Recent content by HTDuro

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    All of MSIs FM2 Motherboards Will Support Richland APUs

    personally i got a 5800K with a vertex 3 ssd and 32GB of ram, its my pc to work my concert/event pics and i love it. fast quad core and despite what benchmark say its plenty enough to work in photoshop .. ok i can have a new I7 cpu but cost 3 time the price. ppl read too much benchmark. day to...
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    Leadtek Launches the GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost 2GB Hurricane II OC

    wow leadtek still in buisness !!!!!! i always had leadtek card in the past .. Geforce 4 TI4400, FX5800, 6800GT but they almost disappear from north america after that ... good to hear their back, really good quality card
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    Western Digital Intros My Book Thunderbolt Duo Drive

    alidan .. cheaper solution and Apple can be in the same sentence ....
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    Minimal gaming setup

    i sold my 7600GT KO 512mb AGP last week for 70$, and im canadian. im sure you can find something better than a 6600GT for this price, sur it was a good card .. 4 years ago .. it will be able to start game at least
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    Cheap HTPC, processor questions

    for my HTPC, i use it sometime to game a lil bit, i put a Celeron E3300 in it, same perf as my old E6400. and it OC like hell when i want to game, i raise it @ 3.2. i got it with a msi mobo for 70$ on ncix. and the cpu is a box one , not oem. i added a 500GB HDD , 4GB of ram, a 450w psu, a...
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    AMD Radeon HD 6870 And 6850: Is Barts A Step Forward?

    lol ppl are funny, at least ATI fanboy ... they talkshit about nvidia who rebrand card over and over .. ya its #@$@$ but AMD did the same thing and its ok for AMD but not for NV? lolol misleading name .. wow in term of marketing, its a blast, everyone will jum on a brand NEW HD6870 ...thinkin...
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    Steve Jobs Hates on RIM, Android, Smaller Tablets

    dont forget that in most place, if you want a iphone 4 you have to be on a waiting list and they will call you later when they receive it ... my friend was told that he will have his iphone 4 in january ... in quebec at least .... and when you want a android phone or BB .... 30 min? max?
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    GeForce GTS 450 O/C Roundup: Six Custom-Tuned Cards

    wribbsI agree Randomacts; A pimped out 450 leaves me at half mast at best. Maybe there are a few people out there that a 450 is all they want but seriously just get a 460 or 5770/5830. bah .. i can find 2 X gts450 for the price of a GTX460 ... personnaly ill build a SLI GTS450 rig before a...
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    Cooling a laptop

    the fan system inside laptop suck HOT from the cooper line and throw it outside the laptop. a cooler take fresh air under and push it in the laptop hole under it and it cooldown a lil bit the cooper line . so the system fan dont have to run at full always to get it at the same temp i always...
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    HTPC P4 2.4GHZ NIVIDIA FX 5500 (256mb)

    for 150$ i had a Celeron Dual core E3300 2.5ghz, 2gb corsair XMS2 pc-6400 and a msi G31TM. i oc'ed the cpu to 3.2Ghz. its my htpc. i put a ATI HD5450 low profile for 50$ more. and all i can say is that it can run video perfectly and even some game :P.
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    Asus g73 MXM graphics?

    sometime you can, i swap my 9800MGS for a GTX260M in my G50VT, but you have to find the right card cause asus use non standard mxm card, they are reversed and so damn hard to find. dont ask to asus tech, they dont know nothing .... you can ask xoticpc if its possible, but i dont think cause you...
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    MSI GX660R vs ASUS G53JW - PLEASE HELP

    the GTX460m is a lil bit slower than the HD5870 mobility, and in some game its on par .. and the driver isnt optimized yet. the G53 got 4 memory slot, the GX660 got 3, so adding memory in the asus one will be really cheaper. for the same config, except the gfx card,and the HDD, GX660 have...
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    Easy Tweak to Avoid StarCraft II Overheating GPU

    hmmm dude lol alot of ppl play on home LCD TV now , and ppl have home theater audio plugged to it .. you see more of those setup right now. but directly on pc .... if you got a dedicated room for pc like me, you will have a 7.1 :P trust me
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    MSI's GT660 Gaming Notebook Heads to U.S.

    the GX740 and the G73 is cheaper ... with better hardware .... no way that i buy this to replace my G50VT