action is BEFORE it hits you. I don't think it's unreasonable for people to start thinking of alternatives even before Intel actually starts shipping Sandy Bridge parts. Wow, the very last part of 2011? Quite a long wait for any new parts...
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    Eyefinity Adaptor?

    That guy that says it isn't an active adapter is confusing it with older DP converters before ATI came in and offered low cost active DP adapters. The new ATI provided ones like the one in that link are active, and it says so in the description on Newegg. You will only need 1 of that kind.