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Been out of the game for awhile. Hell, my first post on [H] in many years! Been using my laptops for awhile but now I've got a new place and new machine. At present, I'm using a 27" Toshiba TV as the display for my rig. I have my Samsung 16:10 22" TN monitors from back in 2007... one needs...

I'm asking for a friend because my memory has failed me. My IRC friend keeps claiming to run into issues and is quick to blame the PSU. (his last POST problem was cheapo memory, being pulled from the slot it booted but now he's claiming won't POST now due to ethernet card) Aren't there two or...

In video games and general computing applications I find myself CPU and memory bound. With games, my CPU is starting to feel its age. I bought ARMA 3 while it was on sale on STEAM and disappointed I could barely play it. I launch STEAM, Firefox, and a game and things get really bogged down...

I'm going to be working on a project where, well, quite frankly, I will be doing work out in the booines or the rural south. Is there a 3G unlimited data plan that isn't stupid expensive and then after 4GB/s, throttles you down to 128kb/s? I'll be doing lots of Skype, uploading large files...

I recently purchased a Samsung 840 Pro 128GB for my Thinkpad X61s. This is the first time I've run a solid state drive and Linux at the same time.My Linux experience isn't as thorough as I would like it to be, but everyone has to learn and start somewhere, right? Here is the relevant...

I decided to post this here because the storage form, frankly, looks like a place to talk about NAS and big time storage solutions. I'm just interested in giving my ultraportable a steroid... injection of SSD goodness. The machine in question is a Thinkpad X61s, so yeah, we're limited to SATA II...

Hello and fellow greetings! I'm presently a member of IPtorrents and I'm fixing to get my What.cd account fixed (was out of the country and they deactivated my account while I was away, working my way to get reinstated). If it isn't against the rules, I think an exchange thread is a good...

Red or green, it doesn't really matter. I'm just curious of which of the new crop of cards can get a good overclock, even if you have to go hardcore by flashing BIOSes and doing voltage increases. In my opinion, that's what being an enthusiast has always been about and I've been out of the...

As a preface, you should probably know that I've been playing guitar and bass on and off for about ten (10) years, give or take (such a period I have forgotten the exact time!) and my musical education is all self-taught, with the exception of a music theory class I took ages ago in high school...

- ZDtech article and - Charlie D @ SemiAccurate Sources: Intel 'preparing' to put an end to user-replaceable CPUs Intel kills off the desktop, PCs go with it Seriously?

Closed. I've recently come down with a wicked infection that is shaping up to be a pretty bad case of pneumonia, but the doctors don't know for certain. I've already been to the hospital once and I'm probably going back. In the interest of not spreading disease and the fact that this thing...

Despite some issues and bugs, I find myself enjoying the game. There are definitely some issues that can annoy people and ruin the game for them, but I see it being no different than the same issues JA2 had. I wish there were some fog of war though, it becomes too easy when you can predict...

Been thinking about rolling my own but the reality is the price for an individual to DIY it excessive versus a company who can source panels cheaper than anyone's business. In particular, I'm thinking about going to the local Sony store and trying out a pair of HMZ-T1's. I'm probably crazy...

Silly question, but can you run Eyefinity on just two monitors?

Last week or so, I sat down and though about the SOPA and the SHAMPOOA and all these other things. My mind jumped to data storage since I am under the belief that possession is 9/10ths of the law. As it stands, hard drives are very good when I punched some numbers, something like 18GB/$...

Somehow I remembered the mod The Opera, which was very John Woo and The Matrix inspired and I remember being very impressed with the weapons and the ability to have two separate weapons in each hand and the dive system was very well done. To scratch that itch I downloaded and installed Action...

I'm not quite sure if this is in the right section, so what the hell, right? I've reached the point where I have multiple machines and quite the collection of files spread across. Looking at my main workstation, my 'home' partition that has all my digital junk. I've been a data hoarder. I...

I had a couple of questions and I wonder if anyone could answer. I've been toying around with Win32API the past week or so and I'm trying to simulate keyboard input, namely a key held down/typematics. The best method (besides virtualizing a device with Raw Input/DirectInput) I've found...

Lusting after a similar but cheaper setup that Vega has. I don't know that these monitors have tolerable viewing angles to be placed in portrait mode, though. Newegg: Asus VG236HE vs. Viewsonic VX2268WM Asus has HDMI while Viewsonic does not. Asus is 23" while Viewsonic is 22" (23" is probably...

I have nothing against the game personally, I just find it hard nowadays to buy the latest and greatest and get a run for my money's worth. Plus, BF3 would probably rape my E8400 / HD4770 @ 1680x1050. I felt a little let down with BC2, but that has to do with playstyle of teammates. Am I...

