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    Nokia Lumia 635 + Fitbit Flex bundle starting at $148.95

    Great deal from the Microsoft Store for anyone looking for a good deal on an inexpensive no-contract phone. http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/Nokia-Lumia-635-%2B-FitBit-Flex-Bundle/productID.305841200 The price depends on the version of the phone. With AT&T, the phone is...
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    OfficeJet Pro 8600 - $99 or less at Staples

    I just got a smoking hot deal on the OfficeJet 8600 Pro multifunction printer at my local Staples in Redmond, WA yesterday. The price on the website is currently $99.99, but they had it marked down in-store to $79.99, plus they had a 20% off in store coupon they were letting me use on it so it...
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    Adobe Creative Cloud 3 month subscription cards $99.99 at Staples

    This may not be for everyone, but it was a hot deal for me because it is a cheap way to get access to Adobe Creative Suite for some projects I am working on. The Creative Cloud subscription cards give you 3 months of access to the full Creative Suite of apps, including Photoshop, Premiere, After...
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    Kindle Daily Deal: Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut for $0.99

    Great deal on a great book: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.htm...d_i=1286228011
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    Refurb Xoom WiFi 32GB $350 at Woot

    http://www.woot.com/sale/motorola-xoom-10-1-32gb-android-tablet-with-wi-fi-6
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    Kindle Big Deal Sale: over 900 books $0.99 to $3.99

    http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.htm...d_i=1286228011 There's a whole lot of crap here, but there are a few diamonds in the rough, like Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell for $2.99, The Pride and Prejudice and Zombies type books for $1 each, and a few other goodies (depending on what you are in...
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    Book of Mormon Cast Album MP3 download $1.99

    http://www.amazon.com/Book-Mormon-Ex...ormon_shorturl The cast album of the well-reviewed musical from the creators of South Park and Avenue Q, $1.99 at the Amazon MP3 Store. Bonus hotness: the purchase also upgrades your Cloud Drive storage from 5 GB to 20 GB. On sale until 6/13.
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    2K posts!

    Just wanted to commemorate 2000 posts. It took me a little while to get here, because I drifted away from the AT Forums for a few years and am just getting back into them.
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    Vista 32-bit and EFI

    I was looking around in the file system of my Vista Beta 2 install, and noticed that there was still an EFI-related folder in the OS. It was my understanding that MS had abandoned EFI for Vista x86. Is the folder a leftover of that abandoned work, or are they planning to turn on EFI support...
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    Vista and Front panel audio jacks

    Anyone know how to reassign the audio output to the rear jacks in Vista B2? I have an Intel 915PBL with ALC 880 audio and Vista is sending all the audio to my front panel hookups instead of the rear output. I've tried both the stock Vista HD Audio drivers and the RealTek Beta drivers, but no...
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    X1600 Pro and dual-link DVI

    I've been looking at this Powercolor X1600 Pro lately, because I want to upgrade my video card from my X300 to something with dual DVI so I can possibly add in another 2005FPW (or a 2007FPW) if a hot deal comes my way. I'm not looking at the gaming performance of the card so much as I'm...
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    Lesser of two evils?

    I'm getting ready to get rid of one of my systems (probably going to part it out on FS/FT), but I want to use the 120GB hard drive in my newer system for extra storage until I can get the funds from selling the old system and buy some new drives. The problem is that the newer system is on an...
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    ILM Loves Their Opterons

    Apparently ILM has a lot of love for AMD, based on the cover story in the latest Wired. It mostly talks about Spielberg's new War of the Worlds movie, but buried in the article are a few nit of AMD love from the ILM effects guys: Spielberg became a convert [to pre-viz] when he met pre-viz...
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    Fry's B&M: LOTR Extended Edition Collector's Gift Packs $24.99 Each

    Fry's B&M has the LOTR: Extended Edition Gift Packs (the ones with the statues and the extra disks) for $24.99 each. Not a bad deal considering the box set of all three EE movies alone (without the extra swag) is over $75. If anyone has been down to the Renton store, can you comment on the...
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    Shuttle AN51R thoughts?

    I'm building a system for someone that won't be overclocked and probably won't be used for gaming. The person also wants a quiet yet fast computer at a reasonable price, so I'm going for a s754 Athlon 64 (probably a 2800+) cooled with a Zalman CPNS7700CU with a Sonata for the case. Right now...
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    CIngular Phone Upgrade?

    About a week ago my old pre-3G Cingular phone suddenly stopped seeing the Cingular network (it can now only access AT&T Wireless and it is the same story all over the Seattle Metro when I've tried to search for available networks). Not long afterward I got a notice in the mail that I can get a...
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    Thoughts on the Artic Cooling Freezer 7?

    I got one of the Intel Retail Edge bundles back in December. It was a cheap way to try out their new tech, so I jumped on the deal and got a LGA775 P4 3.4 GHz even though I knew it has heat issues. Right now I've got it running comfortably with the retail heatsink, which is reasonably quiet...
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    Legacy Electronics?

    I've recently been looking for good DDR2 deals to power an Intel 915PBL board I got through the Retail Edge program. Fry's had a good deal today on some generic PC4200 made by Legacy Electronics Inc ($159 for a 2x512 dual channel pack). I've never heard of them before. Anyone else gotten any...
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    Anyone used Matrix RAID yet?

