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This https://www.flyteccomputers.com/product/20818/Ubiquiti-PowerBeam-ac-PBE-5AC-500-4Units-5GHz-airMAX-Bridge-25km-450Mbps-25km-2Pack- is the leading prospect for the bridge link. The leading router, which will be in my house, is probably the critical one. I'm not concerned with wireless...

Well, the time has finally come to upgrade the router. It's an old WRT54G, that has been running DD-WRT for over 10 years. It's worked well for me, but I need more wireless bandwidth and gigabit wired ports. It's also probably a good idea to get up to current wireless security standards...

Thanks. It is definitely a different experience. I never had a complaint with my 19's at 1280x1024 until I saw what newer looks like. I think I'm going to take some time to observe this before buying the next piece. I have noticed some things I did not anticipate. The high resolution makes...

I thought something like that would be a possibility. I can't find a definitive answer as to what HDMI specification the card meets. It's an XFX card, and since they've gone to AMD instead, all reference to nVidia cards seems to be deleted from their website. Most likely, next month, I'll get...

I'm working on upgrading the monitors on my triple monitor machine. I quit gaming years ago, and I'm a long way from being current on hardware trends anymore. This is just a 3 headed web browsing machine, but it suits my needs. It's pretty old stuff. It was 3 19" 4:3 monitors at 1280x1024...

Not far. 50, maybe 60 feet at most. Whatever will reach from the switch to the far end of the house and up through the wall. Far too many people consider me a "computer guy". My current (10 year old) spool of cat5 is about gone. I have the tool to make my own length cables. I'm definitely...

Thanks. That's exactly the kind of details I was looking to learn about this kind of cabling. Kind of analogous to when I wired the house for satellite. RG6 quad shield with solid copper conductor is best, but many out there if they don't specifically say "solid copper" are copper clad iron...

I'm looking to install some ethernet lines in the house. Getting TV's, stationary streaming devices, and other bandwidth hogs off the wireless... I presently have a 10/100 router & switches. This is adequate for now, but I want to wire for Gigabit for the future. I have everything I need...

When did nVidia's Geforce cards start supporting 3 or 4 outputs simultaneously? I have 3 monitors on a computer using a GT240 and a Geforce 210. I'd like to free up the second PCIEx x16 slot, and I'd like to do so with a single card with 4 outputs, and the capability to simultaneously use...

I have Centurtylink DSL (10Mb). It's not much, but it's the best available in my rural area. I own my own DSL modem so that I don't get ripped 5$ a month to rent a $50 piece of hardware. My aging modem is on it's last legs. It drops out a lot, and reading the log file on it indicates it...

Quick question. I know this is old stuff, but the objective here is a free build with leftover parts I have available. It's a dell 780 small form factor pc. It's just a little web browsing/light gaming computer for the kids. Onboard graphics are adequate for what they're doing. I have...

I have to give credit where credit is due. They made good on the warranty the second time, and sent me a new fan/heatsink assembly when the fan broke on the old one.

I thought I had nothing to lose, so I went back through their support website and reported the fan failure, despite the fact they declined to service the card a few years ago when the capacitors failed. There is supposed to be a replacement fan coming in the mail now. I will wait and see what...

At that time, the cards were advertised with "lifetime warranty". I don' think they do that anymore. However, you had to register it online with them within a short period of time (maybe 30 days) for it to be valid, or the lifetime warranty was reduced (to either 1 or 2 years, I don't remember...

I hate XFX's shady lifetime warranty all over again. They wouldn't honor it last time the capacitors died, and I held on to the card thinking I'd recap it someday when I had time, and a use for it. Now it's recapped, but the fan is broke. That's twice failures that should have been...

Extra flux helped. I also set the iron hotter. I had it at about 750, turns out it maxes out at 840. The few joints that gave this trouble were also difficult to desolder. I think I may have burnt them just a bit on the top, which really didn't help. Turns out my efforts may be for naught...

I am not an expert at electronics soldering. What I've learned, I've picked up online (here, and badcaps.net), or figured out by trial and error. I have had some good results replacing bad caps on a variety of items. Three or four tivo power supplies, a handful of flatscreen monitors, a...

