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My Onkyo TX-DS989 Dies and what are all these formats anyway?
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Continue reading →: My Onkyo TX-DS989 Dies and what are all these formats anyway?Onkyo Upgrades TX-DS989 Future-Proof Receiver. I’ve had this Audio-video receiver for about two years now. Blew out an amplifier and also part of the digital processing section by crossing some speaker wires in the back (yes, Virginia, it was dumb to have a bunch of stripped wires back there, I’ve…
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Continue reading →: nVidia GeForce 5900 SE
“Firing Squad”:http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/evga_e-geforce_fx_5900_xt_review/, “Hot Hardware”:http://www.hothardware.com/hh_files/S&V/gffx_5900xt.shtml, “Guru-3D”:http://www.guru3d.com/article/Videocards/112/ and “Tech-Report”:http://www.tech-report.com/reviews/2003q4/geforcefx-5900xt/index.x?pg=1 have all reviewed this board (called the GeForce 5900 SE) and the chipset (called the 5900 XT). Go figure this naming convention stuff. You can get it for about $185 right now online. It is basically a high end GeForce 5900 with slower…
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Continue reading →: Easy way to price video cards and CPUs
Pricewatch Video Cards. Here’s an easy way to see the prices of video cards at a glance. Pricewatch publishes them all on one page. The pricegrabber merchants seem higher end (fewer small stores), but this is a great way to get a feel for market pricing. “Pricewatch on CPUs”:http://www.pricewatch.com/menus/m3.htm. The…
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Continue reading →: Build Your Own PC Message Forums – shuttle sb61g2 memory problems?
Build Your Own PC Message Forums – shuttle sb61g2 memory problems?. I tried to overclock my Dad’s machine and everything fell apart! Got all kinds of random crashes. Not just blue screen of deaths, but hard crashes. Also unrealiable reads and installs. Tried a bunch of things and finally detuned…
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ATI and nVidia Roadmaps
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Continue reading →: ATI and nVidia Roadmaps“Endian roadmap”:http://endian.net/roadmap.asp. One of the worst things to do is to buy a new card or other piece of hardware and then discover there was a big price cut or a new model due the next week. Endian has a whole cut of news just basd on new roadmaps. Super…
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Macintosh Blogging Tools
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Continue reading →: Macintosh Blogging ToolsI’ve been using the Macintosh at work. Great to get back to this machine. quite a community of software. After 15 years of being on the PC pretty much exclusively, I sure feel clumsy in a different environment. Anyway, here are some tools and things I’ve been finding helpful: *…
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More on softmod for ATI Radeon 9800 SE
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Continue reading →: More on softmod for ATI Radeon 9800 SE“OC FAQ”:http://www.ocfaq.com/forum_new/showthread.php?t=303. The folks at OCFAQ seem to know an amazing amount. Here’s the detailed scoop from a thread of theirs. There was quite an opportunity in the last ATI product cycle to turn 9500s into 9700s, but that window has closed, but is still open a tad for 9800…
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Video Cards from 1999-2003 and Choices for 1Q04
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Continue reading →: Video Cards from 1999-2003 and Choices for 1Q04Video at Digit-Life.com. A good overall review site. Every month, they test various video cards from top to bottom. Good to get a perspective. They just did a 4 year test from 1999-2003. Amazing the progress that’s been made. Good to check every month. “Overview”:http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/over2003/index.html of the last four years…
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Athlon 64 Ship rates
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Continue reading →: Athlon 64 Ship ratesX-bit labs – Hardware news – Does AMD Supply Enough Athlon 64 Processors?. Well as usual, yields are the big issue. A good summary of Athlon 64 shipments. They claim 170K units shipped in Q403. The folks at Solomon Smith Barney think they’ll do 350K in 1Q (a drop in…
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Windows Update fails if your system time is off
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Continue reading →: Windows Update fails if your system time is offMy main problem right now is that Windows Update isn’t working. It’s the well know “Windows Update Problem”:http://www.updatexp.com/0x800A138F.html call 0x800a138f. Great name! In my case, studying c:\windows\windows update.log revealed I was really getting an 0x800C0008 error (man have PCs become like mainframes or what!). Amazingly, this is because I got…