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1. AMD FX 6300 - HTML Version - If I Were Building a PC Today (06/13/2013)

2. HTML Version: HTPC XBMC PL (2-18-2013)

   1. Joe Whinery's Excel Spreadsheet HTPC XBMC PL (2-18-2013)

3. DisplayPort

4. Installing 3TB HDs

5. Enabling AHCI the easy way by Joe Whinery!

News Highlights:

1. Gene Barlow's Skype Presentation of Acronis (9-10-2014)
2. Lone Star College CyFair Campus Meeting - Wed., 4-18-2012
   
3. Joe Whinery's Bang for the Buck - AMD Phenom Build Specification Recommendation - Phenom II X6 1090 + ASUS M5A97 EVO featuring Unified EFI BIOS (1-16-2012)
   

4. New AMD FX Bulldozer Build Specification Recommendation (10-12-2011)

5. Enabling AHCI the easy way by Joe Whinery!

6. Win7 Upgrade install & Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit Boot Times - Courtesy Joe Whinery

7. Windows Migration Step-by-Step Guide - Courtesy George Walker!

8. AMD 2009 Desktop Processor Chart

9. Casper Disk Cloning by Joe Whinery. This is the Best & Easiest Solution!  

2014 News Logs:

1. From Jim Fallon - Forbes.com - 4K TVs 9 Reasons You Should Buy One -- And 9 More Why You Shouldn't 11-17-2014 (1-6-2014)
2. HEXUS.net - AMD switching 28nm process to GlobalFoundries in 2015 - Industry - News (1-2-2015)
3. From Milt Gugenheim - Digital Trends - Crossbar's RRAM breakthrough paves way for 1TB drives (12-21-2014)
4. From Jim Fallon - BBC News - Microsoft takes on tech support scammers (12-19-2014)
5. BBC News - Bespoke prosthetics designed with motion capture Watch Video! (12-19-2014)
6. From Horst - YouTube ▶ Tested In-Depth Windows 10 Technical Preview (12-17-2014)
7. From David Crook - AnandTech - VESA Releases DisplayPort 1.3 Standard: 50% More Bandwidth, New Features 9-16-2014 (12-16-2014)
8. From David Crook - The Wirecutter - The Best External Blu-ray Drives (12-15-2014)
9. Digital Trends - Best Sound Bars (12-14-2014)
10. CNET - Microsoft to spill more Windows 10 details on Jan. 21 (12-12-2014)
11. RedShark News - A new generation of SSDs from Samsung 850 EVO (12-8-2014)
12. engadget.com - Major content networks launch Streaming Video Alliance without Netflix or YouTube (11-14-2014)
13. RedShark News - You can download Blackmagic Fusion now, and it's free! (11-14-2014)
14. The Register • EVIL 'UNICORN' 0-day Windows bug LURKING since 1995 PATCH IT NOW! (11-12-2014)
15. InfoWorld - Microsoft details how to deploy, manage Windows 10 (11-12-2014)
16. RedShark News - This may be the world's best sound card The PrismSound Titan USB Audio Interface (11-4-2014)
    1. PrismSound.com - Recording and Production Tech Notes - Optimizing your Windows PC for audio - Measuring DPC latency
17. Freemake Video Downloader - Using & Configuring
18. Newegg.com - Rosewill RSV-R4000 Black 1.0mm SECC, 4U Rackmount Server Chassis 8 Internal Bays, 4 Included Cooling Fans - On Sale - EXTRA $10 OFF with promo code: EMCWPGW44 (expires 11/06/2014) (11-5-2014)
19. PCWorld - What’s next for Wi-Fi A second wave of 802.11ac devices, and then 802.11ax 7-7-2014 (10-29-2014)
20. RedShark News - Infographic All you need to know about 4K-UHD (10-19-2014)
21. PCWorld - Windows 10 Preview stats Two-thirds of testers live dangerously (10-17-2014)
22. Bandicam - Nvidia CUDA H.264 Encoder for video-screen recording - To CUDA or NOT?!?! (10-15-2014) 
23. Nick Streater... YouTube - Cybersecurity Expert Gary Miliefsky - SmartPhone Flashlight Security Problems (10-1-2014)
24. Jim Fallon... PCWorld - Microsoft finally cracks down on deceptive Windows Store 'crap apps' (8-28-2014)
25. Jerry Lee... YouTube ▶ Tesla Motors Part 1 Behind the Scenes of How the Tesla Model S is Made-The Window-WIRED (7-16-2013)
26. PCWorld - AMD steeply slashes flagship Radeon graphics card prices after Nvidia's GTX 980 launch (10-7-2014)
27. eXtreme Power Supply Calculator - The most trusted PSU Wattage Calculator
28. Windows Technical Preview - Microsoft Windows
29. AnandTech.com - Samsung Acknowledges the SSD 840 EVO Read Performance Bug (9-18-2014)
30. Finally! DDR4 & X99 chipset Motherboards are here!
    1. HEXUS.net - Review Corsair Vengeance LPX 2, 800MHz DDR4 - RAM (9-1-2014)
    2. X99 Motherboards featured on NewEgg.com (8-29-2014)
    3. EVGA - Articles - EVGA X99 Motherboards (8-29-2014)
    4. EVGA - Products - Motherboards - Motherboard Family - Intel X99 (8-29-2014)
    5. Crucial.com - DDR4 DRAM memory upgrades (8-29-2014)
    6. Newegg.com - Intel Core i7-5960X Haswell 8-Core 3.0GHz LGA 2011 140W Desktop Processor BX80648I75960X (8-29-2014)
    7. PCWorld - Intel turns its attention to desktop performance, unveils 8-core Haswell-E processor (8-29-2014)
31. Leawo Blu-ray Player - Best Blu-ray Media Player Software (8-25-2014)
