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It's no wonder why we are awash with Ontarioans, Saskatchewanians, and a sprinkle of Albertans this time of year. This includes zillions of white Canadian geese in fields.

It's a little hard to tell where you want to go with this "down the road" (so to speak). Are your 4-each Ultra160 hard drives SCA or the typical 68-pin variety of SCSI? Do you want -- or need -- the capability to quickly and easily remove your 4-drive RAID-0 array? If you could condense...

Oh, I all too familiar with EISA and why it came into existence (think Compaq and the unholy Gang of 8 that invented EISA). I've used EISA in various x86 PCs and SGI RISC boxes -- not to mention VESA Local Bus (VLB), NuBus, VME Bus, S-Bus, S-100 Bus, GPIB, and Microchannel. "Internal" PCI...

Well, if you were starting from scratch, TODAY, someone here in December 2003 might go with either a 4-bay or 5-bay SCA SCSI mobile drive rack or a 4-bay or 5-bay SCA Serial ATA mobile drive rack (or one SCA SCSI and one SCA SATA) installed in a Supermicro SC-942 series chassis. Each mobile...

If spare parts = newly-produced PCI expansion bus cards, then yes, those could be around for as long as five years (SCSI, RAID, Fibre-Channel, LAN cards). Otherwise... ... ... ... ... ...if PCI Express becomes a hit with the server crowd, PCI-X will last maybe about as long as EISA did after...

With this Swiftech heatsink, I would imagine that my normally-clocked 2.2GHz P4 could go 20 ~ 30 minutes or so without the cooling fan, but then it would have to blow like mad just to get rid of all the absorbed heat. It was a good price for something currently in demand (actually $49.99 + 8.5%...

Well, I went to this local Overclocker's / Case Modder's shindig on Sunday, and indeed did score some goodies. After driving from southeast Houston to the west Houston (only 45 miles one way), then finally figuring out the way to get to the proper parking lot, I get out of my car just in...

SATA optical (CD / DVD readers and writer) have been show in public more than once before, but it seems nobody is now willing to release the hardware until SATA"2" spec hardware is out so that they are removable and external. Even with the older demos using SATA"1" spec'd optiçals, the...

I do run Win2K and WinXP on the exact same system. I have dedicated O/S drives in the form of plug-able Barracuda ATA V drives as well as dedicated Cheetah X15.3 drives, each with a load of either Win2K or WinXP Pro. I use one of these boot drives along with a plug-able secondary storage drive...

PCI-X will be around, but not as long as you might be thinking. Even though 64-bit PCI-X is supposed to ramp up to 533 MHz over time (currently at 133 MHz), I rather doubt that PCI-X will EVER go beyond what it currently is in the marketplace in any significant numbers. Full-duplex PCI...

Covered this back in September... [NEW PRODUKT NEWZ:] NetCell 64-Bit RAID http://www.storageforum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2832

I couldn't say the same for whatever else on a mobo with a Via, Opti, or SiS chipset. OK. Better go get meself a relaxing cup of... er... Rum.

You meant 1891, didn't you??? :lol: Better go get yourself a relaxing cup of... er... Tea. Actually, over time, WinXP Pro (don't know so much about XP "Home") and everyone's software applications (Adobe Photoshop CS, Office 2K3, etc) have finally gotten to the point to where I believe...

Well, I'm to go to some sort of local "Overclocker's / Case Modder's Festival" this weekend. There will supposedly be every kind of heatsink and cooling solution known to man there. I'm just wondering if I will need a nose ring, multiple tatoos, and have a skateboard in tow just to be...

Trimpot. :cyclop: A regulator -- and in this application, obviously a voltage regulator as opposed to a current regulator -- can provide a constant voltage in a safe and reliable manner as opposed to the method you are alluding to below. A voltage regulation circuit has a mix of NPN or...

I believe "a hop" is '50s amerikanische slang for "a dance event." I believe there were also "sock hops" and similar pernicious activities back then. The Waitresses were a group from -- yes, the early '80s -- that was sort of a flash-in-the-pan with their hit "I Know What Boys Want" or some...

Can't wait! 8) Hmmmm.... NMB??? It seems I recall owning a t·o·t·a·l·l·y crappy NMB keyboard about 10 years ago, but maybe they're just da bomB these days in the fan biz. I kinda recall some interesting Pabst fans -- lots of blades and low RPMs but High CFM and I suspect low low noise, but...

I first recall seeing Omega video drivers way the hell back around 1993 or '94! Guess what. They were for ATI VGA Wonder graphics adaptors. ATI graphics adaptors were popular, but ATI could NOT write drivers worth a damn even then, and that's why Omega existed. I used to see their drivers in...

Here are the two heatsinks I'm still interested in (unless there's something that disapates heat even better). I would hope that a "big" slow turning efficient fan on top of one of these could do the job of a smaller Intel-branded heatsink + high-speed fan. By the way, NO OVERCLOCKING going...

I've seen a number of Panaflow (Panasonic) fans over the years. They've all been "case" type fans as opposed to CPU cooler fans. This is a fixed speed case fan, correct? PS: I'm actually not trying to do a cheap-as-possible setup here, just attain the <<< QUIETEST >>> setup without...

To be more exact, I'm looking for the QUIETEST way to cool a 478-pin P4 processor. The Thermaltake SP-94 heat pipe thingee and the Swiftech MCX478-V both seemed (presumably) to be the most efficient heatsinks around. So, with the best of these two heatsinks -- whichever it is -- what...