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I guess nobody told them about opteron.

I like it here because there is not too much people. I can actually keep track of topic and posts. The discussion seems to be more "alive" and I actually get responses to my posts :) . Beyond the reasons Merc enumerated, my main reason for not returning to SR much is that there is too much...

Hehe, maybe... Merc, if I judge with my single experience with abit, i would agree with you. I had many problems with the board although i never overclocked. However, some of the problems with abit's may be a result of overclocking or a bad manipulation on the board itself.

Gigabyte boards are becoming more and more flashy, with loads of more or less usefull features. It may not affect their quality, but generally, the more you put on the board, the more it may malfunction. Like the DPS they now have (weird slot thingy)... However, many of my recent experiences...

Yep, two seperate HD's will give you better performance, unless you do something that needs high STR.

I don't think that the point was to prove that google is evil. I think the message is that Google could be used for evil intentions (and that would have huge impacts), so it's worth monitoring. A big market share is always source of concern. Just look at Microsoft... How many people find this...

You can try to build a dually system with cheap XP's to bring the price down. But the mobo's are just too expensive. Or you can upgrade your MP's on your current mobo. Even better, upgrade with XP's :) .

I just got an SMP system, a dual Athlon MP 2600. Before I had a single Athlon XP 1800. In "general use" (surfing the net, office work, general system responsiveness) there is no noticable difference between both systems. However, the reason I switched to duallies was for VMWare and there...

Very interesting drive for storage. Very quiet and cool. Also, performance is very acceptable.

It was the graphical client on windows 2000. How do you install it as a service?

Tyan Tiger MPX. Very good setup by the way. Very happy about it. Yesterday, there were wierd problems with F@H because I had a graphical client and a console client. I was having 100% on one CPU and 70% on the other. I dropped the graphical client for another console, and it seems to work fine.

She noticed. And for some strange reason, asked me to desinstall it... :(

Ok, some good news, some bad news... The bad, is that my Athlon TBird 1333 will not be folding anymore. I sold this machine to my sister. The good, is that my new dual athlon MP 2600 will be folding instead! I have two instances of folding running to harness the power of both processors. I...

Well, it's less choice for ATI cards. Before, we had the choice between paying a higher price for an ATI brand name card or pay less for a card made by another manufacturer. The advantage with with ATI cards is that they a standard card based on the reference design. Also, the retail package is...

Humm....The MSI board overclocks the bus...the intel processor downclocks itself....Weird stuff indeed. You would end up with only an overclocked bus...

It's nice to know, but there is no need to panic. I agree with Merc with the fact that google has a too big market share. That's the only thing wrong that I saw with google.

At first I wrote tabbed browsing, but I thought that was the feature's name only in mozilla. I thought the term MDI would be clearer... Is it called tabbed browsing in Opera?

The advantage is that you don't have to installer another browser to incorporate these features. So you get the advantages of IE with the features of other browsers. However, in a corporate environnement, every add-on for IE (ie Hotbar) is a potential danger for web applications.

MDI browsing windows must be a feature incorporated in IE. At work, i must use IE (because all the intranet is made with frontpage!). I use at least 2-3 web pages, 2 word documents and 2 outlook windows at the same time. My taskbar is loaded. I'd really like IE to be MDI (word and access also...

It's a friend of mine that is gladly donating his cpu power to our humble team.

If I fold on a PII266, is it worth it? The machine is already on 24/7 and has plenty of memory...

They still put mainframes (and servers) in their own rooms today... Last summer, I had a server rack beside my desk for testing. Those were dual PII and PIII series with 10K and 7.2K SCSI disks. The main source of noise was the case fans. The noise level was very high. I did not mind that much...

Consider the recent move to 1-year warranties... Isn't it strange that Seagate and Maxtor, who have 1-year warranties on (almost) all their drives, have reliability problems. However, it's probably just a coincidence. True or not, it's very bad for PR...

Lol....that feature is really useless. Unless they wanted to have better benchmarks without people noticing....hehe bad MSI.

18" from pcguide : http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/if/ide/conf.htm

Ahhh....thank god for admins! I'm pretty trigger happy on my server right now. Maybe it's because of that article :) .

