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    Windows 7 on an EeePC

    So...does anyone know how to get Super Hybrid Engine working in 7?
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    Looking for movie title from childhood

    It's definitely Time Bandits.
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    Windows 7 on an EeePC

    Mine has the 160GB drive and it's really quite unnecessary. I doubt I'd have any problem with just 12GB. Really the only reason that I like the big HDD is so I can have 2-3 different operating systems installed.
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    Windows 7 on an EeePC

    I have an EeePC, I know exactly what they are like. Mine has the same HDD and the same screen as Fullmetal and gets less than half the battery life. By the way, how did you get Super Hybrid Engine working in Windows 7? I got it installed under XP compatibility mode but it won't actually run.
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    Windows 7 on an EeePC

    Does the Atom really get THAT much better battery life than the Celeron? That's amazing.
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    tell me about ubuntu....

    Unless you have a specific reason to use Linux I would recommend against it. It's neat to fuck around with but as a day-to-day OS I've found that it just doesn't make the cut.
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    Windows 7 on an EeePC

    I'm considering replacing XP on my 1000HD with Windows 7, but I'm concerned the battery life will suffer from this. Does anyone have experience with Win7 on an EeePC? Right now I get something like 3-3.5 hours (I'll have to check in awhile to be sure).
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    Possible to buy a laptop with XP?

    This is wildly inaccurate. Period. If you don't want to use Vista, then fine, don't use it, I really don't care at all what you do. But it really bothers me when people come around and just bad mouth it constantly when it's mostly untrue. I've used Vista on four computers with far less problems...
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    Name some movies you didn't get the plot on the very first viewing?

    I think it was Ocean's 11 where I basically understood the plot, but in every subsequent viewing I just noticed more and more. There's a lot of depth to the heist that is difficult to notice at first.
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    A fluke accident has people concerned over headphones

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...ie#Helicopter_accident
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    This woman knows how to save a buck at the grocery stores

    There is absolutely no need to be that cheap.
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    A fluke accident has people concerned over headphones

    It's crazy people like you that are ruining our society. New laws won't solve the problem. We just need parents to better inform their children about the dangers of falling helicopters. Also, really strong umbrellas.
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    If someone finishes an exam in a ridiculously short amount of time, doesn't that just about always mean he or she failed

    If it's an essay, some people actually take the time to plan and outline before they actually start writing (I just dive straight in). Some people need structure and some people can just flow.
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    Application of Thermal Paste

    It takes a lot less time to spread paste on the heatsink than it does to lap the damn thing.
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    Application of Thermal Paste

    How do you guys use Ceramique? Do you do like Arctic Silver's site says and just put on line down the middle and let the HS spread it out? I've always just spread it out myself.
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    DDR2 -VS- DDR3

    This is just not at at all helpful. He's here asking because we've done the research. Don't be a prick because someone less informed is asking for help. If everyone did the research themselves we wouldn't need a forum.
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    10k in a notebook

    I think it's going to be more like 30min - 1hr.
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    Extended through ??/??/200?: Q6600 Boxed version for $200 + tax: MicroCenter B&M and online.

    I was thinking about helping you out but apparently my Office Depot is sold out of those monitors. But for anyone wanting an E8400, try looking for the Xeon E3110. It's the exact same chip but with the Xeon name. I just ordered one from ExcaliberPC (OEM or "tray" as they call it) for $210...
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    Extended through ??/??/200?: Q6600 Boxed version for $200 + tax: MicroCenter B&M and online.

    Can't you just buy that online? As far as I can tell it's the same price online as in store, which is not the case with the procs at Micro Center.
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    Extended through ??/??/200?: Q6600 Boxed version for $200 + tax: MicroCenter B&M and online.

    Were the E8400's ever in stock online at Micro Center? The page never specifically said out of stock, but it gives you an error when you try to actually buy it. Are they evn $199 in stores (just curious, there are none anywhere near here)?
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    10k in a notebook

    You're just not going to have any battery life with a 10k RPM drive.
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    Chris Taylor follows Bleszinski's lead

    EDIT: Also, as the profit margins fall in PC gaming, developers just have to make better games. You'd be a fool to think that we are going to have the same amount of games coming out, but the ones that remain are going to be a lot better.
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    Chris Taylor follows Bleszinski's lead

    I so didn't want this to be the case, but it's absolutely true. I played CoD4 before Crysis, and after 20min I was just bored. For some reason Crytek took the worst part of Far Cry (drive around island between bases) and ctrl+v'd it over the first two levels.
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    Best case under $100?

    I have the Antec Solo and it's really nice; maybe a little cramped if anything, but very quiet and very well built. However, I've heard a ton of good things about the Antec 900 and it's $99 on Newegg. http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16811129021
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    When do Girl Scout cookies go on sale?

    Just go to grocery stores, they're all over selling them. I've already got a few boxes but utterly failed to acquire any Samoas.
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    Hard drive suddenly not formatted

    What have I got to lose? Over 100gb of music and movies.
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    Hard drive suddenly not formatted

    Frankly, the last thing I would like to do is use Vista to fix it, since it was Vista's disk management program that screwed it up in the first place.
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    Hard drive suddenly not formatted

    I'm using Vista. XP was never installed. I never made a backup image, and try not to be an ass, because it's just not helpful at all. From what I've read on Google, I think was just happened is that the partition table was corrupted when I changed the partitions, and now Windows just can't...
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    Hard drive suddenly not formatted

    I was going to install XP on a partition of one of my drives (Seagate), so I made a 50GB NTFS partition. It worked 100% fine until I rebooted later and Windows 1. reported the drive as not being formatted (RAW) and 2. said it was 128GB (it is 250GB). Has this happened to anyone before? Can I...
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    Razer Keyboards

    You missed it, a couple weeks ago BB had the G15 for like $60 (which is ~$40 cheaper than normal). I still wouldn't spend $100 on a keyboard. Ever.
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    Any places still sell nice CRTs?

    People always talk about CRTs being crisper than LCDs, but I just got an LCD and it's far more crisp than any CRT I've ever seen.
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    Spicy foods can kill cancer cells

    If capsaicin kills the mitochondria in cancer cells...isn't it equally reasonable to assume that it could kill mitochondria in normal cells?
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    "I won the cosmic lottery just by being born in America"

    Well really I think you won the cosmic lottery if you were born in any of the well-off-former-British-colonies-ish places (i.e. America, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, the Moon, and of course the old UK itself). And I think I'd just like to be the first to say to Britain: Hey, thanks. Farmers...
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    Dutch Reporter Hit By A Car

    Why does the guy who yells "JESUS!" near the end sound like he's from Alabama and not the Netherlands? Shenanigans.
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    (RESOLVED) Computer won't turn on... best guess is the power supply?

    Generally if the board died the PSU would turn on, like dph said, unless it's shorting it our something. You could jump the PSU manually to see if it's still working while not plugged into the board (don't keep it running for more than a few seconds without a load on it)...
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    NE1 have the Fatal1ty case

    I saw a review on it, they really went overboard writing Fatal1ty all over the damn thing. Almost all of the Fatal1ty stuff is overpriced and gaudy; that case is a slight exception.
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    Ugliest Case Ever thread.

    It took me days to finally find a case to buy. I don't understand how it is so difficult to build a good looking case these days. People could make a case completely rectangular, with no design whatsoever, and it would be appealing. The P180 is a really nice case, but as far as LANs go it's huge...
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    Need help building a small, quiet PC

    Anandtech just did a roundup of three SFF mATX cases, the Antec Aria was one of them and though it was quite hot they said it was pretty quiet.