Re: [H] Free, lite AV suggestions for XP
I grabbed MSE on April 7 and deleted it two days later, it was a much bigger resource hog on my XP box than Avast. I have a cheap version of Avast, I think I paid $29 (on sale from $49) for one year and it has done a great job. Malwarebytes and Spybot are two good apps with free versions available. In the meantime I am sourcing a new box with Win 7 Pro. I want to get my XP box offline asap. - Original Message - From: joeu...@chronic.org To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2014 10:16 Subject: [H] Free, lite AV suggestions for XP In light of MSFT's dropping of XP support thus the download/install of MSE (even though current installs will function until July 2015), does anyone have a suggestion for a free lite AV program? AVG Avast are out, as they are not lite enough for me. They may run fine for others but I think they are resource hogs, you may agree to disagree. Anything else out there, that one could recommend? Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... ...now these points of data make a beautiful line...
Re: [H] test?
Works in LA. I received a message that I had been unsubscribed due to bounced messages. Glad to see the list is intact. -Original Message- From: DSinc Sent: Monday, January 27, 2014 10:18 AM To: HWG Subject: [H] test? test?
Re: [H] Windows 8 and Home Server (not 2011)
So when I get my new PC next April (only because MS will cease supporting XP) I stick with Win7? - Original Message - From: DSinc dsinc...@epbfi.com To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 15:08 Subject: Re: [H] Windows 8 and Home Server (not 2011) Thane, Thank you for this comment. I will join the list with Win7pro and wait for the post-8 reviews to come. Duncan On 10/18/2013 16:41, Thane Sherrington wrote: At 05:19 PM 18/10/2013, Christopher Fisk wrote: GPT? Turned out that Windows 8 doesn't setup the Credentials correctly. You can add them manually, however. Yet another reason Win8 sucks. T
Re: [H] List info / Jim Edwards
I could PayPal a little something as well :) I don't contribute much but I do enjoy lurking around. Veech -Original Message- From: Brian Weeden Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 4:05 PM To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com Cc: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] List info / Jim Edwards I'm good for chipping in too. --- Brian Weeden Secure World Foundation +1 202 683-8534 On Mar 18, 2013, at 19:04, Robert Martin Jr. lopaka_...@yahoo.com wrote: Same here. Mostly lurking but still read the list mail ;) lopaka From: DSinc dsinc...@epbfi.com To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com Sent: Mon, March 18, 2013 4:01:18 PM Subject: Re: [H] List info / Jim Edwards Hey Jeff, A bunch of us 'oldsters' are still alive and bitchin' on this HardwareGroup list. I could be blocked by many, but, I continue to sharewith those that respond. Thanks for your service! Duncan On 03/18/2013 18:50, Jeff Lane wrote: I haven't either, but would be willing to. This is the best bunch of folks that I have on all my tech lists and sure wouldn't want to break it up. As an aside, though, I certainly hope Jim is ok. Being a Korean vet I am all too familiar with silence in a groupJeff I have not donated anything in the past, but will be more than happy to contribute now. Mike At 06:16 PM 3/18/2013, DSinc wrote: Yes, Me too! According to my schedule from waay back, I am now awhole lot in the 'non-payment' list! Still willing to fund this List/enterprise. Duncan On 03/18/2013 18:02, FORC5 wrote: In the past I have made donations to the list but has been a long time. Willing to donate. fp At 01:46 PM 3/18/2013, Bryan Seiz Poked the stick with: Collective, Has anyone seen or heard from Jim lately ? Does anyone know who pays for and runs the list ? The domain is set to expire at the end of this year, any info would be appreciated. __ Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. (Benjamin Franklin, 1755)
[H] Can I delete these uninstall folders from Win XP?
I have a ton of folders in the C drive Windows folder with names like $NtUninstallKB943055$ that are eating up a bunch of HD space. Can I delete these or would that mean I couldn't uninstall any of the associated programs? Maybe 300 of these that average 3 or 4 MB each.
Re: [H] Can I delete these uninstall folders from Win XP?
Follow up, these are XP SP2 uninstall files, total a bit over 1 GB. Any reason to keep them? - Original Message - From: Veech ve...@earthlink.net To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2010 02:45 Subject: [H] Can I delete these uninstall folders from Win XP? I have a ton of folders in the C drive Windows folder with names like $NtUninstallKB943055$ that are eating up a bunch of HD space. Can I delete these or would that mean I couldn't uninstall any of the associated programs? Maybe 300 of these that average 3 or 4 MB each.
Re: [H] Can I delete these uninstall folders from Win XP?
I have no plans to uninstall SP2, I like XP and will stick with it as long as I can. My C drive -- mainly the Windows folder -- is bloated. Weird thing happened, I managed to free up 1.8G of space last night mainly by moving these uninstall files to the external HD and deleting a bunch of old installers, then shut the machine down. I boot up this morning, and there is only half of that amount of free space available, like 900MB. wtf? Somehow 900+MB of space was filled up again, I assume at boot, do Windows files self-perpetuate? It's like a disease or something, eating up HD space. Speaking of which I ran spy-bot last night and it came back clean. I'll run AVG, MalwareBytes and ComboFix later today. A while back I had posted regarding deleting files from Windows XP and cleaning it up, this is the kind of stuff I was referring to. I use CC almost every day, but I wasn't aware it had the option to go this deep and purge the junk as well as all the log files. I'll look into that. - Original Message - From: Winterlight winterli...@winterlight.org To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2010 09:47 Subject: Re: [H] Can I delete these uninstall folders from Win XP? At 03:02 AM 9/18/2010, you wrote: Follow up, these are XP SP2 uninstall files, total a bit over 1 GB. Any reason to keep them? The only reason would be if you installed a patch and then had issues caused by the patch...but when has that ever happened. I routinely delete them all...and the all the .log files. You can use ccleaner to do this for you.
Re: [H] Need 100 cheap netbooks
I would love to help but this purchase will be made by our director of purchasing and she's strictly by the book. But I'll check it out and let you guys know if I see an opportunity. - Original Message - From: W. D. w...@us-webmasters.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 22:18 Subject: Re: [H] Need 100 cheap netbooks At 15:12 6/10/2010, Veech wrote: The modems are already in the homes, just need to hook them up to something to test surf-ability. yeah this may be the ticket... Can us hardware dudes piggyback on your volume order and get 1 or 2 for cheap? - Original Message - From: John R Steinbruner stei...@pacbell.net To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 13:11 Subject: Re: [H] Need 100 cheap netbooks Yeah, for 99 bucks those look fine. Did not see a modem though if they need to test dial-up access.. On Jun 10, 2010, at 8:26 AM, Neil Davidson wrote: I don't see how the little netbook Veech linked to wouldn't work for the intended usage. It has Wireless, built in Ethernet and CE does have a browser. What's not to like? Neil. Start Here to Find It Fast!T - http://www.US-Webmasters.com/best-start-page/ $8.77 Domain Names - http://domains.us-webmasters.com/
Re: [H] Need 100 cheap netbooks
The modems are already in the homes, just need to hook them up to something to test surf-ability. yeah this may be the ticket... - Original Message - From: John R Steinbruner stei...@pacbell.net To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 13:11 Subject: Re: [H] Need 100 cheap netbooks Yeah, for 99 bucks those look fine. Did not see a modem though if they need to test dial-up access.. On Jun 10, 2010, at 8:26 AM, Neil Davidson wrote: I don't see how the little netbook Veech linked to wouldn't work for the intended usage. It has Wireless, built in Ethernet and CE does have a browser. What's not to like? Neil.
[H] Need 100 cheap netbooks
My company needs about 100 devices to check for internet connectivity in homes across the US. Most have hard-wired internet but some are wireless. I found this online and am looking for your opinions of the device: http://www.eglobalwireless.com/p-4333-new-7-mini-netbook-laptop-notebook-wifi-windows-2gb-hd.aspx?gclid=CI6Dz_Xfk6ICFSQ65QodIlLBbg or if you know of any other solutions that might work, I'm open to suggestions. It just needs to be a portable device that our field people would carry into a home, connect and test internet speed. We do need some way to visually confirm the ability to surf the internet. thanks for any suggestions...
Re: [H] Vipre Antivirus
I haven't tried Vipre for my home system. The IT department at my work uses Vipre for our networked PCs, hundreds of PCs in 40+ cities in the US. So far it seems to work ok. At home I run AVG, SpyBot, ComboFix and MalwareBytes. I try to run all four once a week, takes about 4 hours to scan the whole thing. MalwareBytes seems to take the longest, almost 2 hours. AVG about an hour and a half, Spybot about 20 minutes and ComboFix about 10 - 15 minutes. I tried MSE but deleted it within a day because it would scan every web page or program prior to access and it took forever to launch anything, and connecting to Steam was impossible. Gotta have my Team fortress 2 fix! - Original Message - From: Naushad, Zulfiqar zulfiqar.naus...@siemens.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 02:44 Subject: Re: [H] Vipre Antivirus I think that MSE can't be trusted as a primary AV. I've used it and it gave me a false sense of security. I think that MSE can sit alongside another AV product and provide an additional safety net, but for some reason, I just can't get that false sense of security out of me when using MSE. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of John R Steinbruner Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 12:41 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Vipre Antivirus I have not used that one, but have switched from using Symantec to MSE for all my Windows boxen.. Microsoft Security Essentials seems to do the trick for free.. http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/ On May 16, 2010, at 2:25 AM, Naushad, Zulfiqar wrote: Anyone used this and how good is it? Need to get a new antivirus for my computer @ home. -- JRS stei...@pacbell.net Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored.
Re: [H] Cleaning and purging clutter in XP
The Slimming Down Windows XP program? Looks good and looks like what I am looking for. Have you used it? He wants a $15 donation which is fine with me, it would be worth it. - Original Message - From: Bill billy...@optonline.net To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2010 05:32 Subject: Re: [H] Cleaning and purging clutter in XP Try this... http://www.graphixanstuff.com/Forum/index.php?showtopic=4959 On 5/14/2010 4:32 PM, Veech wrote: Recently I ran a scan with AVP and saw thatr there were nearly 500,000 files scanned. Holy cow! I am on a mission to clean out all this clutter. Are there any programs that will help make the job easier? No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.819 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2874 - Release Date: 05/14/10 14:26:00
Re: [H] Cleaning and purging clutter in XP
Thanks Thane.. looking forward to seeing what you think. Yes I have a bunch of music and photo files that I need to archive on disc or my external drive. But sometimes things just take too darn long to work in XP. Desktop icons take a few seconds to load, clicking on Firefox takes about 10 seconds to open the program, the whole thing feels sluggish. My OS needs to go on a diet. Used to be that when I clicked on a program to open it, it would pop up right away. Now it needs to think for between 5 and 10 seconds. - Original Message - From: Thane Sherrington th...@computerconnectionltd.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2010 15:26 Subject: Re: [H] Cleaning and purging clutter in XP At 07:11 PM 15/05/2010, Veech wrote: The Slimming Down Windows XP program? Looks good and looks like what I am looking for. Have you used it? He wants a $15 donation which is fine with me, it would be worth it. I've skimmed his idea. I don't like the idea of actually removing the files for the services you don't need. The space saved can't be as significant as the space used by old music, pictures and video that most people have on their computer. I could be wrong, and I'll run it on Monday on a virtual machine to give more precise results. T
[H] Cleaning and purging clutter in XP
Recently I ran a scan with AVP and saw thatr there were nearly 500,000 files scanned. Holy cow! I am on a mission to clean out all this clutter. Are there any programs that will help make the job easier?
Re: [H] Cleaning and purging clutter in XP
heh... umm.. do you mean fresh install of XP? - Original Message - From: Stan Zaske swza...@yahoo.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 15:22 Subject: Re: [H] Cleaning and purging clutter in XP Yes sir, that program that will get rid of all the clutter is called Windows setup. LOL On 5/14/2010 3:32 PM, Veech wrote: Recently I ran a scan with AVP and saw thatr there were nearly 500,000 files scanned. Holy cow! I am on a mission to clean out all this clutter. Are there any programs that will help make the job easier?
Re: [H] Cleaning and purging clutter in XP
I have so many files that I need to save, and some programs that I just don't want to hassle with reinstalling. Also, will M$ allow another XP reinstall, this would be my third? I use CCleaner for purging but I would like something that lists all files and identifies them by type, with an option to delete them. - Original Message - From: Stan Zaske swza...@yahoo.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 15:39 Subject: Re: [H] Cleaning and purging clutter in XP Yeah actually I do. Of course it goes without saying that you need to backup your data first. On 5/14/2010 5:33 PM, Veech wrote: heh... umm.. do you mean fresh install of XP? - Original Message - From: Stan Zaske swza...@yahoo.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 15:22 Subject: Re: [H] Cleaning and purging clutter in XP Yes sir, that program that will get rid of all the clutter is called Windows setup. LOL On 5/14/2010 3:32 PM, Veech wrote: Recently I ran a scan with AVP and saw thatr there were nearly 500,000 files scanned. Holy cow! I am on a mission to clean out all this clutter. Are there any programs that will help make the job easier?
Re: [H] Cleaning and purging clutter in XP
Thanks! I'm using Revo Uninstaller which does a pretty good job of cleaning up leftovers. I have a ton of MP3s and wave files that I need to back up, along with a bunch of audio session files. Thing is, moving the session files and wave files will make them unusable because the path changes. The other thing I'm nervous about is uninstalling something vital to running XP. - Original Message - From: Thane Sherrington th...@computerconnectionltd.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 18:06 Subject: Re: [H] Cleaning and purging clutter in XP At 05:32 PM 14/05/2010, Veech wrote: Recently I ran a scan with AVP and saw thatr there were nearly 500,000 files scanned. Holy cow! I am on a mission to clean out all this clutter. Are there any programs that will help make the job easier? Uninstall the program you aren't using any longer, then delete those folders from Program Files and Application data. There is also a program to help clean up some of the left overs from uninstalls - back channel me next week, because it's at the office and I can't think of it right now. T
Re: [H] Open question?
Still wired LAN at my house. - Original Message - From: DSinc dx7...@bellsouth.net To: Hardware Group hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 16:24 Subject: [H] Open question? Is it fair for me to NOW believe that the majority of this LIST is now actively using WIFI for their internal home LANs? No. I do not wish to start a firestorm with those that use both! The basic question is about the use of WIFI... :) (Are there many of us old fools still using only wired CAT5/6 LANs?) Just wondering? Best, Duncan
Re: [H] Registry Cleaners
another vote for CCleaner - Original Message - From: DSinc dx7...@bellsouth.net To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 18:46 Subject: Re: [H] Registry Cleaners I use CCleaner. http://www.ccleaner.com/ Duncan On 03/26/2010 21:15, Jason Carson wrote: Hello everyone, I am in need of some registry editing software. What are you all using to clean and/or edit the windows registry. I am using winXP Pro 32 right now. Thanks
Re: [H] Strong recommend
I don't think auto-update is optional in Team Fortress 2. If you don't update, you're not connected to a server. 4. Autopatching is FORCED, not optional, so if a current update is crap you have to take it rather than waiting for it to be revised. Not actually correct. You can turn on the auto-updates in the game properties.
