Category: Computers
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CPU, DRAM memory: Buy now!
After several months telling you about the plumeting prices of CPU processors and DRAM memory, I have to inform you that the industry signals are changing. AMD and Intel are kicking prices down a last time in July before the rush that will only happen at the end of the year (with the arrival of…
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Emacs for the Aqua Mac
Aquamacs is a software program in development for two years, but the ambition is quite interesting: Integrate Emacs, the prfered text editor of Roumazeilles.net, into the Aqua environment for Mac. This is an impressive feat because they are at the opposite ends of technology: Aqua is associated to graphics elegance, subtlety and grace allied to…
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LCD display: Repair dead pixels with software
The bane of LCD displays: dead pixels. It is still very uncommon to find display manufacturers who accept to provide a garantee against dead o stuck pixels on their LCD screens. Honestly, this is bordering on abuse knowing that the main objective of the screen is to display several hundred thousands of pixels: Dead pixels…
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Summer PC: Installation
Gran Turismo: An enthusiast’s PC geared towards PC gaming Easy Penny: A very reasonable PC able to sustain a few years without letting its owner down Too many web sites offer you a list of PC configurations that they pretend ideal. but they do not bother trying to really set them up. This is not…
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Summer PC: Hard disk and DVD drive
Gran Turismo: An enthusiast’s PC geared towards PC gaming Easy Penny: A very reasonable PC able to sustain a few years without letting its owner down We have well progressed into the building of our two Summer PCs. But we still need to add a hard disk drive and a DVD drive. The later is…
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Summer PC: computer case and power supply
Gran Turismo: An enthusiast’s PC geared towards PC gaming Easy Penny: A very reasonable PC able to sustain a few years without letting its owner down To protect the Summer PC (for the gamer [Gran Turismo] as much as the student [Easy Penny]), we need a computer case. For this, we must remember and understand…
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Summer PC: Graphics card
Gran Turismo: An enthusiast’s PC geared towards PC gaming Easy Penny: A very reasonable PC able to sustain a few years without letting its owner down To start with Easy Penny, the most reasonable PC, the integration of a graphics card inside the motherboard leaves the cost perfectly well managed. Added cost: 0€. Eactly on…
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Summer PC: Motherboard and memory
Gran Turismo: An enthusiast’s PC geared towards PC gaming Easy Penny: A very reasonable PC able to sustain a few years without letting its owner down Having previously chosen AMD processors for the two optimized PCs we are trying to build, things will be relatively easy. The integration of the memory controller in the CPU…
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Summer PC: Processor (CPU)
Building the best possible PC for a set budget, taking into account the current market prices has always been a difficult task. We are starting today a series of posts to define the needed PC components to build an optimised PC (not only good components, but a solution as homogeneous as possible for a given…