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The pentium4 still shows off it's optimizations in audio/video encoding and 2d/3d rendering in photoshop and 3d studio max. I wonder how my celeron's compare.

A good writeup about some of the more interesting features of XP. Despite the fact that the article is written like that of a high school student I think it covers many of the features that the general masses will be interested in. http://www.arstechnica.com/wankerdesk/04q1/sp2-beta-1.html...

The SiS has drivers that came with the motherboard. There is a DOS packet driver, lanman.dos, a win3.1 driver, netware 4, 5, and 6, win 9x/Me, and NT/2k/XP drivers. The linksys NIC comes with drivers for SCO unix, instructions for getting the freeBSD 3.3 drivers along with liux, a DOS packet...

during highschool I used to drink about 2 pots a day.. but lately it's more like once or two cups a week (just got a new coffee maker for christmas). Before that it was either nothing or maybe 1 cup from quick trip a month.

The aux connectors or the 4 pin "pentium 4" plug?

shutting down after only a few seconds (literally) sounds like overheating or a "fan off control". You'll want to make sure you have your CPU fan plugged into the CPU_FAN header on your motherboard and ensure the fan is spinning at atleast the minimum allowewd by your board (usually around...

hmm, I have no problems with the BIOS in the k7s8xe+. It's a little different than the BIOSes I'm used to from my former VIA/SiS boards, but it's perfectly usable and I have had no problems with it. The K7S8Xe+ has a whopping 6 USB ports on the backplate, pushing the game port to a PCI slot...

just clocked it, the 1GB file now transfers at 8,982,020 bytes/sec. I also notice I'm not showing any errors. (before I was getting maybe 1 Tx Error per 100MB with the netgear) I think this definitely shows the performance of NICs isn't necessarily related to their cost. (The 3com NICs being...

i installed the software on my girlfriend's computer (SS51G, 512MB PC2100, 2.0GHz Celerwood w/ 80GB DM+9, 2MB cache version) She said it made it faster in photoshop (about all she does on it). More RAM would be the next upgrade (to 1GB), then a real p4 CPU when prices come down.

wow, I decided to do my updating on the server pre core 2.... I found that transfers between the linksys NC100 and the SiS 900 NICs are absolutely fantastic.. I'm getting nearly 9MB/sec sustained traffic over the LAN. I'm sure that works out to be at least 8.5MB/sec for file transfers over SMB...

That is what I was measuring, and by my tests it doesn't make a whole hoot of a difference. Certainly not worth paying 4 times as much (assume cost of a $50 pII/III system vs a faster athlon system) for a <10% performance increase for most home users.

That site will not load without flash... i dont know if you could call it a website... it is more of a "flash site".

the flash uses up 100% of my CPU (or very close) on a 2GHz athlonXP w 512MB PC2700. I have a feeling it would do this not matter how fast a CPU you had. Even though the CPU usage is very high, the videos play fine for me. Minimizing the flash made some of the videos start faster or play a...

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I should have mentioned, I also used a promise Ultra controller (the drive runs in UDMA mode2), win2k and a 50 foot length of cat5e. It would be interesting to set my bus speed to 66MHz (433MHz CPU speed) to more closely simulate an older/slower pentium II. Maybe I'll mess with that tomorrow.

I've seen 486 processors that used a sort of double sided tape.. more like an adheasive pad. There's nothing wrong with tape if it does the job. It's probably cheaper, easier to work with, and more forgiving than epoxy, glue, or grease.

I run win98(se) on my laptop. win2k is slow and sucks the battery life even worse than win98. I'm sure DOS would be great.... That reminds me... since winME came with a new version of DOS, is DOS still supported?

I could always take my CPU and clock it at 100MHz, 133MHz, and 166MHz bus speeds. That would show a clear comparison between CPU/RAM speed and the effect on transfers. Infact. For the test I put my CPU back at 133MHz bus, but I also tested at a 160MHz bus (my standard). There was no difference...

Shared: Fujitsu Desktop 10, model: MPC3102AT (5400rpm, 512k cache, 3.4GB platters) 3Com 905 TX Linksys NC100 D-link 704 100baseT router w/ 4 port switch System1: 440BX w/ pIII 650, 192MB PC100. System2: SiS 748 w/ AthlonXP 2000+, 512MB PC2700. Overal, this shows the Athlon system...

