awesomebill61

a lot of times if you look through the device manager you can find out, even with integrated graphics.if not, you can most definatly find out what kind of chipset you're running the device manager, and then just google that, or go to the manufacturer's website.like everyone else said, integrated graphics show their shortcomings really really quickly compared to a dedicated card.

if artificial sweetners make you think sugar isn't bad for you, thats kind of a head game... not the fault of the sweetners.the flip side to that argument is, if artificial sweetners get rid of your sweet tooth, they've helped you a lot.i have, however, heard of some instances where its been proven that some of the chemicals in artificial sweetners can cause your appetite to spike, making you more hungry after you eat something with the artificial sweetner in it than you were before, but i have never noticed that.as far as the chemicals harming you, it generally seems that most of the studies done on rats (not humans) give the rats such a ridiculously large amount of these sweetners that a human being would never consume in a lifetime.keep in mind, for most artificial sweetners one pound of sugar equals anywhere from 200-400 pounds of the artificial sweetner, they're very very powerful.

yes, it will make a huge difference. back in the netburst/k8 days, amd had a huge advantage, but ever since the core 2 architecture came out, its been all intel. The core 2 duos and core 2 quads really tear everything else up... amd can't even come close except on some budget offerings. and if you plan on doing any gaming, you shouldn't go with onboard graphics... even a $50-$70 video card will way outperform anything onboard. i think "factory overclocked" is a bit of an oxymoron.... maybe? i dunno all of the next generation processors, made out of 45nm silicon instead of 65 nm, will have 6 mb l2 cache for dual core and 12 mb cache for quad cores... unless they are coming out with a few budget versions that have less.

i'm drivin a 1998 Oldsmobile 88.its a four door passenger car, same as a buick lesabre or pontiac bonneville from that era.between the three models, there must be millions of em on the road.... not a bad car, pretty cheap, decent fuel mileage, gets me where i need to go.i have no problem driving it in college but my dad might insist i get something better... more reliable.

i like them both, family guy is probably a little funnier, but i think the simpsons has more non-comedic quality to it.the simpsons really peaked in seasons like 8-13 though.... watch some reruns sometime... those episodes are way better than the new ones.i don't think family guy will last as long as the simpsons though, it seems like its going to wash up kind of fast.but there are some GREAT family guy skits out there.... like the "armless second baseman" clip... oh man

well in that case i guess i'm not really part of the group your criticizing, as i take the time to make relevant forum posts, respect my parents, and am going to go to college to be an engineer but, i totally agree with you that these days a lot of people aren't really studying relevant/useful things.... the world only needs so many people with english, political science, or history degrees. and thats why if you can go to college and get a degree in some kind of math or engineering degree, you usually can make a lot of money.... supply vs. demand.

i read somewhere where someone tried to say that any science which needed the word "science" on the end was not actually a science... but he was taking a stab at computer science, not political science. I guess political science is a science, but i dunno where a political science major gets a job at after college

i find this kind of stuff fascinating.... not only does fibonachi's sequence show up in nature, but it is supposed to be very visually appealing.fibonacci's sequence relates to the golden ratio, which is supposed to be a very visually appealing ratio used in architecture and what not (some people have even commented that the golden ratio can be found many places in the faces of people we consider to be "beautiful"), and i find that to be true... etc in America 3 X 5, 5 X 8, and 8 X 13 are all very very common photo sizes.my math teacher spent like an entire day showing us some of this stuff once, and how he tried building a dog house once that used fibonacci's sequence so that he hoped his dog would actually use it, which it didnt.

ive been running avast and avg free on several computers ranging from windows 2000 to vista ultimate, and they've never gotten mad at each other. Might use a few extra resources, but for what most of those systems are doing, it doesnt matter... they would be running slower because the users would load them with viruses without the double anti-virus.

or, you could just buy a low quality pci video card... only instead of buying one buy like six plug as many monitors as possible into each.... i think that would call for rounding up a few oldie crt monitors!

what if P=0 ?then PHP = HP, along with PHP = 5HP, or furthermore, PHP = nHP and if PHP = HP, it simplifies all the way to H = H, which is a true statement but if P = 1 or 0, PHP would just be H, which doesnt sound like a very interesting programming language

thats surprising, evga seems like a pretty popular brand these days.im running one of their 680i SLI boards and an 8800 GTS 640 MB (built before the G92's came out...) and they've given me no trouble. anyways ill have to post an update once i get a chance over spring break to install all of my new cooling.

i don't even think that would be that fasti've read stuff on toms hardware about the skulltrail being terrible, almost slower than a singular quad core.and what fun would water cooling be if it was already done for you?we had a contest like this once in my computer hardware class... suddenly $15k printers seem really popular heh--edit--i just remembered that skulltrail only supports crossfire anyways so sli wouldn't even work.

i don't think the sat has nearly the importance it used to... many schools now (except some on the coasts) accept the act, many put more importance on the act than the sat, and some dont even take the sat.i didn't even bother with the sat...i took the act and got a 33 which was more than enough to get me into college and more or less get me a full ride scholarship,most colleges look at your act/sat scores and gpa/strength of schedule about equally... my experience has been that extracurriculars (church, sports, work, etc) have been a bigger issue for private scholarships.

yea i have 4 gigs of ocz ddr2 800... pretty good rami thought about getting an asus mobo back when i built my rig but i went with evga instead, they're a pretty rock solid company too.