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  1. Top and bottom of the page where it says "Page X of X". Click that and type in what page you want to go to.
  2. P3's Kill-A-Watt: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16882715001 I know a few people who use it to measure from-the-wall power draw on gaming desktops. Should work fine for what you're doing as well. Radio Shack carries them as well so you might be able to pick one up locally.
  3. It looks like both the left and right inputs have independent gains in the rendered pic. The text says "RIGHT INPUT GAIN" and "LEFT INPUT GAIN" if I'm reading it correctly. My only confusion is why the white connector is labeled "RIGHT" and the red connector is labeled "LEFT". Aren't these traditionally swapped? I've always known red to be right and white to be mono/left.
  4. [read] Rob's holed up in the back of the shop breathing resin fumes and slaving away making these. Thanks Rob! Keep up the good work!
  5. My friend got a used 2004 VW Jetta in impressively good condition for $2800. Not the sportiest car in the world but it handles a hundred times better than anything I've driven and it runs laps around my truck. As long as you're not looking for something too flashy, it's usually not too hard to find a decent car or two for under $3000. And please don't get a $2000-$3000 car and put rims and a carbon fiber hood on it. Last thing we need is another '00 Civic with some ballin' 17"s, a foot-high spoiler, underglow, two-tone black and silver paint job, and a hood scoop in this world.
  6. Wikipedia is reliable enough if you click the citations and review their sources. I often use Wikipedia for research solely based on the fact that nearly all of the sources they site are legitimate and useful. For the unemployment stats, the citation used is the US Bureau of Labor Statistics: http://www.bls.gov/web/laus/lauhsthl.htm I live on Cape Cod and shit's stupid expensive. Real estate prices are always high, even in some of the more crowded areas that are away from the coast. Houses anywhere within walking distance of a beach skyrocket in price. There's a town called Osterville chock full of some rich peeps with houses nearly everyone can only dream of owning. http://www.luxuryportfolio.com/browse~mnc/massachusetts/cape_cod/osterville.cfm Back on topic, I'm sorry to hear about your problems man. My own audio situation is on lockdown right now due to lack of finances. Paying for school and working on the side to get what money I can is enough to get my degree and make what payments I have to. My truck has a new head unit and that's it. My badass component sets I got for Christmas are sitting in boxes waiting for me to be able to buy some glassing material and get the ball rolling. I know your pain. Honestly, you'll be happier with yourself by getting through what you need to get through and sidelining extra expenses until you have the money to spend. Get your system to a point where it's playable but don't look at investing any more money until other stuff is handled. Best of luck to you brother!
  7. Aww damn! Trenton changed his avatar IDK why anyone cares if this is fake. Why would you hate this guy for making badass videos of guns and explosions and shit? Who cares if he makes money from it? Did you see Avatar in theaters? Harry Potter maybe? Terminator? You PAID money if you did. And they were fake too. Haters always hate for the dumbest reasons.
  8. Sounds like the wire's dead. Might have to buy new wire if it's no longer under warranty. Rockford generally has a good warranty on their wire in case it dies on you.
  9. Magic DVD Ripper is the one I used when I wanted to copy a DVD of my girlfriend's 2 brothers on one of those giant Slingshot rides. Funny shit. It didn't have the prettiest user interface but it worked and did it fast.
  10. That was some of the dumbest shit I've heard on the internet yet. And I spend a lot of time on the internet.
  11. Just curious, but what would the point of this be? I'm assuming you're referring to the newest model of Apple TV? What would you play through it? It has no hard drive and unless you bring a wireless router with you it'll have no way of streaming content off of anything. If you plan on streaming content off an iPod or iPhone, doesn't that HU have iPod integration built in? Not hating at all. Just curious to your intentions.
  12. Looks like it's designed to attract the same crowd that pull into parking lots and open their doors and trunks and fire all the sound out of the vehicle to try to impress others. I understand it's a concept but it's ugly as sin. Craftsmanship looks solid but the whole idea is horrible. As much as I disliked it, I'd rather have the Chrystler 300 with the Beats Audio package than this polished turd.
