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    Falcon Northwest Mach V from 2004: Cooler Master ATC-110 case, custom color matched to an Eddie Bauer Edition Ford Explorer

    I had a Coolermaster ATC-200 back in the day. They had outstanding build quality. All that machined aluminum with pull-out motherboard tray.
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    Thermal paste on CPU pins

    My theory is he put the paste on the cooler, then placed the cooler on the socket without the CPU installed, but then i remembered that the pins are on the actual chip on AMD processors. so now i'm even more confused. What is wrong with LGA? You're FAR less likely to screw up pins when they're...
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    Ghetto Mods

    Best way to do that is take a string thats about as thick as 550 paracord, soak it in iso or denatured alcohol (you can even use bbq lighter fluid), tie it around the bottle where you want it to be cut, then light it on fire. Carefully turn the bottle so the flames stay in line with the string...
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    Intel Core i5-9400F Processor Lacks STIM, Uses Thermal Paste

    I love arrogant people like yourself who make grand assumptions (albeit logical ones) in order to make themselves feel smarter than everyone else. But what i like even more is their reaction when someone proves them to not know what they were talking about. Most of the time such evidence is met...
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    Intel Cutting Retail Processor Supply for Holiday 2018

    What are you talking about? Intel could easily lose another 10-15% cpu market share? AMD's market share is only about 15%. The biggest gain AMD has had in any CPU market segment is in datacenter servers where their more than doubled their market share (deceptive as hell), going from 0.5% to...
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    Aqua Computer Announces the QUADRO: Smart LED, Fan Controller

    So the latest motherboards are able to calculate the coolant/ambient delta, creating a virtual sensor allowing you to create custom pump/fan curves based on that delta as opposed to the temperature of your cpu/gpu/etc? Wow, they've definintely come a long way if thats the case. Controlling your...
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    Announcing Cybenetics Power Supply Rating and Certification Agency

    Hmm.... I'd like to find out how this company is funded. I have a feeling that they charge companies to certify their power supplies. Btw... JonnyGuru has spoken on the matter: I largely agree with JonnyGuru. Cybenetics isn't playing nice and has basically said to anyone who does reviews to...
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    Aqua Computer and Rockit Delidding Tools tested on Core i7-7700K

    Incorrect. Those prices are adjusted for inflation using the Bureau Of Labor Statistics own Calculator which factors in purchasing power. https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl The same has been done with nVidia's graphics card prices over the past 20 years and they have not gone up at all.
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    CrossfireX related questions + Please advise: 2x270's or 1x280 for overmodded Skyrim

    I'm using about 65 mods and i'm not sure how either graphic card choice is going to be able to run graphics like this since it manages to b*tch slap my GTX 780 Ti pretty good. Low of about 45fps but typically just under 60. Whatever your decision, i think you'll be happiest with a single GPU...
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    Unigine Heaven 4.0 Benchmark Scores

    It seems I can't get this 780ti to go much higher. It's not freezing or anything. The software wont let me go higher. GTX780 Ti 1231/1825 (core/mem) ~82'c max i5-4670K @ 4.2ghz (removed, shaved height, and reinstalled lid ~65'c max)
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    AMD to Drag Socket FM2+ On Till 2016

    Nonsense! Those chips were manufactured to the specifications that were given by AMD. They were designed how they were in order to cut cost. FPU's take up a large amount of real estate and that costs money. The module’s cores, in addition to the shared FPU, share L1 instruction cache, fetch...
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    AMD Introduces New APUs for System Builder and DIY Market

    Notice how careful they're being about not giving us the 8-core? I bet there are agreements with Microsoft and Sony where they exclusively get those chips for at least a year.
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    ECS Debuts the LIVA Mini White Edition 64 GB Mini PC Kit

    Newegg has these up for $150. Not too shabby. I'm considering something like this that I can plug a 4tb HDD into and use as a media server. If this thing plays high bitrate 1080p well, i may go with this.
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    AMD Pushes Radeon HD 8000 "Sea Islands" Launch to 2Q-2013

    Top of the line single GPU cards have been priced at ~$500usd for over a decade now. The first $500 card I recall was the FX5900 Ultra. Prior to that the wallet killing title belonged to the Geforce Ti4800 @ $450 and the Ti4600 @ $400 prior to that. I'm not defending these prices at all, but...
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    Did ECS Just Blurt Out Names of 8-Series Motherboards?

    Last I checked my Creative x-fi titanium HD is PCIe has the CA20k2 audio processor which is 100% native PCI-Express. Also, the previous x-fi titanium uses this same processor and is also native PCI-Express. Only the lower end x-fi used the CA20k1 which required a bridge chip...
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