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I'm looking for a NAS solution that will support 2 drives and just serves files. I currently have one home PC and one media PC (Intel NUC) on my home network. I use the NUC as an HTPC, so I don't really need anything that does trans-coding. All I want is just a common place to store my files...

Initially I set out to build a nice mostly silent HTPC system that I could also use as a miniserver for web-development. I was looking to go with the smallest case I could find and something that just sipped power, but yet, be powerful enough to stream HD content to my TV. I had a pretty...

New build: Proc: i7 3770K (thinking of OC to 4.2~4.4) Case: Silverstone TJ08-E Heatsinks: Tuniq Tower 120 Extreme or Corsair H80 The Tuniq would be cheaper, and I like the idea of less moving parts, but I'm not sure if it would be enough to keep the 3770K overclocked to 4.2-4.4GHz...

Building a new Ivy Bridge rig and I'm torn on what to do w/ my case situation. I already own a pc-a05b and I love it. My new build consists of a Micro-ATX mobo, so I don't need a full ATX case anymore and my build is pretty minimal. I was wondering if the airflow/ergonimics of the V354...

I'm still rocking the old Topaz S (It flickers every once and while due to the power supply prolly going bad, but I've found if I smack it hard enough, it'll stop -- SCIENCE) And I'm thinking about jumping on one of the cheap Korean 27" IPS displays being talked about. Question is, I've...

So I jumped on a sapphire 6870 from newegg couple of weeks ago for 239.99 and was pretty happy I got one before they went out of stock. Took the card home and it was clearly defective with strange green sparkling artifacting (tried driver/os alternatives). The card was bunk. So Newegg...

Just installed my new Sapphire 6870 and played some left for dead 2 and it ran flawlessly. I then booted up Battlefield Bad Company 2 and again I was seeing amazing framerates (compared to my old 8800GT) But then, I started looking a little bit more closer to some darker areas within the game...

I've got somewhat of an 'outdated' system. Currently running a Core 2 Duo E6750 (2.66GHZ) P45 chipset board. I just bought a 6870 (hasn't come yet), and I'm wondering if I just spent way more money than I should have on a video card, when/if my CPU is going to be limiting it like crazy...

My parents computer finally barfed out on them and now they are interested in buying a new one. Their old computer was ~4 to 5 year old HP $600 cheap bought from BestBuy. Here is what I'm looking for: Cost: Around ~$500-600 for just the desktop Reliability: I wanna get something bullet...

Just saw this on Engadget: http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/11/necs-new-accusync-lcds-do-hdmi/ and http://www.necdisplay.com/Products/Product/?product=ce7c6221-b221-4c93-8243-938ad36dcea8 ????

I've been searching through these forums and other for the past couple of months, and nothing has really perked my interest. I really love the dot pitch of my old 19" Hyundai L90D+ of .294. It seemed to be the perfect pixel size and was easy on the eyes. Now to the goal is to upgrade to...

Guys/Gals, Quick question that I'm havin a hard time finding the answer for. I got a laptop where I put into sleep mode often and I get sick of clicking on my user name each time I resume from sleep mode. I've already got tweakui setup to autologon, but that only works when I boot the...

I was doing a re-install of windows on my laptop. I also have an external usb connected harddrive on which I created a new i think ntfs (maybe fat32) partition. I copied all of my files over and rebooted by computer to install windows. I deleted the partition on the local harddisk on my...

All, I've had my eye on getting a 24" LCD for quite sometime, and in about 3-4 months, I'll have enough cash to actually get one. I've read all of the reviews on all the 24's out right now, and I'm not overwhelmingly impressed with anyone in particular or the prices. Is there going to...

I'm in the market for a video card that I plan on selling in a few months. The goal is to loose as little money as possible through this transaction. I would like to try and find something in the 75-200 dollar range, (i know its a large range, but again, I'm not going for all out...

ZipZoomFly was having a pretty good deal on a connect3d X1900GT card for 124.99 after rebate. I jumped all over this deal and ordered one over the weekend. I got two day shipping because I really wanted to play with this thing, and for only 3 bucks extra, why not? The shipping method was...

On a recent trip to china, I thought I'd pick up a 2.5" external HDD enclosure USB 2.0 for an extra harddrive I had lying around. It appeared to be new from the package, but when I plugged the thing into my laptop with my HDD inside, I got no new harddrive that showed up under my computer...

All, I've got a Dell optiplex gx620 at my work that I wanted to put a more beefy video card into. It's currently got an ati x600 pro pci-e that is a bit too weak for my taste. I also just bought a connect3d ATI X1900GT PCI-E from zipzoomfly for 125 AR (pretty damn good deal IMO) Now i...

