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Has anyone seen this article? Do you agree with the test results, disagree, figure they're largely worthless? Thoughts / comments?

So, I'm getting a whopping less than 1k/sec on this download. http://ftpfp.quicken.com/pub/turbotax/2007/wp_turbotax_1040_per_prime.exe :(

I know I'm looking for old technology, but where might I find a ATX motherboard that has at least 1 64bit / 66MHz PCI slot on it, AGP slot, and support for a "decent" processor (preferably Intel). Maybe a used server or something? And, in case you're wondering why I'm asking, I'm basically...

Does anyone else test the RAM of new systems they build before installing an OS on them? I've always done this since I was stung by bad memory back in college. My tool of choice has been GoldMemory. I haven't had any problems with it on the various machines I've tried it on until today. My...

OK, so my main computer is a water cooled P4-3.06HT. It's well over 5 years old. I'm thinking to build another machine to replace it. I'm thinking Intel Core2 Duo or maybe Core2 Quad (unless there's a really compelling reason to go AMD). What's the suggested bang for the buck motherboard or...

If you don't understand the Democrats' version of tax refunds, maybe this will help explain it: 50,000 people went to a baseball game, but the game was rained out. A refund was then due. The team was about to mail refunds when a group of Congressional Democrats stopped them and suggested that...

Does anyone have any experience trying to do VLANs with a Broadcom NetExtreme 5702? Everything I've found says it supports them, but in the Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 2, the option to create a VLAN is greyed out. I've tried a few different driver revisions with no change.

Ok, this is an odd one. I moved not too long ago and now have Bright House Networks cable (RoadRunner) instead of Comcast. There are certain times where certain websites are basically unreachable. For example, right now, I for all intents and purposes can't get to www.costco.com The page...

I'm looking for a 24 port "smart" / quasi-managed gigabit Layer 2 switch (10/100/1000 on all 24 ports). Noise is not an issue. If it matters, this is for my home network. I need VLAN support and jumbo frame support also. I would like the ability to mirror ports as well. I'd like to stay...

So some cretins from the trailer park next door slashed the rear tires on my car and my wifes car two nights ago as they were parked in our driveway. The cars are now in the garage, but I'm thinking to place a few wireless (wifi) security cameras around the outside of my house (or maybe inside...

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So, I know that my 8 port PATA 3ware card can't have an array over 2TB on it. But I need more specifics. I'm hoping some of you know more about the limitations of the 3ware cards. So, what happens if I plug in 6 500GB drives? Correcting for the whole 1000 / 1024 debacle, that would be 2328GB...

I want a 5 port gigabit switch that's cheap but decent. My main requirement is that it can't have any fans or make any noise. Obviously I would like decent performance. I currently have an 8 port gigabit SMC 8508T and I'm not very impressed with the throughput I get (not entirely sure the...

Which is better AVG or Avast? Or is there another free AV program I should be looking at?

Anyone know what the best 24" LCD monitor is? I'm starting to toss around the idea of replacing my 20" Dell LCD (FP2000) with a new widescreen 24". They seem to all be using the same Samsung 24" LCD panel that's got a brightness of 500cd/m^2 and 1000:1 contrast ratio. The Dell 2407 looks...

So, I'm thinking of buying XP Media Center for my new HTPC and I see they're selling it (OEM) for $110 at Newegg.com. I also see that is comes with a upgrade coupon for Vista. What I can't find is what flavor and version of Vista the upgrade coupon is for. I've read that Vista upgrade discs...

So, I slapped this PC together for my parents out of some old stuff I had, and I had a Antec PP-303XP "300W" PS. It won't start the PC due to excessive load on the PS. It tries to start and gives out after about 3-5 seconds. It starts fine with both of the HDs unplugged. I also powered one...

I ended up getting the rest of the parts for my new "uber-quiet" HTPC ordered today... Thanks to your help and my reading at SPCR here's what I ended up with: CPU: AMD Socket AM2 X2 4200+ (65W) CPU HSF: Scythe Ninja Plus Rev. B Mobo: Gigabyte GA-M55plus-S3G (Rev 1.x) Memory: 1GB (512MB x2)...

Anyone have any opinions or experience with high gain omnidirectional 2.4Ghz antennas like this or this? When I first moved into my apartment 18 months ago there wasn't a single wireless network in range, now there are like 13. About 6 weeks ago my wireless network got really flaky. Both of...

Anyone got an Athlon XP sitting around collecting dust they'd be willing to get rid of for a few bucks? I know I could probably get something off ebay, but I'd rather not deal with it.

So... Uh when are DDR2 prices supposed to drop? Earlier this year it was pretty cheap, now it's got to be nearly 2x as much.

I'm in the process of getting a new Pioneer HT receiver that can decode WMA Pro 5.1 / 7.1 audio, so I was checking on my Chaintech AV710 sound card (in my HTPC) yesterday and it doesn't support WMA Pro SPDIF Passthrough. I have a few of the IMAX WMV-HD DVDs that use this audio format, so I...

What's my cheapest option to get into a quiet (HTPC) PCI-E system? I'd like to have a PCI-E x16 nVidia 7600GT for my HTPC. Currently I have an AGP system with a AGP 6600GT. Right now that system has a 1700+ T-bred that's OC'd to 2gHz at the with 512 meg of DDR. I figure I need a new power...

Anyone seen any good deals on good deals on these memory sticks? Best I'ves seen is about $85 after shipping from Newegg.

Does anyone have any ideas where I can buy a dead Dell Inspiron 8600? I see two of them on e-bay, and I'm watching them, but I wondered if you clever folk knew of another place I could maybe get one. The short story is that my laptop had a run in with the ground, and it needs a new LCD...

