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    Anandtech Holiday Giveaway!

    First random drawing 470 http://www.randomresult.com/ticket.php?t=184388L6WCM 460 http://www.randomresult.com/ticket.php?t=184473U76MA Greetings All! It’s that time of years again! I have an abundance of hardware that I have no use for and just don’t feel right about selling (seeing as...
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    1TB SSD for PS4?

    Anybody out there have a PS4 with an SSD in it? I have a Toshiba 1TB SSHD (8GB SLC NAND Cache) and wanted to put in a 1TB (960GB actually) in my PS4 *just because*. I have a SanDisk Ultra II 960GB and a PNY CS1311 960GB that I could potentially use. Does anybody have a PS4 with an SSD in...
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    MEGARAID Cachecade

    Hey all, Anybody here use MEGARAID products? They have a nifty little thing called CACHECADE, but it's only available via license. The cards come with nothing to activate this feature (not sure why you need a license TO activate it) and you go to the new website, and there's no information...
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    2TB Mushkin SSD

    Anybody know anything about these drives? I've been waiting for the 850 EVO 2TB to come down so I can nab 2 of them. Waiting for them to be ~2x the cost of the 1TB drives vs ~3x, but then saw these on eBay. Never heard of them so I searched for reviews and found nothing. Going to the Newegg...
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    SantaTech Giveaway Contest! *Updated*

    Apparently, the winner of the 6TB HDD was unable to claim their prize and has graciously donated it his prize to give to somebody else! I have created a new ticket and it is set to do a new drawing on 01/15/2016 12:00pm. So, a big thank you to "BTRY B 529th FA BN" for giving somebody else a...
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    Cheaper gaming laptop

    Getting my wife a new laptop to replace her aging Studio XPS laptop with a Radeon 3670 in it. Looking at the AMD APU laptops, since she likes to play games on it and the old c2d with 3650 is starting to show its age. I'm looking at the following options. Both are AMD A10 APUs, but one has a...
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    AMD Richland Gesture Control

    Hey all! I was reading about the gesture control but saw no reviews on it. I recently upgraded my A6 to a new A8 Richland to try it out, but to my surprise, the Desktop models don't support any of the new features AMD was touting. Is it really only mobile chips and I missed that somewhere...
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    Contest is over---------Summer Hardware Giveaway!

    Hello All! I've been a frequent member here for awhile, which is made evident by my post count, of course. Throughout the year, I aquire many freebies of new products that come to the market. Most of the high end stuff goes to myself, or friends nab it. That left me with a stack of...
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    AMD Radeon Folding @ Home Performance

    Anybody know if the newer version of f@h is actually pushing decent ppd now? I just recently started a few machines up again, but don't have any of my old GTX 400 series and 500 series cards anymore in my work machines. Gonna grab a new card for my work machine and getting either a gtx 670 or...
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    Best Cheap Raid Controller

    Sup yal? Looking for a SATA3 raid controller that can push 2 SSDs in raid0 at nearly max, much like the onboard intel stuff. Anybody use anything they can recommend? I'm going to add a second 480GB SSD to my current steam drive since I'm getting pretty darn close to the end of the drive...
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    Max number of writes of this SSD

    I can't find it in the specs, online, Google, etc. Anybody know how many max writes you can make to the below drive? The one I have now I've just been using for Steam and other games. I want to get a second and raid them for more storage, but don't want to if I only get like 2TB of writes and...
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    Couldn't figure out why 1 of my Titans banged in Device Manager

    Then I looked over at my case window.... I didn't plug the damn power in to the second GPU! After that, I just had remove from device manager and add it back. Now we're playin with power!
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    Microcenter SSD

    Anybody try one of these new 120GB Microcenter drives? The price definitely seems right on them. The older Microcenter branded drives used Sandforce, but this says BGA 324 for the controller, with 2GB DDR3 cache. The only thing I can find is a similar controller in the cheap Patriot Torqx...
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    GTX 690 only sees 2 displays after 306.23

    After I updated to the latest 306.23 update, my GTX 690 no longer sees more than 2 displays. I've tried different combinations and it still only sees 2 in any combination of displays and ports. Nvidia control panel only shows 2 displays connected, even though all 3 are plugged in. I unplugged...
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    Samsung 830 512GB finally more affordable!

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820147165 It's about damn time! I've been meaning to replace my 480GB chronos steam/app drive so I can put it in my wife's computer. I was going to go with a Plextor or Crucial, but of all the drives I've used, Samsung always felt the fastest...
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    2560x1440 Display for $399? SWEET!

    http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0384780 Anybody see anything on this? Don't see any reviews. For that price, I may just have to grab a couple.
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    SLI GTX 680 3 Displays

    Anybody with a single or even dual GTX 680s, can you tell me if you can use 3 displays? Like, have 3 extended desktops? Also, when you're in an actual game, can you game on a single display, then have other stuff on both other displays? Last time I looked in to this, you could only game on 3...
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    Upgraded to 3960x from...

    a 3930k! Wanted to try a new motherboard since my Asus P9X79X Pro has issues running 2x 7970 in crossfirex. Grabbed a Sabertooth and figured what the heck? May as well grab a 3960x while I'm here! I told my friend he could have my old system when I upgraded. Once I saw the news that Ivy...
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    GTX 680 SLI vs Radeon HD 7970 CrossfireX

    So, anybody that knows me on here knows that I like to upgrade to whatever the best is at any given time. Being that the GTX 680 is only marginally better than the 7970, I'm kind of torn on upgrading my current dual 7970s to dual 680s. Are there any reviews, or any users for that matter, that...
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    [Update from Asus & Intel] Asus P9X79 PRO + XFX 7970 xfire

