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    (Fry's B&M) Core i3 530 and Gigabyte H55 mainboard $88.88 AR

    I am really dissapointed with this core i3 setup. I have mine running at 4Ghz (was able to run up to 4.4Ghz but required too much voltage and TOO HOT, 80C load temp). Upgraded from a E7200@4Ghz. There was no significant improvement in gaming at all. I play at 1920x1080p 4xAA max settings on my...
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    AMD X4 805 $79 Frys B&M

    My two 805s unlock to 6MB cache.
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    phenom 2 deal? 119 with board

    Got this last weekend. The x4 805 is even mislabeled as 6 MB cache on the packaging. Anyway, got my 6MB L3 cache by enabling ACC using my biostar ta790gx xe. Currently running at 3.125Ghz at stock vcore .
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    Motherboard clearance event at Fry's BM

    If you can find it, I picked up a Gigabyte GA-X48-DQ6 for $79 at my local frys. This one originally retailed for $300. This mobo is a beast, running my E5200 at 4.0Ghz @ 1.38V. All I adjusted was the cpu voltage and FSB, everything is stock setting.
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    Nice and toasty: New Antec Fusion MAX full ATX HTPC case $194.08 shipped Free FedEx Ground or 3-day

    This is fugly. Go with ahanix or silverstone cases. Actually, the antec fusion matx HTPC looks nicer than this.
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    Alive again (02/05/09) - FREE SHIPPING! 4GB (2 x 2GB) Crucial PC2-6400 ram - $19.99 AR ($20 rebate) - : FRYS.com

    Update on my micron set D9hnp: 1059 Mhz at 6-6-6-18 @ 1.92V. Wont boot at CL5 using this speed. I have the samsung and elpida sets also. Micron has the highest OC so far with samsung being the worst. The micron chips do get HOT though compared to the samsung ang elpida chips. Also I wont not...
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    Alive again (02/05/09) - FREE SHIPPING! 4GB (2 x 2GB) Crucial PC2-6400 ram - $19.99 AR ($20 rebate) - : FRYS.com

    There are several variations of memory chips, so YMMV. You might even get the CL5 version: 1. Micron D9hnp - DDR2 800 5-5-5-18 @ 1.8V, 4-4-4-15 @ 2.2v (i think this is the primary reason this module dies is because people using 2.2V) 2.Samsung = 6-5-5-18 @ 1.8V 3. Hynix = 5-5-5-18 @ 1.9+ V...
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    Alive again (02/05/09) - FREE SHIPPING! 4GB (2 x 2GB) Crucial PC2-6400 ram - $19.99 AR ($20 rebate) - : FRYS.com

    This set I picked up is Elpida chips running at 880Mhz 5-6-6-18 @ 2V with my 4ghz e7200 cpu. My last set was samsung and can only run at 6-6-6-18. I'll keep this elpida set
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    Alive again (02/05/09) - FREE SHIPPING! 4GB (2 x 2GB) Crucial PC2-6400 ram - $19.99 AR ($20 rebate) - : FRYS.com

    Amazing, I got this set for $34AR last month. I am picking up another set for 8GB Ram setup. All of my crucial rebates arrived at reasonable time.
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    Hot! Crucial 4GB DDR2-800 (2x2GB) for $70 - $30 MIR = $40 shipped

    THe chips weve covered with the crucial sticker and samsung stickers.
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    Hot! Crucial 4GB DDR2-800 (2x2GB) for $70 - $30 MIR = $40 shipped

    I bought the 4gb and 2gb kits. Both use samsung chips k4t1g084qd-zcf7 , although the specs is CAS 6, it is actually programmed for 5-6-6-18 according the cpu-z. I was able to run it 5-5-5-18 at 2.0V and the best thing is it does not even get hot unlike my micron ballistix memory. This chips...
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    XIGMATEK BATTLE-AXE VD964...$24.99....cool your new gpu!

