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Best Compact Flash??

Also, a good link for an up-to-date database of various CF cards take a look at this.
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- Post #14
- Jun 4, 2003
- Forum: Computer Building
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Best Compact Flash??

In my experience the best brand out there is Lexar - they have a lifetime warantee on their professional products, and their service is second to none. Not sure if all of the cards have it, however all of mine came bundled with software for recovering images from corrupted discs - never had to...
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- Post #13
- Jun 4, 2003
- Forum: Computer Building
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Recommendations for locking a computer (parents want to know for my lil brother's computers)

One extreme option to avoid them being able to reset the CMOS would be to take a pair of small wire cutters and remove the appropriate pin from the motherboard. You'd have to be very carefull about it and you'd have to make sure that you remember the password (you could still reset it, you'd...
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- Post #46
- May 23, 2003
- Forum: Computer Building
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Recommendations for locking a computer (parents want to know for my lil brother's computers)

Unless they pull the reset the computer (either using the front pannel buttons or plain old pull the plug) ;) A removable HDD chassis is likely the best idea - pull the HDD and the machine is pretty much useless, throw it in a safe and you're set (unless he buys his own HDD and sled, but that...
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- Post #15
- May 22, 2003
- Forum: Computer Building
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Keep using a Sony 21" Trinitron CRT or go with a Dell 1800FP LCD?

You'd need a dual monitor graphics card (pretty well any modern card has that function) and then you'd be able to hook up both monitors to the same computer. The desktop can be expanded over the two monitors, so you can keep your games, photo and video editing on the CRT and your email...
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- Post #11
- May 19, 2003
- Forum: Computer Building
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Keep using a Sony 21" Trinitron CRT or go with a Dell 1800FP LCD?

Both types of monitor have advantages and disadvantages wrt each other, so it depends on what you typically do with your system. Do you work on a lot of graphics stuff (especially where colour accuracy is important)? Do you need to stare at text for long periods (word processing, spreadsheets...
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- Post #3
- May 18, 2003
- Forum: Computer Building
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OMG, a new printer that prints paper and directly onto cd's and dvd's!

Don't mix up DPI (dots per inch) with PPI (pixels per inch) - the two are often confused but mean very different things. A pixel is a picture element, the frequency of which (ppi) determines the maximum resolving power of an output device. In continuous tone printers (eg dye-sublimation) a dot...
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- Post #9
- May 17, 2003
- Forum: Computer Building
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GFFX5900/Radeon9800: dual LCD users drop dead!

In a corperation with hundreds of computers, the cumulative power & space savings alone of an office full of LCDs easilly offsets their price disadvantage - these markets don't need fancy graphics cards and often go for the cheapest card they can get. Most home users don't notice the power...
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- Post #58
- May 17, 2003
- Forum: Computer Building
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I have my first new computer ever - I need general maintenance tips please.

True - however one advantage to regular defragmentations is that the data on your harddrive will be better organized. If something goes wrong with the FAT (or the HDD at large), recovery of the data is a whole lot easier when files aren't broken up into little chunks and spread all over the...
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- Post #31
- May 14, 2003
- Forum: Computer Building
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GFFX5900/Radeon9800: dual LCD users drop dead!

Well it depends how you measure 'quality' - as someone who requires colour-critical workflow and goes through the process of calibrating monitors regularly (with objective instrumentation of course), I can tell you that no LCD I've ever seen has remotely near the colour-gammut of a good-quality...
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- Post #33
- May 14, 2003
- Forum: Computer Building
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GFFX5900/Radeon9800: dual LCD users drop dead!

Companies are not in business to be charities, the only reason to spend more is if they believe that that extra feature will attract enough additional business to their camp rather than the other to offset the extra money it will cost to integrate it. Sure it would only cost them another ~$5 to...
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- Post #32
- May 14, 2003
- Forum: Computer Building
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I have my first new computer ever - I need general maintenance tips please.

Originally posted by: Apotherix Our house was hit by lightning a few years back - a surge came up through the ground and fried most of the plugged-in electronics in the house that weren't hooked up to surge protectors or UPSs. The only part of my computer (a 486 at the time) that got fragged...
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- Post #17
- May 14, 2003
- Forum: Computer Building
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Inexpensive & Stable Motherboard

Thanks for all the suggestions, I'll take a look into them :) Power conservation isn't a huge thing (just it would be nice to keep the power bills from going up too much), I'm more worried about the heat that these things kick off making whatever room I put it in warmer than comfortable (I know...
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- Post #9
- May 12, 2003
- Forum: Motherboards
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Inexpensive & Stable Motherboard

Hi, I am currently looking at setting up a simple server at home to do a number of basic tasks. It doesn't need a whole lot of horsepower, however I do need a system that can be as stable as is possible. The idea is to have it running 24/7/365, so it would also be beneficial for it not to...
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- Thread
- May 11, 2003
- Replies: 8
- Forum: Motherboards
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TV Tuners/PVRs

I'm looking at building a machine which among other things, I'd like to act as a PVR unit without the extra fees/restrictions that the dedicated units have. I'd like to use a dual monitor video card to output the standard computer interface to a computer monitor and the TV feed to the...
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- Thread
- Nov 21, 2002
- Replies: 3
- Forum: TVs

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