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    Intel Retail Edge 2007!!

    The people at Intel Retail Edge are mathematical morons! The maximum you can get in December is 11,700 chips. Why not add 300 more chips, Intel? I'm going to get my Q6600 and then recommend AMD to ALL of my customers. The support people said they aren't giving out any more points this month and...
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    Intel Retail Edge 2007!!

    You can only do a couple of downloads for chips. How long until they reset it to get more chips from downloads? Login chips are also limited.
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    Intel Retail Edge 2007!!

    I am short 300 points so if anyone has an extra code, please send me a PM with it. Thanks in advance.
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    OCZ will give us phase-change!

    Big props to OCZ for bringing this to market. I am definitely interested and I will await the reviews to see if I should get this unit over the Vapochill LS. It looks pretty cool, too!
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    OCZ phase change.

    This is very true! I don't expect it to be the best, but I do expect that OCZ will make it a competitive product. This is good news for me as I don't like to OC too much, but this allows me to experiment at a much lower price. Anand says that OCZ wants to drop the price down around $200 when...
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    Wal-Mart leaks Xbox 360 pricing

    The deluxe includes component cables, headset, wireless controller, 20GB HDD, faceplate, ethernet cable and the first few will have the remote for $399. I'm going to use the Gratis Networks system to get mine for free. Just click on my sig's link to get one free for yourself too.
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    Will you be buying Xbox 360 or Ps3 the first year its out?

    Don't buy the 360. Get it for free by clicking on the link in my signature. I knew a couple of guys that got free 20GB Ipods from this company so they are legitimate.
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    Buying an XBOX 360??

    I'm going to buy one if I have to. But if I get some people to click on my signature link and do the offer, we'll all get it for free!
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    Xbox 360 $299 no hard drive

    They are doing the premium edition. Just click on the link in my signature to find it.
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    Sony gets really desperate with the PS3 vs XBox 360

    LOL! You know they are going to have the vibration function too. Sony is going to be popular with the ladies.
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    Do you guys REALLY think there's going to be a 7800 Ultra with 32 pipes?

    Little reason? How about 10,000+ 3DMark05 scores for the FUDO!? That's reason enough! And the 5950 was the refresh for the 5900. Big deal. What's your point? The 6900 refresh was scrapped just like most 6800 Ultra Extreme's were. Anybody who actually follows the video card scene already...
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    Do you guys REALLY think there's going to be a 7800 Ultra with 32 pipes?

    The 7800 GTX looks like a nice card but it doesn't offer enough of a performance leap for me to trade it for my 6800 Ultra. I'm just going to wait for the 7800 Ultra to come out and I'll buy that. The Ultra will most likely be a 24 pipe card and it will initially be on a .11 micron process too...
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    Nvidia likely to be on board for Playstation 4 graphics

    Hey, great research here! Kutaragi's mouth is clearly to big for Sony, which is one of the reasons he was demoted. You have to take what this guy says with a grain of salt and sometimes the whole bag! Just more examples of Sony's deceit as a marketing tool.
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    BFG 6800 Ultra OC 512MB

    That's the point. The people who can afford this card with SLI are just going to grab the next gen card when they come out too and sell off the 6800. Just because someone pays what seems to be a lot of money to you, does not make them stupid. If everyone had the attitude of "I'll just wait for...
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    BFG 6800 Ultra OC 512MB

    Not necessarily. Nvidia has retuned the memory controller to properly address the extra memory with a minimal performance impact, without this the added memory would have introduced additional latency, hampering performance.
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    BFG 6800 Ultra OC 512MB

    Of course there is not a need. There's also no need to OC, use phase exchange coolers, peltiers, mod cases or have UV reactive fans. It's the luxury of having the next thing out there and getting more future proof products. ATI shows that their 512 MB version of the X850XT increased performance...
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    7.1 or 5.1 surround sound

    I have a Creative 7.1 system and it's just like a 5.1 system but with better surround resonance. Creative shorted me one cable so I just used an extra from my Soundblaster Platinum box. If you game in a small room go 5.1, but if you have a larger computer room, definitely go 7.1. It is a nice...
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    BFG 6800 Ultra OC 512MB

    Monarch Computer is now selling the 512MB version of the 6800 Ultra. http://www.monarchcomputer.com/Merchant...=PROD&Store_Code=M&Product_Code=190486
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    Paste what you last copied...

    www.chumbo.com/bfg
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    Upgrading my CPU

    Like everyone has already mentioned, the X2's will not take advantage of gaming software for quite a while. Just take a look at Anand's review of the Opteron and Intel 840 dual cores. They are great at multitasking and server/client performance but the ol' single cores run 3D games just as fast...
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    A8N-SLI HDD corruption on OC

    Yes, I have already locked the pci bus in the bios as Clockgen4 and nTune both confirm this. I'm beginning to think the Asus A8N-SLI is the wrong board for me. Too many OC problems that I think I'll just switch to the DFI SLI-DR and forget about the Asus.
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    A8N-SLI HDD corruption on OC

    When ever I get above a 235 HTT, my hard drive gets corrupted and I can't get back into windows without a fresh install of XP. I've checked my pci locks with Clockgen4 and it's locked, but my friggin' HDD still gets corrupted. I've tried to loosen RAM timings but it handles 220 HTT at 2-2-2-5 1T...
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    Water Cooling Options

    GPU environment would probably be referring to the ambient temp, the temperature of the air around the gpu.
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    external or internal watercooling

    Let us know how the Koolance NV2 SLI setup works for you with temps, fittings, etc.
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    release date of Venice core for 64's?

