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monitor upgrade on a budget

A typical CRT monitor has a screen that is slightly curved. A flat CRT (I sometimes see it refered to as a perfectly flat screen - that may be a marketing thing from some company though) has a screen that is flat. An LCD or flat panel monitor has a screen that is flat, as well as being...
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- Post #5
- May 3, 2004
- Forum: Computer Building
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Minimum specs for a Media Center PC

My Mom's current PC is a PII 350 (448mb ram, geforce2, 2 hard drives...). Basically, she needs a new PC, and her VCR is dying and she wants a DVD player, and she wants to be able to record shows. What I'm thinking is that it might be possible to take the current PC, add a DVD drive and a...
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- Thread
- May 3, 2004
- Replies: 7
- Forum: Computer Building
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Smallest SFF PC??

Yeah - what are you looking for? The smallest computer that will do word processing and e-mail, or the smallest box you can get that has some oomph to it and is upgradeable?
- Kaylya
- Post #5
- Apr 30, 2004
- Forum: Computer Building
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The laptop video card performance thread (benchmarks linked)

I was running an IBM R31 with intel graphics for about the last 2 years; I don't have any sort of benchmarks (other than that one time I visited the Alienware site and it told me all of their (desktop) models would outperform my laptop by about 1000%...). Next year we are getting Dell D600's...
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- Post #15
- Apr 30, 2004
- Forum: Laptops
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College laptop

I'd upgrade to 512 ram, but other than that it looks good. If you've got a desktop with a nice hard drive, 30gb should be enough. As long as you stay away from Intel graphics, you should be able to run most anything that's out now and coming out soon. And there's still a lot of things you can...
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- Post #23
- Apr 25, 2004
- Forum: Laptops
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Trojan in Folding@home?

Reminds me of the time when the girl next to me in a high school programming class had a random number generator that wasn't working properly and kept spitting out the exact sequence of numbers that was my password for the school's network.
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- Post #11
- Apr 25, 2004
- Forum: Distributed Computing
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Problems sending completed work for F@H

How long are the servers usually down for? On weekends? I've got a work unit for VSP52, which has been down all day - the problem is, this computer is going back tomorrow, as it's my school laptop (essentially leased). Since it takes like a week for me to do WU's on this machine Celeron 1ghz...
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- Post #7
- Apr 25, 2004
- Forum: Distributed Computing
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Whats L2 Cache do, and whats it important for?

Cache memory is also a different kind of ram (Static RAM) than Main memory (some variation of Dynamic RAM). The differences in the circuitry make cache memory much more expensive per bit than main memory, which is why we have main memory. Apparently I actually learned something in that...
- Kaylya
- Post #13
- Apr 25, 2004
- Forum: Computer Building
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need monitor help

It's most likely connection issue of some sort; since you've plugged it into a different computer, you probably have it connected fine, but the wiring could be faulty. I remember that happened to me once back when I was still using my old Voodoo 3 that bit a piece off of a monitor (one of the...
- Kaylya
- Post #8
- Apr 25, 2004
- Forum: Computer Building
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Computer abbreviations, what do they all stand for?

IEEE ASCII : American Standards Code for Information Interchange BIOS : Basic Input / Output System CD-ROM : Compact Disk-Read Only Memory CPU : Central Processing Unit DRAM : Dynamic Random-Access Memory DVD : Digital Versatile (Video) Disk DMA : Direct Memory Access I/O : Input/Output SCSI ...
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- Post #17
- Apr 25, 2004
- Forum: Computer Building
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College laptop

You might be interested in this thread with some talk about gaming (and my list of games that I know for a fact are playable on my laptop, with intel extreme crap graphics). Next year I will have a Dell D600 (apparently it's pretty much the same as the 600m, but it's a Latitude not an...
- Kaylya
- Post #14
- Apr 24, 2004
- Forum: Laptops
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Laptop Backpack

I have a Targus RakGear bag, and know a few others that have them too. 2 years old, and still in great condition, other than one of the buckles that got stepped on (but still works, and it's not an essential part of the bag by any means). The internal rack thing is neat. My bag fits under an...
- Kaylya
- Post #8
- Apr 22, 2004
- Forum: Laptops
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LCD Protection while travelling

Does anyone know of a good case for an LCD monitor? I'm getting one in the near future, and it will be moved a couple times a year as I go to school far from home - what kind of protection is neccesary?
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- Thread
- Apr 21, 2004
- Replies: 4
- Forum: Computer Building
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Another Laptop Recommendation Thread

Most of them are games that I know other people play, or I've played but haven't tinkered with the settings. WCIII: Can handle high settings (my monitor caps out at 1024x768 though) EverQuest: Very low settings (I've played in large raid settings just fine; I just keep settings low, most new...
- Kaylya
- Post #16
- Apr 21, 2004
- Forum: Laptops
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need a cheap laptop..

Most laptops can do 3 hours of basic use for things like Word. A laptop that's really good with batteries can do about 6 hours. Keep in mind that as time goes on, batteries tend to get less effective, although how fast this happens varies wildly on the battery (e.g. My battery can still last for...
- Kaylya
- Post #6
- Apr 21, 2004
- Forum: Laptops

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