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  1. QuantumPion

    headphone EMI noise with gigabyte mobo

    Hi, I just got and installed a GA-Z170XP-SLI in my rig last night. I'm getting rather severe EMI noise or interference in my headphones using the green jack on the rear panel. The noise seems to coincide with video card usage, moving the mouse causes audible static noise, and playing a 3d...
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    24 Channel modem worth price?

    I just got an email from my cable provider saying I need to upgrade my modem. I have an early Docsis 3.0 modem which only supports 4x4 channels. I did not know that was a thing until now. I've been looking at new modems, and there are 8x4, 16x4, and one 24x8 channel modem. The 24x8 modem is the...
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    Real world performance benefit of PCI-E SSD's?

    Does anyone have any info about real world performance gains of modern PCI-e SSD's? I currently have a 256 gb Samsung 830 from 2011 which seems comparatively ancient, but it's hard to tell with all the synthetic benchmarks and what not. All I care about as a metric really is game loading times.
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    What straight up remaster (not remake) would you like to see next?

    After the relative success and popularity of straight-up re-releases (not crummy remakes) such as Homeworld, Rise of Nations, and Baldur's Gate, what game would you like to see have an HD remaster in the future? For me, the answer would be Master of Magic. There have been plenty of attempts at...
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    Offworld Trading Company (RTS)

    New game available in early access - Offworld Trading Company. Made by Soren Johnson, whom was the lead designer of Civ 4 (best TBS of all time IMO) and published by Stardock. It's on steam but I'm hesitant to buy early access games these days unless they are in a nearly complete state. Anyone...
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    Battlefield Hardline

    The beta comes out today, free and open. I did not play the original beta so I don't know what to expect but the gameplay videos I've seen look pretty good. I was really extremely disappointed with BF4 so hopefully these guys can deliver.
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    rant: mobile pop-app ads getting out of control

    It used to happen rarely, but now it seems like a third or half of websites I visit on iOS, including anandtech, have resorted to advertisers which can force-close your browser to open the app store directly to some particular app. I mean pop-ups on a desktop browser are one thing, and got bad...
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    VA delegate J. Morrissey re-elected...from prison.

    This guy is a scumbag of the highest order...yet keeps getting back in to power somehow. The most recent scandal involves sex and impregnating a 16 year old girl. Morrissey was found guilty and sent to jail. He resigned his seat, but only effective the day of the election. He lost the primary...
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    HDMI 2.0 for 4k?

    Does anyone happen to know if H97 motherboards such as this one support HDMI 2.0? I'm thinking of upgrading my ancient HTPC and would like it to be future-proof for when I get a 4k projector eventually.
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    From the Democrat war on women/culture of rape file:

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2014/10/23/cnns-carol-costello-laments-palin-brawl-remarks/ So left wing journalist makes fun of assault/attempted rape of Sarah Palin's daughter. Is this just yet another example of the Democrat's war on women and culture of rape? Or just an...
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    Yet another incident of anti-gun brainwashing

    In yet another case of Eric Holder-esque anti-gun brainwashing that ranks right up there with getting suspended for eating a pop tart in the shape of a gun, an Albany school has banned national guard t-shirts because they have the image of a gun on them...
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    Palestinian children's show teaches kids to kill all Jews

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ORAM-usqhQ How is Israel supposed to live in peace with a culture that values the death of their enemies over their own lives, who brainwash their childen to hate and kill all Jews, and who routinely volunteer to be human shields to garner media attention from...
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    Space Run

    Just wanted to give a heads up about this game. The only person I've seen talk about it is TotalBiscuit, but I picked it up for $10 because it looked neat. This game is extremely fun. It is one of those very simple but deep strategy games which provides hours of fun and I highly recommend...
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    iphone 5 buffering problems

    Anyone else have buffering/streaming issues with iphone 5? Whether I'm on AT&T LTE, 4G, or even wifi, the iphone cannot manage to keep a live stream buffered. I can download tens of megabytes instantly but I can't keep a 10 kbps stream going without buffering for 20 seconds for every 10 seconds...
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    Where to buy a 5a power brick locally?

    My monitor's 12V 5A power supply died on me. I'd like to buy one locally but not sure where. Anyone know of what B&M store might sell one, or what cheap electronics item might include one? They are $10-$20 online but I need it asap and with overnight shipping would end up being ~$40ish.
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    Far Cry 3 "bricked".

    So Far Cry 3 only lets you have one save file. The file gets loaded on the ubisoft cloud. So does anyone know how to fix it when your save gets corrupted? When I try to launch the game it crashes immediately. There seems to be no way to revert or delete the cloud or local save. I already tried...
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    Police murder 80-year old man in bed, try to alter evidence

    From http://reason.com/reasontv/2014/02/13/police-shoot-kill-80-year-old All of these officers should be guilty of first degree murder. But I'm sure they will avoid any punishment whatsoever. More evidence of the breakdown of the rule of law in the U.S.
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    2 new bugs in recent iOS update

    Don't know why they changed this, but now interface sound volume is linked to music/media volume. So if your media volume is muted, even though your ringer is not in silent mode, you'll have no interface sounds. Kind of annoying, as I don't want my media volume maxed out without headphones...
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    Windows 8 stops audio when display times out

    So this is a dumb bug. If you have the display set to turn off after x minutes, and you are using an HDMI audio receiver, when the display turns off the audio turns off too. This did not occur with previous versions of windows. It is highly annoying as I have to turn off the display sleep mode...
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    Stardrive

