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Well, time now to slow down if you don’t really need a computer right, right now. The major tock in the Intel release strategy is coming. It is called Haswell and uses much lower power.  Leaked document reveals Intel ‘Haswell’ chips potentially bound for 2013 iMacs Details on 14 new…

This has to be the most complex rewards program I’ve ever used. They don’t tell you much and you have to read a lot but if you get this. We have a grandfather account so it isn’t clear what is standard and not, but you have to read this huge…

For a 1080p monitor you need 358hz to run at 120hz but nvidia limits this to When you are running your monitor ultrafast in 1440p at 120hertz u need to unlock the pixel clock and the sli lock as well. See  ToastyX fix. I installed this last week and then Nvidia…

It is just a 1080p 27″ monitor and is an older TN panel but that means it is very fast. We are using it for 3d and standard and there seem to be quite a few tuning parameters: Lightboost.This pulses the LED backlight in 3D mode so it looks brighter.…

If this isn’t the hardest category to figure out, I don’t know what is. The first thing to figure out is what you want: Midi keyboard. This doesn’t have any ability to produce music, you hook a computer up and the computer makes the sound. Very cheap. Keyboard. These are…

A good time to get toasters and things for the home that has everything: Brevet BOV800XL. Cook’s Illustrated likes it, Consumer Reports likes it and the Amazon reviews are great. It’s just amazingly expensive at $250. AMCO Houseworks Model 06-0354. A $11 juice squeezer that works 🙂 Vollrath Cookie Sheets.…

Seems like everyone wants one for this Christmas and the price spread has never been wider. Like sunglasses, these are hugely marked up item, so you can literally pay from $10 to $10,000. Wirecutter has a pretty good handle on it. (personally I’ve always like the Etymotic ER-4i and ER-6,…

Just what I need. Now that we’ve made a mongo (12 gallon tank) monster PC that is running at an amazing 150fps on Black Ops II and 1GBps disk access on an overclocked 4.5GHz Ivy Bridget 3570K processor and dual GTX670 SLI overclocked by 72Mhz and 200MHz on memory, time…

You can build an amazing tiny PC. I’d just change his build to put in a bigger power supply and a gtx-690 to really have a rocking system and probably cut back to a 3570k as its $100 cheaper, add a noshua nh-14 cooler, goto a Samsung 840 ssd as…