The “Break it Down” Blog

Verified by Visa is Useless

I was just shopping on Newegg and decided to purchase some more RAM for my computer. I added the item to my shopping card, hit purchase, entered my Credit Card info and hit Finish. I had forgotten that I had enabled the frustratingly stupid “Verified by Visa” check-out security process in the past… I somehow always [...]

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Newegg “Products with Gifts” Search

Brad Agdern sent in a pretty kick-ass little link from the Newegg site, that being a “Products with Gifts” search page. For shoppers that don’t normally shop on Newegg sometimes they offer products that when purchased, come with additional free-bees… this search lets you look for ONLY products with free-bees. NICE!

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Intel Core 2 Duo chips instock at Newegg

Well it looks like some (the slower ones) of the new Core 2 Duo chips are finally in stock at Newegg now: Here are 6300/6400/6600/6700 Here is the 6800 Extreme One thing I’m surprised to see on the slower chips is how many reviews/votes there are already… people must be building these machines up as fast as they [...]

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