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NZXT Phantom Case, The Best Choice for Your Computer

NZXT designer has launched a new case that is known as Phantom. Phantom has come up with all the hype surrounding its conception. NZXT has launched more cases in the past.

Phantom is available in Whit and Black color. The glossy finish of NZXT phantom is the new black in the market because of its looks. The inside of the case is combined of black trimmings. The side panel is little flimsy, which is not good.  But the company is working on it. They have said that it was the problem in the earlier version of the case now it has been rectified.

It has weakly magnetic door with 5.25 in drive bays. Just beside the door it has a large vent. It has two side mounted fans with 120 mm that will filter the dust from the incoming air flow and the other two will work as exhausts. It also include a giant fan of 200 mm. So we can say that the mother board of the computer will be safe from the heat sink issues and from the dust.

There are plenty of features including the cable whole around the mother board, 3.5 in bays, each of then mounts 2.5 in drive. The 3.5 in drive has split in to two cages and the rear cage is also removable.

Two USB port and the SATA port has been located at the top of the Phantom with the microphone and speaker jacks. So the structure of Phantom is not bad and also useful for the users.

Let’s have a look at the specifications.

Dimensions (mm) 222 x 623 x 541mm (W x D x H)
Material Steel
Color  Black
Weight 11kg
Front Panel Power and reset switches, 2 x USB 2, 1 x eSATA, Stereo, Mic
Drive Bays 5 x external 5.25in drive bays, 7 x internal 3.5in/2.5in drive bays,
Form factor(s) E-ATX, ATX, micro-ATX
Cooling 1 x front 140mm fan mount (fan not included), 1 x rear 120mm fan mount (fans included), 2 x 200mm roof fan mounts (1 fan included), 2 x 120mm side fan mounts (fans included)
PSU Not supplied

For any kind of computer services, talk to a tech support expert.

How to fix Stuck Pixel Problem?

It is certainly quite annoying to have a stuck pixel on an LCD screen or TFT. How to fix stuck pixel problem? This article will help you to resolve the issue. You can also get in touch with a computer services company in this regard. We are going to talk about dead pixels or stuck pixels on the screen. It is usually due to transistor malfunctioning or uneven distribution of liquid on the liquid crystal display. This can be fixed.

Let’s have a look how to fix stuck pixel issue.

• Software method - Try to run any software which will help you to resolve pixel issue.

• Hardware method - Turn off monitor, plug in and turn on pixel tune up, then turn on the monitor, now wait 20 minutes, turn off and unplug pixel tune up.

• Pressure Method - Turn off your computer’s monitor, Now wash the screen with a clean cloth, when you put pressure on the screen with the cloth then turn on the screen, now check the stuck pixels will be gone.

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• Tapping Method - Turn on the screen and then make the background black and then take a pen or a pencil to point out the stuck pixel on the screen and then try to use any cloth remove the pixels.

These are some of the methods that will help you to remove the stuck pixels from the screen. If it is a leakage internally then there is no point to resolve it. You need to take the computer to a computer repair shop or to the vendor to change the LCD to replace it.

GRAPHICS CARD, WINDOWS7 AND 2D PERFORMANCE

Graphics card manufacturer ATI has come up with the driver version 10.4(Catalyst 10.4) for it ATI Radeon 5870 which is in close competition with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 and a lot is being talked about the 2D or the two dimensional performance that the two deliver but we are more interested with the 3D performance because we want a better performance in our games. However, 2D rendering is not less important when we complain about the slow performance in opening windows, folders and working with Word in Vista and Windows 7 being faster if we compare. Apart from the internal memory management of Windows 7, the graphics card installed in your computer will make a difference to the system performance in addition to the RAM present in it. In programming language jargon the Graphics Device Interface for the Application Programming Interface takes care of the “display” speed of the windows 7 and the redrawing of lines, polygons color-depth and pixels are involved in the 2D display speed.

The ATI has gained some good responses with reference to benchmark testing for 2D performance but still NVIDIA which is another giant is doing well with its GTX 480 product. These can handle high refresh rate for the screen as well which is again another factor to good 2D acceleration. Windows 7 has added a separate hardware 2D acceleration rate but with a question mark from the experts. Windows XP still competes in terms of 2D rendering speeds.

 

So we can conclude by saying that if most of your computer usage is related to office work which is related to 2D performance of the computer then go for a graphics card which offers you good 2D performance. The cards that I mentioned at the beginning of the article offer you good 3D performance as well if you are still concerned with the 3D performance factors. Windows 7(using direct X 11) should be the choice for over all system performance and for 2D performance as well since we are focusing more on the 2D performance issues. Windows XP is still good in 2D performance.

CLOUD COMPUTING – THE NEW BUZZ WORD

In modern day computing, the term “cloud computing” is a much used term. But what exactly is cloud computing all about? It is about using the recourses already present in the World Wide Web for better resource utilization, lesser cost in capital expenditure and increased scalability of hardware and software.

In cloud computing, the customers, better known as tenants, use third party resources to cut capital expenditure on hardware such as data storage as an example and pay rent for the resources used by them. Billing occurs on input/output resources, load balancing, IP addresses, GET requests and Put requests related to database management queries etc. It is not that, only the large companies take advantage of it. Individual users can take advantage of it as well. A person using online data storage is a good example of cloud computing. Using Google is another example of cloud computing.

Data storage, HTTP services, Web based services related to ASP, network based access to commercially available software, centrally managed multi-tenant architecture support – all come under the purview of cloud computing.

Well, we have already talked a lot about ‘Cloud Computing’. But we still did not discuss what a “cloud” is? Cloud is nothing but a diagrammatic representation of the World Wide Web to indicate the internet world outside the user’s computer system. A cloud could be of the type “public”, “private” and “community” depending upon the accessibility and security features.

Where security, device and location independence, scalability and cost could be the advantages of cloud computing, on the other hand there are some privacy issues associated with Cloud Computing as well. It has been found that due to security reasons of the country some espionage activities have occurred in the domain of “secured” cloud computing. While discussing about security, we must mention the presence of a few online antivirus scanners like Panda Cloud Antivirus. The concept is that, it takes lesser time to update a central server related to virus signatures instead of testing virus updates in separate laboratories. The concept is good enough as far as a quick response-time to a new virus is concerned but it is yet to be termed as the best.

Turn Net Savvy with Computer Support

Most of the home computer users are either novice or have little or no technical knowledge about their systems and internet functionalities. Similar to computer system errors sometimes due to some reasons internet connection can also suddenly stop working. As commonly diagnosed by the professional computer support services, this can be due to weak strength of network support or some cable fault or simply due to error in the network interfacing device.

Apart from that, what happens in most cases, due to lack of knowledge in computing users find difficult to surf internet even though everything is working properly. Computer support services are the only way to go; professional tech support assistance is provided here with easy instructions that can make anyone an expert net savvy in no time.  In fact there are several real easy ways to modify your system proficiency that you can learn with a little effort and efficient assistance. Contact a computer support today to ensure smooth functioning of your system on what ever you do.