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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.

  • 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…

  • 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.net/chess site. Its where we keep records on how to run a tournament.…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…