Sam's Eccentric
 
PC Hardware News
  AMD Zone  -  Everything AMD.
  Hardware Secrets  -  Complicated stuff explained.
  The Inquirer  -  Mike Magee was the Register's biting wit, now doing great on his own.
  Neoseeker  -  Keanu?
  PC Abusers  -  Probably needs counciling.
  PC STATS  -  Reviews and news.
  Penstarsys.com  -  Slightly more in-depth on what he covers, with commentary.
  The Register  -  The Inq's nemesis and a great site.
  Tech ARP  -  Best bios optimization around, New and improved news as well.
  TechNewsWorld.Com  -  All Tech, All The Time! woohoo.
  The Tech Report  -  Slightly more attitude than most geek sites.
  The Tech Zone  -  More techie candy.
  Wired News  -  The Fountainhead.
  ZDNet  -  Corporate Geekdom at it's best.

PC Gaming
  TechSpot  -  All round computer gaming hardware site.
  Blue's News  -  Blue's the best.
  GameCopyWorld  -  Back up your copy-protected games.
  Games Domain  -  Nice depth. Should be, Yahoo's behind it.
  MegaGames  -  The hardcore gaming experience.
  Thresh's FiringSquad.com - Hardware and Gaming!  -  News, views and attitude.
  Shacknews  -  It gets you chicks, no really real chicks. Well, you didn't expect gamers to actually get a human female did you?
  Voodoo Extreme  -  Honey Roasted 3d gaming news.

PC Hardware Information and How-to
  accelenation.com  -  Formerly Fullon3D, they branched out.
  Anand's Hardware Tech Page  -  The biggest and frequently best site around.
  Ars Technica: The PC enthusiast's resource  -  Serious hardware site. Very, very good.
  Digit-Life  -  New effort by the iXBT guys.
  ExtremeTech  -  A "corporate" hardware site. Meh.
  Extreme Overclocking  -  Recipes for cooking your CPU.
  FrostyTech  -  Heat sink central.
  HotHardware.com  -  The Hottest PC Hardware Tested and Burned.....In.
  Legion Hardware  -  Ambitous site.
  Lost Circuits  -  Different slant, pretty technical, sometimes brilliant.
  Maximum PC  -  Off the wall ideas for articles, from the magazine.
  Motherboard HomeWorld - Motherboards.org  -  A great site.
  Phoronix  -  Huge collection of articles.
  Real World Technologies  -  Different, interesting, done by real pros.
  Sharky Extreme  -  Settled down under new owners, and much improved.
  StorageReview.com  -  Hard drivin' site.
  Sudhian Media  -  New, large and well done effort by experienced group.
  SysOpt.com  -  Lots of expert guides, including the computer mail order retailer ratings.
  TweakTown  -  Famous fearless Aussie site.
  x-bit labs  -  An excellent Russian hardware site! These guys are really worth a look.

Graphics
  Bjorn3d.com  -  Emphasis on gaming hardware.
  The Guru of 3D  -  Mostly Nvidia. Has beta drivers and tweeaks.

CDR's and Music
  CDR-Info  -  Recording CD's.
  CDRLabs.com  -  CD hardware reviews.
  CD Media World  -  Media info.
  CDROM-Guide.com  -  Burners and media.
  Gracenote  -  THE music database.

PC Hardware Links
  PC-Disk  -  German hard drive data site, very large database.
  Computer Hardware Links  -  Huge link page. I really admire this guy..
  CPUID  -  A little utility for hardware identification.
  Hardware Secrets  -  Hard core hardware.
  Hack A Day  -  Someplace to go if your wiresnips are just aching to be used.
  Laptop Repair  -  Sources, info and tips for yer lap.
  CSTInc.  -  Memory tester software.
  Mr. Driver  -  FCC ID search.
  DriverGuide.com  -  Finally!
  PC Friendly Hardware Page  -  Links to PC hardware things like BIOS beep codes.
  PC Hell  -  For all those aggrivating problems .
  Trish's Escape from Hardware Hell Computer Help  -  Definitely worth looking at, impressive.
  Wim's BIOS page  -  BIOS updates.

Windows/NT/DOS
  ActiveWindows  -  Good news source for Windows.
  AVG Anti-Virus  -  Free anti-virus product.
  Bitdefender.com  -  Romanian anti-virus with a huge amount of free removal tools, and a free scanner.
  Lavasoft  -  Download and install Ad Aware. You'll be glad you did.
  Annoyances.org  -  How to kill Clippy.
  Black Viper  -  Detailed Windows tweaking. This is a temporary mirror of the site.
  Bootdisk.com  -  Bootdisk images, update info, DLL's, nicely done resource.
  The Definitive BIOS Optimization Guide  -  Here's the Right Stuff.
  Fatal Exception Decoder  -  What that incoherent message really means.
  Gord's World of Batch Files  -  Tutorial on creating DOS batch files.
  Kerio  -  Another free firewall software.
  Microsoft  -  This is a link to the product support search engine.
  OldVersion.com  -  Because newer isn't always better.
  PC Help  -  Free help for beginners.
  reger24.de/Processes  -  The long list of windows processes. That's supposed to be running, idinit?
  RegEdit  -  Information about windoze most aggravating file.
  Smallvoid.com  -  Lots of Windows update info.
  SpeedGuide.net  -  Tips for PC tweaks.
  Spybot Search and Destroy  -  Another Spyware buster.
  Spyware Blaster  -  Spyware prevention, as opposed to search and destroy.
  Windows Run Commands  -  A handy list of almost all Windows command line syntax.
  WinOScentral.com  -  All of them.
  WinPlanet  -  Tutorials.
  Zone Labs  -  Free firewall software. Especially if you have Cable or DSL always on, you need this.

Geek Cultural Sites
  kuro5hin.org||technology and culture from the trenches  -  Geeks in control site.
  Slashdot  -  Granddaddy geek site.
  Geek.com  -  Home of the $973,688 dream machine. Real geeks.
  UGO.com  -  Anime, Music, Games, Big Time Wrestling, all the important stuff.
  ZZZ online  -  Examination of the weird.
  mempool  -  Umm. I can't explain it.
  ElephantStaircase  -  Geekilicious home projects.

Humor
  Dilbert Zone  -  Our Hero.
  User Friendly the Comic Strip Main Page  -  Proves Linix users can have a sense of humor.
  Penny Arcade  -  The seminal internet funny..

Sales of PC's and PC parts
  PriceScan  -  Large webwide pricing for electronics.
  Price Watch  -  the best source for computer parts.
  OcPrices  -  Just for the overclocking crowd.
  Resller Ratings  -  Back from oblivion.
  CNET Shopper.com  -  CNET's site.
  ComputerShopper.com  -  Quickly becoming more important than the printed one.
  eBay  -  The mother of all auction sites.
  CheapStingyBastard  -  They cleaned up the name, but I like the old one better.
  Tech Deals - Your Guide to Technology Bargains  -  Different type of bargain site. Worth looking at.
  DealCatcher.com  -  Bargain site.
  techbargains.com  -  Another.
  FatWallet.Com  -  Another.
  Got Apex?  -  Fairly new and very good site.
  Overstock.com  -  Wide variety.
  Hosfelt  -  The JC Whitney catalog for electronics. Fun stuff.
  Hot Deals Club  -  All kinds of merchandise.
  FrozenCPU.com  -  Products to control heat and noise.
  DangerDen  -  Water cooling parts and knowhow for your CPU.




Comments or suggestions? Email me at samlind@yahoo.com

count thingie is here
08/25/08