Posted 10/05/2009 at 04:35:10pm

I refuse to be rick rolled thanks anyways Nedwards, and thank you scroogle :)

Posted 10/05/2009 at 12:41:37pm

And so has maximum PC, who knew they employed such a georgous lady. Unless this picture fooled me and as you zoom out you get a look at here pear shaped body all 250Lbs.. lol but i don't think thats the case :) or at least thats what i will tell myself

Posted 09/16/2009 at 05:18:26pm

With that age in mind, and no cleaning being done (assumption) airflow may be a big problem about now, def monitor your temps, ATI has a decent fan control system in there driver set, its been a logn time since i used nvidia but make sure that fan is spinning at a decent speed, if the card is dead at this age i would further lose interest in nvidia but i don't think thats the issue hopefully but it is a possibility.

Posted 05/20/2009 at 05:41:00pm

if you have a 4850 you may drop as much as 12-15 fps in some games (Crysis, UT3, etc) 4870 drop a couple frames but within performance bench errors, x2's don't seem to have any diff in performance so unless this driver fixes some issues you have been having i would stay away.

Posted 05/18/2009 at 11:35:30am

Too bad they don't get "Reasonable". Even in the ms Teskits anything m$ made is given high praise yet is not much useable (network monitor) since switched networks etc. Win7 does have many inticing features at a HD capacity's price but if they are really competeing almost against a horrible start/launch (vista) they should give it a discount for our troubles and frustrations of last time. Instead lets hike the price up, ever wonder what the "Microsoft Way" is? Now you know.

Posted 05/14/2009 at 10:13:12am

If you want to do the same in xp search the registry for PofileImagePath, Once at the root of ProfileList select the SID of the user you just created (you can find out by the path name of profile ex. C:\documents and settings\useryoumade) then change the paths.

Posted 05/12/2009 at 11:36:14am

Your internet doesn't go much faster unless your downloading something of course, but your games would lag out, and your webpages would take longer in some cases to load. Satellite internet has latency's in the upwards of 1 second plus, thanks but no thanks.

Posted 05/05/2009 at 11:18:45am

How about you put your sensative info on a key disk and put it in your pocket?! lol.

Posted 04/21/2009 at 06:20:33pm

If you have one of the drives affected with the stuttering issue your almost SOL, its the drive controller thats the problem, OCZ has went with a different controller called indilinx which stuttered at first but released a firmware patch to fix the issue with lower tier consumer drives. But it all lies in the fact that the lowest piece of data you can delete is a cluster, when in fact your data lies within the sector. So as your data is stored on the disk when a file needs to be written to a sector but the cluster doesn't have enough space for it the drive has to hold the cluster in memory , delete the space required then write the data to the drive, those steps alone make your drive crawl as those are seconds were talking about.. not Nano seconds, seconds are a lifetime in computing. Anandtech had a great article on ssd performance issues its long but check it out.

Posted 04/21/2009 at 06:03:26pm

Although Toshiba holds the basic NAND flash patents, another important
player in the intellectual-property game is SanDisk. Acting in a
partnership with Toshiba, SanDisk developed MLC (multi-level cell)
technology, which allows each NAND flash cell to hold two bits of data
rather than one. This means that a chip with MLC technology has twice the
capacity as a similarly priced chip without MLC. Thus, MLC effectively
halves the cost of producing chips with a given capacity.

Because SanDisk holds the patents on MLC, any company that wishes to
be competitive in the NAND flash marketplace must buy licensing from
SanDisk in addition to a license from Toshiba for the fundamental NAND
technology. Neither company has been shy about enforcing its patents
against corporate rivals. Toshiba has recently filed suit against
Hynix, an important Korean semiconductor manufacturer, charging it with
infringement of the basic NAND flash patents. SanDisk has also been
active in litigation over its MLC patents.


    Toshiba and Hynix entered into a patent cross-licensing agreement
    in August 1996 that included semiconductor products. The companies
    started negotiation of an extension of the agreement prior to
    its December 31, 2002 expiration. At the time, Toshiba sought
    to secure a reasonable fee for access to its patents.

    Failure to reach a satisfactory conclusion left Toshiba with no
    alternative other than to pursue legal recourse.

    So, in Japan, Toshiba filed a suit against Hynix for alleged
    infringement of its NAND flash memory patents. Toshiba's suit
    in Tokyo seeks damages against Hynix's alleged infringement
    of three NAND-related patents. It seeks an injunction against
    infringing products.

    In the U.S., Toshiba filed a similar suit against Hynix and its
    U.S. subsidiaries for infringement of Toshiba's DRAM and NAND
    flash memory patents