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  1. madmat

    eVGA enters the ram market, no-one notices.

    I got an email from Micro Center the other day announcing that eVGA has released PC ram. Oddly, for now at least, it's exclusive to MC. Since they had PC3 2400 for $50 for an eight gig kit, I had to go buy a kit. I have to say that it's really not too shabby. I picked up some decent...
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    Well, it's about time...

    After four years of rocking the M4N82 DLX I'm on the path to an upgrade. Today I picked up my new motherboard, a Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD5 Rev. 3.0. Soon I'll be picking up some DDR3-1866 CL-8 to go in it and then I'll be moving up from my measly Phenom II X4 940BE to my new powerhouse, an X4...
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    Planned versus consequential upgrades

    My new to me GTX470 will be here today which is my first planned PC upgrade in four years. I did a consequential upgrade last year when my main and storage drives failed and I moved to bigger drives and moved my storage drive to an external unit but that wasn't planned and as I say, it was a...
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    Borderlands 2 revisited

    Okay, I know I ruffled a few feathers when I lambasted BL2 for its flaws. I still don't like certain aspects of the game mechanics involving guns and ammo but that's neither here nor there. I've been playing it the last few days because after dumping damn near 800 hours into Skyrim, I've killed...
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    Oh yeah, OUYA

    http://www.thinkcomputers.org/ouya-game-console-first-impressions/ Sideloading Google play along with Netflix and other streaming service apps? Hells yeah! Yep, I may just have to look into an OUYA.
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    Need For Speed, the movie

    I found out the other day that the NFS franchise is making a movie. How did I find out? Well it seems they're filming it in and around the Atlanta area. In fact, earlier this week they closed an 11 mile section of I-75 that runs past the place where I live. For four hours no less. Seeing how it...
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    Any rally fans in the house?

    Here's a NSFW (Warning, there is nudity on that site!) link to a nice compilation of some outstanding rally spills and thrills for anyone that enjoys rally racing. http://grab.orsm.net/php/flow.php?file=update20130404/rally-insanity.mp4 It's pretty damn awesome.
  8. madmat

    Happy New Year!

    I know I am a bit late (2hrs, 9min by my time zone) but I'd still like to wish everyone luck and prosperity in the coming year.
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    A Merry Christmas to all!

    I just wanted to wish my PC enthusiast friends, brothers and sisters a very Merry Christmas!
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    In the last 3 months...

    In the last three months I've banned 1817 forum spammers and Doomsday by accident. I'd like to say a sincere I'm sorry to Doomsday. I'm sorry I banned you by accident, I'll do my utmost to see it never happens again. To the spammers: I'm looking forward to the next 1800.
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    Xbox music, because when I reach for my Xbox I want music?

    http://www.xbox.com/en-US/Music Excuse me? Anyone else find it a bit daft?
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    Ban lifted, Galaxy 10.1 is going back up for sale in the U.S.

    Source. So, according to the source material: Which leaves me wondering if it will be back on the market later rather than sooner.
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    The new iPhone 5, taller than ever!

    <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/XNBP18nrRdw?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Bahahahaha!
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    Who's seen the new Cosmos II case?

    That's a big beastly bastard is it not? Seriously, does a computer case need it's own area code? I think it has it's own gravitational field...
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    Dear Bethesda,

    I'd like to thank you for the latest update to Skyrim. Prior to version 1.6 I could play this game for hours on end with just the occasional glitch or crash. Now, after this latest update, the game has become so unstable that I'm lucky to get 30 minutes of play time in before it crashes back to...
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    Anyone seen the new Yahoo! mail beta yet?

    I dunno how many of you use Yahoo! mail but the new beta looks outstanding! Google could stand to learn a few things as far as making the use of their other services from your email page. Imagine being able to access your Youtube or Photobucket accounts via a shortcut that's in plain view...
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    C.O.D. Black OPs gains dedicated servers! Gamers everywhere rejoice

    Source In a move that's sure to help ease (erase?) fears over the departure of a good chunk of the minds behind C.O.D. Modern Warfare 2, the next version, Black Ops, will regain dedicated servers for the C.O.D. franchise.
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    ASUS M4N82 Deluxe, Phenom II 940BE combo

    Recently I upgraded from an aging M2N32-SLI Deluxe and Athlon 64 X2 4000+ (Brisbane core, 65W) to a new M4N82 Deluxe and Phenom II X4 940 Black Edition. While the M2N supports the 940BE it doesn't support anything above that nor offer core unlocking. Sure, you CAN make the 955 and 965 quads...
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    The joys of newegg

    A month ago a co-worker approached me about fixing his 2004 Gateway socket 478 crap box with a dead mobo. I look on the 'egg, find a mobo that fills the bill and as he had 512Mb ram, ordered 1gig more. Gets here and it's a DDR2 mobo... I missed that bit. Save the DDR as it was cheap and go local...
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    One the eve of six or more cores...

    How do I celebrate? By moving to quad core. I've been running an M2N32-SLI Deluxe for a while now with an AM2 X2 4000 and 7 series SLI. It's time to step up the system. I've got an M4N82 Deluxe sitting in it's box waiting for a Phenom II 940BE which arrives tomorrow. After I can round up a...
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