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  1. TheGreySpectre

    Place to get Noctua fans in bulk?

    Anyone know of a place that sells Noctua fans by the case or in bulk? I need about 16 and it would be nice if I could find somewhere that did a bulk discount.
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    Glass tubing

    I bought a ton of it along with a bunsen burner to experiment with. I also bought a setup to apply pressure while bending so that my tubes don't kink. I haven't actually gotten around to trying to bend it yet though as I've been too busy. If you do go with glass, buy it from a glass supplier not...
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    To Water Cool or not to Water Cool

    Any idea how vulnerable glass tubing is to cracking compare to acrylic?
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    Reliable Shops to buy Components from?

    Both Performance-PCs and ModMyMods have been great for me
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    RTX2080 and RTX2080Ti Reviews online

    Well reference cards do tend to be better if your watercooling since that is what most of the waterblocks are designed for. Doesn't stop the cards from being crazy overpriced though.
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    What resolution do you game at?

    I voted 4k since that is what I would like to be gaming at and I have a 4k monitor, just I'm also running a 970. My plan was to update to a new card to get 60fps at 4k with the new generation of cards but I'm still waiting on benchmarks.
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    Glass tubing suppliers

    There are two ways to cut it. The first is to use a glass tube cutter. This scores the glass and then you break it at the scoring point. The second way is is to use a diamond cutting disk on a dremel, when doing this also want to use a respirator as glass dust is exceptionally bad for you...
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    Glass tubing suppliers

    Here you go and here is a second source for 14mm. It's like $4 for 60 inches and you get to choose your ID It's interesting to me that when switching from a PC specific vendor to a general glass vendor, glass tubing goes from being one of the more expensive forms of tubing to one of the...
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    Glass tubing suppliers

    When doing borosilicate glass tubing for a hard line system, is there any particular reason to buy it from PC specific water cooling manufacturers like alphacool or mayhem? It seems like all the tubing offered by the standard water cooling manufacturers is about 3x as expensive or more as buying...
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    Help me choose a case

    I have this case. I really like it and would be glad to answer any questions on it. I can say though that it's very similar to the View 71 just with a few extras and a slightly different aesthetic. This is how both a GTX360 and GTX 420 fit into the case. I'm waiting for my fittings to come in...
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    Ray Tracing - Game Changer or Overhyped?

    I want to vote for both. I think the RTXs implementation of ray tracing is over hyped and doesn't add that much but if we ever get full real time ray tracing it will be freaking amazing. It's possible the the RTXs raytracing has possibilities but I think we need to wait for a generation or two...
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    Don't Sleep on Old Games, New Life in 4K/Ultra-Wide

    You might take a look around I'm pretty sure a few HD texture packs have been released for the original crysis.
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    Cases that support a 480mm rad

    They're still around. If you really want to get crazy you can configure their ascension cases to support 5x480mm rads and 2x360mm rads.
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    Help me choose a case

    In that case I would go for the Lian Li. I had the V3000's predecessor the V2000 and it was very nice. The aluminum construction on the Lian lis is always top notch. If
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    GN has a review of the Thermaltake Level 20 VT (TG / mATX cube)

    That would make sense, the Level 20 GT is basically a slightly modified view 71.
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    Help me choose a case

    It confuses me that you have both the Evolv X and the View 91 in your list. The Evolv X doesn't look to offer any additional room over your current View 71 and while the view 91 has a very similar look to the View 71, it's just bigger. I guess my thought would be if you are okay with the look...
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    2tb 7200RPM Drive Options for RAID

    Those WD Reds look great, I wasn't aware that WD had introduced a drive marketed at home servers.
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    2tb 7200RPM Drive Options for RAID

    So I have an Areca 1880-ix-12 raid card with a RAID 6 setup. I was using Hitachi 7k3000 7200 RPM 2TB drives however it seems recently with the Western Digital Acquisition of Hitatchi availability has decreased and price has increased, it appears they they are now marketed as Enterprise level...
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    Are EA allowed to do this

    Would it be possible to take them to small claims court?
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    PAX Prime 2012 (Seattle, Labor Day weekend)

    Looks like registration is broken and will be going up again at some point soon.
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    Norco 4216 5.25 bays

    Its a good idea but I already investigated that. the 5.25 bays are actually 1 piece of metal. that is folded up in the front with the screws just adding rigidity. Unfortunately undoing the screws doesn't give you anything.
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    Heatsink reccomendation for a 4U case?

