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		<title>DFI&#8217;s two systems on one motherboard</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 10:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Ou</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a VERY cool new motherboard from DFI. It features a P45 chipset motherboard along with an NVIDIA Ion motherboard and Intel Atom CPU on a single board with an integrated gigabit Ethernet switch. It comes with a USB and audio KVM switch as well. The system allows you to shut down or suspend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OEMs beat white box on low end, but not the high end</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 03:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while back (summer of 2003), I spent my days off working at a small computer shop in the middle of nowhere. We were deep in rural South Carolina. As in, &#8220;can&#8217;t get cell phone reception&#8221; and &#8220;literally a one stop light town.&#8221; The shop itself was so small that it occupied a spare bedroom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Need suggestions for a PC case</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After much thought and consultation with a friend, I beleive that my persistently high hard drive failure rate on personal PCs (I average a drive failure every 6 &#8211; 9 months for the last 10 years, regardless of brand, model, etc.) may actually be caused by heat. So, I need suggestions on a case that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>$18 (after $20 rebate) NVIDIA 8600GT graphics card</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Ou</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[$18 (after $20 rebate) NVIDIA 8600GT graphics card with dual DVIhttp://www.newegg.com/Special/ShellShocker.aspx I don&#8217;t think this blog entry requires much explanation.&#160; Even without the rebate, it&#8217;s a great deal.&#160; You can order up to 3 of these and get a maximum of $60 rebate.&#160; For anyone with an older graphics card, this will breath new life [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to get a nice Home Theater PC for $595</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 14:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Ou</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;ve previously explained, an Intel G45 motherboard and Intel Conroe-L &#8220;Celeron&#8221; processor makes the ideal computer system as oppose to an NVIDIA Ion system.  Now I&#8217;ll give you the full configuration list of parts for building a great HTPC system for under $600. Blu-ray and NAS storage capable Home Theater PC (HTPC) Item Cost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strike the word &#8220;future proof&#8221; from your tech vocabulary</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 05:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Ou</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Intel and Asus are trying to get community feedback on what people want in a PC and one of the more popular ideas floated is a &#8220;Future proof PC&#8221;.  I&#8217;ve been trying to tell people for nearly two decades that there is no such thing as &#8220;future proof&#8221; in the computer industry and the sooner [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Build a powerful and silent office computer for under $600 &#8211; no display</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Ou</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a computer build list for a good office computer with solid graphics performance.&#160; This computer has very low power consumption with NVIDIA passively cooled 9500 GT graphics adapter and Intel dual-core 45nm processor.&#160; The nice thing about this set-up is that it has two digital display outputs and one analog display output so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blu-ray PC blues</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Ou</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an effort to build the cheapest computer I can build that plays Blu-ray DVD movies, I put the NVIDIA 7150 chipset with Intel Allendale dual-core 2.93 GHz (overclocked) test bed to work.&#160; I&#8217;ve already been having some problems with this inexpensive embedded NVIDIA chipset but I wanted to put it to the most challenging [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intel &#8220;Allendale&#8221; 2.2 GHz dual-core running at 2.93 GHz at stock voltage</title>
		<link>http://www.formortals.com/intel-allendale-22-ghz-dual-core-running-at-293-ghz-at-stock-voltage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.formortals.com/intel-allendale-22-ghz-dual-core-running-at-293-ghz-at-stock-voltage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Ou</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m just building a new PC with using an Intel E2200 &#8220;Allendale&#8221; Core 2 2.2 GHz processor on an XFX nForce 630i model MG-630i-7159 motherboard.&#160; This is a very similar configuration to my $400 computer build list.&#160; Just for the heck of it I changed the FSB from 800 MHz to 1064 MHz using stock [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building the high-end 30&#8243; LCD game system for $3340</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 09:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Ou</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My former blogging partner at ZDNet Zero-Day Nate McFeters asked me to come up with a power house gaming system that doesn&#8217;t needlessly spend money on components that merely give slightly better performance.  He didn&#8217;t care about DVD burning or RAID storage but I explained that some sort of RAID should be included to permit the OS [...]]]></description>
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