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So it seems I'm turning my HTPC into a space heater. I just ordered one of these to replace the Radeon HD 7790 I have in their now. What's an extra 105W TDP between friends? What did I do that for? Why for madVR of course. Yes, I know it's an AMD card, but they are much better performers...

Anyone have any recommendation for a relatively low cost non-TN & non-glossy 27" FHD (1920x1080) LCD monitor?

Did anyone else grab one of these Zotac BI320 systems when Newegg had them for $139.99 as a Shell Shocker just before Christmas? It has a Celeron 2957U (Haswell), 2gB of DDR3-1600 RAM, a 64gB SSD, and Windows 8.1. It has an unused 2.5" drive bay inside and a 2nd SODIMM slot. It's pretty...

What have you guy done about replacement batteries for laptops? Specifically for a Thinkpad. The system in question is a T410. It's complaining about the battery and the life is only about half of what it used to be. I plan to go with a 6 cell battery. Obviously I want a new battery. Are...

Has anyone else had an issue where they can no longer RDP into a patched (hacked) Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 box? I can't RDP into my HTPC any more which runs Windows 7 Home Premium SP1. I've been using the concurrent logon patch from missing remote. It's worked for years up until the last...

So my work Lenovo sort of died today. It locked up and after forcing it off and turning it back on it got stuck in a BSOD boot loop (even safe mode). Something about an Unmountable Boot Volume. I downloaded the rescue .iso from symantec for PGP 10.2 MP4 and decrypted the drive successfully...

So Crucial says this 8GB DDR3 1600 SODIMM is compatible with the HP Elitebook 840 G1 I have on order. Of course it turns out that part number CT5044300 is pretty much only sold by Crucial directly. How is it different from this 8GB DDR3 1600 SODIMM that I can buy at a variety of retailers...

What Haswell laptops are people buying these days? I've been perusing what's available in the market, and there's some interesting machines, but none seem exceptionally compelling. I've been looking on 14" or less system that offer 1920x1080 (or better) resolution non-TN screens. Lenovo...

Probably a long shot, but does anyone have any of the following Plextor burners lying around collecting dust that they'd be willing to sell? Black bezels are preferred, but I will consider beige ones also. Plextor Premium 2 (IDE) Plextor PX-716SA (SATA) Plextor PX-755SA (SATA)

Seems we don't have a recent power supply thread... What is everyone using / recommending these days? I'm looking for something quiet & efficient in the 400-500W range to power a modestly overclocked Sandy Bridge i7-2600k with a few HDs, optical drives, modest graphics card, SSD, etc. I was...

Does anyone have any suggestions for a PCI-e SATA card compatible with optical drives? Preferably with 4 ports. The extra 4 ports on my Asrock mobo don't play nice with them.

How is there not a widget thread? :scratch: So, what are some of your favorite widgets that you're using on your Android devices? I'd start, but I've only got a few hours of Android experience under my belt and I'm still exploring the wonderful world of widgets.

CPU: Intel i7-4770K Mobo: Asrock Z87 Extreme6 - I like the 10 SATA connections and Intel NICs without costing as much as the Gigabyte equivalent, plus the this one was quite power efficient in the Tom's Hardware review. RAM: Crucial Ballistix Tactical 16GB (8GB x 2) DDR3-1600 - might get the LP...

Anyone using any security camera at their home or business and have any tips, thoughts, feedback, or suggestions? I've noticed the market seems to have changed from ~5 years ago when I last looked. Back then analog seemed like the way to go, but the cameras weren't high resolution which made...

Does anyone know how the 3TB USB HDs are formatted? I have 2 USB 3.0 Seagates 3TB drives. They show up as a single 3TB partition (base 10). They are not GPT, but MBR partitions. My rough understanding is that is possible because they have 4k sectors, not 512byte sectors they can exceed 2TB...

Previously, I wanted better audio from my laptop at work for headphone since I was not happy with the headphone output from my Lenovo T410. There is a thread about it. More recently I decided I wanted some speakers to put on my desk at work for music listening without headphones when staying...

