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    DIR-655 Packet Drop over N vs G

    So basically, I've had this router for about 6 months. And I've been connected to it wireless via G speeds because (up until now) I didn't really bother changing it. (Since N speeds could only be achieved via AES encryption) So when I'm connected via Wireless G speeds (54 and down), I have...
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    HP Mini Note - which is better 16GB SSD (Sandisk) or 80GB 4200RPM Drive?

    I've pretty much made up my mind in getting the HP Mini 1000 due to the keyboard and aesthetics, but I'm unsure how good netbook SSD's are. I found out that the SSDs used on the mini 1000 are SanDisk pSSD 16GB (unsure what the p infront of the SSD stands for). How much difference in...
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    Need help with soldering replacement Power Jack

    Basically my problem is that the soldering material that dell uses on the board is very little. I was able to remove the ones that had a decent amount of solder applied which were the ones on the sides. Picture of a Power Jack The gold pins on the center and back of the power jack were the...
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    Pin-Modding question

    So I recently decided to do a pin-mod on my girlfriend's xps m140 laptop, it use to have the pentium m 1.73ghz processor on it. I used a pentium m 725 and successfully pinmodded it to 2.16ghz stable. The problem is I noticed that it is always at 2.13ghz and never enables speedstep to kick in. So...
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    Memory Controller & Memory Bandwidth affecting FPS ..

    While more is better (enough with the less is better trend) how exactly does more bandwidth equate to better performance on video cards. When I overclock, I see little increase in performance when I substantially overclock the memory in comparison to the core. I am curious because I noticed...
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    What are these called? Case Mod question

    CM 832 Mod What are those black outline sleeves called? that you put around the metal cuts you make? As I've made several on my own CM 832, and at the moment I just left it as it is. I prefer the sleeved look Also where do you get them? My guess is home depot, but I just want to make sure.
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    My Jump to Watercooling, how are temps?

    Well I'm curious how my temps are suppose to be like now that I jumped into watercooling. The loop is cooling an E6400 "A" batch running at 3.4GHz at 1.56V (bios) 1.476 (load) The Vdroop is really huge, so I don't know exactly how accurate it is, but all my programs that I use to measure the...
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    PC not Posting

    My rig has Asus P5N-E Sli 775 E6400 Corsair Dominator 2GB 680W Thermalright Purepower 2x 8800GTS 640mb I was air cooling it before with a Vigor Monsoon II and it was running fine, I decided to go with watercooling so I removed everything then installed the waterblocks & etc. I...
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    Computer powers on Screen Blank Help!

    My rig has Asus P5N-E Sli 775 E6400 Corsair Dominator 2GB 680W Thermalright Purepower 2x 8800GTS 640mb I was air cooling it before with a Vigor Monsoon II and it was running fine, I decided to go with watercooling so I remove everything and install the waterblocks & etc. I ran the...
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    Actual Voltage on the processor?

    I'm running an E6400 at 3.6GHz (running at 44C full load using Gromac's Core via Orthos) and the only way I could make it stable was when I set the vcore to 1.5V (bios). Which seemed very high in comparison to other peoples voltages, while the temperature is low the high voltages worried me...