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    Large and RELIABLE Storage

    Yea, I'm being totally serious. Until I bought these 2 500gb WD Blacks, I went through sooo many hard drives. I had a couple only last a few months before going belly up. I was getting pretty fed up. I don't think I put them through much stress - no more than anyone else. My laptop for work gets...
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    Large and RELIABLE Storage

    So the time comes up again that I need more storage. I currently have an intel SSD for my boot / game drive, and 2 500gb Western Digital blacks I've had for several years. I am hoping to buy something that has been at least as reliable as the Blacks. Before I bought them the majority of my...
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    Upgrading From a 4890 - Best Bang for Buck Right Now?

    I'm weird, I usually like to buy things locally. Although in this instance, I almost had to. I almost always have bad luck with ordering online (including Newegg), and almost always have to RMA at least once. I don't know why, but my luck is just horrible with that stuff. When that happens I'm...
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    Upgrading From a 4890 - Best Bang for Buck Right Now?

    Was an interesting day yesterday. Went to Best Buy to grab that gtx660 for $200 out the door, but they didn't have any left in stock at that store. The guy found another store with 1 left about 30 minutes away. So I bought it right then and there (in store pickup) then went to go pick it up...
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    Upgrading From a 4890 - Best Bang for Buck Right Now?

    Hah, just found out my motherboard only goes up to pci-e 2.0. Should I even bother upgrading? How much of a performance loss am I going to get by putting a 3.0 card into 2.0 slot?
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    Upgrading From a 4890 - Best Bang for Buck Right Now?

    Local Best Buy has an EVGA gtx660 for just shy of $200 out the door. Should I run over and grab it? Looks like it's a bit faster than the 7850?
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    Upgrading From a 4890 - Best Bang for Buck Right Now?

    Also - is it worth it to look into the Nvidia equivalent? I'm going to run to BestBuy today and see if they have any good deals - but they usually have a lot more Nvidia cards than AMD. lehtv - that's a great deal. Just might pull the trigger on that!
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    Upgrading From a 4890 - Best Bang for Buck Right Now?

    This a good deal? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814129230
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    Upgrading From a 4890 - Best Bang for Buck Right Now?

    Damn - I missed it. Already sold out =(
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    Upgrading From a 4890 - Best Bang for Buck Right Now?

    Seems like the 7850 is quite a bit cheaper, so I may go with that. I'm not really big into overclocking though - how big of a risk is it to overclock it and how much will it degrade the life of the card? I usually keep my cards for about 18-24 months - since that's usually about the time they...
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    Upgrading From a 4890 - Best Bang for Buck Right Now?

    I know it's an old video card, but I haven't really played any games recently that go lower than 25-30fps - so I've never really felt the need to upgrade. I usually never upgrade my computer until I find a game that or program I need to run faster. So now it's that time. I just got Assassins...
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    Upgrade Time - CPU/Mobo or Vid Card

    It's DDR2 800, and I plan on buying another 2Gigs no matter what decision I make. But why a 4850? I thought the 4870 was better/faster?
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    Upgrade Time - CPU/Mobo or Vid Card

    Well I guess if you're into games that are 2-3 years old. But all the newest games that are coming out are showing my PC up.
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    Upgrade Time - CPU/Mobo or Vid Card

    Current Rig: AMD 4600+ x2 64 / Biostar Tforce 550 SE 2Gig Ram ATI 3850 I mostly use PC for websurfing / word processing / gaming. It's definately showing it's age in gaming. I want to spend ~$300-350 so my choices are: a) Mobo + E8400 combo or b) ATI 4870 I don't know...
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    Mixing Ram / Compatible?

    Well even though they are different brands, you can see they are the exact same speed however the patriot timings are: 4-4-4-4-12 2.2v, While the Gskills are 5-5-5-5-12 and 1.8-1.9v. Not sure if that will screw things up. One thing I am thinking, shoudl I just buy 2 more of the...
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    Mixing Ram / Compatible?

    Yes I will be running Vista 64. I guess I don't really NEED 6GB, but I always like to go overkill on the RAM. Does anyone sell 8GB Kits? I would get 2 of the 2GBx2 kits, but it would limit my upgrading later on, and I've heard that it's bad to completely fill up DIMM slots in the mobo...
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    AMD 4800+ x2 Vs Q6600 (or similar)

    I currently have 2GB's of RAM. I have 2 500gig 16mb cache WD's I bought at best buy about a year ago. And yes Vista is installed on it's own partition and games on another etc.
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    AMD 4800+ x2 Vs Q6600 (or similar)

    Well in most of my games, the FPS isn't all that bad. The trouble I'm running into is the load times and alt+tabbing while playing to check the forums or something, it's just so sluggish. I just bought Age of Conan and although I really like the game, the load times are really killing me, and...
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    Mixing Ram / Compatible?

    Upgrading to an E8400 with this mobo: http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16813136038 I'm planning on getting the Gskill 4GB kit: http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16820231122 My question: In my current setup my i have 2x1GB...
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    AMD 4800+ x2 Vs Q6600 (or similar)

    My bad, it's a 4600+ x2, not a 4800+. If I do get something like the E8400, will my system be completely bottlenecked by my 3850, or will I still see significant improvement in games?
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    AMD 4800+ x2 Vs Q6600 (or similar)

    My rig has the amd 4800+ x2 in it, and I'm feeling the itch to upgrade. I never get the best, always go for best bang for the buck, and it seems the Q6600 is highly regarded as it. Am I going to see a siginificant different changing out the CPU for the Q6600 or should I wait? (Obviously...
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    I cannot find this anywhere - Crossbow ACK-I7751

    It's sold out at Newegg, and I've been to the Xigmatek website and looked through all their dealers websites and none of them carry it. Anyone know who carries it?