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    hot! - sennheiser hd-600 and hd-650

    Was just going to say this, a high quality amp is pretty much required. If you're going to invest in expensive headphones you need to invest in an expensive amp otherwise it's like buying a ferrari with a 15hp briggs&straton under the hood.
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    Hot! F.E.A.R. & AOE III are on sale @ Fry's ($36.99 & $37.99)

    Nice deals, I just ordered the directors edition of fear from store.vugames.com for $50 including overnight shipping with the coupon listed on the site.
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    caffeine and video games

    Not too long ago I realized that caffine actually made me better at shooters. Booze just makes me worse and I get frustrated more often. I love having a coffee and owning b1tches like it's my job. Hell I'm drinking one right now, who wants their ass handed to them?
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    Upcomming MMORPG

    I really like planetside, but it got old after a few months. I think some company should try the MMOFPS again because if it's done correctly it could bring in players like me who hate the no-skill MMORPGs of today. Even a hack-n-slash game would be cool as a MMORPG as long as you can actively...
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    LCD or CRT for gaming?

    CRT all the way. Faster, more accurate, and flexible resolution. When your 7800gtx isn't top of the line anymore, you're not gonna want to be running games at 1600x1200+ or whatever your LCD native res is. Hell I run F.E.A.R at 1024x768 because I want the best possible framerates when I'm...
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    Yuri got his new X800GTO²

    Argh where's the AGP version? I went an ordered a 6800GT because there's really no better agp card for <$300! Damn you ATI and your PCI-E.
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    Leadtek 7800gtx 420 shipped

    I bought a 6800GT refurb from newegg awhile ago and it was definatley an open box return. The thing was all garbled on boot, the a-holes at newegg didn't even bother to run a basic test on it. Factory refurbed my a$$. NEVER buy a refurb from chiefvalue or newegg, unless you like the hastle of...
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    Timberland 40% off stores/internet and 30% off outlet

    Bumping this because the sale is this weekend
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    YMMV: Sony GDM-FW900 24" monitors coming off lease

    This is my dream monitor, but i can't afford it! $400 shipped and I'm there. It would be so nice to have a widescreen that is actually fast enough to game on. I guess I will have to stick wtih my 21" square CRT for now. One question, if you run it at a 4:3 resolution will it just stretch the...
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    Free Sample

    LOL! Yeah I hope you die asshole
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    For all those whining about how X2 is not worthit for games

    Pfff this means nothing. Show me some numbers. I am seriously doubting anything will come of these "optimizations". A real multi-threaded game is going to take much longer to develop, and I know the guys at monolith didn't start with multi-threading in mind. Oh and theres no skipping issue...
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    Wow.. look at the Combat scenes from AOE III

    Maybe it's just me but I'm not all that impressed graphics wise. The actual gameplay graphics don't look much better than whats out there currently.
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    Intel 5x faster per watt.

    If only you had somthing to support these numbers you are pulling out of your butt. You are assuming, and making an ass outta yourself in the process.
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    Intel 5x faster per watt.

    lol all I found was some old professor who wrote a lot of books. "Howard Zinn (born August 24, 1922 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American historian and political scientist, whose political philosophy incorporates ideas from Marxism, anarchism, socialism, and social democracy. Together with...
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    Intel 5x faster per watt.

    Wow, I just read through this entire thread and can't believe this intelia person. Intelia: do you own a lot of those products on infomercials? You seem to fall for marketing BS pretty easily. Really, you can't take anything Intel (or AMD/Apple for that matter) says literally. They want you to...
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    (Warm) San Diego 3700+ and DFI LP Ultra-D and HL2 for $397

    I was looking for a 3700+ sandiego and a new mobo to overclock and came across this: http://www.mwave.com/mwave/skusearch.hmx?&scriteria=MB-BA21445 EDIT: You still need to pick the mobo using the link above.... (pull down menu on the right) The processor is very cheap ($267 combo price/...
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    *DEAD* Dayton 12" $120 + free ship

    Wow this is a really good deal. I have a pair of parts express dayton DVC 15's in my car and they SLAM with around 300w RMS a piece. PA makes some quality stuff. Their warranty is very good also.
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    2 Kicker Comp 10" subs for car 79.99+6 shipping

    If you wire two in series you get 8ohms. They are single 4ohm voice coild each. Oh and these really aren't a good deal, they aren't even the comp vrs. You get what you pay for with car audio, and crutchfield never has good deals.
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    2 Kicker Comp 10" subs for car 79.99+6 shipping

    Wow Agamar please don't relay incorrect information...... I agree you shouldn't be trying to run aftermarket subs off a factory amp (impedance matching and sub efficiency will make it impossible or impractical). However you CAN'T hurt a speaker or sub with too little power. That's like saying...
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    AMD diode temperature 37 C off from regular temp measurements?

