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The Intel D945GCLF2 is a mini-ITX motherboard sporting the dual core Atom 330. The Atom 330 has two cores running at 1.6ghz with an amazingly low 8w CPU TDP rating. A member of the SilentPC forums measured the total system power usage at about 19.8 watts (http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=50122). This makes it perfect a lightweight home server [...]
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This article is mainly for the high resolution junkies running 1680 x 1050 or higher. There comes a time when you have multiple windows open and want to view them all at once. In order to do that, you must re size every window to fit. While it doesn’t sound like much work, resizing windows [...]
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A little part inside of my laughs every time I see a 15.4″ WXGA (1200 x 800) laptop display. I realize the people using the laptop have no clue when it comes to computers, but to me, looking at a 15.4″ 1200 x 800 resolution is like a blast from the past. That’s almost as [...]
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“Lapping” a CPU involves removing the nickel plating on the IHS (integrated heat sink) from the processor. Due to manufacturing variations, the IHS on processors may be slightly concave or convex. This results in an uneven contact with the heat sink which degrades cooling by a moderate margin. If you’re an enthusiast who loves to [...]
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After dealing with the numerous issues of my previous AMD Geode carputer motherboard, I decided to upgrade. Some of the problems I had were hanging at POST, bluescreens due to driver issues, and overall weird behavior. I also wanted more features, such as the ability to boot from a USB drive. Not only that, but [...]
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After using a bluetooth TomTom GPS receiver for months on end, I got fed up with the slow satellite acquisition and slow bluetooth pairing every time I turned the device on. I mainly used the bluetooth GPS receiver with my carputer and iGuidance 4 for GPS navigation. However, it gets annoying when the receiver only [...]
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After seeing a deal posted on Slickdeals.net for the 24″ Soyo Pearl LCD monitor for $229, I immediately ran out to Office Max. They had this monitor in stock, so I picked up two. At first, both monitors had one stuck pixel each. After about a week, some random pixels (hundreds of them) started to [...]
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