Re: [H] i5-750 vs i7-920
yep.. from what I looked at, the i7-860 is the one to get. Like the 5850 graphics card, the i7-860 hits the higher end sweet spot for price/performance. - Original Message - From: Steve Tomporowski didym...@gmail.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 16:48 Subject: Re: [H] i5-750 vs i7-920 Gee, James, thanks for muddying the water some more! ;-) Actually I hadn't considered it and, from the benchmarks I just went to look at, I believe you're correct. For the most part it is faster than either the i7-920 and the i5-750, didn't check price but did notice that it also runs cooler than the 920. Thanks muchSteve On 2/19/2010 2:47 PM, James Boswell wrote: I'm gonna say... I7-860 roughly the same price for the chip as the 920, fits the same board as the i5-750 and is quicker than either 2.83Ghz base clock, peak of.. 3.46Ghz turboboost (IIRC) 4 cores, HT enabled On 19 Feb 2010, at 17:44:280, Steve Tomporowski wrote: Not that I'm ready to pull the trigger on a new upgrade, but I was wondering what kind of performance increase I could expect from an upgrade. Currently my fastest system is an E8500 (the other is an E6850) and I was looking at bang for the buck. Here's the confusion, in comparing the i5-750 and i7-920 (roughly my price range), the benchmarks are all over the place with one not definitively better than the other. The big issue, of course, is that the i7-920 is about $100 more. So is there any reason (for a gamer) to go with the i7-920 over the i5-750? ThanksSteve
Re: [H] 2D, Acceleration, And Windows: Aren't All Graphics Cards Equal?
From my research the 5850 hits the sweet spot for performance vs price. Granted that is a budget-driven decision.. and I'm a gamer and I want to take advantage of the eye candy. - Original Message - From: Winterlight winterli...@winterlight.org To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 17:01 Subject: Re: [H] 2D, Acceleration, And Windows: Aren't All Graphics Cards Equal? At 04:42 PM 2/18/2010, you wrote: If I could justify spending $300 my personal choice would be an HD5850. I'll never do Crossfire or SLI because to me it's just overkill unless you have a 30 monitor and want the fastest FPS you can get. well I do have a 30 inch monitor, but crossfire in a multi monitor setup has proved to be very annoying. I was thinking of a HD 5770. Wouldn't this, on it's own, be faster then my two 4870s in Crossfire?... (correction from my calling them 4970s originally.) If I popped for the 5850 would it be a benefit in a multi monitor setup where the monitors differ in size? By the way, by chopping my previous post you changed the meaning of what I originally wrote. Sorry, it was unintentional. I was just trying to clean things up so it was easier to follow, I should of just left the first sentence. Thanks for the help, I don't really know video cards.. I have no idea what is what. w On 2/18/2010 1:02 PM, Winterlight wrote: At 07:20 AM 2/18/2010, you wrote: I don't think it's the stability of the driver causing the need for frequent reboots. The only time I've ever had difficulties like that are from fold...@home GPU client misbehaving after my box has been running for several days, overclocking the video HD5770 in my experience. Well, you may be right. I have disconnected my other monitors and running just one 30 inch monitor off the second of the 4970s and it is working OK. I might just have a bad video card. I have never seen a video go out where they don't just die, but this one works and just keeps crapping out the display requiring a reboot. I will be running further tests to make sure... but right now I think one of my 4970s went bad. So what should I get to replace it? I run three monitors. I currently have the two 4970s. one handles two 24 inch Dells and one handles a 30 inch Gateway. I need to replace the one that handles the 30 inch. Would it be best to get another 4970? Or should I get a 5000 series and forget about Crossfire? Is there something I could get that would be crossfire in just one card for the 30 inch. Even better is there a card that would work with my existing 4970 to play games across all three monitors. Any and all advice appreciated. w
Re: [H] Best board and chip going right now?
Is it an issue because the hardware and drivers are new -- or -- is it more of a problem because ATI cards are purposely designed to be more compatible with AMD boards and nVidia cards are purposely designed to be more compatible with Intel boards? - Original Message - From: Stan Zaske swza...@yahoo.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 15:20 Subject: Re: [H] Best board and chip going right now? I agree and the same thing happened mid 2008 with the HD4800 series. Took several months for the drivers to mature but hey the HD58XX is new hardware and that's to be expected.
Re: [H] Best board and chip going right now?
Thanks Duncan. I am very displeased with EVGA especially after hearing your comments as well. When I went to Frys's today to pick up the GTS 250 1GB card, I passed over the EVGA and got the BFG version for about $30 less. now check this out.. baking the video cards: http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1421792 This might be worth a try except that I wouldn't want to damage my mainboard with a wonky baked graphics card.. still my mainboard is EVGA also so *heh* why not? - Original Message - From: DSinc dx7...@bellsouth.net To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 15:42 Subject: Re: [H] Best board and chip going right now? Veech, Like your upgrade plan. Wish I could follow. Not yet. Not to add salt, but as you mentioned EVGA, I can share that have had bad service from their cards (4 of them). All 4 cards failed within warranty and were replaced via RMA. OK. But then 3 of the replacements failed hard again within 6-9 months. I do not use or recc EVGA any longer. Just now I use Asus nVidia cards(2) and an Asus ATI(1) card; plus 2 very old and still very good Matrox cards! LOL! Best, Duncan On 02/09/2010 01:32, Veech wrote: well I'm pretty sure now that the one remaining video card I have is going bad.. as I was writing an email, the screen turned pink and blocky/blotchy.. definitely signs of video artifacts. Thing is, this makes two GeForce cards that have gone bad on me and I'm a little pissed about it, definitely makes me not real anxious to go back into nVidia. Could have been the manufacturer EVGA, could have been the specific cards I had, I dunno. However I think for now I'll grab a cheap nVidia card and stick it in the system tomorrow, just to confirm that this is the issue. Then if that temporarily cures things, I'll look more towards a full-blown upgrade. So far, I'm thinking about a Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD4P, a i7-860, 2 x 2GB DDR3 RAM, the Radeon HD 5850 card, Windows 7 and maybe a SSD for W7 and other programs? Not sure on the solid state drive yet. - Original Message - From: DSinc dx7...@bellsouth.net To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 19:58 Subject: Re: [H] Best board and chip going right now? Veech, I do not know from ADAM...But, If you want to FOCUS on your keeper M/B, then, it reads to me you are going to have happiness with a compatible nVidia video card choice. I could be wrong, certainly. Why anyone would choose to drive an ATI video card via an nVidia NorthBridge/SouthBridge internal I/O combination makes no sense to me. Again, I could be way wrong! I have never tried this. Never even thought about it. Best, Duncan
Re: [H] Replacing 2 Geforce 8800 GTS in SLI, what to get?
I'm thinking two of these 8800 GTs in SLI would work just fine.. opinions? Seems like they might spec higher than the two GTS cards even though they have 512MB RAM as opposed to 640MB on the GTS cards. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814143118nm_mc=OTC-Frooglecm_mmc=OTC-Froogle-_-Video+Cards-_-BFG+Technologies-_-14143118 - Original Message - From: Veech ve...@earthlink.net To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2010 23:28 Subject: [H] Replacing 2 Geforce 8800 GTS in SLI, what to get? I had two Geforce 8800GTS 640MB PCI-E cards in SLI in my system which was built about 3 years ago. About 4 months ago one went bonkers, probably overheated, so I removed it and am now running with just the other one. I play a lot of Team Fortress 2 online and after a recent Steam update I was getting some strange artifacting in the game and now am having trouble staying connected, and often the game and the computer freeze and I have to reboot. Oddly enough, the card seems to work fine under all other conditions and apps such as internet, DVD movie playing etc, but when playing TF2 online it goes nuts. So I'm thinking it may be about to go and I should consider replacing it. I haven't shopped for video cards in 3 years. I have an EVGA nForce 6801 SLI board and Core2 x6800 2.93G CPU, running XP Media Edition. What would you folks recommend for replacement video cards? I would probably stick with an SLI configuration unless a single ATI card comparably priced would blow it away. thanks!!
[H] Best board and chip going right now?
thanks Boz... I have pretty much decided on getting the ATI 5850 graphics card at this point. Now the question is, do I want to upgrade the board and chip while I'm at it? If I decide to do so, I would really prefer to not have to upgrade OS as XP seems to be working ok for me for now and I just don't want to have to hassle with reloading all my programs.. *sigh* So based on going with the 5850 graphics card, what board and CPU is the way to go at this point? If I *have* to go to Windows 7 then I will, but I just want a quick fix at this point. - Original Message - From: Veech ve...@earthlink.net To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 10:03 Subject: Re: [H] Replacing 2 Geforce 8800 GTS in SLI, what to get? ok I forgot to mention that my budget is around $300, and I see the ATI 5850 is available for that from NewEgg, any opinions? - Original Message - From: James Boswell torazch...@gmail.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 02:16 Subject: Re: [H] Replacing 2 Geforce 8800 GTS in SLI, what to get? the 8800GT has 112 shaders the 8800GTS320/640 has 96 shaders the 8800GTS512 has 128 shaders the GTS250 has 128 shaders, and has had a die shrink so it's cooler and the clocks are a chunk higher, it's the one to get if you want an nvidia card of that level IMO OR look at a radeon 4890, which will be around the same performance level (I think) as your pair of 8800GTS's were and use a hell of a lot less power... or even a 5770, which is a little slower (10% or so) than the 4890 but runs cooler and has DX11 support for whenever you eventually get off of XP On 8 Feb 2010, at 08:06:310, Veech wrote: I'm thinking two of these 8800 GTs in SLI would work just fine.. opinions? Seems like they might spec higher than the two GTS cards even though they have 512MB RAM as opposed to 640MB on the GTS cards. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814143118nm_mc=OTC-Frooglecm_mmc=OTC-Froogle-_-Video+Cards-_-BFG+Technologies-_-14143118 - Original Message - From: Veech ve...@earthlink.net To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2010 23:28 Subject: [H] Replacing 2 Geforce 8800 GTS in SLI, what to get? I had two Geforce 8800GTS 640MB PCI-E cards in SLI in my system which was built about 3 years ago. About 4 months ago one went bonkers, probably overheated, so I removed it and am now running with just the other one. I play a lot of Team Fortress 2 online and after a recent Steam update I was getting some strange artifacting in the game and now am having trouble staying connected, and often the game and the computer freeze and I have to reboot. Oddly enough, the card seems to work fine under all other conditions and apps such as internet, DVD movie playing etc, but when playing TF2 online it goes nuts. So I'm thinking it may be about to go and I should consider replacing it. I haven't shopped for video cards in 3 years. I have an EVGA nForce 6801 SLI board and Core2 x6800 2.93G CPU, running XP Media Edition. What would you folks recommend for replacement video cards? I would probably stick with an SLI configuration unless a single ATI card comparably priced would blow it away. thanks!!
Re: [H] Best board and chip going right now?
dude you're supposed to read my mind and tell me what I want! :) sorry, I'll do some more research and pose further questions as I have them. Thanks for the feedback. - Original Message - From: DSinc dx7...@bellsouth.net To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 14:30 Subject: Re: [H] Best board and chip going right now? Veech, You always pose questions to us that have NOT enough info (for me) to answer. You always pose LifeStyle questions. Hard to share. LifeStyle is YOUR choice. LifeStyle is not technical; much less how you do with what you have. Personally, I do so like the 9600GT(S) card that I've been testing for the past 3 months (as I migrate back to nVidia). It seems to work very well with my lame C2D. Please see FORCE5. ASUS P5Q3, 2GB, SATA 160GB..? (OK, I am a noob!) JMHO. Best, Duncan On 02/08/2010 16:33, Veech wrote: thanks Boz... I have pretty much decided on getting the ATI 5850 graphics card at this point. Now the question is, do I want to upgrade the board and chip while I'm at it? If I decide to do so, I would really prefer to not have to upgrade OS as XP seems to be working ok for me for now and I just don't want to have to hassle with reloading all my programs.. *sigh* So based on going with the 5850 graphics card, what board and CPU is the way to go at this point? If I *have* to go to Windows 7 then I will, but I just want a quick fix at this point. - Original Message - From: Veech ve...@earthlink.net To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 10:03 Subject: Re: [H] Replacing 2 Geforce 8800 GTS in SLI, what to get? ok I forgot to mention that my budget is around $300, and I see the ATI 5850 is available for that from NewEgg, any opinions? - Original Message - From: James Boswell torazch...@gmail.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 02:16 Subject: Re: [H] Replacing 2 Geforce 8800 GTS in SLI, what to get? the 8800GT has 112 shaders the 8800GTS320/640 has 96 shaders the 8800GTS512 has 128 shaders the GTS250 has 128 shaders, and has had a die shrink so it's cooler and the clocks are a chunk higher, it's the one to get if you want an nvidia card of that level IMO OR look at a radeon 4890, which will be around the same performance level (I think) as your pair of 8800GTS's were and use a hell of a lot less power... or even a 5770, which is a little slower (10% or so) than the 4890 but runs cooler and has DX11 support for whenever you eventually get off of XP On 8 Feb 2010, at 08:06:310, Veech wrote: I'm thinking two of these 8800 GTs in SLI would work just fine.. opinions? Seems like they might spec higher than the two GTS cards even though they have 512MB RAM as opposed to 640MB on the GTS cards. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814143118nm_mc=OTC-Frooglecm_mmc=OTC-Froogle-_-Video+Cards-_-BFG+Technologies-_-14143118 - Original Message - From: Veech ve...@earthlink.net To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2010 23:28 Subject: [H] Replacing 2 Geforce 8800 GTS in SLI, what to get? I had two Geforce 8800GTS 640MB PCI-E cards in SLI in my system which was built about 3 years ago. About 4 months ago one went bonkers, probably overheated, so I removed it and am now running with just the other one. I play a lot of Team Fortress 2 online and after a recent Steam update I was getting some strange artifacting in the game and now am having trouble staying connected, and often the game and the computer freeze and I have to reboot. Oddly enough, the card seems to work fine under all other conditions and apps such as internet, DVD movie playing etc, but when playing TF2 online it goes nuts. So I'm thinking it may be about to go and I should consider replacing it. I haven't shopped for video cards in 3 years. I have an EVGA nForce 6801 SLI board and Core2 x6800 2.93G CPU, running XP Media Edition. What would you folks recommend for replacement video cards? I would probably stick with an SLI configuration unless a single ATI card comparably priced would blow it away. thanks!!
