Figured I'd add my .02 cents. Just received my 20WMGX. So far it appears to be in excellent condition. No visible wear. No dead pixels that I can tell(knock on wood). Came with power cable, VGA cable and mini to mini cable. Mine only has 36 hours on it.
I think I might have to order up...
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PS good luck with Shop Sunshine also. A quick search doesn't inspire confidence.
Be careful here bro. Both of these operations look shady at best. Classic bait and switch shops. Search reseller ratings and hit up sites like, dpreview, nikonians or POTN. Doesn't look good. These cameras are most likely imports or gray market and I didn't see anywhere that these 2 shops...
Blowers are only going to remove so much dust from the top element of the sensor. To really get it clean your a) going to have to send it in to Nikon/ local shop to have it cleaned professionally or b) pickup a Copperhill kit to do it yourself.
I can vouch for the Copperhill method. I've...
What the hell is "normal serfing?"
I'd advise you to stay away from IBuypower and look at what boutique builders like Velocity Micro, Puget and Maingear can do for you in your price range.
That's my advice.
^^^Agreed, you are inviting a host of unforeseen problems and headaches by trying to make your current OS install work with the new motherboard. Copy off your data to another disk and do a clean install of the OS.
Did you do any sort of stability testing after you built this thing? You need to at the very least run Memtest86 and Orthos for a few hours each to see if your build is stable.
Are you sure you don't have the laptop set to go to sleep after some period of time. Everyone of my 500 company laptops are set to do nothing when the lid is closed so they can sit in their docking stations.
While that's a very nice little speech, it doesn't address why the PSU was installed in this manner. Is this AVA's common method of mounting PSU's in Antec 900's?
Maybe I'm being thick, but I can't tell from this whether or not the machine is POSTing. Do you hear a beep from the machine to say its completed POST?
Does the machine POST? Does anything happen at all when you press the power button on the PC? Fans start? Hard drives spin up? The more information you can give us the better.