Recent content by tvarad

My suggestion is not to bother with curved TV's. They serve no useful purpose at your viewing distance. OLED TV's are very expensive because the technology is new and it will take some time for it to permeate into the mainstream (like LED replaced LCD in TV background lighting) but go for it if...

It takes a little less than 30 seconds to boot up i.e. from power off to TV signal display.

I picked up a VU 65" Iconium 4K TV in July last year and absolutely love it. It has a lot of features like wifi and network connections, android based apps etc. but my philosophy is that a TV should be just for the picture. To that end, I have a Nvidia Shield console for streaming, Videocon d2H...

Here's another photo of the rig (apologies for the poor quality; my regular camera is shot so I had to use my cellphone camera which isn't too good). Like I said, this is a jury-rigged setup since no VESA mount is available on the monitor itself. I had a carpenter who was working on some...

It's funny you should ask that. I was actually using a 46" 1080P LED TV as a monitor for a long time and downsized to the 27" AOC monitor after I started developing headaches and eye pain. After that, it's been very comfortable from a viewing distance of about 3 feet which is also about the...

I have a vacuum cleaner that also doubles as a blower when the pipe is connected on the opposite end, so I just use it to blow the dust off the MB once a week or so. I have also seen a lot of dust accumulate within a cabinet computer too over a long time but it still runs fine, so it's really...

I recently built a mini-itx rig that I'm happy with: MB: Gigabyte GA-H77N-WIFI Motherboard (Rs. 7.5K on sale from Flipkart) CPU: Intel G2010 Processor (Rs. 3K on sale from Flipkart) Cooler: Scythe Schuriken Rev. B (that I had lying around after removing from an earlier build) (price was about...

You can always make your own. I wanted to shorten the same cable from my power supply to avoid having ugly looking tie-wrapped bundles for my mini-itx build, so I went to SP Road in Bangalore where there is a shop selling just connectors, bought the required plastic plugs/sockets along with the...

Hi, I am having the same symptoms with a Gigabyte GA-H77N-WIFI that I purchased off of Flipkart. The motherboard booted into BIOS turned off while I was tweaking the settings and when I turn it on again, the CPU fan twitches and stops. Tried resetting CMOS, different power supplies, different...

Thanks again! I'll check them out.

Thanks for the reply. Has anyone ordered from them and how reliable are they?

I am looking to build a compact system for basic use (web surfing/WP/Full HD Video). I have a AMD 6450 PCIE x16 card lying around that I want to use. The other option that I require are USB 3.0 ports. Can anyone suggest a mini-itx board for this purpose? The Gigabyte GA-H77N-WIFI MB will do...

This reminds me of an old story about how soothsayers in Africa would tell guys venturing into lion territory that they would be safe and would escape if a lion attacks. If the guy went out and got eaten by a lion he wouldn't come back so he wouldn't be able to blame the soothsayer, but if he...

OK, so I went back and asked myself what exactly ticked me off and I figured out it was basically the third-rate service that was offered by APC repair and service. When I was told that they would charge me for just coming and diagnosing the faulty UPS, I expected someone who was knowledgeable...

On the night it malfunctioned, we had a thunderstorm where I live that knocked out the local transformer down the street and we lost power. I have phones, TV, refrigerator and other appliances that were running at that time either without UPS protection or on the Su-Kam inverter and absolutely...