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I was in best but the other day looking for something and heard one of the customers asking about when they where going to get the apple watch and the woman who had asked was sad to be informed that it was not out yet. I then mentioned "there are a few amazing smartwatches on the market already like the lg g watch R" pointing to my wrist by which she responded " yes but apple didn't make it" by which I responded "well apple doesn't make there phones either" she didn't know what to say.

Isn't America built on lies?
Joke...

I hope this doesn't cause anyone any offense (cough*Linus*cough).
 
Esther is smoking hot. 
 

Kato is quite hot:
 

 

 
 

My right hand. :ph34r:

jessica nigri:

meg turney:

This + your profile picture = Priceless.

Why the bashing? Her initials spell E.W. not E.A.

My beloved bias from Girls' Generation, Yuri :3
 

Had to take apart my Logitech controller to figure out why my analog stick was sticking. It was only dust - and I couldn't put it back together.

EDIT: Items will not be shipped until after September 1st or when all winners reply to Slick - whichever comes first!

Announcing our HUGE Computex giveaway powered by WD. This is a bit of a special giveaway. The more you watch our Computex videos from the Western Digital booth in Computex the more stuff we're going to give away. You can see the latest updates from WD at Computex here: http://www.wdc.com/computex/
 
EDIT: BONUS for readers/viewers from the USA/EU - Get 15% off internal hard drives until June 16th, 2013 (US & EU only) with promocode "COMPUTEX2013" - http://wdstore.com & http://bit.ly/12qcLsk
 
 
This thread will be updated daily from June 4th to June 8th to give you the links to the videos. In order to enter, all you have to do is post in this thread, but make sure you check back daily and watch all of the videos so that we can hit our targets and give away ALL the coolest stuff!
 
 
If you want to play through all of the videos you can see them here:   
 
Here are all of the eligible videos individually:
 

 

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M41LukUo-Yk&list=PL8mG-RkN2uTwEIByWErWuJ6OMBI-MQQ9K&index=3
 

 

 

 
 
 
This video thumbnail announcing the contest should give you some idea how crazy this is:
 

 
The contest closes June 30th and it's open to residents of the planet Earth.
 
TLDW: 
 
25,000 views average per video - 5x My Passport Ultra, 2x My Book Studio external hard drives
50,000 views average per video - 2x 1TB Velociraptor, 2x 4TB Black, 2x 3TB Red hard drives
75,000 views average per video - 2x Puget Systems Core i5 GTX 660 gaming systems
100,000 views average per video - 1x Steiger Dynamics LEET gaming grade HTPC worth over $2000
 

 
Here are the full specs of the Steiger machine. Please be sure to follow them on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/STEIGERDYNAMICS
 

 
Subscribe to this thread so you'll see the updates!!
 
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5 entries if you do all three things!!
 
Also please like Steiger Dynamics on Facebook. These guys are building very cool systems, and they're working towards getting gaming and performance computing into our living rooms. Would you rather have one of these or an Xbox One... https://www.facebook.com/STEIGERDYNAMICS
 
Good luck everyone and stay tuned!

i second that!

you could go for what extremescouter said or the seasonic x-series 750w 80+ gold. its fully modular

The Corsair AX760i would be a good choice. 

you should look into seasonic or corsair.

Get the Corsair AX860i PSU.

Wilhite accepted a lifetime achievement award at the Webby's, which require winners to limit their acceptance speeches to five words.
"Instead of speaking his five words tonight, Steve is using his own invention to accept his award," Tumblr founder David Karp said in introducing him
 
 
English language calls for the hard G sound when before a soft vowel (i, e, or y). There are exceptions of course...
Think of giraffe, German, or analogy.
 
How where you pronouncing it this whole time?

UNBOXING
 
 
 
INTRODUCTION
 
The GTX 780 from NVIDIA brings the technology and honestly most of the performance from the GTX Titan to the "numbered" series. In no particular order, here are the things I think are most important and special about this card.
 
 
GPU Boost 2.0
 
I covered this in detail in my GTX Titan overclocking guide, so I'm not going to say too much other than that it's way better than GPU Boost 1.0. You can set a target clock speed, an allowed voltage, and a target temperature and the graphics card basically does the work for you.
 
