[H] Core 2 Duo boards with SLI

2006-08-07 Thread Veech
Are there any Core 2 Duo mobos available yet with SLI? The time has come to say bye-bye to this ol' P4 and move on up. I think Core 2 Duo E6700 with two 7900GTXs in SLI should last me another couple of years. I plan to upgrade the case, PS, board, CPU, RAM and video card and keep the rest of

[H] 300GB on a CD-sized disk?

2006-08-07 Thread Thane Sherrington
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060804-7424.html How much greater data density? In the Hitachi Maxell device, a single disc about 1cm larger in diameter than a CD will buy you 300GB. By way of contrast, HD-DVD currently offers a maximum of 30GB on a 2-layer disc, and Blu-ray tops out

[H] Will at Linksys WSB24 work with 802.11g?

2006-08-07 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
I have a linksys Wireless Signal Booster (WSB24) that I bought to use with my linkSys 802.11b router/wireless access point. I never took the WSB24 out of the box. Now, I'm getting ready to finally use my Linksys WRT54G (11.gb). Both of these work at 2.4 GHz, but the WSB24 was out before the

Re: [H] Will at Linksys WSB24 work with 802.11g?

2006-08-07 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
Seems that it will work: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,5587761~root=equip,16~mode=flat Anthony Q. Martin wrote: I have a linksys Wireless Signal Booster (WSB24) that I bought to use with my linkSys 802.11b router/wireless access point. I never took the WSB24 out of the box. Now,

Re: [H] Core 2 Duo boards with SLI

2006-08-07 Thread tmservo
Noy yet. The thought is early october Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless -Original Message- From: Veech [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 23:10:57 -0700 (GMT-07:00) To:The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Core 2 Duo boards with SLI Are there any Core

[H] Printer heads dry out update

2006-08-07 Thread Al Anger
Was in Comp-USA Saturday talking to an Epson rep. He said to spray a piece of photo paper with Windex and print a multi colored image to clean the heads. It sounds like it has potential. If anyone tries it, please let us know how it worked out. al (who's glad to have anything to offer this

[H] For Mac Fans..

2006-08-07 Thread Chris Reeves
Apple Announced MacPro: http://www.apple.com/macpro/

[H] Du U have/use Media Player/Receiver?

2006-08-07 Thread RLS
Anyone on the list using a Media Player/Receiver? The D-Link 520 seems like the best bet but at $229 more than twice what I think it worth. The Hauppage MediaMVP is affordable but it appears that all movies would have to be converted to MPEG2 if the files were just to be played off of

Re: [H] Du U have/use Media Player/Receiver?

2006-08-07 Thread Brian Weeden
Actually, I am looking for the same thing. I have a HTPC sitting downstairs but need some sort of stand-alone box upstairs that I can stream the xvids to. That would allow my wife to view her shows (mostly reality crap) upstairs and free up the big screen downstairs for more football :) On

[H] OT - Cool web server mapping FF extension

2006-08-07 Thread Brian Weeden
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2993/ Very, very cool. Puts a small icon in the status bar that when clicked shows a google map of where the server of the current website is located. -- Brian

Re: [H] Du U have/use Media Player/Receiver?

2006-08-07 Thread Brian Weeden
I also need something that can support VBR mp3's and read from NTFS partitions. On 8/7/06, Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, I am looking for the same thing. I have a HTPC sitting downstairs but need some sort of stand-alone box upstairs that I can stream the xvids to. That