Recent content by Never Knows Best

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    Sound Card Not Recognized

    Can we have some more information. Specs and names of everything in the system.
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    Looking for a new printer

    Laser printers are fairly expensive especially a color one. I would go with a Brother all in one. Just make sure not to get one with cartridges with the nozzle built in. Find one that uses ink tanks. So you can replace individual tanks as the color runs out. Unless you already have a scanner...
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    how much thermal paste to use?

    That guide gives horrible advice. It is always a good idea to remove the thermal pads that can be almost 1/8 of inch thick or just about anything of the sorts from the heatsink before you seat the cpu and heat sink. Just be careful not to gouge the surface of the heatsink. Using a mild solvent...
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    First New Rig in 3 years - Thoughts, Issues?

    Your going to be sorry if you don't wait to get a Direct x ten compatible graphics card with GDDR4 memory. Wait until June or July and the selection and prices will be much better.
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    1TB drive introduced by Hitachi

    What is even more amazing is that using certain molecules they could reduce the bit size from 50 electron grains to 1 grain for 1 bit with a storage capacity that would top out at 50 Tera bytes per square inch.
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    74gb Raptor 8mb VS. 74gb Raptor 16mb

    Eh I don't know why everyone wants a raptor. Getting a larger hard drive with 16mb cache would be getting the most bang for your buck. Load times on raptors for most things are maybe 1 or 2 seconds faster and that is when the total load time is around 30 seconds for different hard drives...
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    PCIe card died, need to swap in a PCI card

    Yeah if a bios doesn't find any graphics card in the main graphics port it will look for a pci card and boot without a problem. Why do you think your card is dead anyways. If your computer seems like it is booting up. Like all the drives and fans spin up, but you don't get any video the mother...
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    Does Size Matter: Smaller Size HDD better for OS?

    You don't need a smaller hard drive to speed up your os. Best thing to do would be to have the os on one hard drive and the page/swap file on the second drive. That should net you the largest gains in performance. Also once you get everything setup defragment the boot drive boot sector and clean...
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    Socket 754 Mobo Replacement, chose Biostar. Which motherboard company would you choose out of three.

    I will not miss Chaintech and I am never going to buy anything from then ever again. The VNF3-250 got good reviews but I had all sorts of problems. Crappy bios, the latest update changed the default memory timing to 2t and to set it back to 1t you have to set read preamble and async values and...
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    radial bearings at 15000 rpm?

    Fluid Dynamic bearings or the simpler version Sleeve bearings will probably be what you want. They are small and depending on the fluid or oil they can be tailored for a specific RPM shaft. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearing_%28mechanical%29 for a little info. I love that site has just...
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    The Mathematics of Cloaking..December 26, 2006

    I think it is interesting, but creating a cloak like James Bond car is probably never going to happen. What will probably come from this research is a way to focus or amplify photons of any frequency which would be very useful in realistic applications. The predator style cloaking will...
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    ASUS A7N8X Deluxe BIOS flashing nightmare

    I would suggest loading the mother board fail safe settings and make sure Auto ESCD or Force update ESCD is on. http://www.techarp.com/showFreeBOG.aspx?lang=0&bogno=92 And I would also make sure DMA IRQ are handled automatically. http://www.techarp.com/showFreeBOG.aspx?lang=0&bogno=159...
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    How to properly dispose of a UPS

    You can take it to a best buy and dispose of it as a battery since that what it is. They don't charge and it isn't really in the store it's in between the automatic doors. Not sure if it would fit can't remember if there was a small hole or no hole but I am sure it would fit inside the reciptical.
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    I would buy an Xbox 360..

    A company has made a converter that allows you to easily bind commands to a mouse and keyboard for the Xbox360. Review http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/30/team-xtenders-xfps-reviewed/ In action http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/22/team-xtenders-xfps-360-in-action/ IGN Article...
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    Socket 754 Mobo Replacement, chose Biostar. Which motherboard company would you choose out of three.

    Just wanted to say thanks again for all of the feed back. I think I will change the topic title if I can so if any other people need to replace a socket 754 they will know where to look.