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Always fun times on Neoseeker, doesn't matter if it's a flaming revolt of users claiming oppression or debate on movies or trending news. Godwin rests in the background waiting to leap out.

For those unfamiliar.

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As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.

In fact it proves itself daily as the forum reaches 12 years in age, our timeline of possibility going well over the response of 1 so often it's almost comical to see the references.

In the case of a site like this run over such a long period though, the disruptions often seem to stem from a failure to understand local and government laws not applying to corporate run discussion boards. Much like the mods at IGN or GameFaqs can be labeled "Nazi's" they're not, you agreed to a TOS that often doesn't promote the impression of freedom of expression, opinion or trolling or d
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Soooooo I did some summer cleaning this weekend. Broke apart the rigs so they're on their own minus the network of course.

Jetfire

• NZXT Phantom - White
• Jetway HA08 ComboL 790GX
• AMD Phenom II B93 @ 3.7GHz
• GELID GX-7 Cooler in push pull configuration
• Crucial PC6400 DDR2 4GB
• ASUS EAH6850 DirectCU @ 1000/4600
• Creative X-Fi Xtrememusic
• Cooler Master Real Power Pro 650W
• Turtle Beach AK-R8 Headset
• Altec Lansing 641 4.1 Speakers
• Logitech Wireless KB
• Logitech G9 mouse

<3 my rig, here's a pretty picture of it in a meadow. Yes that's also an Unreal 4 Engine sticker on the case.


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Last week we hit the LA Games Conference for their 6th year of the event, there are tons of panels and events setup each year for new entries into the realm of gaming. This year of course kept the tradition going with some extra twists with the CEO of Trion delivering a keynote and many popular figures from the industry continuing to join up and meet and talk with the press and developers.

For those curious on what the magic entry fee delivers it's a few things.

3 Tracks of panels covering gaming, marketing, development, trends

Food and events for socializing over (Breakfast buffet, Lunch buffet)

An after party event for everyone to unwind after taking in a ton of hard information from the day.

The tracks are in depth and have open mic opportunities for attendees to voice their mind and get feedback on their direction or the direction of the panel at any given point. It's a dynamic energy

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Recently came into a brand new NZXT Phantom in White, the case is sexy and sleek and all kinds of amazing to setup. Shortly after getting started though, I noticed the top fan lights were dead it was kind of bummer as they threw down a nice blue hue throughout the white interior. Thankfully I had a BitFenix LED light strip that I was trying to use as a custom backlight which I put inside the case. It lights up and looks nice in white, but seriously a fan that has the LED's die within weeks of use is stupid.


Top fan in the left corner is supposed to be blue, not dead.

The tale gets better, I've been contacting NZXT customer support for the past weeks and the best I've gotten from them is 0 response from their support group. I see tales of how they rushed new fans out to replace the essentially DOA fans but I'm wondering how much of that is either the old NZXT or just made up.

I'm bummed on t
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.... is what I yelled a few days ago, plugging my phone in for a data sync so I could add some new songs to my phone I got the dreaded SD card empty notice from the phone. Having 6.8GB of data on my 8GB card meant I was about to lose my mind.

Fortunately I stuck it to Seagate a year or so ago when I recovered a drive with a firmware error instead of paying them like $400.

The problem: Micro SD Card is giving RAW format error

The solution:
*WARNING - Do not format the card at all until it's noted in the instructions, Windows and Android will keep asking you to during this process.

• Download a force mount / unmount SD widget for the phone
• Force mount the card so that Windows can read it over USB
• Depending on situation, force mount may require a few tries or reboots
• Check first to see if the card can be read once mounted, usually it'll still be RAW in Windows
• Start up Power D

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After multiple failed 9600 Black Edition chips I've hit a gem in the rough.

