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    Enlight Chassis matx w200W PS $28.99 +$5.95 Handling + Free Shipping = $34.94

    Ecost has the EN-74720A1 Enlight Matx chassis with 200W PS for $28.99 + $5.95 handling + $0 ground shipping = $34.94 total. Good deal on a high quality case for HTPC. Enlight Chassis
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    InWin Micro-ATX Slim Tower Case with 240 Watt Power Supply $29.99 Shipped

    Ebuyer has an Inwin MicroATX Chassis with 240W power supply for $29.99 shipped, today only. They appear to have 500 in stock.Inwin MicroATX I've used the vendor before and had no issues with them. Inwin makes some good quality cases. Search on 279585 on Ebuyer if the above link doesn't work...
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    Network Sniffer/Packet Analyzer

    I recently started a position where I'm providing IT support for a number of medical centers with a central data center. Periodically throughout the day I'm having a lot of speed issues with my network, and this company does not have a sniffer tool available. Are there any that you have used...
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    Super Flower 550W 4Fan PS $29.99 Today Only

    Directron has a Super Flower 550W 4 Fan ATX PS for $29.99 till 8PM CST this evening. I have a 3 fan 400W version and it runs fine, with no issues, and it is relatively quiet. They are also extremely heavy Power Supplies.
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    Overclocking an AMD 2000+ Processor

    I am building a school-use PC (very little gaming use) for my sister using the following: AMD Athlon XP 2000+, 266 FSB, 256K Cache Processor - Retail BIOSTAR "M7NCG 400" nForce2 IGP Motherboard for AMD Socket A CPU -RETAIL Kingston 184 Pin 512MB DDR PC-2700 - OEM Seagate 80GB 7200RPM IDE Hard...
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    Enlight Micro-ATX Case 200W PS $34.99 Shipped

    I just bought a Enlight Chas Matx Mt P4 200w P/s-2 USB 2 5.25 3 3.5 Fan Case from Ebuyer.com for use for a school PC for my sister. I thought the price was good since NewEgg is selling the same case for $52 with shipping. Check out the Newegg link above for pictures, since there aren't any...
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    Budget Machines - Some ideas for those wanting to build cheap machines

    I've build a couple of budget machines for relatives where the goal is to get a new functional machine for the least amount of cash. They are using them for word processing, music, WWW browsing, and probably slight gaming (mostly older games at low resolutions). I had 17" CRT monitors for both...
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    Cable ISP Connectivity Problems

    Here comes my sad story. Are you ready? I was an Adelphia Powerlink customer in 2001-2002 in Carroll County, MD and for the most part the system ran OK. I had occational outages that might last a couple of days and often the speed and ping times would be lousy during peak hours 5PM-10PM, but...
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    Autocad Graphics Card Selection

    I'm building a system for my father. He will be doing minimal gaming, but he will be using a new version of AutoCad on Windows XP Pro. How much of an advantage is their to getting a workstation video card over a gaming video card? We were hoping to not spend more than $200 on a video card...
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    **DEAD**20% Off Power Tools at Lowes

    Not to be outdone by Home Depot, Lowes is running 20% off power tools on Saturday and Sunday, Dec 20 and 21. Some speciality items are not included and it does appear to be online and in B&M.
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    **DEAD**Home Depot 20% Off Power Tools

    Home Depot is running a 20% off all power tools from Friday 12/19- Sunday 12/21. This excludes some special order power tools, but it appears that it is most of their stock. I believe it is available online as well, but their online selection is weak compared to the B&M stores.
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    Keyboard and Mouse Failing

    I moved a working system to a new case yesterday and now the system boots fine, but the keyboard and mouse don't work in windows. On bootup, I can hit delete and get into the BIOS, but the keyboard fails after a few seconds. By fails I mean that I can no longer manipulate the BIOS screen using...
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    RAM Problem 256MB now showing 128MB

    I think I already know the answer to this, but just checking. I have a stick of 256MB Crucial PC133 SDRAM that I've had for about 1 year. I had one of those, and one stick of 128MB Crucial PC133 SDRAM in my Athlon 900 system. The only problem I had with my system duing that year is that...
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    Flat Panel Monitor Suggestions and DVI-I vs DVI-D Question

    Great forum for hardware. I'm hoping you can help me. I am looking for recommendations for a 17" FP monitor to be used for 80% windows use (internet, word, e-mail) and 20% gaming. I want to connect using my Sapphire Radeon 9600 card with a DVI-I connection. Will I be able to connect a DVI-D...