Planning to buy or upgrade your system. I am writing this for the powerful users. If you are a normal user this review will only give the knowledge.

A whole sort of Motherboards are available in the market.  To simplify, Intel and AMD technologies are leading in the market. AMD’s tend for the performance on the other hand it produces lot of heat and additional fans required to cool your cabinets.  Opting for the Intel, Intel manufacturers have there own boards most of them comes with 3 years warranty and have successful stories.

I opt motherboards based on the expandability in upcoming future.  For an instance, I choose the board to have more PCI slots and lot of additional gadgets that capability of reading.  Sorting out there are ATX, Micro ATX and Mini –ITX.  If you visit Intel website there are categories and classifications of boards. I have chosen ATX boards among those motherboards.
Extreme series is quite expensive and I can’t even go near that until unless I am making a bunch of money out of that.  Essential series, Classic Series, Executive Series and Media Series are remaining.  Executive series all boards come micro ATX which is ruled out for expansion.   Media series has two ATX boards (DP35DP & DG965WH). Essential Series has Micro and Mini ATX even this series is ruled out. Remaining Classic Series which has Six ATX boards (1) DG43NB 2) DP43TF 3) DG33FB 4) DG965RY 5) DP965LT 6) DQ963FX)

Totally Eight boards have very good expandability. Among those 965 Chipset is failure models by the user reviews and comments from vendors. Our Job is simplified much easier.
Next comes important expandability is processor. I am looking in today’s market whether Core 2 duo and Quad core processors suits the board.  (DP35DP/DG43NB/DP43TF/DG33FB)

Most of the motherboards are coming with inbuilt Graphics, High definition audio enabling 5.1, LAN, Expandability Ram up to 8GB, SATA ports, 1394 ports and also meets Intel VIVA technologies, Raid drivers,  USB’s and all other regular stuff.

Comparatively Inbuilt graphics external PCI express x16 gives you excellent clarity for multimedia (graphic work), playing games and watching movies.  Latest HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface), DVI (Digital Visual Interface), HDCP’s (High Definition Content Protection), Blue-rays are booming in the market.  Some high end users interested in Dual / Three monitor support.
Lot of Fluctuations from Internet WAN connections. May damage the board hence preferred External LAN card.

Opting for PCI Sound cards for extreme gaming and watching movies.  Various expendabilities’ for various users.

DP35DP is Performance Motherboard has Raid support, 7.1 channel audio Enabling, Consumer IR receiver and emitter (via internal headers), 1 digital optical out connector and all other. Doesn’t have Graphics.

DG43NB is Main Stream Motherboard has 5.1 channel audio enabling, S/PDIF out Audio header (3×1)

DP43TF is Main Stream Motherboard has 5.1 channel audio enabling, S/PDIF out Audio header (3×1) the only good expandability compare to other boards it has PCI Express x16 four slots.

DG33FB is Main stream Motherboard has all the features apart from Consumer IR receiver, Raid..

Currently DP35DP and DG33FB motherboards are available in the market.  DP35DP is costing Rs.5400/- and DP33FB is costing Rs.4900/- in today’s market.

I have chosen DG33FB motherboard it comes with G33 Express Chipset, 8GB Ram supportive slots, Core and Quad processor supports LGA775 socket, 5.1 channel audio enabling, Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 3100 onboard graphics subsystem with Intel® Clear Video Technology, Legacy I/O controller for diskette drive, serial header, and PS/2 , Gigabit (10/100/1000 Mbits/sec) LAN subsystem using the Intel® 82566DC Gigabit Ethernet Controller, Twelve USB 2.0 ports, Four Serial ATA IDE interfaces, Two IEEE 1394a ports (1 external port, 1 internal header), One Parallel ATA IDE interface with UDMA 33, ATA-66/100/133 support, One serial port header, One diskette drive interface, PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports , Three PCI Conventional bus add-in card connectors, Three PCI Express x1 bus add-in card connectors, One PCI Express x16 bus add-in card connector and support Intel VIIV technologies.
Actually I want to choose DP35DP motherboard which is not available with my vendor. Finally after buying DG33FB known that DP35DP is available.

Overall DP35DP, DG33FB, DG43NB and DP43TF boards are excellent with new supportive chipsets.

