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How, exactly? If you're on a bike and change lanes in traffic anywhere else, you're definitely going to get hit. But under the same circumstances here, there will only be one of these every couple of minutes (or much more infrequently), and normal speed is just 60kph (35mph). Similarly, if a...

+1. Although Merc left out the nVidia graphics card - always worth a substitution, just in case.

Hopefully, you're getting a radiant barrier retrofitted under your roof tiles?

How about a thread dedicated to the Leonardo da Vincis of this world, the geniuses that ignored 'conventional wisdom' and just got on with it? Here's my first contribution: the 3D fast bus. This turns no fewer than two conventions inside out: railway tracks need to be separate from roads or at...

Paugie, I'm still running a Sempron 1.8GHz. MOST of the time, it's just fine.

I see Sechs' point and I'm inclined to agree, but that's not the original question (s)he asked. Ddrueding, I'm not surprised, but I think we'd all still like to know which brands/models ... I don't think I've seen a robust design yet, but surely the point is that there isn't much at stake with...

F*cking malware, IMO. There are a few posts around about how it slows things down, but according to some it can also leave a trail of garbage behind it when it's uninstalled. That's IF you can uninstall it. For me, it went through the motions and removed itself from the uninstall list, but...

Gilbo, I can't find anything to support that - do you have a reference?

Which case, out of interest?

E_dawg, why on earth did you bury this in the random thread? How old is it? Has anyone checked the gas pressure? A quick search of the net found at least one other guy who claims his unit is whisper quiet. And it's a scroll compressor, which should be quieter than the older reciprocating...

Having gone back and reread the tests, I need to correct this. It would be more accurate to say that the i5 is comparable to the X6 in most tasks and sometimes faster, but many programs can't use more than 4 cores. Where all 6 are actually used, such as in some media encoding applications, the...

I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole. Not because of the manufacturer, but because with those ludicrous 'heatsinks' on top, they're twice the height of standard modules - potentially a major PITA. Instead of 7-8-7-24 DDR3-1600 for $170, how about Corsair 7-8-7-20 DDR3-1600 for $180? or...

For budget PCs, you can always cut yet another corner, but for a non-gaming PC, it's awfully hard to go past: Intel i3 530 AU$135 Gigabyte GA-H55M AU$105 (or GA-H55M-USB3 $130) Kingston 4GB DDR3-1333 AU$115 ----------------- Total AU$355 The extra $25 gets you USB 3 and DisplayPort video...

Unfortunately, upgrades are now about the only place you can justify an AMD solution. It's pretty hard for anyone to make a rational case for a mid/high-end i7, so I don't think that's a fair comparison. An Intel i5 760 offers better than 80% of the performance of an i7 960, but costs roughly...

Even so, I can't see even Cougtek crushing Stereodude's construction. Four inches of timber reinforced with cripple studs connected to a further four inches in the top plate. Perhaps Coug relies on trained termites?

I agree.

WebDAV is just an interface, and quite a low level one at that. You can go and hire storage direct from storage providers such as Amazon's S3. There are various low-cost tools to access this via WebDAV. They expose features such as auto-renaming new versions of a file with the date and time...

Why am I not surprised that you had a maid? :king:

Ummm, I strongly suggest you reconsider this bit; dark benchtops really bring a kitchen down, and black might show every tiny scratch - of which there are plenty on a benchtop. Just to reiterate, black is a problematic color for large surfaces, it seriously impedes your ability to evenly light...

Here's a really, really useful tip for anyone reading. If you're stuck with a crappy stove or just want to try induction out, buy yourself a cheap, single burner, portable hotplate/cooktop. The sort designed to run off a standard power point that you'd use in a caravan etc, only...

We used to have black years ago, but it went out of fashion. Nowadays, everyone seems to think stainless steel is cool, and I think that's fair enough for cooking appliances and sinks, but I draw the line at extending the theme to huge fridge doors or even dishwashers. Hard experience has taught...

If they're 16:9 monitors, 19-22" is going to be a bit short, so that would make sense. Well, that's bullshit. For starters, it obviously depends on your viewing distance and the height of the screen. Secondly, people can't gaze above the horizontal for extended periods without stress. If...

Apart from the fact that it looks better, is there any reason you went for the 2480 over the similarly sized 3480 tower? Now that monitors are too tall to place on top of a desktop PC, I can't actually see the point in desktop cases except as HTPCs.

Hmmm, I've repeatedly overlooked that Antec case because it's not a tower and, at 26L and 414mm depth, it's surprisingly big. No denying it's a cheap way of scoring a decent PS, though. CougTek, thanks for drawing my attention to that Silverstone case. They highlight how they've kept the depth...

