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EFD307

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  1. So im in Taiwan for the summer doing research at a local university, im planing on finishing my PC as soon as i get back to America but wanted to see how different the prices are here because most partsare made in Taiwan....turns out the prices are worse. The MSI Mpower max goes for $259 on newegg they are selling it here in Taiwan, where it was manufactured for....$310 how is this even a thing? from what ive seen so far CPU prices are very similar just a few dollars off. what is this madness?
  2. just saw this on my news feed from "I Fucking Love Science" very interesting. http://theconversation.com/more-data-storage-heres-how-to-fit-1-000-terabytes-on-a-dvd-15306 "The exceptional penetration feature of light beams allow for 3D recording or fabrication, which can dramatically increase the data storage – the number of dots – on a single optical device." looks like the disk isn't dead after all ;D
  3. Q1: i just liked keeping up with the latest tech news, now that i visit this forum every day i dont really need it as much but its nice to get another prospective on the new stuff. Q2: i think everything is there already. great stream! although the call in feature Linus was talking about last week would be awesome!
  4. well, watch this....
  5. i bought the H100 before the H100i came out (reason why people tell you to buy it all at once XD) but just air cooling on the gpu for now, would love to put a custom loop in one day, maybe after i get out of college.
  6. ive spent the last 2 years waiting to build my ultimate machine, all im waiting for is the 780 lightning to come out and im going to build it. ive been accumulating all the parts and just have the mobo cpu and gpu left. going to pair that 780 with a 4770k and the z87 Mpower. cant wait to get it done, its been far to long in the making.
  7. EFD307

    Greatest game

    Diablo 2 LOD all the way, spent way too much time playing that game. up there with the starcraft broodwar and of course the halflife series. i was a fan of cod 4 aswell, spent endless hours playing hard core search and destroy back in the day, on pc of course :D
  8. Have you looked at the Razer Black widow ultimate? ive had one for 2 years and havent had any problems with it.
  9. you should wait a few days!! my flight leaves tomorrow morning and ill be in Taipei sunday night!! maybe ill see you at the airport :D
  10. this gets me ranting all the time, i go into a radio shack and the guy has no idea what a resistor is, i go back another time looking for a ps/2 to usb port for my model m instead he tries to sell me his cheapest usb keyboard, my mother was buying a desktop online threw HP i told her to ask for a ssd and they told her they don't work on desk tops. And the people at best buy don't know jack shit about tech in my experience there just guys trying to get paid, cant say i blame them though. but as an enthusiast it would be nice to get more then just a black stare from an associate when i ask a question.
  11. haha all good, thats actually the same video i watched :D
  12. Never mind, just looked it up myself, start is back makes me feel much better about changing to 8
  13. what does start is back actually do? i mean does it disable modern UI or is it just a start button? and is it really the same as the windows 7 start button?
  14. So i bought a copy of windows 8 pro a while back intending to use it as my primary OS for my new build to be finished in early august. with all the problems floating around with windows 8 is it a good idea to look for a copy of 7 pro and sell the 8 pro? i have no experience with 8 at all but i would be using it on a multi monitor gaming rig. Thoughts from you guys?
  15. they made a 780 gamer series with that cooler. and you could always just re paint that yellow stripe on the lightning, i think ill be doing that to go with a black and white build.
  16. well i know ive been waiting for it, while watching neweggs coverage of he MSI booth the 780 lightning is shown(well kind of), defiantly excited for this card, ill be picking one up myself soon! skip to 12:35
  17. alright cool, that's what i thought but i just wanted to make sure. thanks man
  18. So i know some slots are wired for 16x and some are 8x, if you install a graphics card in the 16x slot it will run in 16x unless you install another graphics card. my question is if i have a card in the 16x slot and a sound card that runs in a 1x slot will that drop the bandwidth of the 16x slot down? I will be buying the MSI z87 Mpower max and installing a gtx 780 and already have a Creative sound blaster recon 3d champion series audio card to run with it. if you need any more info let me know :) thanks in advance for the help!
  19. guys...im not even going to japan, well ill be at the airport for an hour before i get to Taiwan. But thanks anyway, I think Taiwan got some volcanoes too. i know the university im staying at is on a mountain that has hot springs so it might be a volcano.
  20. Computex ends the 8th and i get there the 9th -__-
  21. also does anyone know any good proxy servers i can use to watch hulu and stuff like that while in Taiwan?
  22. Im leaving the states 5 days from now to spend 8 weeks in Taipei doing physics research at NYMU, if any of you have ever been to Taipei or even just Taiwan what are the things that i should experience besides Taipei 101 and the night markets? Even if you've never been there tell me where you would want to go if you could.
  23. what about a gtx 780 lightning edition? are there any roomers floating around about that? I see the 770 lightning is already out, will there even be a 780 lightning? http://www.hardocp.com/article/2013/05/30/msi_geforce_gtx_770_lightning_video_card_review#.UaeHFpzyafU
  24. This is the background I use, cant go wrong with the matrix :D
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