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Low-end Processors.
X-bit labs – Articles – New Budget Processors Comparison: Intel Celeron D vs. AMD Sempron (page 10). Xbit did a nice job of comparing the Northwood and Prescott Pentium 4s with the Northwood Celeron and Prescott Celeron D. They also compared the Athlon 64 with the Semprons (both flavors, the 3100+ is a crippled Athlon…
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Antec P180
Antec’s new P180: Ultimate Silent Case? :: SilentPCReview.com. The folks there think it could be the ultimate silent case. Great specs. Available at the end of February.
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Pentium M Cooler
LOGIC Supply CoolerMaster Pentium M CPU Cooler. The DFI 855GME motherboard I got came with one screw missing on its cooler! What a bummer, literally for lack of a nail, the horse was lost to quote Shakespeare. The only place on the planet I could find a cooler was from Cooler Master (in fact, this…
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2.5" to 3.5" Hard Drive Adapter
2.5″ to 3.5″ Hard Drive Adapter – FLT-3120. In building Grace’s new minicomputer, one thing I forgot was something that will take a 2.5″ notebook drive and let you fit it into a 3.5″ slot. Here’s one from google. These are actually hard to find. The standards are different, not only is the drive smaller,…
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DFI launches SLI
DFI NEWS. _Everyone is launching nForce4 and SLI boards, so if you can wait and see how the dust settles and the reviews come out_ DFI?, a worldwide leader in industrial computing solutions and maker of the LANParty™ series of motherboards, today launched the new LANParty NF4 SLI-DR and LANPartyUT NF4 Ultra-D motherboards for the…
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Best Chaintech VNF3-205 Forum
PC Perspective / Amdmb Forums – Chaintech. This seems to be the most active sourc eof information thanks to UncleBob!
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Athlon 64 version of Far Cry
AMD64 and Far Cry. _Hard to happen eventually, the Athlon 64 is so good at gaming, that folks are doing specific versions._ bq. The AMD64 version of Far Cry is now available! This version is a patch that installs on top of the retail boxed version and gives you an enhanced experience for/in Far Cry.…
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Spam death
Six Apart Guide to Combatting Comment Spam. Short of it is that you have to install three utilities.
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Does SLI Matter?
Tom’s Hardware Guide Graphics Cards: VGA Charts V: PCI Express Graphics Cards – Farcry. First benchmarks I’ve seen that compare SLI and regular PCI Express/AGP (btw, a single graphics card is not faster under PCI Express, so the only reason to get it is for future card upgrades). Here are the results pushing the cards…
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Definitive 939 Motherboard Review
Tom’s Hardware Guide Motherboards & RAM: Finally Available: Nine Socket 939 Athlon64 Motherboards! – Introduction. Yes, Tom’s Hardware finally has gathered them all. The main conclusion is that the AGP MSI Neo2 is one fast board. It is dual socket 939 and beats most of the newer nForce4 boards. For future proofing, it shows that…
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Blackberry Device Error 365
What Is – Device Error Codes for java enabled handhelds. Ok now I get this error message. Not very helpful, it says contact Blackberry support if you get this one. Another thread says that a 365 means the hardware is bad. Sigh.
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Prefetch Exception and Abort Exception
PDA street forums – error. Just got this horrible error on my brand new replacement blackberry. Unlike the fellow I haven’t installed any software. Frankly, it sounds like a hardware problem. The Blackberry boots into a single message that is variously: Prefetch Exception Reset Abort Exception Reset Error 365 Reset Sigh. I’m never going to…
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AMD Motherboard Recommendations
t-break – MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum. With all the socket 939 boards being out of stock, here’s a review of the Neo4. Unfortunately, all the socket 939 motherboards are out of stock right now at the big sellers and are very expensive as quantities are tight. So from safe to bleeding edge, here are (in…
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Blackberry Internal Error 4238
Tong Family Blog: Blackberry Internal Error #4238. Darn it I got this error again. And of course I’m the number 1 site on google covering it. Talk about self-referential! You will get this bizzare error if you are trying to use a public folder for a contact. There are two things you have to do.…
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1GB USB Flash Drive
I lost my coat in a restaurant and the USB thumbdrive as well :-(. A good excuse to get another one, so which one to get. The main criteria seems to be how big is the drive and how fast is it. Most of the software that comes with these things seems to be junk…
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PC Recommendations
Another month has passed and recommendations are getting a little more complex again. Interesting to see that as the dollar has been crashing, PC prices have been stable as has technology. The machines I bought a year ago are about 10-20% slower not 50%. Main move has been with graphics cards. Still the best news…
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SD/MMC USB Reader
Crucial Hi-Speed USB SD/MMC Card Reader upgrades from Crucial.com. Just $10 with free shipping, this little widget is a SD/MMC card reader that plugs into any USB 2.0 slot. Going to give it a try very useful for all those digital cameras and phones with MMC/SD cards in them.
