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From our front-page news: When you hear the name "Leica", what's the first thing to spring to mind? If you're a regular shooter of point-and-shoot cameras, you might think of your lens, since the name is extremely popular in that area. If you take things a little more seriously, you probably...

From our front-page news: Is it just me, or are the majority of customer service horror-stories tied to Best Buy? It's not much surprise to me, because I have enough experience with their Canadian-equivalent, Futureshop, and if anyone out there has ever gone to either and have nothing bad to say...

Hi Mike: Thanks for the comments :-) If you have absolutely no use for a graphics card, then getting the cheapest one possible is fine. I'd just recommend getting one that's at least PCI-Express and around the $40 range... so if you choose to move up to Vista later, you can use the basic...

That's how I see things. I've run into the same issue with Office and Photoshop in the past, and it's not fun. I've always been able to call up and get through no problem, but that's not the point... the fact I have to waste time on the phone to continue using legal software is just not needed...

Well, I don't care who has to step up and do something, but it needs to get done. Could you imagine if your cable company limited your TV-watching to 300 hours a month, or something like that? It sure wouldn't last long... so why do we have to put up with it for our Internet?

From our front-page news: According to an insider close to the situation, VoodooPC as we know it might not be around for much longer. An e-mail is apparently being circulated throughout the company noting layoffs, although the number of people to be culled is unclear. However, VoodooPC itself...

From our front-page news: I realize full-well that I'm in the minority, but I love walking into a music store and picking up a fresh shrink-wrapped impossible-to-open-without-a-knife CD and going home to jam out. It's just one of those things. I'm a purist, so I cannot bring myself to download...

From our front-page news: Tilera isn't a name you see on our pages too often (alright, never), because their products almost have nothing to do with what we normally deal with, such as desktop CPUs... or products you'd have in your machine at home. Their processors are interesting, though...

From our front-page news: I've mentioned in the past that ASUS makes some killer notebooks, and I stand by that, since almost every one I've ever touched has pleased me. What I never saw on any of the notebooks, though, were software cracks, employee résumés or internal company documents. No, I...

From our front-page news: With Intel's upcoming Core i7 launch happening within the next few months, it's little surprise to hear about the discontinuation of multiple products currently on the market. According to industry-tracking site DigiTimes, Intel has plans to discontinue all of the...

From our front-page news: Early last week, I posted about how Spore's asinine DRM protection wasn't paying off. After all, despite the fact that Will Wright's game has become a relative masterpiece, for the past two weeks it's been best-known for being the "game with DRM", which isn't good at...

Well, I don't recall the first PC I had with XP, but I do remember being impressed by how well it ran on the relative beater of a PC I had going. I believe it was a 400MHz with 512MB of RAM... it wasn't a slow PC at the time, but the OS really didn't feel slow either. The biggest problem was...

Good luck in the sale man. If there's one thing hard to sell lately, it's houses. Oh, and AMD processors. That is a sweet one though... very fast and would be able to compete with anyone of Intel's Dual-Cores out there.

That is mind-blowing. I cannot wait until something like that is common-place.

Half of the time when people come to me asking for "new computer" advice, I point them right in the direction of Dell, simply because most of them don't have any interest in building their own machine, and showing them how to do it will accomplish nothing. It helps that Dell really doesn't make...

I almost want to laugh at that, but can't. It's somewhat the same up here... we have an 18Mbit plan, but the overall bandwidth allowance isn't changed in the least bit (95GB). I'd be up for an add-on plan that increases the allowance, but they don't (does anyone?). Seems like it would be a...

When the time came to design the Rampage Extreme, ASUS' R&D went right to town. The X48-based board proves to be the most feature-packed one we've ever come across, and also one of the most overclockable. Aside from the robust design, water-cooled Northbridge and LCD Poster, the board even...

Oh, I get you now. That PSU tester really shouldn't be necessary, but did it work or didn't it? I'm a little clueless here.

I think the first thing I'd do is go into the device manager and uninstall it. You can get there from Start > Right-Click Computer and select Properties, then select Device Manager. Right-click the ODD, uninstall it, then reboot. It will reinstall on the next boot, hopefully fixing what it broke...

That would be amazing, haha. I wish I could give a recommendation, but I'm only a wannabe audiophile and know nothing... except that good sound is better than not-so-good sound ;-)