Search results

Yep... but how many years of usefull life did it cost you? The sad part is that under testing conditions the chip will take that several, even dozens of times... but in daily use one such heat cycle can take years off the lifetime of the chip. Most of the CPU failures I've seen have been...

FWIW ... I agree. Most pastes are pretty much the same thing. As you say they all run within a couple of degrees of each other and the only real comparison is cost. I think you'll find things are a bit different when you get into phase change (reflow) compounds. Here, there are very real...

Nice review Rob.... I've been using WD drives by preference for a long time (mid-90s) and I've yet to have any problem that isn't one of abuse or age. In fact I have a late 1990s 20gb WD drive here that still works as good as the day it was made. One thing I can confirm for you... WD...

There is that... and often the video version of the news actually presents less information than the text version.

And this right after I watched "Evolution".... Ewww.... For pure durability purposes, pin connectors (like on IDE drives) are far more reliable than board edge. There are board mount versions of both male and female sides. They can easily be enclosed to minimize dust incursion. Pins can...

"While it's true that you are limited to Ctrl+Alt combinations, it is there and I think I remember using it in windows 2000 already." It's been there since Windows 3.1 and no you aren't limited to CTRL+ALT combinations. You can use any key combination that is not already in use. Right...

You can order it from Stanley at the link provided. The only caution I would give you is that the application depends a lot on how steady your hand is... If you can get a nice thin film in one pass, it will settle in and work perfectly almost immediately... Your chip temps will go up to...

Yes, it is likely that a dirty connector will fail right away... but I've seen time play some weird tricks. Fan vibrations, physical movement, oxidation, etc slowly jiggle things around and connections do break. Card edge connectors, for all the development they've had remain one of the...

I'm definately a reader. I like to be able to go back over and re-read sections of a story (book, article, publication) to make certain I've understood it fully. Unlike many, I don't "skim", every word is read and considered in my attempt to understand. On the other hand, news video is a...

Now that is some scarey stuff.... boiling water? Not on any of my computers you don't! Ever heard of Loctite Thermstrate? (package photo below). This stuff is available from Loctite in a number of different thermal ratings, the TC 175 -125 pictured will reflow, under pressure, at about 55c...

Ok so perhaps it's not strictly an NVidia issue... It's interesting to know that as one of my more ambitious friends updated and is having network and wireless problems. (although quite a few OEM machines come with NVidia chipsets)

To be perfectly clear... that was 1999 to 2007 on a single install of win 2000 The network problem is a known issue with some imbedded NVidia network controllers, Rob. They don't all do it and increasing the PCI latency in the BIOS usually fixes it.

That's not what I'm describing Rob... I'm talking about making an HTPC play list on the fly with users on more than one computer contributing to it simultaneously. No saved file... just users selecting songs to be played being accumulated in the player's list window. For example... I ask the...

I've seen this a few times. Usually it's dirt in connectors that causes it. Although it may not look dirty it only takes a hair or a fleck of dirt in the right place to prevent a contact from making on most edge type connectors. Try cleaning the edges of the boards with one of those pink...

Tried which... MPClassic or MadFLAC? In my experience neither of these interferes with Flash... Flash players have their own group of file types. All you likely needed to do was to stop the overlap... unchecking Flash support (*.flv) in the MPClassic Options/Formats dialog would likely have...

Trust me... I know how to set up FTP. This is for the companies customers so VPN is out as is IIS or combinations... If "private server" means running on my own computers... no. However I do use my ISP's POP and SMTP servers for my email. I have GMail only because my people want me on...

And this is why I always wait for the first service pack... Well, strictly speaking that's not entirely true... I didn't upgrade to XP from 2000 until XP was abandoned. I waited for SP3. XP is basically win2k with eyecandy so there was no compelling need to do anything until I started...

True enough... For a certainty 31,000 people having a problem with something I did would be totally devistating... :eek:

Which, if you think about it, might actually be a good thing in terms of security.... I'm not big on this scattered data concept at all. I might be very "old school" but I still use POP3 clients instead of web-mail and I've got one nasty firewall on my lan. My personal stuff is quite happy...

Interesting comments Brett... First a gentle poke... The tiny boards (Mini-ITX) do not have to be Atom boards. Companies like Zotac are already offering the new 7" boards with core Duo and X2 chips and soon enough I think you'll find they'll be very popular in this format. By and large...