    I'm building a new PC for my wife using the 915PBL mobo that came with the Retail Edge bundle. I haven't got the board yet, but it is supposed to support "Matrix Storage Technology" otherwise known as Matrix RAID. I've been toying with the idea of getting two drives and doing a 0+1 setup using...
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    Redmond, WA Target: TV Games $15.88

    My local Target had the Jakks Pacfic TV Games (battery-powered joystick with classic games built in that connects to your TV) for $15.88. The regular price is usually around the $20-$25 range. They had: Atari 2600: Pong, Centipede, Asteroids, Breakout, Missile Command, Adventure, Yar's...
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    Bad capacitor?

    A little over three years ago I built a system for my wife's aunt and uncle, based around an Epox 8KTA3 KT133A motherboard and 800MHz Duron processor. Just recently it has gotten a bit flakey, and they sent it to me to take a look at. It turns out the cheap PSU that I used (because they were...
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    Seattle Area: PSE is giving out coupons for CFL bulbs.

    Link to info page Good deal if you've been thinking about getting some more energy-efficent lighting. Since the coupons are per bulb, you can use multiple coupons on multi-packs (over at Home Depot there is a three pack of the 60W equivalents that runs $6.49, so it only costs you $0.49 if you...
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    Magnavox Home Theater $160 at Home Depot

    If anyone's been at Home Depot lately they may have noticed that they recently bought a LOT of the Magnavox MRD500VR Home Theater/DVD/VCR system. Well, they finally realized that the things weren't selling at the regular price of $299, so they've marked them down to $160 (or at least the Puget...
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    Pioneer DV-563A BB Clearance $139.99

    Just over at the Bellevue, WA Best Buy today and they had the Pioneer DV-563A DVD player on clearance for $139.99. Not blazing hot, but a pretty good deal on a well-reviewed DVD player that plays about everything, including SACD and DVD-A.
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    Refurb FireGL 8800 at Compgeeks $99

    Not sure why these are refurb'd, but if I get a properly working card it is a decent deal considering that new retail version of this card are still in excess of $200 still. I figured what the heck and ordered one. Sure, it is based off of the old Radeon 8500 core, and it probably sucks for...
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    Blue light special

    Got a little crazy with the blue Coolermaster LED fans. Got 5 of them lighting up my system, plus a UV cold cathode for highlights (like adding a little extra glow to the IDE cables and such). I'm still not sure about the yellow cable ties I have in there for a bit of color. I have some blue...
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    MSI disables vcore tweaks for Precotts

    Read this yesterday over at HardOCP and I was witing for someone to pick it up here so we could discuss it. Prescott Tweaks Dangerous Apparently MSI thinks modifying the vcore is dangerous on the Prescott. And also it seems that the processor is dynamically changing the voltage using Dynamic...
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    Looking for motherboard for a HTPC

    I'm looking to build a PVR box for my home theater (probably gonna use Beyond TV w/ a WinTV PVR 250). The only snag is finding the right motherboard for the machine. I need a micro ATX board since I'm planning to use an Coolermaster ATC-620C-BX1 case. I want to use an nForce2 IGP motherboard...
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    Poll: Would you Switch to Mac OS X if you could run it on PC hardware?

    I've always wanted to run OS X, but I could never stomach the high hardware prices or give up the fun of building a system from scratch myself. I'm asking all of you, if given a chance to run OS X on your regular PC hardware, would you also defect from MS if Apple gave you a real choice and...
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    Poor Man's TiVo

    I'm putting together a list of components I need for a inexpensive HTPC for my living room that I plan to use mostly as a TiVo type box, but also possibly for watching TV shows D/L'd off of BitTorrent links (that's how I got hooked on Dead Like Me) and other various things like that. Here's my...
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    Shuttle SK41G or SK43G?

    I'm looking for a sub $200 Shuttle SFF box for my wife's Grandma for christmas. I need Socket A, but want to stay away from NF2 based machines because I want to go budget on the RAM and based on my experiences with cheap RAM on my A7N8X-DX, that is something you want to stay away from with a...
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    Good place to get Chieftec front bezel?

    Does anyone have any suggestions for a good website to get Chieftec front bezels? I just got a black Thermaltake Xaser 2 given to me by a friend who broke the drive bay cover off of it. He gave it to me when I moved his parts into a new case for him. I think I'm going to fix it up with a new...
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    Optical out?

    Does anyone know if Asus makes an optical out riser card for this board that can be hooked up to the S/PDIF connector on the board. I saw one available at NewEgg for a while, but the S/PDIF connector looked different than what's on the A7N8X (one row of six connectors instead of two rows of...
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    Question about the fan controller on the Xaser II case...

    Just helped a friend put a new rig together last night and it all went pretty well, with one exception. His case is a Xaser II 5000A, and we connected the fan speed controller to the CPU fan (Volcano 7+), which was pretty straightforward (connect molex on one end, CPU fan connect on the other...
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    Anyone had experience with Fire Gl 8700's?

    I have just put together a new computer for 3D modeling and rendering, with a 2000+ AXP and an A7N8X motherboard. I am still using my old video card, a GF2MX which actually does pretty well with Maya and 3DS MAX, all things considered. I am going to be upgrading soon, and am looking at vid...
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    Pentagram Fan Grills?

    I am putting together a PC for my friend and he's a fan of Danzig and other dark heavy metal music and he wants to make a really evil looking PC. So far we are looking at a black case with window and a red cathode. What would be the real kicker is if we could find a pentagram fan grill for the...