Posts by Greenwall

There will be no problems, however when you mix Dimm sizes, you turn off the dual channel feature (in bios). The dual channel feature is striping across the two Dimms for additional performance. The only catch is the Dimms must be the...

President's Day Sale I just got this notice in today's email. Looks like a Presidents Day Sale has 25% off the 1505 model laptop and the Dimension E521. I hope someone has a chance to use these, as owning a house has found a way to...

You've got to look at what you are benchmarking. You noted that it was 3dmark 2006, which would drop your scores to sub 1000 for your rig. If you ran 3dmark 2005, then your scores would be in the 3000 range. I don't know if 05...

Smatteo, Windows has a valid driver that works with it (i'm using it on my Vista partition). Simple way to get the device driver (and you can actually watch it perform the operation) is to open device manager (leave in separate...

If there is such a gripe about the "value" you paid for the system a year ago, think of it in terms of what was available a year ago... What would most people have paid a year ago for the equivalent system you are about to...

Quote: Originally Posted by ratinakage Hmm. This is something I have never heard before. Do you really think Intel will make core 2 duo chips above the 2.33ghz for laptops? If so, its not anywhere in their roadmaps. ...

Hops, sorry it took me a bit to read the thread (and refrain from laughing). Yes, there is a way to determine the average life of a fuse. The problem with defining a 2 year fuse is when they test the MTBF, they are running current...

You may be able to put in a 256 MB chip, however the system might only address a total of 256 through both RAM DIMM channels (threshold of chipset, not actual slot type). I have an old system that did the same thing. I bought a 256 MB...

Intel Chipset drivers are a must (had same symptoms last year, then installed the drivers as I somehow missed them when I formatted/re-installed windows). After that, the system worked like a charm again. The drivers control things...

My workplace requires that any home users have AV installed and they decided to purchase the licenses for us. We use a volume license for Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition Version 10.x and of all the AV's (with Adware scanning to...