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:rofl: I knew I read that somewhere reliable! You had me worried for a second or 60

K7 is Alpha (think DEC) not NextGen. Google Dirk Meyer The original K8 design was being worked on by the K6/NextGen team--but this was scrapped in favour of K7 on steroids. Elements of the Nextgen K8 design and team were rumoured to be involved in what became K9. This too has slipped, and in...

See--you understand. :) When I said people don't understand, I did not mean to imply that the stats were good and it was people that were at fault in all cases, the thrust of my argument was that people needed to understand stats enough to know when the stats they were being fed was tripe.

It seems that you haven't thought the issue through. Statistics are neither left/right/good/evil/truth or lie. They just are. How someone presents the information that a statistic may support or decry is another matter. It isn't the statistic that is at fault, it is the motivation of the...

Almost slap bang in the middle--Good old fence sitting... ;) :mrgrn: :eekers:

What you posted does not invalidate Merc's statement. People hitting WebReference would be more likely to be classified as tech literate. Merc was referring to the "great unwashed"--i.e. (hah, hah) those who don't care, or don't know enough to be concerned by various browsers and their...

IIRC, Cyrix was a fabless company. All Cyrix processors were fabbed by IBM. As part of the deal, IBM took x% of the chips labelled them IBM (instead of Cyrix). Again IIRC, IBM avoided the 83MHz bus chips and opted for another 0.5 multiplier @75MHz to get the same PR rating--> Cyrix would...

Saw two disperate reports on 'fox usage today, on top of a report earlier in the week that shows fireFox continuing to gain momentum. First up, Lé Inq ..."Figures using Urchin web counting software show that in the last month, Firefox browsers visiting the INQ represented 46.89%, IE 28.12%...

Also, check the OS & scheduler. The duallies may be set to give more priority to background tasks, whilst a single proc install will set itself to foreground task priority. Y'all probably know this but it's worth checking.

Your powers are weak, old man. Sorry, slipped into an alternate universe for a second there. As in every revolution, there are a few casualties--Moz was one of them. Now up against the wall for your recidivist thinking! Viva La FireFox! :P

*sigh x2* Mercutio, not Mercution :oops: I really am going to have to start previewing

e_dawg, I only figured it as ~7TB I think Mercution is too tame a nick. Maybe it should be Merc the Slayer, or the Mercinator (hmmm, definite Arnie theme here). ÜberMerc? :D

Congratulations Will. Me I'm still traumatised from our (my wife and I) first birth. I think I need therapy...

The revival of this thread reminded me to check the in-laws 8KHA+ last night. All the caps appear to be flat and shiny with no leakage. Phew!

I think the reason I am still shitty with Matrox is their (at the time) vaunted technical support--or in my case lack there of. I may have gotten a response or two, from several attempts, but I dont think they actually said anything meaningful, let alone helpful. It was always Real Soon Now...

*sigh* da, not do, and a few, not few Still shitty with Matrox--let it go Bill, let it go...

Tseng Labs. Ooh yeah, they were do bomb. Had few of them, VESA LB and PCI--and all were good. Matrox. They burnt me with their G200/Open GL drivers--trumpeted on the box no less--that took them 15months to get working (sort of) and 18 or 20 to get working reliably--on Intel chipsets. Never...

Slightly O.T. I wonder how many modern cars would be drivable after an airburst EMP?

If this is a reliable drive, are their other drives unreliable or less reliable? :twistd:

*Sigh* should read as ..." this much action"...

While it is damning of VIA, it isn't really of Tannin. There is method in his madness. Tannin only uses tested and time proven combinations of hardware--and that means no bleeding edge stuff without thorough "field testing", so it is no wonder Tannin doesn't run into these "forward"...

VIA VT8237 & VT8237R not forward compatible with SATA-II hard drives. VIA readying VT8237R+. Whatever happened to the VT8251 (or whatever it was going to be called)? ..."If you connect S-ATA II drives to an old Via chipset which includes the VT8237, VT8237R, VT6420 and VT6421L, the devices...

Aah but there is method to my madness this time. I've been roped into doing Java development with WebSphere (IBM bloatware--ah product) and if you see how many threads it kicks off in the debugger, you'd know that dual-cores would seriously cut the debug angst. And I'm even hoping to find a...

Thanks ddrueding.

Is the Century of the Anchovy before or after the Century of the Caesar Salad? Et tu Bruté? S754 Athlon 64 2800+ Abit KV8 Pro (KT800 Pro) 120GB PATA Samsung, 120GB SATA Maxtor DM9+, 160GB SATA Samsung Abit 128MB Radeon 9550 AGP LiteOn 1653S DVDRW 52X Mitsubishi CD ROM Soon to be (next month)...

