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WD Green 2TB, bought to use as a secondary media storage internal drive. First, I put it in an external IDE/USB dock in order to transfer about 200GB of stuff from a laptop. Then, I put inside my desktop, in place of the existing 1TB secondary HDD (am waiting for a new SATA cable to arrive on...

In addition to the Sennheisers, Audio Technica, and Beyerdynamic headphones recommended above, I would also add the Grado SR-80s and, if you listen to jazz, classical, and vocal-dominated music (as opposed to boom boom pop/rap/house/techno), the AKG K240 or (if budget allows) AKG K612. Stay...

Using a T-amp is a good idea, especially if you live in a major city where people will occasionally sell good speakers really cheap on Craigslist...for instance, I've been sorely tempted by a pair of Polk RTi6 for $100, which combined with a T-amp would sound better than any computer speakers...

Best bang for your buck if you're not doing critical music listening or studio mixing, Grado SR60 ($80) ... no need to spend more if it's just for gaming.

Self-powered 2.0 studio monitors = the way to go, the mids are in a whole other galaxy than ANY 2.1 computer speaker system. I highly recommend the M-Audio AV40 or Mackie CR4, both are $150 on Amazon.

For a lousy $15, forget any over the ear headphones, they will sound like garbage. Your best bet is this NuForce earbud, which performs many times above its price...

Well, one week later my system is still running fast and stable, so I guess I will let the inexplicable memory readings in BIOS and CPU-Z stand as is. Also strange is that it suddenly boots significantly faster...about 2-3 seconds before the 4 Windows color blocks come together on the bootup...

S-weeeeet! All 4 sticks are running fine so far, could be a placebo effect but I could swear the system feels a little snappier and booted up faster now that I have 16GB instead of 8GB. I will turn off the paging file, only had it set to a fixed 2GB size before anyway. CPU-Z shows that it's...

I already have a pair of Adata AX3U1600C4G11-SD 4GB modules from TigerDirect. For some reason I cannot find the full specs on them, not even from the Adata website. I am guessing that the G11 on the TigerDirect AX3U1600C4G11-SD modules means that the timing is 11-11-11-?? Anyway, I am thinking...