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CSA works fine, but it's a temporary solution. In 6 months I doubt intel will still be using CSA. It's just more of the same stuff... not any technical advancement. From what I can tell it was only meant to be around for a generation or so as a temporary measure before we either 1) get gig-e...

hmm.. never ran into that myself... and I've done all kinds of page file misplacing

im not one bit surprised that my 160GB disks worked just fine in linux. I have yet to setup a >128GB disk in windows.

i found redhat to be crappy about hardware/drivers compared to fedora or mandrake... I think there are two rtl8139 drivers if it matters

i just use a small resistor myself....

what it sounds like they wanted him to do was install WinXP ontop of itself... not use the Automated system repair or recovery console. He shouldnt lose any documents or any of his own files.. he might have to reinstall drivers/applications.

yeah, no problems here. I'm behind a firewall, but I dont use a proxy.

i've never had a problem with my visa debit. except for the 1st card I got had trouble reading in some readers.. replaced the card and all was well.

my bet is on the recording source. Easy one to miss

yeah, the labels will have a big WD on them... that's how to tell if it will break.

i think you're wrong. Check out newegg and you'll see that the black version is the 2500A BLK (according to them)

The 2500A got good reviews, never hard of the 2500B though.

i've never had a problem in the 2 locations I've lived and used road runner.. I always get atleast 95% of the bandwidth I'm supposed to (3Mbit down, 384kbps up) Maybe the nodes around here just aren't full.

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i agree that most of these questions are complete junk... Economic Left/Right: -1.12 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.82

alot of the spam i get is not from the USA.... If we blocked all email coming from Asia-Pacific I would knock out half my spam probably.

Any good ISP is going to have alot of bandwidth.. Enough so that at peak times the effect of traffic will be barely noticable. Although somtimes I wonder how time warner for instance can offer 3Mbit down to hundreds of throusands of customers and still maintain enough bandwidth.... but they do.

The onboard controllers now are better, but the promise ultra cards are my favorite standby if you need a few extra IDE ports for hard drives. For ATAPI devices I hear the SIIG controllers work better, never had a problem with ATAPI devices and the ultra cards myself though.

what a way to go.

i'll have to wait till sunday at the earliest....

my point stands. CSA is another bus that comes off the NB, just like the AGP bus is a dedicated bus for graphics, and there is a dedicated memory bus, and there is a dedicated bus between the NB and SB. Typically, all Input/output devices(IDE, SCSI, LAN, Printer, serial, etc) go in the...

we've been hearing about copper limit for a while.... cat7 is now at 20Gbps using ATM. Fiber NICs are still expensive as hell. I think we have a ways to go.

unfortunately many manufacturers dont have decent FTP sites. Things arent organized, files are not named to describe their contents, there's no way to search through the drivers.... pretty crappy.

YEEEHAAA!!!

i wouldn't be surprised if they come in DVD form... or even multiple DVD's in the next year or two.

why does it make the pentium 4's more stable?

That's what I got out of it. More power to lines from the PSU to power the processor(s) more stabley.

what's worse is to show them how to spend half as much money and get a faster computer.... and still they stare blankly.

I beleive the 4 pin pentium 4 connector came after the 24pin ATX power connector... ask intel why they wanted to make their own connector versus using an existing design? My guess is compatibility with standard ATX PSUs

I dont think there's any advantage of EPS over ATX w/ a 4pin 12v (ala pentium4) connector, infact I think you can get simple converters from regular 20(?) pin ATX to the 24pin connector of EPS.

intel currently uses the intel hub arcitecture that runs at a blazing 266MB/sec between the NB and SB. That's for two 150MB/sec S-ATA channels, two 100MB ATA channels, 6? USB 2.0 controllers, and one PCI bus.. and the other devices of the superIO chip (LPT, serial, PS/2, etc)...

AC97 is a standard for a DAC, if your sound card mangles digital to digital then I'd say that's a problem with the impementation of your sound card and no fault of the AC97 standard.

why is that here anyway?

... PCI-X currently offers 4x the bandwidth of CSA. Or take VIA or SiS's connection between the northbrige and southbridge. A Gigabit ethernet controller integrated into the southbridge would have much more bandwidth than the puny intel offerings.

is it just me or is it faster?

It is cash wise for me.

aren't we talking about DACs here? if so that makes alot of these statements moot

then it would make sense not to use AC97 if dealing only with 44.1 audio and needing to output it to speakers or another device. if processing the audio internally this is a non-issue. if dealing with 48kHz this is a non issue are you sure that the sound is actually downsampled to 44.1 after...

why would you want to output at 44.1 when you can do it at 48kHz? This is only for the digital to analog conversion, so it only effectys what is actually getting sent to the speakers.

oops, guess I got into some software problems. Oh well, if it helps you out.

For hardware problems I like to use memtest86 for testing RAM, prime95 for testing CPU, might throw in 3dmark 2001(run several loops) for testing video/AGP bus if they're a gamer. For looking at IRQ conflicts I'd use msinfo32 (i believe comes with win2k and above, not sure about 9x or NT 4.0)...

considering desktop PSUs... about $25? That's assuming a similar size PSU to an mATX/flexATX PSU and a single cable that carries all voltage lines to the computer.

i always follow the family recipe

I was surprised mandrake now can read/write to NTFS... i believe knoppix can read by default... i would probably be a little hesitant to do much writing, but I'd have no problem with a read only mount.

NTFS is more robust than FAT... NTFS doesnt just get trashed cause it feels like it. It keeps a log to prevent that sorf of stuff. anecdotally I've never had a problem with an NTFS partition, I have had weird problems with FAT since the beginning of windows.

i'vea heard things like that about linksys's NAT routers since their beginning in that field.. nothing new.

That's quite what I got out of it when I first read about btx... so called "balanced" form factor which focuses overbearingly on the CPU.

hahah.

http://browsers.evolt.org/ there's probably 100 different browsers there, including redistributable copies of IE.

i think so