Time to toss out the cable box
If you have yet to play with recording and playing TV via a TV tuner card on a PC, perhaps the Haupauge HVR-1800 TV Tuner Card might change your mind. For ~$90 you will get a TV Tuner card that can handle ATSC HD (the over the air HDTV standard in North America), clear braodcasted QAM digital TV channels if you are lucky enough to live in an area ...
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Revising the Phenom II X4 965 BE
There is a new X4 965 on the market, the Rev C, which brings some interesting advancements to the CPU. First off is the drop in TDP to 125W and the second is the implementation of new states which finally rid the CPU of the CnQ Performance Hit that many have seen. All this adds up to a much more power efficient processor that will throw off less ...
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It's like a benchmark you can play
Since the days of 3DMark03, many gamers who used the benchmark to compare their current tweaks to their own previous results as well as the results of others, there have been many who wished that some of these benchmarks were playable. Finally that wish can come true and in a rather interesting game concept, free fall. Shattered Horizons has been...
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Intel's Universal Serial Blindspot
It would seem that Intel chipsets will not be natively supporting USB 3.0 until sometime in 2011, according to a confirmed rumour you can read about on Engadget. nVIDIA has stepped out of the chipset business, only supporting their current platforms, so you can count them out as well. ALi, SiS and VIA have pretty much backed out of the enthusiast...
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Mixed memory timings and over-voltage?
For some silly reason I bought the wrong RAM some time ago for my system. It is DDR2800 4-4-4 2v 2x1GB kit. Not a big deal, I just increased the...
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HDD Failure, Trying to Recover
In my newer Thinkpad, the hdd took a dive, and was replaced under warranty. Thankfully. Since I was caught way off guard, and had no time to...
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Time to toss out the cable box? No Way!!!
Ryan mentioned a Haupauge TV Tuner on his site yesterday and a couple of years ago he reviewed an OnAir GT HDTV...
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hal.dll missing during XP install on Asus EEE PC 2G Surf
So, my wife has gotten sick of the default Xandros Linux on her Asus EEE PC 2G Surf laptop and wanted XP installed on it. Well, we picked up a...
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Building first AMD System - Help
I need help building my first AMD System. So Far I've decided on.... CPU - AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition (Latest Rev) CPU Cooler - CORSAIR...
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Getting Gigabit Ethernet Connections on my GAMA790FXDS5
Learned Colleagues: Just put my router where I can easily see it and I realized my 790FX with its Realtek Gigabit NIC isn't connecting at gigabit...
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Windows 7 Screen Refresh Rate
Hi All, I just upgraded my Media PC to Win7. Installed latest drivers + windows updates. Now when I set my screen resolution to 1920x1080 (native...
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WHS: Hard drive Issues
Hi everyone, New to WHS and I have a question about hard drive space. When I go to my computer it only shows me my system drive. The drive with the...
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Icons won't stay sized
This is in Windows 7 Ult. I have the desktop icons set to small and when I reboot they go back to medium. This is on a Dell Studio XPS 16 laptop. ...
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water cooling system help
For my next build I'm thinking I want to water cool it so I can over clock without worry of overheating. I will be using a Phenom II X4 AM3...
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Media Streaming on Nettop
Hey everyone! I saw a post at Lifehacker the other day that shows how to use an Acer Aspire Revo to stream video using XBMC. I've seen some concerns...
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HD audio to go with HD video
I was posting a link to a review of the Haupauge HVR-1800 TV Tuner Card (http://www.pcper.com/#NewsID-7964) on the front page and I got to...
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Erasing Dual layer DVD-RW - Getting write protected error
I have a dual layer DVD which says "RW" on it so obviously I guess it's erasable? BUt everytime I try to erase it, I get an error saying "the drive...
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WHS: Network Printer
Hi everyone, I have a problem and I'm turning to ppl who have experience with this issue that might be able to help me. I just got my WHS up and...
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Something I've been wondering for awhile
Why do certain charities align themself with a religion? IE "Christian's Children Fund" I would think if you actually gave 2 shits about your cause...
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