For history though here's the lineup

December 2010 - 9600BE

• Core stability errors (clock interval bsod)
• Unstable below stock speed until 2.0ghz (stock is 2.3)
• RMA - AMD replaces with 9600 from week 50

February 2011 - 9600BE

• Cores become unstable again, crashing in Firefox and games
• Unstable until 2.1-2.2GHz on all cores
• RMA - AMD replaces with 9750 B3 stepping CPU

Current - 9750 B3

• Cores are amazingly stable, no crashing at all
• Upon tweak testing, cores stable so far to 2.8GHz on stock BE cooler
• All games fly like the wind
• AMD RMA process finally comes through with upgrade + functional CPU

I'm a happy camper right now, just need to get lucky for a new video card. :(
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We're in the middle of the month already and I'm trying to figure out how to top last week. Well I'm doing it for everyone.

7 copies of Halo: Reach Defiant Map Pack
http://www.neoseeker.com/forums/2/t1630604-this-one-for-our-halo-fans-halo-reach-defiant-map-pack-giveaway/

1 copy of Homefront on the PS3
http://www.neoseeker.com/forums/2/t1630380-neoseeker-brings-homefront-ps3-contest-to-battlefield/

Where do we go from here though? Some might say that we just keep giving away stuff, I'm pondering new event formats though and one of them happens to be using Xtranormal to animate videos for participants to make funny videos on why they deserve to win or why their game is the best.

Given the popularity of the current format it might be hard to break everyone away so maybe these special format moments will come with perks for the effort. :D

Any discussion is welcome on the topic, we still have Yaku
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First for the hardware fans.

ATI HD 6990 Review
http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/AMD_HD_6990_Antilles/

For those that don't know, this thing eats every game up right now and it spits it out laughing.

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Overall the HD 6990 smashed any expectations we had going into the review as it just dominated any other card in its path, including the current single GPU speed king, the GTX 580, and the dual GPU HD 5970.

Timegate Studios <3's Neoseeker
http://www.neoseeker.com/forums/2/t1627135-missed-pax-east-timegate-studios-brings-you-section-8-prejudice-swag-game-codes/

We're giving away 5 copies of Section 8 Prejudice, we're also giving away 5 swag packs from Timegate to those lucky winners as well. Enter now, it ends Friday!

Warhammer invades Neoseeker
http://www.neoseeker.com/forums/2/t1627009-time-has-come-warhammer-40-000-dawn-of-war-ii-retribution-contest/

We're giving away 8 copies
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The Shorty Awards are back again, with voting in the early stages I figured maybe the Neo population might help us secure a win or provide some competition in 2011.

Here's the link:
http://shortyawards.com/neoseeker

How to get @Neoseeker some votes:

Register an account on Twitter, after that head to the link above for the Shorty Awards

Once you're there you'll then have to edit the nomination page, it seems to cycle category so be sure to change the # tag to #gaming

Before:

quote Short Awards

I nominate @Neoseeker for a Shorty Award in #fashion because...

After:

quote Short Awards

I nominate @Neoseeker for a Shorty Award in #gaming because...

After you vote:

You'll be presented with an authorization page asking if it's okay for the Shorty Awards to use your Twitter account. You have to allow this to go through or your vote will not be counted. It's not malicious but it's what lets their system tally
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In my prior post I talked about how things were going well with the new system. After some experimentation I've found the following issues with the motherboard that make me wish I could get a new one to swap right now.

Flaws:

• The 570 LT SLI chipset supports a max of x8 lanes for PCI-E, no x16 as would be found on any normal board. I'm running half the bandwidth for no reason at all with no ability to change it.

• The flashes for the K9N SLI V2 fail to actually address voltage issues with the Phenom, I can change the VCore up or down but it's fixed in every reading I have to 1.25 which actually varies between 1.26 - 1.275.

• A result of the voltage issue is that I have no chance to really overclock the chip with no voltage control. 2.3 is the default but many run 2.6 stable if their board plays nice.

• The board lacks any settings for the other HT speeds, I have stock Athlon X2 1x - 5x se

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