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[=sw=warlord]

You can get a mount that attaches to the desk it self.
I've got one my self.

[Zeph]

Meh, gonna push back getting the cintiq till fall. Gonna build a new desk over summer that would work out better with it. Gonna grab three ultrasharps instead. What price should I expect for the mounts? I'm seeing huge discounts on places like amazon over their "official" retail price.

[Bodzilla]

thats how you need to have it.
anything below your feet is an annoyance, but as long as you have 800mm's between the outtermost points of say drawers or a housing for your computer your perfectly fine.

[Bodzilla]

seriously talk this shit with me, because this is what i DO.

[Warsaw]

So, it's 26 January, and no word from Intel on when i7-3930K stocks would start replenishing. I need a new computer and I need it last Christmas.

The question:

To wait, or Z68?

[Cortexian]

I thought Intel said they were going to let the 3930k stock dry up in preperation for newer chip releases?

[Warsaw]

They never said that. I've been doing some digging since that last post, and it appears that Intel is scrambling to address this shortage (which is world wide). By Intel Work Week 5, the online retailers should start getting them back in stock.

We are on Work Week 3. I sure as hell am not going to pay a $90 premium to get one off of Amazon, one that is more than likely of C1 stepping and not C2. Buying pre-built to circumvent the OLR shortage is out of the question entirely.

We'll see.

[JackalStomper]

So my GPU is pooping out and I'm looking for a new one. I'm just not sure yet if I should wait it out for the NVIDIA 600 series to come out sometime this year in hope of the 500's going down in price, or just get a 560 now. Not looking at any radeon, I still have nightmares about their horrible drivers.

[Cortexian]

The 560 ti's are pretty damn good price-wise. I still don't know when the 600 series GPU's are slated for released so you might be waiting awhile.

[JackalStomper]

Apparently they'll be released around Q2 this year. But this would be the second delay, the first being Q4 2011 -> Q1 2012. So take that with a grain of salt.