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    Closed bidding on a house

    I found a nice place for 165k in a neighborhood that runs closer to 300k. It needs a decent amount of fix up (paint, carpet, etc) but nothing structural. I estimate the repair costs to be no more than 10k. The house is a short sale and is running a closed bid. There are two offers on the house...
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    Hard Drive 0'd by itself, possible?

    I do a little repair work on the side and got a laptop from someone with little experience saying she was using her PC and after restarting it got a "Invalid system disk" error message. After a little investigation I found that the drive was lacking a boot partition and from there checked to...
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    AT style signal to ATX style

    So I have a gutted NES with it's AT style toggle switch. I'm going to be building an atx system inside of it and I was wondering if there's a way to get a "single pulse" from the power switch's toggle. I would like to keep this PC as close to the NES' functionality as possible, and I'd like to...
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    Vuzix VR920

    Tom's just did a review of Vuzix VR920 virtual reality headset. Tom's tests seem kind of limited, has anyone around here ever tried em? If this thing could track fps games reliably it would be amazing. Link
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    Q35 Mini ITX, core2 pci-e

    So I had an idea a while back to make a gaming PC out of a mini ITX form factor. I finally came across a motherboard that fits the requirements I was looking for. MI935 q35 chipset Alright, so theres ONE board, has support for 1333 Mhz FSB, and pci-e x16. Cool stuff.. How the crap do I...
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    Ultimate LAN pc

    Hi all, thinking about building a new small form factor system specifically for lan parties, as of right now I have a thermaltake lanbox, but it's too heavy and too much of a pain to work with. I've had this idea to create a new system and i want to get it down to the size of maybe a ps3, it...