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New memory choices
“Anandtech”:http://anandtech.com/memory/showdoc.aspx?i=2312 covers the latest in RAM. The big news is that the price of fast PC3200 CL2 Ram is actually higher than PC3700-PC4000 CL2.5 ram, it seems like an upgrade in January recommendations are in order, specifically, going to: * “Corsair TwinX 4400C2.5”:http://anandtech.com/memory/showdoc.aspx?i=2312&p=19. This stuff is quite slow at DDR400, but at the top end…
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Crucial Ballistix
RAM from Crucial is actually made by Micron Technologies and is very hard to find. The best place is direct from “Crucial”:http://crucial.com. BTW, it looks like the PC4000 is the better by according to “Club Overclocker”:http://www.cluboverclocker.com/reviews/memory/crucial/ballistix_PC4000/p2.htm. It is about the same price as the PC3200 ($130 vs. $128), but is rated to run at DDR500…
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Santa Cruz Juliana
Someone wanted to get a new bike from Santa Cruz Bikes. Here are the notes on buying a Juliana that “MTBR”:http://mtbr.com/reviews/2004_full_suspension/product_123148.shtml likes although few folks have it. * They have a great site for picking colors. She liked the orange with the black arm. For the front shocks, they now have a couple of choices:…
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PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_POOL
“PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_POOL”:http://kadaitcha.cx/0x50_error.html. I hope you never get this blue screen. Calvin’s machine is really sick. Got a bunch of these errors and then found out that the disk would refuse to boot with a NO SYSTEM DISK FOUND. Even using the Recovery Console (F8 with a Windows XP disk) didn’t help. Could see the system disk…
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Omega Drivers and Tweaking
TweakGuides.com. Well removing the ATI Catalyst 4.12 allows the machine to boot. I went to safe mode and whacked it and now it seems fine. I deleted all the drivers and will try a reinstall. Wish me luck. Also will try out the Omega drivers as well to see how that goes.
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ATI Crashes
*unofficial* ATi Troubleshooting guide. _OK I think I may have found what’s wrong with Calvin’s machine. Sounds a lot like video drivers. Here’s a note from someone who is using the same Chaintech VNF3-250 and ATI Radeon 9700s so close to his 9800. I’ve had the system fail to boot because of the video driver.…
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Etymotic ETY COM ER-22 Headset
“ETYCOM”:http://www.i4u.com/section-viewarticle-108.html. Etymotic is now making a headset. Should be very good for noise reduction given its design. The thing works fine with Connie’s 7100t, but just is terrible with hum on my 7290. I don’t know why. Others have recommended it, but doesn’t work for me. Something to do with the connector I think. “Cnet”:http://espn.com.com/4520-6448_7-5144869-3.html…
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Outpod
stoer.de// Outpod Home. What Ephpod recommends for getting Outlook contacts onto your iPod. The top Google hit is “iPodSync”:http://iccnet.50megs.com/iPodSync/ so that’s another to try.
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Graphics Card in History
Tom’s Hardware Guide Graphics Cards: VGA Charts IV AGP Video Cards – FarCry – Very High. I also found those benchmarks for Phil, I was looking for. With Farcry, there are the statistics comparing video cards by family: | Card | Farcry noAA/AF (fps) | 4xAA, 4xAF | Generation | | GeForce 6800 GT |…
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HTPC with Dothan
GamePC – Dothan Delight : DFI’s 855GME-MGF Pentium-M Motherboard and “Tom’s Hardware”:http://www6.tomshardware.com/motherboard/20041224/pentium_m_boards-07.html. To really build a quiet and cool home theater PC is a challenge. Using the Dothan chipset from Intel is one way to do it. This board from DFI would fit into even a small case or the Silverstone shown previously. The most…
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HTPC Cases
AnandTech: December 2004 HTPC Case Roundup. Big thing holding me back from building a home theater PC (htpc) has been a case. Now the Silverstone CS-SST-LC10B-M seems perfect at “$248”:http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=11-163-034&depa=0 from Newegg. It is just $140 if you don’t have the IR remote for the Media Edition software. So this is good for a full…
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Canadian Border
Well there are certainly a lot of border crossing sites. If you are going to Canada: * “Yahoo Maps Canada”:http://maps.yahoo.ca”. They have directions that cross the border * b o r d e r l i n e u p s . c o m – Know before you go !. Someones site with all…
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Hosted Exchange and Blackberry
Microsoft Exchange 2003 Server Hosting Dedicated Manager Host Outlook 2000 2002 2003 XP Windows ASP. If you don’t want to run your own Exchange and Blackberry server, here’s an option. Haven’t heard much about this, but if you have a family and you really want shared calendar, then this would do it for you. $10/month/person…