32. RedShark News - The next generation of PCs is about to arrive - up to 50% faster! (8-19-2014)
33. TechRepublic - Apple's AirPort Extreme [Router] Out with the old, in with the new FYI - Setup Requires iPhone, iPad or MAC!!! (8-18-2014)
34. PCWorld - Microsoft pulls its August Windows update after users report crashes (8-17-2014)
35. CNET - Amazon, Google expand same-day shopping - Watch Featured Video! (7-21-2014)
36. AMD FX Processors vs...
37. ATT UVerse Gigabit Announced Coming soon to Houston, TX! (8-5-2014)
    1. AT&T Eyes 100 U.S. Cities and Municipalities for its Ultra-Fast Fiber Network (4-21-2014)
    2. AT&T Community - MUST READ! NEW UPGRADES UVERSE TECH (5-24-2013)
38. StoptheCap - Math Problem: The Telecom Industry’s Bias Against Fiber-to-the-Home Service (8-1-2014)
39. HEXUS.net - Researchers achieve optical fibre network speed of 43Tbps - Network - News (8-1-2014)
40. HEXUS.net - SSD price decline expected to flatten out say IHS analysts - Storage - News (7-24-2014)
41. ExtremeTech - Verizon caught throttling Netflix traffic even after its pays for more bandwidth (7-20-2014)
42. Harm's Tweakers Page/Video Codecs - Distribution Codecs and Codecs for Editing (11-24-2013)
43. Premiere Pro Benchmark (PPBM6) - Tweakers Page - What video card to use?
44. EVGA - Articles - EVGA Power Supply Buyer's Guide (7-20-2014)
45. TweakTown Video Cards -
    1. TweakTown - NVIDIA to release GeForce GTX 880 in Q4 2014, based on 28nm process (7-18-2014)
    2. TweakTown - AMD rumored to have 1GHz core clock on the next-gen Radeon R9 390X (7-16-2014)
    3. TweakTown - NVIDIA rumored to be preparing the GeForce GTX TITAN II for early 2015 (7-12-2014)
46. TechHive - Customer's call shows that Comcast must change; will company listen or hang up (7-18-2014)
47. PCMag.com - Buying Guide CPUs & Graphics Cards (7-17-2014)
48. GPU Benchmarks - FurryBall - Incredibly fast GPU render Ray Trace in FuryBall
49. PassMark Software - Video Card Benchmarks - High End Video Cards
50. TechHive - Slingbox M1 review Place-shift TV with minimal hassle (7-15-2014)
51. TechHive - Hands on with the Tablo DVR Over-the-air TV to go (4-4-2014)
52. TabloTV - Broadcast TV DVR - Unleash your HDTV with Tablo (7-15-2014)
53. tomsHardware.com - Is This What The Windows Start Menu Will Look Like (7-15-2014)
54. WDC - Ultrastar He6 HGST Storage 6TB Helium HD Available!
55. SharewareOnSale - UnHackMe with free lifetime updates (50% discount) Daily giveaways and discounts
    1. UnHackMe
56. HEXUS.net - Windows Start Menu spotted in alleged leak - Software - News (7-14-2014)
57. Jetable.org - Email forwarding, Anti Spam Solution -
58. entouch.net - Gigabit Internet in select Houston Neighborhoods! (7-11-2014)
59. CME-Thomson Reuters to run the silver fix— reports MINING.com - After 117 years, Silver price fixing is about to change as of August, 14, 2014! How will this affect prices of Electronics? (7-8-2014)
60. Western Digital Hard Drives - The Power of Choice - WD Blue, WD Green, WD Black, WD Red, WD Purple
61. RedShark News - 4K TV confirmed as 10bit (7-8-2014)
62. MINING.com - Gold industry admits fix must be fixed (7-7-2014)
63. Digital Spy - 4K TV channels now a reality, new broadcasting standard approved - Tech News (7-7-2014)
64. RedShark News - Is 4K twice or four times as good as HD (4-30-2014)
65. Amazon.com - Streaming Media Players - Amazon Fire TV - HDMI + TOSLINK (4-8-2014)
    1. Amazon Fire TV – Streaming Media Player – Shop Now
66. RedShark News - Jaws drop, Earth stops spinning. Blackmagic's astonishing new 4K modular camera (4-8-2014)
67. Videomaker.com - Editing in 4K Minimum System Requirements (4-4-2014)
68. From David Crook... UltraHDtv.net - Sharp Announces Universal Player and Wireless Bridge at CES 2014 - Best of CES 2014 Awards "Sharp Universal Player (SD-WH1000U) is the first Sharp component to transmit uncompressed sound at 24-bit/96kHz and video at Full HD (1080p) — wirelessly... The player can handle SACD and CDs, Blu-ray discs and DVDs and offers 3 HDMI inputs, 2 USB ports and an internet connection to bring a wealth of online and portable device options to the consumer." (1-10-2014)
69. Sony US - 4K Camcorder with 1" sensor - FDRAX100-B Review (1-9-2014)
    • XAVC-S, AVCHD and MP4 codecs
    • Capture 4K/30p video that far exceeds HD resolution
    • HDMI(micro) Cable
    • USB Connection Support Cable
70. HEXUS.net - AMD Mantle boosts Battlefield 4 performance by 45 per cent - Graphics - News Read on... "AMD FreeSync" (1-9-2014)
71. The Tech Report - Nvidia responds to AMD's ''free sync'' demo (1-8-2014)
72. Techgage - CES 2014 AMD Demos G-Sync Alternative “FreeSync” at CES; NVIDIA Quickly Discredits It (1-8-2014)
73. Foxit Blog - How The Adobe Breach Might Affect You (1-7-2014)

