! New Computer !

New Computer:

Processor
Model : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+
Speed : 3.01GHz

Memory
Model: Unknown
Type: 2-1GB 2-512MB
3GB Total

Motherboard:ECS Nettle2
Video Card: On board - NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE nForce 430
Hard Drive: Seagate 500GB Sata
CD-ROM/DVD (E:) : N/A @ SONY DVD RW DRU-190A (ATAPI)
CD-ROM/DVD (F:) : N/A @ HL-DT-STDVDRRW GSA-H30L (Fibre Channel)
TV Card : ViXS PureTV-U 48B0 (NTSC/ATSC Combo)
Printers : HP Photosmart C3100 series
Operating System : Microsoft Vista Home
Internet: Comcast High Speed Internet

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My Old Computer:

Processor
Model : Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.66GHz
Over clocked Speed : 2.80GHz

Memory:
Model : 2 Corsair VS512MB400
Type : 512MB DDR-SDRAM
1GB total

Motherboard : Abit SG72(SIS 661FX-964L)
Video Card : NVIDIA GeForce 6800
Hard Drive : Maxtor 6L100P0 (100GB) 93GB used
Hard Drive : WDC WD1200JB-00GVA0 (120GB) 113 used
CD-ROM/DVD : SONY DVD RW DRU-800A (CD 48X Rd, 48X Wr) (DVD 6X Rd, 6X Wr)
CD-ROM/DVD : TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R1202 (CD 40X Rd, 16X Wr) (DVD 5X Rd)
TV Card : ATI TV Wonder Pro A/V Capture
Printers : HP Photosmart C3100 series
Operating System : Microsoft Windows XP (Service Pack 2)
Internet: Comcast High Speed Internet

!! Headline News AMD's Quad Core Officially Out !!

Today AMD officially launched their quad core. You might have read about it for the past year as AMD's codename: Phenom. AMD's quad core supports the AM2 socket and is clocked in at 2.3 GHz. The two Quad core Processor are the:

9500 (clocked in at 2.2GHz)
and the
9600 (clocked in at 2.3GHz)

The 9500 is officially on sale at mwave.com for $259.00 and you can buy official quad core computers from ibuypower.com and cyberpowerpc.com; and soon your be able to get it at Newegg.com, Zipzoomfly.com, and Tigerdirect.com.
For more Information look at:
AMD
Maximum PC

Eye Candy - Quad CrossFire Setups - ATI R670s' & R680s'

Image Credits go to Kyle @ HardOCP and Bert @ tom's hardware
EDIT_BY_MS

Sorry about not posting for the past few days

I've been busy lately.

We still need your help give us ideas at
rjpanlilio@gmail.com
and your donations will be very helpful on our coming up projects!

Do you want to sponsor us?
Well if you do just send me an email at:
rjpanlilio@gmail.com
All of our sponsors money will be going into our coming up projects!
So you will see were your money is going to!

Comming up this comming week

Media Week!

Benchmarking your computer
These programs will show you how well it stands compared to your friends

Over Clocking 101
How to over clock your computer safely and efficiently!

Organize it
Organize all your media in just a click of a button!

Media Management

Media Cataloging

Office witch office is best for you!

Whats new Intel
Info on Intel's Penryn

What might come soon!

Upgrade your computer
Ill show you how to upgrade a new computer with the stuff in your computer right now!

How to organize your computer space!
We will help you organize your wires behind and around your computer

Unveiling the best deal for a PC on Black Friday

Clean your computer inside and out
Ill help you get your Windows XP computer running like brand new inside and out
include a cleaning guide and maintenance guide

Project Spare
Ill build a computer with the best spare parts laying around my house

Laptop Buyer guide

Desktop Buyer guide

Build your computer
What to buy and what to look for
Build a computer to last and have options in the future

Find out if Maximum PC will use our computer for another PC makeovers guide last issue was July 04 and because of the new hardware of 07 their is a lot more possibility's for PC Makeovers 07

Fixtunes 8/10

Is your music collection huge and unorganized? Mine was but not anymore! Fixtunes is a music organizer that organizes and renames your songs the way you want! But sadly Fixtunes creator made Fixtunes look like Itunes (from apple). My computer has 10583 songs all of it was unorganized full albums from friends and family. I would have been crazy to organize it one by one. So I decided why not get a program online to organize it for me. A few minutes later I found Fixtunes and let it run overnight. Until the next day my music collection was all organized by album name track artist and year. Fixtunes organized my music collection in 6 hours when it would have taken me countless nights organizing and researching music.

