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  1. madmat

    NVIDIA's GDDR5 Stance Differs from AMD's

    What happened to DDR4?
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    My rig is overheating lately...

    Yeah that will work and it even has a fan that's PWM capable so it should be fairly quiet. But I'm with Rob here, I think that your cooler simply shifted and needs to be remounted.
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    NVIDIA's GTX 200-series Specs Revealed

    I wonder what the prices are going to look like. I agree on the 9600GT though, for the cash strapped gamer you can't go wrong with a pair in SLI rather than a 9800GTX.
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    Investor Carl Icahn Pushes Forward with a Yahoo! Proxy Battle

    Sweet! I love it when rich (I'll use my money to make things go the way I think they should) bastards end up looking like a dumbass.
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    ClubIT = FAIL!

    Well man, I work in the production industry... printing in fact and I read a lot of interesting things in company statements and there's a lot of talk in them about weathering the current ecconimic issues and remaining profitable and it sounds like things are getting tighter. That's not to...
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    ClubIT = FAIL!

    That's great news. I'm glad to hear that they got saved, that's a lot of people that won't end up on the streets looking for work. While it might not be an official recession, I lived through the recession of the early '80's and this is going to be just as bad if not worse. We'll be headed...
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    Need opinions on new speakers

    Go for the Logitech's. They feature a single source point satellite that won't blur the transition from upper midrange to the treble since there's no overlapping from separate drivers and no phase shift from the crossovers. There's also more power on tap and more bass thanks to the larger sub...
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    Investor Carl Icahn Pushes Forward with a Yahoo! Proxy Battle

    What I want to know is how in the world did the SEC approve of MS buying yahoo? MS is a monopoly pure and simple and they want yahoo so they can increase their stranglehold into the venue where they're number two. Personally I think that whomever green lighted that decision should be...
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    Investor Carl Icahn Pushes Forward with a Yahoo! Proxy Battle

    You seem to think he was acting solely alone... everything I've read so far shows that he was going by the consensus of the board of directors. And how do you think that yahoo will fare differently if they get bought out this time? Bought and plundered is bought and plundered period.
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    Investor Carl Icahn Pushes Forward with a Yahoo! Proxy Battle

    I still feel that hostile takeovers are BS pure and simple and should be outlawed. I don't see this ending well for Yahoo as an entity. If you look at any other hostile takeover it ends up with the bought company cutting jobs, overhead and 9 times out of 10 the smaller company ends up being...
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    Yahoo! Up for More Negotiation with Microsoft

    Actually I don't watch Regis & Kelly, I was in the mechanic shop getting a tire fixed and the guy behind the counter had it on in the waiting room. Yeah, that's the ticket.
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    Investor Carl Icahn Pushes Forward with a Yahoo! Proxy Battle

    Personally I don't believe that any company should be forced to sell out by some arsehole buying enough shares to leverage things how he wishes. So what if Yahoo is in a slump, the whole country is in a recession, everyone is hurting. Before the recession hit Yahoo was as solid as any other .com...
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    ClubIT = FAIL!

    For those of us familiar with ClubIT it's too bad to see that they too have fallen into the black hole that is the US economy. They closed up shop today and tomorrow they're filing for chapter 7. I kind of wonder how long before we start seeing other PC enthusiast focused etailers falling into...
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    AMD Updates CPU Launch Schedule - Phenom 9850 Due In a Few Weeks

    The quad core Phenoms are 100% yield chips since the Phenoms are a pure quad core design versus Intel with their dual dualcore approach, although they've taken to selling the failed quads as triple cores.
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    Weird system crashing problem

    It's displaying the SDRAM speed which is 400Mhz for DDR2 800. DDR stands for dual data rate which simply means that the ram reads and writes on the upswing of the clock and on the downswing as well. SDRAM only writes on the upswing of the clock cycle which is how PC2100 (DDR-266) gained close to...
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    Razer/THX Mako 2.1-Channel Speaker System

    Do those speakers not come apart? The technology of the sats is intriguing enough that I'd like to see just exactly what's involved in it.
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    Project: Deuce

    The GPU only blocks work but the ramsink screw holes are in different locations so full coverage blocks don't work.
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    Enthusiasts should avoid the 780G platform

    Are the PWM sections heatsinked? If not a few self-stick BGA ramsinks will cure your ills.
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    Enthusiasts should avoid the 780G platform

    That's not completely correct. AMD has the 6400+ AM2's which are supposed to be compatible with that mobo. That's a 125W TDP chip. Besides, the CPU PWM section is what decides the wattage capability of the CPU socket, not the chipset. Look into that on prospective motherboards. If you see boards...
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    Do you keep your PC overclocked?

    24/7 baybeeee! I turn off the monitor via the vid card when it's idle but I don't see any need for anything more. I wish that you could run cool'n'quiet when you OC but it's very hit or miss at best. But, no I'm not rebooting each time I want to do something demanding. The jump from 2.1Ghz to...
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