2013 News Logs:

1. CNET News - Western Digital enlists helium for 6TB energy-efficient drives Business Tech (11-4-2013)
2. Eliminate frame rate stuttering and screen tearing: Adaptive VSync GeForce 
   1. Adaptive VSync Supported GPUs GeForce - Video card Technology to prevent Screen Tear
   2. G-SYNC GeForce - Monitor Technology to prevent Screen Tear
   3. PhysX FAQ NVIDIA
3. Aereo is Coming to Houston, Texas! Frequently Asked Questions Aereo - Watch Live TV Online... For a Monthly Fee (9-17-2013)
4. Sony Shop - 4K Ultra HD TV XBR X900A 4K Resolution TRILUMINOS LED UHDTVs Sony Store - Your 4K Questions (9-17-2013)
5. Intel Experience Tour 2013 (9-16-2013)
6. Sony Smartphone Attachable Lens-Style Camera Cameras Sony USA (9-15-2013)
7. LifeHacker.com - How to Choose the Fastest, Cheapest, and Most Reliable Mobile Hotspot to Stay Connected Everywhere You Go (9-14-2013)
8. Antenna, Satelite or Cable... Plus... Internet TV & Movie Streaming Options - 720p HD or 1080p HD!!!
   1. Which Service is right for you? DigitalTrends.com - Netflix Instant vs. Hulu Plus vs. Amazon Instant Video Digital Trends: 720p HD
   2. Services: VUDU - Rent, buy & watch HD movies and TV shows on-demand: 1080p HD
   3. Service: Watch Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network Online FoxNews.com
   4. Device / Service: Google Chromecast
   5. Devices / Service: Roku Streaming Player(s)
   6. Devices / Service: TiVo Premiere much more than a DVR - TiVo
   7. Devices / Service: SiliconDust SiliconDust – HDHomeRun - Watch TV Anywhere on your Network!
9. ASUS 4K Monitor: PQ321Q - Monitors & Projectors - ASUS