    Anybody running a P9X79 PRO (or other variant) with crossfired 7970 cards? After troubleshooting for awhile, it was determined that whenever I had both 7970s installed, my computer would hard lock. Both while gaming or just in windows. It was completely random. Both cards work on my wife's...
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    Very slow boot times for SSD

    Short version: 2x 256GB M4 raid0 boot drive takes almost a minute to boot. Reinstalled on new mobo/cpu and problem persisted. Swapped to a single Plextor M3 and STILL the same problem. WTF!? LONG version: So I used to have 2x 256GB M4s in raid0 as my OS drive, and you would think...
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    Help with old game on modern system (SWKOTOR2)

    Not sure if I should put this in here or somewhere else. I'm guessing, or hoping rather, that it's video related. I have a 3930K, 32GB DDR3 1600, 2x 7970 xfire. The game is really choppy and does freezes during dialogue for a few seconds. I just got done playing SWKOTOR1 and it ran perfect...
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    Asus P9X79 PRO issue

    Hey all! So I got some new SSDs to replace my current ones. I wanted to reinstall windows completely on a single SSD instead of going the raid route. I still need raid set in the BIOS though for my storage drives. The problem is, Windows 7 will not detect any drives when I set the BIOS to...
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    PC in pieces with 3 256GB M4 and 2 intel 320 160GB. What to do?

    Setting up my SB-E system (upgrading from 2600K), and I used to have the intel drives in raid0 as an OS drive, and a single M4 for steam and games (never an OS drive or benchmarked, so it's still practically fresh). Options: 1. Single M4 OS, single M4 steam 2. Single M4 OS, 2x intel...
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    Free H80/100 with purchase of SB-E at Microcenter

    I got a free Corsair H100 with my new SB-E. I don't know if it's free no matter where you buy from, but it was certainly a nice surprise :)
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    Replacing my Steam 256GB M4 with....

    2 brand new 256GB M4 drives in raid0! woohoo! Going to move my 256GB to my bulldozer machine if I ever get my chip back from RMA.
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    OCZ Synapse Drives

    Anybody see any reviews on them? I just did a run through google and haven't seen any actual benchmarks or reviews. Just the introduction pages that they do exist. Started trolling newegg and microcenter and saw them in stock now. I'm curious to see how the software that comes with them...
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    i5 2500k Video Encoding Issues

    I gave a friend an i5 2500k, which he used to have an i7 930 I gave him before. It's a side grade, yeah, but whatever. At stock speeds on both, the i7 930 gets significantly higher marks. Everything I've read puts the 2500 above even a stock i7 950. Anybody have any idea as to what's going...
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    FX-8150 - Error while folding, Prime95 errors on 4 cores. Anyone else?

    BIOS is completely up to date. The board is listed on Asrock's website as being compatible with the 8150. Swapped memory, tried a different CPU in the board, nothing works. Folding gets sometimes gets to 7% before erroring, most of the time it won't make it beyond 2% though. It then...
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    Wow! A daily driver Kia I wouldn't mind owning...

    I know I know... It's a Kia... But damn. The only thing it's missing is AWD and I would totally sport that for my DD. http://www.insideline.com/kia/optima/2011/2011-kia-optima-turbo-first-drive.html
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    FancyCache vs SuperCache

    So I tried out SuperCache and it wasn't quite what I expected. It only uses the memory, but I thought you could tell it to use a full SSD as an HDD cache. Does FancyCache allow that? I'm reading the website and the demo for the SSD/HDD Hybrid section, there's nothing there showing the...
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    Black PCB PNY GTX 465 -> 470

    Ancient artifact city when I tried to flash it to a 470. Drivers were totally a no-go. Nvidia driver install didn't know WTF the card was. I got it to flash back no problem. I have 3 other 465s I'm going to try. Anybody have any luck with the PNY cards?
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    OCZ SSD Caching? Good or Bad?

    http://www.ocztechnology.com/ocz-synapse-cache-sata-iii-2-5-ssd.html
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    mixing radeon 6950 + 6970

    just want to confirm. i've never actually mixed and matched for xfire before, but read about it. i have a 6950 laying around doing nothing and was going to throw it in my wife's computer that has a 6970. if i do this, the 6970 will just "dumb itself down" to 6950 specs for performance...
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    intel srt cache non-os volume

    anybody do this? in my wife's computer, i re-did some things and got rid of her raid0 velociraptors for steam (level 10 gt case won't allow them), and put in a single 2TB with an old 64GB x25-e drive i had laying around. her boot drive is a 240GB vertex 3. she was playing borderlands, and...
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    How embarassing...

    A few of my folders were set to team 190 for some reason. 2 of which were my heavy folders :O
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    The Yellows!

    Everyone else shows their rides, so why not? The vette is mine and the solstice is my wife's (mini-vette!). 2007 Corvette auto 6 - full exhaust, IC'd vortech v2 @ 5psi, 540RWHP 495RWTQ, lots of electronic upgrades and goodies. 2007 Solstice GXP - custom aftermarket sub, GPS head unit...
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    Round 2 of surgery!

    Seems having a desk job gives a person a very high rate of getting ruptured discs. I just had surgery last June for l4, l5, s1 getting fused. Been in a lot of pain again recently and my doctor ignored my cries for help. Went to an actual spine center and they did a myleogram (talk about...
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    2 HD inputs to 1 split screen HD output

    Was wondering if anybody has done a setup like this. I want to be able to capture 2 HD streams, and then output them in real time with 1 output, making like a split screen to show both. Anybody set anything like this up before? What type of capture cards would I want for this? What type...
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    Say what you will about OCZ and SF

    But their RMA department appears to be top notch. After sending in a V1 120GB for the second time in 2 months, my ticket shows a status that they shipped me a V3 120GB as a replacement. If that's true, I shall take this drive and give it a sporting chance as well. At least they don't take a...