April 7th, 2008 |
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Graphic Cards these days such as the high-end those based on the ATI HD3870X2 requires power from 2x PCI-E power source. As if that wasn’t difficult enough, ATI made it in such a way that one of the power connector has to be an PCI-E connector has to be an 8-pin version in order to enable their Catalyst Control Center’s OVERDRIVE feature for temperature monitoring and overclocking.
To make things worse, quite many power supply units (PSU) don’t come with 8-pin (some call it 6+2 pin) PCI-E connector. So, are you going to have to change your power supply unit to one that has an 8-pin PCI-E just to get that feature?
The good news is – YOU DON’T HAVE TO! Hence the purpose of this article…….
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April 3rd, 2008 |
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Ahhh. Days went by and no new posts from goldfries.com – I blame myself for not having prepared any backup articles.
I wanted to write some articles though, I thought of having some articles written and even finalize some of my half-finished articles on 24th March (Monday) as I was having more projects coming in and I also had planned to go on a vacation during the later part of the week.
Things went all awry and my plans for article writing on that day came to a halt when I got a phone-call from Nicole on Sunday night (ok, more like Monday morning, since it was after midnight) claiming that someone was using my Windows Live Messenger account and asking for money!
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March 22nd, 2008 |
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The Albatron 9600GT-512X, the mid-range 9-level card that entered the market recently. 
Does this card disappoint? Not at all!
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March 16th, 2008 |
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I’m sure you take pictures. I’m sure you know that flash is really helpful for taking pictures in areas that are not well-lit. I’m sure you also know that it is pretty common to come by pictures that are taken with flash that turned out to be over-exposed, people end up looking like they’re 0.5 seconds from getting hit by an on-coming car. And if the subject was near a wall or some other object, you’re gonna see some shadows casted.
Are you keen on having taking pictures without having harsh flash ruining it? Then you should consider reducing the harshness of your flash, read on!
*Note : This article is NOT a product review.
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Category : Improve Your Photos, Photography | 23 Comments »
