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The bush eh? that'd be a long overdue (read as contiunally postponed) vacation for you Tannin, BTW I believe it's perfectly legal to shoot ferals & Mr. K's in the more rural regions of Australia :P Thanks Bartender and may the next round of drinks (doubles) be on me, the local...

You forgot to include used car salespersons (PC speak :P) :roll:

Yeah I know... but it just irks me that we pay a 10% Goods & Services Tax on the total price of petrol including added taxes :evil: Now the very same Gov't that feed us total BS, is saying trust us again whilst they turn around and sell the remainder of the one nationally owned...

Geez Merc' that's totally profound & truely deep... nice find & thanks for sharing ;)

Ah, interesting... thanks for the explaination ;)

So... it controls the actual speed of the drive to reduce operating dB? :?:

Wouldn't Seagate's resurgance in the market place be at least partially due to their 'revamped' attitudes towards drive warranty periods? The Barracuda family of SATA drives for example...

Still, all-in-all good experience for your new employee dealing with the likes of Mr. K. as he wont always be able to deal with pleasant/easy customers eh? ;) Oh and if you can't find that VESA Graphics card... I'm sure I can *looks around* hell I'll even get out the angle grinder and sharpen...

LMAO I used the UK measurement for gallon (4.55 litres) :lol: hence 1 US (liquid) gallon is 3.78 litres :roll: Nah the 10% GST is charged on all charges including fuel excise... a tax on tax if you like, on top of that we pay 22-35c+ in the dollar income tax :eekers: Hmmmmm Gov't :cursin:

Please excuse the ignorance... but what does the acronym AAM actually stand for, and what is it's relationship to the drive, and inherently performance? I didn't locate any answers on an initial Google search :(

As has been my luck/experience with the past few installations (SS7) the bedamned HsF combination (mounted) is dab smack in front of the rear opening of the HDD cage... hence it's a toss up between HDD or CPU & HsF installation ;) Thankfully the practice has been to orientate the CPU socket @...

Test bench eh? :eekers: A kitchen table makes a great test bench, but the m/board box will do in a pinch... so long as it's a 'quiet period' in the house ;)

Dude you really are negative... gotta' work on those social skills! :P AS far as fuel costs go, don't complain too much... we have to pay $1.22 AUD per (imperial) litre the equivalent of $4.17629 USD per gallon... though included in that AFAIK we have, State tax duty Federal tax duty Fuel...

LMAO spyware or attractant? you try and tell my wife that! :lol: Incredimail is only installed on the primary ICS host system accounts, along with Spybot S&D, Lavasoft's Adaware & of course MS's Beta1 spyware... however I never bother to add it to any of the other PC's about the house ;) I'm...

Well I've already passed the old fart demographic & well on the way into pre-historic (34+) :P Illuminated case fans don't bother me either way, my main consideration was cooling performance and the IceberQ4 was such an item (though I just wasn't sure it'd fit originally), I don't have a window...

Geez! violent & aggressive shoppers, sounds like an end of season clearance sale @ Myers Melbourne LMAO :lol: The shop assistants would require 'riot gear' & danger money! :P

I guess it'd depend on the space constraints within the case, also the size/type of HsF combination you intend to use and lastly the degree of difficulty associated with the retention mechanism of your cooling solution ;) As for RAM though... I wouldn't imagine it mattered either way, a...

There is actually a local PC wrecker/recycler who deals predominantly with 'pre-loved' system components, Tannin would know of him I assume... he's got a little 'bricks & mortar' shop down South St. way (doubles as an internet cafe) ;) While referring 'clients' elsewhere may have an effect on...

Hmmmm... that begs the question (dare I ask?) what happened on the 19th June last year? :-?

Geez! I'm sorry you lost control Tannin :eekers: it sounds like perhaps one of the 'lights-in-cases crowd' whom Merc' just loves to hate, may have gotten into his ear (possibly an in-law?), and confused this poor individual further still as to his requirements (BTW it wasn't me :P) At...

No, not really! :P The Vantec IceberQ4 is 'the' most efficient cooler for the GeForce2 chipset IMHO, just because it has a 'purdy' blue light shouldn't negate it as an option... while the Bl'orb and Tt Crystal Orb would have to be considered close runners up ;) Admit it Merc' while your happy...

Mozilla is great... but personally I use it over FireFox due to it's integrated IRC client ChatZilla, I don't bother with the mail client using instead a heavily imaged 'Incredimail' program :mrgrn:

w00t w00t! :jumpin: It fits, it fits!!! Nice purdy' illuminated blue... should make it go faster eh Merc? :P just needed a slight 3pin -> 2pin header mod ;)

Wow many hands make light work, sysrep makes many hands obsolete! ;)

I'm heading off to the local PC swapmeet (later) this morning... and will probably end up with a TT blue orb 'knock-off' it's a pity, because I really like the IceberQ4 :(

That's it... nada! nothing on the chipset @ all ;)

Hmmmm... does that include Texans? :P

Easy... #1 Windows 98SE with LITE alterations (95 components) & IE5+ uninstalled, Mozilla & FireFox are wonderful browsers ;) #2 My LAN utilizes an ICS system with the main system (host) being Win XPpro with various security & AV management packages ;) AVG - everybodies favourite :P PrevX -...

