Posts by Datheron

Well, the 4200 RPM HDD isn't going to let you blaze through games, no; but a slower hard drive usually means slow startup times and loading times. During actual gameplay, what's more important is the graphics card and the amount of...

Sounds like a Gateway x505 is perfect for ya.

Quote: Originally Posted by Wisefish Why not the Sager 4080? I can answer that. I got the zForce F2 after I took a long, hard look at the Sager 4080. The 4080 has an awesome screen, no doubt, and the price...

Quote: Originally Posted by MARQUISDARQUIS Students? Oh my!!! Bah!! Psssh. You have no idea what you're looking down on. A year ago, I worked with a project called Nachos. It emulated an operating system,...

Quote: Originally Posted by MARQUISDARQUIS Lightweight computer for lightweight work done by lightweight users. Mostly fluff to look cool. I need a machine that can do. That can do heavy duty work, day in and day out....

Machina, the speed increase that you gain from using FAT32 is minimal compared to the problems that you'll have to deal with - I've gone NTFS since Win XP first came out after using Win 98/ME with FAT32 and have never turned back. It's...

Go to your Network Connections folder. Right-click on your wireless connection, go to properties. You should be on the "general" tab; click on the configure button for your wireless card. Go to the advanced tab in the...

Also check out your wireless card settings. By default, Windows likes to control how your wireless card uses power - it tries to be smart by turning the thing off when it detects little wireless network activity. As a result, you tend to...

Here's just a good article linked from Anandtech that explains, in broad strokes, how the P-M architecture is derived from the PIII architecture but also takes features from Netburst and the P4. It's a good read, especially if you're...

Quote: Originally Posted by dashby My understanding is the higher the resolution the less video refresh speed you have (which is completely logical...more pixels..more time to paint them). Give me 1280x800 on a...