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Jesus Christ.... really?

Snicker, snicker, hee, hee... he said breasts.... Seriously? Apparently we're all pubescent boys here. When will this website grow up and realize that people other than males, ages 13-25 read their news?

Will this website ever get out of the stone age and stop making sexual, female degrading references in nearly every headline story?

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She didn't get a grant. Where do you see that she received a "grant". As seems to happen here frequently, articles posted play fast and loose with the facts in order to grab attention. She raised around $20,000, she wasn't given a grant (public or private). She solicited funds for this...

I have to echo this sentiment. I'm not sure what the issue was, but the two I had both wore out in much less than a year each. I gave up on them after the second one lost all its texture and was no longer "slippery".

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Well, I wasn't really going too fast, and I've built many a system before, I've just never had (nor really thought) a spark would jump from the metal tang inside of a plastic shrouded molex connector to the chassis. It's not like there's 400kV or something... only 12V max. I deal with static...

Woofer and others, Thanks for the input. I am suspect of all the components at this point but am loathed to face that possibility since I just put the stupid thing together. After the initial spark jumped to the chassis, I did have to power the unit up a couple of times before the HDD caught...

This is the new BFG PS. The system is plugged into an APC RS 1500 Battery backup/line conditioner. Everything was fine till that little spark jumped from one of the molex connectors to the chassis... I don't know if that screwed something up on the hdd or if it screwed up something on the PS...

So... I built this system a week or so ago.... http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1396869 You can see that I had some hdd problems, and I'm waiting for an rma for a dead hdd from newegg. Anyway, I have had the system up and running for about a week on an old sata hdd I had lying...

Well.... I got all the components and assembled them. I then realized the motherboard was crossfire and not SLI.... oh well... Anyway, I am having severe problems with the build now. I bought a new SATA HDD to install Windows on as well. First windows install attempt resulted in BSOD before...

Heatsink recomendaions?

OK then, how about this: Intel Core i7 920 Nehalem 2.66GHz 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1366 GIGABYTE GA-EX58-UD3R LGA 1366 Intel X58 http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.156589 G.SKILL 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)...

Thanks... Looks like I need to research more. I'm getting a headache from trying to figure out all the new names and codes etc... I've been away far too long...

This is what I'm thinking of getting: AMD Phenom II X4 940 Deneb 3.0GHz http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103471 GIGABYTE GA-MA790FXT-UD5P AM3 DDR3 AMD 790FX http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128377 OCZ Platinum 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3...

Still, my question remains, is it worth it? I can creep the budget up a little if need be but is the $200 (roughly) extra worth it or not?

Would it be worth it?

The PS is the one that is listed. the model number is the W0049. I don't care which brand CPU I go with, I just want the most bang for my buck. What about this i7 CPU?

I will locate the ps number when I get home, but I don't understand what's wrong with it? I would guess it's about 4 years old by now? I have 8 HDD's, 4 CD/DVD's as well as fans and even a SLI setup at one point. It's never given me a problem. Is there a new requirement for the Intel CPU's or...

Well, apparently my motherboard bought the farm while I was away in China for 2 weeks. It won't fully process the bios, it never gets to the point where it should load windows. As this is an older AMD 939 platform, I see little use trying to replace the motherboard alone just to keep the 4400...

OK... I feel like an idiot. It was the cable...... In my defense, the cable did work with a different computer... Thanks for the obvious guys!

Howdy all, I have an odd problem. I have a laptop that does not want to connect to the internet. I am connecting the laptop using a cable, not wirelessly (I have no wireless router). I get a LAN connection but then get that stupid message about "limited connectivity" (ie. you have no internet...

o.O Obviously no, but since it was a big advert, I thought I'd try anyway... but that's not what I asked... Why can't people read.... I'm asking if anyone out there didn't get their order canceled.

I saw this advertised yesterday, was given a verbal guarantee, then, of course, they cancelled...

I'm looking for a LCD stand for my monitor at work that will allow me to rotate the monitor from portrait to landscape. My monitor is a 24" LCD that is about 9 kg (20 lb). I am having a really hard time finding anything online for this size and was hoping someone here might have some experience...

Just need one for a Q3 server. Probably nothing higher than a 6800. No nVidia 5500's or 5200, or any of that type of garbage. Something relatively decent please. Thank you.

Thanks for the replies. I finally got through to Quantum technical support (their voice mail system is terrible) and apparently their 160/320GB drive uses a tape, DLT VS1, part number MR-V1MQN-01. This tape is labeled at 80/160GB, however the tech said it will do the 160/320GB as well. Even if...

I guess I didn't make my question clear enough. I realize that, unless you have a loader, that only one tape goes into the drive at a time, my question is: If I have a tape drive that's labeled 160/320 GB, do I need a DLT tape that is also labeled 160/320 GB (which I can't seem to find) or...

I realize this isn't a "disk" storage type, but this forum seemed the most logical place for this question. I'm looking into a DLT IV drive for daily backup operations where I work. We currently have a 4mm tape drive that is long in the tooth, and short in the capacity. To rectify this, I'm...

OK... Apparently I'm a retard. Well, let me preface this by saying I have a LiLan case that mounts everything upside down. This is important, as you will come to see. I finally got tired of the monitor not waking up so I decided to hook up another. It was only at this point, as I detached the...

I have a 24" CRT based on the sony fw900 tube, and it has a bit of a problem. It likes to go to sleep (or standby, or whatever it's called) at any random time. Surfing the web. gaming, whenever, it just decides that it's going into standby. Sometimes as this is about to occur, the monitor acts...

http://www.staples.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/StaplesProductDisplay?zipCode=14052&jspStoreDir=Staples&catalogId=10051&productId=148681&errorUrl=zipcode&krypto=y3aXAvbLCebVuCVgxOhox%2F9idJcZeT00GXe8%2FvjNBS3%2BlAHLSPZGm6ImaOEd8QYFVWi5kZ89VK91%0AS3gA8IYAstmdHxCFHpim%2FTl6EBQTvDc%3D&ts=1151529102...

This article seems to say that the problems are with the OC cards only, and I know from first hand experience that this is not the case. I received a Step-Up 7900 GTX EGS card from evga that, from the minute I "turned it on", had issues with almost every (newer) game. It displayed artifacts...

Woah, look out, we've pulled out the obscenities to get our point across... ooohhh, I'm so impressed. Grow up already.

OK, wrong data sheet, here's the one for the 6549 series: http://www.datasheetcatalog.com/datasheets_pdf/M/C/P/6/MCP6549.shtml Where you can see on page 4 that the operating temperature range goes to 125 deg. C And it's not a thread about not running 3DM 06, it's a single post in a...

Yes, I've seen those pictures as well, but I'm not convinced that's really the issue. Those chips are rated to 155 degrees celsius, well past the 80 shown in the picture: http://www.datasheetcatalog.com/datasheets_pdf/I/R/F/7/IRF7821.shtml

For those that haven't seen any sort of official reply, here's what an evga representative put up on their forums yesterday: At least one company out there acknowledges there's some sort of problem. The post is here...

My sig is old. That came from the replacement for the 7800's, a 7900 GTX. It's already enroute for an RMA. Suprisingly, the 7900 ran, but had issues. Imagine that... it had issues after losing a capacitor. The 7800 is still runing fine.

Do you suppose this could be a problem for my video card? Maybe this is the issue for more than just my 7900 GTX card... Crappily attached capacitors. I certainly didn't manhandle mine when I installed it.