I am not talking to the ignorant ****tard who pretends he (or she) knows about computers/electronics, I am talking to the dummies who might follow his advice... Simply ask the ignorant ****tard whether he has ever actually measured the wattage a typical PC uses. Since he can buy a wattage meter...

I am a US citizen living in Texas. I visited India on a vacation last October for 3 months. I purchased a Dell computer from the Dell website in India using a credit card. I then cancelled the order the next day. Now I'm back in Texas and after 6 months I still have not received my refund to my...

No, I cannot set up the router without installing the drivers. I suppose that they are needed as no other driver off the WinXP CD works. Two years ago, I remember that I had this problem. I was running WinXP64 and called up linksys tech support and they immediately knew to go to the Device...

Would it suck a lot of dust like a vacuum cleaner? :) -- @~@ 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 ^ ^ 17:28:01 up 6 days 1:49 0 users load average: 0.00 0.01 0.00 �借貸!...

Are we stuck around 3ghz? I haven't seen much speed improvement in years other than more cores and 64 bit. Some 4ghz around,seems like we should be at 7 or 10 ghz by now.

First question can a firewire 4 pin outlet or cord transfer data at 800 Mbps ever? I know it is also dependant on the external devise whether it can achieve 800 mbps rates but can 6 pin devices transfer at 800 Mbps? Or does the connection have to have a 9 pin at each end and a 9-pin cord for...

Leo Laporte, on 'The Tech Guy' radio show was responding to a caller and said hardly anyone builds their own PC anymore. He said the reason is, PCs are dirt cheap because the big boys buy in bulk, and companies, like Dell, sell them with razor thin profits. The question is, do you think stock...

Warned by the signal "Hard drive failure imminent" on a 10 year-old Maxtor, with a second drive with enough space, I want to clone all onto the other drive (WD, 5 years old) to save configurations as well as data files. The PC is 10.y.o. so I am thinking of a traded-in faster IBM ($200 locally)...

Has an Athlon XP 2500 and PC2700. Anyone know how many slots for RAM? Trying to help a friend in AK who knows nothing, so may need to order RAM for him. Think I'd read it has 2Gb ram max. Have a bunch of old 512's, so if it's got 4 slots; FREEBIE!!, if only 2, will have to buy...

I've always used a black & white printer but recently I got a Canon MP560 color printer. How can I make it print color pages in black & white? Surely there must be an option in the Printer Properties but I can't see it!

Hello. I've been having some troubles with my stock cpu fan. I have a core 2 duo 6420 @ 2.13 ghz. When I shut the computer down the fan doesn't start up unless I give it a manual push or restart again. I can't find anywhere just to buy the fan. On newegg the cheapest decent heat sink fan combo is...

After 10 months experience with a 32 GB OCZ Vertex (of course others might be better), and having to revert back to two different drives... Going back to a Quantum Fireball on a slow system and feeling the pain was no surprise. But then using my Raptor on a fast system feels slow too. Waiting for...

New build, and some general "funkyness" happening. I bought the ASUS mobo (M4A78T-E) and the CPU (AMD Phenom II X2 545) from a reputable local dealer. The Phenom Phenom II X2 545 is "retail package", not OEM. It came with the fan et al, in what appeared to be totally legit packaging with...

On 1/21/2010 4:47 PM, Susan Miller wrote: I've never had a case fan as loud as the stock CPU fan that came with my new processor (bought for the new motherboard mentioned in my flurry of earlier posts). It's horrible. It lets out a LOUD, whooshing noise as well as a high pitched...

http://tinyurl.com/ygbh3h2 Some people hoping to get a boost in PC performance recently got a rude surprise: the microprocessors they bought were not only not genuine Intel products–they weren’t even chips at all. Intel confirms that online retailer Newegg passed along some pretty crude...

Of course "best" depends on the system... ZT-98GES3M-FSL It is based on the GeForce 9800 GT 512MB 256-bit stuff but uses 40% less power. Also, apparently it includes the new output set (1 DVI, 1 HDMI, and 1 D-SUB) instead of (2 DVI and 1 S-Video). That part number is by Zotac, apparently MSI...

Hello, I am trying to help someone at work to fix his son's pc. It is a HP Media Center m7360n. When he tries to start it up it goes to the 4 options screen (safemode, safemode with networking, last known good conf. that worked and start windows normally) The 30 sec. countdown starts,when you make...

Esp when most PCs are not being used to play DirectX games.... :) -- @~@ Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY. / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with you! /( _ )\ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.32.9 ^ ^ 17:04:01 up 1 day 1:53 0 users load average: 1.05 1.05...

Hi, I know the following PC isn't homebuilt but I believe members of this group will know if the Affinity 7351Ma PC is a good PC. My PC use consists of web browsing, Excel, Word processing, manipulating\editing images in Infraview. Don't know what I'll be using a PC for in the future. What...

.... I forgot... :) -- @~@ 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 ^ ^ 22:11:01 up 2 days 11:20 0 users load average: 1.16 1.15 1.05 �借貸! ��騙! ��交! �打交!...