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Get Minecraft for Windows 10 for free if you already own Minecraft [SOLVED]

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Question. Is Minecraft for Windows 10 really free if you already own Minecraft for JAVA? If so, how do I get my Windows 10 Minecraft product key?! Answer. Yes, if you were an early purchaser of Minecraft, you can redeem a gift code for Minecraft for Windows 10 for FREE (normally around $27!) Here are the steps: Login to https://account.mojang.com/me Look for the Minecraft for Windows 10 heading under “My Games” Click the Redeem button Follow the steps on the

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Building my new gaming PC

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I built this bad boy gaming PC to play Battlefront with my friend Kevin. It has a i5-2500K CPU and a GTX 960 video card, 512GB SSD and 16GB of RAM. This was a photo taken in the garage while I was building the PC. It was using a super old temporary power supply without the video card being fully powered. Since then I have upgraded to a much nicer PSU. The cooler is recycled as is as many components

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Dual monitors on HP Pro 3500 desktop PC? [SOLVED]

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Today I received the following PC question: Yo JD, Can you suggest a video card for us to order? We hired an individual at our office, and we purchased two monitors for his computer, but I don’t think the video card it came with will push two monitors. The computer is a “HP Pro” – stock off the shelf – purchased at a Office Depot type store. The existing video card is a Intel(R) HD Graphics Card. Can you suggest

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4.4GHz OCed system

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Here are the components for my buddy’s new 4.4GHz OCed gaming system, pretty sweet and quite a nice price! Begin quote: ASROCK Extreme 4 Z77 Motherboard – http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157293 $90 via NewEgg with Open Box deal Core i5-3570K Unlocked Processor – http://www.amazon.com/Intel-Core-i5-3570K-Quad-Core-Processor/dp/B007SZ0E1K/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1389275068&sr=8-1&keywords=core+i5+3570k $199 via Amazon G.Skill Ripjaws 8GB Kit – http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231428 $79 via NewEgg Zalman CPNS9500LED-A Cooler – http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835118223 $39 via NewEgg Lite-On SATA DVD Burner – http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827106289 $14 via NewEggg I reused my Antec P180 case and my Antec 550watt

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Antique secretary laptop desk and cool retro PC mod!

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I routinely use my laptop setup in my grandma’s vintage secretary. It is a gorgeous piece of furniture. Every time I sit down at it I think fondly of her. The secretary is very functional with its fold out desktop surface. I would eventually like to build (or have built) a slightly larger version that could accommodate a full PC but keep the old-school antique look. 🙂 Curious about what exactly a secretary desk is?! Secretary desk – Wikipedia, the

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PC case mod with auto opening top vents – Tempest SXR

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Recently I came across a pretty darn cool case mod with auto opening top air vents! I highly recommend you WATCH THE VIDEO of the case in action 🙂 It really works well and you get a much better feel for how it works when you watch the video as opposed to just looking at photos. If you want to know ever more about this sweet case mod, here are some pages with additional info and photos about the project:

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Favorite homebrew computers: 1997-2010

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Some people enjoy building hot rods, or building model airplanes. I enjoy building computers. The first PC I built was in 1997, I was a sophomore in HS. I can still remember researching all the parts, using a computer in the HS science classroom (I didn’t have internet at home at that time). Tom’s Hardware and Anandtech were my primary sources of motherboard and CPU reviews.  Those two sites helped me immensely in choosing the best components for my “first

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