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DES MOINES, IA, US 03/13/2008 6:53 A.M. OUT FOR DELIVERY :D

3-7 days for ground. It shipped from illinois for me today, so hopefully i'll get lucky and itll be here friday (its one state over!).

Mine shipped as well Type your order number into TD's order tracking to check, they don't auto-email when it ships out. Awesome, I might actually buy from TD now... I'd been turned off for several years because of prior troubles but if this works out it'll greatly improve their image. EDIT: I...

I pulled the trigger, had to... so cheap. Thanks! Will update if this actually goes through

What state DOESN'T pay BB tax? And no, if Newegg doesn't have a location in your state you will never pay tax. Unless they change the constitution.

Oh and fry's B&M has that BFG card for $229+tax AR

That ONE card is more than this... but you'd be an idiot to buy it. MSI and ECS are available for sub $250. There's like 4 different 8800gts 512s on newegg that would come out to less than $530 shipped for SLI. And you wouldn't have to deal with bestbuy.

That's stopping me too. But the 6100 will play old games fine, I've played wow & CS on it.

$541 with 6% sales tax. This isn't a deal at all, sorry. Unless you really love best buy.... I'd take a $20 MIR from newegg over dealing with their garbage service any day.

Unless you really want to SLI an existing 8800gtx... it's not a great buy. The 8800gtx has been a GREAT value, just because of how many years its' stayed on top... but anymore the costs are hard to swallow for the minimal performance gains.

Newegg has it for $40, but you pay shipping. I've bought 3 over the last 5 months for under $40 shipped... they're always on sale somewhere.

They're $40 at a lot of retailers. Only hot if you use GCO, which isn't really anything new.

Just picked up an 850w coolermaster for $95. Not too shabby, although after MIR you see em for this sometimes. X-FI fatality edition (the one with onboard RAM) is $60

+6.xx in shipping I'd stick with the egg

PMs replied.

I'm looking at piecing together a build for my girlfriend, and before I started buying new I figured I'd give everyone here a chance to offload some of their low/mid end equipment. Looking for: 775 Dual core ($50-$100) 775 Board, p35 or 680/650 ($50-$100) Quality mid-tower case (no garbage...

It's not going to kill you, you can get it all over your hands and it won't hurt you. Unless you're constantly exposed to it you're fine. It's just nail polish remover. Don't inhale it and don't pour it in wounds... same goes for all solvents.

Nail polish remover works fine. Just make sure it's the pure acetone kind. Not the "protein enriched". It should be clear, not a hazy pinkish color. Target sells it, around $.50 for a nice size bottle. It's often called "industrial strength nail polish remover" or something similar...

Build it yourself, or find a friend to do it for free. What you listed isn't very "high end", or complicated so the install is pretty idiot-proof.

It's faster and cheaper than the ATI options... but of course you can't be troubled to read the reviews eh?

Thanks guys! I've got 3 accts... so looks like I'm getting 2 free months :D

In for it! Could always use another gpu.

No longer available anywhere in Iowa :( I thought i had SLI for a moment too....

Nice setup, clean & matching colors... don't see that much with phase anymore.

http://www.petrastechshop.com/pecoel.html the rad should be able to handle an additional video card and northbridge block should you ever decide to go there.

I'm trying to be nice here, don't waste your time. The device has way too large of a probe, and is way to inaccurate to be used for this type of thing. Sorry, but the temp readings are gonna be too easily swayed by other factors to make this a convincing test at all. I appreciate you...

Just to warn you, you're not gonna change anyone's minds with a $5 meat thermometer. No one's making you change your setup, it's your choice if you want to spend the $ on a thermometer to really test this. If you're happy with it, leave it and let the thread die. But just know that you're...

Swiftech's blocks are beautifully lapped, and if applied with proper mounting pressure to the fins of a heatsink... they will be gored. By the way heatpipe and heatsink are two different things, not sure if you knew that or not but you use them interchangably so I wasnt sure. Using a sheet...

For me to prove it wrong, there would have to be some reason for it to work at all, thus necessitating further testing. However, there has been absolutely no reason whatsoever presented. If i told you that coral supplements cured cancer, would you really have to kill someone to prove me wrong...

I have proved it wrong, with logic. He has provided nothing that could even be considered proof. Peer review assumes that the originator of the idea has some reason for believing it to be true, which is not the case here. He has no reason why this should work, and no proof that it does. I'm...

Sorry that's not how this kind of thing works. You don't make a claim and then force everyone else to prove you wrong, that's the total opposite of the scientific method. A theory is not true until proven wrong, you have to prove that your idea is right especially if it goes against the...

^ True Seriously, you thought a meat thermometer would prove your point? IF you want proof that the meat thermometer doesn't work.. just look at the temps it gave you.

If your definition of working is that it didn't break anything, then yes it works. But he has no idea what it's done for his temps, as shown above. All this did was mutilate a good waterblock and probably raise his northbridge temps, no way to really know the temps though without a decent...

Over and over yes. You used a meat thermometer, and two totally different contact points. Your "waterblock on" temperature reading was made with the thermometer's probe end barely in contact with the heatsink, and towards the top. It's reading basically air temp+ a little bit of heat from...

As opposed to using a fan, there's quite a bit less airflow.

http://www.petrastechshop.com/pecogpuel.html Petras has the best kits hand down. Get ramsinks as well. No company manufactures a watercooling kit that does cpu/gpu that is worth a damn. Petra just takes all the parts listed off his shelves and packages them together with a slight...

I said that the only reason to use a heatsink is to create more contact area. Meaning more contact with whatever is supposed to be carrying the heat away, in this case air/water. Hows that different than heatsinks exist to provide more surface area that is in contact with the air, and...

I never said it was contact area alone, I said heatsinks exist to provide more surface area that is in contact with the air, and thus better heat dissipation. Not sure how what you said refutes that, or in any way makes his idea a good one.

Drivers will get better, although 26% is kind of crappy even for a first release.

From wikipedia A heatsink is designed to offer as much surface area and thus as much contact with air as possible. More contact = better performance, theyre very simple devices, designed essentially with one thing in mind: to move heat as efficiently as posible into the air. This is done...