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  1. jthunderloc

    WD Elemental drive Clearance at target BM 1tb/48.99 1.5tb/59.99 YMMV

    price went up on the 1tb, I picked one up last week for $35, almost all were out of stock on them. -Wes
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    Cavalry 1TB Hard Drive and USB 3.0 Black 2-bay Dock $49 AR

    With MSI and Newegg I've simply printed out the receipt they email you when you complete the purchase, its always worked for me. Tristicus, looks like it comes with a Cavalry Dock and a Hitachi HDD -Wes
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    Cavalry 1TB Hard Drive and USB 3.0 Black 2-bay Dock $49 AR

    I've never had a problem with a rebate, and I've done more then I can count. the reviews are less then stellar, but mostly due to the USB 3.0. Might go ahead and order it. -Wes
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    50% off 1 item at Adam & Eve, - FS + 3 XXX DVDs + "Mystery GIft"

    the freebies are almost always pure junk, the DVDs are sub par and you can get better pricing on Amazon. We had a sex toy gift exchange for XXX-Mas. Not bad on the big, expensive stuff. -Wes
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    media center control panel

    Hey all, I'm re-purposing an Home Theater in a box receiver that started dying. I'm planning on putting an HTPC build in it (have all the components, aside from the blu ray drive and a massive hard drive, but soon) Id like an LCD panel for the front to display relevant info, something like...
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    4890 Toxic Dead/Dying, need replacement this weekend

    I just upgraded from a 4890 to a 6870, should be a +30% performance increase. http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/HIS/Radeon_HD_6870/29.html If your 4890 was all you needed, the 6870 is above and beyond. Tiger Direct has the GTX 460 768 for $90 AR and that's about the same as the 4890 at...
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    Galaxy GTX 460 768MB $89.99 after $60MIRs + shipping @ Tigerdirect

    Does that $30 rebate stack, making them $60 each after rebate? -Wes
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    Micro Center Sandy Bridge deals!

    Looks like both the 2500K @ $180 and 2600K @ $280 are in stock at the Denver Micro center. Unsure if the Motherboard combos are still available. -Wes
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    Micro Center Sandy Bridge deals!

    Looks like the Micro Center in So. California has been restocked as well. I'm holding off, waiting for Bulldozer then I'll decide between the 2 -Wes
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    Heatsink for new 1155 socket

    On a few boards, yes.
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    Battlefield Bad Company 2: Vietnam + Weapons Pack + SimCity 4 + Mirrors Edge $5 Total

    Did it earlier and got the Specact kit. Glad this came along, wouldn't have spent any money on it. Honestly, took less then 5 minutes, ended up with 200 points. -Wes
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    4gb ddr3 $40

    comes up at $49.99 for me, 20+ in stock in So Cal. $50 for 4 gigs still isnt bad -Wes
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    Please Delete

    already posted by someone else. Please delete, thanks!
  14. jthunderloc

    AMD 880g where does it fit

    Depends on the resolution, quality of the monitor and how anal you are. I run my 2nd screen at 1280x1024 on D-sub and it looks just fine, no diffrent then the 1920x1080 screen next to it being run from DVI. -Wes
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    AMD 880g where does it fit

    Any modern graphics card can run dual monitors, and I wouldnt be surprised if the on board graphics could drive dual monitors as well. -Wes
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    AMD Thuban X6 OCing database

    Coretemp and HWmonitor display the actual core temps (reported, anyway), in HWmonitor TMPIN (0,1,2 depends) displays CPU Case temp, which tends to run 9*C hotter on the 2 1055ts I've played with. I do wonder if 60c is the safe max temp, like 1.4v Link Here. Ive seen these numbers on several...
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    AMD Thuban X6 OCing database

    I can tell you that on the low end its nowhere near right, Its telling me that I'm idleing at ambient or 1-2 *C below, which is simply not possible on an inexpensive air cooler (Coolermaster Hyper 21+) I cant guess how close it is to correct on the top end, but I know several sensors only get...
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    AMD Thuban X6 OCing database

    then it must be something with this board. Thanks jchu14! -Wes
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    AMD Thuban X6 OCing database

    Nope, thats me :) -Wes
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    AMD Thuban X6 OCing database

    Question for everybody, I was playing around with my 1055t and disabled 2 of my cores to see what a difference it would make with temps, etc and noticed that it dropped and locked my multiplier to 4, can anyone else disable 2 of their cores and see what it does to the multi? As soon as I enabled...
  21. jthunderloc

    Which processor for low profile gaming pc?

