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UPS Hi all, I have a Core 2 Duo E8500, 2x2048 DDR2 1066, Raid 2x Samsung 7200 rpm and a 4850 from Powercolor. The PSU is a chieftech 360W. The system works normaly. The question is: an Uninterruptible Power System (Phasak PH9920) with a output of 2000Va (1080 W) should sustain my system during power cut for how ma... 20 May 2010 10:31
How many cores? If I build a new pc with a new motherboard and processor, how many cores are necessary and or used. Is x2 still adequate? or should I go for 3, 4, 7 or what? -- LSMFT I haven't spoken to my wife in 18 months. I don't like to interrupt her. ... 20 May 2010 00:50
Good multiplayer RTS Supreme Commander 2. Been playing all day and all night, no lack of joiners. I hope it continues that way. ... 18 May 2010 10:19
In the end, are CRT monitors bad for our health? .... was there a consensus? -- @~@ Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY. / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with you! /( _ )\ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.33.4 ^ ^ 21:30:01 up 5:49 0 users load average: 0.00 0.00 0.00 不借貸! 不詐騙! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA): http://www.sw... 18 May 2010 10:19
W2k on new hardware? I've been dragging my W2k system from <this> hardware to <that> hardware for near 10 years now. About 4 years ago I discovered a registry hack: www.mostlycreativeworkshop.com/Article11.html that, when added to another trick or 2, made it practical to transfer W2k sp4 and many, many applications, etc to the... 19 May 2010 04:58
Diskette drive on new build My new Asus P7H55D-M EVO mobo knows naught of diskette controllers. I'm about to decide that I cannot cover the bases without a floppy drive. What do folks in similar circumstance do to put a floppy drive on their systems? A diskette controller on an add-on pci card? A USB diskette drive? Thx, P "Law W... 22 May 2010 07:16
advice on system please Hi All, I need to build a system almost from scratch. I have an ATX mid-tower case with a 500 watt power supply and a new one terabyte WD sata drive. Money is tight but I don't want to waste money by buying a poor performer. I'll be dual booting XP/Ubuntu Linux and I need to find the best value: 1) wir... 17 May 2010 21:18
Call for papers : HPCS-10, USA, July 2010 It would be highly appreciated if you could share this announcement with your colleagues, students and individuals whose research are in parallel computing, distributed systems, operating systems, computer architecture, grid-computing, VLSI, and related areas. Call for papers : HPCS-10, USA, July 2010 The 201... 16 May 2010 13:30
3D card SLI question Hi all, I have an XFX Nvidia GeForce 9 Series 9800GTX+ edition with 512Mb, 738MHz core 3D card, Will an exact same card but with 1gig of memory work in SLI? When I bought my card I read in reviews not to buy the 1gig version because it had some sort of errors with games so that is why I got the 512Mb one, is t... 16 May 2010 14:37
Do USB ports go bad? I have a laptop (Toshiba) in which one of the USB ports seems to be dead. Do USB ports can go independently bad or could it be a Windows 7 issue like a driver or such? I don't see any exclamation marks in the device manager. mac ... 16 May 2010 19:00 |