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    Underwhelming Newegg black friday?

    After sleeping on it last night, I'm in for two of the 6950s. I've been tooling around with my GTX260 for too long on a crossfire capable motherboard. I don't think it's a really hot deal, but trying to find a fully comparable card with the BIOS switch, a good chance of unlocking, and a decent...
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    Underwhelming Newegg black friday?

    That PSU has been on sale several times recently, for maybe $10 - $20 more than that. So it's not an outright ripoff like some of the deals listed. It's also just a very good PSU in general - the [H] guys liked it.
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    Underwhelming Newegg black friday?

    So, I just noticed that the deal on that 6950 updated. It was showing $269, $279 - something like that. It's now $229, which is at least a reasonable price for the card. Not a great deal considering you can get a similar 6950 2GB for cheaper after rebate right now, but this one does have...
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    Underwhelming Newegg black friday?

    Their "deal" on that 6950 is atrocious. I'm really hoping there's a good GPU deal somewhere this year.
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    [W]arm at least - Dell 24" monitor S2409W $189 Free Shipping

    I bought a couple of these on the deal last week for $179 each. They're just TN panels, but I'm rather pleased with mine. Playing the L4D2 demo on them looked very nice, no ghosting that I could see. Viewing angles are very good for a TN, especially the horizontal. As with all TN panels, the...
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    Hot? - Logitech Z Cinema Advanced 2.1 USB <$85 shipped

    I got in on this deal the last time it came around a few months ago. I'm not an audiophile, but through the USB connection, they sound pretty good, about the same as my Logitech Z-5300e set. They do have an analog line in on the side of one of the satellites too. Unfortunately, the quality...
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    New GTX260: Noise from the VRMs?

    It's definitely affected by frame rate. The thing is, it's considerably louder than just about anything else in the room (from across the room), including all the fans (10 of them) and hard disks in my case and a ceiling fan with bad bearings. I've heard parts make some noise before, but never...
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    New GTX260: Noise from the VRMs?

    I just bought a new XFX GTX260. It is the 216 core 55 nm version. The card works just fine as far as I can tell, but when I go in-game, I get some pretty odd electrical noise from the rear of the card under the fan. It's the same noise level as a fan, which I think is pretty loud for an...
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    it's back... 1tb seagate 7200.11 $85 shipped

    I bought a 1.5 TB off Dell during that $85 deal. It's the older model with more platters, but it did not need a firmware update, according to Seagate's website. They have a form where you can punch in your drive's serial number and they'll figure out what firmware it shipped with and if you...
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    Microsoft Improving User Account Control

    I don't get the people saying UAC isn't sudo. The two are actually pretty similar implementations of the same idea, sudo just does it better. And no, you're not required to use sudo on a command line - look at Ubuntu for an example of sudo done within the GUI. I believe the package...
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    Microsoft Improving User Account Control

    I have UAC turned on with my system, and I even took it a step further: the account I log in with isn't an administrator, so I have to punch in a password on UAC prompts. Now, I can tolerate this becuase nothing I commonly use triggers UAC prompts, so I only see them when I install something...
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    NVIDIA Showing Interactive Ray Tracing on GPUs at SIGGRAPH

    The shadows/lighting is a known problem for ray-traced images. Basically, while ray tracing is very good at drawing shadows for everything, it does so with absolute precision. Basically, light is calculated as coming from a point, and diffusion of light (which is what makes shadows soft) isn't...
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    Sigma SP-700 700w Power Supply @ [H]

    I'll put in another thumbs up for the "pass" badge. It's good to see that FSP is exactly what I've always thought them to be. I typically use FSP's 300 - 500 watt units for systems where price is a big factor. They're not amazing, but they're adequate. You're obviously not going to be...
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    ECS 512MB 8800GT w/ AC Accelero S1 R2 - $137AR

    The rebate says it ends on the 31st (today), but it's not linked on the product page. I'm thinking I want to pull the trigger on this, but I don't wanna get screwed on the rebate. Anyone else know what the odds are on this one actually coming back?
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    7900GS New Driver Breaks Fan Control

    The thing is, whatever is wrong also breaks automatic scheduling in RivaTuner. Basically, you can enable a "probe" that will tell you when the card is in 3D mode. When the value is 0, the card is in 2D mode, when it's 1, the card is in 3D mode. Using this, you can tell RivaTuner to...
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