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Forum: General Chat Topic: ACTA fully disclosed |
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Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 6:06 pm
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Forum: General Hardware Discussion Topic: Kingston SSDNow V Series 128GB |
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Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 9:58 am
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Replies: 14
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CMDR Steve-O wrote: Every other time i've seen QFT, it means something completely different 
Huh, wacky. I've only ever seen it in the "I agree" context, not the "piss off" context  |
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Forum: General Hardware Discussion Topic: Kingston SSDNow V Series 128GB |
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Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 11:01 pm
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Replies: 14
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| QFT = Quoted For Truth. I was, in fact, agreeing with Hali_Newf and throwing my $0.02 |
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Forum: General Hardware Discussion Topic: Kingston SSDNow V Series 128GB |
| overclocked_486 |
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Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 8:40 pm
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Replies: 14
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Hali_Newf wrote: Onboard raid is good at showing one huge drive, but not good at giving you the speeds that you should be getting.
QFT. I've heard nothing but horror stories and lamentations about onboard RAID controllers. |
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Forum: Processors, AMD or Intel Topic: FTC sets sights on Intel. |
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Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 11:41 pm
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Replies: 8
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| The only true people to benefit from lawsuits against Intel are the Lawyers themselves. They can tie this up for decades and make an entire career and get sickly rich. I seem to recall the antitrust suit against Microsoft in the Nineties not lasting very long; I'd imagine the Intel case would be cl... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: The Pacific |
| overclocked_486 |
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Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 4:07 pm
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Replies: 6
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| I saw an ad for that last night; for a split second I wished that I got HBO. I'll definitely be checking it out at some point. |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Counterfeit Intel CPU's |
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Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 1:00 pm
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Replies: 15
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| Lead is a fairly poor conductor of electricity. A billion car batteries can't be wrong. Lead is, in fact, a poor conductor of electricity. The reason that lead-acid batteries are so common is because, compared to other materials, Lead, Lead Dioxide and Sulfuric Acid are dirt-cheap. Their power-weig... |
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Forum: General Hardware Discussion Topic: iPhone jailbreaker dongle |
| overclocked_486 |
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Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 1:03 pm
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Replies: 3
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| Wait, what? Does Apple have roving death squads to take care of Haxz0rz now? |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Counterfeit Intel CPU's |
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Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 12:58 pm
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Replies: 15
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Phonix wrote: Also had one where the kid actually installs the cpu and is like wtf?
How did he manage that? Hot glue? |
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Forum: General Hardware Discussion Topic: Sound Card worth it these days? |
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Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 8:46 pm
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Replies: 7
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| So the Onboard sound chip still lets the CPU do most of the work? (if thats true, thats another thing I didn't know) Yeah, it's the same reason a dedicated video card will always perform better than integrated graphics. Instead of the CPU doing all of the work whilst simultaneously running just abo... |
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Forum: General Hardware Discussion Topic: Sound Card worth it these days? |
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Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 6:05 pm
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Replies: 7
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| It's another thing your CPU doesn't have to do, so I don't see the harm in keeping it. I'm probably going to end keeping my old SB Live! 5.1 for a while yet. |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: November Desktops! |
| overclocked_486 |
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Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 12:24 am
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Replies: 7
Views: 8260
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Nothing special. |
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