Re: [H] Best board and chip going right now?
Say $600 for board and chip. I haven't owned ATI in ages and am only making this change because the GeForce cards are going out on me. I'm looking for recs on a board that plays nice with the 5850 card (a board that has PCIe 2.0 and is capable of upgrade path to a second graphics card in crossfire) and I'm looking for a quad-core CPU. So it's not bleeding edge but a board and chip in the same class as the graphics card -- higher-end bang-for-buck soluton that will last thorugh the next couple of generations. thanks! - Original Message - From: tmse...@rlrnews.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 13:55 Subject: Re: [H] Best board and chip going right now? best is subjective... I mean, on what kind of budget? Best bang for the buck may be an i5-750/p55 combo. Sent via BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Veech ve...@earthlink.net Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 13:33:40 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Best board and chip going right now? thanks Boz... I have pretty much decided on getting the ATI 5850 graphics card at this point. Now the question is, do I want to upgrade the board and chip while I'm at it? If I decide to do so, I would really prefer to not have to upgrade OS as XP seems to be working ok for me for now and I just don't want to have to hassle with reloading all my programs.. *sigh* So based on going with the 5850 graphics card, what board and CPU is the way to go at this point? If I *have* to go to Windows 7 then I will, but I just want a quick fix at this point. - Original Message - From: Veech ve...@earthlink.net To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 10:03 Subject: Re: [H] Replacing 2 Geforce 8800 GTS in SLI, what to get? ok I forgot to mention that my budget is around $300, and I see the ATI 5850 is available for that from NewEgg, any opinions? - Original Message - From: James Boswell torazch...@gmail.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 02:16 Subject: Re: [H] Replacing 2 Geforce 8800 GTS in SLI, what to get? the 8800GT has 112 shaders the 8800GTS320/640 has 96 shaders the 8800GTS512 has 128 shaders the GTS250 has 128 shaders, and has had a die shrink so it's cooler and the clocks are a chunk higher, it's the one to get if you want an nvidia card of that level IMO OR look at a radeon 4890, which will be around the same performance level (I think) as your pair of 8800GTS's were and use a hell of a lot less power... or even a 5770, which is a little slower (10% or so) than the 4890 but runs cooler and has DX11 support for whenever you eventually get off of XP On 8 Feb 2010, at 08:06:310, Veech wrote: I'm thinking two of these 8800 GTs in SLI would work just fine.. opinions? Seems like they might spec higher than the two GTS cards even though they have 512MB RAM as opposed to 640MB on the GTS cards. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814143118nm_mc=OTC-Frooglecm_mmc=OTC-Froogle-_-Video+Cards-_-BFG+Technologies-_-14143118 - Original Message - From: Veech ve...@earthlink.net To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2010 23:28 Subject: [H] Replacing 2 Geforce 8800 GTS in SLI, what to get? I had two Geforce 8800GTS 640MB PCI-E cards in SLI in my system which was built about 3 years ago. About 4 months ago one went bonkers, probably overheated, so I removed it and am now running with just the other one. I play a lot of Team Fortress 2 online and after a recent Steam update I was getting some strange artifacting in the game and now am having trouble staying connected, and often the game and the computer freeze and I have to reboot. Oddly enough, the card seems to work fine under all other conditions and apps such as internet, DVD movie playing etc, but when playing TF2 online it goes nuts. So I'm thinking it may be about to go and I should consider replacing it. I haven't shopped for video cards in 3 years. I have an EVGA nForce 6801 SLI board and Core2 x6800 2.93G CPU, running XP Media Edition. What would you folks recommend for replacement video cards? I would probably stick with an SLI configuration unless a single ATI card comparably priced would blow it away. thanks!!
Re: [H] Best board and chip going right now?
heh! That's a good theory! Actually, I have the wife approval although this time around it was tougher than usual to get it. Well I definitely gotta get the video card, I'm nervous the second 8800 is going to go poop at any time in which case.. I have to sit on the couch with affore-mentioned wife and watch reruns of Ellen! So I hope you catch my drift? I really could swing either way at this point, just get the video card, whip it in and be cool or go ahead and since I have the thing open swap out the other goodies. I will decide what to do based on the combination of price, difficulty and level of upgrade. - Original Message - From: Stan Zaske swza...@yahoo.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 16:09 Subject: Re: [H] Best board and chip going right now? I think you're just looking for a wife approval excuse to upgrade (now it's in hard copy here on the list which makes it even more impressive to the female mind. You know, just in case she snoops). First it was the video card's are going out and now it's a new motherboard/CPU. Get yourself a Radeon 5850 and an i5-750/p55 combo and call it a day. LOL On 2/8/2010 5:15 PM, Veech wrote: Say $600 for board and chip. I haven't owned ATI in ages and am only making this change because the GeForce cards are going out on me. I'm looking for recs on a board that plays nice with the 5850 card (a board that has PCIe 2.0 and is capable of upgrade path to a second graphics card in crossfire) and I'm looking for a quad-core CPU. So it's not bleeding edge but a board and chip in the same class as the graphics card -- higher-end bang-for-buck soluton that will last thorugh the next couple of generations. thanks! - Original Message - From: tmse...@rlrnews.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 13:55 Subject: Re: [H] Best board and chip going right now? best is subjective... I mean, on what kind of budget? Best bang for the buck may be an i5-750/p55 combo. Sent via BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Veech ve...@earthlink.net Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 13:33:40 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Best board and chip going right now? thanks Boz... I have pretty much decided on getting the ATI 5850 graphics card at this point. Now the question is, do I want to upgrade the board and chip while I'm at it? If I decide to do so, I would really prefer to not have to upgrade OS as XP seems to be working ok for me for now and I just don't want to have to hassle with reloading all my programs.. *sigh* So based on going with the 5850 graphics card, what board and CPU is the way to go at this point? If I *have* to go to Windows 7 then I will, but I just want a quick fix at this point. - Original Message - From: Veech ve...@earthlink.net To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 10:03 Subject: Re: [H] Replacing 2 Geforce 8800 GTS in SLI, what to get? ok I forgot to mention that my budget is around $300, and I see the ATI 5850 is available for that from NewEgg, any opinions? - Original Message - From: James Boswell torazch...@gmail.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 02:16 Subject: Re: [H] Replacing 2 Geforce 8800 GTS in SLI, what to get? the 8800GT has 112 shaders the 8800GTS320/640 has 96 shaders the 8800GTS512 has 128 shaders the GTS250 has 128 shaders, and has had a die shrink so it's cooler and the clocks are a chunk higher, it's the one to get if you want an nvidia card of that level IMO OR look at a radeon 4890, which will be around the same performance level (I think) as your pair of 8800GTS's were and use a hell of a lot less power... or even a 5770, which is a little slower (10% or so) than the 4890 but runs cooler and has DX11 support for whenever you eventually get off of XP On 8 Feb 2010, at 08:06:310, Veech wrote: I'm thinking two of these 8800 GTs in SLI would work just fine.. opinions? Seems like they might spec higher than the two GTS cards even though they have 512MB RAM as opposed to 640MB on the GTS cards. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814143118nm_mc=OTC-Frooglecm_mmc=OTC-Froogle-_-Video+Cards-_-BFG+Technologies-_-14143118 - Original Message - From: Veech ve...@earthlink.net To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2010 23:28 Subject: [H] Replacing 2 Geforce 8800 GTS in SLI, what to get? I had two Geforce 8800GTS 640MB PCI-E cards in SLI in my system which was built about 3 years ago. About 4 months ago one went bonkers, probably overheated, so I removed it and am now running with just the other one. I play a lot of Team Fortress 2 online and after a recent Steam update I was getting some strange artifacting in the game and now am having trouble staying connected, and often the game and the computer freeze and I have to reboot. Oddly enough, the card seems
Re: [H] Best board and chip going right now?
yah forgot to include that in the request although I know it needs to happen. what, maybe 2x2GB? - Original Message - From: Anthony Q. Martin amar...@charter.net To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 16:51 Subject: Re: [H] Best board and chip going right now? Are you forgetting DDR3 ram if you go for a i5 or i7? On 2/8/2010 6:15 PM, Veech wrote: Say $600 for board and chip. I haven't owned ATI in ages and am only making this change because the GeForce cards are going out on me. I'm looking for recs on a board that plays nice with the 5850 card (a board that has PCIe 2.0 and is capable of upgrade path to a second graphics card in crossfire) and I'm looking for a quad-core CPU. So it's not bleeding edge but a board and chip in the same class as the graphics card -- higher-end bang-for-buck soluton that will last thorugh the next couple of generations. thanks! - Original Message - From: tmse...@rlrnews.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 13:55 Subject: Re: [H] Best board and chip going right now? best is subjective... I mean, on what kind of budget? Best bang for the buck may be an i5-750/p55 combo. Sent via BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Veech ve...@earthlink.net Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 13:33:40 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Best board and chip going right now? thanks Boz... I have pretty much decided on getting the ATI 5850 graphics card at this point. Now the question is, do I want to upgrade the board and chip while I'm at it? If I decide to do so, I would really prefer to not have to upgrade OS as XP seems to be working ok for me for now and I just don't want to have to hassle with reloading all my programs.. *sigh* So based on going with the 5850 graphics card, what board and CPU is the way to go at this point? If I *have* to go to Windows 7 then I will, but I just want a quick fix at this point. - Original Message - From: Veech ve...@earthlink.net To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 10:03 Subject: Re: [H] Replacing 2 Geforce 8800 GTS in SLI, what to get? ok I forgot to mention that my budget is around $300, and I see the ATI 5850 is available for that from NewEgg, any opinions? - Original Message - From: James Boswell torazch...@gmail.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 02:16 Subject: Re: [H] Replacing 2 Geforce 8800 GTS in SLI, what to get? the 8800GT has 112 shaders the 8800GTS320/640 has 96 shaders the 8800GTS512 has 128 shaders the GTS250 has 128 shaders, and has had a die shrink so it's cooler and the clocks are a chunk higher, it's the one to get if you want an nvidia card of that level IMO OR look at a radeon 4890, which will be around the same performance level (I think) as your pair of 8800GTS's were and use a hell of a lot less power... or even a 5770, which is a little slower (10% or so) than the 4890 but runs cooler and has DX11 support for whenever you eventually get off of XP On 8 Feb 2010, at 08:06:310, Veech wrote: I'm thinking two of these 8800 GTs in SLI would work just fine.. opinions? Seems like they might spec higher than the two GTS cards even though they have 512MB RAM as opposed to 640MB on the GTS cards. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814143118nm_mc=OTC-Frooglecm_mmc=OTC-Froogle-_-Video+Cards-_-BFG+Technologies-_-14143118 - Original Message - From: Veech ve...@earthlink.net To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2010 23:28 Subject: [H] Replacing 2 Geforce 8800 GTS in SLI, what to get? I had two Geforce 8800GTS 640MB PCI-E cards in SLI in my system which was built about 3 years ago. About 4 months ago one went bonkers, probably overheated, so I removed it and am now running with just the other one. I play a lot of Team Fortress 2 online and after a recent Steam update I was getting some strange artifacting in the game and now am having trouble staying connected, and often the game and the computer freeze and I have to reboot. Oddly enough, the card seems to work fine under all other conditions and apps such as internet, DVD movie playing etc, but when playing TF2 online it goes nuts. So I'm thinking it may be about to go and I should consider replacing it. I haven't shopped for video cards in 3 years. I have an EVGA nForce 6801 SLI board and Core2 x6800 2.93G CPU, running XP Media Edition. What would you folks recommend for replacement video cards? I would probably stick with an SLI configuration unless a single ATI card comparably priced would blow it away. thanks!! No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.733 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2676 - Release Date: 02/08/10 14:35:00
Re: [H] Best board and chip going right now?
huh.. that doesn't seem to bode well for putting the 5850 in my 680i board, eh? - Original Message - From: Anthony Q. Martin amar...@charter.net To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 18:16 Subject: Re: [H] Best board and chip going right now? I suspect you may be right, Duncan. I recently upgraded to an ATI 5770 on an Intel Mobo. While the display looks nice, it's not as stable as the old GTS8800 I had (which I moved to the other PC). The drivers seem to be the problem. I have an ATI 4650 on the AMD system in the office...that seems to work better.
Re: [H] Best board and chip going right now?
well I'm pretty sure now that the one remaining video card I have is going bad.. as I was writing an email, the screen turned pink and blocky/blotchy.. definitely signs of video artifacts. Thing is, this makes two GeForce cards that have gone bad on me and I'm a little pissed about it, definitely makes me not real anxious to go back into nVidia. Could have been the manufacturer EVGA, could have been the specific cards I had, I dunno. However I think for now I'll grab a cheap nVidia card and stick it in the system tomorrow, just to confirm that this is the issue. Then if that temporarily cures things, I'll look more towards a full-blown upgrade. So far, I'm thinking about a Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD4P, a i7-860, 2 x 2GB DDR3 RAM, the Radeon HD 5850 card, Windows 7 and maybe a SSD for W7 and other programs? Not sure on the solid state drive yet. - Original Message - From: DSinc dx7...@bellsouth.net To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 19:58 Subject: Re: [H] Best board and chip going right now? Veech, I do not know from ADAM...But, If you want to FOCUS on your keeper M/B, then, it reads to me you are going to have happiness with a compatible nVidia video card choice. I could be wrong, certainly. Why anyone would choose to drive an ATI video card via an nVidia NorthBridge/SouthBridge internal I/O combination makes no sense to me. Again, I could be way wrong! I have never tried this. Never even thought about it. Best, Duncan On 02/08/2010 22:08, Veech wrote: huh.. that doesn't seem to bode well for putting the 5850 in my 680i board, eh? - Original Message - From: Anthony Q. Martin amar...@charter.net To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 18:16 Subject: Re: [H] Best board and chip going right now? I suspect you may be right, Duncan. I recently upgraded to an ATI 5770 on an Intel Mobo. While the display looks nice, it's not as stable as the old GTS8800 I had (which I moved to the other PC). The drivers seem to be the problem. I have an ATI 4650 on the AMD system in the office...that seems to work better.
Re: [H] Guitar Hero or Rock Band?