All, Is it possible to install a driver for a peice of hardware that is not actually installed into the system (running windows XP/2003)? The driver that I have does not have any kind of setup.exe. Just the sys/info/cat/txt files. I know the driver works. And I "COULD" put the hardware in...

I've got a dell laptop whose Headphone out jack is busted. The Mic-In port is perfectly fine. Is there any way to re-route the audio out signal to pass through the Mic-In slot? Any utilities that any knows of? Maybe something from dell? Laptop is a inspiron 600M

I will be building up a new PC at the end of this upcoming summer. I know, a long way away. :D I plan on probably spending around $1500-1700 on whatever components I can get by the end of summer. I am a gamer, so my purchases will reflect that (ie, more emphasis on video card than cpu)...

I've got a linksys WRT54G Ver 4 with the DD-WRT firmware v23sp1. Recently, I'll loose my connection, which Is not what im concerned about. The Router will not be viewable for a couple seconds but then it will show up again in "View Wireless Networks", but for some reason, Windows will not...

So I just installed one of these bad boys : A sunbeam rheostat fan controller. I went through and hooked all of the fans in my system up to it and let er rip.. Result: Not quiet enough. Apparantly my power supply doubles as a vacuum cleaner. So I did some dirty work and...

Im looking for a program where I can specify a starting URL address like www.example.com/directory/bob(?).jpg Where the ? equals an unknown. The program would first place a 0 in for ? and see if it exists, if yes? download it, then place in a 1 and try to dl that. so, 0-9, a-z...

I'm looking for a laptop with screen size no more than 14.1" Ideal would be ~13" With resolution of atleast 1280 wide. I only want to spend around 600<>800 so we are definately looking used. Does anyone know any older laptops that would fit this price budget. or beat it?

Ok question: I have a airport extreme, or some kind of airport. Looks to have to wired connections on it. One WAN and one LAN. Now i have 3 computers with an ethernet cables running to a switch. If i run a cable from the modem into the airport's WAN, and then another cable from the...

Just got a new laptop: a Sony Vaio VGN-T250P/L. I want to hook this thing up to a TV but it only has a VGA out. Now I google: vga to s-video adapters and I see just a cable with vga on one end and a s-video connection on the other for like 5 bucks. Seems perfect right? Well the sellers...

That's right, i spent a lot of the money I made this summer on a brand new laptop (vgn-t250p/l). Got it for 1500 on ebay. Pretty good deal IMO. Does anyone here own one of these guys? or anything similar? Should i upgrade to a gig of ram? Any other upgrades that I should do? Any complaints?

I'm interested in benchmarking a PC to see how it would handle being used as a game server. Does anyone know of a benchmark that would beable to test these 3 things: (3 that come to mind) CPU speed, HardDrive/RAM speed, Networking I figure those are the three biggies that get stressed...

Just a random question. Does there exist any software out there for any platform that would allow me to use multiple computers networked together to complete a single computational task. for example, say I have a movie I wish to encode in xvid. I want to know if there is an...

I was browsing the laptops in office depot today and the t350 caught my eye. This thing is amazingly sexy... Ony problem is the price. Do any other notbooks exist out there that have comparable specs (ie size/speed) and are a bit cheaper? #edit, i noticed the Fujitsu P7010D is pretty...

Building a new system. Does anything seem out of place maybe? PROLINK PV-N40GA(256JD) Geforce 6800GT 256MB GDDR3 AGP 4X/8X Video Card - Retail AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego Integrated into Chip FSB Socket 939 Processor Model ADA3700BNBOX - Retail Patriot 1GB (2 x 512MB)...

I'm interested in upgrading the memory on my thinkpad. Current Memory 128mb PC100 SODIMM. Now, I know this model does not have a 133 bus, Only 100, If i get some PC133 SODIMM modules, will it just clock it down to 100? I'm pretty sure one can run pc133 ram in a pc100 environment...

I'm trying to fix a friends laptop but I am kinda stuck. He said the last time was using it, the screen got all pixelated with colors and froze and he had to remove the battery to get it to shutdown. Now all that happens when u press the power button is this: Power Led On Harddrive...

Does anyone have both of these and would be willing to do a side by side comparison? I'm interesteding in buying one of these bad boys, but I'm not sure if the difference between the two is worth the price. *sidenote* anyone know when viewsonic is going to release their 8ms version of...

Just recently I encountered an annoying little problem. Any JPG/PNG on my computer takes forever to open with the built in windows picture and fax viewer. It used to take like a second for a wallpaper to open, but now, it sometimes takes 15 seconds. I just sits at the "generating preview..."...

When are LCDs with "fengine" technology suppose to come out, and do any before and after pics/videos exist? Is this something that i should wait for, or just a cheap money making gimmik?

errr what!??! I know that there "used" to be an advanced button there, but comon windows, why'd you hide it?