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Review It seems pretty fast for a mecanical drive. It's slightly above 200$ on my price lists. The two main drawbacks are the high idle power consumption (it's a five platters design) and noise, which is higher than most other modern mecanical drives. Also, I can get many other 2TB drives...

In case any of you tries to setup a client on a Linux OS and plans to complete BigWUs on it, you have to say "No" to the "Use advanced methods" option in the configuration of the console client. If you say "yes", you won't receive BigWUs. You don't have to do this in Windows. I discovered...

I currently don't have a 20V power brick to test the dead MSI Wind U123 netbook my customer brought me an hour ago, but I'm perplex with the contribution of the Toshiba 19V/3.42A power brick he used it with. The netbook is supposed to work with a 20V, 2A power brick. I don't think it must be...

http://www.osnews.com/story/24483/Upgrading_from_Windows_1_0_to_7 I planned on trying to do this for real (not in a VM) but I've never had the time. One fact you'll learn in this video is that the author is blind. A pink background? Come on.

3TB for everyone, including XP users, thanks to DiscWizard. Assuming you're willing to spend 280$ for it. Source

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Both heatsinks are the same price on my lists. I already own the Xigmatek model, but the processor it is sitting on doesn't push it enough to tell wether it's good or very good. I know Handruin owns the Cooler Master and likes it. In theory, the Cooler Master should offer a superior cooling...

Is there a place like www.partsurfer.hp.com, but for Toshiba? I need to replace the scren of a Satellite L300-0h9, but I don't know where to look for it. eBay is a no go. I want to have a warranty on the part, be it only 30 days, but I want one. I haven't find a compatible screen locally.

I became curious about Windows 7 scores when I read that Ddrueding's memory score was only 7.5 on his most powerful system. Somehow, for 12GB of 1600MHz DDR3, that seemed a tad low. So here are the scores of a few of my computers : Core i5 2400 with a kit of 4GB (2x2) Kingston 1333MHz...

In the few reviews I read about this motherboard, it is written that the warranty is 5 years. So when I saw 3 years on the website of an online seller, I thought it was a mistake. However, there are no mention of the five years warranty on Asus' product page. So what is it? I have one in...

I have a laptop here, Dell Inspiron 1525, on which I did a fresh Vista installation. I did not notice when it started to happen, but now it hangs during shutdown. Only in normal mode. It doesn't in safe mode. I tried to deactivate everything in msconfig to no avail. I even uninstalled the...

I have a crappy Toshiba Satellite A210 here in which I had to replace the hard drive because the old one had many bad sectors. The old installation was screwed and even if it wasn't, I couldn't copy it to the new hard drive because of the numerous bad sectors. There's only a Vista Home Premium...

Just want to be sure that our Philippino representative is ok. The typhon center passed a bit North of Bulacan but it still must have rocked down there.

I saw this while browsing Newegg : Xigmatek NRP-PC402. It's 35$ plus 2$ for the shipping. I have bought some of their 600W model from the same serie and they are solid power supplies. The noise level is very reasonable and the efficiency at that price point is impressive. I trust Xigmatek's...

Every computer shop in the world has a stack of unused s478 Pentium 4 and a bunch of homeless socket A processors. We all have zillion of used 256MB DDR sticks too that we cannot use because no one ever buys 256MB DDR anymore. The reason why we have this is the motherboards from 5 to 9 years...

http://samy.pl/evercookie/ Apparently, only the private browsing from Safari prevents this p.o.s. from installing itself into your computer. I wonder what makes Safari's private browsing better than Firefox's or Google's private browsing. Something good coming from Apple is always a surprise...

http://www.gold-downloads.com/ The prices are too good to be true. What's the catch? I know I would be very worried to buy something there.

Someone I care about let herself convinced that she needs an Apple junk. She's an artist and like most artists, she is technologically stupid. And gullible too. Which of course makes her the perfect Apple customer. She wants an Apple laptop that her equally technologically stupid and...

