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Arctic Cooling Silentium T2
Arctic Cooling Silentium T2 :: SilentPCReview.com Arctic Cooling’s Silentium series represents one of the most dramatic adaptations of the ATX case standard we have seen so far. With the power supply mounted vertically at the front of the case and the main air intake through the back and bottom, the Silentium T2’s airflow is nothing…
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Creative Zen Micro
X-bit labs – Articles – ZEN Micro: New Digital Player from Creative Reviewed. Well it ain’t as beautiful as an iPod Mini, but at least someone is trying. It is a 5GB device that weighs 108 grams (thats less than 4 ounces for you Americans ;-). They liked the product, but hate the fact the…
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iSCSI for home
Tom’s Hardware Guide Mass Storage: Flexible Data Storage Across Networks: iSCSI put to the Test – Conclusion: Golden Times Ahead For ISCSI. Call me crazy, but the idea of iSCSI in your home seems like an incredibly good idea. The costs are not nearly as high as I would have thought. iSCSI means embedding the…
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Moore's Law is Ending
AnandTech: The Quest for More Processing Power, Part One: “Is the single core CPU doomed?”. _For the old computer system engineer in me, I just love Anandtech, they don’t pull any punches in explaining what is going on. Here is a great piece about why performance is slowing down so much_ In November 2002, Intel…
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Pentium M Review
AnandTech: Intel’s Pentium M on the Desktop – A Viable Alternative? Does the Pentium M have what it takes to be as competitive on the desktop as it is in the mobile sector? Now that the first desktop Pentium M motherboards are shipping, that’s why this review is here – to find out. This is…
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Gimli
LotR:Halda Tind?m?. bq. Certainty of death. Small chance of success. What are we waiting for? Gimli of Gloin One of the great lines in any movie.
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Airport Codes
Airport Code Search Results. We are planning our trip to Europe and here is what we need to know.
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Blown JBL On Stage
[JBL On Stage Problems?] – iPodlounge Forums Archive. Hey you have to be super careful with the JBL On Stage. Basically, you can’t just plug your iPod in with the thing turned *ON*. Take my word for it, if you do, then you blow out the On Stage. You have to plug the iPod in…
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UCDS Chess Tournament 2005
Well, we had the 8th annual UCDS Chess tournament. It was a great success thanks to incredible volunteers like Linda, Jeff, Jim , Asa not to mention Connie. For those of you who do tournaments, we’ve scribbled all our notes in the “Chess”:https://richtong.org/chess site. Its where we keep records on how to run a tournament.…
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Budget PC
Tom’s Hardware Guide Processors: Fast Computer On The Cheap? The Sempron 3100 On Overdrive – Socket 754 On Overdrive: A Fast Computer With The Sempron 3100 . This is a good review of a budget machine. It uses the AMD Sempron (a cripple Athlon 64). The CPU is just $120 with a DFI LANParty nF3…
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DFI Lanparty UT Nf4 Ultra-D
AnandTech: DFI nForce4: SLI and Ultra for Mad Overclockers. This is the new board to lust for. Did incredibly well and there is a mod that allows you to run dual cards at incredible performance… even the bottom-of the-line Ultra-D to run 2 PCIe video cards in x16/x2 mode at about 90% the performance of…
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Acura RD-X
_Well our 1996 Volvo just hit its $2K/year repair level. Pretty expensive for a car worth $8K. Main issue is having to go to the shop all the time. And really the parts are outrageous. $430 for a wiper motor. What a great margin business. So time to think about the next car for me.…
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Recommended nVidia BIOS settings
Answer _I’m sure no one really understands all these random settings, but here’s a list of recommendations from nVidia itself_ There is no industry standard among motherboard manufacturers for BIOS options. Each motherboard manufacturer will feature different BIOS options which work best with their products. The following recommended settings are BIOS settings when used with…
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6800GT BIOS Flashing Utility
nV News Forums – BIOS Flash through WinXP True that. I have an old bios on my card but hey it works without problems so why flash! If you need/want to flash you can use Winfox Utility. You can download it from Leadtek Taiwan site. It’s made for Leadtek cards but works for all. Used…
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How fast and how hot?
