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A question that I can answer! :D This is my personal favorite: Samsung 23-inch LCD mon, 2343BWX. Reliable. Excellent colors. And very good contrast ratio. You look at how black is the black color on the LCD when turned on, ya know... LOL...

I have one Intel 40GB SSD myself and it has been quite reliable so far. 5 months into it, no problem. Reliability doesn't concern me. But rather I didn't seem to have been able to take advantage of the "fastness" SSD offers. In my use it is just about as fast as using a regular disk drive...

RE: Yes, HDTV 1080P I hopefully can use as a monitor because it's already purchased it. ..... I was a little concerned as non one writing amazon reviews of it use it as a monitor. Well radist. You certainly *can* use a 40-inch 1080p TV as your computer monitors. But I think you will...

Thanks for your kind words, WF. I think that in your last category above, typically it's considered "customizing your configuration" and not as much as "building your computer". Big box makers like Dell and HP have their own designs, typically, on the chassis and maybe motherboard. Other...

Hi radist: Your inventory list looks good. A very nice system. Congrats! Some questions: 1) You said will using a single 40-inch monitor. What resolution is that monitor? Is it a HDTV also used as computer monitor? Or it's a higher resolution monitors like the Apple ones 2560 x 1440...

There maybe an issue with this route. When in safe mode the USB may not be accessible. Only newer computers have USB support in BIOS. jparker: I am a bit confused... If you can get into safe mode, then it seems the display may be working fine? Do you have an issue with the video...

The first question is: Do you see any display at all when you turned the computer power on? Typical BIOS company logo, and say something like the system is booting up, total RAM size, etc.. Even if your hard disk is no good, you should be able to see the BIOS display and hit the F12 key or...

You mind a brutally honest opinion? This box you just ordered, with an "AMD Phenom™II X2 555" chip, with passmark score around 2100, is very different from the CPU you cited in the opening post in July "AMD Phenom™II X6 1055T Six-Core CPU", which has a passmark score of 5182. The latter...

#1) Did you try it with an HDMI to DVI adapter? No I hooked my laptop's HDMI output to a plasma TV directly. (The TV takes HDMI inputs). But it doesn't matter because the HDMI-to-DVI adapter is a straight wire connection without any conversion. DVI just takes the video signals portion of...

I concur with Mr. J. I just did an experiment with my own setup. I have a HP dv8t 1100 laptop. It has 1 VGA port and 1 HDMI port on the left side. I hooked them up with 2 different monitors. Basically you can have 2 of the 3 displays. Laptop screen + VGA screen. Or laptop screen + HDMI...

Beware that unless you use a docstation, most laptops are equipped with some contact switches of some sort that when you close the laptop screen it will put the computer in sleep mode.

A comparison of the 3 different processors:

I think the Phenom II X2 555 chip is too slow for today's market. You may be getting boxes at the tail end of their life cycle (or odds and ends clearance). Passmark score of that similar class of process is only 2110. (Compare to a fast retail market computer using i7-930/950 process with...

I haven't, but... $29.99... what the heck... just try it. One thing that I don't like about these gadgets - I have a few other makes of USB-to-VGA... resolution 1600 x 1200. Just not quite enough for the 22" monitors (and above) with 1920x1080 resolution (the 1080p standard). That extra 300...

I agree with you RN. I love the dv8t even with its problems. 18.4 inch screen (resolution 1920x1080p). The i7-920QM chip makes it about 60% as fast as my i7-930 box at home. When I go on a trip I sure enjoy the speed. I am prepared to change out the drive to a SSD when the warranty expires...

My advice is: be careful. I have 2 HP laptops: 1) dv9730us (older) 2) dv8t 1100 (current) #1 was bought about 3 years ago. Sent back for repair 3 times. Disk drive problem. Chip overheating. And disk drive problem. #2 was bought in May 2010. Sent back for repair 1...

This is similar to doing character-cell terminal emulation in Windows environment so the old COBOL programs can run forever... :)

I think many of the i3 and i5 (low end i5) boxes (and equivalent AMD processors) can fit the bill. Ranging from $400 to $700. Most have 1 available PCIe x16 slot. You can get a PCIe x16 dual card to drive the 2 monitors. I think the 10k rpm drives and SSD are overrated for their prices...

If you use charting software like TradeStation which supports multiple "Desktops", you can effectively multiply your available chart displays (provided your computer CPU is fast enough) without adding monitors. On one of my trading computers, which drives 7 to 8 physical monitors, I dedicated...

Seems usually the case. I was in Frankfurt, Germany in early 1990's. The 18-inch DSS satellite dishes were everywhere. It was unseen/unheard of in the US at the time. Took a few years for it to catch on. I was in China last year. I saw many of the "iphone like" phone devices with the...