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Is anyone out there still overclocking? P4s or XPs? Is it all overclocking based on FSB or are there tricks to unlocking the newer chips? At one level, I have to wonder "why overclock?", but on another, there certainly is fun to be had trying to build a stable, cool, quiet overclocked PC...

On or about this date, 2002, the site that would become storageforum.net was first set up. Looking back at the dates on the earliest registrants, it appears that January 12th is the actual, magical day, but the core of the group - Tannin, Flagreen, P5_133XL, Clocker, adcadet, Groltz, time, NRG...

Anyone use AC97 audio on a gaming machine? Anyone have a rough idea how hard it hits the CPU? Just trying to help a customer...

Today I noticed that my WinXP lab machines need something very close to four minutes to go from login prompt to clean desktop.. and the only startup programs worth notice are Office Fast Start and NAV8. Switched 100Mbit LAN, XP2100s. Turned off all group policy processing on a client and on the...

Anyone else have/play this game? The reason I ask is that I went to a LAN party to be the paid-support guy (on-the-spot upgrades/troubleshooting/CD Copier/game-cracker/no-beer for the young-uns enforcer). I was expecting to see people play lots of different stuff, and indeed there was early talk...

Compgeeks has a good deal on refurbished Logitech Trackman Wheel rodents, $18 apiece. In stores new ones are more like $40, and the best price on pricewatch is $25. I've been looking for a good buy on these for a few months now (justdeals.net used to sell them for $15 but hasn't had stock...

OK. I'm not a christian, so to a certain extent the fact that 45 days out of the year I have to be subjected to religious music is slightly annoying. But I'm also a musician, and there is good christmas music in the world, and today at the video store I had the unfortunate experience of hearing...

I met Fushigi today. Not very many members of this forum have actually met, to my knowledge, so I'm counting this as something of general interest. There's still a bit of cognitive dissonance between the name "Fushigi" and the man himself (see the "What We Look Like" thread) but I had no trouble...

I hit samsungelectronics.com today to snag a copy of the insta-format tool that every drive maker seems to offer with their hardware. Samsung, after making me type in both a "proper" (SP4002H) model number and an actual serial number, led me to a wonderful page not found error. Does anyone have...

After a grueling eight weeks of research, tonight I have concluded that the best single-ingredient pizza, at least at the Papa John's pizzaria that's 107 steps from my apartment door, is a very unlikely candidate. Therefore, I feel that I must share my findings with my friends here at...

Never in all my time on any site have I ever seen a discussion about surge protectors. We all need them. We all have them. I only have actual UPSes on 2/3s of my machines. The rest have a variety of crummy, $15 surge protectors, exactly none of which are particularly well suited for the job...

I made a neat little find last night. These guys have developed a free, functional 386/DOS emulator that supports soundblaster sound, and VGA graphics. Why is this cool, you ask? Well, maybe I'm the only guy that still plays games in DOS, but I'll bet a couple of the rest of you have one or...

If anyone is interested in a new 2.1 speaker set, Target has the utterly fantastic Logitech Z340 set on sale for just $23. I usually pay about $33 a set for these, and boy are they good speakers. I picked up several sets for inclusion in builds. There were lots of 'em on the shelves at the...

I'd like a moment of silence for what may very well be the only 75GXP ever to die a "normal" death. He served me faithfully in a RAID0 for more than two years, and expired this evening, after a short but valiant battle between GMR head and disk surface. His undead rattle is tintinnabular, and I...

Anyone have a strong opinion on newish Television sets? My 27" presentation display is losing vertical synch maybe one power-cycle in five or when I leave it on too long, and I think it's basically going to die. I think I'll just buy a standard-issue TV to replace it (unless it's worth fixing...

Simple question: What's a decent HSF combo in the $10 - $20 range for an AMD chip? Mostly I buy retail chips, and when I don't, I pick up $7 Cooler Master combos. So what's better?

Just noticed that Ghost v2003 supports writing (saved) images directly to NTFS-formatted drives. Symantec may be a crappy company in all other ways but that's really frickin' cool for a DOS program. Especially since it also does firewire, USB1.1 and 2, and CD/DVD-R/W out of the box, too.

Some time ago, I swore to myself that I would never buy a Shuttle mainboard again. I also said I would never buy an ECS board. But just to see what the fuss is all about, I went out and bought myself some new toys this weekend, including a Shuttle AK32L and a pair of ECS K7S5As (and a couple of...

I've been asked to come up with replacement PCs for approximately 60 lab computers, on a hardware budget of around $350/machine. My requirements, other than that, are for a brand-name NIC (3com or Intel), smallish cases with 3 5.25" drive bays, fans that are actually quiet (classroom!), CD-ROM...

Is there a board out there somewhere that'll do a modern AMD (or P4 even) chip, something in the neighborhood of 1700+, and PC133 SDRAM? I've got a couple of old FIC AZ11EAs, but they're fuzzy over 1GHz. I only ask 'cause I'm looking at a pile of 256MB 168pin DIMMs on the table in front of me. :(

StorageForum is a real home to many of its visitors. For some, it's a technical reference, for others, a way to pass time. Regardless, Storageforum can get better. Some of us have, at various times, suggested ways to improve SF and its content. Among other ideas that have been floated... 1. A...

At the request of resident-person-who-needs-the-most-moderation and also fearless leader James, we're gonna try the new mod poll again, maybe without anyone voting for time, who has said he doesn't want the job. At the point where the thread was moved, the results were: Jake the Dog - 4 votes...

Alright, I laughed my butt off at this: Linux hackers [url=http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/articles.php?aid=1&sub=windows%202000]Boostrap Windows 2000[/i] on an Xbox running Linux. Wow. You knew it would happen but... wow. Now I'm seriously considering that Xbox purchase. ;)

I just saw that these people are offering a 160GB 540X for $61. No word on who these people are, whether the drives are refurbished or stolen or what, but for $61, it might be worth a shot. ;)

I've always pronounced "Asus" as aye-suss. Lately I've run into a number of people who pronounce it "ah-sue-zz" or "ah-suess". Bonus points to anyone who can find a definitive pronunciation, but failing that, I'm starting a poll to see how y'all are saying it.

Digging through my parts bins last night I found an unused Radeon PCI 32MB and an unused ATI Rage PCI. Both have naught but standard VGA connectors. I have no idea how long I've had them or where they came from, but I'll bet they work just fine. I can't see installing a PCI video card in a new...

I'm trying to be a conscientious objector to anything more than a moment of silence on 9/11 - the last thing I want is another unctious rememberance with a corporate logo very close by, but today I had an interesting conversation with someone just a bit older than me about moments everyone...

One of the students in the A+ class I'm teaching at the moment suggested that I might be just a touch too cavalier about ESD. He does some kind of electronics work, so I suppose he may be right but at the same time, I can honestly say I've never out-and-out killed any PC hardware via static...

I see from newegg.com that Intel has a P4-based Celeron on the market now. Anyone care to explain the limitations/differences between the older celerons and the new ones, and the P4 v. the new celeron?

I'm finally moving over next weekend. It's a holiday next week - labor day - so I won't be able to have my phone lines activated until at least September 3rd. Needless to say, there probably won't be much posting here until I get something that resembles order in my new place. But... since I'm...

Since someone was just bugging ME about it... anyone know a good site to get themes for Windows XP?

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