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For me it's rather simple, I have legit copies for XP and I am very happy with them. If you want to give me Vista I am very open to that :) I also had a pretty negative experience on the trial I did for vista, lots of crashing with network access. Really nasty instant hardware reset and reboot...

Man, some porn is not meant for hi-def... I have a five year old Toshiba 52" TV that suits me fine now but I am lusting over the Aquos range of LCD's.

Thats weird, I would have thought it would be the other way round.

Yes, thats what my board did by default when you populated all four slots. Manually setting the same fast timings at DDR400 caused all sorts of memory problems. Mine was a San Diego CPU. http://www.storageforum.net/forum/showthread.php?t=5399&highlight=memory

I had to get out of power work because I am so clumsy that I drop screwdrivers and test leads all the time, dancing I think might turn out to be just as dangerous.

Hmm, I thought you might get some extra divisors with the v3.3 board seeing it supports the C2D 1333FSB, guess not. Yeah, I am not to impressed with the x2900 either, except for what it is doing for the price on the x1950xtx's and other high end cards. It is a bit ridiculous how hot the video...

Cool, I didn't know that there was an F10 out for that. That would have been an amazing OC to reach. Does intel even bin these things or do they just slap different stamps on the chips to call them diffent speeds lol. On the memory speeds have you tried just using a different memory divisor...

x2. That has been weighing heavily on my mind for many years now. On the NAS thing, I looked into it for a while but I make use of the box in so many other ways there is no way I could do anything other than winderz.

I don't see a delayed spin up available on my aging 3ware 7500-8.

Hmm, my ninja scythe didn't come with a backplate either? Actually that was a plus for me as my motherboard has a radiator thing going on back there that it would interfere with.

Inrush is when you close a breaker to energize a transformer, can be up to a thousand times what the transformer is rated but only for a very small instant of time. Really a non issue in PC's as they simply don't have transformers. Startup current would more refer to a motor starting like fans...

I have a Zalman Z80A-HP I have been trying to get rid of for a long time now. Course you are just about on the wrong side of the globe... Takes up that slot too.

Hmm, I have a fluke and an amp clamp somewhere so I think I might have to shred a power cable to satisfy some curiosity. Should be interesting. So if I measure something on that AC cable and my power supply is rated at 80% efficiency that means I subtract 20% of my reading to get the watts...

Thats fairly close to me except for the video card maybe, which one is that? My motherboard is the Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6 so we are pretty close there too. How was the weather up there today, was actually a little hot down here in NH just south of you.

Good point. I forgot to mention that when my seasonic died it was in the middle of a game though. It straight up turned off then I got about three more boots out of it with subsequent crashing before it simply would not turn on again.

Well yes, all else being unequal due to timing, if you need that much memory it will be much better than not having it, so I agree +4 on what ddrueding said.

A little while ago I smoked a Seasonic S12-430 by adding a second video card to do SLI, previously I had been running for about eight months with that system with the one video card so I think it was pretty clear what killed it. I upgraded the power supply to a S12-550 which worked for that, but...

Pretty sure you are right. My old game computer with 3700+ San Diego would not do 4 sticks at the correct speed and 1T with Corsair Value ram. I think that was a Gigabyte nforce board at the time too? You could either lower the speed down on the memory and keep the same timings or go to 2T at...

This stuff is so far over my head I am laughing.

On the roof; hopefully you can partially work this into the purchase price? Going through this on my condo right now and they didn't budget for a roof replacement, major assessment fee coming up, stupid condo managers. Roofs last 20 years on average but if you don't have trees around or good...

Been thinking about the commute thing lately too. I used to have a company car until I got promoted to more of a technical support role which doesn't rate a company vehicle so now I am looking at driving an SUV or a motorcycle to work. Fortunately I work from home and travel less but it is a...

My friends and I just use FTP. Hassle to setup with firewalls though, and you have to go for an odd port number as most ISP's block 21. I just put my port up in the thirty thousands and have never had a problem with ISP blocking.

Googled the specs and it is ATA133 out of the box. Is this a trick question?

To cut the problem in half do you have another PC to test with? To see if it is in the file server or your workstation. Sounds like the workstation though, I don't like the sound of disabling offloading to solve the CRC errors thing. Using gigabit? How is your cabling? Damn ddrueding, you...

Just looking for what is different: Using the windows default driver for the NIC? Might try using a manufacturer driver or two.

Pricing is insane for many products. If I was pressed to go 100% legit I would find some freeware stuff to replace a lot of things I use just because it is easier this way. Another thought is that with all the focus on pirating that these agencies doing a good deal of bullying is that they are...

Ditto: I have moved arrays between two Promise fasttrack controllers no problem done it lots of times and even between different types like the 66 and 100. Done the same thing between 3Ware controllers as well, in fact 3Ware specifically states this will work on their site or in users manuals...

