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is there like a special run-off between the top 3? maybe an obstacle course?

must suck when it costs more to print the money than the money is actually worth..

keep your pc, get a bicycle

i loved flashback

now all you need to do is reach 88 miles per hour !

i guess its pretty redundant. the country name is listed, so flag isnt too important i guess hehe

lol i guess i wasnt logged in when i typed that 'guest' message above if you dont want to totally get rid of them, could you put a smaller flag up next to the 'add friend' and 'pm this member' buttons? or maybe that would look strange

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theres a site i've been reading for several years now. its basically a site dedicated to nothing but cpu cooling etc. that zipang seems to be highly rated. currently they have it ranked #2 in the low noise coolers http://www.frostytec...p5heatsinks.cfm edit: oops, looks like zipang is #2, but zipang2 is #7. didnt notice two versions before

this might help

you need to replace that ancient monitor next. oh and wow that case is a BEHEMOTH

be ready for failure. you will probably be going through trial and error for a bit before you get the hang of things i think my first attempt took me 4 times before i could make something that was usable

what kind of cooling are you using?

this is straight from their website. no idea what the catch is, but you can get free versions of: O&O Defrag 11 Professional Edition, O&O Unerase 2, O&O CleverCache 6 pro, O&O Safe Erase 2, O&O DriveLED theres too many links to post for each one, so i'll just post the link to where i found out about it http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?t=1891016

it sucks where i live. no microcenter and no frys only thing we have here is best buy, which.. well i'd rather just buy it online then instead of paying full retail prices

lol i hate that guy. he's got an annoying way of talking about things i think your numbers were correct. just for the card. but total system power usage (cpu + whatever other hardware is running in the case) is what i had linked. of course those numbers will fluctuate depending on system specifications, but it still gives a general idea. this was the rig they did the testing on http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3658&p=4 so its pretty close i would figure. so in other words i think n1k's power supply will be plenty the load numbers are different. a t load it was showing roughly 44 watts less than the gts 250, which seems like a good amount to me

this should give a general idea of ' total system' usage http://www.anandtech...spx?i=3658&p=13

those replacement batteries can get expensive

have you updated the bios on your motherboard?

something else i just remembered is thats a dx11 card, so if you are still using xp then you won't get all the benefits of it unless you have vista or w7

well that makes more sense now

need to have something at a minimum of 1680 x 1050 resolution or it will mostly be wasted

can't beat free

if you plan on upgrading in the future the 650 would give more headroom. i *think* the hx620 is the older model and the hx650 is the newer version that replaces it, i found review for the 620 back from 2007. maybe since its old and possibly discontinued then the surplus is low so the price is still high.