We have the XBox 360 and bought Rock Band 2, as well as Beatles Rock Band. It's a blast! Still, Team Fortress 2 is my go-to game. - Original Message - From: Brian Weeden brian.wee...@gmail.com To: hardware hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 17:34 Subject: Re: [H] Guitar Hero or Rock Band? Rock Band by far. --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Bobby Heid bh...@sc.rr.com wrote: Hey, I won an XBox 360 Elite tonight at a Microsoft event. I was going to buy one for my daughter (14 years old) for Christmas, so timing could not have been better. I was thinking about getting her either Rock Band or Guitar Hero to go with it. I would like to get some feedback from you all as to which one you like best. And, if you've played both, why you liked one over the other. Thanks, Bobby
Re: [H] Google Wave
Thank you!! - Original Message - From: Naushad Zulfiqar z00...@gmail.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 11:14 Subject: Re: [H] Google Wave Okay guys, As promised I have sent out 10 invites. The invites are now closed. Thanks for everyones interest. On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Steve Tomporowski didym...@gmail.comwrote: Z, If you happen to have one left. Steve On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Scott Sipe csco...@gmail.com wrote: Awesome, thanks! Scott On Oct 19, 2009, at 10:27 AM, Naushad, Zulfiqar wrote: Nope have 1 or 2 left. Will send one to you. With best regards, Zulfiqar Naushad Siemens Limited Energy Sector Oil Gas Division Oil Gas Solutions E O OS P.O. Box 719, Al-Khobar, 31952 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Phone: +966 (3) 865-9730 (*NEW) Mobile: +966 (050) 587-0964 Fax: +966 (3) 887-0165 mailto:zulfiqar.naus...@siemens.com www.siemens.com.sa -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Scott Sipe Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 5:27 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Google Wave All out by now? Scott On Oct 18, 2009, at 7:57 AM, Naushad, Zulfiqar wrote: I've got invites I can send out. Who wants them? I can give away 10. Thanks! -- Best Regards, Zulfiqar Naushad
Re: [H] Google Wave
lmgtfy.. hilarious! - Original Message - From: Al xtemp...@comcast.net To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2009 09:30 Subject: Re: [H] Google Wave DSinc wrote: Z, What is Google Wave? http://lmgtfy.com/?q=google+wave Cheers, al -- Al xtemp...@comcast.net
[H] Internet Telephone Services - Ooma etc
Has anyone had any experience with Ooma or any of the other internet voip telephone products? They claim that with a one-time purchase of the Ooma device that you can basically disconnect the phone service and everything will run over your high-speed internet. They claim you can have the same services such as call-waiting, caller ID, 911 service, along with unlimited local and long distance calling across the US for free, meaning just the cost of the high-speed internet. Thoughts? http://www.ooma.com/
Re: [H] Internet Telephone Services - Ooma etc
From what I saw the PC doesn't need to be running. We have ATTs UVerse which is on 24/7. I have a base station with three cordless satellite phones, hopefully it will work with these. - Original Message - From: Winterlight winterli...@winterlight.org To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 10:25 Subject: Re: [H] Internet Telephone Services - Ooma etc I have a Magic Jack account and yes, it is what they claim it to be. I have all you describe, and more, but for a single phone. NOTE You can not split the signal into multiple phones like a land line, but you can run a single base station with a bunch of cordless phones. I am running it from a old Thinkpad T23 running XP PRO that I also run security cameras on. Of course, if your internet connection is down, or your PC is not running neither is the phone. With Magic Jack I can move it to whatever PC I want, it creates two virtual CD drives and runs from that. I like it so much I paid 60 bucks for a five year subscription. At 09:57 AM 10/13/2009, you wrote: Has anyone had any experience with Ooma or any of the other internet voip telephone products? They claim that with a one-time purchase of the Ooma device that you can basically disconnect the phone service and everything will run over your high-speed internet. They claim you can have the same services such as call-waiting, caller ID, 911 service, along with unlimited local and long distance calling across the US for free, meaning just the cost of the high-speed internet. Thoughts? http://www.ooma.com/
Re: [H] One of two 8800 GTS (SLI) on the fritz.. next move?
I don't think I registered them, so I may be s.o.l. in that regard. - Original Message - From: Christopher Fisk chr...@mhonline.net To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 05:52 Subject: Re: [H] One of two 8800 GTS (SLI) on the fritz.. next move? On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Veech wrote: I had two EVGA e-Geforce 8800GTS running in SLI and one went bad, I think the RAM may have overheated. So I pulled out the bad one and am now running with just one 8800 GTS. So far it is fine for my purposes, but I've been out of the video-card market for almost 3 years and am wondering what the next move should be. I plan to contact EVGA and see if by any chance it is under warranty, I heard that it is possible that they may replace it although I don't know yet for sure. EVGA Warranty information can be found here: http://www.evga.com/support/warranty/ The 8800 is an OK card still, not sure if it'll be in warranty. Did you register the card when you got it? Christopher FIsk -- rac klieber: is the distfiles-fetching thing working as far as you're concerned? klieber rac: as far as I'm concerned, yes. If it isn't, give me a minute to shove my head in the sand before you tell me otherwise. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Re: [H] One of two 8800 GTS (SLI) on the fritz.. next move?
hmm.. ATI? Interesting, I'm hoping/assuming the ATI cards will work ok on an nVidia mobo? - Original Message - From: James Boswell torazch...@gmail.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 02:41 Subject: Re: [H] One of two 8800 GTS (SLI) on the fritz.. next move? the GTS512 is actually faster than the GTS640 (it's a 128 shader part with higher clockspeeds, compared to the 96 shader... 500Mhz? of the GTS320/640) ATI's 5870's should be dropping in two or three weeks, so I'd recommend waiting to see what that can do before spending any money. On 26 Aug 2009, at 06:58, Veech wrote: I had two EVGA e-Geforce 8800GTS running in SLI and one went bad, I think the RAM may have overheated. So I pulled out the bad one and am now running with just one 8800 GTS. So far it is fine for my purposes, but I've been out of the video-card market for almost 3 years and am wondering what the next move should be. I plan to contact EVGA and see if by any chance it is under warranty, I heard that it is possible that they may replace it although I don't know yet for sure. I have an EVGA nForce 680i board and am running Win XP. I see a similar card available at Amazon but it looks different than mine, probably a newer version. Anyway it's $89.99 so even if I buy two of them, for $180 I could run two new 8800s in SLI. edit: I see it's the 512MB version of the card. nevermind.. e-GeForce 8800 GTS P/N 640-P2-N821-AR serial 6088212000644 640MB PCI-E What do you folks recommend, is 8800 GTS old tech now, is there something else much better for about the same price that would work for PCI-E? thnaks
[H] One of two 8800 GTS (SLI) on the fritz.. next move?
I had two EVGA e-Geforce 8800GTS running in SLI and one went bad, I think the RAM may have overheated. So I pulled out the bad one and am now running with just one 8800 GTS. So far it is fine for my purposes, but I've been out of the video-card market for almost 3 years and am wondering what the next move should be. I plan to contact EVGA and see if by any chance it is under warranty, I heard that it is possible that they may replace it although I don't know yet for sure. I have an EVGA nForce 680i board and am running Win XP. I see a similar card available at Amazon but it looks different than mine, probably a newer version. Anyway it's $89.99 so even if I buy two of them, for $180 I could run two new 8800s in SLI. e-GeForce 8800 GTS P/N 640-P2-N821-AR serial 6088212000644 640MB PCI-E What do you folks recommend, is 8800 GTS old tech now, is there something else much better for about the same price that would work for PCI-E? thnaks
[H] One of two 8800 GTS (SLI) on the fritz.. next move?
I had two EVGA e-Geforce 8800GTS running in SLI and one went bad, I think the RAM may have overheated. So I pulled out the bad one and am now running with just one 8800 GTS. So far it is fine for my purposes, but I've been out of the video-card market for almost 3 years and am wondering what the next move should be. I plan to contact EVGA and see if by any chance it is under warranty, I heard that it is possible that they may replace it although I don't know yet for sure. I have an EVGA nForce 680i board and am running Win XP. I see a similar card available at Amazon but it looks different than mine, probably a newer version. Anyway it's $89.99 so even if I buy two of them, for $180 I could run two new 8800s in SLI. edit: I see it's the 512MB version of the card. nevermind.. e-GeForce 8800 GTS P/N 640-P2-N821-AR serial 6088212000644 640MB PCI-E What do you folks recommend, is 8800 GTS old tech now, is there something else much better for about the same price that would work for PCI-E? thnaks
Re: [H] Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade Pre-order now available
Is Windows 7 considered an improvement over XP Media Edition? - Original Message - From: mark.dodge mark.do...@earthlink.net To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2009 05:03 Subject: Re: [H] Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade Pre-order now available Thank you. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Eli Allen Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2009 05:57A To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade Pre-order now available In store only: http://microcenter.com/storefronts/microsoft/windows7/preorder.html Eli -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of mark.dodge Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2009 6:51 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade Pre-order now available I could not find it at Microcenter, have a link? -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of tmse...@rlrnews.com Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 09:22A To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade Pre-order now available Microcenters are offering it at $39.99. Sent via BlackBerry -Original Message- From: FORC5 fuf...@cox.net Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:16:34 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade Pre-order now available but it is a upgrade disk. how generous of them. I know the tricks to clean install a upgrade disk, just bugs me a little. fp At 04:14 AM 6/26/2009, Stan Zaske Poked the stick with: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=1090tag=nl.e539 There's supposed to be only a limited number and if true will sell out quickly. Pre-order now and get the DVDRom when it ships October 22. It's really a good deal but I'm going to stick with Vista until SR1 comes out next year. http://bit.ly/4fhxpM -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Time is the dressmaker specializing in alterations.
[H] A way to reduce warm air exhaust from my PC?
My box throws off a lot of warm air from the exhaust fans. Is there a program that helps control the heat generated by this thing? It isn't running dangerously hot, but I would say the exhaust is about 90 degrees or maybe a bit more. Running for a couple hours it really heats up the small room I'm in. Any ideas? thnaks,
[H] Monitor Calibration Tools
What do you folks use to calibrate new monitor settings? I just got a Dell 2408 FPW and want to test for banding, grayscale etc, and also tweak the settings some. thanks
Re: [H] What MUST run at XP start-up?
Thanks Joe! - Original Message - From: Joe User joeu...@chronic.org To: Veech hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2009 16:38 Subject: Re: [H] What MUST run at XP start-up? Hello Veech, Sunday, May 24, 2009, 4:06:19 PM, you wrote: ctfmon.exe NvCplDaemon KernelFaultCheck TrueImageMonitor.exe AcronisTimouterMonitor Acronis Scheduler2 Service ctfmon = office - i kill mine w/o issue nvcpldaemon = nvidia fluff - i kill mine w/o issue KernelFaultCheck = i'd google that diagnostic but not sure if you need rest of it is the acronis shit which you may or may not need... I'd kill it unless you wanted automated backups or w/e -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... ...now these points of data make a beautiful line...
Re: [H] Acronis True Image deal?
ok thank you! I ordered it, looks like it's a download. - Original Message - From: Gary Udstrand g...@digitalwind.net To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 06:22 Subject: Re: [H] Acronis True Image deal? I signed up for a Happy Easter promo, depending on the number of people the price would drop. They sent me an email with the final price, try this link: https://acronis.cleverbridge.com/325/purl-ati2009h_en?x-medium=Specialx-campaign=100132coupon=WLF-5HT-CPHtracking=geUA1499431,gaUA1499431,mid=2134lid=2uid=666 -- Gary http://www.twigsandtracks.com Twigs snap and tracks fade, a photograph reacquaints On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Veech ve...@earthlink.net wrote: Maximum PC loves Acronis True Image and I was considering getting this as well. Where did you see this good price? - Original Message - From: tmse...@rlrnews.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 11:14 Subject: Re: [H] Acronis True Image deal? I'm not as hot on disk director, its handy but you need it once a blue moon. But true image is 100% worth $29. Sent via BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Gary Udstrand g...@digitalwind.net Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:59:21 To: The Hardware Listhardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Acronis True Image deal? I can get Acronis True Image Home 2009 for $29.65. Is this a good price? It seems the consensus here was that his was a pretty good package (best?) for backup and imaging. I thought it may be nice to get Disk Director 10 too but adding that would bring the total to $79.64. Is DD worth the extra money? Anyone know of any package deals for the two that would work out cheaper? Thanks! -- Gary http://www.twigsandtracks.com Twigs snap and tracks fade, a photograph reacquaints
Re: [H] Acronis True Image deal?
Maximum PC loves Acronis True Image and I was considering getting this as well. Where did you see this good price? - Original Message - From: tmse...@rlrnews.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 11:14 Subject: Re: [H] Acronis True Image deal? I'm not as hot on disk director, its handy but you need it once a blue moon. But true image is 100% worth $29. Sent via BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Gary Udstrand g...@digitalwind.net Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:59:21 To: The Hardware Listhardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Acronis True Image deal? I can get Acronis True Image Home 2009 for $29.65. Is this a good price? It seems the consensus here was that his was a pretty good package (best?) for backup and imaging. I thought it may be nice to get Disk Director 10 too but adding that would bring the total to $79.64. Is DD worth the extra money? Anyone know of any package deals for the two that would work out cheaper? Thanks! -- Gary http://www.twigsandtracks.com Twigs snap and tracks fade, a photograph reacquaints
Re: [H] Acronis True Image deal?