  13. in the Tahoe Hahahaha! I can't wait to see these Mini-Meade woofers. Little 4" coil monsters sounds like some badass woofers to me.
  14. Cute. You got a nice pair of 12's for some good midbass up front. Now where's the real woofers at?
  15. That just sounds like a stupid safety hazard that may or may not have contributed to you hitting someone else's car.
  16. Yeah the description's all "IDK what happened guys it just burst into flame" and the title's all "LOOK AT THIS LAMBO I CRASHED LOL!"
  17. Well I got ninja'd by both of you but in case you're curious for future use, Recuva's a nice little piece of free software.
  18. If they were on the SD card there's a chance you can get them. Some phones save time bu just marking the files for deletion and then overwrite them later on rather than overwrite all the cells in the flash memory as 0's. There's a company out there called Piriform that makes a popular chunk of software called CCleaner. They also make a recovery software names "Recuva" (so clever). It's free and totally worth a shot. http://www.piriform.com/recuva
  19. Intel's next-gen chips should be here by the end of the month if all goes well. Ivy Bridge is the codename this time around. Z77 is the chipset you'll want. Nvidia's GTX 680 just launched less than a month ago and it's a 3D monster. Great time to be building a new PC. I wouldn't waste my money on X79. The X-series chipsets are always a waste of money unless you're a serious professional workstation user who needs the CPU horsepower or are running a 4-way graphics card setup. 3D gaming at 1080p is going to be purely GPU intensive. Intel's Sandy/Ivy Bridge series i5s will handle it no problem and the i7s will give you the overhead to do some background tasks while gaming. Anything more than that for a CPU and you're throwing money out the window that could be put towards a stronger GPU or even a second for an SLI setup.
  20. I was a big fan of the original and I liked the drummer's use of double bass but other than that I really, really disliked this. The synth section they added from 2:54 to 3:21 was horrible and I wasn't a fan of the vocals or overuse of auto-tune. 4:30 to 5:40 was perfect.
  21. What graphics cards are you waiting for? The 600-series cards have been out since late March. http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007709%20600030348%20600315498&IsNodeId=1&name=GeForce%20GTX%20600%20series http://ncix.com/search/?categoryid=0&q=gtx+680 The GTX 680 is the only one released so far and it's sold out most places. $500 but it's also the fastest GPU at stock speeds in the world for gaming.
  22. Your frame rates will drop pretty hard, possibly into the single digits. If VRAM fills up, your machine starts caching and loading textures off your hard drive, not your system RAM. Hard drives are very slow. Even the fastest SSD's are less than 1/5th the speed of RAM. Worst case scenario is you get really bad FPS in areas where there's lots of stuff to draw or tons of monsters on screen. Blizzard is usually really good about maintaining compatibility with older machines by making the "low" setting drop graphics demand significantly. Unless they really upped the horsepower required for Diablo 3, I'd expect it to run alright on your rig and possibly have FPS issues in just a few areas. The reason they put the memory requirement is so people don't go and try to run it with on-board graphics and complain later on that their FPS is horrible. The reason they chose 256mb is probably due to the fact that no video cards now-a-days (besides a few laptop models) come with 128mb.
  23. VRAM, or video RAM, is used to store texture data as well as a few other things. For everything you see on your screen in a game, whether it be a person, some rocks, trees, etc. there are a ton of image files that represent the patters on clothes, the bark on trees, all that goodness. Now the more stuff you have on screen, the more memory you need to store all that info. With the advent of high-resolution textures, it's quite common to see games recommending 256 megabytes, 512 megabytes, or even a gigabyte or more of video memory. Graphics memory is also linked to screen resolution. The higher your resolution, the more RAM you'll need to store the frame images before they are pushed to your monitor. Now, will your machine run it? That's a question I really can't answer. The game will launch and will run but you'll more than likely need to turn all the graphics settings to low, especially anything pertaining to texture quality. Your framerates won't be the best but if you can pull 30fps you'll be fine. I havent gotten into the D3 beta so I'm not sure just how demanding the game is on graphics hardware. It's a laptop so there's likely no viable option to upgrade the video card.
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