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    Building a SILENT PC? Orange County, CA Residents interested in making a few bucks?

    Is there any bigger cases that include the premium fans that are the most silent right off the bat? Have to admit I've gotten used to the back of the mobo placed on top, but I'm sure that really limits my case options if that was a necessity. But again, I am due for a PC upgrade.
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    Building a SILENT PC? Orange County, CA Residents interested in making a few bucks?

    So long story short my tech buddy of years who's always handled everything PC build/internal fix related has separated from me, sad day. I recently bought a Dell XPS computer at Best Buy for around $800 I believe it was for a parent since their old computer finally died out. Well one thing...
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    WTB: Asus Essence STX Sound Card

    As stated in title, yup yup! I'm assuming this is one of the best sound cards out there strictly for music listening purposes right? No gaming, just music.
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    15ft USB 3.0 cable won't read as USB 3.0?

    So I have a Black Magic Intensity Pro Shuttle capture card that runs through USB 3.0, so obviously it comes with a small 4ft USB 3.0 cable. This isn't long enough for my use so I bought a 15ft. A to B USB 3.0 cable and the device won't read as a SuperSpeed connection with it, so I'm confused...
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    How important do you think the spray solution is for applying an Xbox 360 skin/cover?

    Just bought this Carbon Fiber skin protector for my Xbox 360 S off ebay, it's made by Skinomi - but the ebayer did not include the solution that's supposed to be used in the instructions. Now I've got a place I go to for my iPhone 4, they spray the solution on the front an back of the phone...
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    Speedtest.net acting weird for anybody else on Road Runner?

    Normally that site over exaggerates speeds. Right now it's giving e like .8 down, I don't even let it get to upload speed because it's reading so slow. Speakeasy works fine, getting 30/2 there - and VisualWare's working good too, same results as Speakeasy. Just Speedtest.net is acting horrendous.
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    Best Point n Shoot?

    A 10.2Mp won't suffer noticeably in picture quality compared to a 14.1?
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    Best Point n Shoot?

    Alright I'm stuck between the Sony T99 and Sony HX5v.
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    Best Point n Shoot?

    That one does look pretty nice actually. I'll have to check it out. Thanks man.
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    M-Audio Studiophile AV40's or M-Audio BX5a's?

    Yeah I got mine for $300 even I believe through a blowout sale a couple years back. I still have yet to 'learn' them, though - my mixes through the monitors and various systems do sound a bit different. But yeah I ended up getting the BX5a's for regular listening, ehh, not too sure I like them...
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    Best Point n Shoot?

    My bad, ended up going on a little vacation. But yeah my budget is probably around 2 bills, if there's nothing worth looking at around that price then I'll just fork out the extra money it'll cost to get a decent one.
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    Best Point n Shoot?

    Well I had some Kodak 14mp camera (Z1485 IS) and then it broke. I've barely used the thing at all really, and then it began draining brand new batteries within minutes, now it won't even read batteries passing the power on screen. Can anybody think of a quick fix for this actually? Anyways...
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    M-Audio Studiophile AV40's or M-Audio BX5a's?

    Well from what everybody was saying when they tested out the AV40's compared to other multimedia company 2.1 speakers, they were awesome. That's all they are really, M-Audio's desktop speaker for casual listening not mixing. I mix in their BX8a's, which I'll admit, aren't the greatest and most...
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    M-Audio Studiophile AV40's or M-Audio BX5a's?

    So my current 5.1 Logitech speakers are kind of going out, and sound terrible now. Well, not really bad, but after mixing a song in my BX8a's (which are huge and prestine) - listening to the mixdown through the Logitech's sound incredibly bad, the whole fidelity in quality sounds horrible one my...
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    New Mobo & Memory, odd high usages.

    Dell is on Windows 7 Ultimate and this one is on Windows 7 Pro, so yeah. I use CCleaner on the daily, so I've always got a fairly clean computer. The Dell just runs so good and stays at low usage when using the computer normally, this one not so much. Firefox is pushing 669,000k, not so normal.
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    New Mobo & Memory, odd high usages.

    Oh trust me I did. That's not the problem though. The dell is an entirely separate computer from the one I've built now, though. And what I'm not understanding is how the Dell that contains a very very cheap mobo an cheap 6gigs of DDR3 in 6 sticks is performing way better with less usages than...
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    New Mobo & Memory, odd high usages.

    So I'll go back in time a little bit. I bought a Dell about 2 years ago for like $1200 or something like that, came with an i7 920, some really cheap processor, and 6gigs of some really cheap memory in literally 6 sticks [lol]. I've rebuilt my computer since then, but kept the Dell for a spare...
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    What should I do?

    Bought a Barracuda XT HDD that's hitting hardware limitations because my mobo only supports a Sata 2 connection, so I'm looking into buying an EVGA FTW3 mobo to replace my MSI X58 Pro-E - since it has built in USB 3.0 an Sata 3 connectors. So that's my first option. 2nd option would be keep the...
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    Cooler Master RS-900-AAAA-A3 UCP 900W PSU - $130 shipped.

    Nobody be building computers this time of the year! Lol.
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