    I put together a new build and all the parts came (except for the cpu, which ups lists as coming tomorrow) and it dawned on that my chosen heatsink will not fit inside my chosen case. Hence I need help picking out a new heatsink. Build is an intel i7-3930k, Asus Rampage 4, with 16 gigs of...
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    Mass Effect 3 demo - 2/14/12

    I'm hoping it is more like ME1 then ME2, but I'll wait until it actaully comes out. ME2 felt more like gears of mass effect to me then a proper RPG.
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    Norco 4216 5.25 bays

    I don't really need more Hard drive bays, I am not using all of the 16 that come with the case, I'm not sure why I would need another 4 bays. Also I don't see anything on there about compatibility with the Norco 4216, so I am left with the same issue I had originally of not being able to mount...
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    Norco 4216 5.25 bays

    Has anyone found a good solution for mounting things other then cd/dvd drives in the 5.25 bays on the norco 4216?
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    *Official* Norco data storage products thread

    I just got my 4216 today and it is awesome. What would make it significantly more awesome is if there were general mounting brackets for the 5.25 bays. It seems as they come by default you can only place CD/DVD drives in them. I would like a general bracket that just has a 5.25 size hole so I...
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    3930k C2 news?

    Looks like seaboom will dropship them to you with an estimated lead time of 1-2 weeks which isn't too bad. Although they are also more then neweggs price at $637.55
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    3930k C2 news?

    Newegg batch this morning did not require a combo. I ordered mine as a CPU only and have a tracking number for it already.
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    3930k C2 news?

    Wow Out of stock already
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    3930k C2 news?

    lol yeah, i"m pretty sure they went int tock within 10 minutes of my post as they were out of stock when I checked earlier (all of like 15 minutes earlier)
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    3930k C2 news?

    In stock at newegg
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    Volition Dev Vs. Pre-Owned Games

    I don't think used games would work on the PC because of the price point steam sales have. I find that if I wait for a sale (which I generally don't have to wait long for) I will usually pay the cost of a used copy of the game or less. And with how quickly games on steam drop to the $5-10 point...
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    Multiplayer games are no fun when other people are not in the same room.

    I completely agree. I love playing RTSs and FPSs with friends at a lan party when they are in the same room but I don't play all that much when it is online, even if I have voice chat and am playing with the same people.
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    quesiton about rack mounting a Silverstone LC13B-E

    So I just ordered a new Silverstone LC13B-E for a media box and saw that silverstone offers Rackmount tabs for most of their htpc cases which would be awesome as I have a rack under my TV. It appears that the cases have the holes for the tabs drilled, but when I was looking at the pictures I...
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    Official [H] Star Wars:The Old Republic Thread

    I have seen a fair amount of speculation that bioware has artificially lowered the servercaps for release to encourage people to roll on lower population servers. Seemed reasonable to me no idea if it is true or not. I'm still at work at 8pm and have just resolved that I won't get to play today...
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    Your Nominees for 2011 Most Disappointing Game Award

    Either DNF or bulletstorm. DNF was a worse game overall, but bulletstorm had such a crappy ending that I was more disappointed with it.
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    Official [H] Star Wars:The Old Republic Thread

    Been playing it since it's first day and I really like it. The quests, visuals and gameplay are all fantastic, my only real complaint is some very minor UI tweaks which they will probably fix eventually. I think it is rather unintuitive that you have to get your advanced class abilities from a...
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    what 'old school' game would you like to see a sequel or new version?

    Mechwarrior. I know there was a video out for a reboot like 3 or for years ago but nothing has come of it. I know Living legends is out for crysis that does not change the fact that I want a new mechwarrior 2 or mechwarrior 3.
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    When is Windows 8 being released to retail stores?

    One of my concerns is that it looked like Metro is focusing more on full screen applications. Aside from games I generally don't full screen applications. Imo they should have a default interface option on installation. PCs would select the windows 7ish interface (or have it defaulted to on...
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    EA bans ongoing + can ban non-Origin EA games

    Yes but getting banned in the forums does not ban you from playing the games. It's not a two way street (at least for world of warcraft)
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