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Poll: how did you get the latest version of the OS you're using on your home pc?

I have multiple copies of various flavors of Windows (XP Pro 32 and 64, Vista Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, Server 2003 and 2008) that are either academic copies that were virtually free through my school, or completely free through different promotions (DreamSpark, power together, Live...
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- Post #34
- Jun 15, 2009
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Windows Home Server question

So, aside from maintaining the original primary drive as first in boot order, the order in which the other drives were connected wouldn't impact the O/S' ability to reconstruct the storage pool? I'm mostly sold on giving WHS a try, but I am leaning toward installing the trial on my current...
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- Post #5
- Jun 13, 2009
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Windows Home Server question

Thanks for the heads-up. From the sounds of it, it's a pretty good alternative to RAID, given that you can specify exactly what you want backed up, and a single drive failure doesn't effect the rest of the pool. No drives lost to parity, and no expensive controller needed. What happens in the...
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- Post #3
- Jun 13, 2009
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Windows Home Server question

I'm putting together a home file server and am trying to decide between Server 2008 & hardware RAID-6 and Windows Home Server. I've been reading about the WHS storage pool, and everything I've read mentions folder duplication, but I'm not clear how the O/S handles drive failure in the event...
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- Thread
- Jun 12, 2009
- Replies: 8
- Forum: Operating Systems
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[Retired] The LCD Thread

Any good reason to get the NEC LCD2690 (or LCD2490) over the Planar PX2611W for a system where color accuracy isn't particularly critical? Right now I'm using a Soyo Topaz P-MVA that I picked up for next to nothing from OM a year or so ago, but it's killing my eyes (I've never had eye strain...
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- Post #5,938
- Nov 18, 2008
- Forum: Displays
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Soyo 24" Topaz now TN's

That's probably going to be my interim solution. It might not look pretty, but it's a lot cheaper than spending $200 on monitor arms. :)
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- Post #34
- Mar 8, 2008
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Soyo 24" Topaz now TN's

I picked up a 2nd one of these today, and have it sitting directly to the left of the one I picked up last year. The older one is a 6ms model, the newer one is a 3ms. I did notice a bit of difference with identical screen settings, displaying the same picture - the newer one seemed slightly more...
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- Post #32
- Mar 8, 2008
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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IT'S BACK 24" Soyo LCD for $299. @ Office Max is back

I've had this monitor for a bit over a week now. I was experiencing the flashing green pixel artifacting after a resolution change, and occasionally coming out of sleep or when first powering on. From what I can tell it was a problem with either my video board, or driver - I upgraded this...
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- Post #102
- Sep 12, 2007
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Sapphire X850XT Pci-e *OOS*

Not quite dead yet, the price is back to $89.99 AR as of 8:31 this morning. :)
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- Post #26
- Aug 11, 2006
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Newegg Core 2 Duo ...Look

Disappointing to see Newegg price gouging to this extent - looks like I will be picking up the parts for my new system through another site.
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- Post #36
- Aug 7, 2006
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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2 Sapphire X850XT's PCI-E starting at $133AR @ egg

All of my e-mails were to Sapphire@myrebates411.com - I sent my resubmission via e-mail also in pdf format, after which it took a little over a month and 3-4 more e-mails before I actually received the check. Also, I can confirm from the e-mails I received from customer service that 717-427-8611...
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- Post #122
- Aug 7, 2006
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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2 Sapphire X850XT's PCI-E starting at $133AR @ egg

I started e-mailing them in late June, requesting status on the rebate. Like the previous poster, they claimed my rebate submission was lost and asked me to resubmit, which I did. I was told the check would go out that following week - a month later, not having received a check, I sent two more...
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- Post #119
- Aug 7, 2006
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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MSI Radeon X1900 XT 289 After Rebate

I just received the check for a rebate on a Sapphire X850XT I picked up in late March. It was the only one of three rebates sent in at the time that I had problems with, and it took a half dozen e-mails along with resubmitting a .pdf of my rebate form, receipt and UPC (my original submission was...
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- Post #29
- Aug 7, 2006
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Coolermaster Stacker STC-T01 Silver / Black $120 AMIR

If you're working with limited space, then this case might not be a great choice, but I personally prefer it to any other case I've worked with. I went from an Antec Sonata on my main system to the Stacker 810, and I've had absolutely no complaints with the case - it's nice to work with...
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- Post #4
- Aug 6, 2006
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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OEM Core 2 Duos

I would be fine with an OEM CPU, but $380 for an OEM 6600 is too much. I would prefer to wait and get a relatively good price for the chip, rather than pay a premium and get it a few weeks earlier.
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- Post #13
- Aug 5, 2006
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking

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