Recent content by Antonio Java

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    News PNY Quietly Reduces XLR8 CS3030 SSD's Endurance by Almost 80%

    I don't suppose anyone has figured out how to tell them apart yet? Perhaps certain serial numbers? The change is recent enough that there might still be stocks of the old TLC version around; I'd like to be certain about what I'm getting.
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    BIOS S.M.A.R.T. check says SSD has gone bad, but CrystalDiskInfo/SSDLife says it's good

    Hi, all! I have a conundrum, as the title may already explain. The long version is that when I first built my PC, I got myself a Patriot Pyro SE 120GB to serve as a boot drive. It worked fine for around a year when the BIOS S.M.A.R.T. check suddenly prompted that it had gone bad, telling me to...
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    Nokia Lumia Icon & Lumia 930 Review: Windows Phone, Premium

    More accurately, based on Nokia's naming convention, the Lumia 930 is the successor of the Lumia 920, if that much isn't obvious. The 930 is the "full-featured, high-end smartphone" of Nokia, as with all 9XX models (like the 920 and its variants the 925 and 928, and the older Lumia 900 running...
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    Wanted: Thoughts on the Asus VX239H or VX239N

    Good day, everyone! I'm looking to get a new monitor and one of the models I'm eyeing is the Asus VX239H (as well as its close cousin, the VX239N, which is basically the same but without the tiny monitor speakers that are present in the "H" variant). Strangely enough though, there is little in...
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    Power On, Power Off, Power On

    Alright, update: I went to the ASUS website intending to download an older version of the UEFI when I saw that they posted a new one just yesterday. So I went ahead and went with the latest BIOS driver (BIOS 3408; prior to that, mine was BIOS 3305, which was the latest until yesterday and the...
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    Power On, Power Off, Power On

    Alright folks, I have stumper for you all. I pretty much just finished building the setup you see below. While I still intend to do a few more upgrades in the coming months (more RAM, second graphics card for CrossFire, etc.), what you see is pretty much it for now, and it's running like a...