LCD Projector

Description

An LCD projector is a type of video projector for displaying video, images or computer data on a screen or other flat surface. It is a modern analog of the slide projector or overhead projector. To display images, LCD (liquid crystal display) projectors typically send light from a Metal halide lamp through a prism that separates light to three poly silicone panels -- one each for the red, green, and blue components of the video signal. As polarized light passes through the panels (combination of polarizer, LCD panel and analyzer), individual pixels can be opened to allow light to pass or closed to block the light. The combination of open and closed pixels can produce a wide range of colors and shades in the projected image.

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LCD Projector Diagram

Graphics tablet

Description

A graphics tablet (or digitizing tablet, graphics pad, drawing tablet) is a computer input device that allows one to hand-draw images and graphics, similar to the way one draws images with a pencil and paper.
A graphics tablet consists of a flat surface upon which the user may "draw" an image using an attached stylus, a pen-like drawing apparatus. The image generally does not appear on the tablet itself but, rather, is displayed on the computer monitor.

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Intel Desktop Board D5400XS

Features and benefits
Form Factor

Extended ATX (eATX) (12.00 inches by 13 inches [304.80 millimeters by 330.2 millimeters])
Processor

* Support for 45nm Intel® Core™2 Extreme processors in an LGA771 socket with a 1600 MHz system bus
* Support for both 45nm & 65nm Intel® Xeon® processors in an LGA771 socket with a 1600, 1333, or 1066 MHz system bus

Memory

* Four Fully Buffered DIMM (FBDIMM) DDR2 Module sockets
* Support for FBDIMM DDR2 800MHz, 667 MHz, DIMMs
* Support for up to 8 GB of system memory
* Support for ECC and non-ECC memory

Chipset Intel® 5400 Express Chipset
Audio

Intel® High Definition Audio subsystem in the following configuration:

* 8-channel (7.1) Dolby Home Theater Audio subsystem with five analog audio outputs and two S/PDIF digital audio outputs (coaxial and optical)

Nvidia SLI* and ATI CrossFire* multi-GPU platform support

Nvidia SLI and ATI CrossFire technology enables two graphics cards to work together for ultimate 3D gaming performance and visual quality
I/O Control Legacy I/O controller for diskette drive, serial header, and PS/2 ports
LAN support

Gigabit (10/100/1000 Mbits/sec) LAN subsystem
Peripheral interfaces

* 10 USB 2.0 ports (6 external ports, 2 internal headers)
* Six Serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s ports, including 2 eSATA port with RAID support supplied by a Marvell* controller
* Two IEEE-1394a ports (1 external port, 1 internal header)
* Consumer IR receiver and emitter (via internal headers)
* One Parallel ATA IDE interface with UDMA 33, ATA-66/100 support (2 devices supported)

Expansion capabilities

* Two PCI Conventional* bus add-in card connectors (SMBus routed to both PCI Conventional bus add-in card connectors)
* Four primary PCI Express* 1.1 x16 (electrical x16) bus add-in card connector

Microsoft Windows Vista Premium* Ready

With a PC built with Intel® processors and an Intel® Desktop Board, you can experience a more responsive and manageable environment of Microsoft Windows Vista including a new visual sophistication of the Microsoft Windows Aero* interface.
Related products
Processors

* Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor
* Intel® Xeon® processor

Chipsets

* Intel® 5400 Express Chipset

ViewSonic E70fB 17"

Features

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0.20mm horizontal dot pitch
0.25mm diagonal dot pitch
This ultra-fine dot pitch produces clear, crisp images with precise picture definition, even at the highest resolutions.

PerfectFlat® screen for distortion-free images
ViewSonic's award-winning PerfectFlat screen is absolutely flat, providing exceptional precision for video, graphics and engineered imaging.

SuperClear® technology
SuperClear screen technology incorporates enhanced phosphor treatment and optimized glass filter to deliver vivid colors and image clarity.