    Anyone get this game that just came out? I've been watching a let's play and it looks pretty sweet so far but I haven't seen any other reviews as of yet. Graphics and music look solid at least. Also, it has Samurai Bears apparently. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ4sUXVEEaU
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    I want to buy RCT3 after watching this (lol)

    I love this guy's channel, he cracks me up. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI1TE8AuY5U&feature=plcp
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    need help identifying two songs from short clips

    Can anyone identify these two songs from these short clips? http://www.freefilehosting.net/untitled_11 http://www.freefilehosting.net/untitled2_1 :hmm:
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    A Game of Dwarves

    Just heard about this now on youtube. Is it Dwarf Fortress 3d? http://store.steampowered.com/app/200370/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njBlnDk7om0&feature=g-u-u
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    Son of VA democrat congressman Jim Moran caught on tape advising how to voter fraud

    Another bombshell from James O'Keefe. Story developing. http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/patrick-moran-son-of-va-rep-jim-moran-resigns-from-campaign-after-okeefe-video-released/2012/10/24/f5805d26-1e22-11e2-8817-41b9a7aaabc7_story.html How can Moran not resign his campaign after this? And...
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    Why is windows so networking slow and buggy

    Why is Windows 7 so ridiculously slow and buggy when trying to browse shared remote folders over a network? It takes 2 or 3 attempts just to log in without the windows explorer window crashing. It then literally takes my HTPC 3-5 minutes to show the contents of a folder on my office computer...
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    android viruses/trojans?

    Is there some new android virus/trojan which hijacks a phone and causes it to send spam text messages to people in their address book? Because I've gotten a couple lately...
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    iOS 6 yays and boos

    Yay: for lock screen music controls of podcasts, they got rid of the previous/next track buttons which were way to close to the play button and replaced them with 15 sec forward/reverse buttons. Big welcome change, as before I would often accidentally rewind a 2 hour long podcast when trying to...
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    Anyone PC game on 3g/4g home cellular broadband?

    I'm considering moving in the near future, but the areas I'm looking at are pretty rural and don't have cable or DSL. They do have verizon homefusion though (and some with 4g lte). Is 3g or 4g LTE broadband fast enough/low latency enough for FPS gaming? The only problem is the bandwidth cap of...
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    Who's preordering X-COM?

    X-Com is now available for pre-order on steam. They are advertising some DLC rewards if they get enough pre-orders. I'm really a big fan of the original X-Com but still remember getting burned with the travesty that was Civ 5. I don't know if the same guys that did Civ 5 did X-Com though. So who...
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    2nd FUUUUUU brake-stomping e-break-yanking near miss in 2 days

    For the second time in two days I had some ass-hat in a SUV cut me off in a sudden swerving high speed lane change, and after realizing they nearly hit me, proceed to panic and slam on their brakes while inches in in front of me. The only way I avoided both collisions was by slamming on my...
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    who's addicted to save/reload? this guy.

    I just realized last night how dependent I am on saving and reloading, and how it affects the way I play games. I was playing Master of Magic last night, well into a game on hard that was actually going well for once. As usual, I left my capital defended only with 2 spearmen and no city walls...
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    problem with adobe flash 11 & surround sound

    On my computer, I have a 5.1 surround speaker set up using HDMI audio from the video card going to an external receiver. My windows sound setting is set to use 5.1 sound. Normally, when playing stereo sound sources like mp3's, and flash videos, the sound is correctly outputted in stereo...
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    switched from iphone to android, having regrets...

    So I recently got my samsung gs3. I'm loving the screen. However, there are several totally unacceptable fatal flaws with android that are seriously making me regret my purchase. I'm on the verge of going back to my iphone. 1) volume control is whacked. Why does the volume rocker control...
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    (Cleric of) New President of Egypt: "Our Capital 'Shall Be Jerusalem, Allah Willing"

    http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2012/06/24/Egypts-New-President-Our-Capital-Shall-Be-Jerusalem-Allah-Willing My prediction: muslim brotherhood delcares war on Israel, drives their 40 year old col-war era tanks over the border, get the snot beat out of them, Israel takes the Sinai back...
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    unlocked or carrier phone out of contract?

    I'm on AT&T. Are the only difference between getting the international/unlocked Samsung Galaxy S3 vs. waiting for the AT&T version: a) no 4g, HSPDA+ only (which doesn't matter to me since I'm not in an LTE market yet) and b) no carrier garbage programs? I'm trying to decide if it's worth the...
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    argh, 19" tires so expensive. Anyone wanna trade wheels?

    My 2011 mustang came with the 19" machined alloy wheels which are like a $1200 extra option. I didn't want them, I don't really like the look of them, but they came with the car I otherwise wanted. Now it's time for new tires and crap, 19" tires are like $300 more for a set of four compared to...
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    anyone know a good iphone budget app?

    I already have a budget, I just need an app that lets me quickly add expenses and categorize them and show me how much I have left on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. I don't need advanced features like bill tracking, recurring payments, reports, etc. I just need an app that is simple and...
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    Oh snap, the birthers strike again!

    http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/17/The-Vetting-Barack-Obama-Literary-Agent-1991-Born-in-Kenya-Raised-Indonesia-Hawaii From Obama's own literary agency in 1991! D:
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    20% off all 5.11 Tactical products on 5/11/12

    Great pants and accessories. I especially like the covert tactical pants - cargo pants that look like regular khakis. http://www.511tactical.com/ Use coupon code 511DAY.
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    asus p8z77-v pro can't control cpu fan speed?

    Is it just me or is the motherboard not capable of changing the cpu fan speed? Using either the bios options or the software, the fans always spin at full speed. They are noctua 3-pin fans on the DH14. The other case fans (which are also 3-pin) can be controlled just fine.