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I'm new to nForce4, but when I was researching them (a few weeks ago) I learned early on not to trust the nForce NIC but to use the Marvell one instead. Also to use the bare minimum of the nForce sw - chipset only, no lan, IDE, etc. I really hope there ain't no onboard SATA / IDE issues. I'm...

This "PUI" thing you keep using, what does it mean?

This Merc character certainly has a way with words :lol:

You keep mentioning W*D (previously in another thread a day ago). I'm concerned for you, Buck.

You ain't using them right.

Case fans should help, provided air's being exhausted. A big problem in standard setups is that much of the hot air just keeps going round and round, gradually building up temperatures in the case. In this respect, in the absence of well-planned and executed airflow, it's better to have negative...

Buck, second violation in as many days! Merc's going to get you.

Yes you can. I was surprised at how small the 2.5" enclosure is; barely bigger than the drive itself. The 2GB Lexar Lightning was available for a very good proce somewhere very recently; found it, Dell Home, $96.

It is an awesome deal, but I read that writes are slow at 9MB/s, unlike reads, which are double that speed. It seems most higher cap flash drives have this problem. I recently recommended that my brother buy 2 x Sandisk 2GB (they were on sale), and was crestfallen at how slow writes were. For...

Retired school teacher pays a large amount on his credit card and DHS gets notified. What next? I pee in the loo and DHS comes calling?

Sheesh, I spent so much time looking for this thread, with a totally OT thread title.... New US $10 being released. Yahoo Noose. BoEP Can't seem to get an image to display.

Wanna gift me a copy? 8)

I'm constantly amazed at how blunted-edge I am. Win-XP is on the way out, and I'm installing it for the first time. :D

Won't happen. Dems have become spineless, gutless, brain-dead worms.

There is also the ever present danger of trusting your confidential data to a third party for safe-keeping. With all the data/security breaches that even multi-billion dollor companies have experienced in the last year, and keeping with my high-level of paranoia, no way in hell am I going to...

Thanks for the exhaustive feedback, Merc. You're awesome!

Fascinating article; if it really works it could have a huge impact. Guy studies spirals in nature and applies it to fans, impellers, etc. PC fans could become awfully quiet, too!

School kids build biodiesel car that can go from zero to 60 in four seconds and get more than 50 miles to the gallon.

If an app requires 1.1, will it work with 2.0 or is that something that'll have to be tested on a case by case basis?

Many sections of the fwy are elevated (on concrete columns) over city streets. When you see a big vehicle looming on the side and you're in the "slow" lane, you a) change lanes immediately b) accelerate like mad (if there's space ahead) to get ahead c) slam on the brakes Take your pick.

Thanks, Coug.

Intel's usually not wrong about issues like this, so I'd make sure of the problem before going off on a tangent.

I agree with handy. In my eyes, there's enough focus throughout the image to get a really good feel for what the real thing's like. What the judges will think is another matter of course.

Come visit California! Adding to what Handruin and Buck said, many ramps slope up towards an elevated freeway. Not only does the car have to go up, it has to accelerate in the time frames Handruin talks about. Many on and off ramps on the oldest freeways are pretty short, truly hazardous if...

I'm looking for one that uses a Cypress chipset. The few I can find that can take a 12.5mm thick drive use unheard of chipsets.

What does "Azalia compatible" mean when referring to audio ports? I' referring to the Silverstone SST-FP32-B USB/1394/Audio 3.5" panel. Wikipedia has nothing on it. Google indicates it's a coedc. Why is it being used to describe a piece of hardware that that relocates an audio port? Thanks.

Yes. Cheapest workaround: stick in a PCI controller that doesn't have this limitation - typically brokenPromise.

Thanks, Merc. If I bought WXP-64, it would be used in a dual-boot scenario, I wouldn't depend on it for mainstream use. I guessed support for it is lukewarm at best, and you confirmed that. Thanks.

Hmmm. You must be an alien to wear 34 foot long "shorts".

Should I spend the moolah on WXP-64? Will it have even some kind of life, with Vista looming on the horizon? I have no desire to try Vista, but if some nice apps (multimedia rip/encode, for eg.) are available on WXP-64 now or will be soon, it may be worth it. Comments?

Hogging your bandwidth now...

Ditto, I'm a privacy freak. My underwear size is none of anybody else's business.

Ditto... Google is unable to deal with more than two dimensions. See my location.

I took this test in October 2005, and saved the results to my disk but am unable to open it now :evil: About the only things I remember: I was exactly in the center of the male/female scale; and I got every one of the "guess what they're thinking" correct. I remember being surprised by a...

Thanks, G. Doofus that I am, I thought I could slip the sleeve/HST over the connectors and be done with it. Trawling the net reveals that the connectors (molex, etc.) have to be "de-pinned" first to slip the sleeve/HST over the wires, and then the connectors have to be "re-pinned". That is way...

This may already have been mentioned, if so, forgive me. Since we're talking about preferences, it would be interesting to take this test at the BBC (think it requires flash). Takes about 15 minutes. You'll need a scale at one point (to measure fingers)...

I read that too, a couple of days ago; some proffy at some univ in the US made the declaration that for every 2 units of energy required to make biodisel (planting to usable fuel) you get 1 unit of energy out of the usable fuel.

The two Hibachi T7K250 250 SATA drives arrived a day late this evening (6:50pm, courtesy UPS). I bought them from Directron, and paid $3 extra per drive for "Double-box (extra packing)". This is the way it came: bare drive in a clamshell which was put in a cardboard box barely bigger than the...

Wow, that's a skill that'll have to be developed! Do you lace your wires, Groltz?

Buck, the wires are twisted enough already! Thanks for the tip on shrinking; I'll have to buy a cigarette lighter if I'm going that route. Merc, I already put wire ties on some, but I really hate the knobs that remain after you cut the excess off. When the wires themselves are not bulky, wire...

Awesome! Thanks for sharing it.

The fan power extension cables have worked out really well; ends up being neat. I'd like advice on something else. The Seasonic power supply has the most horrid wires I've ever seen; all twisted and gnarly like a 110 year-old's hands. I'd like to sleeve and/or heatshirnk them and some other...

Server class motherboards have typically had a high amount of interleaving. My memory has gone dim, but I think a HP NetServer I configured / installed / supported required 8 sticks in each of two banks just to start working. Max capacity was 32 sticks.

I toldja Merc was da man.

Scan as many as will fit on the scanner in one shot and break them up with photo editing sw? That's what I did with a bunch of old 2x2" photos stuck in an album page.

You are too!

Going once, going twice... XP home then? I checked MS' website, and they don't say; for using an XP "Upgrade" version, what qualifies - a previous retail version or will a previous OEM version qualify as well? (I know which previous OSes qualify and which don't, my question pertains to the...

Is there a reason to prefer XP Pro over XP Home? Home recognizes and uses dual cores, and the PC won't be joining a domain.

At the outset, let me state that I have nothing against immigrants. In one sense, we all are, into this country. What's really galling is older immigrants getting Social Security. I know many immigrants who were sponsored by relatives and arrived at SS eligible ages. They're getting paid...

I think not. What if Hillary wins again and again and again and again? Shudder-Shudder-Shudder.