OnView® controls plus ViewMatch® color for superior screen adjustability
Screen adjustments are made via an on-screen menu using simple controls. This user-friendly control system easily adjusts image quality, size, position and geometry for optimal viewing.

OSD lock secures your settings
When activated, user-controlled OSD lock function prevents changes to monitor settings, maintaining an optimized image.

Three-year limited warranty
24/7 free technical and customer support.*

MSI N9800GTX-T2D512

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Specifications

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Core/Memory
675 MHz Core
512MB GDDR3 2200 MHz Memory

GeForce® 9800 GTX graphics cards running on NVIDIA nForce® 7 series Motherboards Unlock Next Generation Platform Features
- Three GeForce® 9800 GTX graphics cards running in 3-way NVIDIA SLI® mode on the new NVIDIA nForce® 780i and 790i motherboards enable up to 2.8x performance increase over a single GPU for the ultimate gaming upgrade.
- NVIDIA HybridPower™HybridPower™ technology delivers graphics performance when you need it and low-power operation when you don’t. HybridPower technology lets you switch from your GeForce 9800 GTX graphics card to your motherboard GeForce GPU when running less graphically-intensive applications for a silent, low power PC experience.
- The GeForce 9800 GTX graphics card is designed for the new PCI Express 2.0 bus architecture featured in nForce 7 series motherboards offering the highest data transfer speeds for the most bandwidth-hungry games and 3D applications.
- The new ESA-enabled NVIDIA control panel provides a state-of-the-art interface for performance tuning and monitoring of your GeForce 9800 GTX graphics cards on nForce platforms.

Geforce 9800GTX Chipset Features

*NVIDIA unified architecture
*Full Microsoft DirectX 10 Support
*PCI Express 2.0 Support
*Giga Thread Technology
*NVIDIA Quantum Effects Technology
*Edge Enhancement
*Noise Reduction
*NVIDIA ForceWare unified Driver Architecture (UDA)
*128-bit floating point High Dynamic-Range (HDR) Lighting
*16x Anti-aliasing Technology
*OpenGL 2.1 Optimizations and Support
*Dual 400MHz RAMDACs
*Dual Dual-link DVI Support
*NVIDIA PureVideo HD Technology
*Discrete, Programmable Video Processor
*Dual-stream Hardware Acceleration
*Dynamic Contrast Enhancement & Color Stretch
*HDCP Capable
*Advanced Spatial-Temporal De-Interlacing
*Hardware Decode Acceleration
*High-Quality Scaling
*Bad Edit Correction
*NVIDIA Lumenex Engine
*Inverse Telecine (3:2 & 2:2 Pulldown Correction)

Video Output Function
*Dual-link DVI-I x 2
*TV-Out x1(via S-Video to Composite)
*HDTV-out
*VGA (via DVI to D-Sub adaptor)
*HDMI (DVI to HDMI adaptor)

AnandTech giving away a X79-UD5 board…any comment?

For the sake of a simple comment, you can be the proud owner of a GIGABYTE X79-UD5 motherboard. Yep…you heard me correctly. Just head over to AnandTech.com, make a suitable comment below and your name will be put in the hat for the prize draw. The competition runs until 11AM EST on December 2nd, which is TOMORROW!

AnandTech X79-UD5 give away!

note: US residents only

Sound Card

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Example image: Sound card

Description

A sound card (also known as an audio card) is a computer expansion card that facilitates the input and output of audio signals to/from a computer under control of computer programs. Typical uses of sound cards include providing the audio component for multimedia applications such as music composition, editing video or audio, presentation/education, and entertainment (games). Many computers have sound capabilities built in, while others require additional expansion cards to provide for audio capability.

