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29. February 2008 @ 22:00 |
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29. February 2008 @ 22:02 |
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@Sanmorris,
not directed at you, just my buddy from Ohio.
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29. February 2008 @ 22:04 |
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Originally posted by theonejrs:
Don't they play baseball in Bronx, NY? ROFL!!
Russ
thats if you call what they do is playing ball...lol
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29. February 2008 @ 22:20 |
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justf ound nice temp program.(monitoring that is) core temp....
heres a screen of orhtos and core temp running.
core temps
and here is core temp not under load.
Core temp2
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1. March 2008 @ 00:30 |
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Core Temp is a simple little progie isn't it? ;)
My little "pig in a poke" is loading windows right now!! I couldn't stand it, I pulled my gpu out of the CM-690 and stuck it in the Gigabyte 3D-Aurora.... I need to get another gpu so here goes the search again. lol. I may have to name all these different builds like sammyboy has. :P NOT....
Wish me luck on the install. ;)
I'll post some pix later on the build and some of different progies like cpu-Z and some temp monitoring software. :D
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1. March 2008 @ 03:51 |
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cincyrob,
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thats if you call what they do is playing ball...lol
Let me see! How many World Championships have the Yankees won?? I believe it was 39! LOL!! I lived in Northern NJ as a kid. What a great place for a kid who loved baseball to grow up. You could go to Ebbet's field in brooklyn for the Dodgers, The Polo grounds in Manhattan for the Giants and Yankee Stadium in the Bronx for the Yankees. Bus fare to the city was 13 cents and a nickel for the subway. Imagine an 8 year old kid doing that these days? LOL!! The parents would be locked up for Child Endangerment, and the kid put in a foster home! Sad sign of the times!
Best Regards,
Russ
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1. March 2008 @ 05:08 |
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BlivetNC: Heh, kinda figured.
Theone: Now that's one I can relate to. The places my dad used to go by himself many years younger than I am now, do it these days and you'd get mugged, stabbed, abducted or all three...
Sounding like a bit of an old man here (pardon the expression) but modern society has gone down the pan.
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1. March 2008 @ 07:10 |
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ok is there something to hooking up a second sata hard drive?i have it all pluged in but its not being seen in bios or windows?
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1. March 2008 @ 07:21 |
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Originally posted by cincyrob:
ok is there something to hooking up a second sata hard drive?i have it all pluged in but its not being seen in bios or windows?
What is it with you and hard drives lol
As far as I know theres nothing to it but plugging it in. On both my machines that have SATA thats all Ive ever had to do. Try a different cable or socket on the board as either could be faulty.
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1. March 2008 @ 07:27 |
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well its the 3rd different cable and i have tried all the sockets i have for sata even Esata.
i have an adapter that lets you from IDE to sata. just plugs into the back of the HDD then has the cable for sata.this is the second one i have tried still not seen any where...
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1. March 2008 @ 07:31 |
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Well if the hard drive is definitely good - Im kinda at a loss lol
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1. March 2008 @ 07:56 |
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yea the hdd is good its the one im useing on the PCI-E x1 slot.card controler. works fine on there. but when i use this adapter it wont work in any sata slot. it has a led on it showing it has power so its getting juice to it...
i hope its just that the sata slot wont recognize these adapters but will see a true sata drive when i go to get one down the road...
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1. March 2008 @ 10:00 |
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rob I'm a little new to this too and hopefully Russ or someone smarter than me will add some insight. lol. BUT you should be able to go into the BIOS and adjust it to "see" your SATA drives as IDE (controller) or something like that. Sorry at work and don't have my BIOS handy. ;)
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1. March 2008 @ 12:37 |
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havent messed with the hard drive issue any more. but i figured od test the system for the normal stuff i do. take a look at this link
MULTI BURNING
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1. March 2008 @ 13:22 |
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Means absolutely nothing to me Rob :)
Who reckons the following is an okay monitor :-
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/138130/
Ive seen it for £115 delivered and was considering getting it.
