Hardware - August 2007

2007-08-02 07:41:17 · 4 answers · asked by CHAD T 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

I'm a student and Gamer,[Residing in Canada], I need the works.
Memory- 2GB ram, preferrably 120 GB hardrive.DVD reader/writer.GREAT graphics, not sure, there are tonnes of different types- NVIDIA is expensive.Good battery life -more then 3 hours atleast.Not tooo heavy, sturdy, I'll be carrying it around with me to University.Ermm..Card Readers,Webcam, wireless, bluetooth and the whole shebang of course...Can anyone recommend a good laptop, not super expensive- somewhere in the range of 799- 1000 canadian dollars preferrably.
Very confused in the processor section.It needs to be fast.
Whats the difference between-
Intel pentium Dual Core processor T2080
Intel Centrino Duo Processor tech with Intel Core Duo processor T2450
Intel centrino Duo processor tech with intel core 2 duo processor T5450...
and intel Celeron Processor 520...
I would find out myself, but if you guys know..well im lazy :).
Nvidia would be great too..but if theres a less costly substitute...
Help plz..lol

2007-08-02 07:39:31 · 5 answers · asked by ? 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

I have only a PCI port, no AGP or PCIe, and i want to use this as my primary card, is this worth the money? i read some of the reviews, but they are all mixed. i have a Dell Diminsion 3100
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814143055


BFG Tech PhysX Processing Unit 128MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Physics Card - Retail
that is the card
i want to use it for gaming

2007-08-02 07:33:52 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Add-ons

everytime i try to play a dvd on my laptop it tells me that its missing the mpeg-2 codec thingy

2007-08-02 07:32:16 · 7 answers · asked by Ask Z 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

How can I clean my laptop keys????? They are sticky, not under just ontop (Where you type)

2007-08-02 07:14:49 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Laptops & Notebooks

I own the ENHANCE Galaxy GeForce 7900 GS 256MB PCI-E X16 7900GS :
http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/vide... (scroll down to see it)

however I am very unhappy with the performance of nvidia because the drivers keep crashing the computer and want to switch over to ATI.

this is the system I use:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250146511520&ssPageName=ADME:B:EOIBSA:UK:11

with windows Visat 64bit.

I would appreciate some recomendations.

2007-08-02 07:00:30 · 2 answers · asked by A S 1 in Other - Hardware

I have got about 700$ saved yup rite now and i am looking for a laptop.Does anybody know what the best brand is for a laptop. HELP!! Any tips for picking out a great laptop?

2007-08-02 06:40:48 · 19 answers · asked by .♥heather♥. 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

2007-08-02 05:58:07 · 6 answers · asked by baseball 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

2007-08-02 05:55:15 · 4 answers · asked by riccardo 1 in Desktops

i have a dell dimension E521 running win xp and i want to put my printer in another room to save space what sort of solutions can you provide to make this possible and could you please explain:-)
all help will be gratly appreciated,
yours truly,
T. Martin

2007-08-02 05:30:14 · 2 answers · asked by koolciaran 2 in Printers

give me some tips for increasing the speed of my p4 computer

2007-08-02 04:36:28 · 20 answers · asked by shariq 1 in Desktops

I am going to order a dell inspiron 1520 soon and was just curious if i should get the 5400rpm hard drive or spend 50 dollars more and get the 7200rpm drive. Would there be a big difference. I will be doing a decent amount of gaming.

2007-08-02 04:34:05 · 9 answers · asked by Elliott B 1 in Other - Hardware

I noticed in the latest edition of CPU magazine, they were talking about different OS. They mentioned that there was a program that when you clicked it, you were able to run another operating system (Ubuntu, i think). Does anybody know the program or any program that lets you do that?

2007-08-02 04:25:25 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops

2007-08-02 04:21:43 · 7 answers · asked by againyourright 4 in Laptops & Notebooks

My silverstone PSU is dead, I bought a hiper PSU and it sucks. Im sending it back. Will the CORSAIR CMPSU-520HX work for my future needs with ATI Crossfire?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139001

2007-08-02 03:39:50 · 4 answers · asked by bu1181 2 in Add-ons

I built my dell online about a month ago..Yesterday it was suppose to ship out so I was so excited! I get home yesterday and I have a message from dell that there was a back up and I won't get my lap top until the 30th....They waited until the day it was suppose to be shipped to tell me this?

