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    Car battery lash-up to UPS?

    BTW, I had considered going the full homebrew route with a high-amperage float charger and inverter but I'd end up buying good quality and lose the money anyway. Knowing me I'd buy half a dozen Optima batteries >.<
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    Car battery lash-up to UPS?

    Thanks a ton for the input, I figured it would be safe but there's always that little voice whenever you're about to mess with electricity. Great catch on the venting, I'll have to pick out tube-vented batteries for my project. I had planned on fitting them in polymer boxes in case of acid...
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    Car battery lash-up to UPS?

    TL;DR - Can I replace my dead UPS battery by wiring in a big, honking car battery? It would be a deep-cycle battery of the same voltage. My UPS died a few months ago and I live in an area where you really need one, I get regular outages from trees falling into power lines during storms and...
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    China Blames Online Games for Drugs, Murder

    We're kind of beating a dead horse on the obvious madness of this news report, but what I wonder is, if the Chinese government is getting ready to take greater control of the internet as it is accessed through their country, will things like goldfarming see a hit? I wonder if the government is...
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    Water Flow

    I've got to stop leaving this forum for so long at a time. I did this, in a much uglier way. I used hot tub manifolds, PVC bits with a 1-1/2" or 2" thread on one end and parallel with it four or five 3/4" smooth ports on the other (I use a CPU block with one-inlet/two-outlet and hoped giving...
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    Flash MP3 Player with BEST SOUND QUALITY?

    Thanks, I'm starting to see that I'm just not going to find much of as difference, they're all probably going to give up something in the area of fidelity just because they're sacrificing good hardware for size. On the up side, it looks like (in *most* cases) I'll get what I pay for, so I'll...
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    Flash MP3 Player with BEST SOUND QUALITY?

    Thanks, I don't know much about Ogg but from the movies I've seen in that format it is pretty nice. If they play wave, I'd use that and just get a hard drive model, but then there's the cost and the moving parts that I want to stay away from. I just want to get away from CDs, really. I was...
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    Flash MP3 Player with BEST SOUND QUALITY?

    I'm having a hard time finding [independent] flash mp3 player reviews that cover sound quality. It's the most important deciding factor for me, by far. I'll be using the thing strictly in my car, connected to the car stereo directly by 1/8th-inch stereo miniplug (for simplicity, I'd like to be...
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    Biggest Case

    The CoolerMaster Stacker is the biggest thing I can think of as far as cases go that A) you can get your hands on, and B) aren't a rackmount. I think there's a cube case out there somewhere, Xoxide used to have one. They might still have the page for it up but I'm pretty sure it's long gone...
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    Who makes This Case?

    Did your motherboard just fit perfectly with the backplate that's stamped right into that case or did you buy it barebones with the board and case together? It's possible it could be a mild variation of one of the mass-produced cases that, say, Chenming and Antec use (I could be wrong about...
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    Closed Water Cooling System Challenge

    The big double- and triple-120 radiators will fit inside or right on the outside of a case, but they're expensive and you have to watch the buildup of flow resistance. I think auto heatercores are generally slightly more open inside. If you happen to get a case where the PSU airflow doesn't...
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    Closed Water Cooling System Challenge

    Buy a cheap auto radiator, probably about a hundred bucks. Take your time when designing adapters, I used end caps from PVC pipe fittings with holes drilled in them to fit regular barbed hose fittings. That's the only way to run without fans. You can get away with passive cooling for system...
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    Sapphire X850XT models: 100103 and 100106???

    OK, I guess it's a supply and demand thing. Still weirdm, though.
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    Sapphire X850XT models: 100103 and 100106???

    This seems true, and makes absolutely no sense at all. The mystery continues...
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    Sapphire X850XT models: 100103 and 100106???

    I was actually curious if the card was updated in any way to fix or improve anything, I doubt it makes any real-world difference but it's interesting from a technical and possibly overclocking standpoint. The omittance of the chip struck me as strange, I figured they had moved it's purpose to...
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