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    Successor or potential successors to LCDs?

    That crystal LCD that Sony showed off at CES would make the most sense as far as technical aspects go. If they ever make it to market they would likely be crazy expensive. It works fairly similar to OLED and should really be what we call an LED tv (curse marketing for calling led backlight...
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    3DS costs about $100 to make

    Nintendo's philosophy lately has been to sell cheap hardware with a gimmick. With the Wii and DS though they at least passed some of the savings onto the consumer. So far I'm not impressed with the power of the 3DS for that price range and especially not for the tiny battery life that it has...
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    Worth stepping up to GTX 590 from GTX 580?

    I know my EVGA cards all carry a lifetime warranty. They even replaced an old 7950x2 with a 9800gt for me awhile back. Is this still the case with the step up plan? If so that probably has to be factored into the dying issue.
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    DICE Message To Competition: We Are Coming For You

    I don't know how people can say CoD is the same game over and over again. At least for the PC it has been all downhill since CoD4. WaW was decent, but didn't capture all of the CoD4 glory. The mp40 spam from the hip was excessive. The added zombie mode was a great addition though. MW2 was...
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    Radeon 6950 can run games at 1080P?

    I could be wrong, but I don't think the Sony BRAVIA listed at 120Hz is a true 120Hz. I believe it is just a 60Hz with their "motionflow." So the computer is only going to recognize it as a 60Hz. This is of course unless you got the KDL-60NX810. As for the 1080p part. You should definitely be...
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    whats better gtx 460 or the 540gt

    It is important not to forget the m in the model number. As far as the 460m and the 540m are concerned, the 460m is the faster of the two. The 500m series seemed to focus more on lowering the power draw. The 460m probably compares to like a 8800 ultra.
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    [KingPin] GTX-590 Max OC Extreme Cooling Madness!

    Have you seen any of TiN's zombie cards? He will often hack up old/dead cards for their VRMs. http://kingpincooling.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1095 is an example of what he did with a dead radeon 2900xt.
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    What are Pentium 4 rigs good for anymore?

    I used one for a nas/router for awhile. Then I figured for how cheap I could build a better NAS that used less power and took up a quarter of the space it just wasn't worth it. Eventually I ended up putting a lightweight linux install like puppy on it and made it feel fast for awhile. I put...
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    Netbook Operating System Choice

    I'm using easypeasy on my Eee right now. While i hate the name it seems to be working pretty well for me. Currently all i really use it for is some web browsing and as a mythtv frontend(which takes forever to load but plays SD shows rather well). I use to use eeebuntu, which I really liked...
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    P8P67 Pro all sorts of issues UPDATE: better now!

    In the bios, under Ai Tweaker did you set the AI Overclock Tuner to X.M.P? If not it defaults to safe speeds for the memory. They cover it in section 3.4 of the manual if you want further info.
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    Do any current graphics cards take advantage of PCI-E 2.0?

    Oh you are right. I was confusing bandwidth with base clock speed.
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    Do any current graphics cards take advantage of PCI-E 2.0?

    Actually wouldn't PCI-E 1.0 x16 be closer to PCI-E 2.0 x5? 2.5GT/s compared to 8GT/s. Even then you are right with the performance lose though, it is very minimal for anything other then very high resolutions(over 1920x1200) or multi monitor setups.
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    Any 1155 boards with 6+ memory sockets?

    By doing the exact same thing as the ASUS P7F7-E. It also only has a dual channel memory controller.
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    Any 1155 boards with 6+ memory sockets?

    I realize that. It is a 1156 socket board designed for Lynnfield Xeons. I only mentioned it to show that it wouldn't be impossible to see a 1155 socket board with 6 ram sockets. It just isn't very likely. Though with Sandy Bridge having a max listed memory support of 32gb and the highest...
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    P8P67 issues

    I really don't like the locking mechanism it has. It seemed like there was too much lateral friction that it was having a hard time getting under the nub. Mine made a crunching noise as well. I agree with bigi though, anytime i have ever had a BSOD during a windows install was either from a...
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    Any 1155 boards with 6+ memory sockets?

    There are ways to get around this. Like what ASUS did with http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131648. It is just a rare setup as there are probably only a handful of people that will ever even use 16gb that are in the market for a $250ish cpu.
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    Any 1155 boards with 6+ memory sockets?

