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code_wiz wrote: I am inclined to go for the Intel Core 2 Duo.
Go with your inclination. Predicting the future is near impossible. But without delving into black magic or crystal balls there are a few things you can count on. Intel took the lead with the Core2, they dare not risk loosing it, AMD has been hard on their heels for a long time and took the lead on the P4 thru P4-D level. Now that Intel has the lead, they intend to keep it, and that is why all the dropped news of quad-cores being released in October. Prototypes have already been shipped for reviewers and they are smoking, but no validation (yet) on if the motherboards are straight up the same as the Core2 because they were new Core2 motherboards from Intel. Will all Core2 boards support QuadCore? Unclear. Will Intel fall on their face while trying to rush the QuadCore into production nearly 4 months early? Unclear. Will AMD catch up or pass again? Unclear.
Right now Core2 is ahead, but AMD is still more economical on the pocketbook. Do your homework, don't count your quad-cores before they are released, if they are compatible with your mobo great, if they aren't prepare yourself for that possibility now. But what ever you decide, stay away from the P-D, you'll be much happier for it.
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Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau.
Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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FWIW, I bought a laptop recently which has a Duo E6x00 in it, and I'm quite happy with the performance; lest you think I am easily pleased, I'm running some heavy duty number crunching (matrix transformations etc) at the same time as stuff like a SQL Server 2005 and development environment 
I have a Pentium D with the same RAM and similar load, and although it's a higher clock speed, it's slower...
Steve S
Developer for hire
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How important is the motherboards specs when you want to build a good gaming pc realy. Do i need to focus more on the screen card and cpu and Memory then on the mother board. Someone told me that i need to focus on the mother board first. I know i need one but how important is its specs?
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." Thomas A. Edison
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The performance difference between a good mobo and a cheap one is rarely more than a few percent. The bigger issue is that noname boards tend to be less reliable and more likely to fail under heavy loads.
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Thanks Dan,
I thought as much. So there is no real need to go all out for the most expensive M-Board. That leaves a much better budget scope for the screen card and CPU. Thanks.
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." Thomas A. Edison
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Unless you need some of the specific features it has, no. At the same time, the $50 difference between an entrylevel board from asus/abit/etc and a similar looking board from someone like pcchips is primarily in the quality of components used, so you're trading away stability and hardware life expectancy. Unless your budget is badly strained this isn't a good idea.
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Hi Guys,
I have a wireless lan at home and I have two computers connecting to this network on dhcp. The access point is netgear WGT624 wireless router. All this is working fine.
Now I have a E60 smartphone. It detects the access point in the available wlan connections list. Now, I have to setup the access point in the phone with the ssid and other configurations of the wlan. But when I try to connect to my access point it simply doesn't connect and says "unable to connect". Now I use the service providers access point to connect and that works fine. Has anyone here experienced a local wlan connection issue with nokia smartphone. I am really clueless after having read the manuals and experimenting. I tried to send the problem to tech support at the nokia website via their web interface and it would just bounce back an email to my email address saying that the customer support email doesn't work.
Any clues to fix this, please shoot out.
Thanks,
Vipin
-- moved at 13:12 Sunday 10th September, 2006
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Vipin Aravind wrote: Has anyone here experienced a local wlan connection issue with nokia smartphone.
Yep[^].
0 bottles of beer on the wall, 0 bottles of beer, you take 1 down, pass it around, 4294967295 bottles of beer on the wall.
Awasu 2.2.3 [^]: A free RSS/Atom feed reader with support for Code Project.
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Someone bought my son a copy of "LEGO Star Wars" for the PC. Of course, none of the kit we have has an advanced enough video card to play it.
Is there a way to find out (without installing a card and trying it) whether a card supports a particular feature/version (in this case PixelShaders 1.1) of DirectX?
NB: I know about the DXCAPS stuff, but I want to make sure I buy the right card; I also don't want to spend a huge amount of money, having seen some cards for more than 100 UKP...
in the frame at the moment are
GEFORCE FX 5200
ATI RADEON 9550
GEFORCE 6200
I've looked on the NVidia website, but that didn't help much, and the Eidos site wasn't exactly useful. Is there a 'supported features' list available?
