Recent content by RichardG

Thanks for the warm welcome guys!

I'm about to water cool my system. Plan on cooling the Processor, video card, northbridge chip but don't know about the memory. I've only found one site that sells water cooling blocks for memory. Does anyone have any experience on whether it's worth it to water cool the memory? (I'm using 1...

I spoke to a technical rep. at Crystalfontz. They are supposed to be releasing USB versions of their 632 & 634 LCD's withing the next couple of months. I will be waiting for those to come out. They are also supposed to be releasing the LCD's with some new display colors.

You are soo right. Guess I should have searched more......good thread allready started. Could have just added content to that thread instead of starting this one. Sorry! :o

There is a class action lawsuit filed in California in October 2001 against IBM in connection with alleged reliability problems involving the Deskstar 75GXP series of hard disk drives. Looks like IBM is finally going to have to justify thier claims that the 75GXP drive is superior and reliable...

To get alot of VCD questions answered, check out VCD Helper. To answer the SMP divx question: Depends on the encoder you have. Windows media player encoder for version 7 can use SMP. Don't know about any others. My company just encoded a library of 131 videos for WMP at 7 different...

If you want to have some control over which computers can access your system: 1) get each computer name that you want to have access to your system. 2) create a user account using the computer name as the user name and put in a password for them to sign in. (using the computer name as as the...

have you tried disabling the web scan feature of your virus scanner? May even try disabling your virus scanner all together for a few min. and see if that helps. I've had a problem with NAV eating up a lot of resources for surfing the net.:confused:

Assuming you have 128MB now, going to 256MB would not make a noticable difference doing the things you mentioned. However, if you plan on doing video editing, 512MB is the way to go. You will get up to a 20% performance increase going from 256MB to 512MB when you start working with video and...