Merc, if I'd being drinking coffee or cola when I read that, you'd owe me a new keyboard! P.S. how do you get "PersonX wrote:" instead of "quote:"?

I hate to tell you this G man, but your freezer has iced up :D That is one funny photo!

Socket M2 is 940 pins and the successor to S939. It includes integrated DDR2 controller in place of DDR. Socket M2 is not pin-compatible with current Opteron (S940). Socket F or whatever it is called these days is 1207 pins and is rumoured to include DDR2 and on-chip PCI-e. This is the...

Thank you very much.

more of what I see in nearly every forum I visit. I understand your pain Bozo http://www.storageforum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=70036#70036

I don't understand the reputation ASUS commands (premum brand)? Every post I've ever read over the last five years from peoples opinions that I have come to respect have always included numerous qualifiers and/or gotcha's when dealing with ASUS as a brand. If it has to be qualified so heavily...

75GXP class action finalised http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=24205 Get yer moolah from Big Blue...

I have heard that USB is broken on the ATi South Bridge, so you see a lot of ATi/ULi hybrids. ATi are rumoured to be working on updated silicon, but it has been a while which indicates that the problem may be a bit bigger than made out in this article...

Thanks time, I missed that it was with a SiImg controller :oops: Overclcocking went out the window weeks ago.

Swapped the WD over for a Samsung. The event ID happens to the Samsung now. So, the event is controller independent--it will follow a disk around if moved to another controller. The event happens to whatever PATA disk is connected--so it is unlikely to be a disk error. Cable error is not...

I need a SATA PCI card. Any recommendations out there? I have had a reasonable experience with a Promise Ultra-100, so is their SATA chipset any good? I don't need RAID and two ports should be enough, four would be a bonus. Plain vanilla.

Socket F (new Opteron socket) is 1207 pins. Don't know what the extra 267 pins areused for. Dual channel DDR2-800 will give the effective bandwidth of quad-channel DDR-400 and have better latencies. DDR2-667 will give much more bandwidth than DDR-400, latencies will be equivalent or slightly...

AMD have announced a round of price cuts at the end of July, so I will wait for those and will then grab a 4400+. The stuff I do a lot of will benefit from dual-core and it will still be faster than a my current s754 Athlon, so single-threaded apps will benefit. I have been waiting for this...

<Burt Ward voice> "Holy smokin' XEON's Batman, how will Intel keep up?" <Adam West voice> "Exactly Boy Wonder!, By smokin' the evil weed. It's the grown man equivalent of a child putting both hands over their ears and saying Nah, nah, nah. I can't here you. But just as crime doesn't pay...

http://www.techreport.com/reviews/2005q1/64-bits/index.x?pg=1 http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/x86-64-rc1.html http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2411

Funny you should mention Antec. Wife decided all computer gear needed to be in a cupboard/wardrobe type thingy so she could hide the mess. But the Lian Li (PC60) would not fit--it was too deep. So off I went looking for an enclosure that was only 42cm/420mm/16.5" deep. Hey presto and one...

http://news.com.com/Apple+to+ditch+IBM%2C+switch+to+Intel+chips/2100-1006_3-5731398.html?tag=cd.lede I know that this has been rumoured, but this seems a lot more substantial. A shake up in the market if true. Given that all reported leaks have used Intel and not x86, IA or any other generic...

Man, I really thought they had their sh!t sorted Apparently, the KT890 chipset will not work with Athlon 64 X2, but the KT800/Pro will. http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/chipsets/display/20050603042038.html

Hmmm. I am having an intermittent fault with a WD and after opening the case on Tuesday, I noticed that the molex plug that connected the drive had a loose ground (black) pin. Basically if you puhed the connector into the drive, this loose pin would push out so that you could see the tinned...

What I want to know is what boards _will_ support X2. There is lots of *mumble, mumble* "if it supports FX then it'll support X2." But that doesn't convince me. A 4400+ will be my next upgrade, & I'd really like it if I could plug it in to an AGP S939, so I don't have to upgrade my video...

Merc, that is simply awesome! Everybody who remembers MoO/MoM talks about MoM, yet it never had a sequel and there have been two for MoO. Go figure.

Every so often, I switch over (KVM) to my Win98/DOS box and play Master of Magic/Orion, UFO (X-Com) or some other old DOS game. Space does not give me the luxury of having two monitors.

Thanks, that is what I thought. But I'm starting to think I'll go for another CRT instead.

CRT's can display almost any resolution known to man--today's 19" CRT will still display odd resolutions like old DOS games 640 x 400 (not 480) or even 320 x 240. Can LCD's do this as well? I see a lot of info where they only list certain resolutions, and anything much below the optimal (1280...

Is there a warning or information event immediately before ID# 51? ID# 9 by chance?