Can someone do a trace route on stereodude.net and post it for me. My home internet is down and after speaking to two of the RoadRunner "techs" on the phone I concluded I might as well have been speaking to Klingon. :tdown: I mentioned ping and trace route and you could tell it went right over...

Am I the only person who hate the Windshield Chip repair people that hover around gas stations when you're filling up or oil change places while you're getting your oil changed, store parking lots, etc? I've started calling these people Glass Gremlins. When I'm getting gas I'm not looking to...

Branching off from the discussion here in the I don't want to buy a used car thread... It's time to talk Audi S4.

As I alluded to in several other threads I decided to get an even better headphone setup for home listening. Last week I received the base pieces to make this happen. Source (DAC / Headphone Amp): Audio-gd NFB-10SE Headphones: HiFiMAN HE-500 The result so far is making me very happy. I keep...

I wanted better audio from my laptop at work, so after reading a lot of reviews on head-fi.org and other places on the web I decided to dip my toe into the pool of USB DAC & Headphone amps. At first I had grandiose visions of spending a lot of money on a supposed really high quality setup, but...

How is anyone making money on this thing? It seems like the cost of the sum of the parts must far outweigh the selling price.

Anyone have any suggestions for a good free or very inexpensive Avira Antivirus alternative? Avira apparently now thinks it's good practice to repeatedly push you via a misleading popup to install the ASK toolbar when starting up your PC. They're also heavily advertising UniBlue Registry...

Anyone got a source with reasonable prices on Dell PERC 5i / 6i batteries? It seems that on Ebay if you want a new Dell battery you're paying ~$50. Used ones with maybe half of their life left are just over $30. The most promising thing I found was a seller in HK with new non Dell batteries...

I've been asked for help setting up a proxy / firewall box that can filter the internet for inappropriate content as well as log internet access. I Googled around some and didn't come up with any real clear direction. I know a linux box can easily provide the framework for the task, but I...

So I ordered 5 Hitachi 2TB 7K3000 (Deathstar) drives from Newegg. These are my first Hitachi / IBM drives since a 45GB 75GXP back in the day. They arrived reasonably well packed but it seems that one of the drives is bad out of the box. They all power on and spin up. I was doing a basic test...

Anyone have a working 256MB or 512MB PC133 SO-DIMM they'd be willing to part with cheap?

So, I'm in the process of putting together a Sandy Bridge based PC to replace my Q6600 @ 3.0gHz as mentioned in this thread. I went with a i7-2600K + Gigabyte P67A-UD3P + Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus. So far it's together and running at stock speed (3.4gHz) with the 2x2GB of 1333MHz DDR3 I...

This really should be that hard, but leave it to Microsoft to make this incomprehensible... My company purges e-mails older than ~90 days from the Exchange server about once a month. They also sent out all the laptops in the field set to auto archive every 7 days messages older than 6 months...

So now I've gotten to learn that some USB devices just aren't bootable in some systems. My 1TB Samsung HDD in the Oyen Digital 2.5" USB 2.0 / eSATA enclosure apparently isn't treated as a USB HDD in my Gigabyte LGA775 motherboard in my main desktop. It's not listed in the Hard Drives, and...

This has to be one of the coolest utilities I've come across. XBoot It lets you combine several bootable ISO's together. It's similar to MultiCD, but it runs in Windows. It even lets you test / preview the resulting disk & menus in a built in lite VM. I used it to make a combined Clonezilla...

Last year I had the idea to build a remote rsync target. It never saw the light of day. :( I never spent the time to get it fully working mainly due to the complexity of my desire to use whole disc encryption in Linux which meant the system needed a password fed to it in order to decrypt the...

I'm interested in a Network Printer Server for my printer. The printer is USB and I would prefer wired RJ45 ethernet. I see Newegg sells 21 devices that fit my requirements ranging in price from ~$40 to >$320. Has anyone tried a Network Print Server and have any suggestions / advice?