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1. March 2008 @ 14:22 |
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come on pepp you dont burn no movies???lol
that monitor looks nice i myself have been looking at the acer monitors too. 19in is the way to go (for me anyway)
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1. March 2008 @ 14:33 |
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I burn movies all the time - but Ive never been in that screen on Nero - I burn it, put it in the DVD player and watch it lol
The monitor is a nice size as it is to be a back up to the 26" HD TV the PC is currently connected to - means I cant watch TV and use the comp at the same time:(
Ive been looking at lots of monitors and mostly seemed to think I would need to spend about £160 to get a decent one with DVI input and that it wasn going to be worthwhile at that price getting a 20", but then I found the Acer 19" reduced from £150 to £115 and thought it might have to be for me :)
PS - gonna post my overclock results soon :)
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1. March 2008 @ 19:50 |
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cincyrob,
Check your PMs!
Russ
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3. March 2008 @ 16:21 |
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I broke down and pre-ordered the Q9450 today. I sent an email to customer support for the parent company of these 2 websites
CostCentral: Retail Box - $352.63
http://www.costcentral.com/proddetail/In...Q32421/froogle/
PC superstore: - $352.63
http://www.pcsuperstore.com/products/Q32...0.html/froogle/
asking if presales are greater than their initial stock cause I dont want to wait for the second wave, (E8400's still arent back in stock are they?). I got a response a few hours later stating its a direct ship from INTEL and not their warehouse and to expect 2-3 week wait. It was from a human and not chain letter so I went for it. Now I just need a mobo...
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3. March 2008 @ 16:24 |
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Pepp: A lot of Acer monitors are a bit crap, so be wary of that. Some are fine, some aren't.
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3. March 2008 @ 16:58 |
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3. March 2008 @ 17:08 |
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So guys I have 230 dollars and I need to get some memory and a new CPU. Maybe I should get a Quad Core...
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3. March 2008 @ 17:21 |
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3. March 2008 @ 18:58 |
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Pepp77,
The problem with the one you found, it still has a crappy resolution and a moer washed out picture. It doesn't take a Rocket Scientist to figure out that 1680 x 1050 is a lot better picture than 1440 x 900 in the same amount of space. The real cheap 20" ones are even worse. It makes sense as the larger amount of dots in the same size screen means better everything. LCD monitors don't scale as well as CRTs. That's why the native resolution is important. It's really simple, more dots in the same amount of space, makes a much better picture. I learned the hard way years ago when Compaq used to do that with CRT monitors that had such a big dot pitch, that they hurt your eyes. There's would be .034" while the decent ones were .026" or .024".
I was getting real bad headaches all the time. So bad I went to the Doctor, and he asked me if I had a computer. When I told him yes he told me to check the dot pitch, and if it was larger than .028, to get rid of it and my headaches would go away. It turned out to be .034"! In an LCD monitor they use Pixel Pitch, which tells you how close together the pixels are or the blank space in between the actual LCDs. The higher the number, the worse the picture. On an LCD, poor pixel pitch makes the picture look a bit grainy and the colors somewhat washed out. It's the main reason I stayed away from buying an LCD monitor until a year or so ago, their Pixel Pitch was terrible and they caused bad eyestrain. My Sceptre 20.1" has a Pixel Pitch of 0.257 and just as good a picture as my Dell CRT 19", and the Dell's Dot Pitch is .024. I can sit at it for hours, play games anything and I've never had my eyes bother me.
Cheap LCD Widscreen monitors can vary from as high as 0.283", to as low as 0.243". needless to say there's quite a bit of difference in picture quality. Keep that in mind when looking for one, as it will help you make the right choice.
Best Regards,
Russ
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3. March 2008 @ 19:05 |
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I didn't even know you could get 19" screens at 1680x1050, that's quite neat. Those will have a very high ppi for crisp graphics. I would have the Viewsonic if it was in stock, but unfortunately not. The worst LCD monitor I have ever seen was an Acer and they're often made with very poor quality parts, so it's always worth bearing that in mind when buying one. Viewsonic are by no means perfect, but much better.
Abuzar: I thought you were waiting until next year?
Pepp: Guess what they also have? http://www.amazon.co.uk/ViewSonic-VX1940...04589060&sr=1-1
For that money though, you could get a decent 20" from someone like Iiyama.
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