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    WTF/TF: cheap gpu better than a 7950

    Fiance and I went to Magfest this weekend and during a tournament in the lan room her wc pump went out. cpu seems ok but the video card is done for. she is pretty distraught over this as she works from home doing graphics as well as obviously being a big pc gamer. I have a ton of money out at...
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    WTB long shot: gtx 670/660 ti waterblock

    title says it all. I'm looking for an acrylic waterblock for the 670. acrylic top would be preferred but is not essential. will entertain any brands. It's for a 660 TI which is almost an idential layout to the 670. I'm not looking to break the bank on this since this is basically for a...
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    WTB/WTTF: cheap nvidia gtx 580/760/670 or similar

    heya, thread title says it all, looking for an older upper mid range nviidia card for a build that requires nvidia for compatibility. looking to spend under 100 on this, preferably well under. in terms of trade I dont have anything cutting edge to spare, but i have various ddr3, older...
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    WTB: 1.5 tb hard drive

    title pretty much sums it up. had a drive drop in my mirror raid. Need a new one. Specs are pretty irrelevant since its mirror. don't feel like upgrading to larger drives unless you can offer me a pair of 2tb drives for dirt cheap. looking to beat ebay prices. send me offers. Heatware...
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    suggest me a power efficient gaming card

    On a budget... full disclosure: I have a matx cube that i use to play movies/tv shows and double as a gaming "console" for my tv (this guy is for lighter duty gaming/psx emulation/doing my WoW garrison missions from the bed etc). current setup is an a10 apu with ddr3 2666 doing hybrid...
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    WTB 7950 water block and 1/2" blue tubing

    title says it all need a full coverage wb for a sapphire 7950, reference 7950 board so i'm pretty sure the bulk of 7970 blocks wont fit it. would also like some blue tubing for this, i dont need a whole lot as this will be in a seperate tiny loop, so if someone has some scraps or a couple...
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    WTB: z77 motherboard atx or eatx

    Heya, having some stability issues with a z68 in the house and looking to bump it to a higher unit. It's watercooled and pretty high overclocked i7 in a signature build so looking for a decent unit. would like something like the gigabyte full atx sniper, the asrock oc formula, the...
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    WTB s775 xeon x3230

    Hey guys, I know a lot of you part out servers and have retired equipment. I need that chip for an hp ml110 g4 server i have here at work. I missed the one i was watching on ebay so, figured i'd see if anyone has one around. Since the server is a single role finance software they don't...
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    WTB/TF: 7950

    Heya, kinda want to mess with crossfire with the newer drivers. would prefer a 2nd 7950 instead of a 2nd 7870 (my backup card) my main card is on a 7970 pcb if that matters. looking to go sub 200, will go slightly over if it includes a waterblock. let me know what is out there :D have cash...
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    wtb: gaming video card $50-$65, maybe 775 quadcores

    Heya Need a gaming card for a friend who lost his job. his 9800gtx went out so i figured i'd upgrade him and put him to work on an indie game i'm working on. thinking something like a gtx 280 - 285 or so, indifferent to ati/nvidia would prefer at least 1gb ram on board, would make concessions...
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    WTB: tis the season for a charity build, need a 775 mb!

    heya, The short version is there is a really nice lady who works our mailroom, one of those took a lot of years to get her life straight but gives 110% etc etc. I found out she like...does not have a computer at all at home. She was talking to me about how she has wanted one for a while but...
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    Finally ready to leave win mobile 6.5, help on "new" phone

    well I've started down the android rabbit hole. Basically I'm tired of having to create workaround for everything i want to do on my phone with little to no guarantee that it will work and while i knew going in support was dwindling, the fact that damn near everything on the phone has the plug...
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    WTB: Wacom Intuos4 medium ptk640

    gf has been pining over one of these (the 4 specifically over the 5) and I have a few i'm watching on ebay. But i figure i would bump this a few times since I have time before her birthday (dec 20) and christmas (i don't need to put the date). I'm sure some of you are looking to upgrade to the...
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    WTB/WTTF cheap 60-120gb ssd

    looking for a cheap ssd, can be an older model as long as it's working properly, just going to breathe some life into my daily beater laptop which has a 32gb ssd that isn't enough room for everything i do. just let me know what you have and how much you want, i'm not looking to spend a lot...
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    FS: Galaxy GTX 460, Sleeping Dogs Steam Code

    heya, pairing down these two items at the moment. Sleeping Dogs Steam code: $20 bucks code pm'd or emailed. SOLD! Galaxy GTX 460 1gb - $85 shipped - used it for a bit, considered SLI, upgraded instead to a 7 series amd card. slid some ramsinks onto the ram chips and had a stronger 80mm fan...
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    full size mechanical keyboards?

