The A7 series might be lighter overall but the battery life is inferior. Sony ships them with 2 batteries and they do 300-400 shots per battery? I have not shot with the D810 but I do have a D750 and I love it to bits. One charge gives you around around 1,000 shots or more if you don't use the LCD m...
If it were just for performance, I would not have changed from a 2500k to a 4790. My system had random slow downs and rather than troubleshoot the individual parts I decided to get a CPU and motherboard, recycling most other parts. Performance wise it felt the same, but I got more than 2 x SATA3 por...
There's an Amex deal giving 15% off from Amazon for purchases over USD$100 and it puts the card at AUD$270.65. That's a pretty great deal. I might bite.
Am looking to upgrade my 2GB Radeon 6950. I have a 27" monitor that does 2560 x 1440 but generally game at 1920 x 1080 for some of the newer titles. It was still ok running Tomb Raider (minus TressFX) but recently got Metro Redux on a Steam sale and it just lags like crazy at high settings on 1...
I use Blurb for all my regular photobooks, but use their heaviest grade of paper. Have had books for 3 to 4 years and the binding is still in place. I made one Milk Book when they first started and personally am not impressed with the print, paper or binding. One of the pages have fallen off my 3 ye...
I do have some side projects that just haven't taken off since they still work. I have an old Shuttle cube from 2007 with a C2D in it and a basic Radeon to decode 1080p to my TV, so that's been my HTPC for the last 3 years after I stopped using it as my main PC. Other than taking forever to logon to...
I am looking at my 2011 build which has an i5 2500k, 16GB of RAM, 120GB SSD and a plethora of other old drives for storage. Had a Radeon 4850 die on me so that was upgraded to a 6950. Ivy Bridge and Haswell have both arrived and previously I would have upgraded my computer every 18 to 24 months. It'...
Planning a NAS build as I need more space for my photos and media. The gist of it is a case with an ivy bridge pentium, a ssd as boot drive with 3 or 4 3TB green/red drives. Just looking for ideas on parts and software to run it. Planning it to be mini itx to save space, with upnp to stream to my ht...
Got a bent pin once with a LGA board. Installed CPU and tried to max out 16GB of RAM on 2 slots but no matter which of the 4 slots I tried it wouldn't work. Decided the motherboard wasn't working so brought it back to the shop and they visually inspected it, saying that there was a bent pin on it an...
was sort of expecting server racks as well. :P it's great that you were excited to get up early to go photograph wildlife, wish I had access to that near where I lived. for the first 2 pictures, the exposure would have been a bit difficult to get right due to the extreme contrast between the bright ...
Love my X220. There are probably no formal reviews done yet, but if you look at the forums at notebookreview.com you might be able to find people who have purchased the latest models and given their thoughts.
Finished regular with some friends. It's sort of like WoW but much faster paced. Definitely faster to finish the game if you team up. Now on Nightmare and it's really tough. Hehe. Overall the game has been more fun than I expected compared to when I tried the beta. Logging onto a server is annoying,...
I used to get a kick out of running a bare Linux OS on older computers and it was so cool to see me more productive on that than on a Vista machine (booting, loading time etc was horrendous).
The Harmony remotes are great to reduce clutter, but it depends on how tech savvy your dad is, because they aren't exactly straight forward to program. It will take some time to figure it out. At least you don't have to program it to run a Windows PC, that took me a few hours to figure out. Another ...
AVG until they updated to scan every link that popped up on Google search to verify if it was safe. Downloaded MSE and find it the least bloated of everything else out there that's free. I've been using it ever since.
Any guess whether the pin came that way, or if it happened during system assembly? I remember the big stink people raised back in 2004 when Intel switched to LGA CPUs. But the predicted mountains of dead motherboards never materialized. Seems to me a bent pin is a bent pin; it sucks regardless of w...
Ok found the problem. Dismantled the motherboard, brought it back to shop. They took a look at it, and found a bent pin, so wouldn't take the board back. Brought it home, and google is your friend in situations like this. Grabbed a mechanical pencil, bent the pin back, and what do you know, the 16GB...
Just got a new system together but having some issues. The specs are core i5 2500k, Asus P8Z68-V LE and 4 x 4GB of GSkill 1600 DDR3. I put everything together and the system won't post. There is a red LED which indicated a memory problem. Fiddled around a bit with one stick of memory and swapping th...
There is no feeling like having 8 threads pinned at 4.8ghz making some cool photo. It makes me sigh with joy almost every day. hehehe, that sounds cool. it's about A$100 more for the 2600k, i was contemplating it but saw no significant gain in Lightroom based on benchmarks at review sites i do the ...
You may have the SBA addiction. Fortunately, the side effects are mostly benign other than the empty wallet. i've been trying to hold off for a long while now, usually the upgrade cycle is more like 18 months and i'm already 6 months overdue (partly thanks to the sandybridge bug). heh. :) thanks JA...
Damm then ofcourse WOL wont work, BTW, over wifi are you able to stream full DB ISO. Reason I am asking is that I have a wifi-n network and still I was not able to stream full BD ISO. It stutters. I decided to go wired and all is well since then ......What is your experience on this ...... it is a ...
Personally, I find that ATI works just fine in photoshop and Lightroom. Same with 8GB of ram. Havent been able to max it out yet. Video on the other hand... it does work fine, no issues with my Radeon 4850. i think the bottleneck is more with the previews and caching, which is probably either CPU o...
Take a few minutes to find out if the apps that you use for photo editing support GPU computing. If they do, you'll want to make sure that you buy a video card that supports this. Nvidia has a huge lead over ATI in this area. Doesn't seem like Lightroom has CUDA support. I think I picked the 6950 b...