    Well if you are willing to pay for it you could get 4x8gb. Though it is harder to find 16gb or 32gb kits. I know newegg doesn't sell any. Crucial as well as other manufactures probably sell them straight from their sites though. Thats is probably going to run you at least $1200 though. Most...
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    Li-Po battery pack info?

    I'm currently using an iCharger 208b. http://www.progressiverc.com is the US retailer for them. I found mine on sale at http://www.hobbyking.com. It is a really nice little charger that is usually highly recommended on R/C forums and will do a variety of different battery types. I also have...
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    2500K/Asus P8P67 board - cooler compatibility issues

    Correct. The board recommends that you use A2 and B2 for a 2 stick setup. It seemed odd, but worked with my setup.
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    2500K/Asus P8P67 board - cooler compatibility issues

    I'm using a Tuniq 120 Extreme. It blocks out the 4th ram slot though to any high profile ram. I'm just using 2x4gig sticks though so it works. The top left corner was a bit cramped, but it does fit. Still disappointed that they put the cpu so close to the ram slots though, my old evga 775...
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    HDMI or DVI? for connection to TV

    I'm not positive with ati cards, but older NVIDIA cards that didn't natively support sound through the hdmi adapter usually came with a spdif cable like...
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    New Video Card or 2500k build

    If my math is right PCI-e 1.0 would be the same as a PCI-e 2.0 x5. Basically 2.5GT/s. http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/HD_5870_PCI-Express_Scaling/7.html Here is an example of how a PCI-e 2.0 x4 vs x16 compare as far as fps go. With the 570 being more powerful then the HD 5870 i would...
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    Best way to connect a monitor+three 1080p HDTVs to a PC

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814139055 Quad DVI on that. Though the reviews don't offer much confidence though. Would just need 3 cheap dvi to hdmi adapters then. Edit: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814139047 also a pci version.
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    New Video Card or 2500k build

    At 3.2 he is already at a 800Mhz OC. I'm assuming thats with a decent heatsink already. Another 60-80bucks for a cooler to gain 400Mhz more probably isn't worth it. That said I was in a similar situation as you and went with the Sandy Bridge. My deciding factor was the games I play were...
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    Help/thoughts on HTPC/server and light gaming build

    The "light gaming" makes it slightly difficult. For a htpc/server a i5 2500, asus p8H67, with the onboard graphics would do very nicely and be fairly future-proof. This kinda straps the budget for a discrete video card though. You might want to try to find a used core2quad or i5/i7. From the...
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    Video card recommendation

    Evga 470 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130550 $259, also has a 20buck mail in rebate. Probably the best you can do for 250. Though i definately agree with dpodblood about waiting for the 560 and see where it stacks up. Most seem to think it will also be in the $250 range...
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    Sandybridge Midrange HTPC+ build

    Has the definition of HTPC changed? I'm sure you will love that build, but if all you are doing is recording/encoding/playback of 1080p a i5 2500 on a H67 board using the SB hd 2000 for graphics and 4gigs of ram would have done nicely. With the p67 you aren't going to be able to do the...
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    My HTPC C2D is starting to slow...what to upgrade?

    The 5450 has UVD 2.2 if I'm not mistaken. I'm only familiar with NVIDIA hardware acceleration (specifically vdpau on linux), but doesn't that take most of the load off the cpu during blu-ray playback? What kind of cpu usage do you get when just watching a blu-ray? Also what program are you...
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    Why Sandy Bridge?

    The major reason is that the i5 2500k is at the same price point as the 6 core amd chips and in most if not all cases out performs them. So basically at the moment you are only spending about 50 more in the final build because of higher average prices on the 1155 motherboards. Nearly all of...
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    HTPC build, will start with AMD 2GB chip, help

    You might want to consider something like http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813157187 as well. Then using a DVI to HDMI connector. I would doubt you could get sound out of the hdmi though. I'm also not sure if the geforce 8200 has universal vc-1 support as far as hardware...
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    Sandy Bridge and 16 total PCI-E lanes. Is this going to be a problem?

    http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GTX_480_PCI-Express_Scaling/24.html Was the closest I could find. Had the same question myself, but from the comparisons there I'm not to worried. Edit: http://hardocp.com/article/2010/08/23/gtx_480_sli_pcie_bandwidth_perf_x16x16_vs_x8x8/3 I believe...