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This isn’t technically a deal of the day, since this price is the regular price that these LED’s go for on DealExtreme. Sure it takes a few weeks to receive the lights, but for $2.60 shipped it’s well worth it. There is an endless amount of things you can do with these. I made a bike light using 9 of them, and it can reach 20 feet ahead of me. That’s better than any $30 bike light. These are really bright and you can make a very nice light for around $5 that will outshine most $50 lights. I just ordered two 25 packs and will probably be getting more in the future. Just make sure to run them at the max voltage (I run them a bit over, at 3.5v or 3.6v). The link is below.

14000mcd 25Packs White 5Mm Led

And here is the 10 pack if you don’t need all 25. Also the LED specifications are on this page (scroll down).

I was looking to upgrade my computer memory and I came across a site called Memory America. I was impressed by their wide selection of memory and hardware products. Not only do they sell memory and hard drives, but they also have batteries, video cards, optical drives, and networking equipment. For those of you with prebuilt computers, they sell memory that’s compatible with most major brands of computers, such as Apple, HP, Sony, and Dell computer memory. For my custom built computer, I chose some DDR3 that they had really cheap. I was impressed with the great price and the fast shipping. Soon I will need to buy another hard drive for my computer and I’m sure I’ll buy it from Memory America. And for those of you with enough money, they have 15,000 RPM hard drives too. So if you’re building up a computer or looking to upgrade yours, check out Memory America.

The best fix is often the simplest.

If your new hard drive is not showing up in Windows, it simply needs to be formatted. Here is how to format your new (or existing) hard drive from Windows Vista, without using any third party software.

Right click on Computer (which can also be found in your Start Menu if you don’t have it on your desktop). Click Manage.

The Computer Management window should open. When it does, select Disk Management from the left hand drop-down menu.

After selecting Disk Management, you should get a list of your hard disks. Right click on the hard drive that you need to format, and click Format. Note: you can also format and partition existing drives here. You can change any partition except the one which Windows is installed on.

In the Format window, give your new hard drive a name and choose the file system. For most purposes, you would want this to be NTFS. A full format is always recommended, meaning the “perform a quick format” box should be unchecked. Leave everything else as it is, and click OK. If you’re formatting an existing drive, all the data on it will be erased.

After it’s done formatting, your new hard drive should appear in “Computer”.

Nvidia has told Fudzilla that Intel won’t let Nvidia make its Nforce chipset that will work with Intel’s Nehalem generation of processors. This has been confirmed from Intel’s side as well. This is definitely bad news for gamers and computer enthusiasts.

This is big news in the computer hardware industry because if Intel really doesn’t let Nvidia make its chipset work with Nehalem, that means there will be no SLI support with Nehalem. This will force system builders that want the latest and highest performance hardware to choose between using Nehalem for top of the line processor performance, or SLI for top of the line video and graphics performance.

People who will want dual, triple, or quad graphics cards from Nvidia will be forced to use an AMD processor with their next generation system build. This will mean lower sales on the high end to computer enthusiasts from Intel. At this point Intel and Nvidia should be working together to keep AMD and ATI from gaining back some market share.

If Intel keeps this up, we may very well see many people going with AMD processors or with ATI graphics cards. This move by Intel will hurt both companies.

Intel is doing this because they see how Nvidia’s graphics cards can be used in supercomputer applications. They might lose a lot of money if companies stop buying their processors and instead begin using graphics cards to power their servers. This will not happen for a while however, as there are only a few applications written to use graphics cards as computational devices.

What Intel is doing is also breaking their license agreement with Nvidia. If this actually happens, Nvidia will certainly take legal action against Intel for breaking the license.

This is a bad move for Intel. It will hurt gamers, system builders, performance enthusiasts, overclockers, and the whole industry. I hope Intel rethinks their decision, otherwise my next computer build might be as an ATI or AMD customer.

There was recently an article on TG Daily saying AGP is almost dead. This is true, so why do people still want to revive this old format?

On major overclocking forums, people are complaining that AGP is being phased out of the market. I don’t understand why. AGP is a very old format, and it has been replaced by PCI Express long ago. PCIe is a superior format, mostly because it’s multiple times faster than AGP.

All the new graphics cards that have been released over the past few years have been targeted for PCIe. Some companies made AGP versions of these cards, but recent graphics cards are far too powerful to be put in the AGP format. AGP simply cannot transfer data at the speed that these performance cards need to transfer it.

