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  1. Kougar

    Sandra 2009 Brings GPGPU Benchmarking to our Toolbox

    I've heard that before about CUDA not being uninstalled when you remove the NVIDIA drivers, since it is somewhat separate. Not idea though... Might it be a 32/64bit thing? Interesting idea about the FLOPS metric, hopefully theywill make the distinction between single and double-precision...
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    Upgrading our benchmarking machine

    Okay. To be fair. The Nautilus was a significantly better self-contained WC system than most of the others out there. But this is like saying AMD's 780G graphics is the absolute best in it's class.... it IS, but it is still only integrated graphics! Even on these forums users have taken a...
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    Dell 2709W thoughts

    Well, it sounded like B1lk1 wanted it specifically for the larger pixels verses the 24" display? It's a decent monitor as far as I know, but I don't know anything specific about it. While I own the 24" I wasn't interested in the 27" since the resolution is the same. It's just my...
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    High End (Non-Gaming) PC Build Help

    Yes They do tend to get hot, but that is because ATI intentionally sets very low fan speeds/ They believe the cards can take it. You could either modify the fan speeds, or replace the cooler with an aftermarket cooler. To be honest your best bet is to either just buy a 4850 with a...
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    Upgrading our benchmarking machine

    Besides the color, supposedly they've done minor tweaking to the eXtreme's design, but otherwise it's just the current model of their Ultra 120 lineup. I think they stopped making all the other various 120's, but I might be wrong. Just to be blunt, why should someone pay twice the price of...
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    Simple escaping Vista feature

    Actually, I think he did follow ya Madmat. :) It is called "Date Modfied", so hit the "D" key and look under D. You'll find it there ;) I gotta agree though... Vista never seems to apply my folder preferences to ALL folders... and routinely changes some folders but not others. No rhyme or...
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    Google Chrome - To Love, or Not to Love?

    Yeah, but I don't think it is that unexpected? It's the Google effect. Google has created enough good or useful things that people are willing to make the attempt to try it, and certainly plenty more than the number of people that tried Safari for Windows. Personally I'll wait until they...
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    Google Chrome - To Love, or Not to Love?

    Yes, this made TV news, local news, local paper, and Wall Street Journal not only had an article about it, but they had a second article testing it against IE8, Firefox, and Safari. ;) I'm not using Chrome to try it, but apparently if you type about:internets into the address bar it opens up...
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    Upgrading our benchmarking machine

    The Nautilus... ugh. Sorry mate, but CPU coolers like the TRUE Black should easily beat that into a pulp. Those self-contained WC loops are just overpriced gimmicks, and they just bug me as many look at them and think it is real watercooling. I'd say just get the end all be all air cooler, and...
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    Google's Chrome - Browser Done Right?

    I wasn't presuming the data was sent back to them. I view it from the point that would you want your family, or kids, or someone that cleans your house to have immediate access to your CC and banking account numbers just by simply opening Chrome, going to the history section, and typing in...
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    High End (Non-Gaming) PC Build Help

    Intel intended X48 to be DDR3, but because of the expensive nature of DDR3 for no real world performance gain, it made more sense for motherboard makers to design DDR2 boards. Suffice to say if it can support DDR3, it can support DDR2 just as easily. For example all Gigabyte boards with...
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    Google's Chrome - Browser Done Right?

    To double post, more Chrome issues to be aware of. Apparently in typical Google fashion t indexes EVERYTHING, including sensitive bank and credt card pages + account info. http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/39176/108/ Also a few more misc bugs, one of them crashes ALL tabs despite the...
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    Chrome - Google's Attempt at the 'Ultimate Browser'

    Last I checked they fixed that. Although it is not to see the browser is problem free...
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    Google's Chrome - Browser Done Right?

    Nice, thanks Wisconsin. That paragraph didn't seem right, hence why I didn't immediately jump to suspecting the worst. It just didn't fit.
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    TRENDnet TEW-637AP Wireless N Access Point

    Make sure you secure your network, if all you did was plug the router in anyone can access and view transmitted data! You need to go into the router config and configure it to use G or N, or a combination of both. You can set this in the router. As long as the laptop supports wireless N it...
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    Sandra 2009 Brings GPGPU Benchmarking to our Toolbox

    Thanks for the update Rob! Hopefully it's just a driver issue, would hate to hear that their program was something silly like CUDA only...
  17. Kougar

    Mythbusters Weren't Allowed to Air RFID Segment

    Oh, wow. Thanks for the news article! I knew RFID tags were easily scammable and despite what they say, they are easily reprogrammed. But more than anything else I think this says all ya need to know about RFID tags... If I may hypothesize, I think it has more to do with brushing your teeth...
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    Computer starting over by itself

    If the video card is bad then yes, it could. However it could easily be the power supply, or other things. Have you tested the GPU on another computer? Rob wants you to look at the temp monitoring tab to on GPU-Z to check your GPU temps. Besides the usual making sure no spy/mal/ad-ware or...
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    TRENDnet TEW-637AP Wireless N Access Point

    RadGuy, yes you can "set it up" over wireless without issue, however do not attempt to update the firmware over a wireless connection. Wireless is a mishmash of dropped or garbeled packets for any number of huge reasons, even with the laptop next to the router packets can get dropped. If a...
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    High End (Non-Gaming) PC Build Help

    If I may add to your post Ohgee: X48 supports both DDR2 and DDR3, it depends on the motherboard manufacturer. 4GB RAM does require a 64bit OS, otherwise you only get roughly 3GB out of it to use. I agree, if buying high-end then wait until October when Nehalem and its platform launches...
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