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News / Firefox 1.5!!

« on: November 30, 2005, 07:32:17 AM »

In case Joseph didn't make it clear enough, Get Firefox 1.5
Small, fast and much safer than the competition. So try it now if you haven't.

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The Private Club / Long Time!!!!

« on: November 30, 2005, 07:25:25 AM »

I dont even know this guy!!
Me just been lazy over the last few years http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' />
Hope you guys dont mind...

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The Private Club / Why cant I post news?

« on: March 03, 2005, 06:35:59 PM »

Much I have to learn young Jedi.
Makes sense.
Thanks alot.

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Overclocking / Overclocking AMD Sempron 2400+ 1.67 GHz

« on: March 03, 2005, 01:42:34 PM »

Off the top of my head... by adjusting the bus speed and multiplier

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Software / NT 3 Boot CD

« on: March 03, 2005, 01:39:45 PM »

Use winimage to create backup images of the floppies.

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Software / Can't network 2 XP boxes

« on: March 03, 2005, 01:36:11 PM »

Strange bunch I agree... ensure that the 2 machines are in the same workgroup.
Also, try (from the run command) using \\%computer name\%share name% to access the shares, instead of looking for them

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Software / Help help removing Dropper.Agent.2.r using HijackT

« on: March 03, 2005, 01:31:33 PM »

Goto start>run>msconfig and disable all you strange startup items.
Reboot and delete the strange files from Windows Explorer.
Update your antivirus and run a scan.

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The Private Club / Why cant I post news?

« on: March 03, 2005, 01:26:15 PM »

Happy new year guys. Ever so often I show up with a random post and go back into hiding.
But why cant I post news?

Sorry to hear bout the doggy... I think we all know how that feels.

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News / How much Graphics Power Does a PC Really Need?

« on: March 03, 2005, 01:22:31 PM »

In my travels today I came across this article at Tom's Hardware and thought it was pretty interesting.
Do we really need those $500 Video Cards?

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News / Prescott details

« on: January 07, 2004, 07:30:11 AM »

Happy New Year to you guys and gals. And what better way to start the new year off than with some information about the upcoming version of Intel's Pentium 4 with the Prescott core?
Ace's Hardware has some interesting details about the Prescot core.

bigger D-L1 cache (16 KB instead of 8 KB) & L2-cache (1 MB instead of 512 KB) .. No comments necessary
4x Improved Clock Distribution (compared to Northwood) for better Frequency Scaling
Automated design of the functional blocks for better clockscaling
Improved Imul latency : Northwood/Willamette do their integer multiplications on the FPU, and the big latency is due routing the data between integer and FP datapaths. Prescott has a dedicated integer multiplier. (Thanks goes to Heikki Kultala).
Prescott New Instructions (SSE-3), which will not improve performance at the launch (needs optimized software).
Additional WC Buffers. Instead of sending small pieces of data to the AGP videocard, these pieces of data are stored together in buffers, and send through in one big burst. This helps to preserve FSB bandwidth as the bandwidth of the FSB is more efficiently used (less overhead from one big burst than from many small ones)
Improved Pre-Fetcher Branch Predictor. I did not get much info on this but it seems that the buffers have been made bigger so the branch predictor will be able to cope better with more then one thread.
Improved Hyperthreading: two new instructions: Monitor and Wait, which will only improve performance on recompiled software.

Have a look at Ace's Hardware for what else is new, and what performance can be expected.

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News / Mainstream Card from NVIDIA - BFGTech 5600 Ultra

« on: May 28, 2003, 10:11:39 AM »

HardOCP has a review of the mainstream card (sub $200)  from NVIDIA, the updated GeForceFX 5600 Ultra.

\"With the 50Mhz increase the core now runs at 400Mhz stock and 400Mhz memory (800Mhz DDR)\"

To see how well it fares, and what else is new, head over to the Hard

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News / ATI FireGL X1 vs Nvidia Quadro4 980XGL

« on: January 23, 2003, 08:32:19 AM »

Tom\'s Hardware has a review of the latest Professional OpenGL graphics cards.

\"OpenGL - the story so far: the last Quadro4 chip to predate the GeForce FX, Nvidia entered the ring with the NV28GL. ATi countered with the R300, alias 9700 Pro, for use on the FireGL X1. Seven graphics cards take up the challenge.\"

Will ATI outperform the competition with its superior hardware - the R300?

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Software / winxp sp1

« on: June 30, 2002, 02:01:03 AM »

Its a registry setting. Since I cant remember it, try a tweak tool such as tweakxp

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Tech Clinic / Windows 2000 pro cd

« on: June 27, 2002, 12:46:04 PM »

Try copying the CD to the hard drive and installing from the hard drive

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Hardware / cd-rom

« on: June 26, 2002, 01:20:04 PM »

Did you rececntly uninstall some cdwriting software, eg Nero or Roxio? If so, you will need to do some registry editing and remove the \"LowerFilter\"key under cdrom.

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News / Matrox Parhelia!

« on: June 25, 2002, 10:13:08 AM »

The highly anticipated Matrox Parhelia has been released! Seems like Tom\'s Hardware is the only big site to have their take on the card. I\'m sure we can expect the remaining big players to have their articles up by tonight/tomorrow. I havent gotten through the entire article yet, but feel free to discuss it in the forum. Its been a long time guys.

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Hardware / Recommended Video Card

« on: June 23, 2002, 05:44:17 PM »

You dont have much choice here.
I believe that the fastest PCI card available is the geforce 2mx

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Software / Overcoming the 1x speed with cdrwin demo

« on: June 23, 2002, 05:41:27 PM »

Create iso image file using cdrwin
Then burn using another program such as Adaptec Easy CD Cremator.

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Software / how to burn windows 2000 professionnal ?

« on: June 23, 2002, 05:38:13 PM »

put in cdwriter
open cd copy software
press copy

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Hardware / hard drive issue

« on: March 26, 2002, 01:26:22 PM »

2 possible causes
You are using NT4 pre SP3??
or
Your bios is unable to read more than 8GB of the drive.
Look for a bios update.