I'm probably not learning anything to anyone, but the difference between a dusty heatsink and a clean one can be huge. And the amount of dust doesn't have to be that high to make a significant temperature difference. I had a thin coating of dust between the fan and the heatsink tower of my...

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=19268 For all those years when he smashed our ears with this concept, it will finally materialize somewhere. Will it be enough to make you leave New York for China?

One customer has a machine I try to put in network with another without having Internet access (just sharing a printer). The problematic system had ZoneAlarm firewall installed on it. While configuring the network, issues occured so one of my first move was to remove ZoneAlarm as it is a known...

Reference. Contrarily to laptops, which several tests have shown to last longer on battery under WinXP than Vista or even Win7, it is apparently the reverse for desktops. That surprised me a little, given that there are more process running in the background on the newer Microsoft OS than its...

I just saw a new processor on my price list a few minutes ago, but I don't remember having read the product launch annoncement anywhere. Like the title says, it's an Intel Core i5 760, identical to the older/current Core i5 750, except for a frequency bump to 2.8GHz. The price is 3$ more than...

Anyone tried the Thermaltake CLP0556 and knows if it's an improvement over the puny retail cooler Intel ships with its LGA1156 processors? I need a cooler that is 85mm in height or less. The other one I'm looking for is the Arctic Cooling Alpine 11 Pro rev.2. The Thermaltake is cheaper and a...

Hi. I've noticed that Timwhit, Ddrueding and SDBardwick have been loggued in for the past, what...45 minutes, if not an hour. So, since you're all here gentlemen, you might as well post something. Or I could just do something that would Timwhit would have to moderate :diablo:

Asus Z8NA-D6 Thermaltake Contac 29 The first is the motherboard, the second is the heatsink I plan to put above the CPU. The RAM I intend to use is 18.75mm high so it should fit below the heatsink. I've never assembled a system with this board before so I'm not absolutely sure. All six...

In order to save some time to anyone trying to do what I did today, here's a link to a fix to get the Linux FAH client to work on the latest (10.4) Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu/Edubuntu release : http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=12939#p138466 It works, although I had to sudo one of the...

I feel I'm slowly but surely giving up physical training. I still train once in a while, but no longer on a regular basis like I used to up to one year and a half ago. I tried to restart a few times since, for one week or so at a time, but I never followed up. And it's not only because I'm a...

The new AMD Phenom II X6 1090T has appeared on my price lists today. Same price as a Core i7 860 or i7 930. An asian web site claim to have overclocked one sample up to 4.2GHz, using only 1.4V Vcore. Not bad. Yet I haven't found any review from a reputable source. I wonder how fast it is at...

Anyone knows when we should expect the cheaper (lower frequency) Core i7 with 6 cores. The i7 980X is all great for the rich bastards, but for the common mortal, Intel's 6 cores processor won't be an option until there's a model selling for 600$ or less. I'm really looking for a 3.2GHz...

I need to assemble a computer that will run windows NT4, probably with the last service pack for it (SP6 IIRC). It's really been a while since I've worked on NT4 (9 or 10 years), so I don't remember much about it. I'm pretty sure I can find a socket 478 system with drivers for NT4 from my pile...

I can sell the OCZ Z850M power supply to interested forum members. I don't know how long my supplier will allow me to maintain that price, but I imagine it should last at least a week. Newegg sells it for 209.99U$ last time I checked. I usually sell it for 30$ more, but I make a discount for...

I want to attack the business market with a serious offering in a not too distant future. I've had vey good luck with In win enclosures and the reliability of their power supplies. Unfortunately, their reliable power supply is also only ATX 1.3 : it doesn't have a 6 pins graphic card 12V...

Because my monitor died a few days ago and I can't stand the blurry CRT I now use to replace it, I'm in the market for a new monitor. Browsing my price lists, I have narrowed my reseach down to two or three options. 2x Gateway FPD1985 : 19" monitor with a PVA panel, 1280x1024 or 1x HP...