Hello all. I don't visit this forum very often. I think because in the public eye the popularity of alternative cooling solutions have dropped. For me, it was always a matter of being a cheapskate. Water cooling was some sort of expensive enthusiast hobby when I was growing up. Now that I'm...

Hello. I was wondering if anyone here bit the bullet and got a 6xxx or 4xxx and if it was possible to unlock the locked modules at this time. Especially interested if MSI's 990FXA-GD65 is able to do it as well as enable/disable individual cores separately from modules.

Impressions are as follows. Blood Bowl is actually a 100% faithful adaptation of the Games Workshop miniature/strategy game of the same name. (Games Workshop, you know, those people Blizzard have been ripping off the past 15 years) There is a tutorial but it really doesn't do the game...

Fuck this game. Seriously. When your core gameplay mechanic is something that can be emulated with cardboard boxes and nerf guns not to mention it doesn't even work properly (very buggy)! Also, people with different graphic settings can see through smoke and your silhouette like 500m away...

Anyone use OCR software for keeping records, receipts, or otherwise? Commercial suggestions are fine as is free software.

I have a pair of Beyerdyamics DT-150s I intend to resurrect with new drivers (they're dead). I was wondering what headphone amp would suit these. I'm looking at a price range $100 or less. I did a search and couldn't find anything on the topic, so here goes. Cheers. :)

I have three Model M keyboards. You guys here seem to be connoisseurs. How do you know what switches get used in the keyboard? By date? Serial? Manufacturer (it is my understanding a lot of Model Ms were made for IBM by Lexmark)?

I was wondering if there was a lightweight Linux sequencer and DAW, similar to Ableton Live. With the ability to load VSTs and things like that. I tried turning a Pentium III into a USB MIDI box but XP and Ableton Live demo was having none of that, so I was curious if there was an...

Scouring the internet, I see some expensive digital signal processors to do the feat. However, when you take apart a desktop LCD, doesn't it use LVDS internally to a controller board? Does anyone know how to interface with LVDS or can anyone provide pictures of their panel's internal...

Compared to other laptops, why do you prefer the Macbook to other solutions?

Is there a workspace manager/multiple desktop tool for Windows 7 that is similar as the ones used for KDE or Gnome? Any personal testimonies?

I'm not talking about rumbling. I remember people always demoing the Microsoft Force Feedback Pro in CompUSA was it? If my memory serves me correctly these devices actually had motors that manipulated the joystick in all dimensions to give real resistance so in any given particular game...

From left to right: 380Z with French Canadian keyboard layout ($10 off craigslist with HDD, battery, and brick) T410 (my workhorse with Nvidia Optimus to play teh games) 240 (~$30 + 10 or so for shipping, battery holds a charge, testing with CF to ATA for HDD) With another 240 on the...

http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/14nm-atom-is-more-powerful-than-6-core-amd-phenom-ii-10x-todays-atom-20110728/ "Intel revealed its new Atom processor roadmap back in May which had a 14nm Atom planned for 2014. That now seems to have been revised to 2015, but the performance on offer makes...

With the advent of the mobile market we've seen a surge in computing technology especially with Smartphones. Right now it is possible to run Netbooks with nothing but ARM, given the massively parallel nature of ARM SoC or development boards (separate processor/DSP for decoding video etc) for...

Legitimate question. I think they had the Maxtor guys engineer this one. I have a drive from Thinkpad T410 that is apparently dead, although I know these drives have on board accelerometers and it has been "stuck" once before, preventing any reading or writing. Is there a way via firmware...

Just curious, using HD 4770, is there any way to force AA and AF in games that don't have those options in-game? Also, did 4xxx series get MLAA or just the 5xxx series? I'm looking under Catalyst Control Center but I don't see an option for game profiles...

Recently with my engineering club here at college and my new found hobby in model airplanes, the dogfight/flight sim bug has caught my attention again. Not that I was ever any good in the first place. I have fond memories of playing WWII Online (now Battlefield Europe?) and I recall one...

Hello, I'm currently configuring a HP Laserjet P4515 printer. It has its own built in Jetdirect so, all that jazz is done. I'm having issue when I telnet to port 9100. I type the typical Jetdirect commands: ? / MENU and HELP yet I receive no information back from any commands I type. Even...

About three to four years ago a bunch of friends introduced me to Dance Dance Revolution and it was quite a bit of fun. Eventually I moved on to getting my own pad and playing the same songpacks but for Stepmania. Nothing fancy, though. Not one of those crazies with a metal pad. I did want one...