2012 News Logs:

1. Two new 8 Core FX-Series CPU's from AMD - FX-8350 4.0GHz & FX-8320 3.5GHz featuring new AMD FX Processor architecture (codenamed “Piledriver”). (10-23-2012)
2. www.RhinoSoft.com Updates - FTP Voyager 16 Released! New Interface, New simplified Licensing Model for affordable file transfer (ftp client) rebuilt with 64-bit operating systems like Windows 7 and Windows 8 in mind.
   . (10-23-2012)
3. Fine Home Building Magazine Archive DVD-ROM - Order Now! (10-23-2012)
   
4. Lone Star College CyFair Campus Meeting - Wed., 4-18-2012
5. Joe Whinery's Bang for the Buck - AMD Phenom Build Specification Recommendation - Phenom II X6 1090 + ASUS M5A97 EVO featuring Unified EFI BIOS (1-16-2012)
6. GeForce Sweepstakes - Community - Enter To Win! (4-24-2012)
7. Directron.com - Customer Appreciation Day May 3rd 2012 (4-24-2012)
8. Fox News - Hundreds of thousands may lose Internet in July (4-23-2012)
   1. DNS Changer Working Group
   2. DNSChanger Eye Chart
   3. The FBI website - Check your DNS
9. A sneak peek at Asus' next-gen Intel motherboards - The Tech Report - Page 1 "In a bid to offer better support for future CPUs, Asus' BIOS Flashback feature will be available on the full range of boards. This handy capability allows firmware updates to be applied with only a PSU and USB thumb drive connected—no processor required." Slick!
10. ExtremeTech - The state of DDR4 (2/23/2012)
    1. www.ddr4.org
11. Are you running AHCI? Have you Configured eSP in your Bios yet? And for how many Drives? What about taking the next level - Hot Swap to the Max with multiple Tray less Hot Swap Drive Bays! (2-20-2012)
12. ExtremeTech - HDD Pricewatch Prices won’t return to pre-flood levels anytime soon - Don't let a HDD keep you from Building a PC! (1-23-2012)
13. CNET.comm - Best of CES 2012 Awards (1-14-2012)
    1. CNET Blogs - WD teases with Thunderbolt drive demo CES 2012 Computers and Hardware - Western Digital - My Book Thunderbolt Duo
14. Seagate.com - CES 2012 – The Storage Effect (1-14-2012)
15. PCMag.com - The Best Products of CES 2012 News & Opinion (1-14-2012)
16. PCWorld.com - The Biggest Tech Fails and Flops of 2011 (12-14-2011)
17. Intel.com - Thunderbolt Technology - The Fastest Connection to Your PC experience!
    Features:
    • Simultaneous bi-directional, 10 Gbps transfers over a single cable
    • Dual-protocol support (PCI Express* and DisplayPort*)
    • Compatible with existing DisplayPort* devices
    • Daisy-chaining devices
    • Choice of electrical or optical cables
    • Low latency with highly accurate time synchronization for professional audio and video applications
    • Uses native protocol software drivers
    • Power-over-cable for bus-powered devices
      
      

