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AnandTech: HP L2335: Low Response Time and High Resolution LCD. Now that I’ve got that new Athlon 3800+ (running at 233MHz) stable, the next step is the lust for LCD monitor. The current trend is going to widescreen. Tomshardware and also earlier has also been tracking these.

The monitors to get are all based on the LG.Philips SIPS panel. These are in acdending order of price:

• Dell 1905FP. This is a 19″ version. This is just $350 at the Dell Outlet but it isn’t wide screen.
• Dell 2005FPW. The 20″ version that is widescreen for $580 at Dell
• HP L2335. The 24″ Dell doesn’t uses a different LCD panel so isn’t in the running. From pricegrabber it is about $1K delivered so not a bad price.

The ones that don’t use this panel aren’t that high quality like the:

• Apple Cinema 23 which looks great, but uses an inferior panel and also doesn’t have any brightness or other controls.
• Dell FPW2405

XtremeSystems Forums – SuperPI tweaks. Got some errors with it, but this might be because of old files. Here’s the tip on how to restart superpi correctly.

When you get an error, the first time it’ll most of the time be “not exact in round” but if you run superpi a seccond time it will give you “not convergent in SQR“. Deleting all the files in the superpi folder except the .exe and .txt files will rid you of this error message. Of course, if you’re overclock is completely unstable you’ll just get the errors again

You can also verify that you have the correct results by going to Radeonx and verifying the checksum

I always get less overclock that the magazines. The last machine I had, an Athlon 64 2800+, I got from 1.8GHz to 2.25GHz, but most of the reviews were reporting 2.4-2.6GHz. I think this is because I really want these to be stable.

AMDZone got theirs to 2.7GHz but don’t have any details about how they did it and what they overvolted. Xbitlabs got theirs to 2.4GHz without changing the stock voltage (wow!), but no word on stability. Finally Legitreviews they got to 2.7GHz with 1.6V on the CPU

OK, finally got a replacement Athlon 3800 and a new DFI LanParty. What an expensive experiment with that Arctic Silver. I ripped the CPU out of the CPU socket and torqued the motherboard and maybe the CPU. So if you have a Thermaltake XP-120 beware when you take it off.

The safe way is not the way you put it on. Instead, take a screwdriver and press down on the spring, then use another small flat head to flip the retainer piece out. Do this carefully on all four sides, so you don’t put pressure on the CPU and the socket!

In any case, I reapplied the Arctic Silver and voila using the settings noted in <a title=”AnandTech: OCZ VX Memory  DFI nForce4 = DDR533 at 2-2-2″ href=”http://www.anandtech.com/memory/showdoc.aspx?i=2369

We have a Microsoft MN-500 Broadband router and lost the software. It is discontinued so how do you get the software that resets it at this Knowledge Base? article.

MSBBN: How to update the firmware and software for your Microsoft Broadband Networking device.

You can actually find the manual online too at Microsoft and it tells you to:

1. Unplug the base station and then turn it on
2. Press in the reset button on the back with a paper clip.
3. Hold the button down until the power button flashes green and orange. Release the button
4. When it is back to green again, you have reset to default configuration.

The main important thing on the default are:

1. You can access the base station at 192.168.2.1
2. The default password is admin