wow, the folks on Amazon have no love for this program: http://www.amazon.com/Acronis-True-Image-Backup-Recovery/product-reviews/B001DSGXFY/ref=cm_cr_dp_hist_1?ie=UTF8showViewpoints=0filterBy=addOneStar - Original Message - From: Veech ve...@earthlink.net To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 11:37 Subject: Re: [H] Acronis True Image deal? Maximum PC loves Acronis True Image and I was considering getting this as well. Where did you see this good price? - Original Message - From: tmse...@rlrnews.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 11:14 Subject: Re: [H] Acronis True Image deal? I'm not as hot on disk director, its handy but you need it once a blue moon. But true image is 100% worth $29. Sent via BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Gary Udstrand g...@digitalwind.net Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:59:21 To: The Hardware Listhardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Acronis True Image deal? I can get Acronis True Image Home 2009 for $29.65. Is this a good price? It seems the consensus here was that his was a pretty good package (best?) for backup and imaging. I thought it may be nice to get Disk Director 10 too but adding that would bring the total to $79.64. Is DD worth the extra money? Anyone know of any package deals for the two that would work out cheaper? Thanks! -- Gary http://www.twigsandtracks.com Twigs snap and tracks fade, a photograph reacquaints
[H] Dual Boot questions
Folks I need a bit of feedback regarding creating a dual boot system. I currently have 2 HDs running, a smaller one has XP Media Center as the OS and the second larger HD has D, E and G partitions used for storing files. I want to install XP Pro on the same computer and have the option to boot to either one as needed. Is it fairly simple to create a new partition on the existing HD and install XP Pro on that partition? Or is it better to buy a new HD and install XP Pro on the new HD? If I am able to install the second OS on the same HD as the first one, will both OSes be able to recognize the files stored on the D, E and G partitions? If I need to install the second OS on a separate HD, will it be able to recognize and access the files stored on the other HD on the D, E and G partitions? thanks
Re: [H] Dual Boot questions
ok so the good news is that whether I install a second OS on the same physical HD or on a completely new one, that both OSes will be able to see all files on all drives? That is great news. The C drive is crowded, I would have to move a bunch of files over to another drive so maybe the new physical HD is a good solution. I don't have a partition utility handy. Partition Magic is expensive, for the price I could just buy another HD. I don't recall how they are formatted but it's my personal PC at home so I'm the administrator as well. Great info, thanks Jamie! 'Veech ve...@earthlink.net' said: Folks I need a bit of feedback regarding creating a dual boot system. I currently have 2 HDs running, a smaller one has XP Media Center as the OS and the second larger HD has D, E and G partitions used for storing files. I want to install XP Pro on the same computer and have the option to boot to either one as needed. Is it fairly simple to create a new partition on the existing HD and install XP Pro on that partition? Or is it better to buy a new HD and install XP Pro on the new HD? If you have the contiguous free space on your current C: drive and the tools to resize the partition then that's probably easier, otherwise a new drive is probably the easier of the two routes (especially if the C: drive is already strapped for space). If I am able to install the second OS on the same HD as the first one, will both OSes be able to recognize the files stored on the D, E and G partitions? If I need to install the second OS on a separate HD, will it be able to recognize and access the files stored on the other HD on the D, E and G partitions? Yes to both. You may have to change the drive mappings to be correct but they will all be accessible. If they're formatted with FAT32 then there's no security to worry about. If they're formatted as NTFS, members of the local Administrators group have full control over newly created partitions by default. You'll also be able to see your existing C: drive - it may stay as C: or be another drive letter. You can unmap the drive if you want through Disk Management. Jamie
[H] Installing XP Pro over MCE - firewire audio interface issues
I just purchased a firewire audio interface (a.I.) and am finding out that Media Center Edition of XP Pro does not play nice with these things. Apparently the a.I. software may not be certified for MCE, I don't know exactly what the issue is but from what I've read online the a.I. software won't install if it reads MCE as the OS. This occurs whether or not the Media Center services are enabled or disabled. Is anyone familiar with this issue? I have an old copy of XP Pro. If nothing else works I may have to install it over MCE. If I do, will that wipe all my settings and will I have to reinstall all my programs or is there a way to do a nice clean XP install over MCE and save everything else? thanks, Veech
[H] Properly removing Soundblaster Card and drivers
I'll be replacing my SoundBlaster X-Fi Fatal1ty card with an Emu audio card. They are both Creative products and I'm a little nervous that if I don't fully remove the SB card and all associated drivers that I may have conflicts when I install the Emu. Is there a good step-by-step guide for this process? I'm using XP Pro Media Center. thanks!
Re: [H] [Bulk] Properly removing Soundblaster Card and drivers
cool, thanks! Wipes it clean? - Original Message - From: Stan Zaske swza...@yahoo.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 15:19 Subject: Re: [H] [Bulk] Properly removing Soundblaster Card and drivers Revo Uninstaller to the rescue. ;-) Veech wrote: I'll be replacing my SoundBlaster X-Fi Fatal1ty card with an Emu audio card. They are both Creative products and I'm a little nervous that if I don't fully remove the SB card and all associated drivers that I may have conflicts when I install the Emu. Is there a good step-by-step guide for this process? I'm using XP Pro Media Center. thanks!
Re: [H] [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Properly removing Soundblaster Card and drivers
woohoo. Thanks again! - Original Message - From: Stan Zaske swza...@yahoo.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 15:44 Subject: Re: [H] [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Properly removing Soundblaster Card and drivers Like an industrial strength scouring pad! Just follow the instructions when you want to uninstall and max the settings. It will go through the Window's Registry with a fine toothed comb. Cheers! Veech wrote: cool, thanks! Wipes it clean? - Original Message - From: Stan Zaske swza...@yahoo.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 15:19 Subject: Re: [H] [Bulk] Properly removing Soundblaster Card and drivers Revo Uninstaller to the rescue. ;-) Veech wrote: I'll be replacing my SoundBlaster X-Fi Fatal1ty card with an Emu audio card. They are both Creative products and I'm a little nervous that if I don't fully remove the SB card and all associated drivers that I may have conflicts when I install the Emu. Is there a good step-by-step guide for this process? I'm using XP Pro Media Center. thanks!
Re: [H] New TV.
yeah that's a problem, don't play games on a plasma for more than 30 - 45 minutes. Any static image such as a HUD will leave a ghost. I have a Pioneer 50 plasma, bought it maybe 7 years ago and it still rocks. Good part is the viewing angle, we've had as many as 12 people spread out over our couch watching the thing. Bad is the glare or reflection especially during the day. Also it is certainly not eco-friendly, the thing throws off heat like you wouldn't believe, you can feel heat radiating from the screen up to 6 away. But a little LC and a plasma will last a long time. Get one of the specialized settings adjustments DVDs since they tend to be set hot' from the factory, too much color saturation which will prematurely wash out the image. Veech - Original Message - From: Winterlight winterli...@winterlight.org To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 09:15 Subject: Re: [H] New TV. At 07:42 PM 3/12/2009, you wrote: What about possible burn-in? I really don;t know too much about the plasmas, other than the viewing angles being better. I know a guy who bought a Samsung Plasma for Xmas, and he is really pissed that he has burn in from his kids playing games on their xbox. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Lane Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 9:59 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] New TV. I agree about the Samsung as a brand. We have 50 plasma really like it. Excellent quality and the viewing area is far greater than LCD. Jeff Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 6:48 PM Subject: Re: [H] New TV. It's a nice enough set. Most debate in the LCD HDTV community is between Sony and Samsung. It's a little above your price range, but I think it's hard to beat the Samsung LN52A750. I did very extensive research before buying that exact model; upon seeing it, a colleague bought one as well. I've had it since September, and I STILL find myself in awe of its PQ. Greg -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Bobby Heid Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 8:22 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] New TV. What do you all think about this TV? Sony BRAVIA W-Series KDL-52W4100 52-Inch 1080p 120 Hz LCD HDTV http://www.amazon.com/Sony-BRAVIA-KDL-52W4100-52-Inch- 1080p/dp/B0017Q8B70/re f=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8s=electronicsqid=1236907268sr=8-1 http://tinyurl.com/cppa28 Any other suggestions for 52 and $1500-$1800? Thanks, Bobby
Re: [H] New TV.
Avia is the one I used. The eighth post on this page has a great little self-help how-to for plasma calibration: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=7913037 - Original Message - From: Jeff Lane jeff.l...@comcast.net To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 10:34 Subject: Re: [H] New TV. Veech, What are these DVD's you are talking about and can you give me a reference to them? Jeff Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 9:25 AM Subject: Re: [H] New TV. yeah that's a problem, don't play games on a plasma for more than 30 - 45 minutes. Any static image such as a HUD will leave a ghost. I have a Pioneer 50 plasma, bought it maybe 7 years ago and it still rocks. Good part is the viewing angle, we've had as many as 12 people spread out over our couch watching the thing. Bad is the glare or reflection especially during the day. Also it is certainly not eco-friendly, the thing throws off heat like you wouldn't believe, you can feel heat radiating from the screen up to 6 away. But a little LC and a plasma will last a long time. Get one of the specialized settings adjustments DVDs since they tend to be set hot' from the factory, too much color saturation which will prematurely wash out the image. Veech - Original Message - From: Winterlight winterli...@winterlight.org To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 09:15 Subject: Re: [H] New TV. At 07:42 PM 3/12/2009, you wrote: What about possible burn-in? I really don;t know too much about the plasmas, other than the viewing angles being better. I know a guy who bought a Samsung Plasma for Xmas, and he is really pissed that he has burn in from his kids playing games on their xbox. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Lane Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 9:59 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] New TV. I agree about the Samsung as a brand. We have 50 plasma really like it. Excellent quality and the viewing area is far greater than LCD. Jeff Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 6:48 PM Subject: Re: [H] New TV. It's a nice enough set. Most debate in the LCD HDTV community is between Sony and Samsung. It's a little above your price range, but I think it's hard to beat the Samsung LN52A750. I did very extensive research before buying that exact model; upon seeing it, a colleague bought one as well. I've had it since September, and I STILL find myself in awe of its PQ. Greg -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Bobby Heid Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 8:22 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] New TV. What do you all think about this TV? Sony BRAVIA W-Series KDL-52W4100 52-Inch 1080p 120 Hz LCD HDTV http://www.amazon.com/Sony-BRAVIA-KDL-52W4100-52-Inch- 1080p/dp/B0017Q8B70/re f=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8s=electronicsqid=1236907268sr=8-1 http://tinyurl.com/cppa28 Any other suggestions for 52 and $1500-$1800? Thanks, Bobby
Re: [H] Getting a second audiophile sound card - external?
yes, I would have a totally separate system for each sound card. I'm hoping the Creative system will be the default, and woth a couple of mouse clicks I can disable it and enable the high-end audio system. I've been told that I can do that through the ASIO drivers, I'll have to check it out when I decide. - Original Message - From: Steve Tomporowski didym...@gmail.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 05:52 Subject: Re: [H] Getting a second audiophile sound card - external? If the driver of the 2nd card allows it, you should theoretically be able to just switch cards. You'd also need to switch your speakers, unless you have two sets (which I tried once). I have since gotten away from MCE, so I don't know if dual sound cards will actually work with it. All the hooks are there to do it, however. On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Veech ve...@earthlink.net wrote: thanks! Forgot to mention that I'm using XP Media Center. I have decided to get an external unit, probably a higher-end unit like the ULN-2 http://www.mhlabs.com/metric_halo/products/mio/uln2/ if I can afford the thing. Now, how would I switch between the two sound cards if I want to go from gaming to listening to audio? Is it as simple as switching settings in Sound and Audio Devices in the Control Panel? Each sound card will have it's own dedicated amp/speaker setup so no plugging/unplugging would be necessary. - Original Message - From: Steve Tomporowski didym...@gmail.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 04:14 Subject: Re: [H] Getting a second audiophile sound card - external? Some M-Audio boards have issues with being the 2nd card under certain operating systems. For example I have an Audiophile 2496 and it will not work as the 2nd card under MCE. So, I'd give their tech support a call and see if there are any issues. I hope the ProFire has better drivers because M-Audio admits that at least the Audiophile 2496, which admittedly is an old card, has 3rd party developed drivers, M-Audio having given up development at some point. Steve On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 1:14 AM, Veech ve...@earthlink.net wrote: I have a system that CW built a couple years ago (which still rocks btw, thanks Chris!) based around the then new nVidia 680i SLI board. At the time I was more interested in gaming than audio, so I went with the Creative X-Fi Platinum Fatal1ty board with the front panel break-out box. Now, I'm going to invest in a pair of high-end speakers and a couple of mono-block amps, and am discovering that Creative is one of the worst cards for audiophile listening. I am looking at http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/ProFire610.html as an option, an external sound card (and more). Question is, do you folks think I will have any issues with conflicts with the Creative card if I get a secondary card, wither external or internal? It works fine for me for gaming and I don't have any great need to dump it, but I do have a great need to find a high-quality audio sound card.
Re: [H] Getting a second audiophile sound card - external?
thanks! Forgot to mention that I'm using XP Media Center. I have decided to get an external unit, probably a higher-end unit like the ULN-2 http://www.mhlabs.com/metric_halo/products/mio/uln2/ if I can afford the thing. Now, how would I switch between the two sound cards if I want to go from gaming to listening to audio? Is it as simple as switching settings in Sound and Audio Devices in the Control Panel? Each sound card will have it's own dedicated amp/speaker setup so no plugging/unplugging would be necessary. - Original Message - From: Steve Tomporowski didym...@gmail.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 04:14 Subject: Re: [H] Getting a second audiophile sound card - external? Some M-Audio boards have issues with being the 2nd card under certain operating systems. For example I have an Audiophile 2496 and it will not work as the 2nd card under MCE. So, I'd give their tech support a call and see if there are any issues. I hope the ProFire has better drivers because M-Audio admits that at least the Audiophile 2496, which admittedly is an old card, has 3rd party developed drivers, M-Audio having given up development at some point. Steve On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 1:14 AM, Veech ve...@earthlink.net wrote: I have a system that CW built a couple years ago (which still rocks btw, thanks Chris!) based around the then new nVidia 680i SLI board. At the time I was more interested in gaming than audio, so I went with the Creative X-Fi Platinum Fatal1ty board with the front panel break-out box. Now, I'm going to invest in a pair of high-end speakers and a couple of mono-block amps, and am discovering that Creative is one of the worst cards for audiophile listening. I am looking at http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/ProFire610.html as an option, an external sound card (and more). Question is, do you folks think I will have any issues with conflicts with the Creative card if I get a secondary card, wither external or internal? It works fine for me for gaming and I don't have any great need to dump it, but I do have a great need to find a high-quality audio sound card.
Re: [H] Getting a second audiophile sound card - external?
yep I saw the Asus Xonar Essence and it looks really good, but unfortunately they don't make an external unit. - Original Message - From: Stan Zaske swza...@yahoo.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 14:21 Subject: Re: [H] Getting a second audiophile sound card - external? Ran across this and thought you might be interested. http://www.futurelooks.com/asus-xonar-essence-stx-headphone-amp-sound-card-reviewed/ Veech wrote: I have a system that CW built a couple years ago (which still rocks btw, thanks Chris!) based around the then new nVidia 680i SLI board. At the time I was more interested in gaming than audio, so I went with the Creative X-Fi Platinum Fatal1ty board with the front panel break-out box. Now, I'm going to invest in a pair of high-end speakers and a couple of mono-block amps, and am discovering that Creative is one of the worst cards for audiophile listening. I am looking at http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/ProFire610.html as an option, an external sound card (and more). Question is, do you folks think I will have any issues with conflicts with the Creative card if I get a secondary card, wither external or internal? It works fine for me for gaming and I don't have any great need to dump it, but I do have a great need to find a high-quality audio sound card.
[H] Getting a second audiophile sound card - external?
I have a system that CW built a couple years ago (which still rocks btw, thanks Chris!) based around the then new nVidia 680i SLI board. At the time I was more interested in gaming than audio, so I went with the Creative X-Fi Platinum Fatal1ty board with the front panel break-out box. Now, I'm going to invest in a pair of high-end speakers and a couple of mono-block amps, and am discovering that Creative is one of the worst cards for audiophile listening. I am looking at http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/ProFire610.html as an option, an external sound card (and more). Question is, do you folks think I will have any issues with conflicts with the Creative card if I get a secondary card, wither external or internal? It works fine for me for gaming and I don't have any great need to dump it, but I do have a great need to find a high-quality audio sound card.
