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I bought the cheapest set at Walmart and they work just great.

how long have you had them?

my home was broken into recently, and i've since installed an alarm system. but now i'd like to put in some motion sensor lights.

have any of yall had any experience with them? i'd love to get some advise! thanks guys!

If you know someone with the windows 7 disc, just borrow it from them and buy a license key off of ebay. got pro for $20.

came from norwegian military training.

I entered a chili contest at my local bar for the Super Bowl. And won!

Beat out 15 other teams with my Korean Chili.

and do some research on all the different government housing programs.

i know the community center i work for has a "down payment assistance" program class. basically, if you qualify, the gov't will pay 5-8k of your down payment, and if you live in your house for long enough, it gets forgiven.

in 20-30 years, you'll hear directors saying "after i saw avatar, i knew i wanted to me in the movies". i think you can say the same thing about "the matrix"

posted this in the other avatar thread. but...

a lot of people thought the exact same thing about star wars when it came out. all hype, no story, great special effects, blah blah blah. quit hating and just realize that you saw a game-changing movie, just like star wars. THIS guy is going to inspire the next generation of sci-fi directors. and come on look at the cameron's work: Terminator, T2, Aliens, The Abyss, True Lies, Titanic...not a bad resume. And the fact that he now has the 2 highest grossing films of all time.

and i believe james cameron had nothing to do with the advertising portion of avatar. that would be the movie company. and if you sunk 300mill into a project, you would advertise the poop outta the movie too.

Coolio. Thanks for the info. Hopefully this will work out

Program Manager for a large non-profit in Atlanta. I run all their after-school programs.

So I got the new rig. Everything is set up hardware-wise, but I'm having a little trouble with my wiring.

I think I can figure out the small stuff, but it's the big stuff I'm having a little trouble with. Soooo...

From my power supply, there is a wire that is marked for PCI-Express and it's 8 pins (6 plus 2 detachable) does this go to the motherboard (8pins) or to my graphics card, which has 6 pins?

thanks flitter!

thats some serious hunting, sir.

Lets do it this way. What is your number you can spend (including shipping). Once I can see that, folks can start working on optional builds.

It WAS gonna be a $500 build, but adding in the cost of mouse, keyboards, OS, shipping, tax, etc...I figure I can go to about 650-700, EVERYTHING included.

I see you have not chosen or included an OS... is that covered, or does this throw the $$$ to the wind

So I have a buddy that has the software for Win7 Ultimate, so I'm just going to buy a licensing key off of ebay ($20)

Stick with the MX518 mouse. I'm currently using that mouse and its great for gaming and other use. Not too expensive like the newer logitechs, but still a very good mouse. Plus you'll save a little money over the laser mouse.

Okay I'll change it out.

Also, I going to change out some of the parts in the original build, check em out later, and let me know what you think. Slightly better parts for the same price.

Flitter, you the man.

I am over budget on this thing by $168 (gotta start thinking about paying the rent at some point). So getting the other case, while only a small price difference, makes a big difference to me.

and the mouse, have you used both? the one i listed seem to get better reviews.

thanks for the info about the the HD, never noticed that. But seems like in my little research, that HD cache size doesn't affect the gaming experience all that much. but I'll look into some more.

update:

I see the 300+PSU combo at 114 and the 900+PSU at 144. That's way too much difference, esp when I'm mostly concentrating on price.

I'd say for all the haters...there were a lot of people who thought Star Wars was pretty average and didn't deserve all the praise when it first came out.

Fantastic movie, ground breaking visual experience (saw it on IMAX). The story couldn't equal the visuals, but it's a Cameron film. His plots are always pretty straight-forward, and the acting is fine.

This movie is going to inspire some young kid to make the next Star Wars, Bladerunner, Matrix, or Avatar.

before you straight copy: i'd take a closer look at the hard drive, you can go bigger or smaller. also, the keyboard and mouse are my personal preferences. and note that there is no OS included, i have a buddy that has the software for windows 7 ultimate and im just going to buy a license key off of ebay ($20).

Hello All! Long time troller, occasional poster here. Wanted some expert opinions, so I came here!

Did a little research and priced this one out, nice thing is that i know everything will work/fit together.

$76.00 - AMD Athlon II X3 425 Rana 2.7GHz 3 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket AM3 95W Triple-Core Processor - Retail

$49.99 - Western Digital Caviar Blue WD3200AAKS 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive

$59.99 - ASRock M3A770DE AM3 AMD 770 ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail

$164.99 - SAPPHIRE 100283-2L Radeon HD 5770 1GB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card - Retail

$114.98 - Antec 300 ATX mid Tower Case and Antec 550W PSU Combo

$93.99 - G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9D-4GBRL - Retail

$23.99 - LITE-ON Black 24X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 22X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW SATA CD/DVD Burner

$29.99 - Logitech Pro 2000 Black 104 Normal Keys 14 Function Keys Cordless Standard Keyboard - Retail

$42.99 - Logitech MX518 8 Buttons 1 x Wheel USB Wired Optical 1800 dpi Gaming Mouse - Retail

$1.99 - OKGEAR 18" SATA II Cable Model GC18ARM12 - Retail

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$658.90

Shipping: $17.72 (UPS 3 Day)

Win7 license off of Ebay: $20

TOTAL: 696.62

update:

Motherboard (more upgradable and bigger)

RAM (more reliable)

Video Card (faster and more reliable)

Hard Drive (doubled the cache)

got rid of the extra case fans (thanks flitter)

hey shazz, im a big time troller here too. And I think I'm at the same point you are.

6 year old computer (I donated mine to a church already), so with a minimum of research of the interwebs I found a few articles about cheap gaming rigs. I don't want to hijack your post, so I'll start a new one, and you can check out the specs.

thanks preacher and tek. when i get settled into my new place and have some dough to spend, i'll hit yall back up! this was a good jumping off point though.

preacher thanks for the info! i'll hit you up when the time draws hear.

So I'm trying to building a new gaming rig. my current computer is about 6 years old . I will be donating it to a local church soon, who has a computer about 15 years old (no joke)

I'm looking to spend about $500, already got the monitor. I've been out of the hardware world for about 6 years as well, so I'm not versed in what's new, what works with what, and all that jazz. I've done the very minimum of research, found some sites that have budget gaming rigs, like this one:

toms hardware

Just looking for some VERY nice folks that could point me the right direction. I'm not afraid to build one (built this one), not looking for anything fancy, just want it to do the job...playing CSS and L4D! Also, I'll probably be buying this bad boy in the next 5-6 months, if that makes a difference.

i have a friend who owns a cafe, and asked me a question today that i didnt have an answer. so i turn to you informative people.

She is wondering if she needs MORE ip addresses (she currently has 4)?

I didn't know why she has that many to begin with. I thought ip addresses were more or less like mailing addresses. so i was thinking that she just needs more bandwidth. Can yall enlighten me?

didnt watch the whole thing. I believe everything in this video.

i also have a video where they definitely prove that the moon landing was faked, and has the shooter on the grassy knoll.

ps - this is bigfoot

Hello all!

My wife picked up some anime recently, but it wont play on VLC. I assume bc of the region restrictions.

Is there any free software out there so that will allow me to run dvds from any region?

So I have a buddy who wants some headphones. He's quite a music connoisseur and will be using them mainly for that purpose. I suggested he look into some Sennheisers, but he wanted me to find him the right pair. I don't know that much about headphone tech, so I have come looking for advice.

He doesn't want to spend more than $100.

No earbuds

Maybe some circumaural ones

Help?