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November 23rd, 2010 | 
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Whether you’re an Italian renaissance cosplayer or a Starcraft II addict, you’ll love our $1,400 gaming rig. Parts, prices, and procedures inside!
How do you know when it’s time to replace your gaming rig? When you’ve turned down all of the game settings to minimum and you still have to play at 1024×768. Or you’ve just completed the Steam hardware survey and Valve rejects your score because it’ll drag down the curve. Of course, if you’re asking the question in the first place….
In spec’ing this year’s gaming build, we decided to restrict ourselves to a budget of approximately $1,400. … [Read More...]
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Tags: 1920x1080, 23inch, 24inch, black, cache, call, color, computer, dark, dell, desk, desktop, digital, display, extreme, game, hdmi, inch, light, model, monitor, none, online, panel, plus, port, professional, ram, resolution, retail, review, Reviews, screen, sound, technology, test, time, tool, usb, ViewSonic, with Built Fortress tough, with a Silverstone price tag
Going on name alone, one would expect the Silverstone Fortress FT02 to be an updated version of our Best of the Best mid-tower case, last year’s Fortress FT01. And while it shares a few of the FT01’s traits (like a unibody aluminum frame, acoustic padding, and some stylistic cues like black metal mesh), the vast majority of its DNA comes from the Raven RV02. In fact, it’s the homo sapiens to the RV02’s chimpanzee.
The rotated motherboard placement and right-panel window mean the Fortress FT02, like the Raven RV02, looks strange at … [Read More...]
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Tags: black, board, cache, call, card, case, computer, cooling, CPU, display, drive, dual, fan, hard, hard drive, inch, inside, midtower, motherboard, notebook, optical, plus, power, radeon, ram, reference, retail, review, Reviews, silver, system, thin, tool, tower, video, with Corsair’s first chassis wins our hearts
Go big or go home. That’s a lesson Corsair apparently took to heart for its first chassis, a 24x24x9-inch full-size enclosure that rivals Cooler Master’s ATCS 840 in size. Corsair’s Obsidian 800D is all black, from its matte steel frame and side panels to its brushed-aluminum front bezel, from motherboard tray to front-panel cables, from screws to standoffs. And the goodness is more than skin deep—the 800D has everything you’d expect from a premium case: quick-swap SATA bays, thermally isolated compartments, plenty of cable-routing cutouts, and more. In fact, it’s one of the best … [Read More...]
Now with fins!
Evaluating successive generations of HP’s TouchSmart series reminds us of shopping for a new car. If you fall in love and buy this year’s model, you must never, ever visit the showroom to look at next year’s model or you’ll be hit with a bout of buyer’s remorse faster than you can say “planned obsolescence.”
We’re not suggesting that HP is intentionally designing these machines to have a shorter-than-normal useful life or that it’s been adding frivolous features to new models; it’s just that the company’s engineers keep making design improvements that are significant enough for us … [Read More...]
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Tags: 1920x1080, cache, computer, core, cover, CPU, ddr3, dell, design, desk, desktop, display, drive, dual, express, gaming, geforce, gene, generation, hdmi, hdtv, inch, integrated, Intel, latest, life, memory, micro, mini, mobile, model, notebook, nvidia, photoshop, ram, review, Reviews, screen, series, sound, thin, touch, tuner, tv, vista, windows 7, with Why Wipe Data Securely?
Whether you are preparing to reuse a hard disk for another operating system, clear off your junk shelves by passing along outdated drives to a friend or relative, donate an old PC to a charity or school, discard a too-small USB drive or flash memory card, or repurpose an SSD, you don’t want to leave any information on the storage device. With stories abounding of identity theft aided by information lifted from discarded storage devices, you want devices you no longer plan to use to have no usable information when they head out the door. … [Read More...]
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Tags: active, administrator, amd, cache, call, card, computer, cover, design, desk, desktop, device, digital, display, drive, edition, express, flash, google, hard, hard drive, hour, hours, image, Intel, internet, life, light, media, memory, micro, mini, minutes, model, News, opera, operating system, ram, samsung, sata, screen, security, system, technology, Tips & Tricks, tool, ultimate, usb, vista, western, windows 7, with This tip is geared towards servers, but is applicable to desktops as well in certain cases.
Whenever you shutdown Windows, a “stop” command is sent to programs and background services which are currently running. Typically programs will respond to this quickly and close, however services are a different animal which can take a while to quit (i.e. Exchange Server).
After waiting for a specified amount of time, Windows will simply force the program to quit in order to continue with the shutdown. To control how long Windows waits before forcing the service to quit, edit this registry entry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\WaitToKillService
Note, … [Read More...]
There are a gazillion apps to turn your iPhone into a remote control, and let you operate your computer, your Sonos home music system or even your DirecTV DVR. The problem is, they work over Wi-Fi, whereas your TV, stereo and DVD-players all swallow up infra-red light in order to follow your distant commands.
That changes with the little $50 L5 iPhone Remote, a dongle that plugs into the dock connector and allows you iPhone to become a proper universal remote, spitting invisible light at all manner of home electronics. It comes with a free companion application that lets you … [Read More...]
