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Cat 7 home network wiring questions

Weird - I wrote a long reply on Monday that appeared to have gone up, and now there's no damn trace of it. I don't have the heart to try to rewrite everything I had wrote, so I'll trim it down to my main concern, but thanks for all the replies/comments, everyone! This is an oldish house and...
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- Post #12
- May 10, 2017
- Forum: Networking
Cat 7 home network wiring questions

As part of some other electrical work I'm getting done on my house, I'd like to have the electricians run some CAT 7 (or 7A?) to a few places around the house from my office where the FIOS router is to spread wired gigabit internet to those places. The CAT 7/7A is mainly a future-proofing...
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- Thread
- May 7, 2017
- cat 7 home wiring
- Replies: 14
- Forum: Networking
Troubleshooting help: system went POP!

I had already tried #2 and found no signs of burnt components. I was reluctant to start swapping components, because to test the MB, I'd have to essentially gut my other PC, which I didn't want to do. But trying the known good PSU in the problem system was a great idea since I only had to...
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- Post #3
- Sep 3, 2012
- Forum: Computer Building
Troubleshooting help: system went POP!

Now-dead system: i5-3570K Asus P8Z77 MB Corsair Venegeance RAM 4x4GB EVGA GTX 580 Seasonic X-750 PSU Seagate Barracuda 2TB disk Lite-on Blu-Ray/DVD recorder optical drive Antec P280 case OK, I just put together the new system above and was doing some folding for its burn-in period...
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- Sep 3, 2012
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Computer Building
Radeon 7870 or GTX 670 w/Borderlands 2

@biostud - I had forgotten that. Thanks, it's good to know. @Borealis7 - I think I phrased my question a bit confusingly. I'm sure any of the cards mentioned would do fine for Borderlands 2 (aside from the PhysX thing). The 580 is in my personal gaming rig, while I'm building another...
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- Post #12
- Aug 30, 2012
- Forum: Graphics Cards
Radeon 7870 or GTX 670 w/Borderlands 2

Thanks, I'll check out the MSI and Gigabyte boards.
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- Post #8
- Aug 30, 2012
- Forum: Graphics Cards
Radeon 7870 or GTX 670 w/Borderlands 2

Thanks for the comments everyone. Well, I'm getting Borderlands 2 either way, so the board isn't justifying the game purchase. Rather the other way around, where the game money can essentially also be applied toowards a hardware upgrade. As far as the purchase timing, I never have luck...
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- Post #6
- Aug 29, 2012
- Forum: Graphics Cards
Radeon 7870 or GTX 670 w/Borderlands 2

OK, this sounds like apples and oranges, but bear with me for a second... I'm upgrading an old computer to make a good gaming rig for my kids. I was thinking about getting a Radeon 7870 (~ $250), when it occurred to me that instead I could upgrade my own rig, by getting a GTX 670 (~ $400)...
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- Aug 29, 2012
- Replies: 15
- Forum: Graphics Cards
Anyone else playing the Fallen Enchantress Beta? (Elemental: War of Magic followup)

Just checked and I haven't gotten any email yet. I definitely purchased before the cutoff date because I was one of the pre-order beta testers. I gotta say I'm having a hard time getting excited about FE. The end of the WoM beta was like watching a rain wreck in slow motion, helpless to...
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- Post #15
- Jan 27, 2012
- Forum: PC Games
PC won't POST with drive plugged in

Yes, nothing that should cause it to be so dead the PC can't POST. It's all been a mess, but I'm trying to keep it simple to prevent a wall of text detailing my entire saga. Basically, I was moving files off the WD disk onto (what I now know was) a failing backup disk. I was moving rather...
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- Post #3
- Jan 26, 2012
- Forum: Memory and Storage
PC won't POST with drive plugged in

I'm in the midst of a nightmare of hardware failures. The most recent of which is that I can't get my PC to POST if my main hard disk is plugged in. It was working fine yesterday, and I've had it less than 2 months. My hardware: Western Digital Caviar Black 750GB SATA III HD (my original C...
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- Thread
- Jan 26, 2012
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Memory and Storage
Unstoppable Gorg

I just picked up Unstoppable Gorg the other day, but have only had a chance to play a few levels so far. My impressions thus far: - I love the cheesy retro-50's sci-fi movie videos between the levels. - This game has a fairly different "spin" on tower defense: - The path the enemies...
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- Post #22
- Jan 23, 2012
- Forum: PC Games
mouse pads aka gaming surfaces

Don't do it! I bought the larger sized version of this and the sides curled up making this pad ugly and annoying as hell. Nothing i tried would get rid of the curl, so I eventually tossed it. The Amazon reviews for both sizes of this pad are filled with similar complaints and 3M continues to...
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- Post #89
- Dec 8, 2011
- Forum: PC Games
Bottom mount specialized PSU's?

Yeah, I was planning to buy an X-850 Gold, but I saw that $110 deal and had to jump on it. Dropping to 750W when I didn't really need more was worth it to save $100. It's definitely a ripoff on the cabling, that's why I was hoping to hear that the PSU makers had started accomodating the...
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- Post #4
- Dec 3, 2011
- Forum: Power Supplies
Bottom mount specialized PSU's?

Putting my new system together (Antec P280, Seasonic X-750 Gold PSU)... I love Seasonic, but I was miffed to discover that the CPU cable is annoyingly short and can barely reach the MB's CPU connector. I have to stretch it over the top of the video card - it's too short to go around the vid...
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- Thread
- Dec 2, 2011
- Replies: 3
- Forum: Power Supplies

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