Recent content by JohnnyB_82

Is there a way to install or connect a 120 volt AC power outlet to my desktop PC so that it powers on when the PC is turned on? I have a set of speakers that I would like to automatically turn on and off with the computer. Does anyone know of a way to do this, or perhaps some type of external...

Okay, that makes sense too. It's not likely that I'll be running several applications at once, so a quad core probably isn't going to make much difference. The bench test single thread rating between the Phenom II X4 925 and the Athlon II X2 was 1039 and 1116, respectively. So, yes, the...

I'm considering something similar, except I'm only replacing the CPU with a faster one (from an AMD Dual core to Quad) No other changes to the motherboard, hard drive, or ram. (Running Windows XP Pro 64) Would that need any OS or driver updating at all?

Thanks, spdragoo, That makes a lot of sense. I saw a few of the one you suggested on Amazon, used for around $45. Still deciding if it's worth the cost or not. I saw a few others in the $15 - $20 range but they didn't test out much higher than what I have now. The one Rdslw recommended is...

I did a little reading up on this. Am I correct in that, when working with single thread software that don't utilize multi core processing, is it mostly just the CPU's MHz frequency, clock speed, and cache size that make the difference? For comparison, here are links with the specs of the CPU...

I have an old PC which I'm refurbing to run Windows XP Pro x64 and some older XP software that I still like using. It runs a bit slow and I'm wondering if replacing the CPU would be worth the cost or effort. I don't know a whole lot about comparing processor performance and I'm wondering how...

Okay, so, for anyone out there reading this, with a similar issue, I was able to access the drives using the free app from the Ext2Fsd Project. (Ext2Fsd-0.68) which I found on the Source Forge website The link for the latest version is...

I have a desktop PC with a BIOSTAR MCP6PB M2+ Ver. 6 motherboard and a pair of G.SKILL F2-6400CL5D-4GBPQ, DDR2 800 (2 x 2GB) ram sticks installed, running Windows XP Pro w/SP3 All is working well, except in Windows Task Manager, it only reports 2.96 GB of Ram. Yet, in the BIOS, it shows the...

I did read something in another related post about the RAID settings for mirrored drives, which is how the two drives were setup in the DNS-323. Could this have something to do why windows is not assigning the partitions a letter? The post was about a different issue but it talked about...

Well, I though so as well, but I can't find any way to do that. When I right click on one of the partitions and get the drop down menu, most of the options, including "Change Drive Letter and Path" are greyed out. The only ones that show are "Delete Volume" and "Help". If I open the...