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Old October 26th 13, 12:57 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
Paul
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Default right VGA cable?

Linea Recta wrote:
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Linea Recta wrote:

Thanks for your comprehensive reply. Where do you get that much time?
:-)
This cable wasn't especially cheap, at least that's not what I call
10,50 Euro.
The cable length is 1.8 meter, so not very long. Belkin F2N028cp

Going to connect it friday, Asus VW220TE to an old (only VGA)
computer. I expect it to be sufficient.


At that length, I doubt there will be an issue.

Let's hope they haven't figured out a new way to cut corners.



The cable works fine!

Do you by any chance know a free utility to gather hardware specs from a
(n old) computer at a glance? Processor type/speed, memory, video, hard
drives, mobo etc.? We have 2 old PC's and would like to keep te best one.



There is Belarc Advisor. That's a half-decent summary.
You download a utility, and it prepares
a summary in HTML format, suitable for
viewing in a browser.

Sample output here.

http://www.cherryfield.net/resources/tips/belarc01.gif

The actual program is here.

http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

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Lavalys Everest (I use the free Home Edition), used
to be good. It's commercial for an up to date version
now. And I understand the company or product has changed hands.

Still fun to play with.

http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/deta...e_edition.html

I notice another one on Majorgeeks, but haven't tried this.
This has a lot of extra functionality of one sort and another,
judging by the screenshots at the bottom. The right-most
screenshot, shows a CPU summary.

http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/deta...e_edition.html

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CPU-Z from cpuid.com (no-install version), is good for CPU and memory.

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GPUZ is a good partner to go with Belarc, as it
can tell you about the video.

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/SysInfo/GPU-Z/

Here's a sample of that one. (The person who wrote
the program, puts new copies on Techpowerup, and I
think may have been a forum participant there.)
You should get enough numbers from this, to guess
at which has the better video.

http://gpuz.com/wp-content/uploads/2...load-GPU-Z.png

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I'm kinda resigned to the fact I have to use multiple
of those kinds of programs, to get a complete picture.
It's not that the programmers don't try hard when
they write them, but the programmers seem to want
to "vomit" every detail they can find, rather than
collecting the things that matter and putting
them in a useful format. Everest would probably
be pretty good, but then, you'd have to pay for
a recent version that can identify everything for
you (that is, unless there's an eval version).

HTH,
Paul
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