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- Dye-Sub Photo Printer
- Redline PC3200 DDR
- Encrypted Memory
- AMD Athlon64 FX-60
- PCstats Weekly Tips
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Dye-Sub Digital Photo Printing
Hello,
Digital photography is
the greatest thing since sliced bread, but getting those digital photo
files out of the computer and onto paper is something we all seem to
forget about. It's nice not to have to pay for developing anymore, and
with a little help from a personal photo printer creating prints is a
one-button affair. The Samsung SPP-2040 dye sublimation photo printer crossed the test
bench a few days ago, and our opinions on its print quality, speed, and
colour reproduction are detailed
here. If you've been collecting
your digital pictures for years, this
review is certainly something you'll want to read. Also on the
agenda this issue is a set of Mushkin's
Redline series PC3200 memory, an encrypted 2GB
USB flash drive from Kingston, and the
speedy AMD Athlon64
FX-60 processor.
Thanks for reading,
Max Page
Editor-in-Chief, PCstats.com
Canon maintains the lead in photo-printing by
far, but Samsung's introduction of a compact dye sublimation printer
that can do its thing straight from memory cards is certainly not going
unnoticed. The Samsung SPP-2040 Photo Printer being put through its paces
in this PCSTATS review prints 4"x6" glossy photo's via the dye sublimation
process directly from any of six common flash media formats, incorporates
a folding 2" colour LCD screen for previewing images, and can connect
directly to PictBridge-enabled digital cameras.Continue Here>>
PCStats will be examining a 1GB dual-channel pack of Mushkin's HP3200
Redline memory (2x 512MB modules), and we're expecting some impressive
results. Each of the two double-sided 512MB PC3200 DDR DIMMs sports 16
TSOP-II DRAM modules which are cooled and protected by a sleek red
heatspreader. By default, the memory is rated to run at 200 MHz with 2-3-2-7
memory timings and a voltage of 2.7V. Default voltage is a bit high,
but not out of the ordinary. Continue Here>>
There is no login, no password, no intrinsic security structure
at all on a USB flash drive. Whomever has the device, has full and
unfettered access to all the information it contains. Plug it in, open up
a folder and there it is. Recovering lost and accidentally erased data is one thing, but what happens if you loose a 2GB
USB drive packed full of confidential information? Kingston Technology has
developed a novel product to address USB flash drive data security issues,
by embedding a hardware-based 128-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) co-processor to handle all algorithm processing within its flagship
DataTraveler Elite series USB flash drives.Continue Here>>
The new dual core AMD
Athlon64 FX-60 processor PCSTATS is testing is based on the Socket 939
form factor, with each individual core clocked at 2.6
GHz. Make no mistake about it, the AMD Athlon64
FX-60 is the most versatile desktop processor on the market... and as
we'll soon show you, just about the fastest too. Like the dual core AMD
Athlon64 X2 processors, the dual core
Athlon64 FX-60 CPU is
physically identical to all 939-pin AMD 'K8' processors and has a
maximum thermal power of 110W. Each core has its own 128KB L1 and 1MB L2
cache; so essentially what we have here are two Athlon64 FX-55's squeezed
into one package. Continue Here>>
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PCstats Weekly Tech Tips: Paging Files |
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The page files are one or more areas
of your hard disks that Windows XP reserves as virtual memory.
To put it simply, these reserved areas are used to contain any
data that may spill over from your main memory. Virtual memory
is accessed by Windows just like physical memory, but is many
times slower, due to the much slower speed of hard drive data
transfer as compared to RAM. If your system contains more than one
hard disk, consider placing a page file on the the non-OS disk
and removing the one on the OS-disk containing the Windows
files. To do this: Right click on 'my computer' and select
'properties' then the 'advanced' tab. In the 'performance'
section, click 'settings' then select the 'advanced' tab. In
the 'virtual memory' section, click 'change.' From here you
can choose individual drives and customize the size of the
paging files you wish to create. Set an identical starting and
maximum size page file capacity so that no resources are
wasted resizing the file. To do that, choose 'custom size' for
each page file and set the initial and maximum sizes to the
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