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    Violent video games blamed for Virginia Tech slaughter

    My vote is bad parenting. And maybe he got kicked around too much and didn't have an adequate support structure. Bottom line, an exceptionally sick messed up loser, and no excuse will be good enough for what happened. Millions of people play "violent" FPS games and watch...
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    Geek Squad worker busted for hiding camera in shower of his customer's house

    Hao Kuo Chi looks way more Chinese than Japanese :laugh: Maybe this is the start of a "Geek Squad Gone Wild" series
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    X800 GTO² to X850 XT BIOS Mod

    Reporting back... Flashed my card with the 09/14/05 modded bios from ShadowFlare. Got the 16 pipelines. With 12 pipelines, max. artifact-free clocks looping 3DMark03 Mother Nature was 537 / 639. After the flash to 16 pipes, I had to back down to 519 / 610 for clean runs in 3K03 Nature, and...
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    X800 GTO² to X850 XT BIOS Mod

    ShadowFlare, thanks for the response. Yes, my Sapphire GTO2 retail has same BIOS version, BIOS part number, and BIOS date as yours. Will this work? 1) Make a copy of Sapphire.X800GTO2_16P.256.Samsung16_050914.bin to gto16p.bin ** i.e. use shorter filename for bios to flash 2) atiflash...
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    X800 GTO² to X850 XT BIOS Mod

    Hi, I just got a retail GTO2 from NewEgg on 11/30. How did you review and mod the bios? Did you do the 3-step save, flash to x850xt pe w/-newbios, and flash over orig w/out -newbios, or actually mod a copy of the stock bios? I've been reading through this thread and would prefer having a...
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