    When using everest home edition, I get Tcpu = 42C. and a Tdiode = 79C, Tsystem is 29C. I have a zalman CNPS7000B AlCu running at full speed so I'm guessing the 42C is closer to my actual temperature. How come there is such a huge difference between the two readings? Oh and it's a Barton 3000+...
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    Random hangs on new system with XP Pro.

    I'm replying to this incase someone searches and has this same problem. What seemed to work for me was slowing down the RAM timings and setting the DDR Skew Adjust to "1" (hasn't hung since). This seems to be a common problem with this motherboard from what I've read. That and from my experience...
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    New Machine - No Video

    What kind of video card are you using? I've been having problems with that same mobo and a sapphire 9800 pro. I had to use another video card to get it to POST (GF2 ultra) then screw with the BIOS so it would boot of the 9800 pro. I forget what I did in the bios but try an older, preferably...
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    installing xp on a new pc - 130gb of 400 visible to setup?

    Or if you don't mind, after installing SP1 (or SP2 if you want), just go to disk management and make a seperate partition with the remaining space. SP1 has to be installed as far as I know to get XP to recognize over 127GB of space. I had the same problem with my 160GB HD's, one I just...
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    Random hangs on new system with XP Pro.

    These are the system specs: ANTEC SLK1650 case w/ ANTEC 350w power supply A64 3000+ stock heatsink (BIOS reportsCPU running at 18 C for some reason, system temp is in 30s C) Chaintech VNF3-250 nForce 250 mobo 1GB Mushkin PC3200 (2x512) Sapphire ATI Radeon 9800 PRO 128MB 2 Hitachi 160GB...
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    Doom 3 engine programmed with efficiency?

    It's pretty funny how only one person actually tried to give an explanation (thank you BGFG10K and Staples), while the rest of you pointlessly spammed me. I never said it was a piece of crap engine, I'm just curious as to why it performs so poorly when all of the advanced graphics options are...
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    Doom 3 engine programmed with efficiency?

    I would love to get some additional input here. I set the quality to low, and disabled everything in the advanced options menu, and set the resolution to 640x480. Then I did timedemo demo1.demo, and all I got for a score was ~72fps. This is my system: Windows XP Pro Athlon XP 3000+ (Barton...
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    Barton 3000+ running 73 C idle and 81 C under load?

    I can't figure it out. This is the heatsink/fan I have (5500RPM fan): http://www.explosivelabs.com/reviews/copperx/index.shtml I know it's not the best, but 80+ C under load doesn't seem right! I'm using plain white thermal compound, and it's applied correctly. Do you guys think a better HS/Fan...
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    Will an ASUS A7V333 Rev. 1.02 support a 333Mhz FSB Barton?

    I've heard of a few success stories and no failures with a BIOS flash to 1016. ASUS doesn't say it on their site (Only Rev 2.0 or later supposedly), but I did flash my BIOS to 1016 and the 166Mhz option is there. It will be a 3000+ Barton so I'm hoping it will work alright. Oh and technically...
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    Upgrade my video card or CPU?

    Well I actually just ordered both for $304 shipped so I guess that solves my little problem. I didn't know the CPU was going for so cheap! Thanks for the input, I can't wait to play Doom3 now!
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    Upgrade my video card or CPU?

    I can't afford anything over a 9800Pro, and plus nothing faster than that will help with my CPU as the bottleneck. The 2100+ won't overclock much as it's a Palomino core and runs 60 C idle in the summer time. So it's basically a 9800 Pro or a 3000+ upgrade.
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    Upgrade my video card or CPU?

    This is what I have now: Athlon 2100+ (266) 1GB PC2700 @ 333 Nvidia Geforce4 Ti4400 128MB What would be the best upgrade for doom3/half-life 2? A Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB, or an Athlon 3000+ (333) I'm thinking the 9800 Pro would be a better overall upgrade, what do you guys think? Oh and I have...
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    Upgrade CPU or video card?

    This is my current situation: Athlon XP 2100+ 1GB PC2700DDR @ 333Mhz Nvidia Geforce4 4400Ti What would make for a better upgrade? An ATI 9800Pro 128MB or an Athlon XP 3200 (333Mhz) Basically I want it for Doom3/Half-life 2 so I'm guessing the video card, but I'd like some opinions. I wish I...
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    Upgrade CPU or video card?

    This is my current situation: Athlon XP 2100+ 1GB PC2700DDR @ 333Mhz Nvidia Geforce4 4400Ti What would make for a better upgrade? An ATI 9800Pro 128MB or an Athlon XP 3200 (333Mhz) Basically I want it for Doom3/Half-life 2 so I'm guessing the video card, but I'd like some opinions. I wish I...