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10 years ago Still a Storage Admin, I work for a Major Bank. I now make 6 figures, own a home and am looking at buying a nice sports car soon, Cayman S. 1. Would you describe yourself as a nerd? Less so now, work is more about work. I go to clubs now, work out a ton. I quit World of...

I had no prior experience joined though a recent college grad program, just finished that program. My peers make a lot more. I believe I will too. I still have the "Associates" title.

7.6 years ago I asked these questions... Today I am a Storage Administrator (EMC) working operations at General Motors. I've been employed for 2 years. I am making a pretty good living and buying my first home in October. 1. Would you describe yourself as a nerd? Geek, yes. Not so much a...

It's the beginning of the end for Apple. The Devil will not be pleased...

Any benchmarks out there for GPU folding?

Cause I've been using it since 2003 and never had a bad stick

The movie sucked, was overrated. I typically don't buy movies, I have Netflix. The ownership model is old.

You get a refurbished iPad, they fix your old one and give it to someone else as a refurbished product. Otherwise the repair time would take 3-4 weeks and you would go without.

At Bestbuy apple does this its called "rapid exchange" they rotate defective crap (this is true) at one point 4 years ago apple ipods were failing at such a high rate they couldn't keep any on shelves. The rapid exchanged iPods usually aren't in mint condition and sometimes arrive back in...

I bought about 2 years ago @ $5 this is pretty good news.

Yea I bought from them under recommendation, the email response time was what annoyed me the most. Most businesses should respond within 48 hours, not after 5 days. I believe that would be a good benchmark, how fast they respond. The second time requesting a repair we got no response. On...

I think Hardocp should do a review on Manufacturers warranty's if possible. XFX had been hell for me and they offer a great sounding double lifetime warranty. The video card in question had a failing fan, took 4 weeks to repair. It came back with another fan which broke a week after. The card...

Also find it funny that Apples $2800 Desktop comes with a weak ass ATi 2600 XT Yes it has 8 Cores, But it can only handle a 8800GT graphics card for $150 extra! 2 GB of Memory w/ 8 Cores are you kidding me! Could possibly build this myself for $1400, I'm sorry I just hate Macintosh... -_-

:D In Steve Job's world you pay $1000+ for a notebook and still don't get a DVD burner standard. This is the "older" model The new generation does come with a DVD burner standard which is new to Mac. Superdrive my ass though if I am still paying $1000+ and not getting blu-ray. $1500 gets...

Come to think of it as wild as it may sound Nvidia and ATI make great products they should stop eating each others profit margins and raise the prices of graphics card. The $200 card they are pumping really could be sold for $300 etc. I really don't like news like AMD or Nvidia falling apart...

ATI/AMD Stock is down 30% selling for $5 Nvidia is selling @ $13 /share 66% less than a year ago Seems the only one winning is Intel only 8% less than a year ago Tech stocks aren't a great investment right now, unless the economy changes some.

I work for BestBuy as well. - on the positive side - We typically use these power supplies to replace bad ones for customers under manufacturer / service plan warranty. i.e. Gateway ships their quad cores with 300w. I would bet that they are around the same quality as many of the factory...

:*( don't think this card will use your AGP port!

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A gigabyte or Gbyte (derived from the SI prefix giga-) is a unit of information or computer storage meaning either 1000³ bytes or 1024³ bytes (1000³ = one billion). The usage of the word "gigabyte" is ambiguous, depending on the context. When referring to RAM sizes and file sizes, it...

is a GB 1024 or 1000 http://www.harddrive-settlement.com/notice.htm Class action lawsuit against Seagate for misrepresenting usuable storage. I personally believe this is frivolous and blaten incompetence. Hard drive manufacturers have set a standard that has been set for as long as the...

radeon 2900 series

In computer hardware. What didn't live up to the hype the past 2 years..

Typically flash based players can not be repaired and are replaced immediately... i-pods with hard drives go to repair - or you have an option to rapid exchange i.e. take a refurbished i-pod home after 4-5 days, comming directly from Apple i-pods with flash drives typically get replaced on the...

I work at a store which sells Apple products recently I have had many complaints about customer's 3rd party media docks not working with Video output to television. Found this site: http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/apple-locks-tv-out-in-new-ipods-breaks-video-add-ons/...

... actually hard ocp should review bloat-ware :) acers is called "empowering technology" and it takes an hour to load on a new box

Acers empowering technology puts its laptops to shame, slowest booting machines out of box. Takes just an hour to load all their crap-ware. Working at a retail store that sells Acer i clap everytime I get a laptop that boots to a white screen or a desktop that doesn't power on... needless to...

http://retailedge.intel.com/ I believe your qualified if you work at any large computer retail chain. I work as a GeekSquad Agent at BestBuy Shit memory prices have gone up http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145098 (what i bought last year ~$160 now $210) also...

I own a Pentium D 820, 945 Mobo, 2 GB Corsair Valueselect @ 667 Every year intel offers accomidations to its retailers So this year they are offering a 6300 Processor, 965 Motherboard, and Windows Vista Ult for $230 I may sell or give the old system away but I am tempted to keep the...

I could see arcades comming back... cause I would pay cash $$$ for that experience playing on the big screen!

I agree with HardOCP in this case the consumer recieved a lower quality board than what they paid for... ATi low end PC scavenger Hunt ! We're going to have fun showing you what types of chipsets are in lower end inexpencive word processing grandmothers only computers...

I agree with HardOCP in this case the consumer recieved a lower quality board than what they paid for... ATi low end PC scavenger Hunt ! We're going to have fun showing you what types of chipsets are in lower end inexpencive word processing grandmothers only computers...

Walk into any computer store and look for the cheapest machine possible. Try a circuit city or bestbuy. Most manufacturers have found that they can save a large amount of money by using inexpensive motherboards. I found that for $300-500 dollars I could pickup a full computer system monitor...

2005 Career Interview, answer as many as you like. Last years interview thread. <http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=731120> turned out pretty sucessful, I think it should become an annual thread. 1. Would you describe yourself as a nerd / geek and or which term discribes you...

Disable fast write in bios, Many video cards have simular problems... bleh gtg

Heres the deal, i recently picked up an ATI TV TUNER Pro card for $20 after mail in rebate and i think it would be a cool project to broadcast television over LAN. Here's my setup for a live video over lan: AMD Athlon XP 1600+ 768 MB DDR 2100 Ram 80 GIG HD ATI 9600 Pro ATI TV Wonder...

router config works I had slow speeds as well but with this latest patch i was getting speeds of 300+ kbs. I get 3 Megabit service so this is about what my expected download speed should be.

yes it did

Card runs around 60-70 degrees on load... I use a pci slot cooler I cant really OC past Ultra Speeds as well.. I'm using coolbits... I did do a downclock with the card... ran it @ 350/1 and that ran up lower PC mark scores PC mark 03 (350/1) 10,080