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Wow, $310 for that monitor? It was selling for $200 just a week ago... The Samsung is also a little expensive for a TFT panel. I'd say wait and bide your time until another special or pomotion comes along for a monitor. Tough call about the GPUs, in your situation two 9600GT's might be the...

Soo, let me get this straight. Intel claims their CPU's comprise 80% of the CPUs in the TOP500 list. But if you look at the list, out of the top 15 most powerful supercomputers only 2 use Intel processors, the rest are AMD, Cell, and Power. ;) It's almost fun just how much statistics can be...

Cooling and quality features like Stackcool and 8-16 phases have definitely sold plenty of motherboards. Not only can I say that based on my own buying habits, but I've seen no end of forum posts where the user decided on a specific brand because their board had one of these particular features...

Well, I know Intel has done it before. People took the IHS off their Pentium 4 and found two distinct silicon cores on it, because originally it was a Pentium D but one of the cores didn't survive the packaging process or didn't survive their torture testing, and was subsequently disabled. I...

The only problem with backlit keyboards is what's the use if each key is an indeterminable black square? The keys, or at lest the symbol on the top needs to be translucent for any blacklighting to have real function in a dark room. Looks like only the OLEDs are designed that way here.

Nice one. :D

That line of PSU's is one of Antec's premier units, if it was crap then pretty much everything they make is equal or worse quality depending on the series. I just find it odd because that is still a $250 PSU that uses better than average components inside. I've had plenty of cheap and not...

Don't forget some board makers like ASUS use some marketing terms like StackCool to describe the thickened area around the socket... they increased the material or added an additional layer in order to better cool everything and use it as a marketing feature. In the same fashion, the phases...

Well sure, as far as I know it's the same silicon? Intel knows how well each silicon chip works before they even slice it off of the 300mm wafer, so they could decide whether to solder it to a LGA1156 or LGA1366 packaging based upon what's working/not working on it. I could be wrong as the CPU-Z...

Well, regardless of if you run VMWare or not, it loads a bunch of running programs with Windows that run all the time, I was able to notice at least three. It was a shot in the dark, and just what I'd found someone else pointing fingers at... in my situation VMWare wasn't actually the cause as I...

LOL wow, that image is worth it just to see RealTemp's Thermal Status: HOT reading. I've never seen that before even on XS. :D It's rather odd since a TRUE at 1.41v shouldn't get that hot, but if you are using 1.45-1.5v and not using a 1600 or higher RPM fan then I could see it happening. It...

Not even going to claim the warranty on it, then throw the refurbed unit onto eBay? Or tried jumpstarting it without it hooked up to anything?

No core limits? Now I'm tempted... I tried to install Supreme Commander FA yesterday, but for some odd reason the game refuses to launch. It starts, shows in Task Manager, but then just sits there. Tried everything under the sun to fix it including repeated installation attempts...

I guess there isn't actually a problem then, but it struck me when reading the thread that I actually didn't know and couldn't think of anyone that'd actually installed Linux on their OS X system. ;)

Hmm, interesting. What temps was this occuring at? I found a nifty tool (Guy that wrote RealTemp) that monitors Turbo mode throttling, and Real Temp does monitor thermal throttling. Neither of them occur on my CPU and I've pushed it as high as 83c across 3 out of 4 cores. ASUS's...

I'd suggest combining #1 and #2, or #2 and #3. One test to use the wifi (Which is why I like Anandtech's test), one test for video playback, and one test for gaming as a worst case scenario... since music + web surfing is something 90% of laptop users seem to do regularly with the machines, I'd...

Well, they perform identically. The only question is price... but there doesn't seem to be any price discount either. Some sites are saying Intel will discontinue the 920 and keep the LGA1366 chips to higher bin grades, and somebody (maybe Intel) stated Intel was specifically binning LGA1366...

Heh, wow. Nice post! I beg to differ! Good quality 200mm sized fans are completely inaudible, or at least mine are. The three Cooler Master 200mm fans used in use on my HAF 932 are inaudible at full speed but still push a sufficient amount of air. I can hold my ear right against them and I...

That's why I watercool. Every case fan is undervolted to 5-7v or is a Noctua NF-P12. Nothing like running a brutally overclocked high-end system with near silence... I could make it completely silent but due to the roar of the AC unit there's no use in going that far. As it is the case is right...