    heya, I posted looking for advice on keyboards a while back. It was time to make the switch from the g15 before it gave out on me. I finally settled on a switch and the like, and have started trying various keyboards. However now i'm having an issue of finding the "right" keyboard for me...
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    Raid 0 velociraptors and Intel Srt worth it?

    Ok so here is what happened. my original system setup has been a 120gb hyperx ssd as my os drive, a raid 0 set of raptorX 150gb drives and a 120gb agility 3 being used in part as a cache drive via Intel Srt. This drive was my primary location for games and other often accessed programs, with...
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    WTB 775 motherboard capable of pentium D cheap

    heya Looking to get a board for my work, Pentium D was just pulled from an old server, want to move that chip to a box that does indexing for our doc management system. It's on like a p4 2.4 currently and its a 3.2 pentium D so i figure thats a net gain. dirt cheap is the key b/c im...
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    WTB: cheap or broken laptop (screen keyboard etc)

    Heya, I'm looking to form the basis of my carpc. I am currently using an old dell latitude d410 (pentium M and ancient intel embedded graphics). I'd like to upgrade that slightly, to something that can at least handle graphics transitions in the front end software better than this one. Also...
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    FS: Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H-B3 Intel 1155 motherboard

    Heya, Ended up moving one of the pc's to a different platform for a change of pace. I have this one up for sale. Been nothing but stable, overclocks well enough for a mainstream board. Have had it since end of december so it's still under warranty and I should have all the accessories...
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    building new office workstations, platform input please

    as the title states, i was asked to update our remaining non updated legal assistants and paralegals pc's at this time. I was able to get in on some nice ssd deals, and i have case/dvd drive/ram/and psu on their way in. I know these will get ragged on fairly well but nothing otuside of what...
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    WTB: am3/am2 45w or 65w dual/quad cpu, dirt cheap tiny capacity ssd (5-8gb ones)

    As the thread title suggests. I'm putting together a custom router. I have an am3 motherboard here that needs a chip. Ideally i'm looking for a 45w dual core am3 chip. i would also accept a 45w quad am2 chip. for the right price a 65w am3 chip would be passable as well. looking for more cheap...
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    Making a return to mechanical keyboards, need help

    I'm starting to look at picking up a mechanical keyboard to replace my g15 v1. The led's are wearing out and years of abuse are starting to get some keys sticky and the like (unfortunately every time i try to fully disassemble for cleaning it somehow destroys these keyboards). Now that i found...
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    Mana's prepping to move weekend sale! 775, am3, ram, gpu and lots more

    Hey guys Gonna be updating this as I clean up and sell down some of my backlog of parts. A lot of this isn't bleeding edge, but I've been keeping way to many emergency spares, even though i've long since moved from the platforms. I'll also have some various movies and geeky items up in here...
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    assembling an OCR backend box for work, need ideas

    As the title stated. We are looking at a proposal that would have us put hardware on the floor to replace our current OCR and cost recovery systems and integrate them into a single package. I built the original OCR box that is currently back there (phenom II x4 box) and it has worked excellent...
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    WTB/TF gtx285 reference ver

    heya, as the title states, looking for a gtx285 on the cheap. It needs to be a version 1 reference design or close enough to it. I have an ek gt200b block And i'd like to use this in a arcade cab system i'm cooking up. There can be a bit of variation as I will be fabbing up a custom rear sink...
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    WTB: 128mb - 2gb flash drives cheap or for shipping

