Current Free-Fly Dates: November 19th - December 1st, 2021
This Free-Fly event will be the best one yet. Over 100 different ships and vehicles to try, planets, asteroids, moons, huge performance improvements, underground caves to get lost in, and MOAB's.
Referral codes are the only way to get...
EDIT 2: You can fly for free till the 14th, they extended it to the date when the early backer discount ends**.
Referral URL's are not permitted per the rules so i stripped it out. But referral codes are the only way to get 5,000 free UEC when signing up, so get one from a friend, another...
PCParts Picker estimates my build to draw 328W.
Doing a quick & dirty search of highly rated low-cost PSU's I found a 450W Corsair that seems right.
Back when I last bought PSU's some people still doubled their needed wattage because making up wattages was so rampant, it seems with the 80...
I am running dual 8800GTS's in SLI and looking for improvements in running Skyrim.
I believe the single 560 Ti will give me a 20% boost, is this a good estimate, or am I way off?
I am budgeting ~$275 for this upgrade, is there a current clear 560 Ti for those who like to overclock?
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I bought the 4-pack of Borderlands, one key left.
I'll sell it at my cost was $37. (Retail is $50)
This is a retail key I will send to your steam account allowing you to play the full game legally.
I am looking for something to put on a laptop so my grandmother can do basic surfing and write e-mails.
I need something that is:
-Easy to use with poor motor skills (stroke).
-Intuitive for someone over 80 with no previous computer knowledge.
Any mouse/pointer suggestions?
I...
My TomTom Go 700 died, and cant bring myself to throw out the chargers. I believe the docking cable's are the same for the 500 and 700.
You get a car dock, ac charger, dc charger, USB cable, Install CD, soft case, and dead unit for parts I guess. =-)
You can have it all for $5+ship.
Heat...
Todays Windows Defender scan prompted me to clean my ISO for Windows XP today. Something tells me the recommended action of Clean could be a bad thing.
I am looking for a bluetooth USB dongle that can deliver A2DP (Stereo Music) to my headphones even when stored in a non-metallic hard case nearby.
Looking at the sleek micro adapters I find it hard to believe they can even broadcast past their own casing.
Belkin claims they can reach up...
I want to turn my home server into remote storage for my friends and family. So I can offer them something secure, with effortless file synchronization.
Does anyone currently do this? What experience can you lend?
The best I can come up with is creating a FTP server.
I use ZAR software for whenever a family member looses all their data for some reason or another, it has saves formatted camera cards containing honeymoon photos where other apps wouldn't and reformatted hard drives containing the only copy of 7 years of photos and video too!
I gladly paid...
I have a Samsung Spinpoint F1 HD502IJ drive about 3 months old.
On every boot I get a Drive failure warning.
HD Tune 2.55 says: (B8) (unknown attribute) Failed
There is no documentation that I can find to explain what this actually means, and not only is there no firmware fixes that I...
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Fallout 3 PC 35$ shipped from amazon with the super saver shipping.
I am stumped.
After a vista patch with mandatory reboot my pc came back with a very difficult issue.
To put it simply here is the before drive configuration:
[Drive0] C: 74.3Gig "Raptor"
[Drive1] D: 500Gig "Panda" -contains my photos, etc.
After the reboot it came up as:
[Drive0]...
BNIB Intel QX9650 Extreme - $680 shipped. Retail box with heat sink, scroll down for a pic of me holding it.
or
Used QX6850 $370 shipped is also for sale I can run any test (within reason) you wish to know about it. It will be shipped in its original packaging with factory heat sink...
I seem to have extraordinary luck, I won 2 Quad Core EE's in less than a year.
I have both right now on my desk and was wondering which one I should sell to fund a new monitor.
The QX6850 is used (in my PC now)
The QX9650 is new in its unopened box which would make selling it easier...
I have wanted to do a hidden memory mod for some time now. At work I am exposed to information about all the sneaky places to hide contraband. And combined with my Computer Forensic training, I have been dieing to do a Proof of Concept that anything could contain data, and Computer Forensic...
I took a bunch of videos of a PvP event using Fraps, and realized the videos i took are too large, totaling over 40 gigs. And crash windows movie maker.
Is there a free bulk video compressor out there i can use to make the videos more manageable?
Thanks,
From http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/49121
I know its a tiny win, but its a win none the less and is huge in my book of all things awesome.
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I wrote this for my little blog and thought I would share it here as well.
No matter what you do for work, when there is time in front of a PC involved, there are benefits to a multi-monitor setup. Being able to expand your workspace across two screens could give you a dedicated E-Mail monitor...
Under 100 bucks for a DX10 card should help the adoption of DX10 games pretty well.
http://feeds.ziffdavis.com/~r/ziffdavis/extremetech/~3/123101625/0,1558,2143304,00.asp
I know of a XBox 360 that was stolen, and I am trying to assist in tracking down a contact at Microsoft who will flag it for the police if it is connected online. Has anyone had any experience in this issue?
I have herd story's about how apple turns a blind eye to this kind of assistance.
My Dell XPS M1710 gets scalding hot, too hot to hold a finger to for more than 2 seconds after 2 hours of gaming.
And at around the 2 hour mark i get graphics corruptions and crashing.
Is this normal when the laptop is on a desktop?
I wish i had a temp to tell you...
Usually I can figure out all my problems but Google is not helping me much on this one.
When a couple workstations on my network try to close an XLSX file (Excell 2007) they get the following error.
Saving to XLS is normal.
And Not all workstations are getting this error. Restarting...
I have this switch
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and want to use it to control my case lights. But it...
I have a peltier that is unlabeled.
What test can I do to see its wattage? And how should I wire it into my power supply?
I would love to attach it to my system with a rheobus if possible.
With G11 out of stock in most locations I gave my local dealerships a try.
The 4th shop i called still had some of the "Old blue stuff". The parts department said its g11, but its not listed on the bottle. It is blue in color. Can anyone identify?
I dont want to muck up all my nice...
Most worklogs have a set theme, a name that fits in well with the theme, seemingly unlimited budget, and a workshop.
I, have none of those.
What I do have is a tired PC in need of an upgrade, big plans, my ever knowledgeable friends at HardOCP, and the wifes O.K. Mix that together with a...
I am buying today, but having last minute doubts about if i chose the best powersupply...
My parts:
Mobo: EVGA 122-CK-NF68-A1 680i ATX
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz
RAM: CORSAIR Dominator (2 x 1GB) DDR2 1066
GPU: EVGA 8800GTS 640MB Superclocked
Water Pump...
I got this letter in the mail, thought i would share with you how 1and1.com handles a situation.
The First letter they sent was brief.
The second letter wasn't so pleasant.
The professionalism here is good, but -50 points for not maintaining a RAID that can withstand drive failure (or...
According to http://www.tcmagazine.com/comments.php?id=14021&catid=10
So that means the DX10 patch will release around the same time as the expansion this holiday season.
Does anyone know the benefits of Win Server 2003 SP2 vs. Win Server 2003 R2.
From MS
What is on this disk? Can i just download these "options" elsewhere for free?
My coworkers Dell came in today. I volunteer to format and reinstall to get rid of the craplets.
Installs fine, and activation fails. I retype the key right off the sticker and it still fails. So i proceed with activating over the phone using the number displayed on the screen, and no dice...
I'm eyeballing a decked out Inspiron E1705 for my wife's gaming laptop.
All other stats aside, if i get the 256MB GeForce Go 7900 GS now, how likely will i be able to upgrade to a DX10 card like the GeForce Go 8800 in the future?
Thank you anyone who can shed light on this.