I want opinions on hardware

[Guest]

I love these discussion groups. The amount of information I have gleaned
here is massive and invaluable. But this is all XP.

Can any of you guys recommend a site, as similar to this one as possible,
that allows the posting of questions relating to hardware. I have a few
questions relating to the physical side of my machine and I don't want to
clog these discussions unnecesarily with irrelevant questions about non-xp
issues.

I have recently bought a piece of hardware that I'm not entirely happy with
performance wise and I was wondering about other peoples ratings of it too.
I need some second opinions.

Cheers..

 

[Lem]

I love these discussion groups. The amount of information I have gleaned
here is massive and invaluable. But this is all XP.

Can any of you guys recommend a site, as similar to this one as possible,
that allows the posting of questions relating to hardware. I have a few
questions relating to the physical side of my machine and I don't want to
clog these discussions unnecesarily with irrelevant questions about non-xp
issues.

I have recently bought a piece of hardware that I'm not entirely happy with
performance wise and I was wondering about other peoples ratings of it too.
I need some second opinions.

Cheers..

http://groups.google.com/grphp?hl=en&tab=wg&q=
put the name of the hardware in the box under "find a group" and click
"Search for a group"

 

[Guest]

Thanks Lem... But...

As usual, Google is being awkward with their interface.. there's 'groups'
for all sorts of topics, but I can't be arsed with creating a special google
groups account.

Anyone else?

 

[Alias~-]

Thanks Lem... But...

As usual, Google is being awkward with their interface.. there's 'groups'
for all sorts of topics, but I can't be arsed with creating a special google
groups account.

Anyone else?

Learn how to use Outlook Express or Thunderbird or Mozilla Mail or etc.
for news. The server you want is msnews.microsoft.com Once you have it
set up, search for 'hardware' and subscribe to the hardware news groups
of your choice.

Alias

 

[Richard Urban]

Type your hardware + review in Google.

Ex: USB+Drive+review. Then start reading.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Malke]

I love these discussion groups. The amount of information I have
gleaned
here is massive and invaluable. But this is all XP.

Can any of you guys recommend a site, as similar to this one as
possible,
that allows the posting of questions relating to hardware. I have a
few questions relating to the physical side of my machine and I don't
want to clog these discussions unnecesarily with irrelevant questions
about non-xp issues.

I have recently bought a piece of hardware that I'm not entirely happy
with performance wise and I was wondering about other peoples ratings
of it too. I need some second opinions.

Cheers..

Well, this isn't a discussion group. It's Usenet. You think it's a
website, but it is just a web interface to Usenet newsgroups. Set up a
newsreader and then look on your ISP's website for information about
what Usenet newsgroups they host. Most ISP's do, and there are
thousands of newsgroups. If your ISP doesn't provide NNTP (Usenet)
access along with your Internet connection, there are other news
services like Giganews. Here's information on Usenet:

Since you are using the web interface, you may not realize that this is
really a newsgroup. You will get far more out of this resource if you
learn to use a newsreader. There are many good newsreaders for Windows,
but you can use Outlook Express since you already have it. Here are
some links to information about newsgroups:

About Usenet:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet
http://groups.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=basics.html - Basics
of Usenet
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Usenet - a brief
explanation of newsgroups

Using Outlook Express as Newsreader:
http://michaelstevenstech.com/outlookexpressnewreader.htm
http://rickrogers.org/setupoe.htm
Accessing the MS newsgroups in Outlook Express Newsreader
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/newsgroupsetup.mspx

How to Post:
http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm

http://aumha.org/nntp.htm - list of MS newsgroups
microsoft.public.test.here - MS group to test if your newsreader is
working properly
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/munad.htm - how to munge email address
http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm - multiposting vs.
crossposting

Malke

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I love these discussion groups. The amount of information I have
gleaned here is massive and invaluable. But this is all XP.

Can any of you guys recommend a site, as similar to this one as
possible, that allows the posting of questions relating to hardware.
I have a few questions relating to the physical side of my machine
and I don't want to clog these discussions unnecesarily with
irrelevant questions about non-xp issues.

I have recently bought a piece of hardware that I'm not entirely
happy with performance wise and I was wondering about other peoples
ratings of it too. I need some second opinions.

If your interest is in hardware issues under Windows XP, try
microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware.

But note that that is not a "site," but a newsgroup. This "site" is a also a
newgroup, microsoft.public.windowsxp. You may be accessing it via
Microsoft's web-based interface, but that doesn't change the fact that
underneath it's a newsgroup, not a web site.

Also note that accessing newsgroups the way you're doing it is the slowest,
clunkiest, most error-prone method there is. Do yourself a favor and switch
to a newsreader, such as Outlook Express, which comes with Windows. See
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/outlookexpressnewreader.htm

 

[DandyDon]

Sites: Extremetech, AnandTech, Toms Hardware, PCMag, HardOCP, just to name a
few of the millions on the web. You will want to join their forums if you
want to post questions. Their hardware reviews are free to all to read.(And
some are very accurate and thorough.)

 

[Peter A. Stavrakoglou]

I love these discussion groups. The amount of information I have gleaned
here is massive and invaluable. But this is all XP.

Can any of you guys recommend a site, as similar to this one as possible,
that allows the posting of questions relating to hardware. I have a few
questions relating to the physical side of my machine and I don't want to
clog these discussions unnecesarily with irrelevant questions about non-xp
issues.

I have recently bought a piece of hardware that I'm not entirely happy
with
performance wise and I was wondering about other peoples ratings of it
too.
I need some second opinions.

Cheers..

What I think you are looking for is a new group like this one but related to
PC hardware.

Your ISP should have a news server. Rather than using Google's clunky web
interface for newsgroups, you can set up Outlook Express or another
newsreader to read newsgroups. You can use as many news servers as you want
but I've never found a reason to use more than two - my ISP's and
Microsoft's. My ISP newserver has the groups you're looking for, just set
up the account in the newsreader after getting the news server name from
your ISP and search for newsgroups that have the word "hardware" in them.
You'll find some good ones.