I couldn't find an answer to this question anywhere on the web so I'm putting it here. You can fit a 12.5mm thick 2.5" HD in one of the two 2.5" "bays" in the Antec ISK 300. As you can see in the picture below it sits just a touch below the metal edge of the case. The cover slid onto the case...

So, the secrecy is over. I have to say I'm pretty impressed. Desktop Mobile Needless to say I'm very interested to see a dual core Sandy Bridge in a Lenovo T410 notebook. :twistd:

This is a PSA: Do not buy a D-link DIR-655 wireless router. It's a steaming pile of crap. Every few hours the DNS server in it stops responding until the router is rebooted, reinitialized, or cajoled into working. Mine has the latest firmware (2.00NA) and I've messed around with with the...

I ended up with a pile of posts in my other thread about this so I figured I would consolidate them here. I've been trying to clone a 320GB spinning HD (with Windows 7 installed on it) to a 120GB Intel SSD since last night. There is/was a large empty partition on the 320GB I was okay with...

So, does anyone else have this problem... I want to see 100 items per page, and I want it to sort by "Lowest Price", but every time I change change the guided search it reverts to 20 items per page and sorting by "Featured Items". Even just changing from 20 items per page to 100 items per page...

So my main server had 2 Seagate 1TB 7200 RPM HD's in RAID-1 on a Gigabyte / Jmicron SATA-II / IDE controller. The 1TB array has several partitions. The OS is in a 25GB one. I want to move the OS to a new RAID-1 array comprised of 2 Intel 80GB G2 SSD's on the ICH10R controller, but keep the...

So, I've noticed that DDR2 and DDR3 has finally starting to drop in price in the past few weeks. It's still not quite as cheap as it was 18-24 months ago, but it's getting close. And it's about time! I've got a PC just waiting to get another 4GB of DDR2-800 (my server), but the matching...

I can't believe I only just came across Folder Size today. Now you can finally see where all your HD space is going! :king:

Has anyone bought and played around with the miniature indoor RC helicopters? I saw one of these in operation in person today. It was quite impressive for <$30 shipped.

Has anyone played around with one of these? I bought one last week with the intention to put in a 2.5" eSATA / USB2.0 enclosure after Newegg had 'em for $99 after promo code w/ free shipping. I thought it would be nice to have a portable 1TB HD that doesn't need an AC adapter and isn't...

RAID Gear:8 x Samsung Spinpoint F3EG HD203WI 2.0TB 5400 RPM 32MB cache Dell PERC 6/i PCI-E x8 SAS RAID controller with 256MB cache & battery 2 x 32pin SAS to 4 SATA cables The array is a single RAID-6 volume with a 512k size stripe. I got all the drives installed in the case last night and the...

Anyone have any favorites or suggestions for a Blu-Ray burner? So far the Pioneer BDR-205BK/BDR-205BKS seems to be the best option out there.

Anyone got an extra unused OEM Windows XP x64 disc + license they're willing to sell?

Ok, so I need to build a inexpensive but solid server. This will either replace my backup server or replace my primary server (which will then become my backup server). Current Backup Server: P4-3gHz w/ HT 2GB RAM 3ware PATA raid card with 2TB RAID-5 array PATA OS HD On-board 8MB ATI Rage...

Has anyone seen any data on what the impact of the newer 4k sector drives is on HW RAID cards? Can they be used as normal? Do they need the jumper set to put them into compatibility mode? Does anything special need to be done to align the partition on the resulting array? My gut feel is that...

My Dad is looking to get a notebook, but his requirements have me somewhat stumped. With an ~$800 budget and a preference for a 14" 16:10 notebook (15.6" 16:9 as a second choice) what would you folks recommend? CPU isn't that critical. I suppose it should have at least 4GB of RAM and have an...

So I got my Intel 5100 Wireless LAN card tonight. I put it in my Atom330 / ION Mini-ITX system. I followed the guide on the 5100 and starting the NetworkManager Service. Unfortunately, I can't connect to my wireless network. I can see my network as well as my neighbors', but I can't connect...