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Forum: General Chat Topic: htpc and eastlink |
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Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 7:08 pm
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| A dual tuner card would be nice indeed! Can you get the digital cable signals? I was doing some reading and some people say that some cable companies "scramble" the digital signal and it can only be clearly received if you get a cable box from them, so only analog signals can be picked up ... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: htpc and eastlink |
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Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2011 3:19 pm
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| I almost forgot about this thread :oops: I was just thinking about this again this morning. So what kind of card should I look at for use with eastlink's standard digital cable box? What kind of software do you guys use? Any suggestions for good reading? The PVR is costing us $15 a month, which isn'... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: htpc and eastlink |
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Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 5:52 pm
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| I know some of you have htpc setups. Its something I've never really looked into. I have a laptop with hdmi for playing and streaming movies. But I am wondering if those of you on eastlink are able to get any extra tv benefits? Can you get hd content for "free" - meaning with basic digital... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: nintendo ds repair? |
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Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 11:00 pm
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| I have a friend whose daughter's ds lite has a touch screen that is way off and won't recalibrate. Does anyone know if there is someone locally (Halifax) that does ds touch screen repairs? |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Hurricane Earl After Action Report! |
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Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 6:53 pm
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Hali_Newf wrote: Think I'm going to go look for a small cheap ac unit.
Good luck! The news says there's none to be found in Halifax. |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: eastlink newsservers? |
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Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2010 11:06 pm
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| They were indeed using telus for their newsgroups. Here is the response I got from them via email: Thank you for your recent inquiry. We appreciate the opportunity to respond. The domain name news.eastlink.ca routes to Telus' newsgroup service, which EastLink used to use for providing newsgroup serv... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: eastlink newsservers? |
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Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 11:41 am
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| Does eastlink still have newsgroup servers? I haven't checked any newsgroups in a while. I went to check them a couple of days ago and got a message that it couldn't connect. I thought maybe the servers were down, but its till doing it today. Anyone know if they still have newsgroup servers or if th... |
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Forum: General Hardware Discussion Topic: CPU Heat Sink |
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Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 12:50 pm
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| well i applied it to the base and scraped off the access so that the groves were filled then applied to the cpu as you would any other. Keep in mind my cpu has been lapped so i didnt need much on it. Good idea dean! Now in applying to the cpu, did you spread it yourself or use a blob/rice grain met... |
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Forum: General Hardware Discussion Topic: CPU Heat Sink |
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Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 12:18 pm
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| I had to exchange my first one - the pin placement was off on top of the base of the heatsink. I could not get the pin to fit in one of the notches of the bracket. I exchanged it at MB and no problem, bracket and pin lined right up the first time. Boy was I frustrated last night :lol: just out of cu... |
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Forum: General Hardware Discussion Topic: CPU Heat Sink |
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Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 11:35 am
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| I've been doing a lot of research lately for my build. I was always looking for "the best bang for the buck". When researching heatsinks I found that the direct contact ones had the best cost to benefit rating, and did well at controlling temps. I asked Mysterybyte to order in the Coolerma... |
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Forum: General Hardware Discussion Topic: New build coming soon |
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Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 2:04 pm
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| Maybe I should order mine now before they are all sold out ;) I've been doing some reading about heatsinks, there's been some people who have had just as much luck with a direct contact heatsink like the coolermaster hyper 212+ as they have had with the v8 and h50. The hyper 212 is certainly a lot l... |
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Forum: General Hardware Discussion Topic: New build coming soon |
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Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 11:48 pm
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| Thank you very much, I may take you up on that offer. I've noticed your sig, you've got your 965 running at 4Ghz. Is that with the V8? The V8 is massive! I'd be worried anytime I move my case that the motherboard might snap from the weight of it :lol: Maybe I might spend the extra quid and get the H... |
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Forum: General Hardware Discussion Topic: New build coming soon |
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Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 12:00 pm
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| You are probably better off going with an ATI card from the get go. The later picking up a 2nd for xfire. I thought about that, but in my price range (unless income tax return is good) I'd have to get a 5770, and the gtx260 performs better on average in games than the 5770. If I could find a used 1... |
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Forum: General Hardware Discussion Topic: New build coming soon |
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Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 10:50 am
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| I'm finally going to do my first build. I've pretty much had a whole computer apart, other than replacing the processor, but I've never done a build. I'm looking forward to it! Here's where I'm leaning, going within my budget for now (some parts used), but with lots of room to upgrade in the future ... |
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Forum: Motherboards Topic: am3 ddr3 sli?? |
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Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2010 6:51 pm
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| Only AM3 ddr3 SLI board i could find was this http://www.msi.com/index.php?func=prodmbspec&maincat_no=1&cat2_no=171&cat3_no=&prod_no=1885 No one seems to be stocking it localy though. That, and one other one from msi, seem to be the only two. Both have mixed reviews. I've been readi... |
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