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WTF Wendy's Burgers got smaller?!?!?!

I think that the only Wendy's burgers that have shrunk are the value menu ones. Also, this seems to have happened at about the same rate that the dollar has fallen. I guess it's just impossible to get enough beef for a dollar to make a decently sized burger any more. Most other fast food places...
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- Post #74
- Jan 29, 2008
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Post the funniest video you know.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AXPnH0C9UA
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- Post #12
- Jan 28, 2008
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Firefox's Automatic Updater actually did the reverse

Okay, so last night Firefox asked me if it could install the update from 2.0.0.10 to 2.0.0.11, and I selected for it to wait until the next time I restarted. When I started up Firefox this morning, I got a message stating that it had updated itself to version 1.5.0.2 and disabled all of my...
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- Thread
- Dec 3, 2007
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Windows
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Two different simultaneous audio outs?

I don't know if your onboard sound can actually output two different audio channels simultaneously, but the easy way to do this is to get a USB soundcard and set whatever program you want to output through the second set of speakers to use that device for the audio. Geeks.com sells one for...
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- Post #4
- Nov 8, 2007
- Forum: Computer Building
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Negative Effects From Formatting Thumb Drives?

Honestly, unless you're trying to run Windows off a flash drive, you're probably going to destroy the drive before you even come close to the write limit on the flash. Even if you were running Windows from it, it would take at least a year of constantly paging out data to the drive to wear out a...
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- Post #6
- Nov 4, 2007
- Forum: Computer Building
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Time to upgrade my failing 2yr old system

Thanks for the suggestions, everyone. Raven's right, though, I'm not looking for a spectacular upgrade. My current system's pretty adequate for now and I wouldn't be upgrading right now if not for the instability problem. I'm considering going with an Intel setup this time, but I do have a few...
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- Post #6
- Oct 23, 2007
- Forum: Computer Building
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Time to upgrade my failing 2yr old system

My old gaming machine recently started crashing in Source games, so I decided to crack it open and dust it out to see if that would help any. When I removed the heatsink, I was greeted with 5 or 6 leaking capacitors in the CPU socket area. Since I've dealt with leaky caps before and I'm...
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- Oct 22, 2007
- Replies: 5
- Forum: Computer Building
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Can I fix this no-boot issue?

Check the capacitors on the motherboard, especially the ones around the CPU, for bulging/leaking. If you find them, the motherboard is the most likely culprit.
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- Post #2
- Oct 22, 2007
- Forum: Computer Building
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Old Computer Starts Working Again?

I had an old Mac laptop that went completely dead one day, wouldn't boot even when plugged in. I tried to get it working but couldn't and put it away for a few months. The next time I tried it it worked perfectly, but a few weeks later it was completely dead again. The problem was that the...
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- Post #21
- Sep 11, 2007
- Forum: Computer Building
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help me build a cheap SFF pc

Intel just released the perfect motherboard for you, it's called the D201GLY. It's a Celeron 1.33 Mini ITX board for under 75 bucks from mini-box.com. Add 512 megs of DDR2 for about $30, and an old PATA hard drive to put Windows on, and you have a decent cheap web system. For a case, you have...
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- Post #2
- Jun 30, 2007
- Forum: Computer Building
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what's inside a heatpipe

It's normally some mixture of water and ethyl alcohol, although the exact composition will vary wildly depending on the temperatures the heatpipe is designed to work at.
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- Post #13
- May 3, 2007
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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Case Clean Out Time

Just be careful with a compressor if you use one, they have a bad habit of blowing unwanted moisture into sensitive electronics, and they're powerful enough to take a capacitor off the board at short range.
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- Post #15
- May 3, 2007
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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how can i silence my geforce 6600?

If it's an AGP card, you'll probably have a hard time finding an aftermarket heatsink that will fit. I'd recommend just removing the plastic cover on the top of the old heatsink and the old fan as well, and then somehow positioning an 80mm fan to blow directly on the exposed heatsink fins. You...
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- Post #3
- May 3, 2007
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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P4 3.0GHz with 8600GT

Oh, sorry, I thought you were going to be reusing a Socket 775 processor instead. Disregard the part about upgrading this to C2D later. The 8600gt is overpriced for how well it performs. I'd look for a used 7800gt or 7900gt or possibly get a new Radeon X1900GT instead of the 7600gt, though...
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- Post #7
- Apr 29, 2007
- Forum: Computer Building
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Ok guys, i am looking for a new case that can hold a PA120.3 on the inside.

In the case of the radiator, I know a single 120mm rad is good for about 150 watts with high speed fans, so that would give you 450 watts max for a 120.3. Assuming an overclocked quad core draws ~200 watts and the GTS's draw ~100 watts each, you should be able to run such a system on an 120.3...
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- Post #28
- Apr 29, 2007
- Forum: Cases & Cooling

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