Archive for the ‘Hardware’ Category

Creative Labs SoundBlaster X-Fi 2 coming

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

Creative Labs logo.

According to a user post on the Creative Labs forum who spotted an entry on the Windows Vista Hardware Compatibility list, Creative is planning to release a successor for the X-Fi sound card. Though, it can’t be proven as the entry is gone from the Microsoft site already.
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Creative Labs X-Fi on Linux: Installation

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

X-Fi logo.When the 32bit Linux drivers for the X-Fi sound card got released I promised you a post about it, and here it is after a long delay. This article includes a painless installation guide and some how to’s.
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TFT notion… what you should know

Monday, February 11th, 2008

A TFT screen.

This guide will show you a nice and short description what TFT screens are all about. Perfect if you want to buy a new screen but you have no clue what’s it all about.

Watch out: The manufacturers have never ending innovations on what to throw on the market next.

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X-Fi: Hype or innovation?

Friday, January 25th, 2008

X-Fi technology

The heavily increasing number of main boards which have an on-board sound solution began to be threatening for Creative’s business model.

But they have come up with a solution: A generation of sounds cards which would, by their specifications, beat all mainstream computer sound solutions available.

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Going for a 2,5″ external harddrive

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

I got tired of the noise which my 3 harddrives are producing (inside the computer case). Even the “turn off hard disks after X minutes” option in the power options of the windows xp control panel did not help much as some applications in the background were turning the drives on again after a few seconds during the standby mode.

After removing them I suppose that I can also remove 1-2 fans to furtherly remove noise as the majority of the heat in my case is being produced by the harddrives.

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