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Yellow is +12 V, red is +5 V. Black is ground.

In short from all the answers: No one here including myself knows if the Pixel Pipelines Matter. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Some of us know. Pipelines emphatically do matter. When comparing two otherwise alike cards, the number of pipes makes a non-trivial difference. But when comparing two dissimilar cards, other factors can make a difference. In that case, all you can really do is drag up some benchmarks.

No.

Drives don't have to be identical, but it's a good idea for them to be the same capacity.

http://www.anandtech.com/guides/viewfaq.html?i=110 RAID is of very little use to most home users.

I would say Everest just read the RPMs wrong. Also, thank you for posting the Everest data dump as a text file attachment, instead of in the post text. Much easier on the eyes.

It should not, no. It should treat the drive just like any regular drive.

With most processors, this would offer no performance improvement. Yes, Mushkin is a good brand. A link (or model number) would be very helpful.

http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20050705/index.html

Bluetooth is overpriced, unless you want the increased range. Logitech's MX700 and MX1000 are good wireless gaming mice. Saitek's Gamer's Keyboard is supposed to be nice.

My roommate has one that's worked fine for about 2 years, but I'll pass along the heads-up.

Why does an iMac need to be wired? At the least, doesn't it have USB ports? I assume you're looking for PCI where possible? As for Linux, go here and start reading.

If Cox uses an IMAP (not POP3) server to serve mail, you don't need any special steps to ensure the mail remains on the server. That is IMAP's default behavior. If they do use POP3, a variant of the above OE6 settings should work for most mail clients (Thunderbird, Eudora, TheBat!, Opera's M2, etc.). I access Gmail by their POP3 server using the M2 client, and simply checked "Leave messages on server". When I get new mail, it is delivered to me and a copy remains on the server.

You have to have OperaAdFilter running for the "copy image address" trick to work.

Copy Link Address in the right-click menu? Since I gather this is a Firefox extension or something, it would help if you could elaborate on what it does.

Did you make sure hidden items are shown first? Did you turn off "Hide extensions for known file types"? Normally it's under Opera\Profile\opera6.ini And no, Opera should not be able to run without it.

That's not a Combo Drive; it's a DVD Burner. Combo Drive has become marketing-speak for a drive that burns CDs and reads (but doesn't burn) DVDs. LiteOn, Plextor, and NEC are all good. NEC is the new "it" brand for DVD burners.

Well I replied to the sister thread at that "other place", but it was a bit buried. So here's what I really think. It's a laptop, so get a Pentium M. That's the long and short of it. The extra video memory will make little if any difference. If they have a similar model with a Penitum M and a 128 MB video card for less money (or a different, better chipset for the video card for the same money) then that is the route I would take. Also, if you could post the links here too it would be helpful

An ATX case will accept ATX, micro-ATX, and FlexATX boards.

A BRAND NEW Dell, with a 2.4 celeron (which is way more powerful then that old Duron) with 256 MB ram, an 80g hdd, cdr/w keyboard mouse and speakers AND a full legal version of XP Home for $279. Which would you spend YOUR money on? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Could I get a link to that? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Dell.com OK, OK. This is actually $299, but includes a CRT. The same basic unit can cost various different prices depending on which "store" at Dell you buy from (Home, Small Business, etc.).

Well, I suppose any transistor is statistically more likely to nuke itself the longer it is in operation. And transistors are the guts of most modern electronics. But many devices can continue operating for extremely long periods of time provided a suitable environment. Flash memory is a special case, though. Flash memory is a form of EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory). This means it holds its value until told otherwise, which can be accomplished with an electric signal input. Like other EEPROMs, flash is made up of a 2-dimensional matrix of floating-gate nMOS tran

I hope you mean Celeron D. A 2.4 GHz non-D Celeron is by no means more powerful than a 1.8 GHz Duron. In fact, you can watch as a 1.6 GHz Duron walks all over a 2.6 GHz Celeron in business and other benchmarks. I'll agree with you on the rest, but I think you significantly underestimate the Duron. It may not be fancy, but it has a fair amount of kick in it. Again, I still agree with the overall conclusion: buy a Dell.

True, but hard drive failure is less common today then it was in the past. However, I could always hook up a cheap 40g ATA drive for backups since I don't feel like investing in two more raptors for a RAID 0+1 Config <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It still happens. RAID 5 only requires 3 drives and is safer than RAID 0. For the cost/performance difference, non-RAID would be the way I'd go. In that type of application, ludicrous amounts of RAM are justifiable. These days I have to run Photoshop and InDesign together all day, and my laptop's 1 GB of RAM begins to bog down after a few hours of sw

It probably doesn't help that the average TV has less than 0.1 MP total resolution. Higher resolutions are great for larger prints, or for when you may later edit out a significant portion of the image. In the latter case, they ensure you have more pixels to describe the object you're interested in.

When you tested the different monitor, was it the same cable? Tint problems, if they cover the entire screen, are sometimes a product of a cable with a damaged conductor or a bent pin.