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    I will be leaving TPU!

    followed you over from... jeesh I forget where, its been such a long time. The contributions you make are pivotal to many enthusiast's experience. By degrees of separation you have touched every computer user in the world. I hope that we aren't starved of your innovation in the future, you are...
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    Nvidia 3d surround only supporting three monitors with exact specs?

    I'm a little perturbed: :wtf: "All displays must have the same resolution, refresh rate, and sync polarity" :banghead::cry: http://www.nvidia.com/object/3DV_System_Requirements_Surround_Technology.html Can anyone verify this? I was planning on going fermi to power a thirty between...
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    Is GTX 480 / Fermi a game changer for you?

    I fold. Nvidia hardware is king for folding and the fermi architecture is an amazing folder. I prepped for these card by picking up an hx1000. I plan on getting 1 470 now and a second when I get a 30' monitor to center the nvidia surround of my 20's. eventually an nf200 chip mobo to add a...
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    i7 o/c to 4.5ghz suggestions?

    wow 300 pages to sift through. did a quickie and noticing the 920 at 4 abound. not good enough found this today: http://hwbot.org/browseHardwareProcessors.do?cpuSubFamilyId=168 the 930 looks promising. at least with price, the 21x multiplier and a high end mobo I have a playing area...
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    i7 o/c to 4.5ghz suggestions?

    hey, I'll be upgrading soon and wanted to hit 4.5Ghz on air again, only this time with an i7. I'd use it at 4.3Ghz 24/7. I haven't seen many comprehensive databases available on the net like there was for the conroe. Have you guys run into a collection of some promising oc results? any links...
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    A-DATA Introduces Industry's Fastest SSD S596

    the jmicron controller was the one that had abysmal "4kb random writes." It was soo bad hard drives far outperformed it. .02mb/s with a latency of over 1 second. http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531&p=17 but that age has past. heres a 4kB random write current graph. notice...
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    Exceleram Announces the Availability of 4 New DDR3 Memory Kits

    talk? they should have hired a proper translator instead of using babelfish. this shows that the company isn't very well managed.
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    Video of the Day: 23 GeForce GTX 295 Video Cards Installed in a Single Server Rig

    The earth simulator had 41 teraflops of supercomputing power. it was #1 in the world starting in 2002 till 2004. It cost about 72 million dollars. congratulations on building an equivalent for under $30,000.
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    Techpowerup Folding at Home Team Has Made it into the Top 125 Teams

    congrats techpowerup. all the best. You may find updating your folding info/guides page regularly: having a dedicated folding heading on your forum index page; and a monthly thread with folding news updates, community help, and recognition for milestones will help foster your folding community...
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    Antec Launches the Stylish Twelve Hundred PC Case

    ty weer. half decent for an antec case. the nzxt tempest that was reviewed yesterday provides a good comparison. Grings thanks for the perspective. A bit of extra room at the top leave mod ability and room to work with some of the pesky fan mechs out there considering no removable mobo...
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    Heroes of Might & Magic V: Tribes of the East Demo Released

    The techpowerup mirror is up http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/764/Heroes_of_Might_and_Magic_V:_Tribes_of_the_East_Demo.html
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    Heroes of Might & Magic V: Tribes of the East Demo Released

    I wish.... I would love to try it. I just crashed firefox after downloading for 3.5 hrs... with 7.5 hrs left. All of the links need you to subscribe to download at any ecent speed. I wish techpowerup would mirror the game demos they feel worthy of putting on their front page. I just sent the...
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    QUAKE WARS DEMO wooooooooot

    The fix. Some users say it also helped their single display frame rates on nvidia cards. http://community.enemyterritory.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2095 I'm running like I should be now.
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    QUAKE WARS DEMO wooooooooot

    I'm having dreadful framerates. I was reading somewhere that there is a dual/multi monitor problem. They also had an 8800gts 320. I get about 4-8 fps, and 20 in the menus no matter what my in game settings are. My problem is I have physicly removed my other monitor rebooted, and still seem to...
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    Where did the download request button go?

    Nzone is hosting it... thank goodness they can max out my download bandwidth. Thats one of the reason I love techpowerup is there bandwidth. 15 minute download from nzone
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