the termination point location for all of the network cabling. We chose a location in the corner of my new lab in the basement, as it seemed the most logical place. After some prompting and discussion, we chose to forgo the initial design idea that I had proposed...

• -Cable Verification & Adding Wireless

on the edge of downtown. There was no problem with setting the target destination in both devices. The Roadmate 700 chose a 35-mile route and estimated travel time at 48 minutes. The iWay 500c decided to chose more toll-ways, resulting in 37 miles distance...

the RS-430-ASAA. It’s rated at 430 watts (more than we really need for this system, but incredibly efficient and not terribly expensive either). We chose the HDMI version of a recently-released Asus motherboard, the M2A-VM HDMI, which packages up video and...

web yet. One of the nice things the Shuttle motherboard offered was on-board IEEE-1394 (Firewire) support along with USB 2.0, among other things. The Motherboard I chose the Gigabyte GA-8IHXP based on what I had read on the Tom's Hardware Guide web site, and...

addition, we also had a Mobile Sempron 2800+ at our disposal. We chose the Pentium M 750 chip from Intel, because its maximum core clock rate of 1.86 GHz is only slightly faster than that for the Turion 64 models we chose. The maximum core clock rate for the...

such as with media encoding. IBuypower chose to cool the Gamer Mage 855 with a large aftermarket air cooler. We’ve heard of Phenom’s running hot with the stock cooler so this is certainly a welcome addition. The graphics card they chose to include in...