Recent content by atchon

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    2GB or 4GB of RAM for Vista?

    You will need Vista 64 to have it fully see the 4GB otherwise you will get a cut down number depending on the other hardware. Such as you may get 3.2 - 3.5 GB actually registering. IIRC its because the bus is shared between other hardware as well so how much of the 4GB you see will depend on...
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    So how's this for a repair job.

    Sounds almost as bad as one of the tech stories I heard when I worked for a large retail company. One of the techs opened a case and there were a bunch of live roaches inside that the owner had not forewarned anyone of, and a couple ran up his arm and one supposedly bit him on the back of the...
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    Reaction Kinetics

    Do you have information on the amounts wouldn't be that hard to calculate Ea, and k if you had the amounts
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    10,000 RPM vs. RAID

    Thanks everyone for your input, I'm going to order a Raptor to give that a shot see how it performs, and as luck would have it I was talking to one of my friends about this and he said he had an SCSI drive laying around, so I will be able to compare both now.
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    10,000 RPM vs. RAID

    Thanks for everyones comments, One further question I looked on ebay and it looks like you can pick up some cheap 15k rpm SCSI drives low capacity the only thing i can see is they have 3.6 ms 16 bit memory interface and buffer size of 8. How would two of these setup on a cheap RAID card perform...
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    10,000 RPM vs. RAID

    Yea disk failure wouldn't be a real problem, I backup everything onto 2 external harddrives, I'm leaning towards the 10k RPM raptor have you ever used a RAID with 3.0 Gb/s before? any comparison? Also what about SCSI would a 15k RPM run through a PCI SCSI controller be even worth looking into...
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    10,000 RPM vs. RAID

    I was wondering which setup would perform better speedwise or if there would even be a noticeable difference. Its between a single 10,000 RPM SATA 150 drive or 2 SATA 3.0 Gb/s raided together. I know the RAID would give me a bit more space for the same price as the 10,000 rpm. I currently have 2...
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    have an NFORCE RAID setup, anyway to install windows w/o floppy?

    http://maximumpc.com/2005/01/how_to_slipstre.html can slipstream them into your windows disc.
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    Kworld TVR card

    I installed a tv tuner in my pc so I could watch tv in the dorm. It worked perfectly when I tested it at my house and I could watch satellite (though i could not record and get sound and had to change the channel on the satellite receiver obviously) I hooked it up to my dorm connection and got...
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    Instant dell savings.. Hot?

    Not sure if this has been posted before since its about halfway through the contest, but Dell is running a 12 laptops a day giveway. www.dell.com/backtoschool even if you don't win you get coupon codes. sorry didn't realize coupon codes weren't allowed. Well the site is still there so if you...
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    Boot/Hard drive problem?

    I was chainging the boot screen for windows because I was a little bored, I changed it to one it worked, i changed it to another and it will now no longer boot into windows. What it does is it will load the boot screen the progress bar goes by then the screen goes black, but the welcome screen...
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    computer hardware and airport xray machines

    People have claimed damage has been done before due to this....but usually its something else like damage to the hard drive in all the bustle of the terminal loading unloading etc. 3) Should You X-Ray Your Laptop? Letting your laptop go through the x-ray equipment will not harm your laptop...
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    +r or -r DVD's

    -R offers compatibility with all dvd players, xbox, playstation. +R will not be recognized for video in some of these and just hang. Though most players are now dual format a few will still only load -R
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    How many times do you guys reinstall Windows???

    I reinstall about once a month on average probably...but i have a seperate boot harddrive and all my major programs on a dvd so its not to bad to get everything back to how it was.
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    Mac OSX on x86

    Of similar interest http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1886910,00.asp though this is legally questionable