Well I managed to secure a replacement for my ever aging TnT2pro, namely a nVidia Geforce2 MX400... though the problem is however it has no chipset cooler, other than the TT Blue Orb (pictured below) what else would make a viable replacement? Thermal Take claim it is suited to the GeForce 2&3...

All that labour intensive side of the workshop actvites shouldn't be a real problem for you Tea, seeing as your primate feet have almost as much dexterity as your hands :P also would you mind asking Tannin if while he's removing all that eye candy... to disable that annoying messenger service...

Yeah 'DUST BUNNIES' are an overclockers worst nightmare :(

:roll: that's okay... I was in "ours is bigger than yours..." frame of thinking! :P LMAO :lol: Tea you've been an outspoken primate... NO banana's for you today! :mrgrn:

Well thanks Tea I was on a roll, till you kicked the wheels out from under me! :p :roll: :lol:

That's the future of the world for you... Vegemite isn't even owned/produced by an Australian company anymore :(

Oh... and I thought Japanese multi-corporations owned the top half of Australia :roll:

What's wrong with Texans? or Non-caucasions for that matter? :eekers: I mean we all here about how things ARE bigger in Texas etc. but the humourous twist to that is the entire state of Texas would fit into 1 of out Northern Territory cattle stations fence lines! :P :lol:

I guess it would depend on if they were fully grown or not eh? :P

Hmmmm... a 720 pin SIMM? :eekers:

Tannin how nice of you to share your 'hi-tech' goop removal solutions & techniques ;) * An 8MB 720pin SIMM. * The roughened wood on the edge of my workbench. * Last but not least, any convenient bit of flexible packaging foam for the final polish That's certainly more 'leading edge' than...

Nah... it's because they didn't want thermal (phase change) pad remnants remaining within the heatsinks (pores) surface, which would be counter productive to the AS5 characteristics ;) Personally I'd prefer AS5 in those imperfections than T/pad remnants any day :aok: Yeah a proportion of the...

Actually, I did use a scientific approach to the tests ;) hell I even documented the process in two posts @ OCC, but owing to the phenomenon known as the 'hosting black hole'... most if not all the screen shots (that had been hosted on Mediapimp.com) are nothing but a memory, though the threads...

Just as an after thought LiamC... Once a thermal compound has been heated it seeps into the 'pores' or surface imperfections (if you prefer) of the heatsink, and AFAIK remains there indefinitely... inherently effecting the performance on the next level of thermal compound to be applied (though...

Right on primate! :aok: I wasn't aware of the DansData cooler review... but found in my own dabblings that AS5 works better period! for example lapping the h/sink surface + 40cfm fan + AS5, brought an OC'ed 2500+ (2.2Ghz) down 10c total, using a standard issue Heatsink with the AS5 achieved a...

I think the question is self serving... rather would you use K-mart/payless (recycled) OR Penzoil/GTX2/Valvoline (you know what I mean :P) oils in your Ferrari? Both are lubricants, though only one is the result of an intensive QA program, hence the same with thermal compounds... if you've got...

Donate them to your local little league (baseball) Team :aok:

Actually... it was 'preloved' and only set me back a fraction of it's original RRP :aok: though now my gaming tastes require a card with T&L support... so I'll hunt around for a GeForce2 or similar I guess :mrgrn: Does this upgrade bug ever subside? I'm already pricing A64's & s939 mainboards...

Why is that whacky overclocking? same Barton core & cache size... essentially the same CPU just rated @ a lower spec r/t AMD's QA/benchmarking programme for it's processors ;) My definition of whacky OC'ing is... upping Vcore's, RAM & AGP voltage, droop mod's etc. not to mention water cooling &...

Hmmmm... thanks for your brutal honesty ;) Abit - Yes, they had issues with their capacitors a while back... Sony, HP/Compaq Computers, AOL and WD - You'll get no argument out of me there :P As for the nForce2 Ultra's - I run my XP2500+ @ 3200 spec (400Mhz fsb) with no issues, however... I...

Hmmm... you're as biased towards nVidia as you are Cyrix :roll: I'll admit VIA was king of the hill for SS7 IMHO, with all benchtests I've personally run it flogged the equivalent ALi V chipset nicely ;) As for nForce1 chipsets, never owned one... and from what I hear I never will, nForce3 had...