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    Geforce 1060

    Hello guys i don't post much here. But i do have a question. Is it worth the money to upgrade to a 1060(3gb) from an R9 270? Since the prices on the 580 are completely out of control, is the 1060 my best path for a budget upgrade? I'm mostly looking to stay around the $250 range. I'm mostly into...
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    Networking

    Wasn't sure where to post this but networking seem like the right place. I have an extra pc that is currently acting as a media server for my home netwk. It has videos and pics and music that anybody can access if they have a connection to my wifi netwk. This pc has several Tbs of information...
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    SSD Question

    Just a quick question. I'm thinking of purchasing 2 M4s to run in Raid 0. But besides a short boot time what is the benefit of an SSD? My PC is rarely ever turned off almost never (unless some kind of update requires a restart) Since it is never turned off i never have to reopen programs. Since...
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    Quick cooling question...

    I got a 3570k OCed to 4ghz under a Thermaltake CLS The temps are good. My room always a freezer with the AC on (around 70). But i'm running both Core Temp and HW monitor and my cores have drastically different temps. Core 3 runs at 30c while core 2 runs at 42c and Core 0 runs at 39c and Core 1...
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    Under $200

    Okay guys making the purchase on friday. I'm interested in the EVGA B-Stock stuff. A few great deals to be had. I'm mainly looking @ the GTX 480 and the GTX 460 SE SLI 1gb. I did a little research that seemed to say the 460s in sli is faster then a single 480. But the cards that were tested had...
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    Rosewill Thor

    Anyone have any experience with the Thor V2? NE has a decent deal for the Case and a 750 Rosewill PSU for a very good price. Honestly i was trying to move away from the mesh grills and stuff. I really want the NZXT 810 but it is crazy expensive. and plus i would have to downgrade my PSU...
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    Finishing my build!

    Alright going to be finishing my new build. Placing the order tomorrow and i'm still uncertain about a few things. The only thing i'm reusing is my 500GB storage drive and maybe a dvdr drive but i have so many of those lying around it doesn't matter. So far for my new build i cashed in on the MC...
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    Mid range

    I'm passing on my current setup and making orders to build my next PC, but i'm stuck on a decision for a card. I'm mostly a mid range kinda of guy and i'm looking for something between 150-250. It seems the current mid range Nvidia card seems to be the 560Ti. But is there any news on a 600...
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    New build

    I'm in the process of selling my old build that i've had for a couple years now. I'm Switching to AMD for my proc and Graphics. I got my wish list over @ Newegg. I'm planning a GIGABYTE GA-890GPA-UD3H AM3 AMD 890GX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard. With a AMD Phenom II X4 925...
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    ATi Switch

    I'm finally switching back to ATI since the days of the 9800pro. I'm going to replace my 8600GTS with a 5770. My question is, is there any noticeable difference in heat between the reference design and non reference. I'm looking closely at the XFX versions of either card since i am a huge fan of...
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    DDR2 Prices

    I was going to buy Win7 64bit to replace my aging Windows XP Install, and i was also going to pick up another 4 gigs of memory to make full use of the 64bit install. Some time early last year i picked up 4 gigs of Gskill ram for under 50$ something like 48.99, and now the prices for the exact...
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    Hard drive Issue

    Ok heres my current problem i'm dealing with. Here goes okay i just updated my main OS boot drive to a 320gb western Digital SATA drive, Before it was a 160 IDE Seagate drive and my Data Drive was also a IDE 500gb WD drive. So i installed my new drive and did a fresh install of Windows 7...
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    Quick question

    Thanks for reading my post. About a year and a half ago i got prepared to purchase my parts and i ended up only purchasing my motherboard which is a gigabyte P35 DS3L. a few things went wrong i never did complete the PC, zip to current day and i still have this brand new MB. My question...