    Another vote for the i5 750. Unless you need hyper threading there's no real difference, and for gaming HT tends to hurt more then it helps. As far as USB 3 and SATA 6 there's no real point now. There are only a handful of USB 3 devices and the fastest drives today can barely max out SATA 3. -Wes
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    Phenom II X6 question

    I've done a bit of gaming (Battlefield: Bad Company 2 mostly) with several CPUs and most quad cores with L3 cache perform pretty similar, dual cores lag behind, and quads with no L3 land between the 2. I'm really enjoying the 1055t, swapped over from an i5-750/EVGA P55 setup. At this point, the...
  23. jthunderloc

    Friday 5/7 AM Shellshocker OCZ Vertex 60GB

    yeah, thats odd. Its showing it at $139 AR. hmm, one day I'll go the SSD route, just not today
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    *Dead* Buy 2 GTX470s, get a 950w Corsair PSU for free

    Or pretty close to it. Not bad on brand new cards, Has a rebate so its a free PSU and $10 off the cards. Please dont muck up this thread with GPU debate :) -Wes
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    Good cooler for AMD X6: ECO?

    you seem pretty set on the ECO, so I'm going with this... OMG! The ECO is the greatest cooler EVER! The reason it works so well? Its filled with the sweat of Chuck Norris! Personally, these little sealed water pumps are more expensive then a good air cooler and perform on par with them at the...
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    Good cooler for AMD X6: ECO?

    looks alright. the past offerings from CoolIt havnt been anything special, and I believe I've seen cooler temps with a Corsair H50 (memory suggests 45+/- at load) a good air cooler will perform the same or better, I've seen a few lightly used TRUEs for sale for $40, add the AMD mounting kit for...
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    AMD Thuban X6 OCing database

    Same here. Waiting on a new cooler to help dial in the temps and voltage. On a side note, looks like I've been running my ram in the wrong slots, I dunno if its AMD in general or this board in particular but the ram needs to be in slots 1 + 2 or 3 + 4, all the intel setups I've used wanted it...
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    Nuclear Multi-Core CPU benchmark

    Somethings definatly not right here, 1055t @ 2.8 - 1972! Nothing shows up in the multi thread part. -Wes
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    PII X6 oc

    Yep, disabled turbo and CnQ. The problem seemed to be a bad windows install, currently sitting at 4.06ghz @1.45 (290x14) To be fair, my last windows install was 4 CPUs and 5 mobo ago, including switching from Intel to AMD to Intel and back to AMD. Not really surprising it all went wrong and...
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    Cooler master hyper 212+ for $23.99 shipped

    You can get them at frys this week for $20. Picked up one for myself, does a pretty good job and no annoying lights -Wes
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    core i7 860 overheating

    70c is fine during stress testing, 70c at idle would be a problem. TJMax on the i7-860 is 100c Open up the system and clean it up and check to make sure the heat sinks are attached correctly (I've had 2 HP systems have the CPU heat sinks fall off) If everything looks alright move on to stress...
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    New Rig, Can't decide on x6 vs i7 and mobo

    I'm not familiar enough with tf2 to comment on which setup would be better, and I can't be sure but either setup screams overkill to me, but what I can tell you is both 1156 and 1366 are both being discontinued in 2011 and being replaced with 1155 and 2011, neither of which offer any backwards...
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    PII X6 oc

    not to hijack the thread. my biggest holdback right now is thermal. the 1055 will be much harder to OC then the 1090. Comparing a 930 @ 4.3 to a 1090t at 3.97 isnt really a fair comparison. -Wes EDIT- looking at those stable OCs, mine is on par or a little better then most of those...
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    PII X6 oc

    I dunno, I'm struggling to get mine stable at 3.9 on a 1055t, doesnt like the high CPU core clock, anything over 295 and it takes a ton of voltage, and it wont boot at all with anything past 297. best case, I'm looking at an OC of 4060MHZ and its taking a fair amount of vcore once I passed 3.7...
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    1055t OC help

    What are you using for temp monitoring? That unlocked multiplier has to make the OC process a lot easier -Wes
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    1055t OC help

    Tried 13.5x300, wouldn't even make it in to windows oops, forgot to disable the windows 7 power saving features. fixed now. I think I just need more cooling power, heat is whats holding me back now, I can get stable, just not under the 65* temp max. I can get stable at about 70* stress...
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    1055t OC help

    Yep, back at 1.65. Checked into hwmonitor a bit more and I'm reading that tmpin1 is CPU and it hit 69 during Linx, I had read that 65 was max safe so I shut it down. I could push higher if my temps were lower. Can I raise nb instead of vcore?
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    1055t OC help

    Set the ram up correctly, back to rated timings. I'm up to 4ghz, just trying to get stable. Looks like its going to need 1.475vcore, its so very close at 1.45. Temps in HWMonitor are good, I'm getting 55-57 on the cores, coretemp agrees with them. Little higher then I'd like but I have a better...
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    1055t OC help

    BIOS is showing me this CPU PLL - 2.500v DRAM Voltage - 1.500v DDR VTT Voltage - .750v NB Voltage control - 1.200v Sideport men volt control - 1.600v NB/PCIe/PLL - 1.800v CPU NB VID control - 1.200v CPU Voltage control - 1.400v Normal CPU Vcore 1.475 this is grayed out and looks like its for...
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    1055t OC help

    Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1600 rated at 9/9/9/24 @ 1.65v. I've got it set to the 5.33 multiplier, and I think the voltage is at 1.5 (or its at 2.25, hard to tell, I'll pull the settings up during next reboot) timings are auto set to 8/8/8/20. I set it to rated specs but that was at the 6.66 multi -Wes