2007-08-02 03:12:44 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Laptops & Notebooks

i have a geforce 440 64mb in it right now, whats the best card i can put in it? will a geforce 7 work? also a fried lent me his geforce 5 to try out but my computer would start why is that?

thanks

2007-08-02 02:46:31 · 3 answers · asked by aussie3 2 in Other - Hardware

My dad recently bought logitech's vx revolution. the mouse is almost perfect, so I was looking logitech's mouses and I saw the similar one - the mx revolution (the note on it's box sayed it's the worlds advanced mouse). so what do people in the world think about mx revolution, or does anybody have an idea what are the good, I mean, a REALLY good mouse. any ideas... I have a notebook, so I don't want too many wires (cuz I already have too much wires) so I wanna wireless?

thx

2007-08-02 02:17:51 · 6 answers · asked by ? 4 in Laptops & Notebooks

Newest Dell D620 Laptops and other Dell laptops display on DLP, LCD projectors in a squared form, not filling the screen. With resolution changes and refresh rate changes, I can only get the entire desktop to display on settings that end up making the image tiny, also not filling the screen. The old Dell Laptops required only a function-F8 to get the image up on the screen, and if that didn't work, you just dropped the resolution to 1024x768 and that fixed it. We run our projectors in integrated office settings with extron switching and AMX control systems. There is something different with these newer models. Dell support was a joke and no help whatsoever. If your issue doesn't fit in their "help manual" in Mumbai, you get no support. ZERO thinking out of the box with them. Any help is appreciated if you have had this issue and have the solution.

2007-08-02 02:02:36 · 1 answers · asked by guysports 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

I have an 06 Gateway with windows xp

2007-08-02 01:48:46 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Hardware

I guess I will drop any notion of getting speakers.. Could be Xitron is a rip off artist and be glad the package came in perfect condition. Pricegrabber should take them off their list of places to buy computers.

2007-08-02 01:45:55 · 2 answers · asked by Vintage Music 7 in Desktops

Being on this Website is something new, I,m usually on Yahoo cameras.
Ordered from Pricegrabbers Dell E510 desktop, and found 2 days ago no speakers in box. Aren't speakerers suppose to come with it? Do I ***** to them or just let it go. It was a good price. Also between me and my daughter we wind up putting computer on 7,8 times a day...maybe more. Do we just leave it on all day or keep doing what we're doing?

2007-08-02 01:18:56 · 1 answers · asked by Vintage Music 7 in Desktops

Switched out the power supply w/ a new one only to find out the old one was still good.(by putting it in another computer) So why wont my computer power on. No leaking from the Capacitors, so what else can it be?

2007-08-02 01:04:54 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Hardware

I have the processor described above and I'm thinking of upgrading it to a 4000 san diego, but I'm not sure whether or not I should get a new cooler for it. I can't find the athlon 64 4000 box where I live, so box cooler is not an option. I have no intention of overclocking it.

2007-08-02 00:47:22 · 1 answers · asked by Riley 2 in Desktops

I have a Mac G3 powerbook OSX
With a Freecom Classic CD Ext Recorder/player
Using TOAST 6 Titanum..... it worked fine, always coming up on the Toast window UNTILL 5 minutes ago..... suddenly it cant find the recorder..... I've tried rebooting the mac, disconecting/reconecting the power from the freecom/ disconecting the firewire conections........ Still wont find the recorder.
Ps I dont have the driver- disc from the Freecom as somebody gave it to me a year ago
Any bright Ideas ?
Thanks in advance D.

2007-08-02 00:42:20 · 1 answers · asked by Fishtalk 4 in Laptops & Notebooks

Im running A dell dimention 4700 and i want to upgrade my ram but i have no idea whatsoever what is my ram is it ddr1 or ddr2 Please Help Me

2007-08-02 00:41:35 · 6 answers · asked by skmasterhian 1 in Add-ons

Hi all

I bought a new PC dual core and all the rest of it - I have 2 gigs RAM I can upgrade to 4 but I am wondering will it actually be utilised as I read somewhere that most games and such dont require 4 gigs yet so you could have 2 gigs sitting doing nothing!

any thoughts???

2007-08-02 00:03:41 · 4 answers · asked by John24c 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

is there any major difference between these 2 processors?
1.66 seems a fair bit smaller than 1.83 for some reason but was wondering performace diff.

its an extra 110 bucks australian to upgrade via dell.

i have fair decent specs everywhere else but; i.e 256mb video card, 2gb ram etc.

thankyou

2007-08-01 23:39:48 · 1 answers · asked by john c 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

my machine can't detect the version of vga card shows drivers not found.After using EVEREST I get the following report about motherboard & vga card
Motherboard:
CPU Type Intel Pentium 4 524, 3066 MHz (23 x 133)
Motherboard Name ECS 865G-M (Deluxe) / 865G-M7D / 865G-M8 / PF2
Motherboard Chipset Intel Springdale-G i865G
BIOS Type Award (06/06/06)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM1)
Communication Port ECP Printer Port (LPT1)
Display:
Video Adapter Intel Extreme Graphics 2 3D Accelerator Intel Extreme Graphics 2

please help me to find the drivers for vga card for this configuration

2007-08-01 23:30:00 · 4 answers · asked by surender C 1 in Desktops

I'm building a new pc at the moment and I have quite a few pieces of hardware that I am debating wether or not to buy, I've cruised the net a bit but I have yet to find a site that satisfies my need for non-bias, to the point information on a variety of items from motherboards to graphic cards of various types and brands. Does anyone know of a site like the one I seek?

2007-08-01 23:23:35 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Hardware