Looking a single cable that will breakout power and ESATA from these new combo ports on modern laptops. Hoping for a DC pin+reg esata plug on one end, with a powered USB/eSATA on the other end.
It's for this
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817256031
Anyone ever come...
Alrighty...thinking about dropping in another 8GB to give me a round 16GB of Ram...figure I allocate anwhere from 4-8GB for a ram drive to put my swap file....problem is it seems like Ram Drive software is hard to find....anyone have some good success stories??
Alrighty...just got a new system put together, and am curious about find some internal USB3 cables that plug into the header. I have an older ATCS-101 Coolermaster with old school USB plugs on the front...luckily the are mounted to a nice aluminum frame and the cables are just a pair of USB...
Did some searching and found some simple PDF merging programs...but I need something that can do batch...
Here's the problem. Every 28 days, I get a new set of publications in PDF....talking 1000's of individual files. The files are in directories that pertain to their subject, there are...
Alrighty...I just got my brand spanking new Kill-a-watt meter...this is what I am seeing.
I have a Q6600 (not over clocked), a 8600GT, 3x 3.5" 7200RPM Drives, 1xRaptor 300Gb, 3x 2.5 5400 notebook drives, and a Enermax Pro82+ 525 watt powersupply.
At load (handbrake h.264 and playing a 3d...
I have been looking for an HDTV tuner for the internal bay of my laptop, similar to this one:
http://www.artectv.com/ehtm/products/pc5a.htm
Link says OEM only, but has anyone found a place that sells something like this...I can't seem to find one....I have a USB stick..but I'd really like...
Alrighty, I just built my quad core setup and am starting to crunch some of my Tivo Series 3 HD video of the Olympics. Couple of observations and then some questions as I can't find the answer I am looking for given what I am doing...
First off, Nero Recode is only using about 30% of the...
hehe...longtime reader...been on computer tinkering break for about 4 years now...lets see...what have I missed...oh wait...TONS.
Did some reading through the threads and settled on a Q6600 with a GB DS3R. Here's what I am replacing....
P4-Northwood 3.0Ghz
AGP video...sold the 6800 that...
Its been almost 2 months now since they were "released", and for the love of God I can't buy one yet.....anyone have any news on when these will be available to the general public and not only on high end dells.
I am drooling over that 160GB 7200RPM SATA version...
I was wondering if anyone knows if there is standard optical bay caddy that could hold a laptop drive and convert your optical bay to a 2nd hard drive? (all within the confines, of a stand optical disk drive dimensions and pin outs)
I can't seem to find much, other than on some older laptops...
I am not a console person at all, never owned one at all. I am tempted by the 360 though after watching a hi-res clip of the first 10 minutes of the GOW game. Pretty cool...but as we all know the PS3 launches today in Japan. So now I find myself holding my breath waiting for something or...
I have been looking around for quite some time now for a Ipod bluetooth transmitter that snaps on to the dock connector on the Nano (and doesn't look ghetto), and I think I may have found what I have been looking for. Take a look:
Link at JR
Its made in black and white, I can find them in...
Just wondering if its possible that we will see any type of upgrade graphics cards via a the express card slot...(assuming they can get around heat and power issues)
$55 dollars shipped to anywhere in the US. Its a Samsung TS-532L bare drive (OEM). You will need any mounting equipment that is particular to your notebook.
Does 8x DVD +-R and has +R DL capability.
Ok, I'll try my best to explain this as I am totally stumped. (i have installed XP on fresh install many times before you ask...but I may be missing something trival here).
Alrighty...I am building a system out of some older parts laying around, a p4 2.4ghz, and an Intel 865GLH motherboard...
Alrighty, my dad has this aging p3-650 that I keep telling him he has to give up. Its an old Gateway that came with one of the first Flat Panel Displays, a FPD-1500 that uses an MDR20 connection. From what I can gather, the MDR20 is DVI on one end (at the tower, and MDR20 on the other end...
I was wondering if anyone has run accross some bluetooth stereo headsphones that would work for watching movies or listening to MP3s off of a laptop?
I have looked around and all I can seem to find are the cell phone ones or ones that use an adpater fromt the audio port to a bluetooth...