    NO WAY! This cooler already eats up three slots (4 including the PCIEX slot). Unless you have an 8 slot motheboard, you cant crossfire.
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    Visiontek HD3870 $130 No Rebates at Circuit City B&M

    Go to SD. I posted a pic of the item there.
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    Visiontek HD3870 $130 No Rebates at Circuit City B&M

    Confirmed. THIS IS HOT!! I picked up the only two from my local circuit city. It is has sign that says $129 Sale. Yes it is the Visiontek version but not the retail box seen at bestbuy website. This is a diffrent retail box because I think this is the single slot version of the 3870, the...
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    Intel Core2Duo E4500 Retail Box CPU + ECS GF7050VT-M Motherboard $100 @ Frys B&M

    This is a sweet deal. Picked a combo from my local frys, the clerk gave me the $199 combo at first but told him I wanted the 'cheaper' combo. Anyway, I was able to overclock this baby to 3.4GHz on a refurb p5e-vm @ 1.37V vcore . It matches my existing E2200 running at 3.4Ghz on my gigabyte...
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    DEAD: Ultra X-Pro 600 watt $49.90 shipped

    Be careful, this PSU failed full load testing at this site. http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/...wxLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==
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    Razer Barracuda AC-1 sound card

    I am in the market for a new sound card. Does this razr sound card output 5.1 AC3 in games? For those auzentech users out there, does DDL really work for games like true 5.1 sourround in games? The only way I can get 5.1 out of my audigy 2 is to use the analog outputs. I want a sound card...
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    PNY XLR8 8800GT 512MB @Amazon.com $159.99 AR FS

    All 8800GT with stock cooling run hot. Upgrade the stock cooler or get a 8800gts.
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    BFG 8800GT Fire Hazard

    The same thing happened to my BFG 8800GT. My card was overheating and I saw that the fan was not spinning, sure enough the sticker was stuck inside the fan chamber. Pulled it out and everything works again. Only bad thing is the sticker broke one of the fan fins which is no big deal since I will...
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    E2180 & ECS 945GCT-M/1333 @ Frys $78.99

    I picked up the E2200 combo last tuesday and the last IP35-E refurb board for $49 (very cheap, comes with all accessories). I was able to run the E2200 at 3.2 Ghz no sweat, its no match for my x2 am2 4000+ @ 3.2Ghz. However, I did not know about the infamous 'double boot' issue of the...
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    BFG Release new 8800GT 512 OC Bios!

    I had the same problem as yours, the OC sticker on the center of the fan dropped and fell inside the fan chamber and prevented the fan from spinning. Get some long nose pliers and take out that loose sticker. Good Luck.
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    OOS! BFG - NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT OC Graphics Card

    Just my luck, my 8800gt's fan died and stopped working. I installed rivatuner recently to increase fan speed to 90% which prevented my card from overheating. Guess what, today the fan totally died. It stopped spinning and it's good thing I noticed it because the whole PC was hot. THe card would...
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    Visiontek radeon x1950 pro $66 AR at Circuit City B&M

    Is anyone else having a problem with the temp and fan control of their X1950pro? This visiontek card doesnt seem to have the temp sensor and fan control. This revision of x1950pro sucks, my old x1950pro had temp and fan control. Anyway, for around $70 I'll keep it.
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    GeForce 8800GT Best Prices / In-Stock Listing

    There's so many impatient buyers out there. As for me , I am waiting for the launch of the radeon 3800 series. I want to see who comes on top before I make my purchase. By the end of Nov, the 8800GT will be priced at $200 while ATI/AMD will have to make the price of the radeon 3850 very competitive.
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    X850XT AGP Recertified $70 shipped, X850XT PCIE Recertified $60 shipped @ Newegg

    Finally installed my new $9.99 ati silencer 4 on my x850xt. My load temps dropped by 8C and even with the fan at 100%, it doesnt sound like a jet engine. My 3Dmark05 score is 7,280 gpu/mem 590/610 with x850XT and x2 3800+(939) running at 2.8Ghz.
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    Price Drop...Athlon X2 3800 939 now $89.99 Free Shipping

    I am using the latest bios mod from RH, RH2. I have tested several CPUs with my tforce6100 with different results, opteron 146, san diego 4000(E4), san diego 4000(E6), and x2 3800(E6). I think my mobo's limit is 2.98GHz regardless of FSB. The opteron 146 can go as high as 320 FSB but my san...
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    Price Drop...Athlon X2 3800 939 now $89.99 Free Shipping

    Mine arrived yesterday. Mine is LCB9E . I am now orthos stable at 2.8 Ghz at 1.35V (mbm reading, 1.4 V bios) with my tforce6100. Full load at 50C using a stock opteron 4 heatpipe heatsink with 90mm panaflo ultra fan mod. This chip runs hot or maybe my biostart tforce temp readings are off...
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    500GB Maxtor SATA $109.99 w/ free shipping @ Frys.com

