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    AMD HD 6950 -> 7970 Ghz Ed. Worth it?

    Thread title says it all, is the jump worth the $430 price tag? Most likely I'd be gaming at 1080p on my TV since it has 5.1 audio (via one really long HDMI cable to my living room), though I do have a Dell U2713HM in my room I might game on occasionally. Originally I was just going to wait...
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    Terrible NAS performance

    I've got a Synology DS412+ that I've been relatively happy with after owning it for a few months, but lately I've been pretty disappointed with the read/write performance (15-20MB/sec). I originally created a Synology Hybrid RAID volume with 1 2TB Western Digital Green drive and 2 2TB Seagate...
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    Apple/HTC settle patent disputes, sign 10 year agreement

    From The Verge: Pretty interesting. HTC has fallen on some pretty hard times, and I'm sure they realized they can't compete in the Android arena full bore for much longer if Samsung continues to clean its clock the way it has in the past year. HTC will start to have to rely on Windows Phone...
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    Wondering if I should upgrade my Radeon 6950

    Hey guys, I'm wondering if I should upgrade my 6950 to something newer. I'm mostly a console gamer (console-exclusive games I should say), but have more recently started buying PC games because of how terribly old the Xbox 360 and PS3 are. I built a system with specs below but am wondering where...
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    Anatomy of a hoax

    Remember pictures of the Sony Nexus X that were floating around the web this week? Well, they were fake. But what's even worse is the story behind it, how no one bothered to fact check, how people just ate up what they wished was true. Pretty daft I'd say. And no one attempted to contact the guy...
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    LTE in cars

    Simple question: why don't we have internet in our cars yet? Considering we've got LTE rolled out to good chunks of the country and it shouldn't cost more than $500 or so to add a good LTE module to a car (and I'm including the insane additional car feature fee in that price), why hasn't it...
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    TI pulling out of smartphones and tablets

    The Verge: With no major smartphone products coming out in the US because of LTE requirements from pretty much all new phones on carriers this year, it seems the market has squeezed TI out. I guess they thought that between dual A9 in OMAP4 and dual A15 in OMAP 5, they would be able to hold in...
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    BCS Presidents agree to 4-team seeded playoff for college football

    Source: http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/story/2012-06-26/bcs-major-college-football-playoff-approved/55845112/1 Discuss. Original thread: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2253278 -DrPizza
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    Windows 8 UEFI Boot

    Microsoft did a post about UEFI booting in Windows 8 "being too fast": http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/05/22/designing-for-pcs-that-boot-faster-than-ever-before.aspx I'm guessing they used an SSD in this example, but has anyone actually found this to be true? I have a 128GB OCZ Vertex 2...
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    Usefulness of stock fan?

    I've got an Media Center PC I built a year ago that works really well, but I've recently noticed that my fan is much more audible after I stop using it compared to when I start. My temps idle around 45-50C or so though I am wondering why they are so high considering I'm only using Media Center...
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    Core i5 in OEM PCs

    Anyone know about how long it will take Core i5 to show up in OEM PCs? I'm thinking of getting a HP Slimline if/when they over come out and I want to know about how long I'll be waiting. Thank you!
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    Core i5 in OEM PCs

    Anyone know about how long it will take Core i5 to show up in OEM PCs? I'm thinking of getting a HP Slimline if/when they over come out and I want to know about how long I'll be waiting. Thank you!