This is the same as people complaining that their five year old 300 watt power supply cannot power a 9800GX2. It’s obvious it can’t because it’s lacking the performance ability to do so, and the same is happening for AGP. It can’t handle newer cards.

People who still use AGP should just upgrade their motherboards when they want a new video card. Stop complaining about an old format and upgrade. You can’t put a V12 Ferrari engine in a ’90s Honda Civic. This is the same as the transition from DDR to DDR2, and soon it will be DDR2 to DDR3. Face the facts that AGP is too old and upgrade to PCIe if you want a new graphics card.

The Planet Datacenter has caught fire today, taking thousands of websites down.

ASE Adnet, the sole advertisement provider for Wordplop, is one of the many websites that are down because of the fire that happened less than an hour ago.

The phone number on The Planet’s website leads to an auto recording stating that a transformer caught fire. The fire department has told them to shut down all power, including all generators and backup power. The Planet says no networking gear was harmed, so it sounds like all the servers should be fine unless the smoke got to them.

There is no ETA on when the entire datacenter, which is located in Houston, Texas, will be back up.

UPDATE: The Planet has confirmed that no servers were damaged. The cause of the fire appears to be an explosion that was caused by a short in some electrical equipment. The explosion took out 3 walls in the building. The Planet says some servers will be back up by tomorrow afternoon.

UPDATE 2: Entrecard is down because of the outage.

UPDATE 6-1-08 10PM PST: Servers still down, The Planet now says they will try to bring back service by Monday night. Conspiracy theories are already on the rise, and some believe this is a cover up for a government search of the servers. Refer to the comments below. Websites continue to lose thousands of dollars.

UPDATE 6-2-08 12PM PST: Looks like most servers are back up now, even though some are having problems. So I guess all servers will be back up in a few hours. This will be the last update then.

Is on-the-fly sensitivity switching needed for gaming mice? I find it to be a very useful feature. I have a Logitech MX518, which has on-the-fly DPI changing. A lot of people say this is a useless feature. I game almost daily, mostly playing FPS games like Counter Strike Source and Team Fortress 2. I find that it is very useful to be able to switch from high to low sensitivity when sniping or trying to shoot someone from far away.

I like to play at a very high sensitivity setting in Counter Strike Source. I play at 1600DPI, which is full on my MX518, and 4.8 sensitivity in-game. This lets me make about three 360 degree turns while moving my mouse six inches. This is considered very high, and most people like to play on very low sensitivities. But I like it like this because with this setup I do very well in both close combat and sniping, mainly because if I want to get a headshot from across the map, I will quickly switch my mouse to the lowest DPI setting, and proceed to get my headshot.

The MX518 doesn’t need software to enable DPI switching. However you can use Logitech software to change the default DPI settings, but I choose not to as the defaults suit me well. There are three settings, and I use the highest for gaming, lowest for sniping, and middle for Windows.

I find on-the-fly sensitivity switching to be a great and very useful feature, and I definitely will not buy a mouse without it.

If you are getting a new computer or thinking of upgrading yours, you might have thought about what kind of hard drive to get. If you are looking for performance and speed, people often recommend the Western Digital Raptor. But should you pay $170 for a 150GB hard drive, only to have it load Windows 5 seconds faster?

The Raptor is a great hard drive, but you can get much more value for the money. A solution to both performance and space is RAID 0. RAID works by using two or more hard drives as one. RAID 0 distributes data across several discs in a way which gives improved speed and full capacity, but all data on all disks is lost if any one disk fails. Most of the time a two hard drive RAID 0 setup increases your performance by 1.5 times.

With the new Seagate Barracuda hard drives, you can set up a RAID 0 configuration that will destroy a Raptor in speed, space, and cost. You can buy two 320GB Barracuda hard drives for less than $150. When put in a RAID 0 setup they will be faster than the Raptor and hold roughly four times as much, for less money.

Your computer must also support RAID; otherwise you will need to purchase a separate RAID card for about $50. But overall I recommend RAID 0 as an alternative to a 10,000 RPM hard drive. For more information on setting up RAID, take a look at this tutorial. Find latest, Best selling External Hard Drives from Segate, Western Digital, Buffalo, Iomega at ExternalHardDrives.org.uk.

Both card setups will cost you around the same, and you might be surprised which comes out on top.