memory ram, what is the difference, what is better? ddr2 533mhz 1gb or ddr2 800mhz 512mb one is 1gb but at 533mhz and the other is 512mb at 800mhz

Which is better for graphics rendering I bought a AMD Athlon 64 3000+ awhile back and gonna build another system for graphics rendering. So which is better for rendering AMD or INTEL. Also what are good graphics cards for rendering. -- "Duct tape is a lot like the Force. It has a Dark side, a...

I was looking at Hitachi drives (like what came in my ThinkPad). A 120GB drive at 5400 rpm costs twice as much ($120 - $63) as a 120GB with virtually the exact same specs except in 4200 rpm. I see a better throughput when used internally as opposed to externally. Is that what makes it worth...

I want to cool my one of my hard drives but without using a fan. (A) Is it better to have the smooth metal side of the HDD resting on the metal of the PC case. OR (B) Is it better to have the drive mounted (using the side screws) with air above and below it. The airflow is minimal.

I have not really been using my cheap audio card for sound capture and have found that it picks up the various transients that are given out by the pc when recording to a WAV recorder/editor. What are people using for good sound reproduction ? Many thanks, Richard Brooks.

My current PC has an AMD Athalon 3200+. I'm getting a new notebook and while it's not going to be a gaming system, I'd like it to be at least as powerful as my old PC if not moreso. So I'm wondering if the Intel Duo T2300 is going to be as good, or if I should spend the extra hundred or two for...

Hello, I use a computer that runs Debian. I beleiev it has a 16 meg, maybe 32, ATI graphics card and a 19" Hanns-G LCD Monitor. My eyes are getting bad and I can hardly make out the words on the screen sometimes. I can still read a book fine in good light. I use my wife's computer and it...

I found this out the hard way recently with a WD 2500PB Caviar drive and an Addlogix/Compucable FireExpress 525DX enclosure. Last night I installed a re-certified (a euphemism for used) Caviar 250GB drive into it, and proceeded to format it in Windows. Well I knew something was wrong when the...

I have talked to several friends and clients who didnt have the original packaging(who does after 1 month) after the products went bad/defective. These incidents happened after 1 month or so ,and they flat out refused to even grant a replacement or credit. These were computer...

I input the term "microATX" into Google and received over 93,000 hits. I thought surely this form factor would be supported at least by major manufacturers. WRONG! Wonderful US Robotics (USR) lists an internal modem on their website but doesn't/didn't list any dimentions or case form...

I ordered a Seagate external hard drive from them. It took an inordinate amount of time to get to me, and what's worse, the Seagate box inside Circuit City's box WAS EMPTY! How about that. A call to them resulted in their saying their 'legal department' would be told about it. -GECKO

Just bought one, model 6L120P0 and installed in my Windows XP sp2 and it sounded like a train that has seen better days. Since the shop won't accept returns and I can't claim on the warranty I just dumped it in the trash bin. Carey

Hallo, Bestaat er iets om bewegingen te registeren dat werkt met bijv. radiogolven zoals een draadloze muis. Concreet vb.: je hangt een zendertje aan een fiets en die registreert als je ergens aan een controlepunt passeert. Deze passage wordt geregisteerd op een PC. Bestaat zo'n systeem?

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Having a problem with this TV-out. Everything works fine and I installed the newest released driver from Nvidia (81.98). Ecept I can't figure out how to activate the TV-out. I plugged in the S-video cable in the back and the other to my VCR, but I can't find where to activate it. Can anyone help?...

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Hello, I'm not sure if this right new group to post this: I'm looking for information on small computers such as bicycle computers, small watches or heart rate monitor devices. I'm interested in finding out how to program them. Who might manufacture these devices. I've looked at the retail...

GOVERNMENT AND COMPUTER MANUFACTURERS CAUGHT INSTALLING HARD-WIRED KEYSTROKE LOGGERS INTO ALL NEW LAPTOP COMPUTERS! - http://www.infowars.com/articles/bb/gov_caught_installing_keystroke_loggers.htm Devices capture everything you ever type, then can send it via your ethernet card to the Dept. of...

I have a fairly big case, about 18" high. drive bays go right up to the top of it. I can only reach the lowest bay though, because the distance diagonally from the IDE connector on my mobo to the bays is 18" I have a huge 40-wire IDE cable that reaches, but I want to use a 80 wire cable because...

Ok.. well yesterday we had a crazy lightning storm. I came home to find that our living room computer’s monitor was all crazy. Its color was not right, so my friend fixed it by just turning off the monitor turning it back on. Then, I noticed our internet was down. I saw the modem still had status...