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Displayed battery information includes the battery name, manufacture name, serial number, manufacture date, power state (charging/discharging), current battery capacity, full charged capacity, voltage…
/XPerform free-space consolidation. Free-space consolidation is useful if you need to shrink a volume, and it can reduce fragmentation of future files. /TTrack an operation already in progress on the …
The Autodesk Certified Hardware page allows filtering by the products you intend to use (ie. Revit). This page should be your ‘first stop’ when installing or updating your Graphics Card / Display driv…
My main video card is a Nvidia Quadro FX 580. However, I wanted to run more than two monitors. So I borrowed a old GeForce 7300 LE and installed it into one of the other PCI-E slots on my Gigabyte EX5…
Game developer David Braben has developed a $25 PC, in a USB stick with a HDMI port on one end and a USB port on the other. The hardware inside is a 700MHz ARM11 processor with 128MB of RAM, together …
Thinking of buying a new USB Flash drive? Head over to this site:UsbFlashSpeed.com You can also download a utility to benchmark any flash drives that you own:download link…
Interesting little exchange on Twitter recently, with regard to Revit hardware and benchmark performance: @Bizz3D Bizz @Bramdotcom Dell top of line Xeon workstation $3,500 benchmarks at 180. My built …
New WHQL Nvidia drivers released 18 April 2011:NVIDIA DRIVERS 270.61 WHQL And here is the link to the System tools software:http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/nvidia_system_tools_6.06_uk.html…
Here’s an idea – if you have two old but similarly sized hard drives sitting around, plug them into your Windows 7 PC and create a Striped Volume. Striping increases the access speed of the drive. Thi…
In order, and dependent on how large the models you wish to edit are: More RAM Faster Processor More Processers Faster RAM Faster HD viaThe Building Coder: Performant Hardware…