    FYI. newer maxtor drives are now manufactured by Seagate using perpendicular technology. I passed this 500gb deal and went for 2 maxtor $49 200gb sata300 drives to use for raid. The drives I bought are rebranded seagate 7200.10's.
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    Sempron 2800 CPU - $30 at Fry's

    Just got back from Sacramento Frys. Dont bother getting the CPUs from that store. All their cheap CPUs are open box. I was lucky enough to score two sealed sempron 2600+. Here are other CPUs on clearance: Sempron 3100+ socket A $19.90 OPteron 244 $39.90 - too bad OOS, I would have bought one
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    alive again!!Amd athlon64 3000+ 754 retail cpu plus ecs nforce3 motherboard for $99.99 at outpost.com!!Hot!!

    I bought two of this combo when it was $69 at the B&M store. Sold one to ebay. My combo is running 10x270 1:1 cpu:mem. I ditched the ecs motherboard and used my $9.90 abit nf8-V I picked up from outpost. Unfortunately, my UCCC ram does not like running at 1T at 270 Mhz. Running at 2T, mem...
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    AMD Athlon 64 3000+ & ECS NFORCE3 $69.98 @ Fry's

    $69 confirmed in Sacramento, picked one up today.
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    20" CRT Monitor for $80

    THose prices are not HOT. This is what I call HOT. I picked up several CRT monitors last week, all used but in good working condition: 1. Viewsonic P220f - 22" flat screen $15 2. Viewsonic PF790 - 19" flatscreen $10 3. Dell P1130 - 21" flatscreen $10 4. Dell P1110 - 21" flatscreen $15...
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    =Warm/Hot= 1 gig pc 3200 corsair Value Ram

    Testing Results : 2x1GB G.Skill Extreme PC4000 UCCC VS 2x1GB Cosair VS UCCC CAS 3-4-4-8 at 2.65 V on Abit IC7-G P4 3.0E 1:1 CPU:MEM G.Skill = max stable dual channel 263 Mhz Corsair VS = max stable dual channel 270 Mhz LOL! The Corsair beats my expensive G.Skill. But who knows, it...
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    =Warm/Hot= 1 gig pc 3200 corsair Value Ram

    THIS IS FREAKING HOT!!! This VS1GB400C3 1gb PC3200 is on sale $69 at Fry's until tomorrow. My friend bought one and he asked me to test it for him. Guess what, the chips use Samung UCCC. So I removed my 2x1GB OCZ Extreme PC4000 (running at 270 Mhz stable which I bought for $180 this week) to...
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    Budget AGP upgrade. EVGA 6800 AGP 128M for $213 - $150 MIR

    I am too lazy to look around. Can anyone confirm if replacing the heatsink on the evga 6800 with the silencer void the lifetime warranty? Would EVGA check the thermal paste even if I put back the original HSF in case of RMA? Anyone have any RMA experiences with EVGA? THanks.
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    Budget AGP upgrade. EVGA 6800 AGP 128M for $213 - $150 MIR

    I cant believe the variation of this card's price from the stores. I have bee following this thread for a while and I was not able to score one because my local store had it for $299 - $150 rebates. I did score two ATI x850 Pro for $191 each from different stores, one unlocked to x850XT PE and...
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    ATI X850Pro AGP - $199, ATI X700Pro AGP - $150

    Yes, you might be right. Unfortunately, I already ordered an ATI silencer for $9.99 before testing the XT PE speeds. When running 3d games or 3dmark05, my max GPU temp was around 62-63C, 540 core/590 mem. Anyway, i dont want to void my warranty so I'll stick with the stock cooling unless I...
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    ATI X850Pro AGP - $199, ATI X700Pro AGP - $150

    I was finally able to find an x850pro in my local store. All COMPUA stores are sold out. I found mine in my local CC pm'ed to CUSA for $191. THe best part is serial number is 18052 so I can unlock to 16 pipes. x850xt PE here i come!
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    Seagate 16 meg cache drive purchasers (300 gig SATA, perhaps others)

    Seagate recenty acquired Maxtor. Those 16MB(only maxtor manufactured 16mb drives) cache HDs are probably from the maxtor factories with less warranty.
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    Chenming Dsktp Case/250watt Isellsurplus...Guess the party is over. Good luck to anybody in mid transaction.........

    The case is made of thick steel, not the cheap SECC steel. So it me a while to mod it using a nibbler. However in the process of installing my motherboard, I had to do additional mod because my monster XP-90C with fan was hitting the metal support in the center. I had to cut some part to...