I have a problem I've so far been unable to resolve. A crappy Gateway box in which is nesting an Intel D101GGC motherboard (ATI Xpress 200 chipset). The computer is slow as a snail. One process, only dubbed "System", is using 100% of the processor. I cannot shut down the process. I tried to...

On the 9pm update, I was awarded one 2565 points unit. I completed one project 6014 (484 points) about six hours ago and one project 6012 (470 points) some three hours ago. My other computer is computing a huge unit that isn't due before very late tomorrow or early the day after, so the unit...

I need to find a way to control three small screens with a mini-ITX system. I figure the integrated graphic controller of the Zotac mini-ITX GeForce 9300 motherboard can control two different monitors, but probably not three. Am I right?

OCZ Z550 OCZ Z650 Certifications : http://80plus.org/manu/psu/psu_reports/OCZ_OCZZ550_ECOS1279%201_550W_Report.pdf http://80plus.org/manu/psu/psu_reports/OCZ_OCZZ650_ECOS%201280%201_650W_Report.pdf Both are on sale right now and there are mail-in-rebates from OCZ (for what it's worth) to...

I have the choice between a Brother HL-4040CDN and an HP LaserJet CP1215. The brother is 10$ dearer than the HP, which is a non-issue. The Brother has several more features than the HP (duplexer, twice the sheet load capacity, prints directs from USB, higher speed and claimed printing...

One of my customers has an HP Media center PC m8200n, which uses this motherboard. Notice the 3 pins white SPDIF connector in the very bottom of the board, about in the middle of the last PCI slot. The guy wanted an HDMI output, so I installed him a MSI N9400GT-MD512H graphic card. And I...

One of my customer has access to camera at a remote location on his computer. His user account is therefore almost always active. He doesn't want to re-login every time the computer goes on the screen saver. What he wants to avoid thought, is that someone sneeks on his computer and check his...

I came across an article at Ars Technica giving hints about the price of each Windows license Microsoft charges to OEMs. For me, a small computer seller, it's revolting. That gives them such a tremendous advantage over me in the low-end market that it's completly unfair. I must pay some 100$...

I have one unpleasant customer who wants a fifteen inches laptop with an integrated numerical keypad. I've never seen such a thing, but she says she saw some. Anyone here has suggestions?

http://www.hauppauge.com/site/products/data_hvr2250.html I plan to use the above in several HTPC I'll sell in the upcoming two months. The card is low profile, but there's no mention of low profile bracquets for the full kit. Only the model 01229 (board only without the remote control) is...

My new build consist of a Phenom II X2 545 nested on a GigaByte GA-M770T-UD3P. I paid 92$CAN for the CPU (roughly 85U$). Thanks to the SB710 of the motherboard and the advanced clock calibration feature in the BIOS, I've been able to unlock the remaning two cores. At POST and in Windows, the...

I have a new hobby : bending nails. So far, I haven't been able to induce the slightess curve in a 10 inches nail I'm practicing on. I know I can apply beyond 400 pounds of pressure with my hands, but I suspect that it's far from being enough. I can feel a mecanical stress in the nail when...

But it's 12.5mm in height instead of the standard 9.5mm. Announcement Mooner will be happy.

Firefox 3.5 is out. I haven't seen the announcement anywhere on news site yet. Go to www.mozilla.com to get it.

FreeBSD 7.2 was released on the 4th of this month. I downloaded it and planned to share the torrent for a while. After I finished downloading the DVD and three CDs (for older systems), I let it run for a while. A few minutes ago, I noticed that I was only uploading at 3Kbps on each torrent...

I remember Mercutio bitching against the lack of space within the Antec NSK3480 enclosure. According to the specifications, it should accomodate a motherboard up to 9.6" by 9.6", which is exactly the size of an Asus Rampage II GENE motherboard (smallest Core i7 motherboard available). So...