Nice to see. We may see a very viable integrated solution for the pentium 4, much like the nForce was for the athlon. For speed, let's just say the Intel Chipsets are very hard to beat. I'd also like to see this chipset in notebooks.

I would not buy a mobo with that feature. The only advantage I see is variable fan speeds. It would be nice that the mobo also adjusts the fan speed. However, I don't like the idea that they only overclock the processor. I would like it also to underclock, like in notebooks.

I have two Maxtor D740X drives hooked on the Ultra100 TX2. The problems are high CPU utilisation and sound problems when there is disk activity. It seems to happen only with writes, like when I save a file or defrag. The computer becomes much less responsive (CPU wise). There seem to be an...

I've had very bad experiences with eDonkey. It seems that most of my downloads fail. Since I have a bandwith limit with my ISP, I can't afford to fail many downloads. I use Direct Connect to find most stuff. Downloads are slower (you download from only one computer) but most downloads don't...

Yep, mine does it too. D740X's make alot of weird noises :) .

Weee! More fun for us! However, I must buy Athlon MP's now.... :(

Humm...Then they wonder why software is used illigally!

3,5 Mbps dl 180 kbps ul. I don't like the upload speed. However, pings are excellent. Performance is improving. 34,99 Canadian Dollars. Modem not included.

I bought two WD400JB drives this year and I don't really like the sound they make. They are better than my 60GXP, but they are far from silent.

I went to see it friday. Overall it was very good. Only a few negative remarks 1. Dialogues are very weak or useless sometimes. 2. French translation was pathetic :D. 3. Superman. Nuff said. 4. Sometimes, they do things for no reason...like in a real kung fu movie ("lets fight!" and then...

The modules are double sided. I checked the latest info on this board and it still supports only 3 128MB dimms for a total of 384 MB. I guess that it can support more, but it's not guaranteed. My board seems to have lots of problems beyond 512MB. The BX supports 256MB modules. Maybe you were...

I've read one person who said that it was quite silent. It seems that opinions differ.

Diskeeper, O&O and windows build in defrag have problems defragmenting partitions that have less than 20% free space (they almost do nothing!). Norton Speed disk can defragment about anything you can throw at it. However, it takes forever and the memory usage of the service keeps getting...

There may be good years (months?) coming for VIA. Their product's quality seemed to improve (and their reputation) and if they have the performance crown, it will help them get more market shares.

I'd say, give your general impression. Does you system feel more responsive with that drive? If you use VMWare, i'd like to get your impressions (out of standby, commit changes, booting two VM's at the same time, etc...).

I tried it yesterday, with very unexpected results. First, I tried with a single 256MB dimm. It worked and was recognized as 256MB. I tried putting another 256MB dimm and it worked. The BIOS recognized both as 512MB of memory. I booted and Windows also sees 512MB of memory. Then I added the...

Thank you. I'll try it and post results this week (the server is important so I can't shut it down for a long time :D ).

I have problems with my promise Ultra100 TX2 on a Tyan Tiger MPX system. But it seems to work fine with all other motherboards/chipsets i've had. I can't notice any performance difference between the Ultra100 and the onboard SiS 735 IDE controller. The Ultra100 is clearly faster than the VIA...

Lol, that's only an excuse for upgrading :lol: . Anyway, you also should try loading defaults in the BIOS (if it's now already done).

Try installing from the ISO image in VMWare...you never know (why did you bother burning the CD's anyways :D ).

Wow. He could have used anything else...I wonder if that guy's intention was to end up in the news :roll: ...

I have a "home server" with an Asus P2L97 (440LX) motherboard. It supports three 128MB dimms. Right now, I have 192MB (2 X 32MB PC66 and 1 X 128 PC133). I'd like to add some memory to that poor system (memory usage in windows is 312MB). I have two 256MB dimms that I don't use. Can I use them...

Is there a motherboard maker that calls you on your birthday?

There's no plans for CS on HL2. Right now, the next step for CS is version 1.6 and condition zero. I can't see it ported on HL2 anytime soon :(. At least, we don't have to get used to different gameplay :D ....for now.