This is what I used: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/belkin-hdmi-to-vga-adapter/1740039.p?id=1219062507184&skuId=1740039&st=hdmi%20to%20vga&cp=1&lp=1 The regular price sucked, but the current sale price is decent. If my vid card was capable of driving 3 displays, it would have done what I...

Abit IP35 Pro (P35 Chipset) Geforce GT 240 Primary (PCIe x16) Geforce 220 Secondary (PCIe x4) I currently have 3 19" flat panel monitors (not widescreens). I was just looking at the possibility I could drive them all off one card. This board has no onboard video provisions. FWIW, I was...

Well, I found a Belkin unit on sale at Best Buy during school shopping. It turns out my card, despite having 3 outputs counting the HDMI, only supports two displays. Activating the HDMI display simultaneously deactivates another display, so it looks like I'll be continuing to use two cards for...

I'm looking for something an adapter to connect the HDMI port of my Geforce 240 GT to a VGA monitor. It's kind of an unfamiliar area for me. I've had two geforce cards in my triple monitor setup for a long time, and only just recently realized I could use the hdmi as a third monitor port, and...

That's all exactly right. What I've come to figure out, though, is when all of these pre-955 chipsets say they support "4GB", it means they support a 4GB address space, not a full 4GB of RAM It's a good thing that 64 bit P4 only cost me $3 ;)

I flashed whatever was the current bios version. A09 sounds right. I reinstalled Windows 7 on that machine. I'm operating on the assumption I have a hardware limitation holding me to 32-bits of memory address, which effectively negates any benefit potential of a 64 bit OS. 32 bit versions...

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It could have been, but I wasn't going to open it up while it was warranty. The thing is, it didn't really need a cooldown. It could be power cycled, and it would come back immediately, and run for the exact same duration of time. Thank goodness SSDs read so quick. Can you imagine...

Everything performed well on XP. 7 has been a recent thing. By "abysmal", I mean benching Quake III at 20 fps, 1280x1024 32 bit color. Under XP, it was well over 100 (150-ish FPS). Dropping color depth, and resolution to 640x480 got it up to around 45 or 50 FPS. Still way less than the...

The bam will do it every time. ;)

Does anyone know where to find a windows 7 driver for a geforce FX 5950? It seems nVidia dropped official support for the FX series of cards before Windows 7. I can get a Vista driver to install, but the performance is abysmal. I have in the past gotten cards to run on drivers after support...

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I have no serious expectations of the system. It's just a toy for the kids. They have laptops with much more processing power, but even a 10 year old machine with a geforce 8600 can outperform a late model laptop with common integrated graphics. Further reading online since I posted the...

I forgot to include...since I see the same phenomenon in memtest, I have my doubts that the issue could be of software origin. I'm inclined to suspect hardware issue.

My kids have laptops (so spoiled). A week or so ago I threw together a couple desktops from salvage, for them to play with. Something I could put 3D cards in. Something to show them what real games look like. Q2, Q3A, UT, all the classics, as opposed to the minecrap they have today...

I thought I was done with worrying about a hard drive failure when I got my first SSD, and within a year, it had what I can only describe as a "damned odd failure". It was a corsair F120. It would become nonresponsive at a predictable, repeating time interval past power on. Memory fails me...

If that would even work. On these newer cars, what is to say the ignition switch shuts off the car? With older cars, the ignition switch mechanically removed ignition power-->engine stalls. On some of the current models, ignition switch status is just another sensory input for the computer...

No. That is the nature of shopping for anything. Some parts are a better value than others.

I like to see clock for clock comparisions, because I use it to help choose which processor class to buy. Say I've determined I'm going to buy a wolfdale-based chip. One can reasonably expect to clock them to 3.5-4.0 GHz, without substantial effort, most of the time. The remaining variable, is...

This is what's wrong with privacy laws. When one persons "right to privacy" allows them to conceal the fact that they are a public health threat.

Marylandman- That's funny. What, did she expect you to read her mind to know what to fill? Anyone wanting to be discreet, and willing to put the tiniest bit of thought into how to do it, could have written a script number, name, necessary info on a piece of paper, handed it across the...

It's only a breach of patient privacy if the patient is identified. As long as they are discussing "a patient", and not "John Q. Doe", who cares what medium they use for communication? Privacy is overdone. Some days, I wonder who's worse, piracy nuts, or privacy nuts.

The two aren't mutually exclusive. They're "just doing it to pay for school", right?