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    EA DICE Rebuilding Battlefield 3 with Huge Patch

    Couldn't care less about all the gameplay tweaks, when the game was more or less ruined by rampant hacking. They dropped the ball so hard on policing this game, I honestly can't see myself coming back.
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    Marketing and Prejudice Get the Better of Consumers with PC Processors: Test

    Think we need to call in the Mythbusters on this one. That is once they're done explaining that little mishap with their cannon :banghead:
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    DAS Mechanical Keyboards are amazing!

    Good to know. Perhaps I'll shift to one of those. I'm currently on my second steelseries g6v2. First one only lasted a month, then some of the main keys springs where already worn out. RMA it and got a replacement. Had this one for a for few weeks and it's already starting to show the same...
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    How to make an anti-static bag

    Memory usually isn't shipped in antistatic bags, so I guess you could skip that part.
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    Battlefield 3 Interview With Producer Patrick Liu: maps, betas and jets

    OFC, they'll say that. It's the only way to get people to pony up their money. Cause honestly, that fixed build that they have implied so many times doubtfully exists. It was rather frustrating to be part of the alpha, only to come back to the beta and see that every single problem still...
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    Battlefield 3 Interview With Producer Patrick Liu: maps, betas and jets

    If Dice wants my money they are going to have to release a polished demo leading up to the launch. Playing the "beta" I honestly lost fate(also from past experiences with Dice) in it. I honestly doubt that they are capable of releasing a polished product with around 14 days to go. My...
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    Corsair Announces Availability of $139 Gaming PC Case

    Am I missing something? Why do hardly any of the companies design the cases with dust filters. It seems like such a small object for them to add, that I know a lot of people would enjoy.
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    How to crimp Cat 6 cable?

    Tbh, as a professional you would never crimp that yourself once you transition to cat6. If the 1Gbit connection offered by the 5e isn't enough and you really need the 10Gbit+ from cat6 then you would be better off just buying a proper one.
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    How to crimp Cat 6 cable?

    Well normally you terminate them in a female socket and then switch to a small patch cable between that and the computer.
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    How to crimp Cat 6 cable?

    Out of curiosity, why are you doing this? patch cables are dirt cheap this day and age. Also if you happen to do this every know and then, the correct tool for it is also rather cheap. It cuts them in the correct length without touching the copper.
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    Memory pairing.

    Tried it all, it'll only post with all 4 of those sticks. I've got another pair that works just fine, however not in conjunction with any of the 4 I received from my mate.
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    Memory pairing.

    Indeed =)
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    Memory pairing.

    The machine is running now, I just kept all of his 4x 2GB sticks. I haven't had to lower timings or anything: Running them at manually assigned factory specs 5-5-5-15 at 2.1volts With all 4 of them = instant succes. With only 2 of them, the machine wont even POST. I've already run memtest on...
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    Memory pairing.

    A friend offered me 4gb out of his 8gb ddr2(4x2GB config) memory today. I received the 2 sticks, however the machine wouldn't boot with them. So we tried with all 4 of the sticks and voila it booted just fine. I checked and double checked multiple times that I had them in the right slot when...
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    Is my 6970 system underpowered? I really can't tell...

    A powermeter doesn't cost much these days. Should be able to grab a decent one around 20bucks. That should give you a ballpark figure off your draw.
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