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Newegg has discounts on power supplies weekly, often using codes that apply across their entire selection. If you've waited this long and really want to save $20 ya can catch the next discounts... currently they have the best quality, highest rated PSU AX series on sale at $140 after rebates but...

Black Friday till the end of January are the best times for deals on TVs. The Superbowl is simply the last chance for manufacturers and retailers to clear out last year's stock so they can bring in this year's models... they're just like cars, new models every year and last year models get a big...

Hmm, I have no idea how 450L/s made it through their press releases either, other sites didn't catch it. :D The MCP655 I use is considered a high-volume, lower pressure pump as opposed to the MCP355 which is lower volume at higher pressure... block designs are optimized for either one or the...

The biggest shift will be when businesses, corporations, universities, government agencies, and any other large organizations finally migrate away from Windows XP... IE6 market share will almost vanish in such case, although that might mean IE8 will be sticking around for quite a long time...

Definitely not a surprise! Let's say I'm buying a new release... Option A, I can order the hardcover for $26 and wait 5 days to receive it. Option B I can order the ebook for $13 and have it instantly downloaded for reading. Buying hardcovers for half the cost and having it instantly...

Going by how Anandtech explained it, if a write/read command fails the SATA controller will re-issue the command to the drive until it succeeds. Gradually as the controller begins to fail it will have to issue more and more resends, which is how the performance loss that was mentioned occurs...

Anandtech's article made it pretty clear, the drives (and more importantly their data) aren't susceptible to damage from this issue. Normal usage scenarios shouldn't see any degradation until either after severe use, overvoltage, high temps, or several years of normal use... Because it will...

A guy on my friends list was telling me about it... according to him he received a mass email from GamersFirst stating special items and such wouldn't be brought over, because they simply have no records and so no easy way of tracking who bought what. I went looking for a FAQ page he also...

Anand has a follow up with a technical breakdown of the issue located here. Pretty much the only solution has been already mentioned, use the built-in SATA 6Gb/s ports or use any ports assigned to a 3rd party Marvel/JMicron controller to avoid the problem altogether. They estimate it will be...

Cursing them is silly. Like in Anandtech's example, this is like Microsoft's RRoD issue except Intel is accepting responsibility immediately. Granted, Xbox's aren't used in mission critical situations, but to imagine Intel having such a recall even 3 months later from now would be a...

It is unfortunate that all the people that spent money on subscriptions and in-game items have completely lost out and won't be able to get anything back from Realtime Worlds whatsoever. GamersFirst won't be re-issuing in game items as they stated they have no way of confirming who had bought...

Grats again Optix, it'll be well worth the wait! :)

Hey Kevin. I don't see any reason why it wouldn't work, but I'm a little surprised that there aren't better alternatives available for the price? Rob ought to know as he's more of a sound guy, I'll make sure he spots your post. :)

Haha! Got me on that one, I wasn't even aware Mushkin re-released their SSD series with the SF-1500 firmware package. I guess the Vertex 2 isn't the only one packing it anymore.:)

Don't worry, AMD cards don't require a DVI split cable or anything of that sort for Crossfire operation. NVIDIA was the one that had some issues with this in the past, but their cards no longer require it either. I know there was some concern regarding Folding@home use with SLI setups, but...

Haha, they updated the article: http://consumerist.com/2011/01/snake-house-was-sold-on-lie.html Apparently they forgot to mention the snakes were real when they sold the property, or that the house had even been featured on the Animal Planet show "Infested".

From what I recall the 11.1a hotfix were the first actual "update" drivers released to begin resolving performance & bugs with both the latest 6800/6900 cards. If you're running newly launched hardware it's best to grab the newest graphics driver updates ya can usually. :) I don't track AMD's...

3DMark 11 is the most recent one for that series. Some other benches would be http://unigine.com/products/unigine/, of which there are three you can download from the top-right links on that page. Several major games have benches built into them but I'm not sure which offhand... Rob oughta...

Yeah, but I certainly would rather deal with a semi-intelligent, sophisticated program than these stupid, preprogrammed canned scripts that try to pass themselves off as live chat help. Hell, for that matter I might prefer Watson to some actual live people... :D

Typical Activision, they enjoy using the lawyers as their first option to make issues go away. :)