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ATI XFX AGP 4650 1gb DDR2 $65 shipped

I installed this card in my wife's older Athlon XP based PC and she loves it! She only plays web games and a few older Steam games (LFD1, CS). Works great and oc'd nicely to almost 4670 specs. Definitely extended the life of her PC for another 2 - 3 years!
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- Post #8
- Apr 20, 2011
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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1TB Samsung F3 HD103SJ 54.99 Shipped

In for one from Amazon. I had an Amazon gift card balance from depositing several small rebate credit cards (who knew they eventually expire). Hope they have improved on their packaging methods, several recent reviews indicate they have.
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- Post #5
- Apr 20, 2011
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Creative Fatal1ty Headset $29.99 @ NewEgg

How good is the microphone on this headset? I bought the Plantronics Audio 365 Stereo Headset on sale at Buy.com for $10 this Spring thinking it would be a decent replacement for my aging Sennheiser PC150's. Big mistake, the sound was fine but the mic was really really bad! I'm back to using my...
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- Post #4
- Jun 24, 2010
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Ridiculous! Car Kit MP3 Player Foldable FM Transmitter for SD/MMC/USB/CD 3.54 Freeshi

Got mine from Ebay couple of months ago. It remembers NOTHING! My car radio will not tune to 87.7 so I have to reset it to 88.something everytime I start my car - pain in the rear. Always restarts playing MP3's at the beginning of my SD card. Other than no bookmarking or channel set, it works...
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- Post #11
- Jun 3, 2010
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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White Hot! -Seagate 7200.12 1TB HDD now $36.55 shipped AR ABCB!

In the past year I have had nothing but excellent service from Tiger Direct. No problems with rebates or Bing cashback. I really like that they show you the cashback amount during checkout! On the other hand, Newegg has really been going downhill imho.
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- Post #19
- May 28, 2010
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Dead: Seagate 7200.11 7200RPM 32MB Cache 1.5TB HDD - $69.99 AR(Tiger Direct)

I got my rebate approved and mailed to me on 5/12/2010. Quite a bit faster than I'm use to.
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- Post #39
- May 28, 2010
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Native IDE vs AHCI for SATA HD (clicking sounds)

Thanks for the info. I did a full long format on the drive and I downloaded and ran the Seagate Seatools diagnostics without any errors. Considering the faster boot time, I think I will just stay with native IDE and pass on AHCI. I'm not planning on doing any hot-swapping any time soon.
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- Post #3
- May 7, 2010
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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how many of you had a socket A system?

Still have 2 Socket A systems with Athlon XP 2+Ghz OC'd CPU's running strong. Typing this on one as we speak!
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- Post #52
- May 7, 2010
- Forum: Computer Building
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Dead: Seagate 7200.11 7200RPM 32MB Cache 1.5TB HDD - $69.99 AR(Tiger Direct)

I installed my HD in a new PC build over the weekend using a Gigabyte GA-785GMT-USB3 motherboard with an AMD Athlon II X3 435 Rana processor. During my initial bench testing, I changed the BIOS setting for the HD from "Native IDE" to "AHCI". I noticed the HD was virtually silent except for a few...
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- Post #30
- May 5, 2010
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Native IDE vs AHCI for SATA HD (clicking sounds)

I installed a new HD in a new PC build over the weekend using a Gigabyte GA-785GMT-USB3 motherboard, an AMD Athlon II X3 435 Rana processor and a Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 SATA 1.5TB ST31500341AS HD . During my initial bench testing, I changed the BIOS setting for the HD from "Native IDE" to...
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- May 5, 2010
- Replies: 3
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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OCZ Modsream Pro 600W 80Plus PS - $49.99 AR @ Egg

Lots of decent $20 combo discount deals. I like the 500GB WD Caviar Blue combo deal for $86 AR.
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- Post #8
- Mar 28, 2010
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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DEAD: Creedence Clearwater Revival - Green River MP3 album 1.99 at Amazon

WOW, I had this on 8-Track back in the day. Wore out 2 of these cruising in my '62 Chevy Impala.
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- Post #4
- Feb 10, 2010
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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5770 or 4870

Superbiiz has a 5770 for $135 w/free shipping and using promo code vday10 for 10% off. Not sure if the limited 512MB mem makes a difference though. http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?name=...ess-Video-Card However, I'd go with the 5750 for $126 w/free shipping because I doubt you will notice...
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- Post #31
- Feb 10, 2010
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Old motherboards still doing you proud :)

I had a couple of Abit NF7-S rev 1.0 boards that finally choked last year - probably bad capacitors. But I have two of the Shuttle AN35N Ultra boards also based on the nForce 2 chipset and purchased the same year as the Abits that are still going strong. Upgraded one with an XFX Radeon 4650 AGP...
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- Post #92
- Feb 10, 2010
- Forum: Motherboards
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First major upgrade in 4 years!

Exactly where are you getting the Intel Q8200 CPU, ECS G31 tm Mobo and 2GB of Supertalent DDR2 800 for $157 shipped? That's like almost getting the MB and RAM for free! I might want to get in on this deal myself.
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- Post #34
- Jan 29, 2010
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking

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