AnandTech – Would NV5 Silencer reduce artifacts?. Some user experiences on using the eVGA 6800GT and overclocking. My own personal results are that with the NV5 Silencer, I’m running at 60C at idle and 77C at load at stock speeds of 350/1000MHz running rthdribl (a very tough benchmark) without artifacts. With the driver detecting overclocking…
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NV5 installation on eVGA 6800GT
3DXtreme – Taking Hardware To The Xtreme…, _ Got the cooler. Wasn’t actually that hard to disassemble. Main thing is that eVGA cooler is quite different from the instructions and its noted below_ Here is a shot of the stock cooler components after they were removed from the card. Unfortunately, the installation instructions must have…
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iPod Photo Error -39
Just when you thought iPods were easy, you get an unknown error (-39) to remind you that these really are computers and you can actually still see a return code. In my case, this is the error my iPod Photo throws because of a bad file somewhere. You mainly have to be careful with iTunes…
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nVidia 6800GT Temperature Monitoring
Well I’ve got my new Pentium M system up and running and now running benchmarks. Right now, I can overclock it by about 22% so a 1.8GHz Pentium M is running at 2.1GHz right now. According to Sis Sandra 2004 (I can’t get 2005 to run on this machine right now), I’m the equivalent of…
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TiVO
Rapid Satellite – Detail What do you get with your UPGRADED TiVo? Automatic recordings of your favorite shows without the hassles of videotape or timers. Watch what you want, when you can! Because a TiVo is, in it’s most basic form, a computer hard drive, by replacing the internal hard drives of the standard TiVo…
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McDonald's VOIP Office
McDonald’s: Want VOIP with That?. _Hat tip to “Bob”:http://bobsplanet.com for pointing this out._ McDonald’s: Want VOIP with That? They are using a VOIP system so that they have centralized order taking for the drive through line. Classic queueing theory problem. Instead of having 1 person for every store, you have six people for nine stores.
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New has NV5
Newegg.com – ARCTIC-COOLING NV SILENCER 5 Fans, Heatsinks (Case, CPU, Chipset). OK, here is where you can get the cooling system. You need thermal paste too.
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Rich Hits
OK, sometimes I wonder about the Internet. Two funny stories in the last 24 hours: “Robert”:http://www.ignitionpartners.com/about/robert_h.asp was looking for information about handset shipments. And “Tongfamily”:http://tongfamily pops up as the first hit. “Steve Holcomb”:http://fullcapture.com/leadership_team.html was looking for Acura MDX information and again this site pops up. How amazing that this crappy little site actually has a…
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Arctic Cooling VGA Silence NV5
NV5 Review. This is a $28 after market fan that is supposed to be much quieter than the stock nVidia fan. The main thing is that you have to remove the fan unit and install this thing.
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DFI 855GME-MGF
Finally got my first HTPC to boot. Main issue was a documentation one, which is that when you put the CPU in, you have to half turn a little screw otherwise, you put the whole thing together and it doesn’t boot! See GamePC – Are You Game? – Dothan Delight : DFI’s 855GME-MGF Pentium-M Motherboard.…
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Future of Home Theater
Well, CES is over and the “honorees”:http://www.cesweb.org/attendees/awards/innovations/rd_honorees.asp are in, so a good time to reflect on the future of the home. Its interesting to see what has and hasn’t happened. Right now, the home entertainment business reminds me a lot of minicomputers in the 1980s (Ok, I’m dating myself!). That is, lots of standalone boxes…
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Future of Video
isoHunt – IRC and Bit Torrent Search Engine. It must be me, but as I’ve been to CES and heard about all these electronic program guide, I have to admit for HTPC or PC viewing experience, I’m not sure that I get it. There seem to be many pretty interfaces that I’ve tried (Comcast/Gemplus, DirecTV,…
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Keyhole
Keyhole. A cool company bought by Google that lets you see maps.
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SD-6
SD-6.com / Alias Info / Episodes, Cast, Crew, Music, 47, Ratings & More. There is an entire site dedicated to alias. wow.
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Alias Season 4 iMix
Music, Et al ALIAS Season 4 Music List iTunes has an iMix of songs that will be featured on this season’s ALIAS. All are great, but my personal favorites are the tracks by Mazzy Star, Jet, Michael Lord and Steriogram. You can check it out and hear song samples here. _This is a pretty cool…
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Trigem Kloss
Tom’s Hardware Guide First Look: TriGem’s Kloss KL-I915a: Power Aplenty and Almost No Noise – Nothing’s Easy In The Beginning. If you have to have the latest Prescott from Intel, here’s a small form factor machine that actually handles it well. It uses a special design where the motherboard is in the middle, so the…