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did you try it with a current gen OCR program? Mine reads image pdf's without much problems (omnipage), as my document scanner outputs everything as pdf. Quality can be an issue for certain pages (as well as layout - which in my experience costs most of the time to get it right), but if you first oc...

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We have the paid version of cyberlink's powerdvd 14 which worked nice for us... I think you should spend around 50$ (either on powerdvd, or nero or another software) to get it working without troubles.

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I would go for a 500 W unit, independent of what the wall outlet said at this moment. I dont' think you'd ever see the difference between a bronze or gold unit in £ back through your electricity bill, so I'd just take a decent 500W unit (eg, the cheapest from your list, as all three are good choices)

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Personally, I would use memtest pro. Had some problems with my ram (64 GB ram + gigabyte motherboard that couldn't handle it due to bios problems). A single run of memtest was 24hrs, approx the same as memtest pro - but the latter found errors, where memtestx86 found nothing in it's single pass. It ...

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For USA: http://www.benl.ebay.be/itm/HP-CE400X-507X-Black-Toner-for-LaserJet-Enterprise-M551dn-M575dn-M570dn-MFP-/171420151650?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27e96fef62 is the cheapest high capacity rebuilt toner I can find... For me, the HP would be significantly cheaper. As I already have a fu...

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I'm from Belgium. Looks like the hp is about 50€/65$ (thanks Greece) cheaper than the brother. Fake filled cartridges appear to be in the 50€ region, which is also a plus

100s of pages is a rare feat, and most of the pages are not that urgent that I cannot wait for the fuser to warm up.

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what I mean is that the chip tells the printer that the toner ran out of ink, thus disabling the whole printer. eg. with our current minolta - if one color is empty, no more printing... Rather than just keeping on printing, but with warnings those are separate toners, so it's a little different than...

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Looking for a new printer, as I grow too frustrated with my current one. No specific preference towards laser/inkjet Easy requirements: network and double sided printing relatively fast (amount varies from some pages a week to 100ths of pages a week) color may not be a konika minolta, as all these w...

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Personally, I'm a big fan of the combination of a very good antivirus (eg kaspersky), but the internet security version (ok, more lag and bloat, but uneducated users won't notice that anyway), combined with spybot, spywareblaster and last but not least malwarebytes anti-malware (downloadcrew still s...

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what was parity ram? I once choose edo above normal ram for my 2nd pc, but cannot remember the use of parity ram anymore.

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I have some remarks 1. with 6 screens, I'd go for a 4960x instead of that 4770 - you don't want to be cpu limited 2. with the resolution of 6 screens, I'd go with 2 titan blacks - at this moment, in crossfire, you'll only have 2 GB/card available. For my 3 2410 dell monitors, I sometimes run out of ...

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It could, but would be very difficult above 1866. Owning a 64GB system myself, I can tell that there are several difficulties in having such a system.

On the other hand, the massive amount of bandwith generated by quad channel kind of compensates for the slower MHz.

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personally, if you want stability, I'd opt for intel + intel. Some current intel (alternative: asus) motherboard with an i3 would do nicely. Add kingston ram (in my opinion the ram with the least compatibility problems) and an intel SSD (or plextor). Nothing fancy about that, but everything will wor...

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personally, I gave my parents kaspersky - as "real" computer speed is mostly irrelevant (they won't notice it anyway), but uptime and my own time are more importantm I like to keep everything as secure as possible. Therefore, I gave them good AV's with small numbers of false positives. Wit...

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Not necessarily; in the dark caves where radiologists dwell, privacy doesn't matter (since they are often alone, or not there but at the coffee table).* Privacy filters are mightily anoying when you are looking together to see what that thing exactly is.² Most of the times, you want something like t...

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Medical grade + radiology does remind me of barco monitors, which have a special range of monitors for radiology.

http://www.barco.com/nl/markets/healthc ... ology.aspx

you cannot use cheap monitors for that, if it's used by the radiologists... differences in gray values matter on RX pictures

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which brand and wattage of psu do you have? If it is only in gaming, it rather sounds like your psu isn't able to deliver the needed power for your system

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please let me know what you think of them... In the renaissance/early baroque music, you cannot buy anything wrong from Jordi Savall and his orchestras or 'l arpeggiata, le poème harmonique... A cheap suggestion for renaissance fans would be this http://www.amazon.com/Espana-Antigua-Jordi-Savall/dp/...

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Although it is fairly difficult to find a good version of the requiem (and you can make big mistakes in my opinion): Karajan is as subtle as a cold war submarine Other versions I have: Savall - funny (too fast, and you can nearly feel a whole orchestra slipping through the dies irae) the brilliant b...

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My suggestions; I'm a bit an early music fan, so a lot of the suggestions will be around that period (including performers ;-)). I'll try to put them chronologically. All of the cd's are amongst the best in their category, the selection is part preference, part speciality of the cds ;-). I'll rate t...

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By me, on the contrary - 2010 loads slower than 2007. Personally, I think there are small refinements in the UI, and the way the program behaves. Powerpoint has some nice features though (when dragging pictures, it shows lines not quite different from photoshop to align the pictures on your slide). ...

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productivity wise, eyefinity is not so nice - I like it more when my 3 screens are separate. Also, the difference in productivity between 1 & 2 screens is huge, but it's only a small advantage going to 3 screens. Eyefinity is nice, but depends on the game you play - for racing, it's superb and a...

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just an ssd would allways be faster.

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Alternatively, you could use a z68 board, get a smaller SSD and a bigger (and faster) hdd. As the reviews show, you will not exactly get the performance of SSD + HDD, but it will come close and you'll get a much bigger main drive. For eyefinity with one card; at least one screen should have displayp...

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http://www.wacom.com/en/Products/Cintiq.aspx

it does exist, and would only cost you a leg

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I have cobian, which I generally like, although it is dead slow on doing backups.

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Keep in mind that SSDs have limited number of writes - it could be a problem with refurbished drives.

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Personally, I would upgrade her pc to the cheapest quad you could find, with 4 GB ram and a small, cheap ssd to boot from. The multiple cores and 4 GB ram would make browsing faster, the small ssd would make it very fast to boot (which, in the case of my own wife, is the limiting factor for her pc s...

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&at this moment, it will be my plextor premium cd writer. I bought it on a sale in a big warehouse (for 20€, which was then a real bargain). It's getting flaky with erasing cdrw's though... anyway, I have to disassemble this pc this weekend, and check the internal connection (I remember that aft...

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matrox mystique 2 mb PCI (first version).

I was especially pleased with it when I realised that it could run half-life 1 a few years later (abeit with everything turned to the lowest).

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