Re: [H] Duncan

2015-03-26 Thread Stan Zaske
Yes we would all be interested in hearing from him again. On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 19:38:02 -0600, Christopher Fisk christopher.f...@thefisks.org wrote: Any updates on Duncan? It's been a few weeks and was hoping to hear good news! On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 7:46 AM, Joshua MacCraw

Re: [H] Browsers

2015-02-14 Thread Stan Zaske
I use Chrome myself and it's never given me any problems. Huge selection of addons too. On Sat, 14 Feb 2015 08:10:34 -0600, Thane Sherrington th...@computerconnectionltd.com wrote: At 08:30 AM 14/02/2015, Steve Tomporowski wrote: What's the collective currently using for a browser? I'm

Re: [H] Seasonic

2015-01-08 Thread Stan Zaske
Seasonic manufactures their own PSU's and they are OEM to many companies. Go to HardOCP and read the reviews on them. I hardly ever use any other brand and never had one go bad. Happy New Year collective. :) On Wed, 07 Jan 2015 20:07:12 -0600, FORC5 fuf...@cox.net wrote: I use and

Re: [H] 10 Flash Drives that will turn heads

2014-12-27 Thread Stan Zaske
Steampunk Starwars and Simpsons. I like the 1944 one made from a really old radio crystal. Happy Holidays to the collective. :) On Sat, 27 Dec 2014 10:05:18 -0600, Steve Tomporowski didym...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [H] Duncan

2014-11-22 Thread Stan Zaske
Get better Jim. On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 10:14:24 -0600, FORC5 fuf...@cox.net wrote: my good friend and compadre, get better. fp At 06:51 AM 11/22/2014, James Edwards Poked the stick with: Yo everyone, pay attention! From his sister Bonny at addy4st...@yahoo.com To all, My brother, Duncan,

Re: [H] -OT- If you don't mind helping me out

2014-09-20 Thread Stan Zaske
Don't be silly dude, glad to help out. On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 21:32:54 -0500, Michael Resnick mike...@gmail.com wrote: Thane, Voted and gave Dempsey a +10. Regards, Mike At 06:43 PM 9/18/2014, Thane Sherrington wrote: I apologize in advance for this OT post, but it's sort of an

Re: [H] New mobo woes no Newegg love

2014-09-18 Thread Stan Zaske
Fuck NewEgg piece of shit business that once cared for their customers. On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 06:44:51 -0500, Joshua MacCraw maccr...@gmail.com wrote: Hello strangers, Man I wish to be even 1/2 as active here as my 20's... That said I have a aggravating experience to share: So I order an

Re: [H] about to give up

2014-08-03 Thread Stan Zaske
If there is some important info on there I understand why you are trying to save the patient. If not just clean slate the bitch. :) On Sun, 03 Aug 2014 14:33:12 -0500, FORC5 fuf...@cox.net wrote: been messing with this laptop way too long. Most junk cleaned, get a pop up once in awhile

Re: [H] Windows 9 Activation System Details Leaked

2014-07-14 Thread Stan Zaske
Thank goodness for Valve's Steam Linux support! Sticking with Win 7 for the foreseeable future. On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 12:22:51 -0500, Thane Sherrington th...@computerconnectionltd.com wrote: At 08:20 AM 13/07/2014, Steve Tomporowski wrote:

Re: [H] nVidia video card until

2014-07-12 Thread Stan Zaske
Upgrade to GTX 750 Ti because it's cheap frugal on trons and probably better than those 460's. Cheers! On Sat, 12 Jul 2014 11:31:26 -0500, joeu...@chronic.org wrote: No one? Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... ...now these points of data make a beautiful line...

[H] Fw: News

2014-04-04 Thread Stan Zaske
Hello! News: http://ittc-bdg.com/arm/view.php Stan Zaske

Re: [H] Mouses or Mice

2010-05-19 Thread Stan Zaske
I get well over a week on 1 AA battery. On 5/19/2010 11:34 AM, Alex wrote: You don't wear out normal alkaline batteries (let alone rechargeable lithium in some of these mice) in 8 hours of non-stop use. On Wed, 19 May 2010 12:02:41 -0400 (EDT), Christopher Fisk chr...@mhonline.net wrote:

Re: [H] Mouses or Mice

2010-05-19 Thread Stan Zaske
as almost as fast Steve On 5/19/2010 1:02 PM, Stan Zaske wrote: I get well over a week on 1 AA battery. On 5/19/2010 11:34 AM, Alex wrote: You don't wear out normal alkaline batteries (let alone rechargeable lithium in some of these mice) in 8 hours of non-stop use. On Wed, 19 May 2010 12:02

Re: [H] Mouses or Mice

2010-05-19 Thread Stan Zaske
angle for me and I end up with a sore hand after a couple of hours. Again corded. So is a cordless mouse as fast as, faster than, or almost as fast as a corded one? From what I've seen so far, the cordless mouse ranks as almost as fast Steve On 5/19/2010 1:02 PM, Stan Zaske wrote: I get well

Re: [H] Mouses or Mice

2010-05-18 Thread Stan Zaske
Oh yeah, I couldn't live without my Logitech cordless mouse for gaming. It's very small, light and responsive. Cheap too.. On 5/18/2010 3:16 PM, Steve Tomporowski wrote: I've always used corded mice (mouses). The times I've tried cordless mice, I've found them heavy, slow, awkward and the

Re: [H] Cleaning and purging clutter in XP

2010-05-17 Thread Stan Zaske
On 5/16/2010 12:46 PM, maccrawj wrote: No because just as back then I know of no benchmark that will exhaustively read all files to determine access times. It's not going to affect creating a new file reading it back unless the drive is so fragmented that 1000's of non-contiguous clusters get

Re: [H] Cleaning and purging clutter in XP

2010-05-17 Thread Stan Zaske
makes calls to MS' own defrag API and is highly scriptable which is why I'm using it. On 5/17/2010 7:14 AM, Stan Zaske wrote: snip And on the flip side of that coin, I can't remember the number of times over the years when after defraging a hardrive a game got borked and had to be re-installed

Re: [H] Vipre Antivirus

2010-05-16 Thread Stan Zaske
Microsoft MSE on my windows boxes but I like AVG as well. On 5/16/2010 4:25 AM, Naushad, Zulfiqar wrote: Anyone used this and how good is it? Need to get a new antivirus for my computer @ home.

Re: [H] Question on video card for HTPC

2010-05-14 Thread Stan Zaske
Nope, the extra memory is for the 3D textures I believe. On 5/14/2010 7:15 AM, Thane Sherrington wrote: At 09:21 AM 13/05/2010, tmse...@rlrnews.com wrote: What you really need to do is ditch the card for something like a 5450 (full hd bitstream over hdmi, dxva h264) or a 4350 (lpcm over

Re: [H] Cleaning and purging clutter in XP

2010-05-14 Thread Stan Zaske
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

Re: [H] Cleaning and purging clutter in XP

2010-05-14 Thread Stan Zaske
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

Re: [H] Cleaning and purging clutter in XP

2010-05-14 Thread Stan Zaske
- 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

Re: [H] Open question?

2010-05-13 Thread Stan Zaske
What need for a laptop unless it's for business purposes and you need to go online periodically during the day when away from home? I can wait until I get back to my desktop. On 5/12/2010 9:36 PM, DSinc wrote: Michael, TNX. This seems to be a new norm. I don't do laptops yet. Duncan On

Re: [H] Mozilla Thunderbird Experts ?

2010-05-12 Thread Stan Zaske
I'm using 3.0.4 and I don't like it. I think the new directory structure in the left pane is a pain. My SPAM has increased exponentially in the past week or so as well. Anybody else seeing this? On 5/12/2010 2:49 PM, DSinc wrote: I would like to speak with anyone who understands

Re: [H] Open question?

2010-05-12 Thread Stan Zaske
I will never go wireless. Ever! On 5/12/2010 6:24 PM, DSinc wrote: 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

[H] Any Handbrake users want to compare notes?

2010-05-11 Thread Stan Zaske
I'm largely ignorant of video encoding and curious about other Handbrake users and wanted to ask what you do when you copy/backup your movies to a server. Are you just copying the VIDEO_TS file and then playing it over the LAN or do you convert/compress it during the rip to conserve quality

Re: [H] My 2010 Gamer PC Build

2010-05-10 Thread Stan Zaske
sounds on the high side unless the GPU is not playing a role. On 5/9/2010 3:18 PM, Stan Zaske wrote: Well, I got my 1055T yesterday and with the latest Gigabyte BIOS it was recognized just fine and Vista gives me a 5.9 on performance. CoolNQuiet is enabled and AMD Turbo Core may or may not work

Re: [H] My 2010 Gamer PC Build

2010-05-10 Thread Stan Zaske
unless the GPU is not playing a role. On 5/9/2010 3:18 PM, Stan Zaske wrote: Well, I got my 1055T yesterday and with the latest Gigabyte BIOS it was recognized just fine and Vista gives me a 5.9 on performance. -- Bryan G. Seitz

Re: [H] My 2010 Gamer PC Build

2010-05-09 Thread Stan Zaske
Well, I got my 1055T yesterday and with the latest Gigabyte BIOS it was recognized just fine and Vista gives me a 5.9 on performance. CoolNQuiet is enabled and AMD Turbo Core may or may not work as I've not placed that big a load on it yet. I'm crunching down a 7.5 gig DVD movie to 700 MB's

Re: [H] My 2010 Gamer PC Build

2010-05-09 Thread Stan Zaske
any other Phenom II going down to 800 MHz. On 5/9/2010 5:18 PM, Stan Zaske wrote: Well, I got my 1055T yesterday and with the latest Gigabyte BIOS it was recognized just fine and Vista gives me a 5.9 on performance. CoolNQuiet is enabled and AMD Turbo Core may or may not work as I've not placed

Re: [H] My 2010 Gamer PC Build

2010-05-03 Thread Stan Zaske
I just bought one on Ebay minutes ago for $189 free shipping. A drop in solution with the F10 BIOS version on my Gigabyte mobo. Was really hoping to get it for less but oh well, them's the breaks.. On 5/3/2010 2:42 PM, Julian Zottl wrote: Just curious why you're not considering the 1099T? I

Re: [H] My 2010 Gamer PC Build

2010-05-03 Thread Stan Zaske
Yeah, can't wait to see the difference on Handbrake myself. On 5/3/2010 4:14 PM, tmse...@rlrnews.com wrote: Our local microcenter had the 1090t for $199. Basically too good of a deal. It won't challenge intels high end anywhere, but its performance out of handbrake any on the newer x64 x264

Re: [H] My 2010 Gamer PC Build

2010-05-03 Thread Stan Zaske
You're talking about an i7 975? If it runs that closely to such a high dollar setup I'm stoked.. On 5/3/2010 7:49 PM, tmse...@rlrnews.com wrote: It outpaces the i975 at the office (but its close, really close). But as a drop in replacement, easiest option ever. Sent via BlackBerry

[H] Newly arrived today, Phenom II X6 Thuban..

2010-04-27 Thread Stan Zaske
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition Thuban 3.2GHz 6 x 512KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache Socket AM3 125W Six-Core Desktop Processor http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103849nm_mc=EMC-IGNEFL042710cm_mmc=EMC-IGNEFL042710-_-EMC-042710-Index-_-ProcessorsDesktops-_-19103849-L0A

Re: [H] Newly arrived today, Phenom II X6 Thuban..

2010-04-27 Thread Stan Zaske
-BE and put this baby right in there, right? On 4/27/2010 7:44 AM, Stan Zaske wrote: AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition Thuban 3.2GHz 6 x 512KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache Socket AM3 125W Six-Core Desktop Processor http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103849nm_mc=EMC

Re: [H] 7-ZIP Question?

2010-04-26 Thread Stan Zaske
If he likes computer hardware I don't care if he's gay.. On 4/26/2010 8:47 PM, Bryan Seitz wrote: Yeah basically Chris is Gay. :) On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 06:15:15PM -0700, maccrawj wrote: Other than RAR I do not know of a format 7Z doesn't write and frankly making RAR, Arj, Lzh,

Re: [H] My 2010 Gamer PC Build

2010-04-20 Thread Stan Zaske
of never mind what other power hungry components are installed. * Don't skip on PSU brand or capacity, it saves no real money in the end. * Always lookup what ODM makes a given PSU * Read real reviews that stress test. On 4/19/2010 2:15 PM, Stan Zaske wrote: snip You should be fine with 600 watts

Re: [H] My 2010 Gamer PC Build

2010-04-19 Thread Stan Zaske
Yeah, I suppose Cooler Master is the same. Not all of their cases support that feature either.. On 4/18/2010 5:11 PM, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: I have that Antec p182. I can route cable behind the mobo with it. It's a good case, too. On 4/18/2010 2:12 PM, Stan Zaske wrote: The problem

Re: [H] My 2010 Gamer PC Build

2010-04-19 Thread Stan Zaske
OCZ is a crapshoot as experienced by me with a serious incompatibility with my Gigabyte AMD 785 chipset mobo. That's both the 500 watt and 600 watt versions (I got so sick of RMA'ing those 3 times). That same OCZ Modstream works fine for some strange reason on my old Gigabyte 690G mobo. Go

Re: [H] My 2010 Gamer PC Build

2010-04-18 Thread Stan Zaske
The problem with the Antec cases I've seen are the inability to route cables behind the mobo for a cleaner look. Cooler Master allows for that and I greatly admire everything about my CM690 except the weight. On 4/18/2010 12:19 PM, GPL wrote: After some research, e-mail and forum discusions,

Re: [H] My 2010 Gamer PC Build

2010-04-18 Thread Stan Zaske
[Review] Cooler Master 690 II Plus http://www.techreaction.net/2010/04/14/review-cooler-master-690-ii-plus/ http://www.techreaction.net/2010/04/14/review-cooler-master-690-ii-plus/ On 4/18/2010 12:19 PM, GPL wrote: After some research, e-mail and forum discusions, and chatter over a

Re: [H] Video card suggestions please

2010-04-06 Thread Stan Zaske
Sounds like you have a more than adequate video card right now so why upgrade? You want an Nvidia solution then go with the 480 which is overkill in every way possible (heat, energy, noise etc.). AMD is a different matter entirely and Nvidia can claim fastest video card on the planet but it

Re: [H] Old Floppy Drives-Closed

2010-04-06 Thread Stan Zaske
I just sold quantity 5 3.5 floppy drives on Ebay for $.50 plus shipping. Not really worth it but at least someone will get some use out of them and I don't have to suffer guilt throwing them into the land fill or letting them clutter up the place. I got my 1st PC in 1994 with a floppy drive

Re: [H] oversized DVD

2010-03-30 Thread Stan Zaske
If you're looking for the least expensive media, just use Handbrake and specify the output at 700 MB's or less and burn to CD-Rom. The image quality is fine on my 24 monitor although probably more noticeable on a large screen. On 3/30/2010 8:37 PM, Richard Quilhot wrote: Why not burn on a

Re: [H] Hey Bino your Logitech X-540 5.1 Speakers $74

2010-03-26 Thread Stan Zaske
Broken link Winterlight.. On 3/26/2010 4:44 AM, Winterlight wrote: Logitech X-540 70 watts 5.1 Speakers - Retail $73.99 after $15.00 Mail-In Rebate Special savings, ends 3/29 http://tinyurl.com/create.php

Re: [H] ATI Radeon 5870 2GB 3X2 Eyefinity Gaming Experience

2010-03-26 Thread Stan Zaske
that anyone would invest in a setup like this. Simply amazing! (but then I've bought 6 Harley's!) This has to be a differn't strokes moment! I must be just too old! Best, Duncan On 03/25/2010 15:22, Stan Zaske wrote: Thought this might interest some of you gamers out there. Seems that in a 3x2

Re: [H] ATI Radeon 5870 2GB 3X2 Eyefinity Gaming Experience

2010-03-26 Thread Stan Zaske
and lifting weights is good! Not sure what you mean about running being more functional, though. On 3/26/2010 11:00 AM, Stan Zaske wrote: Come on Anthony, if you like to game and have the money a 3 monitor setup is the greatest single advancement since SLI and arguably better. The extra real estate

[H] ATI Radeon 5870 2GB 3X2 Eyefinity Gaming Experience

2010-03-25 Thread Stan Zaske
Thought this might interest some of you gamers out there. Seems that in a 3x2 monitor config, that middle horizontal bezel is seriously distracting. http://www.hardocp.com/article/2010/03/24/ati_radeon_5870_2gb_3x2_eyefinity_gaming_experience

[H] Uningine Heaven 2.0 DX11 Benchmark released..

2010-03-25 Thread Stan Zaske
I downloaded it and uninstalled version 1.0 before installation. Using it at default settings and 1900x1200 resolution I benchmark'ed 23 FPS average with Tessellation and DX11 on my HD5770 video card. The graphics are astonishingly good and if Left4Dead 2 looked this nice it would be game of

Re: [H] Testing Graphic Card Stability

2010-03-17 Thread Stan Zaske
not looking forward to trying to convince HIS that I have a bad card and to issue me an RMA. The pain of that process almost makes me just want to take the losssad I know...but pain is pain. On 3/16/2010 11:38 AM, Stan Zaske wrote: Furmark is the one all the hardware enthusiast use

Re: [H] Testing Graphic Card Stability

2010-03-16 Thread Stan Zaske
Furmark is the one all the hardware enthusiast use and it has a benchmark/Stability test modes that will tell you if your card is stable or not. I suspect your HIS is bad and needs an RMA. On 3/15/2010 9:35 AM, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: Ok I had a HIS ATI Radeon HD 5770 in this system.

[H] AMD's ATI 10.3a Catalyst Driver Update

2010-03-16 Thread Stan Zaske
An interesting short article on a new driver set to be released the 17th. http://hardocp.com/article/2010/03/16/amds_ati_103a_catalyst_driver_update

Re: [H] Testing Graphic Card Stability

2010-03-16 Thread Stan Zaske
/first_time_gaming_experience_ati_eyefinity On 3/16/2010 2:47 PM, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: Well, furmark is liking this vidcard as it runs for hours and hours with nary a problemfeature set maxed out to yield 22 fps with max temp of 82degC. On 3/16/2010 11:38 AM, Stan Zaske wrote: Furmark is the one all the hardware enthusiast

Re: [H] DOCSIS 3.0 - Charter Communications

2010-03-12 Thread Stan Zaske
That's a fantastic result and makes my mouth water. On 3/11/2010 5:38 PM, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: Got my new modem today...surfboard sb6120docsis 3.0 Using my old docsis 2.0 modem, my download speed was 14Mbps with upload speed of 1.8Mbps... Using the new dossis 3.0 modem, my download

Re: [H] DOCSIS 3.0 - Charter Communications

2010-03-08 Thread Stan Zaske
My Motorola cable modem is about 6 years old if not older. Might be time for an upgrade and I have Comcast overpriced service as well. Thanks for the info. On 3/7/2010 7:52 PM, Jeff Lane wrote: I just kept what I had, which is the basic overpriced service. They claim they give 12MB with the

Re: [H] DOCSIS 3.0 - Charter Communications

2010-03-07 Thread Stan Zaske
Jeff, when you installed that DOCSIS 3.0 modem did you upgrade your Internet speed plan or are you saying you just got a speed boost with existing service. On 3/7/2010 3:12 PM, Jeff Lane wrote: To my knowledge there are only the ones, whatever that is, and the Motorola, available at this

[H] ForceWare 196.75 Can Kill Your GeForce Card!!!

2010-03-05 Thread Stan Zaske
My 9600 GSO has been using this driver without issue and yes my fan is spinning fine fold...@home 59C. Vista Home Premium X64. NVIDIA has removed the latest ForceWare 196.75 from their servers because this driver has an important bug: it prevents the fan from spinning and caused a death of

Re: [H] WARNING! NVIDIA 196.75 drivers can kill your graphics card

2010-03-05 Thread Stan Zaske
I have to say that if my card had died because of this new driver I'd have been very upset. But it's been running just fine. I thought at first there must be some mistake but I went to the web site and sure enough they had pulled it. Guess that means there will be another new driver to

Re: [H] [Bulk] If you own a PS3 and it connects to the net DO NOT TURN ON

2010-03-04 Thread Stan Zaske
online playing games, etc... during the supposed network down time. On 3/2/2010 9:48 AM, Stan Zaske wrote: Sony's problem was about a non-existent leap year Feb. 29th which has now passed. On 3/2/2010 10:41 AM, maccrawj wrote: I've been hearing it has nothing to do with network connecting

Re: [H] ATI CATALYST 10.2 10.3 Driver Preview - Final Thoughts and conclusions

2010-03-04 Thread Stan Zaske
in rapid succession over the 2 years 1997-1998 is the time line for 2D+3D integrated cards I believe? Amazing how far things have come! On 3/2/2010 9:46 AM, Stan Zaske wrote: I was referring to Nvidia being first to engineer integrated 3D graphics. 2D graphics are the simple task of a video card

Re: [H] Windows 7 environment variables

2010-03-04 Thread Stan Zaske
So am I confused, that you're still using batch files. Written anything in BASIC lately? No offense, just couldn't resist. LOL On 3/4/2010 2:42 PM, Thane Sherrington wrote: At 04:29 PM 3/4/2010, Thane Sherrington wrote: I have a little batch file that uses %username% to do some stuff. That

Re: [H] [Bulk] If you own a PS3 and it connects to the net DO NOT TURN ON

2010-03-03 Thread Stan Zaske
not a it just works bonehead console that never has issues, there has to be logs diagnostic methods exposed, but of course Sony is too busy with DRM to worry about giving the customer what they paid for! Sony stock actually finished up Monday, surprising. On 3/1/2010 1:38 PM, Stan Zaske wrote: Yeah

Re: [H] Replacement Card - was Re: ATI CATALYST 10.2 10.3 Driver Preview - Final Thoughts and conclusions

2010-03-03 Thread Stan Zaske
I bought a PowerColor Radeon HD5770 couple months back and it's been great.. On 3/3/2010 3:20 AM, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: What card should I get to replace this HIS Radeon HD5770? Another brand of the same card? I can't deal with the crashing. On 3/2/2010 2:02 PM, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:

Re: [H] Replacement Card - was Re: ATI CATALYST 10.2 10.3 Driver Preview - Final Thoughts and conclusions

2010-03-03 Thread Stan Zaske
My experience with Sapphire RMA process was very fast. Guess it just depends.. On 3/3/2010 5:08 AM, Thane Sherrington wrote: At 05:20 AM 3/3/2010, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: What card should I get to replace this HIS Radeon HD5770? Another brand of the same card? I can't deal with the

Re: [H] Replacement Card - was Re: ATI CATALYST 10.2 10.3 Driver Preview - Final Thoughts and conclusions

2010-03-03 Thread Stan Zaske
Are you sure that LOTR screen saver came with CCC? I don't have it and didn't see it listed during install. On 3/3/2010 5:53 AM, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: BTW, After I removed the 10.2 CCC drivers and installed just the 10.2 driver. WEI ran without a hitch. I thought I was home free, but

Re: [H] Replacement Card - was Re: ATI CATALYST 10.2 10.3 Driver Preview - Final Thoughts and conclusions

2010-03-03 Thread Stan Zaske
That's an oddball resolution for a 23 monitor. The ones I've looked at were 1920x1080. On 3/3/2010 2:25 PM, Steve wrote: I've got one, driving 2 x Dell 23 @ 2048x1152 without issue. -- From: Anthony Q. Martin amar...@charter.net Sent:

Re: [H] Replacement Card - was Re: ATI CATALYST 10.2 10.3 Driver Preview - Final Thoughts and conclusions

2010-03-03 Thread Stan Zaske
That's what I thought, Eyefinity would have been 4096X1152.. On 3/3/2010 3:11 PM, Steve wrote: Dell SP2309W's with a native resolution of 248 x 1152. And yeah... just a little oddball, but sweet monitors, especially for the price. -- From:

Re: [H] ATI CATALYST 10.2 10.3 Driver Preview - Final Thoughts and conclusions

2010-03-02 Thread Stan Zaske
Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Stan Zaske Sent: 01 March 2010 21:36 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] ATI CATALYST 10.2 10.3 Driver Preview - Final Thoughts and conclusions You're entitled to your

Re: [H] ATI CATALYST 10.2 10.3 Driver Preview - Final Thoughts and conclusions

2010-03-02 Thread Stan Zaske
Jason -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Stan Zaske Sent: 01 March 2010 21:36 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] ATI CATALYST 10.2 10.3 Driver Preview - Final Thoughts and conclusions You're

[H] NVIDIA Forceware 196.75 Drivers Made Available For Download

2010-03-02 Thread Stan Zaske
New drivers are supposed to include have a ton of bug fixes that are worth having. http://www.legitreviews.com/news/7502/

Re: [H] ATI CATALYST 10.2 10.3 Driver Preview - Final Thoughts and conclusions

2010-03-02 Thread Stan Zaske
I was referring to Nvidia being first to engineer integrated 3D graphics. 2D graphics are the simple task of a video card by comparison. 3D graphics advancements drive video card development. And rapidly at that.. On 3/2/2010 10:19 AM, maccrawj wrote: ATi was in the graphics game a long

Re: [H] [Bulk] If you own a PS3 and it connects to the net DO NOT TURN ON

2010-03-02 Thread Stan Zaske
what they paid for! Sony stock actually finished up Monday, surprising. On 3/1/2010 1:38 PM, Stan Zaske wrote: Yeah, I read about it on Twitter and apparently the PS3 forum members are up in arms about it. On 3/1/2010 2:53 PM, CW wrote: http://ps3.ign.com/articles/107/1073007p1.html Sony

Re: [H] ATI CATALYST 10.2 10.3 Driver Preview - Final Thoughts and conclusions

2010-03-02 Thread Stan Zaske
board and its drivers. Now there is no telling what will happen next. I wonder if the board is bad somehow On 2/26/2010 12:14 AM, Stan Zaske wrote: Wow, that's too bad Anthony. Bummer! On 2/25/2010 9:38 AM, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: Well, I got home yesterday to find what Win7 had shut down

Re: [H] ATI CATALYST 10.2 10.3 Driver Preview - Final Thoughts and conclusions

2010-03-01 Thread Stan Zaske
that was stable.and they were working on it for a year prior to Vistas release. There is no best team, each one will have their moments over the years. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Stan Zaske

[H] The Smallest USB 3.0 Device in the World - Astro Drive A101 is seriously bad azz..

2010-03-01 Thread Stan Zaske
This is the best news for thumb drives ever. Imagine increasing read/write speeds from 30/20 to 186/130. Man I can't wait to get my hands on one of these for personal backups. http://www.legitreviews.com/news/7483/

Re: [H] ATI CATALYST 10.2 10.3 Driver Preview - Final Thoughts and conclusions

2010-03-01 Thread Stan Zaske
] On Behalf Of Stan Zaske Sent: 01 March 2010 15:40 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] ATI CATALYST 10.2 10.3 Driver Preview - Final Thoughts and conclusions They are the best in the world and only fail when management and bean counters have them dilute their efforts with chipsets

Re: [H] [Bulk] If you own a PS3 and it connects to the net DO NOT TURN ON

2010-03-01 Thread Stan Zaske
Yeah, I read about it on Twitter and apparently the PS3 forum members are up in arms about it. On 3/1/2010 2:53 PM, CW wrote: http://ps3.ign.com/articles/107/1073007p1.html Sony has bricked their PSN Network. Talk about screwup on a mammoth scale. If your PS3 connects, you'll lose all

Re: [H] ATI CATALYST 10.2 10.3 Driver Preview - Final Thoughts and conclusions

2010-02-25 Thread Stan Zaske
...then ran WEI and it crashes the PC. I think I regret getting an ATI board. On 2/17/2010 3:02 PM, Stan Zaske wrote: I believe you will have to upgrade to a 5000 series card to see the benefits. Tempting no? On 2/17/2010 12:56 PM, Zulfiqar Naushad wrote: All this is great. But I have a 4890 and what

Re: [H] How To Turn A Netbook Into A Full Page eReader

2010-02-24 Thread Stan Zaske
...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Stan Zaske Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2010 4:56 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] How To Turn A Netbook Into A Full Page eReader Here's an interesting Tech Tip I got from Geeks.com. I thought it would be interesting to those thinking of buying

[H] How To Turn A Netbook Into A Full Page eReader

2010-02-22 Thread Stan Zaske
Here's an interesting Tech Tip I got from Geeks.com. I thought it would be interesting to those thinking of buying an Apple tablet or Amazon Kindle or Sony etc. Not ready to give up paperbooks myself but eReaders are pretty big news this year so far and lots of peeps have Netbooks. How

Re: [H] New Phenom II X2 555 C3 revision

2010-02-21 Thread Stan Zaske
- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Stan Zaske Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 10:04 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] New Phenom II X2 555 C3 revision Yeah, I have to agree but if you read as many hardware reviews as I do they practically say most will unlock

Re: [H] 2D, Acceleration, And Windows: Aren't All Graphics Cards Equal?

2010-02-19 Thread Stan Zaske
The reviews I've read say a single 5770 is almost as fast as a 4890 so no it wouldn't be able to keep up with 2 4870's in Crossfire. A single 5850 will drive 3 monitors by its self but you have the display port connection to worry about. The latest driver release by AMD (10.2) makes Eyefinity

Re: [H] 2D, Acceleration, And Windows: Aren't All Graphics Cards Equal?

2010-02-19 Thread Stan Zaske
is going to crawl way sooner than later! Calling xfire or SLI overkill unless you have a huge screen is just fundamentally wrong. You need to turn the eye-candy settings back up on your games! On 2/18/2010 4:42 PM, Stan Zaske wrote: If I could justify spending $300 my personal choice would

[H] New Phenom II X2 555 C3 revision

2010-02-19 Thread Stan Zaske
Well my new CPU came yesterday and it overclocks to 4 GHz stably with 1.4v which I don't consider excessive. However, it won't unlock the other 2 cores so I expect there is a defect in 1 or more of the unused cores. What is the collectives opinion on sending it back for a replacement? Ethical

Re: [H] New Phenom II X2 555 C3 revision

2010-02-19 Thread Stan Zaske
them is just wrong. So is returning it for any reason or invoking the warranty now that you have overclocked and overvolted it, IMO. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Stan Zaske Sent: Friday, February

Re: [H] 2D, Acceleration, And Windows: Aren't All Graphics Cards Equal?

2010-02-18 Thread Stan Zaske
been a long time since 2D acceleration was even an issue, no? I don't care if they perform better or not, I would just like to see some stable drivers from ATI so I don't have to reboot twice a day! On 2/17/2010 10:53 AM, Stan Zaske wrote: 2D acceleration is another area that has problems

Re: [H] Strong recommend

2010-02-18 Thread Stan Zaske
That would be cool for BD when I decide to take the plunge and buy a BD-ROM. For DVD's I just have AnyDVD rip it to hardrive as an ISO. On 2/17/2010 6:08 PM, tmse...@rlrnews.com wrote: www.makemkv.com Maybe one of the coolest tools I've used in forever. Instant, no compression conversion

Re: [H] Strong recommend

2010-02-18 Thread Stan Zaske
than having an HD farm that sucking down juice 24/7 (it occurs to me that cheap HDs make this all too tempting to do, though, so I can get that). At least to me it is On 2/18/2010 10:23 AM, Stan Zaske wrote: That would be cool for BD when I decide to take the plunge and buy a BD-ROM

Re: [H] 2D, Acceleration, And Windows: Aren't All Graphics Cards Equal?

2010-02-18 Thread Stan Zaske
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. By the way, by chopping my previous post you changed the meaning of what I originally

[H] 2D, Acceleration, And Windows: Aren't All Graphics Cards Equal?

2010-02-17 Thread Stan Zaske
2D acceleration is another area that has problems with the latest video cards/drivers. Ati is mostly affected but Nvidia also has it's share of problems. There is a part 2 to this article that I'm reading next. Still going to be a few months before AMD gets mature drivers out to us but at this

Re: [H] 2D, Acceleration, And Windows: Aren't All Graphics Cards Equal?

2010-02-17 Thread Stan Zaske
not yet public) fix, and working with us to ensure that the folks buying these cards get the user experience they expect, regardless of whether they're gamers, artists, or engineers! http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/2d-windows-gdi,2547-15.html On 2/17/2010 9:53 AM, Stan Zaske wrote: 2D

[H] ATI CATALYST 10.2 10.3 Driver Preview - Final Thoughts and conclusions

2010-02-17 Thread Stan Zaske
10.2 is supposed to be out but when I checked it still showed 10.1. Maybe later on today it will show up. Legit Reviews touts it as a major update. By far the Application Profiles feature is the coolest feature in Catalyst 10.2. I think it will revolutionize the way drivers will be updated.

Re: [H] 2D, Acceleration, And Windows: Aren't All Graphics Cards Equal?

2010-02-17 Thread Stan Zaske
and installed it myself. Cool? On 2/17/2010 12:54 PM, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: It's been a long time since 2D acceleration was even an issue, no? On 2/17/2010 10:53 AM, Stan Zaske wrote: 2D acceleration is another area that has problems with the latest video cards/drivers. Ati is mostly affected

Re: [H] ATI CATALYST 10.2 10.3 Driver Preview - Final Thoughts and conclusions

2010-02-17 Thread Stan Zaske
buying a 5770. On 2/17/2010 1:33 PM, Stan Zaske wrote: 10.2 is supposed to be out but when I checked it still showed 10.1. Maybe later on today it will show up. Legit Reviews touts it as a major update. By far the Application Profiles feature is the coolest feature in Catalyst 10.2. I think

Re: [H] ATI CATALYST 10.2 10.3 Driver Preview - Final Thoughts and conclusions

2010-02-17 Thread Stan Zaske
I believe you will have to upgrade to a 5000 series card to see the benefits. Tempting no? On 2/17/2010 12:56 PM, Zulfiqar Naushad wrote: All this is great. But I have a 4890 and what is the perf gain on that card? Regards, Zulfiqar Naushad On Feb 17, 2010, at 9:33 PM, Stan Zaske swza

Re: [H] 2D, Acceleration, And Windows: Aren't All Graphics Cards Equal?

2010-02-17 Thread Stan Zaske
an issue, no? I don't care if they perform better or not, I would just like to see some stable drivers from ATI so I don't have to reboot twice a day! On 2/17/2010 10:53 AM, Stan Zaske wrote: 2D acceleration is another area that has problems with the latest video cards/drivers. Ati is mostly

Re: [H] Replacing 2 Geforce 8800 GTS in SLI, what to get?

2010-02-11 Thread Stan Zaske
One of the monitors must have a Display Port connection and I'm not sure the adapter situation is straight just yet. Also, I don't think 1600x1200 will cut it but it's possible. What are they? Cathode ray? On 2/10/2010 6:11 PM, Bino Gopal wrote: Don't know if you're into it, but I've been

Re: [H] Replacing 2 Geforce 8800 GTS in SLI, what to get?

2010-02-11 Thread Stan Zaske
One 5850 will drive 3 monitors but one must have a Display port connection and all 3 monitors have to be running the same resolution so your 30 display would have to be set to 1920x1200 like your 24 ones. On 2/10/2010 8:39 PM, Winterlight wrote: I have a couple of Asus 4970s running three

Re: [H] Replacing 2 Geforce 8800 GTS in SLI, what to get?

2010-02-11 Thread Stan Zaske
you can use a Displayport-DVI converter and it should work...unless you have heard differently? BINO -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Stan Zaske Sent

Re: [H] Best board and chip going right now?

2010-02-09 Thread Stan Zaske
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. On 2/8/2010 8:16 PM, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: I suspect you may be right, Duncan. I recently upgraded to an ATI

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