Operating system:
Windows

Pros:
Easy to use
Accurate information

Cons:
Not the full version
Uses a lot of your Computers speed
Free does a certain amount of songs
Does not organize some Chinese and Japanese songs
Looks
to make full you have to pay $24.95

Fixtunes

Don't ask me about the Japaneses and Chinese songs.

Projects

We need your donations for the following projects and how to's:

How to:
Perfect wireless network
Make a Computer
PC tool kit software and tools you need
PC make overs

Projects:
Project Upgrade
Project Budget
Project Dream
Project Server
Project Media Center
Project Media Server
Project Media (How to stream you music and movies throughout your house)

Donate to us by

rjpanlilio@gmail.com

We have a new writer and editor!

Mark S. Is a new Writer on RJ Reviews
He has helped me upgrade and fix my computer for years and is like family!

Ryan P. Is our new Editor on RJ Reviews
He is my brother, and a news paper editor for the Monterey Herold!

War of the Earths

Google's Earth Free Vs. Microsoft's Virtual Earth

What is earth? Earth is our planet our way of living and our life. Or what Dictionary.com calls
"n. (often initial capital letter) the planet third in order from the sun, having an equatorial diameter of 7926 mi. (12,755 km) and a polar diameter of 7900 mi. (12,714 km), a mean distance from the sun of 92.9 million mi. (149.6 million km), and a period of revolution of 365.26 days, and having one satellite." These two programs will help you get you to the place you want to go and back.

Google Earth Free: 9/10
Google Earth is a wonderful earth program made by one of the internet's best known website Google. Google earth is a pretty self explanatory program all you have to do is plug in the place you want to go to and your address and it will try to give you the shortest route their and back.

Operating system:
Windows

Pros:
Flight Simulator
Easy to use
Free
Accurate information

Cons:
Not the full version
Uses a lot of your Computers speed
Map not as detailed
Looks

Google Earth Free

Microsoft Virtual Earth Beta: 8/10

Microsoft Virtual Earth is an easy, to use free earth program. Its looks beats the competitors hands down. But sadly the information of each address isn't as accurate as you need it to be.

Operating system:
Windows

Pros:
Looks
Easy to use
Free
Detailed Maps
Uses Internet explorer so you don't use a lot of you computers speed

Cons:
Beta not full version
Not so accurate information

Microsoft Virtual Earth Beta

Sadly all good things come to an end the winner is Google Earth Free. They are both good Earth programs but Microsoft Windows is not as accurate as you need it to be. If you need to find out if Fry's electronics has the part you need you'll want their number before you go their Google earth's numbers accurate as they will ever get and by the way the nearest Fry's electronic is at:

Frys Electronics

1695 Willow Pass Rd, Concord, CA

(925) 852-0300

You will never get lost again!

Sandra Lite 9/10

Have you ever wondered whats inside your computer and yet you don't want to take open it because your to lazy or you might void your warranty on you computer? Well try Sandra Lite by SiSoftware Zone Its completely free and with help you over clock your computer to a stable speed and will list every component inside your computer and the speed your computer runs at.

Operating system:
Windows

Pros:
Easy to use
Free
Accurate

Cons:
Not the full version

Sandra Lite

Newegg

Newegg.com has awesome support and service. When I need computer parts, I go to Newegg to see the latest deals for computer hardware. So far I've built three computers by ordering from Newegg. Their website is up to date and has very detailed descriptions on the parts you want. It even has ratings from many of their customers, stating how they liked the part. This website will save you from building computers that are unreliable. It will save you from spending time at the store, and help you undestand how every part will perform. Everything you want and need.

Newegg

Maxinum PC

Ive been subscribing to Maximum PC for a while now. My first issue came to me in 6th grade. the February 2004 issue and I have every single on after that. Maximum PC minimum BS is an up to date magazine with reviews and projects for computers. Their reviews are up to date and their territorials are step by step and easy to read many of the posts of the blog comes from their ideas.

Maximum PC

CCleaner 9/10

CCleaner is another free program that helps you delete unwanted files from Windows and any other programs you have laying around in you computer. It deletes your cookies, history and even fixes your registry files (the files that make up windows)
It cleans the following:

Internet Explorer Temporary files, URL history, cookies, Autocomplete form history, index.dat.

