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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…