2011 News Logs:

1. www.Simmtester.com - Seagate downgrade 4th Quarter shipment goal (11-18-2011)
2. ExtremeTech - Intel’s new high-end Sandy Bridge-E 3960X review (11-17-2011)
3. ExtremeTech - To SSD or not to SSD (11-17-2011)
4. PCWorld - Everything You Need to Know About 3TB Hard Drives 7-6-2011 (11-15-2011)
5. Intel.com - Visibly smart Press: Intel i7-3930K Reviews "...X79 chipset and LGA2011 socket." (11-14-2011)
   1. Newegg.com - Intel Core i7-3960X Sandy Bridge-E 3.3GHz (3.9GHz Turbo) LGA 2011 130W Six-Core Desktop Processor BX80619i73960X = $1,049.99
   2. Newegg.com - Intel Core i7-3930K Sandy Bridge-E 3.2GHz (3.8GHz Turbo) LGA 2011 130W Six-Core Desktop Processor BX80619i73930K = $599.99
6. ExtremeTech - HDD Pricewatch You know where it’s going — we tell you how much it’s going to hurt (11-10-2011)
7. eWEEK Labs - The Silver Lining of Bangkok Flooding - Get your HDs while you can. Maybe 9 months of scarcity. Makes SSDs look more desirable. (11-10-2011)
8. Maximum PC Corsair's Quad Channel DDR3 Kit is 32GB of DRAM Ecstasy "...Corsair's quad channel kit is rated to run at 1866MHz with 9-10-9-27 C9 timings and 1.5V. ...The Dominator 32GB Quad Channel kit (CMT32GX3M4X1866C9) will ship sometime this month for $999 and includes Corsair's Airflow Fan" (10-21-2011)
9. AMD.com - AMD FX CPUs Sets Guinness World Record for Overclocking! "...AMD FX 8 core desktop processors to reach a frequency of 8.429GHz, eclipsing the previous world record of 8.308GHz." (10-14-2011)
10. blogs.amd.com - Our Take on AMD FX Game Blog (10-14-2011)
11. Geek.com - 18TB hard drives made possible using table salt – Computer Chips & Hardware Technology (10-14-2011)
12. Computerworld - Microsoft opens Windows 8 preview to all - (10-14-2011)
    1. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/br229516
13. New AMD FX Bulldozer Build Specification Recommendation (10-12-2011)
14. www.amd.com/amdfx - New! AMD FX 8-Core Processor Black Edition! (10-12-2011)
15. Matrox.com - Mura Newsletter - Trenton Systems - "...up to six Mura boards... driving four outputs for 24 total potential displays... Mura-powered Trenton video wall controller..." (10/11/2011)
16. InfoWorld - Windows 8 7 handy tips and 4 cool tools Microsoft Windows - (10/5/2011)
17. ExtremeTech - Demystifying UEFI, the long-overdue BIOS replacement (9/22/2011)
18. InfoWorld - Windows 8 What it's really all about - Windows 8 expected Fall 2012? (9/17/2011)
19. MyCE – My Consumer Electronics - Seagate, Hitachi compete with new 4TB hard disk drives (9/10/2011)
    1. Seagate - Desktop hard drive External Desktop hard drives FreeAgent GoFlex Desk - Model STAC4000100 | USB 3.0 | 4 TB (9/10/2011)
20. PCMag.com - Wacom Launches Inkling, a Digital Pen for Artists News & Opinion (8/31/2011)
21. PCMag.com - Exclusive AMD's First Bulldozer Chips Arriving Sept. 26 News & Opinion See end of article for... MORE: AMD is also revving up Bulldozer cores for the consumer market (8/31/2011)
22. Maximum PC AMD Inadvertently Tips Price of FX-8150P Bulldozer Processor Posted 08/01/2011 (8/31/2011)
23. bit-tech.net - Rumour AMD Radeon HD 7000 supports PCI-E 3 Published on 29th July 2011 (8/31/2011)
24. GIGABYTE - Media - News - Motherboard - PCI Express 3.0 MotherBoards (8/31/2011)
25. PCI-SIG - FAQ - PCI Express 3.0 - Thinking about a new PC? Better to Build now or better to wait... Again? Download the PDF FAQ (8/31/2011)
    
26. InfoWorld - Microsoft teases more Windows 8 details Microsoft windows (8/30/2011)
27. InfoWorld - No contest Mac vs. Windows security Security (8-17-2011)
28. ExtremeTech: M-Disc is a DVD made out of stone that lasts 1,000 years (8/11/2011)
    1. Millenniata The First Permanent File Backup Disc That Lasts Forever - FYI - Signup To Be Notified as soon as M-DISC & LG Super-Multi Drive with M-READY technology are ready for shipping! (8/11/2011)
29. ExtremeTech: Black Hat hacker details lethal wireless attack on insulin pumps (8/11/2011)
30. sata-io.org - Enabling Higher Speed Storage Applications with SATA Express - "SATA Express will provide a low-cost solution to fully utilize the performance of SSD devices. This new technology will provide a cost-effective means to increase device interface speeds to 8Gb/s and 16Gb/s. SATA-IO expects SATA Express specification to be completed by end of 2011."
    1. Press Release: SATA-IO to Enable Higher Speed Storage Applications With SATA Express Specification pdf (8/09/2011)

    2. Presentation: Evolving SATA for High Speed Storage Applications pdf (8/09/2011)

31. PCWorld: Everything You Need to Know About 3TB Hard Drives (6-06-2011)
    1. Supporting 3TB HDs - Limits & Requirements
       
32. www.computerworld.com - D-Link issues fixes for router vulnerabilities (1-15-10)
33. Is Windows 7 the last major chapter in the Windows story Windows - InfoWorld (12-23-09)
    
34. Wed 03-03-10: Special Guest Speaker - Frank Hudziak, AMD will be discussing the product road map for desktop, notebook and server processors, along with exciting new products for graphics.  Frank will have a processor for our Drawing. It will be a Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition processor. This is a quad core processor that runs at 3.2 GHz with an unlocked multiplier.
35. 
    SATA Revision 3.0 or SATA 6Gb/s Coming! PDF

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