Re: [H] Running multiple AVs at once?
yeah the idea here is that one program will catch something that another program may miss. Obviously it doesn't hurt to run them separately. But does it do any harm to run them at the same time? Will one stop another from checking a file? - Original Message - From: Thane Sherrington tsh...@computerconnectionltd.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 09:29 Subject: Re: [H] Running multiple AVs at once? At 01:21 PM 23/02/2009, Christopher Fisk wrote: On Sun, 22 Feb 2009, Thane Sherrington wrote: At 05:11 PM 20/02/2009, Christopher Fisk wrote: On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Veech wrote: Is there any harm in running more than one AV program at the same time? I have three programs installed, AVG 8.0, Spy-Bot and Malwarebyte. They each take about 45 mins to 1 hr to run. Sometimes I'll run 2 of them overnight at the same time. Is there any way that doing this will cause either one to miss something? Could I possibly run all 3 at the same time? Running something like Spy Bot or Malwarebytes at the same time as an Antivirus scan is unnessary. Think about it: Your AV program has an on access scanner. When you scan your computer for Malware using Malwarebytes, it's opening up each file and looking at it for malware. Before the AV program lets Malwarebytes look at the program it scans it, and if it's detected as a virus you will get a notification. I disagree. Running Malwarebytes gives you a double check. 1)Malwarebytes attempts to open the file, your AV checks it. 2)If the AV finds nothing (and since you're running AVG, that's very likely) Malwarebytes will scan it. So it's a double check, and frankly, with AVG, you need it. I didn't say that you don't run Malwarebytes, I said you don't run a separate AV check, it gets checked while you run the AV. Oh. Then I guess I agree with you. :) T
Re: [H] Running multiple AVs at once?
I found that running AVG in the background really gums things up. Slows everything down quote a bit, so I quit running it in the background as well. yeah, I'll stick with running one program at a time. thanks! - Original Message - From: DHSinclair dsinc...@bellsouth.net To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 16:55 Subject: Re: [H] Running multiple AVs at once? Veech, Over our many years, we have tried and suggested many models (individual) for keeping the baddies at bay. I have followed all of the suggested models. Not one of them have been perfect! Whatever you feel is OK is okay with meI just do not know. Personally, I use ESET. If I suspect that something bad got thru, I use Spybot, Malwarebytes, and, any other tool suggested by the folks at the WildersSecurity.com forum site. I do NOT run multiple A/V proggies at the same time. I do NOT even use any background scanners either, well unless anyone considers the MS KB890830 business a reasonably scanner! LOL! So far, I have lived 27 months without any concern...Am I completely virus-free? Perhaps not. But, I have not gotten a single email from anybody about my dirty sends. I gave up being completely virgin way back in mid-2001. If the bad-guys want me, they will have me! I have accepted this fact. I have made their gain as tough as I can ATM. I follow the Collective for suggestions on how to improve my meager defensives. HTH, Duncan At 09:45 02/23/2009 -0800, you wrote: yeah the idea here is that one program will catch something that another program may miss. Obviously it doesn't hurt to run them separately. But does it do any harm to run them at the same time? Will one stop another from checking a file? - Original Message - From: Thane Sherrington tsh...@computerconnectionltd.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 09:29 Subject: Re: [H] Running multiple AVs at once? At 01:21 PM 23/02/2009, Christopher Fisk wrote: On Sun, 22 Feb 2009, Thane Sherrington wrote: At 05:11 PM 20/02/2009, Christopher Fisk wrote: On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Veech wrote: Is there any harm in running more than one AV program at the same time? I have three programs installed, AVG 8.0, Spy-Bot and Malwarebyte. They each take about 45 mins to 1 hr to run. Sometimes I'll run 2 of them overnight at the same time. Is there any way that doing this will cause either one to miss something? Could I possibly run all 3 at the same time? Running something like Spy Bot or Malwarebytes at the same time as an Antivirus scan is unnessary. Think about it: Your AV program has an on access scanner. When you scan your computer for Malware using Malwarebytes, it's opening up each file and looking at it for malware. Before the AV program lets Malwarebytes look at the program it scans it, and if it's detected as a virus you will get a notification. I disagree. Running Malwarebytes gives you a double check. 1)Malwarebytes attempts to open the file, your AV checks it. 2)If the AV finds nothing (and since you're running AVG, that's very likely) Malwarebytes will scan it. So it's a double check, and frankly, with AVG, you need it. I didn't say that you don't run Malwarebytes, I said you don't run a separate AV check, it gets checked while you run the AV. Oh. Then I guess I agree with you. :) T __ NOD32 3881 (20090223) Information __ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com
[H] Running multiple AVs at once?
Is there any harm in running more than one AV program at the same time? I have three programs installed, AVG 8.0, Spy-Bot and Malwarebyte. They each take about 45 mins to 1 hr to run. Sometimes I'll run 2 of them overnight at the same time. Is there any way that doing this will cause either one to miss something? Could I possibly run all 3 at the same time?
Re: [H] Did System Cleanup, Now XP Does Not Recognize Lite-On DVD-RW
I am finding a lot of settings have changed. For one thing, it takes a lot longer to show the files when I click on a HD icon in My Computer. They used to pop up quickly. -Original Message- From: mark.dodge mark.do...@earthlink.net Sent: Feb 10, 2009 6:37 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Did System Cleanup, Now XP Does Not Recognize Lite-On DVD-RW I also have cleaned up a Trojan on mine where now the clock is military time but my cd/dvd drives are still there. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Veech Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 18:49 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Did System Cleanup, Now XP Does Not Recognize Lite-On DVD-RW I had to do a major clean-up after getting infected with a nasty virus a few days ago. Now I'm finding that a lot of my XP settings are goofed up and need to be reset. Some are minor, such as the clock in the toolbar being military time. But one major glitch is that now XP is showing my 2 Lite-On DVD-RWs in hardware profiles with a yellow warning icon, and they are not showing as recognized drives in My Computer, I tried uninstalling then and rebooting, but XP still did not see them as new hardware. ack! There aren't drivers available, although there is a firmware update available but I don't know if that would help or not. Directions for installing the firmware say to burn the data to a CDR.. duh.. CDR isn't working! Any ideas? thanks, Veech
[H] Did System Cleanup, Now XP Does Not Recognize Lite-On DVD-RW
I had to do a major clean-up after getting infected with a nasty virus a few days ago. Now I'm finding that a lot of my XP settings are goofed up and need to be reset. Some are minor, such as the clock in the toolbar being military time. But one major glitch is that now XP is showing my 2 Lite-On DVD-RWs in hardware profiles with a yellow warning icon, and they are not showing as recognized drives in My Computer, I tried uninstalling then and rebooting, but XP still did not see them as new hardware. ack! There aren't drivers available, although there is a firmware update available but I don't know if that would help or not. Directions for installing the firmware say to burn the data to a CDR.. duh.. CDR isn't working! Any ideas? thanks, Veech
Re: [H] Did System Cleanup, Now XP Does Not Recognize Lite-On DVD-RW
I did a bit of looking aorund and found that this applies to Vista, does it also apply to XP? - Original Message - From: tmse...@rlrnews.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 17:02 Subject: Re: [H] Did System Cleanup, Now XP Does Not Recognize Lite-On DVD-RW Find and clear the high and low filters in your registry God I'm doing this from memory so maybe way off, but I believe its: Hklm\system\current control set\control\class\ Look for upperfiters and lowerfilters entries. Don't delete them themselves, but all the crap under them can go. Then reset (Corrected the above, damn, the bold is slickness, direct cut and paste to app). Sent via BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Veech ve...@earthlink.net Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 16:49:05 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Did System Cleanup, Now XP Does Not Recognize Lite-On DVD-RW I had to do a major clean-up after getting infected with a nasty virus a few days ago. Now I'm finding that a lot of my XP settings are goofed up and need to be reset. Some are minor, such as the clock in the toolbar being military time. But one major glitch is that now XP is showing my 2 Lite-On DVD-RWs in hardware profiles with a yellow warning icon, and they are not showing as recognized drives in My Computer, I tried uninstalling then and rebooting, but XP still did not see them as new hardware. ack! There aren't drivers available, although there is a firmware update available but I don't know if that would help or not. Directions for installing the firmware say to burn the data to a CDR.. duh.. CDR isn't working! Any ideas? thanks, Veech
Re: [H] Did System Cleanup, Now XP Does Not Recognize Lite-On DVD-RW
got it fixed, thanks! - Original Message - From: tmse...@rlrnews.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 18:12 Subject: Re: [H] Did System Cleanup, Now XP Does Not Recognize Lite-On DVD-RW Happens most if you ever had roxio installed, but can happen otherwise. Sent via BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Veech ve...@earthlink.net Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 17:55:00 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Did System Cleanup, Now XP Does Not Recognize Lite-On DVD-RW I did a bit of looking aorund and found that this applies to Vista, does it also apply to XP? - Original Message - From: tmse...@rlrnews.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 17:02 Subject: Re: [H] Did System Cleanup, Now XP Does Not Recognize Lite-On DVD-RW Find and clear the high and low filters in your registry God I'm doing this from memory so maybe way off, but I believe its: Hklm\system\current control set\control\class\ Look for upperfiters and lowerfilters entries. Don't delete them themselves, but all the crap under them can go. Then reset (Corrected the above, damn, the bold is slickness, direct cut and paste to app). Sent via BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Veech ve...@earthlink.net Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 16:49:05 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Did System Cleanup, Now XP Does Not Recognize Lite-On DVD-RW I had to do a major clean-up after getting infected with a nasty virus a few days ago. Now I'm finding that a lot of my XP settings are goofed up and need to be reset. Some are minor, such as the clock in the toolbar being military time. But one major glitch is that now XP is showing my 2 Lite-On DVD-RWs in hardware profiles with a yellow warning icon, and they are not showing as recognized drives in My Computer, I tried uninstalling then and rebooting, but XP still did not see them as new hardware. ack! There aren't drivers available, although there is a firmware update available but I don't know if that would help or not. Directions for installing the firmware say to burn the data to a CDR.. duh.. CDR isn't working! Any ideas? thanks, Veech
Re: [H] Wireless Connection Speed
ok I answered part of my own question.. I ran speed tests using a couple of other sites and came up with 5499kbps, 5718kbps and 4509kbps which should equate to 55Mbps, 57Mbps and 45Mbps. So that 2Wire speed test is obviously out of whack. I used a USB extension cord and was able to place the wireless receiver a few feet closer to the modem, although it is still a downstairs/upstairs thing. That helped improve signal strength to excellent from very good and it seemed to help my ping a bit. At least I didn't get booted off the server last night. When I ran a speed test on the computer where the modem is hooked up, it came in at 58Mbps. If I ran an ethernet cable from the modem upstairs to my computer downstairs I assume I would get the same speed of 58Mbps, correct? Cable length would be about 30 feet, accounting for snaking it through walls etc. I'm not fond of the idea of having to run cable. Would an upgrade of the wireless receiver help in any way? Hey guys, It's been quite a while, Happy Holidays! I just had ATT install Uverse and among the issues I have with it, they disconnected my DSL and installed a wireless network in my house. So now my ping is way high in online games and now sometimes I get bounced off the servers. Grrr... They installed a 2Wire 3800 HGV-B modem and I have a US-G-AT-02 wireless receiver on my box. The modem is upstairs and my box is downstairs but the distance between the two is about 15 feet. The wireless connection icon on my toolbar says I'm getting 54Mbps, but when I go to 2Wire's page and run a speed test they say I'm getting around 3.40Mbps. Question 1 is, which is correct? Question 2 is, how can I get better throughput? The tech guy suggested running a ethernet cable from the modem to my box but that's a bit of a hassle. Is there a way to improve the wireless efficiency? thanks! Veech
[H] Wireless Connection Speed
Hey guys, It's been quite a while, Happy Holidays! I just had ATT install Uverse and among the issues I have with it, they disconnected my DSL and installed a wireless network in my house. So now my ping is way high in online games and now sometimes I get bounced off the servers. Grrr... They installed a 2Wire 3800 HGV-B modem and I have a US-G-AT-02 wireless receiver on my box. The modem is upstairs and my box is downstairs but the distance between the two is about 15 feet. The wireless connection icon on my toolbar says I'm getting 54Mbps, but when I go to 2Wire's page and run a speed test they say I'm getting around 3.40Mbps. Question 1 is, which is correct? Question 2 is, how can I get better throughput? The tech guy suggested running a ethernet cable from the modem to my box but that's a bit of a hassle. Is there a way to improve the wireless efficiency? thanks! Veech
Re: [H] steam ?
?? weird... did you uninstall and reinstall? How can game not be available if you loaded it into your computer? Sorry I don't have an answer, have you checked the HL2 tech forums? - Original Message - From: FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 12:27 PM Subject: [H] steam ? trying to play HL2 for two days and keep getting a message that the game is currently not available, try later. Anyone ever seen this message ? just a little PO'ed I can not play a game I paid for. fp -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Progress is made on alternate Fridays.
Re: [H] WWII First Person Shooter Suggestions
Portal was probably one of the best games I have ever played, certainly one of the top 5. I loved the puzzles and challenges, a very unique concept to FPS gaming. Not a shooter per se, but you have to shoot to find solutions. The last chapter was a blast and the end song was hilarious! A brilliant game, yes all 3 games in the Orange Box are 10/10. I wonder when Portal 2 is coming out? - Original Message - From: Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 6:29 AM Subject: Re: [H] WWII First Person Shooter Suggestions Second on the Orange Box. One of the best gaming values ever - 3 legitimate 10/10 games in 3 different genres for $50. Brian On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 9:25 AM, maccrawj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For-Pay Online play is mostly the hallmark of MMO's not FPS unless you're talking consoles which rape you anyway they can for revenue streams. TF2 is very addictive fun, also free to play. Yes you need 2 copies, 1 for each users Valve account. Best deal is to pickup OrangeBox for $35-40/ea in a store rather than paying Valve's highway robbery prices to direct-purchase via Steam, added benefit is Portal, HL2, HL2 EP1+2 all come with it. You just jump on a server join a team! James Maki wrote: snip Thanks for the info on Team Fortress. I will check it out and also see what my daughter thinks of the idea. I take it we would have to purchase 2 copies and install on 2 systems to play simultaneously. Also, can you just join a random team?
Re: [H] WWII First Person Shooter Suggestions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF_IBrHsuzA best. game song. ever. - Original Message - From: Joe User [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Veech hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 4:46 PM Subject: Re: [H] WWII First Person Shooter Suggestions Hello Veech, Monday, June 23, 2008, 10:33:01 AM, you wrote: Portal was probably one of the best games I have ever played, certainly one of the top 5. I loved the puzzles and challenges, a very unique concept to FPS gaming. Not a shooter per se, but you have to shoot to find solutions. The last chapter was a blast and the end song was hilarious! A brilliant game, yes all 3 games in the Orange Box are 10/10. I wonder when Portal 2 is coming out? the cake is a lie -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key...
