Posts by AvatarK82

Yes, it works fine, but only if your player uses VMR9 for playback. It does not work with the Media Center, since that uses the new EVR. In that case, the nVidia decoder reports an unknown renderer and falls back to software...

When I switched to Vista, the CPU temperature was exactly the same as in XP. Check the Power Options in the control panel, and make sure the balanced profile is selected. Also, run something like RightMark RMClock to make sure the...

This seems to be a common problem. There a basically two hot spots in the machine. One is on the left (CPU), the other is on the right (Memory, optical drive). I never had problems with CPU temperature, the the memory would get extremely...

The article is a very nice summary of the factors that affect hdd reliability, and I can't agree more with the comments about back-ups. However, I have to disagree with some of the other points. MTBF rating of 330,000 hours does not...

What you can do is use Nbitor (google it) to download the bios from your video card and manually adjust the frequencies. Then you can flash the card with the modified bios. This will permanently set the speeds so you won't need to do...

Here are the trigger points for the fans: 75C CPU (or so) - low low 50C Chipset - low low 53C Chipset - med high 56C Chipset - high high 78C GPU - low low The first fan speed is for the CPU fan, the second for the GPU fan....

I'd like to make a couple of points: ReadyBoost does not help with boot-up times. In an interview, one of the developers states that the cache is rebuilt each time the computer starts. It will help with the loading times for...

Never had that problem. The Dell drivers enable the subwoofer control which is really handy. The only thing missing is the support for headphone output, which means we can't use Vista's Headphone Virtualization. It works with my Audigy 2...

Current systems have a FSB running at 667Mhz, and the bus is 64bit. In theory, dual channel DDR2 at 667 provides twice the bandwidth the FSB can use. 533 Mhz ram running in dual channel mode still provides more bandwidth than the FSB can...

Go to newegg.com and look at their selection of expresscards. In general, you can insert an eSata controller and build very fast external hard drives. I've also seen TV tuners, serial port adapters, firewire, and even a video card. In...