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  1. On_Wisconsin

    Broke the 5GHz barrier...

    Inspired by the holidays I decided to start OC'ing. With my new CPU fan and new case I was able to break the 5GHz barrier! http://valid.canardpc.com/2648215 I'm impressed...for someone who has only been OC'ing for a few weeks...and it's stable so far! Haven't seen temps beyond 60C yet!
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    Reading through the 1965 "Moore's Law" paper...

    ...for a class about micro & nanotechnology. Crazy article beyond Moore's Law - plenty of predictions that seem to have turned out to be correct, such as: "For example, memories built of integrated electronics may be distributed throughout the machine instead of being concentrated in a...
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    TV Tuner Cards?

    Hey guys, sorry that I really only come here for shopping advice :D but I'm looking into getting a TV tuner card for my desktop. I'm pretty new to that area, and I'd love to watch TV on my desktop and possibly use it like a DVR. With that being said, does anyone have any thoughts? I was...
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    Home Theater Reciever died...

    Looking for one around $300-400 that is relatively "idiot-proof" (read: for a 52 yr old father that is OK with tech). Here is something close to what he said he wanted: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16882105285 Do note that he is a bit of a Sony guy...
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    Anand's followup to "The SSD Anthology" is published

    http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3631&p=1
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    Choices...

    Ok, the computer I built for my family's HD just died a week ago. With the cost of SSDs dropping fast that you can say "Moore's law," I'm (un)officially DONE with traditional HDs. I'm RMA'ing the old HD and will use the replacement for backup. With that in mind, do I: RAID 2 of these...
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    5 month Core SSD v1 review

    With all the talk this past year about SSDs, no one outside of PC Perspective has taken a serious look of the long term usage, so I thought I'd might write about my experiences. I won't write the story why I got the Core v1 64GB since the story can be read here. Basically after I got it, I was...
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    When did computer building start?

    I'm doing a demonstrative speech on building computers, and I was curious about when companies sold parts (mobos, cpus etc) to be built by the end user?
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    Is it worth the $100...

    After "dropping" my laptop and having my Seagate RIP (along with my com 103 speech...gah!) a few hours ago...is this worth it? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227344 Or am I being reactionary? I barely used the 128GB provided on my old Momentus...
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    Headset suggestions

    Looking for a good headset for gaming. No need for 5.1 or 'force feedback' or anything like that. I'll prolly look to spend $30-~$50 for it. Will pretty much be used for gaming, although sound quality would be good to have Thanks in advance
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    For Rob....

    Thought of you when I saw this at another forum (although I don't agree with it myself :D)
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