    This BIOS feature basically determines how long the memory controller latches on and asserts the command bus. The lower the value(3T,2T,1T), the faster the memory controller can send the commands out. Edit:The problem is that most memory controllers/motherboards severely limit the use of 1T...
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    Do you Yanks have an equivalent class of vehicles to Aussie Utes?

    Probably why we won't see those here in the U.S. anytime soon.
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    PCI clock problems on A8N-SLI D

    Whenever I check Ntune as to my PCI clock setting, it says 19.0 mhz even though in the BIOS I've manually set it to lock at 33.33 mhz. Clockgen as well as Ntune both show the PCI bus frequency raise when I slide the CPU tab. I can go into the BIOS and OC to 220mhz fsb and then Ntune and Clockgen...
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    Is RAID 0 really useless?

    I don't like onboard RAID controllers simply because you can't switch to another board when you upgrade. You have to reformat and set the RAID on that controller. If you have any inclination of keeping your drives when you upgrade, use an add-on RAID controller card. It makes for much easier...
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    6800gt video card can't seem to operate with my courrent motherboard i got artifacts, blue screens, lockups, memory dump

    Whoa! Your card idles at 75 C? My BFG 6800 U OC idles at 45-47 C with ambient room temps of 70 F (approximately 21 C) and I too am using the 71.84 forceware drivers.
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    release date of Venice core for 64's?

    According to the Athlon 64 roadmap the Venice and San Diego cores will include support for SSE3 and extra layers of copper interconnects while still retaining the same L2 cache(512KB for Venice, 1024KB for San Diego). I hope the memory controller is also improved as I am looking to upgrade my...
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    6800gt video card can't seem to operate with my courrent motherboard i got artifacts, blue screens, lockups, memory dump

    You're right, it may be a defective card but try to disable fast writes in your bios.
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    a8n-sli overclock hd corruption

    Sal, what are you doing to correct the HD corruption after your system crashes? Something about true-image and it's back in 2 minutes? Nevermind, I found True Image 8 on the internet.
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    Sudden decrease in BIOS updates for A8N SLI Deluxe

    My X-Connect has been very stable! I ran an Asus probe while playing Painkiller and HL2 and it stayed very consistent. The low was 11.968V and the high was 12.224V, played on Ultra detail settings, 4xASF and 4xAA! I was worried after I got mine that it would bomb out, but so far it has been...
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    Best BIOS to overclock an A8N-SLI so far?

    Yes, the PCI lock shows up in the 1003 BIOS. I still have HDD corruption on my Raptor when I try the manual OC's, so you may want to wait for the PROs to check out the newer BIOS' and report their stability before you attempt to OC. You may have to reformat if you mess it up!
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    A8N-SLI BIOS problems

    Yes, I go back in the BIOS and set the HT to 5X and other miscellaneous settings, nothing too drastic. What other settings might you be referring to? Also, I heard that the Nvidia raid driver needs to be installed and enabled in the BIOS in order for OC's to have stability, even if you have only...
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    Asus A8N SLI O/C issues after flashing to 1003 BIOS.....

    I experienced the same problem with the 74GB Raptor and errors after the OC. Only I wasn't able to get back into windows with the file problems. I reset the CMOS, changed the BIOS and tried a windows repair. Nothing worked so I did a reformat and fresh XP install. How did you get back into...
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    A8N SLI Deluxe unable to OC

    Is there a solution to fix the HDD corruption from the HTT OC? I had the same thing happen to me and one of the .dll files needs to be replaced. Problem is I don't know which one it is.
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    A8N-SLI BIOS problems

    I have had problems with the final release BIOS on the Asus website. I first tried 1004 and my computer would hang on startup, then when I tried to repair windows, it would hang on that as well. I reset the CMOS jumper and went back to 1001 which works fine but I want the OC options in the newer...
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    If I was to get this CPU OEM... Would this fan/heatsink be good?

    You can't go wrong with the Thermalright XP-120/90. Both have proven to be the elite coolers of the HSF world. If you want some really cool options, look into water cooling/vapochilling.
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    How fast are DVD±R drives going to get?

    Anandtech had an article stating that DVD drives will max out at 16x because companies are shifting focus to their hd-dvd/Blu-ray drives.