Are you looking for a particular type of keyboard (mechanical, ergonomic layout, wireless, etc.)? If your father-in-law uses mechanical keyboards or would like to try one, you could buy just one mechanical keyboard with white keycaps and also buy a single black keycap to replace the white "i&qu...
Transistor Soundtrack. And Transistor - Breached Sessions. Songs from Transistor with Red's humming. Seriously, they are awesome, why aren't they in the official soundtrack? Just saw in my RSS feed (old-school in these Twitter days, I know :) ) that Supergiant has released an extended soundtrack fo...
Possible bad news for the conspiracy theorists: an experienced pilot decided to try out Occam's Razor and came up with this theory at Wired Magazine , suggesting that the cause was simply a landing gear fire mistaken for an electrical fire, or else an actual electrical fire, and that everything fol...
Isn't this an e-IPS panel? That would make it inferior to the zr24w's s-IPS panel. TFT Central lists the U2142M as having an "8-bit" (6-bit + FRC) e-IPS panel and the zr24w as having an 8-bit (true 8-bit, I guess) e-IPS/H2-IPS panel. I'm not familiar with the nuances of IPS panel technolo...
Dell's new U2412M monitor that Cyril mentioned a while ago is now on sale for $329; sounds like it might only be for today. I've been thinking about getting the HP zr24w, but will have to seriously consider this.
Ok first noticible thing right off the bat ...... after assembling the system the very first thing I did was to run, CPU-Z to see if things are running smoothly ........ and I noticed that coew speed is showing just 1.6Ghz, I think the stock speed for this proc is 3.4 Ghz right ..... what am I miss...
Sorry for not replying sooner, I've been in a meeting all day. Thank you everyone for your input so far; I wish I had started this thread several days ago. for about $200 you can get an AM2+/AM3 DDR2 motherboard and an Athlon II X4. This will perform worse than a Q9550. or, for the same $200, you ca...
I'm considering some upgrades for my first build , done in Oct. 2007. I know the GPU is the weakest spot, but with the HD6000 series maybe around the corner and possible price cuts (hopefully AMD? please?) on the HD5850 in response to the GTX 460, I'm going to wait a little bit longer. However, I'm ...
Hey everyone, Long-time lurker here. My 16-month old HP tx2500z tablet refused to resume from standby today, and I need the wisdom of the gerbil collective on choosing the best course of action. Of course, the warranty expired back at the end of December :x. Here is the saga (sorry in advance for th...
Well, I finally did it! Ordered everything except the RAM last night, and I'll order that on Tuesday, since OCZ only gives me 14 days after invoice date to mail in the rebate (ends 10/19) and I'll need the extra time in case I get a bad stick and need to RMA. Final Count: Newegg Antec Sonata III cas...
Ok, I think I'm ready to go for it. For the video card, I'm going to stick with the EVGA 8600GT for now and then upgrade to a 8800GT(S) at a later time if/when I need to. Here's what I have: From Newegg Antec Sonata III case w/ PSU , $100 after $30 MIR Intel Dual-Core E2160 Allendale 1.8GHz , $84 GI...
Well, time is running out and I'm still having trouble deciding whether I should go ahead and buy an 8800GTS like this XFX card while the rebate lasts or just stay with an EVGA 8600GT and then upgrade to an 8800GT or 8800GTS later, depending on which one turns out to be better. Right now I'm leaning...
Take a look at Zipzoomfly. I found their prices better, no shipping charges, and no tax. I had a bad stick of ram, and they took care of it with no hassles. Just wanted to give you another option to consider. Thanks very much for the suggestion. I'll definitely give them some thought -- free shippi...
Thanks for the fast replies! Customer service > price. Within reason. I've dealt with Newegg's service quite a few times, and they've been so good I won't consider purchasing anywhere else. I've not really had any problems with Mwave, though I've heard differently before. What may be the case is tha...
Hi all, I posted an AMD X2 config here on SBA back in August, but ended up not going through with the purchase/build for a couple of reasons. Now I'm ready to try again with a budget Intel system. This will be an all-purpose machine, but it might see a game here and there (Supreme Commander). I'd li...
After doing more research and reading reviews on TR, I have been able to further narrow down most of the components: Motherboard: ASUS M2N-E Socket AM2 NVIDIA nForce 570 or BIOSTAR TFORCE 550 Socket AM2 NVIDIA nForce 550 I can't decide which one of these would be better. The ASUS board is a respecte...
Thank you JustAnEngineer and cass for the fast replies! Are you completely opposed to the Sonata III case? http://www.directron.com/sonataiii.html The main reason that I didn't choose the Sonata III was price -- it's $150 from Newegg or $117+S&H from Directron, while a new Sonata II runs about $...
Hi everyone, This will be my first build, so I wanted to run it past your experienced eyes for a little guidance :D. The budget for the system is not very high, ~$500-$600 not including mouse/keyboard/monitor. I will mainly be using it for typical word processing/spreadsheets, heavy Firefox browsing...