I don't know, it looks like it could be the next Matrox Parhelia according to the early benchmarks but we will see more definitely after some sort of paper launch this week so you should probably wait out the week to see. Sure to be some reviews posted after the launch and NDA lifts.

First half or second half of the year you think?

LOL, yes.

I spoke too soon. I removed the overclock completely now and I tested again more throughly than that first time. The card is more reliable this way but occasionally blue screens after or during 3D testing and then on reboot gives no video. Sounds like a defective card to me but these guys seem...

Ah, on a hunch I upped the volts to the PCIE to +.15 and the FSB to +.1. I can't get it to post with no video anymore so I guess it's fixed. I think it was the FSB that did the trick as I had previously tried upping the PCIE alone before with no results. Hopefully stays that way too, I will be...

I am trying to swap in a Sapphire X1950XTX video card, I built the system last week and it has been fine till now. Problem about 50% of the time there is no video and a BIOS beep code on boot with one long and two short = Video Adapter error. Happens on both warm and cold boots. If you get...

What CPU temp utility are you all getting your temps from? I have noticed that the core temp program can almost be ten degrees higher than what the Gigabyte Easy tune software reads on the CPU's. I think it is reading different points in the CPU as you get a reading for each core.

Ah yes, I am getting there. The memory is TWIN2X2048-8500C5. I plugged those values in as thats what the memory is rated at for 1066/533 but ignored the multiplier and VDIMM for now to see what the CPU does. So what I did was up the FSB to 350 and change memory ratio to 2:3 to end up at 525 on...

Well I guess I am pretty happy. Not running a CPU fan on this, the P180B has the top fan set to medium, the back and bottom are set to low and the video card is the loudest ting in there. This case is so quiet in comparison to what I had before (coolermaster wavemaster). I set the system up for...

I rather like the idea that they are admitting that the chips have some decent headroom and are doing something official with it while still staying within the constraints that system builders impose. Or maybe self imposed.

Indeed that is on my mind. Additionally it appears that it uses the standard plastic clips and no motherboard backing plate, newegg has some decent pictures. Good for me as I don't have to remove my motherboards rear heat sink but doesn't look like a sound structure. It does look like most of...

I am obviously showing my ignorance above about these matters but what about using the XP/2003 x86 driver under vista x86? I was able to do that with one or two devices in my very brief exploration of Vista.

That probably will go away, might take a while though. I think it is interesting that a lot of recent rubber items have a vanilla smell now like watch bands and even car tires.

I did a little car computing for MP3 and car movie purposes. I used winamp with a 10 key plugin and the thing worked pretty good unless it was so cold out the HD would not initialize :) and you would have to run the heat a bit before you could use it. I no longer need it though so you may have...

I believe you use standard SATA cables. The physical interface is the same, you can even use SATA drives on a SAS controller. To put together drives in RAID it is preferred to have the same capacity, model and firmware drives. At a minimum same model. I think you would expect some strange...

I had a couple college professors that didn't like what they did with word past office 97, so if you just want to write 95 and 97 had a minimum of crap that gets in the way. Personally I use notepad more than word. I have to use outlook for work and we are all standardized on office 03 there...

They list that it fits the GA-965P-DS4 and the GA-965G-DS3. The first of those has heatpipes like the GA-965P-DQ6 that I ordered. From the pictures that I have looked at it appears it will work but be close. Googled and there are a couple people out there that claim to be using that combo.

Well cool, I am now glad they were out of stock on the Tuniq. I was planning on using the stock HSF that comes with the E6600 for a while till it was in but after some searching around there are quite a few people happy with the P180B and Scythe Ninja combination. I even figure if I need a...

That really piques my interest as I just got a P180B. I was looking at a Tuniq Tower 120 as well, but that scythe looks really promising.

Are the extra lanes just picking up more power to run the card and allow use without a power connector? I have a low end 6200 and it actually does a little 3D work so it probably draws a little power. Just a guess.

Really? I didn't even know there was such a product for the normal consumer. Only thing I know about is shorting the green wire to black ground to turn it on and then check voltages with a meter, but I heard that wasn't to good for the power supply to run with no load. Didn't know that either...

Oh and I noticed a rather nasty clause in the RMA agreement that if you send them a power supply that tests good they get to charge you $25 before they send it back. First time I have seen something like that and just a little bit hard to swallow I think, how many people can actually test a...

Well then, trying to RMA the Seasonic power supply. The on-line web page will not accept my serial number and the "rma@seasonicusa.com" bounces my message with a: <rma@seasonicusa.com>: host mx1.biz.mail.yahoo.com[67.28.113.136] said: 550 relaying denied for <rma@seasonicusa.com> (in reply...