Posts by buppus

Hi, wondering if I should RMA this Seagate 1TB drive. >Built computer for friend 2 months ago - has problems with blue screens when printer is turned on. Flashed mobo bios, issue fixed, but now HDD clicks >Computer crashed, won't boot,...

Nothing special, just web browsing, HD video, maybe some audio engineering/protools. Just looking to get the best bang for my buck. It seems like the A6-3420 is a good choice - quad core with good performance when up against the...

Hi, looking to get a cheap laptop, not sure whether to go for an i3 or AMD APU. Price/Performance, what's the best way to go for a buget laptop?

I was also looking at that one, but I went with the budget option, which is more customizable because of the broadcom chip (as opposed to the atheros in the 56). You definitely made a great choice though.

Ok, I've been doing some reading on the subject, and apparently the 5gHz band has terrible range, and my house is huge and there are several walls between the router and each of the devices. Also, a 3-stream (N450) unit does not give...

I don't understand your recommendation, why would I want to go single band N300 when I could go double N600 for the same price?

Hi, I'm looking to replace our old Linksys router that was given to us by our ISP. It's not bad, just a bit slow and konks out every once in a while so we have to reset it. I have a fairly large house and ~5 computers actively connected...

I just brought home a 50" plasma and hooked it up to my PC (GeForce 9800GT) via HDMI. When I turned on the TV, the resolution was set automatically to 1366x768. This looks good for operating the computer comfortably, but it's not HD,...

I don't think that's the case, Steam needs to be installed and make registry entries in order to run the Steam service, so even if the source files are on a secondary drive they still need to be installed to the host operating system,...

Hi, I just acquired a shiny new SSD and I'm going to do a clean Win7x64 install on it, using my current HDD as a secondary [D:]. The catch is, I don't want Steam to make any changes to my Windows installation on [C:], because I want to...