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well i guess if u can get 1 of those plugs give it a try

i recon u would be fine with the vertical and horizontal as monitors display more resolutions that TV's but u would need a little hifi system for the sounds

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i like 1680x1050 too.

Once u have it for a while, going back to std 17" looks weird :laugh:

Watch out fer the xfx 7900gt though, as i had to rma mine back to the shop as it started to artifact about a week after i bought it. They replaced it with another though, and its beewn fine ever since. I havent hit a game yet i cant run on full res :O

Please guide me - Im in need of a new antivirus program, one with the lot (anti spam, firewall, etc).

Whats recommended for a small business? Used to use Vet, then Norton, now McAphee............ but need to update again next month.

Please guide me - Im in need of a new antivirus program, one with the lot (anti spam, firewall, etc).

Whats recommended for a small business? Used to use Vet, then Norton, now McAphee............ but need to update again next month.

For a small business, I would definately look at something like Symantec Client Security... it comes with Symantec Antivirus (SAV) Corporate and the SAV firewall. It's very lightweight compared to the norton equivalent for workstations. And you can run it through a managed server if desired.

The number of friends who's had WD's die on them is astounding. Especially those WD JB drives, the first drives to be 200GB at an affordable price...

WD's have a pretty good reputation, there was a bad batch of 80gb and 120gb hardies - where we were getting about 30% defect rate on them, but they were fixed up pretty promptly. Haven't had a problem ever since. And i'm running a total of 8 WD's in my various workstations... 2x250gb, 1x74gb raptor, the rest are assortments of 120gbs and 80gbs.

so, is it safe to use the PC day in day out, running 3.5 in liue of 3.4ghz for the CPU, with the FSB at 205 rather then 200. I dunno........ its an expensive machine I built up, using sata raid with 2 x 200gig HDs and 1 backup standard sata 80gig HD. Good machine, dont want to ruin it prematurely, but would like max performance.

Brendan

Currently my overclocked A64 3500 w/ X800pro powering a 24" widescreen lcd is on 24x7 as I use it to Fold for Overclockers Australia folding team. CPU usage on it is always sitting on 100% because i donate the spare cpu cycles to Folding@home. The uptime on it currently is roughly 6 months straight... i basically never turn off the computer unless I have to. If it means, my computer will die prematurely in 8years time instead of 10 years time then so be it, it'll be a dinosaur by that time anyhow.

But the computers at work run 24x7 and never ever go down... the longest uptime i have is on our webserver (http://www.dmac.adelaide.edu.au ) which has an uptime of about 400 plus days. That stays up even when there is no power to the building, and even when one of our hard drives or power supplies blow in the computer. Computers have become so robust in the past decade or so, that reliability is no longer a factor.

Edit, having said that, the weakest links are always things like cooling systems (refridgerated/watercooling/fan systems) they're usually first to give way. But modern motherboards will often just shutdown before excessive heat is introduced preventing a meltdown.

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Please guide me - Im in need of a new antivirus program, one with the lot (anti spam, firewall, etc).

Whats recommended for a small business? Used to use Vet, then Norton, now McAphee............ but need to update again next month.

AVG antivirus free edition can be downloaded, and updates everytime u connect to the net (small file) ive never got a virus using it.

firewall - use sygate...free

spyware - use adaware personal (another free prog) which can be updated for free as well.

All 3 used together are the best

Replaced the capacitors on the linux box motherboard.

2nd one in I got the hang of it and now can do capacitor in roughly 5mins. :(

The trick I found is to use a really pointy ground down soldering tip, flux pen and desolder wick.

Remove capacitor, shove desolder wick over the holes, shove soldering iron in to hole and hold, the solder sucks up in to the desolder wick and the hole is clean, plaster flux over the legs of the new capacitor and motherboard. Little dab of solder on to the tip of the soldering iron and due to the flux on the legs and motherboard the solder literally just sucks its self on nice and cleanly. :)

I've done one board in the past that took a whole day to replace 10capacitors, difference was I didn't use the desolder wick. That gear saves so much time.

I'm using Kaspersky - the silver medal winner.

Incidentally I had bitdefender before that (which won gold) and I reckon it's way better - it picked up heaps BD missed.

No problems here, and it actually brought me back after my MAJOR infection (before I had any AV) without having to reformat and reinstall.

I also use Webroot Spysweeper for my spyware protection, and it's very good.

These were recommended by guys in IT security, and so far I've been happy with their recommendations.

I've used Kapersky but found it a little bloated for the amount of ram in my system. 512mb + the license ran out, that was the real reason for me stop using it. :)

I did find it to be excellent and definitely give it a thumbs up. I haven't used bitdefender so wouldn't know.

I haven't upgraded in years, its about time I didn. :(

Yes it's a bit resource hungry, but if I am doing something that I need all the power I can get, I'll turn it off and restart it again afterwards.

I also leave my pc on 24/7 most of the time, and have a scheduled scan at 3am every "night".

New upgrades for me :D

XFX 7900GT

Viewsonic VX2025WM

I like 1680x1050 lots.

nice upgrade u guys seen those cheini monitors great value and thumbs up from PC authority

i like 1680x1050 too.

Once u have it for a while, going back to std 17" looks weird :O

Watch out fer the xfx 7900gt though, as i had to rma mine back to the shop as it started to artifact about a week after i bought it. They replaced it with another though, and its beewn fine ever since. I havent hit a game yet i cant run on full res :P

i have a guy in my clan that has been thought 4or 5 7900gt's i think there was a batch of faulty ram modules samsung has since fixed there ram

i use Avast personal edition and use to use adaware but dont visit unsavoury sites so i dont use it much any more

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