    Heya, I am messing around with proprietary stuff that uses small flash drives. projects such as building an In the Groove arcade cabinet and some other projects of a similar nature. That said I need small flash drives to read/write user data. pref 128-1gb but will happily take 2gb if they...
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    been researching, need new cpu block help

    alright i have 2 nearly identical loops, i think currently the only difference are rad types, (layout on both is 2x120 and 1x120 rads) as one has slightly higher quality rads than the other, but the lower end rads have more/better fans to offset this. my main loop has a d-tek fuzion v2 as it...
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    WTT: my xfx 4890 + cash for your reference 4890

    heya, ok long story short. I sent in for warranty an xfx 4890 that was being used in my htpc/console style game system. No problems and warranty was taken care of, however i received a non-reference version. I use an EK full coverage block and this does me no good. Looking to trade this 4890 to...
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    WTB: sell me your am3 board

    got a friend who is usually about a gen behind. She wants to go am3 and has a phenom II 965 BE waiting to go into a system. Would like to make it to 4.0ghz under her megahalems. Figure with am3+ enthusiast boards coming next month someone probably wants to dump a decent oc/enthusiast board...
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    Changing teams back to AMD, need a board

    OK. Finally going to retire my 3.8ghz q6700/gigabyte ep45-ud3p combo and snatch up a phenom II x4 965 BE. My question is what boards would give me the equivalent value for money as my dear old gigabyte. I've had the quad up to 4ghz on this board, and it has pretty much handled everything i've...
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    775 ip35 interesting board problem, need a hand

    ok, so i have the gaming pc of a friends brother here on my bench. I honestly can't remember if i built this unit or not but it looks like my handiwork so it probably was. motherboard is an abit ip35-e with an e6750 and 4x1gb sticks of ram (i'm troubleshooting on 1gb) anyway he installed a...
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    WTB s775 matx motherboard with 4 ram slots, gpu block

    as the title states. requirements: - 4 ram slots ddr2 - 2 pci and 1 pci-e slot - supports a 1333 fsb, going to be putting an e6750 in it - matx since its going in a minuet case overclocking and onboard features aren't an issue, i'm using a low profile discrete vid card and sound card. the...
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    WTB laing d5/mcp655 vario ASAP

    my pump just went out on me. I have already been without my main rig for a few days redoing my loop. I live in pittsburgh so there is nowhere i can even get gouged local to buy it and i'm having difficulty finding the vario speed ones. Let me know what you got, driving distance would make my...
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    Mana's Holiday sale. 4890, 9800, misc pc stuff, dvds cds etc

    Welcome to another round of buy my stuff so I can afford gifts for everyone else! As per usual, I will usually ship USPS either priority or first class. You would be surprised how well you learn to pack stuff in those flat rate boxes. Since I am also packing for a move, albeit slowly, there...
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    potential noob webmastering question regarding domains

    Ok, I have built a great many websites, have done basic seo and webmastering... that part i get. However, all the sites I have done in the past have been rather straightforward, with 1 or more domain names all going to the main page and that's that. Now my work has asked me to update the...
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    24 inch lcd monitor gift, need some help

    so. I have the Benq g2400wd. Best lcd i've ever owned, and probably the best jack-of-all trades lcd I could find. The gf has been envious of it for ages, so i thought i would get her one for christmas, well I was wrong. These things are a pain to find and IF you do its either through...
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    WTB cheapy core2 chip and matx am2 board

    heya, just what it says need a cheapy core 2, like under 30 bucks cheapy. not too too picky here, the e2x, e4x or e5x series are fine, just to celerons also need a cheap am2 matx. Again it can be a second tier brand, it won't be oc'd so like ecs and company are fine, just looking for...
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    looking for a 24" mine isn't made anymore, need suggestions

    thank you for reading :P I bought the Benq g2400wd about 1.5 years ago on tons of recommendations, reviews, and word of mouth that it was probably the closest you are going to get to a TN panel that is capable of doing it all. They were right, input lag is "almost" crt level, ghosting isn't...
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    building an AMD machine for a client, question

    so i'm grabbing the AMD combo at microcenter for a client build. She just needs a home computer to do billing/invoices etc for her brother who is pretty well off doing indie contracting in the area. she is on a some ancient system right now, maybe a p3 533 or something equally as horrid, win89...
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