Everyone wanted to make their life’s easier by clicking print commands on their computers.  Imagazine without a printer we feel great difficulty in looking around.  Always Ink Jet printers are expensive to maintain and out of our mind to buy it.

Recently I went to a shopping mall, where I found Canon Pixma IP1300 INK-JET printer costing Rs.1200/- Immediately I called to my vendor’s and found the price from them. They all said, the mentioned printer is not in stock and the next basic model is Rs.2000/-.

On the other hand, HP Printers are very popular and demanding in the market. Their Basic printer starts from Rs.1500/- . Canon printer has inbuilt head reader where as HP printer head readers comes with the Ink –Cartridge. Now the biggest challenge is cartridges. Canon is giving Color Ink-Jet cartridge along with the system.  It’s coming with 15ml Tank but I suppose the ink is around 5ml.  I verified on the packing box its 4800*1200 dpi maximum and Photo Lab quality its 70seconds.  I am least concerned about the speed and sound of the printer. Ultimately end of the day I have to take printouts.  I just closed my eyes and taken the printer.

Next I have to purchase Black Cartridge went to the Computer market! When I enquired for canon cartridge they said it’s costing Rs.900/- immediately I have seen the stars around me for that price of the cartridge.  Then when my friend advised me its 16ml cartridge and the prints comes around 450 to 500 pages. I purchased for the moment but still I could not able to digest the

cartridge cost. For acquiring the knowledge I asked HP black cartridge. There are 2 types of cartridges available in the market. One costing Rs.350/- and another costing Rs.700/-. Both deliver the same but its 5ml cartridges.  Immediately I have calculated for 16ml and costing around Rs. 1120/- for HP cartridge.

And on the other hand, friend guided me to use alternatively Original cartridge and second time use Ink re-filling for the cartridge. For re-filling the ink the vendor charges Rs.100/- and printing is  good. I felt overall it’s reasonable in opting for the canon Pixma IP1300 printer.

For me brand is not yet all important. I check the quality and costing. Ultimately printer is ready to use and very easy to install. Now a day’s printers are coming USB connectivity. Printing on the other hand it’s very good and clear. I have taken couple of print-outs black and color. Blacks are good and colors are not up to the mark.  What for that price I can expect the colors should be awesome?  Sound is reasonably louder while printing out but manageable.

Ultimately choosing the printer is worth.  Hope it serve my basic needs.  Have a look for this printer if you are planning to buy one.

With Own experiences, HP compaq gives very good support and services. Today in India the best service provider according to me is compaq. I admire this brand.

compaq presario laptop 772TU specifications are

Processor type
Intel® Pentium® Dual Core Processor T2370
• 1.86 GHz, Level 2 cache 1 MB, 667 MHz Bus speed
Operating system installed
HDD 160 GB SATA
FREE DOS
Web CAM
Standard memory 2 GB
Memory type
DDR2 667 MHz
Memory layout (2 x 1 GB)
Maximum memory
Up to 4 GB DDR2 memory

Memory card device
5-in-1 integrated Digital Media Reader for xD, Secure Digital cards, MultiMedia cards, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro

Modem High speed 56K modem

Network interface Integrated 10/100 LAN

Wireless technologies 802.11 a/b/g WLAN

Wireless capability

External I/O ports
1 VGA, 3 USB 2.0 ports, 1 IEEE-1394, 1 RJ-11, 1 RJ -45, S-video out, 1 Headphone, 1 microphone-jack, 1 Expansion port for xb3000 expansion base, AC Adapter, Kensington lock, 2 Omni-directional microphones

Video capture interface IEEE 1394 Interface

Expansion slots
(1) ExpressCard Slot/54 Slot (supports both 34 and 54 form factors) Display size
15.4″ WXGA High Definition BrightView Widescreen Display
Display resolution 1280 x 800

Video adapter Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 950
Video RAM up to 224MB Total Available Graphics Memory for more than or equal to 1024MB system RAM

Speakers and microphone Altec Lansing® speakers, Dual omni-directional microphones
Pointing device
Touch Pad with scrollzone
Power supply type 65 W AC Adapter

I suggest if any one want to buy the laptop go for this model.. Right now its a hot selling model. Even on the Company website its difficult to find.

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