Firefox Temporary files, URL history, cookies, download history.

Opera Temporary files, URL history, cookies.

Windows Recycle Bin, Recent Documents, Temporary files and Log files.

Registry cleaner Advanced features to remove unused and old entries, including File Extensions, ActiveX Controls, ClassIDs, ProgIDs, Uninstallers, Shared DLLs, Fonts, Help Files, Application Paths, Icons, Invalid Shortcuts and more... also comes with a comprehensive backup feature.

Third-party applications Removes temp files and recent file lists (MRUs) from many apps including Media Player, eMule, Kazaa, Google Toolbar, Netscape, MS Office, Nero, Adobe Acrobat, WinRAR, WinAce, WinZip and many more...

100% Spyware FREE This software does NOT contain any Spyware, Adware or Viruses.

Operating systems:
Windows

Pros:
Free
Cleans your computer

Cons:
None

CCleaner

Frostwire 8/10

Have you been using Limewire to download the latest music and videos. Well if you have try Frostwire. Its from the makers of Limewire with the speeds of Limewire PRO and did I mention its free! The cool thing about it is that it finds other P2P (peer to peer) programs like Limewire and a lot of other so you can find what you want and you need. But all of this comes with a price you may accidentally download viruses too! So be careful of what you download. If your computer starts slowing down use Ad-Aware 2007 (Yesterdays Post).

Operating systems:
Windows
Mac OS X
Ubuntu/Debian
Red Hat/Fedora

Pros:
Free
Pick up everything
Customizable

Cons:
Viruses
Don't say I didn't warn you!

Frostwire

Test Your Internet Speed

Have you ever wondered if your getting your full months pay for your internet. My result for Comcast High Speed Internet is on top. How about test it. Shut down every program on you computer that connects to the internet then go to:

www.speedtest.net/

Computer Component Abbreviations

Computer component abbreviations:
Mother Board: Mobo
Power supply: PSU
Processor: CPU
Memory: Ram
Hard drive: HDD

Ad-Aware 2007 Free rating 9/10

Ive been using many free anti-virus programs for years. At one point I had 8 running at one point of my computers life. Then I slowly dropped one then an other and so on. Ad-Aware 2007 Free is what I think "One of the best free anti-spyware programs out their" It is fast, reliable, and pick up spyware and viruses that other spyware programs won't pick up. Uninstall all your anti-virus programs and just install Ad-Aware 2007.

Operating systems:
Windows

Pros:
Free
Finds Viruses that other anti-spyware programs cant
Fast and reliable
Faster than any other anti-spyware programs out their

Cons:
Not their full product
You cant use their firewall

Ad-Aware 2007 Free

My Computer

In the next few days you will be use to seeing my computer. So I realized, I should give you the stats of my computer. Yes Ill take donation to upgrade my computer in order to test better software
Email me for information for donations:
rjpanlilio@gmail.com

My Computer:

Processor
Model : Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.66GHz
Over clocked Speed : 2.80GHz

Memory:
Model : 2 Corsair VS512MB400
Type : 512MB DDR-SDRAM
1GB total

Motherboard : Abit SG72(SIS 661FX-964L)
Video Card : NVIDIA GeForce 6800
Hard Drive : Maxtor 6L100P0 (100GB) 93GB used
Hard Drive : WDC WD1200JB-00GVA0 (120GB) 113 used
CD-ROM/DVD : SONY DVD RW DRU-800A (CD 48X Rd, 48X Wr) (DVD 6X Rd, 6X Wr)
CD-ROM/DVD : TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R1202 (CD 40X Rd, 16X Wr) (DVD 5X Rd)
TV Card : ATI TV Wonder Pro A/V Capture
Printers : HP Photosmart C3100 series
Operating System : Microsoft Windows XP (Service Pack 2)
Internet: Comcast High Speed Internet

Intro

Hi my name is RJ, I'm 14, turning 15 and I go to College Park High!

Over the next few weeks I'm going to review and have tutorials, and projects for computers. Most of the stuff I learned was from many years of trial and error. Ive been into computers ever since, and know how to but them together and everything. This Blog will involve everything you can think of about computers I test and and rate it for you! Ill also give you tutorials on how to kind of stuff like how to get rid of that virus or replacing a hard drive, or upgrading tips. I will also help you get ideas to build upgrade and fix your computer, please send me questions and ideas. Because I need your help too!
rjpanlilio@gmail.com