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I'd suggest it's not easy to identify 'ancient members', after all - why ?

The forums are a lot less active than they used to be, today's kids may not even understand why have a PC - after al they have their multi-core phones to surf the internet with and cheap, powerful laptops.

But winter IS pretty tough on mosquitoes. Living in Minnesota, I always have extra blanket, water, and other stuff in the car in case it gets stuck someplace remote. But my 2002 Subaru WRX (with snowtires for the winter) with it's 290,000 miles on it does manage to chew through most snowy weather as...

Batteries Plus will 'remanufacture' batteries - I had an impossible to find NiCad 'rebuilt' as NiMh, not cheap, but an exact fit and often added amp hours (voltage must be same).

Newegg seems to be offering a bunch of lightweight 'Gamer' desktop PCs... I looked at several of them, they all have marginal PSUs. For a few hundred more you could build something and at least know what you've got... Between the 2 shown, the latter is the only 'viable' one IMHO. It would be more fu...

Heard recent rumor that Mitt R. is considering Ron P. for VP - that would be a great move, Ron has some excellent ideas for how to make the Fed accountable.

Um, prices for commodities would go WAY up (eg; gasoline, gold, food). The USA is a place where we should be able to become rich (it requires work, sometimes risk, but the Government should not be trying to make 'everyone' rich nor to 'hurt' rich people for having succeeded). Just about everyone sta...

In BIOS there may be a selection for 'Default settings' (notably in overclock settings, this may leave boot order, HD Controller, etc. settings alone. In general, you might be able to start where the settings were for your 'successful' overclocking - a few things to watch: - Temperatures... 30c is g...

Current software does not really use 4 cores well yet... I5 should be fine.

Nice PS:
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Re-using your old 450W PS may be marginal... I'd look at nearly twice that much power to have headroom for upgrading later.

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I also always use Battery backup... voltage sag can cause HD write problems...