Re: [H] WWII First Person Shooter Suggestions
Try Valve's Team Fortress 2. It is a team-based online game, generally a team of 12 vs 12, sometimes more. It is very balanced and a total blast to play. No fee other than the cost of buying the game (not sure why no online play for you?). Anyway, reason I recommend it is because there are `12 different characters you can play, soldier, sniper, spy, medic, demoman, pyro, etc etc. There is a combination called the medic/heavy combo which takes two people to play, with the medic constantly healing the very powerful (but slow) heavy weapons guy. When done properly, they are almost unstoppable, It takes a bit of practice, but the game is absolutely a hoot to play. Skirmishes are between 5 and 20 minutes long. You and your daughter could sign on to the same server, join the same side and team up together to wreak havoc and have a blast. - Original Message - From: James Maki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2008 3:01 PM Subject: Re: [H] WWII First Person Shooter Suggestions Reading up on Halo cooperative mode seems to indicate this is not available for the PC version. Is this correct? I think cooperative mode is exactly what I am interested in to play on the same side as my daughter against the computer!? Thanks to all that have responded to my original post. I have appreciated the suggestions. Unfortunately, it seems the games that interest me are not vista compatible. Also, seems the game console versions are more prevalent (i.e., many games are only available for the console and only a version on 2 available for the PC -- is this a wide spread problem for PC owners?) Again, thanks for the input. Gave me lots to track down on the internet. Jim -Original Message- From: John Steinbruner True, Halo 1-2-3 are great in Cooperative mode. :) On Jun 22, 2008, at 12:24 PM, Bobby Heid wrote: Jim, Also check out Halo... Another great FPS. Bobby
Re: [H] WWII First Person Shooter Suggestions
Sorry for late reply, I've spent the last 3 hours playing TF2. ;) Anyway, good question about 2 copies for 2 computers. I think the stand-alone game is just $19.95 so 2 copies would still be around $40. Still, start with 1 copy and try it? There is The Orange Box by Valve which includes Half-Life 2 Episode 2, Team Fortress 2 and Portal, all three games are fantastic. You could buy it, practice your FPS on HL2 then join TF2 online once you get the mouse/WASD movements down if that is an issue. Yes, TF2 is free online, there are about 300 or so servers constantly hosting about 10 different maps. I love the Dustbowl map which has 6 capture points. Other maps are capture-the-flag style. You just click a link to find servers then sort by map (try Dustbowl first), find one with like 20 out of 24 playing so you know there is room for you, then click join. There is an option to observe, so you can watch the others playing for a bit just to get an idea. I held off on joining an online game for years, and TF2 is the only one I've ever played. I only tried it because the other two games in the Orange Box set were so wonderful, I thought it must be pretty good as well. Up until a few months ago, I was strictly playing solo FPS vs the computer. But here's the thing that may be a selling point with your daughter, even solo games with advanced AI are no match for the thrill of actually communicating with other team members and planning and executing a strategy against another team. Once I got past my initial reservations (after about half an hour) I was hooked. I laid out $80 for a Logitech G9 wired optical mouse to help improve my aim, and $40 for a microphone/headset combo which is essential in order to talk to your team-mate, we warn each other of incoming baddies. For example you'll hear look out to your left in the heat of battle, swing left, see three bad guys, and POW take 'em out with a burst of heavy weapons fire. It's the communicating with other people and the cheers and (yes) jeers that makes the thing so damned much fun. In fact it's so much fun that I haven't touched a single-player game since I started TF2 about four months ago. Crysis literally sits unplayed on my computer for the time being, barely past the first chapter. Anyway, at the very least grab the stand alone version and give it a try, I believe you will love it. - Original Message - From: James Maki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2008 7:20 PM Subject: Re: [H] WWII First Person Shooter Suggestions -Original Message- From: Veech Try Valve's Team Fortress 2. It is a team-based online game, generally a team of 12 vs 12, sometimes more. It is very balanced and a total blast to play. No fee other than the cost of buying the game (not sure why no online play for you?). Anyway, reason I recommend it is because there are `12 different characters you can play, soldier, sniper, spy, medic, demoman, pyro, etc etc. There is a combination called the medic/heavy combo which takes two people to play, with the medic constantly healing the very powerful (but slow) heavy weapons guy. When done properly, they are almost unstoppable, It takes a bit of practice, but the game is absolutely a hoot to play. Skirmishes are between 5 and 20 minutes long. You and your daughter could sign on to the same server, join the same side and team up together to wreak havoc and have a blast. You'd just have to know my daughter to understand! :) She enjoys the solitary play but gets very involved and would be put off if she didn't do well in a team setting. She even gets mad at me if I kibbitz while she is playing. If it was just her and I against the computer, I think she would enjoy that type of group play. Team Fortress does sound interesting. I will take a look at it. I tend to stay away from online play due to additional expenses I thought would be involved. Free online play is definitely something I will look into. I really don't spend a lot of time playing games, hence the reason I am quite the neophyte with the fps genre in general. Thanks for the info on Team Fortress. I will check it out and also see what my daughter thinks of the idea. I take it we would have to purchase 2 copies and install on 2 systems to play simultaneously. Also, can you just join a random team? Jim Maki [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [H] STEAM and cheat codes
I haven't tried, but I will say that Steam's Team Fortress 2 is absolutely fascinating as an online multiplayer game. It's the only game I have played in the past two months. But some guys are just *too* good, some snipers get me every time with head shots within 1 or 2 seconds of coming into their field of vision, and I'm convinced they're using aim-bots. Supposedly Steam is good about not allowing these cheaters to play but somehow these guys have figured a way around it. by the way, have you tried Portal yet? One of my favorite games ever. - Original Message - From: Winterlight [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 12:32 PM Subject: [H] STEAM and cheat codes I am playing Half Life 2 on STEAM, and I am getting really board with all the jumping, stacking, bobbing crap can you use cheat codes in Steam... and if so how? Anybody know any good mods that will work?
Re: [H] STEAM and cheat codes
Let me know what you think of it if you get a chance. It takes the physics programming used in HL2 (the gravity gun) one step further. It involved some logic and reasoning as well as good spatial cognition. The final level is a ton of fun and be sure to hang around for the closing credits, the theme song is hilarious. One of the very few games I have played that I was truly sad when it was over. - Original Message - From: Winterlight [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 1:01 PM Subject: Re: [H] STEAM and cheat codes by the way, have you tried Portal yet? One of my favorite games ever. no, I got my Steam subscription with HL2 and a handful of other games three years ago with my ATI AIW, and I have just gotten around to using it! m
Re: [H] STEAM and cheat codes
yup, I don't know how they can top it but they certainly should be working on Portal 2. They *must*. I think anyone who enjoys puzzles of any type -- meaning most of the folks on this list because lets face it, assembling computers involves puzzle-solving skills -- could not help but enjoy Portal. *spoiler alert* Still Alive http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ljFaKRTrI This was a triumph I'm making a note here HUGE SUCCESS It's hard to overstate my satisfaction Aperture Science we do what we must because we can for the good of all of us except for the ones who are dead but there's no sense crying over every mistake you just keep on trying until you run out of cake and the science gets done and you make a neat gun for the people who are still alive I'm not even angry I'm being so sincere right now even though you broke my heart and killed me and torn into pieces and threw every piece into a fire as they burned it hurt because I was so happy for you! Now these points of data make a beautiful line and we're out of beta, we're releasing on time so I'm glad I got burned Think of all the things we learned for the people that are still alive go ahead and leave me I think I prefer to stay inside maybe you'll find someone else to help you maybe Black Mesa that was a joke, haha, fat chance anyway this cake is great, it's so delicious and moist look at me still talking, when there's science to do when I look out there it makes me glad I'm not you I've experiments to run, there is research to be done on the people who are still alive and believe me I am still alive I'm doing science and I'm still alive I feel FANTASTIC and I'm still alive While you are dying I'll be still alive and when you're dead I will be still alive STILL ALIVE, still alive - Original Message - From: Joe User [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Scott Sipe hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 4:21 PM Subject: Re: [H] STEAM and cheat codes Hello Scott, Friday, May 30, 2008, 2:46:34 PM, you wrote: Seconded! I just played through Portal a week or two ago, and it was very, very fun. Very innovative Additionally, the song at the end is now in my head! THIRDEDED... too short. BEST GAME EVAR (SO FAR, love ya Id) -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key...
Re: [H] View this web page
very cool, thanks! - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 4:56 AM Subject: [H] View this web page Load this page, then wait a moment: http://producten.hema.nl/ Al -- Spontaneous I started out with nothing and I still have most of it left
Re: [H] Why is multiplayer so addictive?
Funny. Team Fortress 2 has become my primary source of entertainment now. I would rather play it than watch TV, listen to music, work in my studio, just about anything else I would do in spare time. I know what you mean, you get the real stuff done in the real world, but any discretional time is spent online. Hell, I spent almost $100 for a frickin G9 Logitech mouse just to improve my game. It really is an alternate society, an alternate world. Strange... but fun and extremely entertaining. -Original Message- From: Jim Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Apr 1, 2008 6:51 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Why is multiplayer so addictive? It seams fitting that I reply like 2 weeks later. www.eve-online.com EvE space based mmo. It has had me hooked for 2 years now. It is one of the main reasons I find the list down days late, forgot the command line, etc. At ~$12/month tho cheapest entertainment out there. I do think I spend too much time playing. I don't neglect responsibility but might put things off a tad. On the other hand, went to a party this weekend at a buds house and his brother showed up with a 100 ft lan cable, broke out a portable table and chair and wiped out the laptop to play WoW while everyone partied around him. It was good therapy for me, I am fine. :) At 3/20/2008 02:02 AM, Veech wrote: What makes this stuff so addictive?
Re: [H] Admittedly, I bought 200..
you got lucky! I think they realized the mistake when they processed your order. - Original Message - From: Chris Reeves [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 3:04 PM Subject: Re: [H] Admittedly, I bought 200.. Nope, instant. I ordered in lots of forty. I'd attach a PDF, but for a lot of forty, my total cost: $422. I paid $10.55 per board after shipping, and they are now all marked as shipped with tracking #s. :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 5:06 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Admittedly, I bought 200.. Wasnt that a rebate deal? --- Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation Sent from my iPhone On 29-Feb-08, at 5:44 PM, Chris Reeves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They've now changed the price on the ad. Instead of $8 a board, it's $59 a board ($109-50) who gives a crap, all of mine are marked as shipped already, I paid RUSH just in case ;) And charged the right amount ;) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Reeves Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 4:39 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Admittedly, I bought 200.. I've got a project I can use 25 on. So, 25*89 or so that I'll bid them at, fine, that covers all the cost of 200, and then I've got 160 I can throw out and just have them go to prebuilts or whatever. I've used the thing several times and it's fine with a QX6800, etc. So it's not a bad board, just no 1333Mhz support.. but eh, for what it is.. I figured, why grab 25 I know I can use when I can grab a couple hundred and still come out ahead ;) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 4:03 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Admittedly, I bought 200.. Actually, if that were 5 or 10 motherboards you could answer that question. I think the better question is, what are you going to do with 200 motherboards? - Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 4:58 PM, Harry McGregor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Reeves wrote: Maybe I wiped them out. But, it SEEMED like a good deal ;) So what are you going to do with $1500 worth of motherboards? Harry Now just to see if it ships. http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?Item=N82E16813186116
Re: [H] OT Brain Teaser
I agree.. 10990 - Original Message - From: James Maki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 7:13 PM Subject: Re: [H] OT Brain Teaser Girls legs = 7*2=14 Big Cat = 7 (girls) * 7 (backpacks) * 7 (cats per backpack) = 343 Little cats = 343 (big cats) * 7 (little cats per big cat) = 2401 Cat Legs = (343 + 2401) * 4 = 10976 Total legs = 10976 + 14 = 10990 There is no mention of a bus driver being on the bus! -Original Message- From: James Maki 10990 -Original Message- From: Mark There are seven girls on the bus. Each girl has 7 backpacks. In each backpack there are seven big cats, for every big cat there are seven little cats. How many legs are in the bus? I didn't get it right... Mark Mark Dodge
Re: [H] X-Box 360 questions...
More great info, thanks Tharin! My kids are older, and I think X-Box 360 will be the way to go. - Original Message - From: Tharin Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 1:46 PM Subject: Re: [H] X-Box 360 questions... Do you like a certain genre of games? How old are the kids?? I would assume they have an inclination about what console they would want, given what they've likely seen at the store or Johnny's house down the street. If you haven't yet; go into a place like Gamestop, Game Crazy, Electronics Boutique, etc to see what the consoles are like. There is some backwards compatability with previous gen consoles. Do you already have an older console? Console pricing is supposed to be fixed, but I have seen lower pricing for bundles. Ebay, Craigs List, classified ads, etc. can be a free for all. The Microsoft Xbox360 probably has most of the best as well as the largest selection of titles. Sony's Playstation3 is just getting there but it has some outstanding games available now. The Xbox360 is edged out by the PS3 when it comes to the raw capability of the hardware. Of course that doesn't mean much when you can't get any good games and the competition has more of the better games. I bought a Nintendo Wii on its release date and I think it is excellent. It's price compared to what other consoles were going for at their inception was a definite plus. The controls are very different from what previous consoles have been using since they have gyroscopic sensors that are sensitive to motion. Most Wii titles implement this physical element of interaction in some manner. The games on Wii probably have the widest range of appeal for people of any age. The Wii's graphics and processing power is not near what the Xbox360 and PS3 have to offer though. Owning a Wii is probably close to being something like a Mac user. Making something fast and powerful isn't so tough since computers will always be moving in that direction, but I've been totally captured by the different approach to gaming Nintendo has taken with the Wii. I now have to fight with my girlfriend over who can play video games, where as before she just used to watch. The Wii can draw in an audience that wasn't being reached before. This link does a good comparison job on showing some of the facts about the Wii, Xbox360, and PS3. http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/xbox360_ps3_wii.asp Personally I would choose the Xbox360 over the PS3, but mainly because theres some whizbang on the PS3 that wouldn't do me any good and it would put the bigger hurt on my pocketbook. -Tharin O. Christopher Fisk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Veech wrote: I'm researching getting the kids an XBox 360 for Christmas. Is the XBox 360 Premium worth the extra bucks? Any pros or cons to XBox vs other platforms such as PlayStation 2? They want Guitar Hero, is XBox the best - or only - platform to buy for this game? Finally, is there a way to get any deals or is it price-locked? Thanks for any info... Guitar Hero 3 is available for PS2, PS3, Wii and XBox360. Go with whichever one offers the other features you want. Christopher Fisk -- I AM NOT THE LAST DON I AM NOT THE LAST DON Bart Simpson on chalkboard in episode AABF21
Re: [H] X-Box 360 questions...