Why aren't there any competent 2GB flash based mp3 players? I want a MP3 player, not a video/photo player. I have a 512MB Samsung YP-T6X that I won that I really like. Why can't someone make a 2GB player like this. Instead we get color displays, proprietary connectors, and players that don't...

Why is it that a dual core Macbook Pro 1.866GHz can play the Quicktime 1080p trailers with no problems, but they need a 3GHz Dual Core P4 on a PC? Is the Mac version of QT that much better optimized?

Though some of you might be interested in this one. It's the lowest I've seen a 4GB flash drive to date. 4GB Corsair USB Flash Drive for $99 After Rebate ($119-$20) from the following 3 vendors. ZipZoomFly Newegg MonarchComputer

So, I come home from work today after staying until 8pm on a Friday night to have my wife want to watch a DVD using my HTPC. No problem, I turn it on, put the disc in and pick up the Logitech Bluetooth keyboard and type in the password, and nothing happens. After an hour plus of fighting with...

One of my APC Backups Pro 1100 has bad batteries in it. The batteries swelled up and expanded so much that I could hardly get them out of the UPS. I had to take the UPS apart to pry the batteries out. Now APC has a replacement battery for the BP1100, the RBC6 that is the same as the battery...

A Short cautionary tale: Buy Syba SD-ATA133R card and two WD3200SB (raid edition) drives. Make (R)AID-0 array. Copy ~500GB of data to RAID array. 5 days later lose all data when Syba card decides it doesn't like 1 of the Raid Edition drives. WD Diagnostics DOS tool reports a cable error...

I'm looking for a "server" case that can handle at least 12 3.5" HDs (within 18" of the mobo) and say 2 5.25" optical drives and 1 floppy. >12 3.5" HDs would be even better. It needs to be able to accomodate an ATX mobo. Spaces for fans (preferably 80mm) blowing across the HDs is also needed...

I just bought a few new drives from Newegg to perform an overhaul of my PCs' HDs, and I need a few power splitters, a few rounded PATA cables. Newegg has great prices on hardware, but their cables are highway robbery. A $2.49 power splitter has $5.00 shipping buying a 2nd power splitter adds...

Has anyone seen a sound card driver that will make Windows 2000 think it has a sound card, when in reality it does not? I put a HDTV tuner card in my PC to record HD to the RAID-5 array in it, but the system doesn't have a sound card, and that doesn't make the software very happy.

What's a cheap but decent SATA controller? I'm looking to add a large drive to my HTPC for recording HD to, and it seems some of the very large drives are either SATA only, or the SATA version of the drive is cheaper than the PATA version. The machine doesn't have a built in SATA controller...

I have a 3ware 7506 raid card (8 port) and have 8 drives hooked up to it. 2 are 60 gig drives in a RAID-1 config, and the other 6 are 200 gig drives forming a 1TB RAID-5 array. One of the 200's got cranky and one way or another, the 3ware card no longer thinks there is a 2nd array. It shows...

I'm looking for the quietest HD I can get to put in my HTPC (idle is more important than seek). It doesn't need to be big (even only 20 gig would be fine). A cooler running drive would be helpful. I haven't been keeping on top of HDs lately, so what's my best choice?

Anyone have any tips/suggestions on which Data Recovery place to use. It needs to be a fairly quick turn around. Free Estimate would also be good. Finally, not charging an arm and a leg would be ideal. This is from my co-workers Dell notebook, it just goes click, click, click when power is...

So, now that I have all the drives for my server I figure I should probably take the drives off the floor where they're currently running. Are there any moderately sized server cases or tower cases that are going to let me put at least 8 HDs within 18" of a PCI slot? Ventilation is pretty...

I'm in the process of building a RAID 5 setup with 6 WD2000JB drives. So far I have 4 of the drives. I've got my eye on a 3ware 7500-8 card, but 3ware just announced a 7506-8, which is supposed to have up to a 25% performance increase. Now I'm going to be stuffing this thing in a Soyo Dragon...

CompUSA has a sale from 12/22 to 12/24 on the WD2000JB for $219 after rebate (+tax) and the WD1800JB for $189 after rebate (+tax). It looks like the WD2000JB is sold out online, but I got one today in store. The WD1800JB is still shown in stock online. There were quite a few of both in...

Dell Small Business has the Dell 2000FP 20" LCD Monitor for $999 - auto 20% off - 5% coupon code 72CAD81454CE = $759 + tax w/ free shipping! Ends today (12/11/02). I ordered mine earlier today. I got out for just over $800 after tax. Stereodude

Handy, No offense, but this new layout scheme sucks. Please give us back the option of using the defaul subsilver in our profiles. Stereodude

IBM's making yet more of them... http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=28881283 Stereodude

How's this one? Stereodude

I'm looking at setting up an 5 to 8 drive RAID-5 array. I'm looking at the 3ware cards. I think I want the 7500-8. Does anyone have experience with 3 ware products? I'm looking to set up an large array of drives to store all my data on. The current plan is to use 6 120gig drives to give me...

Well this is my first failure with one of WD's newer drives. :( It's actually not a "click of death" like most HD failures I've seen. It looks to be a sector problem. WD DLT program returns a 210 error on the quick test and a 207 on the extended test. The tests don't even start. They just...

Either I'm blind (which could be possible), or this forum is completely hidden from the front page http://www.storageforum.net Is there some reason why there is no link to the forums here? It seems kinda odd that the URL is to Storage Forum (note the forum), but you can't get here unless you...

Look what I parked in my driveway. That's my new car in case you're wondering what I'm talking about. It is a 2002 Nissan Maxima SE loaded with every option except for the GPS navigation system. It is a 6 speed manual. Getting a autotragic/slushbox would be a sin. Stereodude