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Most motherboards have special functions that are unknown or forgotten their owners. On the other hand functions very attractive to use. Here are some of functions intended.

IrDA bus: most of the motherboards on the market has a connector on the main board to the bus IrDA (Infrared Developers Association) which allows wireless connection (wireless) between PCs and peripherals equipped with an infrared sensor (infrared), some printers and notebooks. To take advantage of this bus, you must install the adapter in the existing IrDA connector on the motherboard that unfortunately is not included with the motherboard.

Additional USB port: ATX motherboards are usually equipped with 2 USB ports on the back. Some motherboards have more USB, but not in the rear position. Exactly in the middle of the mother-board. To use these additional ports, we need to install the adapter plug to change the format used by the motherboard to plug the USB standard format, to enable us to install a USB peripheral port was added. Generally the motherboard is not equipped adapter.

Suspend to RAM (STR): we can configure the PC so that can store information of all components of the RAM and switched off all components except RAM. The results of RAM the motherboard will turn only, while all other components turned off. In this case, power consumption by PC only 5W.

The advantage is clear. When turned on, the PC will be in the same condition when turned off, and the program displays the same document that was opened previously. We can even program the PC to run multiple tasks while the PC is “sleeping”. Some motherboards have a connector that allows installation STR LED. LED lights will light up when the PC into the STR mode and off when the PC dies.
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There are many ways to transfer video from computers to camcorders. If we use a video camera with a media mini-DV storage there are two ways that a video transfer with FireWire interface (IEEE 1394) and USB 2.0. The fundamental difference of the two interfaces is the speed of data transfer such as in the video transfer. FireWire allows us to transfer data at speeds up to 800 Mbps, while USB version 2.0 supports speeds up to 480 Mbps.

To the resulting video quality, FireWire interfaces are capable of producing a video with a resolution of 720 x 576 pixels (PAL), while for a USB 2.0 interface, is only capable of producing a video with a maximum resolution of 640 x 480 pixels. Both the size of the resolution was more than enough to make video content that will be distributed in the format of Video CD (VCD) which has a resolution of 352 x 288 pixels (PAL). Read the rest of this entry »