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The strong point that the Core i7-860 has in my mind over the i7-920 is not just in price: They are the same cost after all. While the i7-920 is LGA1366 targeted for the highest performance, the LGA1156 still offers the QPI and integrates the PCI-express lanes directly to the processor, even...

Jamie mentions a pretty good setup listed above. With your budget, you really have to decides which is going to be a higher priority on this system: Design work or gaming performance. This can make a difference in which type of video card you wish to get. If the vast majority of the computer...

This computer seems new enough (based on the hardware) that it really might not need a whole reformat and re-installation to get things clean and running faster. If you have Windows 7 available to put on it, then I would do so. If you purchased this with the default installation of Windows...

I've had to configure a wireless print server onto an office printer and it is not a fun or easy task. In the end it took two days of work to get the two computers to communicate with the printer to at least print a page, but the quality is worse, not all the settings are correct anymore, and...

I actually know of a few die-hard Mac computer users that will be making the switch very soon or already have back over to Windows with the release of Windows 7. The only way to get all the compatibility with software and everything else on a Mac is to run Windows on it as well...now isn't that...

If you are looking for a mobile design workstation for portability, you will have to get something towards the top of the line offerings for it to offer the best performance for you for the next several years. A regular Dell Inspiron just won't cut it really (and I've had a ton of Inspirons...

I'm not an expert in programming, but from what I understand if your NIC is receiving a 169.x.x.x address then there is an error with something. This is a reserved address that your computer uses when it cannot receive an address from the gateway/DHCP server, and one is not set static...

I would highly suggest going on and getting some of the expert opinions on the notebook for your needs from Notebook Review. They have assisted me and several other of my friends in picking out the best laptop from every possible place in the entire market. Plus, you can find reviews and...

This is really great advice really. Most NAS devices are just very very simple computer systems built to support a large amount of drive space in a simple RAID. You can build your own file server for just the same cost if not less than what many NAS devices sell for and have much more...

One thing you have to be careful with any external hard drives connected directly to your computer system is Window's tendency to start storing temporary or important files onto the external drive for some unknown reason. Now this doesn't happen frequently, but I did have an external USB hard...

For the Mac guys: Next time you're on your computer sometime how about typing in the line "sudo rm -rf /" into the terminal?* }:D * WARNING! THIS IS ONLY A JOKE!!! DO NOT ENTER THE ABOVE COMMAND INTO YOUR UNIX-BASED OS! DOING SO WILL DESTROY YOUR OPERATING SYSTEM!

Most of your newer motherboards today support RAID on the integrated SATA controllers, and even additional PCI-Express controller cards for RAID can be relatively inexpensive. Most motherboards will support at a minimum RAID 0 or RAID 1, though many today are now supporting RAID 10 as well...

If you have already backed up the files you want, you can use an hard drive eraser program, such as DBAN. It will boot up just like the Windows XP program, and will write '0' to the entire drive erasing all data. Then you can install Windows XP after the wipe has completed and Windows 2000 and...

What you are probably finding here is the factory restore image. Many (if not most, anymore) of your preconfigured computers through places such as Dell, HP, Asus, and more will create either an image of the factory default settings of your computer and place it on a small restoration...

While it can be nice to create two separate partitions on a single traditional hard drive - one for the OS and programs, and the other for data - when you look at the physics of how the hard drive works it does not, in reality, make the systems that much faster (if any at all.) The hard drive...

This may change soon... Article I read this week of a major court case that concluded and may very well change the way that EULA and licensing of all software is handled from here on. Autodesk was pursuing a lawsuit against an individual who had purchased several valid copies and licenses of...

At our shop we really have lucked out that the only computer with a true hard drive failure was a spare front office computer so it was not critical losing the information on there. However, with that drive we did not have any warning signs like loud clicking or pops. It just one day was gone...

We are just trying to plan ahead on our upgrades is all. With Flexi v8.0/v8.6 having been out for some time, I know it is only a matter of time until a new version is released, as you stated Steve. We just don't want to be caught again in a situation where we spend several thousands of dollars...

As it may still be a little while before we actually do move to upgrade our Flexi, I was just curious if anyone had heard if a newer version of Flexi may be released sometime soon. Additionally, has SAi said formally which versions of Flexi they will be supporting with Windows 7?

Yes, I was able to install the JV3 without much hassle when we upgraded the RIP computer there, and that required a new installation of Flexi as well. They are just very over-protective of it of course. I have got a lot of very good news from this thread already!