Re: [H] Laptop battery life

The hard part about answer that question is what applications does he plan to run for said time period. It is easy to find a word processing/minor internet notebook with 4-6 hour battery life. On the other hand it is very difficult to find a machine that can run intensive cpu/gpu applications

Re: [H] Freaky Friday WinXP install -- (a bit long)

Jim, OK. I sorta understand your True Image app use. I know zip about Linux, other than it is another os. Really can not comment on it. I might suggest a check that both the nVidia drivers for the on-board appliancs (NForce), and the drivers for Sil3114 are up to date. Someone else

[H] rant Memory speed race needs to stop

This dick swinging between memory manufacturers concerning who has the fastest memory, stability be damned, has got to stop. http://www.tomshardware.com/2008/03/10/cebit_fastest_memory_earth/ CeBIT 2008: The Fastest Memory on Earth Every year, manufacturer of memory modules fight for the

Re: [H] rant Memory speed race needs to stop

I dont see that much on an issue TBH. These memory modules will only be sold to the gullible anyway. The vast majority of consumers only use the mainstream speeds. This type of RAM is only for the benchmarking e-peen croud. Regards, Jason Tozer Database Analyst London Ext 1131 - 3SC.5

Re: [H] rant Memory speed race needs to stop

Hayes, I have followed your thread now for the past 3 years and you get my vote too! Even though I do not even yet use any of the discussed memory. Hell, I just finished getting what amounts to prehistoric spec memory for two of my old PCs (thankfully still available!). Time for the RAM-Wars

Re: [H] Freaky Friday WinXP install -- Update

I installed a new power supply in the computer and it made no difference. I had the same problems in the same places. Initially, I disconnected everything and tried the new power supply with only the video card, and SATA RAID0 boot array. No Go. It would boot just fine. Added the DVD/RW but True

Re: [H] Strange Hard Drive Problem

j, I agree. You did get it half right! LOL! The antec is toast. I know we can bench-race the 3% of the 5v rail (~4.85v). I will let you win. I change psus when I see the 5v rail reading 4.98v, or the 12v rail reading 11.97v. 5v is 5v and 12v is 12v. I use the canned asus probe utility. Suppose

Re: [H] Strange Hard Drive Problem

3% is prime ( TPB was rated here), 6-10% I thought was common for ATX 1.x PSU? It had been skirting 4.7ish for the longest time so I chalked it up to crap PSU not thinking it would get worse, duh! Well these particular Antec's (True Power) are now infamous for failing within a year or so due

[H] Surge suppressor / power filter

Looking for what the list uses to protect their computers / home theater equipment. I'm a EE by training so you don't need to educate me on the benefits of clean power, I'm just looking for advice on what products people have used that are good and those that are crap. It would be protecting my

Re: [H] Multiple monitors from laptop

The Matrox solution is very neat I use the dual version at work with two monitors and Laptop giving the third. The Triple head solution will allow you to have 4 including the laptop. The only downside to the Matrox solution is it treats all the additional monitors (excluding notebook LCD) as one

Re: [H] Surge suppressor / power filter

Isn't Monster by definition overpriced and not worth it? Eli -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 8:42 PM To: hwg Subject: [H] Surge suppressor / power filter Looking for what the list uses to protect

Re: [H] Surge suppressor / power filter

Don't know. Normally I would happen to agree with you if we were talking about Monster cables. Just not sure if that same logic applies to the rest of their products. That one is about $150, cheap ones with similar Joule ratings come in around $50 or so. Monster also claims to have a $150,000

Re: [H] Surge suppressor / power filter

Brian, Look at Best Power or APC. Most else is still trying to get there. Best, Duncan At 20:42 03/10/2008 -0400, you wrote: Looking for what the list uses to protect their computers / home theater equipment. I'm a EE by training so you don't need to educate me on the benefits of clean power,

Re: [H] Surge suppressor / power filter

Thanks. I've used APC UPS' before and I've been happy with them. I like the C3 surge protector. - Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 9:33 PM, DHSinclair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian, Look at Best Power or APC. Most else is still trying

Re: [H] Surge suppressor / power filter

I pretty much use APC exclusively. I have my pc hooked up to 2 APC UPS's. One of them has power conditioning, powering the PC itself, and the other has the monitor, router, etc. on it. I also use APC surge suppressors for items that do not need battery back-up or power conditioning. I do have

Re: [H] Surge suppressor / power filter

My very first Computer years ago (a Dell -- before I became a builder), suffered from all sorts of problems, and LOADS of in warranty repairs. (Ever hear of anyone getting 5 MBs out of them for the same machine...?) (I had the better service contract from the better division of the company.) The

Re: [H] Surge suppressor / power filter

I use a 1200 watt APC Smart UPS for my computer gear. True sine wave output. :) Looking for what the list uses to protect their computers / home theater equipment. I'm a EE by training so you don't need to educate me on the benefits of clean power, I'm just looking for advice on what

Re: [H] Surge suppressor / power filter

At 00:53 03/11/08, JRS wrote: I use a 1200 watt APC Smart UPS for my computer gear. True sine wave output. :) Three computers here (each with 10 internal SCSI drives)...three APC SmartUPS 1500 (computer, external drives, monitor for each UPS). Plus one SmartUPS 1000 for the little stuff: