System:
Dell Inspiron 1520
Intel Core 2 Duo T7300 2Ghz 2gig RAM 32bit
Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-Card
My Internet has been acting up lately — just a series of kicking me on and off. When I do get on, I seem to be capped at like 10kb/s whenever I try to download anything. I tried diagnosing it on [...]
Been out of the computer thing for a while, so I don’t know what’s the best bang for the buck build is right now.
Q9450. Seems like the new hotness?
8800GT was a bargain for performance last I read when it first came out.
Dunno about mobo or chipset.
Help. Seems like nobody ever needs to build a badass [...]
After trying to build my own and all that shit my computer has died again so I’m just saying fuck it and buying a pre-built now. I was looking at this guy and it seemed like a pretty good deal.
for home media server
needs to have 8 ports
<$300 ?
i noobed myself by trying to let the mobo handle the raid.mobo raid from most consumer mobos is fail and aids.
the only mobos that do decent raid are server-grade boards.here’s my recommendation… assuming you mean SATA-II and you have a PCI-Ex4/8/16 slot available.
I have a rocketraid card [...]
I need a new laptop for school and I’ve narrowed my choices down to these two laptops:
Both laptops are available at stores near me. The HP C2D is $787.61 is and the Compaq AMD is $677.99. The price difference is quite significant and I’m wondering if the difference in performance is worth it. I figure [...]
I can’t see any positives.. I recently (yesterday) got a new laptop from HP. Its a beast compared to my old computer, yet I really don’t feel like I’ve made an improvement in performance.
My old computer had Windows XP and Ubuntu Fiesty installed
2.8 Ghz Pentium 4
512 [...]
So I was talking to this guy at a computer company, and he basically said I’d be better off with an awesome Duo core computer than an decent quad core system. Among the reasons he gave, the main one was that most programs don’t make use of the quad core. So basically, it’s a waste [...]
I’m leaning towards the Sager. Better card (9800M GT vs 9700M GT), better looks (elegant Sager vs. boy-racer Asus), DDR3 memory……..but spec’d out the way I want it, it’s $2300.
The Asus is cheaper at around $1700.
My limit’s $2500 and hopefully I’ll have my current laptop sold (someone’s interested — $800) so that should [...]
that 8gb of ram costs like 150 quid - maybe 200 us dollars or less?
i was considering buying a wee ssd at some point for an OS partition, but fuck, i could just get fuckload of ram either. access times would be immense.
i could copy my os partition to a ramfs. i know operating systems [...]
So, I just bought a Linksys router (WRT160N) with wireless N. I’m noticing that my Dell laptop with the Intel 4965 wireless N adapter is only getting 54Mbps. Is there anything I can do to help increase that? I just upgraded my drivers to the latest version, but that’s not helping. [...]
