The following is my first home built system (proposed): Goals: Home theater, versatility, fast, quiet. Budget: $2000 $80 Full Tower Case http://www.directron.com/ma01bd.html Black is awesome. Full tower allows me to put this on the floor next to my digital piano (Clavinova CVP 109) and have...

Hello, This morning I turned on my computer, then walked away... and then as I was away I noticed how the graphics cards fan kept spinning at top speed. I thought something must be wrong because normally they spindle down... after boot. And indeed something was wrong... the screen did not come...

Hey guys. I'm looking at upgrading my PC and I've come across an interesting problem: - Pay £165 for a Intel Dual Core E6850 (clocked @ 3.0GHz) - Pay £160 for a Quad Core Q6600 (clocked @ 2.4GHz) Now to my untrained eye, the quad-core seems like an easy choice. Am I correct, or is the...

.... Toshiba !!!!!!!!!! For introducing unwanted fn-f3 functionality on keyboards which shutsdown (SLEEP MODE TO BE EXACT) the computer (LAPTOP) when accidently pressing this when trying to press fn-3 to lower the volume (WHILE GAMING). (Fortunately Thanks to my optimized windows settings it does...

I have a friend of a friend with a HP (Pavilion 7915) computer, and it crapped out recently, so my friend's friend had another's friend's teen son wipe the HD clean. Unfortunately, the friend's son who wiped the HD didn't know what to do after that. THAT'S WHEN THEY FINALLY THINK OF CALLING...

Lot of close-ups for a limited stage, probably within budget constraints, over as many as six actors set on given recreatively the Victorian milieux, filmed from a few stuffy rooms in stiffed costumes. All English actors/production efforts, I should think. Van Helsing is not Stoker, not an...

Yesterday morning, ten hours after I'd last powered my PC down, I turned it on and noticed immediately a burning "electrical fire" smell. Turned the computer off (using Windows shutdown first from the login screen), disconnected all peripherals and the power, opened the case. Attached the...

"Microsoft is now submerging servers into liquid baths" https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/6/22369609/microsoft-server-cooling-liquid-immersion-cloud-racks-data-centers "Microsoft has moved from seafloors to flooding servers" I am speechless. Lynn

I have some motherboards designed for 4-6 SATA ports, but only 2 SATA connectors were installed, and I'd like to add the missing connectors plus any needed termination resistors. Here's an example with an ECS GeForce 6100SM-M v. 1.0 motherboard: ...

USB 2.0 to 2.5inch HDD 7+15pin SATA Hard Drive Cable Adapter For SATA SSD & HDD $2.999999^ The 7/15pin actually means two USB connections: One USB, working in conjunction with the other, for a PWR -and- an USB data path. These appear relatively new designs for squeezing on the various USB II &...

On 25/02/2017 12:25 AM, Marek Novotny wrote: On 2017-02-24, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote: On 24/02/2017 11:23 PM, Marek Novotny wrote: In any case it lights a fire under intel's butt and that's a good thing. AMD hasn't taken a good chunk of market share from...

I WANT YOU THINK ABOUT TWO SCENERIOS/CASES: TWO SCENERIOS: 1. SEVEN BILLION PEOPLE ARE ALL IN ONE ROOM AND 1 PATIENT ZERO COUGHTS THEM ALL IN THE FACE. 2. SEVEN BILLION PEOPLE ARE ALL IN A SEPERATE ROOM AND THEY PASS ALONG THE VIRUS FROM PERSON TO PERSON. WHICH CASE DO YOU THINK IS BETTER ?...

I acquired a Liyama monitor from microexchange on auction at ebay. The monitor was listed as iiyama S102GT 21" monitor. Instead I received a Dell P1110 monitor. Are these the same monitors? The name dell was never mentioned in the ad. Is Liyama the OEM for this Dell monitor? Here are some problems...

Intel has announced that they will stop making replaceable CPU's after Haswell. From now on, all CPU's are supposed to be in BGA packaging, which means you can only attach CPU's to the motherboard by soldiering them on. You won't be seeing these in any home DIY's toolkit, so it's the end of the...

$25 full-size wired USB keyboard GTMX Blue Switches 101 Keys Beyond dreams, I know, as these are "studded" keyswitches. Meaning a swtich's two pins are inserted into studs instead of being soldered;... But, what in hell, does that actually mean, though? The keycap pops off a "stem", you've...

The morons on Tech TV were ridiculing floppy drives. Ha! For a lousy $10 you can: *Easily update your BIOS *Easily update the firmware on your optical drives *Clone a HDD with Ghost AND a lot of people don't want to spent $100 for WinXP (or steal it) so a

"Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q1 2019" https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q1-2019/ "As of March 31, 2019, Backblaze had 106,238 spinning hard drives in our cloud storage ecosystem spread across three data centers. Of that number, there were 1,913 boot drives and 104,325...

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My computer is connected throiugh a UPS and a surge protector. Until recently wherever there was a blackout the computer kept running and I had time to close down. For the last week we have been getting a lot of mini blackouts, the power goes off and comes back on almost immediately, they often...

What happens if I close all the point of entering of the air in my case? Does air still enter through the point of exit of the fans? Or does it implode? Thanks