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  1. Here are a few possible options. - The Thinkpad Edge 3531 is a solid laptop, though a bit dated. Again, only an HDD, but the upgrade would be fairly simple. Has an i7. Unfortunately, it's resolution is a poor 1366x768. Price : $700 - The Asus Vivobook v500 is another ultrabook, with a HDD, i7, and a touchscreen. Very solid build quality. However, at $800, there is little opportunity for an ssd upgrade. - Dell offers their i5535, which seems like a development name that was never dropped. It is the slowest of the laptops discussed so far, but also the cheapest at $590. Again, a swap is needed. No image available on newegg, but I saw some others elsewhere - From Lenovo, here is a somewhat, nay, very thick beast (wink wink). However, it is $630 for an i7 and solid build quality. On sale at the moment. - Lenovo has some others on sale at the moment that do deserve a glance. Note here, here, and here. - Acer offers a few others, such as this, and this. They seem to have a lot of variants at that price point. Finally, I haven't mentioned any HP's because of their extremely lacking build quality, but that is an option if you want it. If you can get the Macbook air for your price with a discount, go for it. It would be great, even if you have to buy a windows key for it. Hope that was some help.
  2. Do you mind swapping out the stock hdd for a ssd?
  3. Also, for the 2TB Barracudas, there are two different models that run at different speeds. There is a 2 platter 4 head variety, and a 3 platter 5 head variety. Of the two, the 2 platter - 4 head variety is much faster (due to the fact that there is 1 TB/platter, leaving less distance to travel for random iops). The problem is that they both have the same model number. Luckily the version number is usually different. Only purchase versions xxExxxxx [and possibly x24xxxxx - x24 is unverified info so far] of the 2TB model. Seagate has seen the problem and has started to advertise "the power of one" (terabyte), where the newest drives all have 1TB/platter. However, the older drives are still in distribution centers, so there is still a high chance of receiving one of the poorer drives. For any 3TB drives though, there is no issue. All have 3 platters, six heads.
  4. Do you do mostly video editing? What editing programs do you use primarily?
  5. Unless you really want corsair link support on the PSU, I would go for the ax 860. Not only is it cheaper, but it also has better build quality and internals. It is built by seasonic as opposed to flextronic, and it shows (better solder points, more organized, etc.). There is the Digital signal processor on the 860i, but that offers very little tangible benefit. Save the money and put it somewhere else.
  6. I would say anywhere under 80c would be good for 24/7 operation. Also, you were wondering about PSU earlier, for the 3930k and two cards I would suggest the 860i over the 760i. You likely would be more than fine with the 760i, but it is always good just in case.
  7. It was a over-simplification. Each module is composed of two integer clusters and a floating point unit. Each of the Integer clusters have 2 ALUs and 2 AGUs. The duplicated integer schedulers and pipelines offer hardware to each of the two threads, and that can increase support in some multi-threaded integer cases. However, due to the architecture, only multi-threaded integer calculations will be benefited by this duplication. When I said that it was "1 and a half" cores, I wasn't talking literally, I was talking about overall benefit of the architecture.
  8. The bulldozer modules are comprised of a single l2 cache, two dedicated integer clusters, and two symmetrical/fused floating point clusters. This means that a single core has twice the integer processing power of a single core, but the same number of floating point operations. This is similar to the theoretical yield of multithreading capable intel processors.
  9. Not exactly though. Those cores are piledriver cores, so they are really like 3 cores and three half cores. You don't get the full benefit of 6 cores, more like 4.5 cores.
  10. If the new GPU doesn't help and the mouse + keyboard aren't working properly in addition to the display, I would suspect a motherboard issue. First of all, would you be able to RMA the motherboard?
  11. You could get something like This with reds or blacks. Those at least wouldn't be too loud, and the keyboard would be small.
  12. If you are using your ssd as the os/boot drive, you should be fine with usb 3, though there might be some issues from time to time. Personally, I would prefer to not have too many external devices, but if you really don't want to void your warranty, it should be fine with usb 3
  13. With only two sticks you should be fine, but if you plan on adding more RAM in the future, you might want to consider a different motherboard. That board has some issues with higher voltage RAM when all channels are populated.
  14. You still might want to be careful and check it out some. It ought to be fine, but still. What programs were running? see if you can replicate the problem.
  15. NCIX has it here EDIT: and steelseries' global shop has it here
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