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    AMD YD150XBBAEBOX Ryzen 5 1500X Processor with Wraith Spire Cooler - $115.49 - Amazon [Dead]

    No, you are not alone. I ordered a single CPU and received a padded envelope as well that contained 4 board game playing type card instead of the processor. Contacted Amazon and still waiting on a refund as they were unable to replace it (or so they said, your experience says otherwise). As...
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    Logitech G710+ Mechanical Gaming Keyboard $90 at Bestbuy

    How is this keyboard? The price is better than anywhere else right now but from the reviews I've read at various places it seems to have a lot of issues with broken keys and shoddy Logitech service. My 8 year old G15 is starting to show its age and wear, so I am looking for a replacement and...
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    Motherboard for i5 2500k

    Hello, Recently was given a new in box i5 2500k CPU and am looking for a current motherboard that would work with this CPU. I'd like to build my wife a new PC using it which would be a step up from her current e8400 based system. Not looking for high-end nor the low end. Preferable a...
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    200 gig hard drive at Outpost.com

    The deal is back FYI. ;)
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    Nuclear reactor hot!

    For those interested the deal is back. Saw this over at TechBargains.
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    Princeton VL1916 19" LCD w/DVI $260 AR maybe $230 costco.com June 27 - July 3

    Picked this up from my local Costco yesterday where they had a big display of them at the end of an aisle. Replaced my nearly 4 year old 19" Planar I got on a Dell deal long ago. I have to say the Vl1918 is much better (to me anyway) than my old LCD. Looks good and no dead pixels. I have...
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    i need help choosing a el cheapo sk 478 mobo

    How about these? http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=AV49PN&cat=MBB http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=MP4M266A-N&cat=MBB http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=PX848-LIKE&cat=MBB http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=2PE800-PRO6AL-N&cat=MBB They also have this but it...
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    SVC Sparkle 250-Watt PSU NOW $4.99!!

    Ordered 4 on Monday, had them by Wednesday (I am in CA). So far I have used them to build two AMD Athlon XP boxes (a 1700+ & an 1800+) using spare parts I had lying around. Nothing fancy or over powering. Both have been running Prime95 for 24 hours and no issues so far. Both systems are basic...
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    Does Windows XP limit connections?

    Are you running Service Pack 2 on that XP box? Then this might be the cause of your troubles: MS TechNet If so there is no "fix", this is the expected result. Scroll through this thread over at Slashdot where it is talked about: Slashdot msg thread Hope this helps.
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    Small Business Server

    Statzere, If this is going to business-critical, you are honestly better off buying a name-brand system (i.e. HP, Dell, IBM. etc...) than building your own as wisdomtooth suggested. Not only do you get a tried and tested system, but there is the support and warranty aspects as well. The...
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    external ide harddrive enclosure: do they make them without an external powersupply?

    I believe this one dosen't require a external brick-type power supply, at least the last one I ordered from here didn't. Uses a standard PC power cable as shown, though you might want to check to be sure they haven't changed models. External 3.5"/5.25" USB 2.0 & Fireware drive enclosure...
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    Pair of 1.6 GHz Xeons

    These are great overclockers. I have a pair in an Asus PC-DL using the jumper mod running at 16x150 mhz bus speed (2.4ghz). This is using Kingston 512mb (2x256mb) PC2700 CAS 2.5 ValueRam, a Sparkle 550w EPS12v PS and stock Intel HS/fans. It has been running fine for two weeks at this speed...
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    [Dead] Best Buy: 8/29-9/04: BFG 6800 OC + Far Cry + Doom 3 - $299.99

    Correct it is a non-Pro 9800 128mb. I spent some more time playing Doom 3 with it at Med. Quality, even High Quality (1024x768 res) and it [plays fine. Though the price is good, from what I have been reading it may be best to hold out for a 6800GT to get a real boost in performance. Doesn't hurt...
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    [Dead] Best Buy: 8/29-9/04: BFG 6800 OC + Far Cry + Doom 3 - $299.99

    Currently have a 9800NP and have been playing Doom3 on Med. Quality @ 1024x768 very well. Would this card be a good upgrade. I already have both games (would sell them if possible), but the price seems good for just the card (if it is better than the 9800 I have) and Half-Life 2 is coming soon...
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    Pair of 1.6 GHz Xeons

    Good price for decent and cheap Xeon HS's., but be careful as these do not work on the Asus PC-DL due to capacitor placement around the CPU sockets (at least they didn't on mine). They work fine with the Tyan AN2668 which is not a good OC mobo for these CPU's. FYI. ;)
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    Dual XEON Iwill Motherboard for $129.99

    Good deal if you have the parts lying around, especially the RDRAM. Btw these are Socket 604 Xeons, which won't work in this board unfortunetely. You could try these: 1.8ghz Xeons at Compgeeks You will also need some Xeon heatsink/fans which are uncommon aftermarket. Hopefully it comes...
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    Recycle your dead monitors, old computers, etc., at Office Depot for Free!

    You can always do what a friend of mine did upon finding this out. He had six old, dead 14" & 15" monitors lying in his garage. Well in Cali it cost's about $25 just to dump these each! :Q Anyway he went to OD before they opened and left them outside their door. What were they going to do...
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    Xeon socket 604 Heatsinks

    Check eBay for people selling the stock Intel HS/fans or windtunnels. Other than this you might hve to buy the Swifttechs as there are not too many aftermarket Xeon HS/fans. Compgeeks used to sell some Socket 603/604 units made by Spire for about $15, check and see if they still have some. Hope...
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    Outlook and Exchange 2003 Help

    Are you hosting your own mail on the SBS2k3 server? If not in order to use OWA you will need to access it via the servers IP address if you do not have an MX record setup for the domain (i.e. mail.mydomain.com). To actually configure it you need to just run the ICW in SBS2k3. Hope that helps.
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    Xeon vs Opteron for VMWare GSX server

    Just attended a presentation by VMWare at our local network users group meeting this week and this very questions was asked. The sales engineer and developer both giving the presentation said that while AMD processors (XP and Opteron) were fine for use with VMWare due to their x86 compatibility...
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    Dual Xeon server motherboard question

    What is the FSB speed of your Xeons and cache size? If they are the 400mhz, 512k cache ones and depending on your budget you might look into this board: http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=240970 Otherwise either Tyan board is a good choice. If you are building a biz...