Steve S
Developer for hire
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(Grrr... can't modify my message for some reason...)
In addition to the AGP cards, I'm also considering
PCI Express : GEFORCE 6200TC
PCI: NVIDIA FX5200
Ideally, there's someone out there who has one of these and can tell me that LEGO SW actually works!
Annoyingly, I opted for the Intel graphics option (at no 'extra' cost) rather than the NVIDIA when I bought my laptop 
Steve S
Developer for hire
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Hi Steve S,
I am using a Geforce fx 5200 AGP card now and i find it quite good. Although it is a "old" card, i can play "doom 3", "Half life 2" and "Lord Of The Ring Battle for middle earth 2" with it. Not on full Detail settings of course. I'll ask i few friends of mine that are runnig the same screen card if they've played "LEGO SW". But i can't see why it wouldn't.
But i'll get back to you.
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." Thomas A. Edison
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TVM. I managed to find a PDF on MSDN which details various chipsets and the feature support for DX9, which told me that yes, it will work. It's not the fastest card, and turning on all the game video features does slow it down, even on a P4 2.xGHz 1.5GB RAM system, but it's playable, which was the main thing.
Steve S
Developer for hire
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Hi there,
I am working on the Auto Answering project.
I use an External Modem (COM port) with voice support.
I have a problem with playing sound on the phone.
I heard my sound file with speaker and this file is Ok,
but when i wanna playing this file on the phone with WINMM.DLL ,I hear this sound with weak tone!!!
Is there any body can help me ?
Thanks,
---Mojtaba Ebrahimi---
Zehne Ziba Corporation
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Either amplify the file ("make the file louder") or try to find out which volume-setting the modem-output uses and increase that programatically.
For example: you can set different volumes for files played from CD, files played via line-out, etc.
I guess (and thats just a guess) that your speakers have a built-in amplifier (e.g., the speakers have a power-cord and an internal or external transformer) and thus what you hear on the speaker is amplified by the speakers. Thats why it sounds too weak when played unamplified (as it probably is on the phone line).
Cheers,
Sebastian
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Contra vim mortem non est medicamen in hortem.
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Hello everybody,
Is there a way I can capture the raw data from my web camera? I know how to acquire bitmaps with c# but the bitmaps are already processed data and I need the matrix of light intensities over the ccd/cmos array. Please guide me with c# code.
Thanks
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You can't do that with any normal webcam, the processing is done by the webcam hardware before sending the data over to your computer.
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Im not sure its helpful for you but see here[^]
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I have recently got a new computer and I want to get a graphics card installed but I am not sure whether my computer can it has 2 PCI Ports and 1 PCI Express X1 (instead of a PCI EXPRESS X16)
Can my computer get a graphics card?
PS my computer on using INTEL integrated graphics
my email is amill141@eq.edu.au
Eg:
XFX GeForce Fx 5200 PCI (128MB)
Memory Size: 128MB , Interface: PCI , Maximum resolution: 2046 x 1536 , Graphics Processor: nVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
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I don't know if you already bought a screen card but what MotherBoard do you have?
Make and Model if possible...
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." Thomas A. Edison
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There is such a thing as apci graphics card, that is not pci-express. These cards generally ar not as popular and most shops will not stock them, but you can get them. You can probably get up to a 128MB card, maybe 256MB, but the downfall is lower graphics bandwidth. If you are not using it for very high performance, it should be fine, Gaming, Video editing, a PCI Graphics card should do the job.
Ask your local pc store if they can get them or browse online.
Tip: If you go into a shop and you don't see certificates, chances are, the person may not know what your talking about, always go to a trained professional.
Posted by The ANZAC
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Hi when some time boot my system ,a error is display beginig dump of physical memory with a blue screen .
please sugess me.
thanks
nilesh
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Without knowing what the STOP code and error message is and what version of Windows you're using, there's nothing anyone can do to help you.
Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic
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install windbg.exe (free downlload).
then use it to open the crash dump you will find in your system dir, or in your minidump dir.
note the offending .sys file it names as guilty, then identify which device this driver belongs to by searching the internet/looking at the properties of the sys file etc.
then bitch like hell to the company that sold you this pile of crap driver.
Truth is the subjection of reality to an individuals perception
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