Recent content by CBRworm

Hey, I have that keyboard, but it is branded Keychron. That being said, I put PBT keycaps on it and I enjoy it.

I just verified in my Amazon account that I purchased this model in July of 2015, so, not new.

I have a similar situation, but without the monitor oddities. My PC which is an X87 based Asus board w/ an i7-4790K & AMD HD7970. I also have a Dell M4700 laptop. Both of these cause my office lights to flicker w/ CPU usage. The PC and Laptop both cause a constant flickering when idle...

Are these not FKA Hitachi drives?

Interesting, I have a P8Z68 Pro that doesn't always recognize all RAM, it is a bought replacement for a P8P67 Deluxe that has the cougar point SATA bug. I have not been able to get ASUS to replace it after more than a year (it will be two years this December) - They tried to repair it once -...

Generally as long as the laptop is well designed and the intakes are not blocked (sitting on a bed), a cooling pad is not needed for the hardware's health. One of the issues is that the internal laptop components can tolerate very high heat, if a good job is not done insulating the outer shell...

There should be an option for, 'No', and/or 'My old HD7970 still works just fine'. I would pick one of those two.

Figures, I just received my shiny new 10 pound M4700...

It's funny how poor most FM receivers are these days. My 70's pioneer is also quite good compared to what I run into today.

I use the HDHomeRun Prime w/ a Comcast cablecard and have had great luck with it - my biggest complaint is that 3 tuners is not enough. To get more tuners using silicon dust components, you need more cable cards. Comcast charges an HD outlet fee for each card along with the card rental - so...

For a boot disk backup, I would be more inclined to make a clone of the SSD onto a separate small drive every so often - that way you can just plug it in if required and boot from it - and be amazed how much faster your SSD is. Having a clone of the active boot partition (SSD) on another active...

That is a pretty good price for a rugged laptop. I don't know anything about those particular machines, but there is a reason you typically see Police/EMS using ultra-rugged, ultra-expensive equipment - typically Panasonic Toughbooks. If you gave them a commercial laptop you would need to give...

I have depoloyed many of the older Hetis machines with the previous intel chipsets, they have all been very solid and quiet machines that perform well. Expansion is limited. Newegg has photos of the interior.

I would like it better if it didn't require an additional 2 fans to keep cool, but that cover is effectively more of an insulator than heatsink from the looks of it. The company I work for builds rugged military computers, our stuff is required to work 24x7 in the desert while being...

I was planning to buy one to use as a MS media extender. No games.