Excellent! I was hoping you'd get below 50W with the i3 and SSD, and you did it easily. It's worth reminding people that this configuration will out-perform most Core 2 Duo systems, and with far superior onboard graphics capability to boot.

The point was presumably to show how easy it is. It took about as long to plug in the phone as to create the 'Hello World' style app.

Google has released a DIY IDE (App Inventor) for Android devices. Check out the one-minute demo video.

As a consequence of my misery with Microsoft's blighted Offline Files, I've greatly accelerated my research into online storage and using 'The Cloud' to synchronize geographically divergent devices, eg. laptops and phones. Purist cloud is, IMO, stupid and impractical. It all comes down to using...

Thanks for that. I love the line, "This behavior is by design."! :lol: Unfortunately, it clarifies that I guessed wrong; this behavior is not related to my problem, I definitely set the folders up manually. So I guess it's just yet another example of Offline Files failing inexplicably and...

Anyone? The user will be traveling for two weeks, so I still need to come up with something. <bump>

I have just the thing for you: 5760x2160 pixels works around the problem of insufficient vertical space in a single 16:9 monitor ... and only a single Display Port required. Samsung MD230X6

Dave, the i5 750 is a quad-core - no graphics core. What do you mean?

Greg, that's a sh*tty TN panel.

So, I now have a problem with offline files. A user is out of her office and it seems that files under one particular branch have disappeared. When I got her to look at the settings, 'disk space to use' was at 1.99GB (3%). It needs to be more like 40GB. When she changed it to 100%, okayed it...

Quad core i5/i7 don't have integrated graphics. So I'm wondering what an appropriate substitute is. And how much different to a low-mid range graphics adapter such as the 5670, that doesn't have any special power requirements.

It's certainly interesting to reread this stuff after just one year; things really do change fast. My reason for the resurrection is trying to work out where Intel's integrated CPU solution (i3/i5) sits amongst the discrete card solutions. For example, is it better, worse or about the same as...

Here's my tip for bicycle brakes. Make sure the rear brake is as close to the rim as you can get without touching. By implication, it's important that your rear wheel is true (balanced). Back off the front brake adjustment, but not enough to affect braking power when the handle is fully...

Are you sure it passes SMART self-test? There's not a bunch of reallocated sectors?

Purely hypothetically: 140W output @70% efficiency = 200W input 140W output @85% efficiency = 165W input So it's an important factor, but probably not the top one. Note that efficiency tends to decline as you drop below 20% of max load.

Horseshit. With onboard graphics, low-power desktop CPU, single HDD and efficient 300W power supply, I've consistently measured around 60W (@240V) at idle. Adding a low-to-mid range ATI card bumps it up to 70-80W. I can confidently predict that each additional HDD will add less than 12W at...

Okay, NEC doesn't make panels for TVs or personal computers.

Fixed link: Miniatur Wunderland That's pretty amazing, the scale is beyond anything I could have imagined. Sort of a lilliputian Westworld. Really cheap to see as well. The same thing here would be one twentieth the size and four times the price.

NEC doesn't make panels. It's likely to be an LG H-IPS panel. I very much doubt that there are two manufacturers of 25.5" 1920x1200 IPS panels, so as Lunar implies, the NEC and Viewsonic probably came from the same factory. Viewsonic quotes 5mS rather than 8mS, so their panel may be newer. I...

It's for a business.

Thanks Chewy, that's what I suspected. What about the DVD version with 2 installs? What's to stop someone buying one license instead of two?

Not sure how they can claim they didn't know about it, given we were discussing how widespread the problem was in January 2004.

I was surprised that you thought the old Surefire was impressive. My back of the envelope estimate says about 2000 lumens for that LED flashlight, but Stereodude could give us a more accurate number.

AFAIK, Gigabyte has been using a Texas Instruments 1394a chipset for some years now. They released an nForce 4 board with T.I. Firewire 800 back in 2005.

The Blackberry Bold keyboard seems noticeably better than the equivalent product from Nokia or Samsung. I still don't believe I could use one by touch alone though. On the other hand, I had always assumed that the 5-column keyboard on a Blackberry Pearl was a gimmick. Having now bought one, I...

It looks like OEM pricing is dead, at least for people like us. What's the story with the media-less PKC (Product Key Card)? Where do you get the 'trial' version that is unlocked with the PKC? I see there's also a version that includes a DVD - at a significantly higher cost - that apparently...