I've done some preliminary testing with a pIII 440BX system vs my 2GHz AthlonXP. Same HDD, same NICs, same cables. It looks like the AthlonXP system is faster, but not by much.. about 10%. I'll post the results after I finsih testing with my other NIC.

that's the best spell check for an online forum/webmail that I have ever seen... I like being able to see what's wrong and correct everything myself. Which is something that alot of online spell checkers are missing. The suggestions for some(most) of the words it doesn't like could use some...

if you want, i can setup a PII/III system based on a 440BX and do my own test using a 3com 905 or other NIC. It's an easy way to prove my beliefs right or wrong. I think the only available HDD I have right now are 5400rpm or slower <10 giggers (miles away from a 75gxp), but I might still be...

it's just a different registry entry.. My main problem was that auto insert notification caused a 1-2 second pause when inserting a CD. I thought the problemw as auto play, but it was infact the auto insert notification. Here's 2 differet ways that I found easily via google.

when copying a large file like that you have to consider the hard drive. Is it running in DMA?, is it defragmented?, is it doing something else simultaneously?. What you're testing is not the network, you are testing the system as a whole. One weak link and you're not going to get the...

i agree that it sounds like auto insert notification has been turned off. Note, this is different than "auto play". In that auto insert notificatoin checks for any newly inserted disks and updates the information in explorer, etc. Auto play relies on auto insert notification, but goes one...

sorry if I'm being an ass. I've been up too long. I agree that a good NIC makes a difference. I've noticed that cheap NICs can get as little as 4-5MB/sec transfer rate while the better ones can get nearly 8. Having a good switch will help as well.

Bozo, dont let your name give away too much. I know what DMA is and what it does. When transfering information to/from any device that uses DMA to main system memory it reduces the need of the CPU to be involved. NIC offloading is less important... and infact may not even be desirable on a...

yup, win2k server w/ 5-10 CAL's going for about $100-$200 on ebay. Advanced server maybe $50-100 more. *nix is free and you can pretty easily setup software RAID 5 during the installation on any major distribution last time I checked (red hat 6/7 or mandrake 7/8). since most linux...

And their is the magic of DMA and CPU offloading for the NIC. Bottom line, no. It really doesn't take alot of processing power for a 100MBit setup. For a Gig-e setup with jumbo frames I would stick with a PIII or higher though. It would be nice to go with something that had the NIC on PCI and...

screw that, im waiting for the mini fridge that comes bundled with a free motherboard.

hmm.. surprised to see VIA doing so well with their RAID 0 scores... no clear winner in the RAID 1 department and no surprises in RAID 5 performance.

yup, caompare the blue caps with the smaller green one and it's plainly obvious that they're bulging as well as leaking. Echoing what others have said previously, from my experience you'll get instability and eventually failure to boot. It's an easily repairable problem if you have the caps...

any updates?

yup, I agree.. the board has 2 problems. Each of which would probably cause your more time, money, and hassle to fix than buying a cheap used board.

err.. uh reset the CMOS jumper should have been one of the 1st things to try if not done already

The fortron I got has six or seven 4 pin molex connectors I believe, then two floppy connectors. Also has the Aux connectors and the 4 pin "pentium4" plug. The antec SL350 has one more molex connector. 4 molex connectors is an atrocity. That is a sign of a lower qulity PSU to begin with. If...

worth a shot

Does the board use an award BIOS chip? If so you might be able to save it. Even after a bad flash.

The antec 3700AMB I purchased came with front USB ports that were only USB 1.1 compatible. I sent Antec an email and they sent me some new ports that were USB 2.0 compliant. I supose it's just about signal integrity (like the difference between cat3 and cat5) I havent heard about any wiring...

The best deals I have seen are walmart/Target sales on Energizer/Rayovac rechargables. The energizers in store are upto 2100, Rayovac is always a step behind. But online the PowerEx batteries look good. A good place to check out is: http://www.imaging-resource.com/ACCS/BATTS/BATTS.HTM You'll...

At that point it's basically a portable computer. It almost needs to be plugged in constantly... a little better than a shuttle X-PC because of the built in screen.

Because it simply isn't needed now. And it has it's downsides (cost, availability).

what upgrade? that's the full version. Just use your retail key or an OEM key and it'll work fine.

http://stats.zerothelement.com/cgi-bin/folding3/render-user-detailed.pl?Id=39577 woot! look at my upcoming conquests... and I love the "No one currently threatens blakerwry" under threats. hehe... looks like they just havent performed an update even though the date at the top includes the 29th.

The sparkle PSU I linked to is made by fortron. notice the model number... It's very quiet, I think a 120mm fan version wouldn't make a noticable difference. After palying around with it, I think the PSU I linked is even quieter than the SL300 or pp303x Antec PSUs(which are the quietest PSUs...

it would be cheaper to get a black laser and a seperate photo printer. Color laser setups are expensive and dont print photos very well from what I hear. I would think about a cheap, easy to use digital camera and a printer that can print directly from the camera. I just got a canon 740D...

I bought this. http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=17-103-481&depa=1 $30 after 3 day shipping. It is quieter than my Antec SL350, about as quiet as my Antec SL300/ smart power 303. The voltage readings are not as tight as the SL350, but good enough. Here's what I...

Do you monitor your temps? It's possible that the edge of the socket kept the cooler from making good contact with the CPU. It's easy to do with some sockets and coolers.

Dont think that would matter coug, as even running in UDMA mode 2 (ATA33) LBA 48 works fine.