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Some Great Computer Hardware Sites and Guides Tom's Hardware Basic Hardware Hardware Central -- Edited by barney at 11:43,...

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[url=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2404032,00.asp?kc=PCRSS03069TX1K0001121&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ziffdavis%2Fpcmag%2Fbreakingnews+%28PCMag.com+Breaking+News%29&utm_content=My+MSN]Dell and Orig...

Vindicated · Vindicated

[url=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2392945,00.asp?kc=PCRSS03069TX1K0001121&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ziffdavis%2Fpcmag%2Fbreakingnews+%28PCMag.com+Breaking+News%29&utm_content=My+MSN]New Epson Com...

Vindicated · Vindicated

[url=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2392499,00.asp?kc=PCRSS03069TX1K0001121&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ziffdavis%2Fpcmag%2Fbreakingnews+%28PCMag.com+Breaking+News%29&utm_content=My+MSN]HP Announces...

Vindicated · Vindicated

How to Connect Your Laptop to Your TVSometimes a laptop display just isn't big enough. Here are the best ways to put your PC's movie, music, and gaming prowess to work on your HDTV's big screen.

Moh-Reza-rafat · Moh-Reza-rafat

Hi Here , I was told that there is a Hardware made for Rendering , and by that hardware , the rendering of a movie will be done within 10 to 15minutes. Anyone knows about this? My son is doing film editing and has problem for a very long duration of Rendering , therefore I am looking for a way for rendering in a...

Rosalyn · Rosalyn

My husband recently bought me a new Lenovo laptop running Windows 7. My browser is the new Firefox 4.0.1 but I also have Internet Explorer on it which I don't use. My cursor problem is common to both browswers as well as programs run on the computer sans any browser involvement. I use the built in (AWFU...

barney · barney

Find out in Hard Drive of the Future: Your Guide to Solid State Drives. This guide, from Lachlan Roy, outlines everything you need to know about the future of storage technology. You’ll learn their history and what to look for when shopping for one. Remember: if you own a flash drive, you own a solid sta...

Vindicated · Vindicated

[url=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2380132,00.asp?ipmat=260847&ipmtype=5]Ancient

barney · barney

The company's consumer desktop chips will all fall under the new AMD Vision marque once new chips code-named Llano and Zabezi make it into the channel later this year, according to an internal document seen by XBit Labs. The familiar names will be replaced with FX, A and E-series processors all under...

barney · barney

Does a solid-state drive make a difference in the performance of Windows 7? In a word: Yes. Conventional hard disks are typically the biggest bottleneck in any computing environment. If you can speed up disk activity, especially reads, the effects on system startup and application launch times ca...

barney · barney

Around this time last year we ran a story with some fun facts about Intel's then debutant 32nm manufacturing technology. For example, we learned that a 32nm transistor can switch on and off over 300 billion times in one second, conversely it would take a human 4000 years to flick a light switch on and of...

barney · barney

Samsung's famed lead in component manufacturing is being extended today with the announcement of a DDR4 DRAM stick that can perform read and write operations using up to 40 percent less power than the old/current DDR3 stuff. Bandwidth maxes out at 2.13Gbps at 1.2V, while Pseudo Open Drain technolo...

barney · barney

Lauded as a security feature, Intel’s new Sandy Bridge processor can be remotely disabled by a hardware/software combination known at Anti-Theft 3.0. Systems can be disabled over 3G networks, even while the OS is not running. Even when the hard drive is replaced, the critical systems will still be...

barney · barney

Things are about to get a lot hotter in the desktop graphics cards wars, and I’m not just talking about the heat being generated inside your system. Nvidia hopes to short-circuit the hoopla over the launch of AMD’s new flagship Radeon HD 6900 series of boards, due to be released on December 8, by bringi...

barney · barney

If you’re of a certain age, you probably have a history with floppy disks. The moniker dates back to your first forays into computer games and later came to signify those multicolored, hard plastic contraptions you used to store college papers or work presentations. It’s probably been a dog’s age si...

barney · barney

A friend of mine has been posting frequent updates via email from a remote research station in Antarctica. (That's his dive buddy in the photo below.) Even though it's sunny and warm where I'm writing this, cold weather is on the way, and it got me thinking about the computer equipment that isn't sitti...

barney · barney

A discrete video card is a must for games, but will boost the performance of other applications as well. You can find one that matches your needs and your budget as long as you keep in mind these few simple things. Let's face it: Most of the time people buy a video card (also known as a graphics card) for a no...

NicKnayme · NicKnayme

Any with PCIe capability that is. Article HERE

Vindicated · Vindicated

Build a $200 Linux PC If you need a second or third computer but money is tight, you don't need to buy a full system. You can build a surprisingly speedy Linux PC that will excel at everyday tasks, and cost less than $200.

barney · barney

Western Digital has been hard at work upgrading their well established series of portable and external hard drives to the newest technologies available. The hard drive company has decided to upgrade three of their lines, My Book Essential, My Passport Essential and My Passport Essential SE to US...

barney · barney

In this post I’m going to discuss two very useful and effective tools you can use on a regular basis to improve hard drive performance and significantly increase the performance of an otherwise slow and “laggy” computer. The first tool is called Ultimate Defrag, which will perform an “intelligent”...

Vindicated · Vindicated

Forget the DVD & Save on your New Laptop

barney · barney

The Swiftpoint optical mouse is a strangely shaped little device that resembles something you'd find at New York's Museum of Modern Art. But there is method in this madness: The mouse provides mobile computer users with a tiny, lightweight but comfortable alternative to laptop touchpads. What do...

barney · barney

Four years ago AMD did the unthinkable: it announced the 5.4 billion dollar acquisition of ATI in a combination of cash and stock. What followed was a handful of very difficult years for AMD, an upward swing for ATI and the eventual spinoff of AMD’s manufacturing facilities to GlobalFoundries in ord...

barney · barney

Whether you're in the market for an insanely high-end rig or you just feel like doing a little high-tech window shopping, these pricey PCs deliver serious bang for a whole lot of bucks. Networkworld has the slideshow HERE!

barney · barney

Apple late this month began advising its direct and indirect sales channels of near-term shortages of its popular all-in-one desktops, as the company prepares draw down inventories ahead of introducing new models in the coming weeks. In particular, a person familiar with the matter says the Mac m...

barney · barney

This case is both big and heavy, it came shipped in a branded Thermaltake shipping box that at first looked like a regular shipping box from say Amazon or Ebay, but it was branded with the Thermaltake and Level 10 names, as well as the notice that there was a PC Chassis inside Inside that box was the regula...

barney · barney

That's not your grandpappy's touchscreen panel, nor his standard Windows 7 input method of choice, oh no -- unless our eyes deceive us, we're looking at a 3M M2256PW ten-finger multitouch display, and on it, a genuine Swype keyboard. Though we've heard nothing about a partnership between Microsof...

Vindicated · Vindicated

How does your PC stack-up? PC Pitstop Satisfaction Reviews

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