Great info Brian, thank you! - Original Message - From: Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 1:07 PM Subject: Re: [H] X-Box 360 questions... You are probably not going to find a Wii. They have been sold out or at really low inventory for the last year. If you can find one I would snag it immediately. Cheapest one of the 3 and awesome games. Hell, most people I know are happy with just the pack-in Wii Sports games. Add Zelda, Metroid, Super Mario Galaxy, and a whole mess of other games and it is the best hands-down. Even my wife, who hates video games and never plays, got into a game of Wii bowling at a party. I would definitely say the premium is worth it, especially if you need the HD cable and if you have a back catalog of Xbox games. The HD is very nice because you can download trailers and stuff on it but not required as Microsoft demands that game developers assume people don't have it. And the killer app for the 360 is Live - it's really an awesome experience with the headset and really, really easy to do online gaming. Like anything else, its the apps that really makes a device. In this case, games. Sony has failed to learn from their many mistakes in the past and assumed that by appealing to the hardcore gamers with the technology features in their console it would win. On launch it was expensive and had pretty much zero games. That has been partially fixed with price drops and a growing number of games but still its not great. The only reason I would go with a PS3 is if playing Blu-Ray DVDs was a feature. It is the cheapest player on the market (outside of some special deals). Likewise you can get a pretty cheap (~$200) HD-DVD drive addon for the 360. But either of these consoles will not play the other format so most people like me are simply waiting for a cheap player that does both formats. The PS2 is actually a decent option - its really cheap, very small package, and has a huge library of pretty cheap games. Which is probably why it is outselling the PS3 still :) On Nov 30, 2007 1:09 PM, Christopher Fisk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Veech wrote: I'm researching getting the kids an XBox 360 for Christmas. Is the XBox 360 Premium worth the extra bucks? Any pros or cons to XBox vs other platforms such as PlayStation 2? They want Guitar Hero, is XBox the best - or only - platform to buy for this game? Finally, is there a way to get any deals or is it price-locked? Thanks for any info... Guitar Hero 3 is available for PS2, PS3, Wii and XBox360. Go with whichever one offers the other features you want. Christopher Fisk -- I AM NOT THE LAST DON I AM NOT THE LAST DON Bart Simpson on chalkboard in episode AABF21 -- Brian Weeden
Re: [H] X-Box 360 questions...
They have stated they want the X-Box and the Guitar Hero game. Once I discovered GH is available on 3 platforms, I decided to investigate which is the best one to get. - Original Message - From: Al [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 4:18 PM Subject: Re: [H] X-Box 360 questions... Veech [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: heh, that's what I'm trying to determine, PS3 vs XBox 360 vs Wii... which one? On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Veech wrote: I'm researching getting the kids an XBox 360 for Christmas. Ask them?, is that an option? They'll know what they want, most likely. Since they want Guitar Hero, it's not going to be a surprise. best, al
Re: [H] X-Box 360 questions...
heh, that's what I'm trying to determine, PS3 vs XBox 360 vs Wii... which one? - Original Message - From: Christopher Fisk [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 10:09 AM Subject: Re: [H] X-Box 360 questions... On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Veech wrote: I'm researching getting the kids an XBox 360 for Christmas. Is the XBox 360 Premium worth the extra bucks? Any pros or cons to XBox vs other platforms such as PlayStation 2? They want Guitar Hero, is XBox the best - or only - platform to buy for this game? Finally, is there a way to get any deals or is it price-locked? Thanks for any info... Guitar Hero 3 is available for PS2, PS3, Wii and XBox360. Go with whichever one offers the other features you want. Christopher Fisk -- I AM NOT THE LAST DON I AM NOT THE LAST DON Bart Simpson on chalkboard in episode AABF21
[H] X-Box 360 questions...
I'm researching getting the kids an XBox 360 for Christmas. Is the XBox 360 Premium worth the extra bucks? Any pros or cons to XBox vs other platforms such as PlayStation 2? They want Guitar Hero, is XBox the best - or only - platform to buy for this game? Finally, is there a way to get any deals or is it price-locked? Thanks for any info...
Re: [H] T-Day
Yes, happy Thanksgiving to all.. (and a quick test to see if this posts once, twice or not at all..) - Original Message - From: Jeff Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 6:31 PM Subject: [H] T-Day Hi everyone, Great to be back. HAPPY THANKSGIVING to all of you and your families. Jeff and Johanna
Re: [H] The Disaster that is BioShock
wow, I installed Bioshock without a hiccup on the XP system you built for me Chris. It runs beautifully with almost all the settings maxed out. I have AVG, AdAware and Spybot, and have not had a single issue yet. That's not to say it won't happen but at this point Bioshock is a visually beautiful and extremely immersive gaming experience and one that hasn't created a single problem for me so far other than getting toasted by the bad guys because I'm too busy gawking at the pretty stuff. - Original Message - From: CW [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2007 2:21 PM Subject: [H] The Disaster that is BioShock Thank goodness someone else had these thoughts and put them to pen: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=41921 Let me add what is not in the above: Running Vista 64 bit? Prepare for wild, uncontrollable crashes at random. Have K-Lite or other CODEC packs installed? Good luck avoiding blue screens. Run AVG Antispyware or Ad-Aware 2007? Prepare for the software to not run. What garbage
[H] BioShock
Anyone planning to grab BioShock on Tuesday? There hasn't been a game that interested me since STALKER was released in March, but BioShock looks fantastic!
Re: [H] Linksys or Netgear USB wireless adapter?
h... thanks for the feedback. I'll be using this adapter with the 2Wire Home Portal, wonder if that would be an issue for either one? - Original Message - From: Jeff Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 2:12 PM Subject: Re: [H] Linksys or Netgear USB wireless adapter? Veech, I have the Netgear 624 wireless router and the corresponding 108Mps PCMCIA card. We have had nothing but problems with them They constantly drop the WEP settings and will not accept the WPA settings at all. When they, one or the other, drop the security setting they disconnect and require resetting the security parameters. The router has the latest firmware upgrade and is being used as an Access Point off of my wired Linksys BEFSx41 router which has never given me the slightest problem. Just my little bit, my own experiencehope it helps. Advise you check some of the news groups as I understand this is very common. Check the buyers comments on Newegg...there are a lot of them that bear this out. Jeff - Original Message - From: Ben Ruset [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Veech [EMAIL PROTECTED]; The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 3:17 AM Subject: Re: [H] Linksys or Netgear USB wireless adapter? Only when paired up with a Netgear AP or router that supports 108Mbps. Veech wrote: ok thanks, I think the Netgear was the more expensive one but I may go with that one anyway since it has the higher throughput capacity.
Re: [H] Linksys or Netgear USB wireless adapter?
ok thanks, I think the Netgear was the more expensive one but I may go with that one anyway since it has the higher throughput capacity. - Original Message - From: Thane Sherrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 2:09 AM Subject: Re: [H] Linksys or Netgear USB wireless adapter? At 01:17 AM 01/08/2007, Veech wrote: I bought two USB wireless adapters a couple days ago to bring home and compare because I couldn't decide which one was better in the store. Turns out they are both basically the same specs: 2.4GHz, USB 2.0, 802.11g, except the Linksys is 54Mbps and the Netgear is 108 Mbps. I'm only using these for wireless internet connection, not setting up a file-sharing network of any kind. Is there any reason to go for one over the other? Price is about the same, maybe $8 difference. Range, I guess. I'd try them both out and see which one gives you better range (if that's an issue.) Since the speed will drop off with distance, it is possible to end up at 1Mbps where you are using it if the interference is bad enough. From a reliablity perspective, I find Netgear to be quite good. T
[H] Linksys or Netgear USB wireless adapter?
I bought two USB wireless adapters a couple days ago to bring home and compare because I couldn't decide which one was better in the store. Turns out they are both basically the same specs: 2.4GHz, USB 2.0, 802.11g, except the Linksys is 54Mbps and the Netgear is 108 Mbps. I'm only using these for wireless internet connection, not setting up a file-sharing network of any kind. Is there any reason to go for one over the other? Price is about the same, maybe $8 difference. thanks
[H] looking for a motion controlled security camera.. quick!
Thisis a last minute thing that has come up, I need a solution as soon as possible, i.e. something available at Best Buy, Circuit City or Fry's. I'm looking for a security camera that can be mounted remotely, is motion sensored and can send data to a PC or recording device such as a DVR when it detects motion. We are on vacation for 10 days and I need something such as this for inside the house. Any suggestions? thnaks
Re: [H] business question
Management usually doesn't fare so well in these types of situations. What kind of info you are looking for, tips on what? - Original Message - From: Joe User [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 12:14 PM Subject: Re: [H] business question Hello, Wednesday, July 4, 2007, 9:57:46 PM, I wrote: Has anyone's business been acquired/bought by a larger company or corporation here before? I am looking at this situation possibly and need some tips - possibly to learn from mistake that were made. No one eh? -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key...
Re: [H] looking for a motion controlled security camera.. quick!
Good info, thanks! - Original Message - From: Jeff Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Veech [EMAIL PROTECTED]; The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 12:36 PM Subject: Re: [H] looking for a motion controlled security camera.. quick! Veech, Maybe one of these with overnight delivery? http://www.ezwatchstore.com/?s_kwcid=surveillance%20cameras%20motion%20sensor|401154436 http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCategory.aspx?SubCategory=521name=Network-Surveillance-CamerasCMP=KNC-GoogleAdwords http://www.promaxusa.com/?gclid=CLntjZLWk40CFQt0YAodm2qMlw Jeff Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 12:11 PM Subject: [H] looking for a motion controlled security camera.. quick! Thisis a last minute thing that has come up, I need a solution as soon as possible, i.e. something available at Best Buy, Circuit City or Fry's. I'm looking for a security camera that can be mounted remotely, is motion sensored and can send data to a PC or recording device such as a DVR when it detects motion. We are on vacation for 10 days and I need something such as this for inside the house. Any suggestions? thnaks
Re: [H] Yep, the ATI R600 series sucks.
Interesting, because I was looking at Halo 2 for PC -- which was just released Tuesday -- as the first PC game worth upgrading my XP to Vista. But the more I hear stuff like this (I have the X-Fi card), the more nervous I get about upgrading to Vista which sucks for gamers. Also, I wonder how much damage Vista would do to programs such as Adobe Audition. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 11:20 AM Subject: Re: [H] Yep, the ATI R600 series sucks. Nvidia's sli drivers are just finally becoming functional. But for a long time TOTAL crap. They aren't alone, X-fi cards are totally worthless in Vista, etc Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless -Original Message- From: Thane Sherrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 15:13:33 To:The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Yep, the ATI R600 series sucks. At 02:12 PM 10/05/2007, Jin-Wei Tioh wrote: At 11:44 AM 5/10/2007, you wrote: Ah, they'll just fix it with drivers. :) T Heh. For that matter, doesn't nVIDIA need to fix their drivers? I don't have any personal experience with the 8xxx series drivers in XP and Vista just yet, although I'm planning to spend some quality time this weekend with the 8500GT and 800GTS that just came through the door :) Everyone needs to fix their Vista drivers. :) T
Re: [H] Yep, the ATI R600 series sucks.
I'm halfway through STALKER and it's *really* immersive, extremely atmospheric, and has some great spooky elements. I'm not a huge fan of the inventory system, and the RPG elements aren't so much my cup of tea. It's a bit buggy, too. But overall it's the best FPS I've played in ages, and the landscape and weather effects, the aura of Chernobyl, is just amazing. Highly recommended. - Original Message - From: Jin-Wei Tioh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 6:05 PM Subject: Re: [H] Yep, the ATI R600 series sucks. At 07:35 PM 5/10/2007, you wrote: Bah Halo, I'm waiting for Crysis but not if I have to have Vista to play it. Finished Stalker? I just got done with a major project and am looking forward to a weekend hardware orgy. :P -- JW
Re: Re[4]: [H] Samsung 226BW 22 WideScreen LCD - $291
I felt the same way at first but I have to say that my Dell 2005 FPW hasn't disappointed me, and I haven't noticed a difference in my gaming since I got the Dell a year ago. I finally set my Nokia 17 CRT aside, and am enjoying the more efficient use of desktop space. As the gap narrows, the trade-off becomes acceptable unless you are doing CAD work or a lot of text-related work. - Original Message - From: Hayes Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 5:16 PM Subject: RE: Re[4]: [H] Samsung 226BW 22 WideScreen LCD - $291 Zzzhuh? What's that? Discussions about superior displays? Wake me up when something tops my Sony 21 GDM-520 CRT (now 6 years old). I'll set my snooze alarm for next decade...zzz ;) From: Greg Sevart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com To: 'The Hardware List' hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: RE: Re[4]: [H] Samsung 226BW 22 WideScreen LCD - $291 Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:01:55 -0500 Not all Dell panels are the same. The 2407WFP is more of their premium line, whereas the E228WFP is a cheaper model. I'd stay away from the cheaper panels, but the Ultrasharp models are typically quite decent. Of course, I'd never buy a cheap display anyway. :) Greg -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe User Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 2:24 PM To: 'The Hardware List' Subject: Re[4]: [H] Samsung 226BW 22 WideScreen LCD - $291 Hello Greg, Tuesday, April 17, 2007, 11:44:13 AM, you wrote: In gaming, the overriding concern is typically response time. To this end, a TN+ panel is usually your best bet. If you were doing graphics work, I wouldn't consider anything but an S-IPS based display. S-PVA and P-MVA panels are good intermediate panels. My brother, an avid gamer, has a 4:3 20 Viewsonic VP2030b display. It uses a P-MVA panel and does a very nice job all-around. I'd be inclined to go for the Dell 2407WFP though. It uses a S-PVA panel and has a quite respectable response time, but your 6800 isn't going to run those games at native resolution (1920x1200) very well. Yeah my 6800 is getting aged. I was looking at the Radeon X1950 Pro AGP as an upgrade (a final one since this is an AGP system) However, I was concerned about upgrading my PSU and also if the performance gain would be that substantial. OK so Dell panels aren't so bad then? You suggest 2407WFP Bryan suggested the 226BW. I don't mind (in fact I expect to) paying for a quality panel. -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... _ Exercise your brain! Try Flexicon. http://games.msn.com/en/flexicon/default.htm?icid=flexicon_hmemailtaglineapril07
[H] Sharing MP3 files online
What do you folks recommend as an easy and free way to post MP3 files online, which can be opened and listened to by anyone else? I'm looking for a way where I send a link and other people can click on it and it plays automatically in Windows Media Player or whatever. Yousendit requires that you download the file, I just want it to open and play... thanks..
[H] searching for files that Windows does not see
There is a folder and some files that I am sure I did not delete from one of my older hard drives, but I can not locate them, and the search function is not helping. This isn't the first time this has happened. Someone told me that it is likely that it's due to a glitch in Windows, that it is not seeing the folder or files. I hope that's the case... Is there a way to search for files without using the search function in Windows? Problem is, I don't remember the name of the folder or files am looking for, but I'll recognize it when I see it. Using XP..