 
 
GeForce Experience and ShadowPlay
 
The GeForce Experience, which keeps your graphics drivers up to date and recommends settings to run your games at for the most optimal possible experience is now out of BETA. NVIDIA is not only leading the charge here on helping gamers get the most out of the expensive hardware they just bought, but they are also looking to continue to improve the services offered by adding something called ShadowPlay, which is going to make use of the onboard H.264 encoding hardware in the graphics chip to record gameplay videos.
 
The system overhead will much lower than solutions like FRAPS and the files will be compressed on the fly making them much smaller. Not only that, but NVIDIA is claiming only about a 5% performance hit to just have it running all the time. You can set a buffer time up to 20 minutes, which will allow you to "set & forget" then when something epic happens, go back and retrieve it. Very cool.
 
 
Quiet Operation
 
The GTX 780 has the dubious honour of following the GTX Titan, which was an ambitious card when it came to thermals and acoustics. It achieved its goal of super quiet operation while keeping thermals under control largely due to GPU Boost 2.0. The good news is the 780 has that too and it also has a new fan profile that aims to prevent unnecessary ramping up and down of the fan making for a less distracting gaming performance. It's noticeable and it works.
 
 
A Smooth Multi-GPU Experience
 
Multi-GPU micro stuttering and performance anomalies have always been the elephant in the room for these solutions, and it's for that reason that people like the one writing this article (that's me) usually recommend to use a single card solution whenever possible. Lately, however, there's been a lot of evidence coming to light that suggets that NVIDIA's SLI experience comes much closer to the single GPU user experience than the competition. Something to think about if you view SLI as an upgrade path. 
 
 
Performance
 
TLDR: It's really really fast.
 
Here's our test bed:
 

 
I'll let the graphs and the videos do the talking here. First 1080p
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
And now 2560x1440
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
Conclusion
 
It's been a while since I could recommend a GTX *80 card. 480 & 470, 580 & 570, and 680 & 660 Ti all performed so close that it was hard to recommend the higher end card. Now I think we're about to see a big change. GTX 780 due to its "Titan DNA" dominates the single GPU performance charts and from a price to performance ratio actually makes much more sense than a GTX Titan. I guess all that remains to be seen is how the rest of the GTX 700 series gets fleshed out by NVIDIA and whether that recommendation remains in the coming weeks and months...
 
 
 

Hello,

I recently did some minor upgrades and mods to my main pc and decided to share with this lovely forum.
 
The rig was put together  in Q3 2010 with moderate budget so don't expect any extremes here.
 
The components:
Case: Antec ThreeHundred
Motherboard: Gigabtye GA-P55-UD4
CPU: Intel i5-750 and CoolerMaster Hyper 212
GPU: Gigabyte Geforce GTX 460
PSU: Corsair TX750
Storage: Intel x25-m 80gb and 1TB HDD
and some G.skill  ram 8Gb
 
The result was a nice, simple, discrete PC that did it's job.
Lately with all the nice hardware coming out I was eager to upgrade. However, I didn't feel like spending the big bucks for a new PC so I decided to tune up the one I had.
 
 
The Revival!
 
I wanted to add a window to the side panel. This also required for me to modify the insides of the case so it's aesthetically pleasing once the window is installed.
 
Customization list:
1) replace stock PSU fan for a quieter one
2) replace the stock hyper 212 and case fans
3) cut some cable routing holes (case front cables and 8pin power were especially ugly)
4) do a window side panel mod
5) install some lights for the extra 'bling' effect
 
This is what it looks like in the end.
 

 
Pictures with the LEDs ON and OFF:
 



 
Custom switch to turn off the LED lights:

 
Close up for the cable routing hole:

And not so good side shot:

 
That's it, hope you liked it - sorry for the poor photo quality on some shots, I am not a good photographer and the camera was borrowed so I didn't know what half of the settings did.
 
Cheers

Maybe list a preference of case? Cases are a very personal decision, or just list that you don't care for how it looks.
Otherwise it's a very helpful guide :) Cheers!

http://www.sweclockers.com/image/red/2013/05/16/Asus_0000_SABERTOOTH+Z87.jpg?t=original&k=749cac9a
This is the Asus Z87 Sabertooth.

wifes reaction "ooohhh its green" twenty seconds later she whispers "i like green" and then asks me "can you water cool it?"

Gigabyte G1 Sniper fits the bill: http://www.gigabyte.us/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4169#ov
Lots of really high end features, but it is kind of expensive. $270 on newegg
 
Cheaper microATX version: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128551