Man, information on these things are pretty scarce. So far I can only buy a Dell E1705 or an Acer Travelmate 4202WLMI or Acer Asprie 5672WLMI. The acers can be found on Compusa site, and not too terible prices either 1199 for the 5672 and 1599 for the 4202 which is LOADED. Only...
I am thinking about picking one up, but I can't find any information on the motherboard if it has internal headers. I want to add a 3.5 floppy drive that has integtrated card readers, but they use an internal USB header. Anyone with the above cases (all socket 478 Intel chipset) versions...
I wanna see some pics. I was at bestbuy today and saw the 360 on a nice 20ish inch widescreen LCD. Looked pretty good. Just wondering what it would like on my projector. Anyone do this yet? I'd like a screen shot!
Just wondering once some folks get these if they can post some digital photos of it in action on a HDTV. I haven't been able to see one in a store...probablly won't for awhile either
I have a problem. I am addicted to video games. I need to kick the habit, I need to kick it cold turkey. I am unloading all my games, equipment and even video card so that I am not tempted. Please email me me here directly,as I don't check in enough here for the PM service. I do have...
Recently there had been talk about how expenisve games have lost their flavor and publishers just bilking franchise names for sales...I have gone away from playing the big time games, I haven't bought anything big since HL2, and was a little disappointed by it. It was a great game, but in the...
I am deployed and I need a short clip of this logo spining 180 degrees, so that if I loop it it would look like its spinning..(maype add a little thickness to it so it looks like its mounted on metal plate or something... black background )
If I could get 640x480 at 30FPS that would be...
I am replaying farcry, and I just got the goggles and I can't seem to get the heat signatures off of enimies any more. Everything is black and white...no more color...
Any one know a fix for this? I am using the 1.3 patch with the latest drivers on my Dell 8600 laptop (9600 Pro...
I have grown tired of the crappy games that I have been paying 40-50 bucks lately, disappointed by several titles (Doom3 and HL2 are included, although visually spectacular, really not much new...)
Anyhow, these last two weeks I found some real gems, and they are games that hardly got any...
I just went through a lot of PCI cards over at the egg, and can't seem to find a PCI USB2 card that internal headers, similar to the ones you find on motherboards...anyone recomend or know of one that has headers instead of a regular usb port on the inside?
Back in the day of P3, I played around with the Abit VP6, the P3 only suported Symetic Multi Processing (SMP), and I remember seeing people asking about if they could throw a 750Mhz part and a 1ghz part together...and of course back then you couldn't do that.
Fast forward to today, with these...
I just recently aquired a 2.4 P4 (SL6DV), and if my memory serves right, weren't these the ones folks used for decent overclockers? I seem to remember they ran pretty good by just bumping up the FSB from the default 533 to 800.
I need a decent mATX board for to run this on. I went through...
Ok, I have been deployed awhile now, and am coming home soon. I had some issues with this before I left and I wonder if anyone else has figured this out...
anywho, last time I tried was with an ATI card, and best it could do was 720p mode but it was a wide screen aspect(16x9)..leaveing me a...
Ok, I will be soon traveling to some countries and need a warm fuzzy to confirm my analysis of my situation:
I want to use my dell laptop and juke box player both of which have power bricks that do 100-240V 50-60HZ, I understand this to cover pretty much any country (N. America 110V/60HZ...
Just wondering how it looks? I have a dell 8600 Laptop with the WXGA+ (1680x1050) and when I game on it at 1280x1024 it looks pretty good. Just wondering if I get a FP2001, that my 6800GT might suffer a bit in the future at 16x12 and will have to drop it down a notch. Comments?
So i decided to fire it up this week and it crashes on me now at mission load. A quick google and sure enough that Xp2 hosed this game. There is a attempt at a fix in the works from Irrational or EA or whoever is responsible, but it looks grim as the issue has been known since august. Found...
Just wondering cuz I posted over at anand hot deals that I found some refurbs at the egg for $116.
A guy who claims to be from IBM Notebooks says the Hitachi 7200 rpm Travelstar is starting to fail at an alarming rate for them....
I am thinking BS...but just wondering...