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500GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive $79 after MIR

Shipping looks to be $10.23. BTW, looking around, it doesn't appear that eCost has the greatest reputation for rebates.
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- Post #2
- Jan 2, 2008
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Fry's 1-Day After Christmas Sale

Arg! Where's the SATA love? This is *exactly* the kind of deal I've been hoping for weeks would appear after Christmas and here they go offering the wrong interface type! That's a good deal - if only I hadn't just bought a refurbed 400W for almost that price off ebay. Marc
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- Post #4
- Dec 25, 2007
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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E6750 as high as 179°C!

I'd pretty much guarantee that he didn't hit 179C. Dual cores have lots of headroom, but they are still CMOS devices. CMOS and heat don't get along really well. It is almost for certain that the 179C temp read was a fluke reading (I have one board I designed that has an unreliable temp sensor...
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- Post #9
- Dec 6, 2007
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Newegg refunding 20% for paypal promotion

Sounds like sour grapes to me. A company can't change its mind about an special discount offer? As much as I'm annoyed that they stopped it early - I couldn't place my order till that evening and therefore missed out getting $200 or $250 back on a > $1k order - I believe it was within their...
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- Post #15
- Dec 5, 2007
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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RX680 AIO Printer forn only 89.99 after rebate

Except that as I read the bottom of the $40 rebate form, it can't be combined with the $75 camera + printer rebate: This offer cannot be combined with any other Epson bundle rebate offer.
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- Post #2
- Dec 4, 2007
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Dell Vostro. With 19 inch lcd. One gig ram. Intel dual core. Windows XP for 399.00.

The Dell XPS One (motherboard integrated into LCD monitor stand like an iMAC) is supposed to Launch Nov. 19, per http://www.engadget.com/2007/1...-hit-on-november-19th/ But there is no way you can call XPS a super cheap machine. So either the "cheap" part is incorrect, or something else...
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- Post #106
- Nov 16, 2007
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Motherboard manufacturing

Here's a simplified life cycle of a board (some steps go back and forth, esp 3, 4, and 5 - and some can occur simultaneously): 1. Product spec's 2. Engineering design documentation (because engineers always do their documentation first :-) 3. Schematic capture 4. PCB layout (parts...
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- Post #7
- Oct 30, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards
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Motherboard manufacturing

Almost sounds like you're doing a book report for school!?! Some of your questions are too broad to answer in a short post. How are they made? Do you mean what machines are used, how they are engineered, or what materials are used? How do manf's depend on the big three? In many ways...
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- Post #2
- Oct 30, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards
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Good Mobo to do RAID 5 and RAID 0 ?

Most people consider the on-motherboard RAID to be a joke for two reasons: (1) it isn't REALLY hardware RAID (i.e. they often don't off-load software like you think they would, and in fact, actually create extra burden... resulting in even slower access times than not using it at all!), and (2)...
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- Post #4
- Sep 3, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards
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Difference between Intels G33 and G35 chipsets??

Yes, thank you very much for the update Gary! Did either of those boards (or any others you've heard the specs for), have HDMI or DVI built-in? There are two G33 boards with HD-outputs: Gigabyte is supposed to have the GA-G33M-S2H with HDMI (vs. -S2 without), and Intel has the DG33TLM with...
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- Post #9
- Aug 18, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards
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mATX Roundup

Howdy Gary, I believe the phrase that you are looking for is that the socket is not stuffed. When you say that, you are implying that the traces and footprint are on the PCB, but the part is not installed. Simular to this part (which if I'm reading the silk screen correctly, is...
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- Post #98
- Mar 30, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards

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