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Onboard sound card connector

‘Hardware Secrets’ see outstanding value in the GIGABYTE X79-UD3

Gabriel Torres writing for Hardware Secrets has just published an in-depth first look at our entry-level X79 offering, the GIGABYTE X79-UD3. Obviously the X79-UD3 model is aimed more cost conscious X79 platform builders, but as well as offering great value, we’ve also tried hard to offer a board with a complete range of features. Here’s a sample of what Gabriel had to say:

“Today there are only three socket 2011 motherboards cheaper than the Gigabyte X79-UD3, the ASRock X79 Extreme-4M (USD 220), the MSI X79MA-GD45 (USD 230), and the ASRock Extreme4 (USD 235), and all of them have fewer features and don’t come with four PCI Express x16 slots. True competitors from MSI and ASUS cost more, making the Gigabyte X79-UD3 your best option if you want to save money while building a PC based on a Core i7 “Sandy Bridge-E” processor with four video cards and yet have a high-quality motherboard with lots of extra options.”

You can catch the full article here on Hardware Secrets.

More details about the GIGABYTE X79-UD3 can be found here.

DDR2 SDRAM

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DDR2 SDRAM is a double data rate synchronous dynamic random access memory interface. It supersedes the original DDR SDRAM specification and the two are not compatible. In addition to double pumping the data bus as in DDR SDRAM, (transferring data on the rising and falling edges of the bus clock signal), DDR2 employs an I/O buffer between the memory and the data bus so that the data bus can be run at the twice the speed of the memory clock. The two factors combine to achieve a total of 4 data transfers per memory clock cycle.

With data being transferred 64 bits at a time, DDR2 SDRAM gives a transfer rate of (memory clock rate) × 2 (for bus clock multiplier) × 2 (for dual rate) × 64 (number of bits transferred) / 8 (number of bits/byte). Thus with a memory clock frequency of 100 MHz, DDR2 SDRAM gives a maximum transfer rate of 3200 MB/s.

Since the memory clock runs at half the external data bus clock rate, DDR2 memory operating at the same external data bus clock rate as DDR will provide the same bandwidth but with higher latency, resulting in inferior performance. Alternatively, DDR2 memory operating at twice the external data bus clock rate as DDR may provide twice the bandwidth with the same latency (in nanoseconds). The best-rated DDR2 memory modules are at least twice as fast as the best-rated DDR memory modules.

Guru3D give the GIGABYTE X79-UD7 some Dutch love…

Hilbert Hagedoorn just gave our X79-UD7 motherboard stamp of approval in his latest review for Guru3D.com. Designed to offer overclockers all the tools and features needed to break serous records on Intel’s new Sandy Bridge-E processors, the GIGABYTE X79-UD7 wears our OC badge with pride. After having put the board through its paces, here’s a sample of what Hilbert had to say:

“The X79 UF7 is an impressive motherboard. It's feature rich, a great overclocker and has downright gorgeous looks. If you are a novice overclocker and go for easy, flick the OC button at the rear IO backplate and it will get you an instant performance boost. Overclocking itself with the new 3D BIOS is fun as well, it really is an easy to work in environment. Gigabyte implemented two uEFI BIOSes by the way, you can can switch in-between them (say a normal and high performance profile), good stuff.

For overclocking itself we reached 4800 MHz in a matter if minutes and 5 GHz after a while. That last step did need some fine-tuning though. Mind you though that we work with vanilla picked engineering sample CPUs, we can never guarantee you'll achieve the same results at home. It works vice versa as well, we've seen end-users with much higher overclocks then we have ever achieved, good on ya ;)”

The UD7’s dashing orange paint job gleaned some additional love, which is not so surprising - coming from the heart of a Dutchman.

 “Now I live in the Netherlands, we dig Orange as its our national color, as such I adore the looks of the motherboard, but that won't be the same for everybody though. The color is very out there. If you like it, then you're in luck as it's one of the best X79 motherboards out there on the market that matches your style, looks, features and options.”

Check out the full review here on Guru3D.

Details about the GIGABYTE X79-UD7 can be found here.