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Ok, but the 10$ premium for the X2 3600+ is offset by the lower price of the motherboard. GeFarce 6100/MCP405-based motherboards cost less than 60$. GigaByte, ASRock and Biostar make them. Probably MSI too. ECS too, but, well, forget that one. Chipsets for LGA775 : there's the 945GZ (awful...

I haven't pricewatch'd the Pentium D 805, but a quick look at Newegg put it at 59.99$ in OEM without the heatsink. The Athlon 64 X2 3600+ AM2 is also 59.99$ in OEM package. Is there a single task that a Pentium D can perform faster than a 3600+ Athlon X2? The half-decent motherboards for...

You really want to have a heater inside your 200$ crapbox? Athlon 64 3000+ aren't more expensive and they are a better value.

Dell is easy to beat by mom & pop shop, unless WalMart stocks the Ubuntu-equipped systems. The Ubuntu-Dell are hard to beat price-wise. For instance : Core 2 Duo E6320 1GB DDR2 667MHz 945G-based motherboard 250GB SATA hard drive CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo optical drive magnificent Dell proprietary...

You shave the remaining 10$ by lowering the RAM to 512MB. It's ok if you use an ok operating system. Vista isn't an ok operating system. K/X/Ubuntu is ok and free.

He must have replaced an anesthesist. Apparently, the stuff they play with is quite strong and the emanations they inhale, even in small quantities, make them crazy. Many are also drug addicts (according to Andy himself).

I'll delay my new system until the Q6600 price drop too. So there will be at least one Q6600 from me, one for Fushigi and... depending on how much P5-133XL is whiling to withdraw from his RRSP... a whole lot more for P5-133XL. Let's say three (although I'm sure he won't limit himself to a...

Among the team with a higher score than ours, 20 are producing less than we do. However, in our back, 77 teams are outproducing us (I stopped looking past the team ranked 2000th). The fartest team to beat us in weekly output is currently 1352nd (guru3d). 27 of our challengers are making twice...

You guys have really nothing to say since yesterday. If anyone has a stupid question to ask, now would be the time. The forum has been dead today.

What about the NSK3300? It only has a 300W SFX PSU, but it's efficient and sufficiently ventilated for a low-power box.

Do you want one hundred then? You'll pay me another time. I don't want to be Paypaled for 10$.

I can't get cheap OEM Vista stickers. Right now I'm selling WinXP Pro licenses because the price of XP Home increased above it.

I notice that yesterday, the prices stopped dropping and today, some memory types are increasing. If you haven't stocked yet, you have the rest of the week and after that, it will start to rise again. It was about time.

Maybe you didn't notice, but you had a PM about this yesterday.

Thanks. Seagate drives' value have just increased.

I already have the RAM. Kingston DDR2 667MHz value RAM. Probably no room for overclocking.

I'm about to build a new box too. It's main purpose won't be FAH, but I'm puting Folding performance in the balance too. Basicly, I have the choice between those two : Athlon 64 X2 5600+ and Asus M2A-VM (AMD 690G chipset) Core 2 Duo E6320 and MSI 945GM4-F Why those two? Because they are...

Fashion?

News source The drive is a 5400rpm, with 8MB of cache and it has a 12ms seek time. It is only available in SATA version. It is available on Western Digital's site for 199.99U$. WD clinches Fujitsu as the first manufacturer to ship a 250GB 2.5" hard drive. Fujitsu announced its 250GB...

I spend a few hours every week as a contract technician at a computer shop. They have lots of them. I'll try to convince them to let them go for...50¢ each. Below that, they won't agree. If you can PM me your zip code, I'll be able to calculate shipping.

According to SPCR, the dearer M12 models (with modular cables) are slightly noisier than the Energy Plus. I would therefore recommend either the 550W or 650W Energy Plus. For the same price as the Seasonic Energy Plus 550W, you can get an Arctic Cooling Silentium T2 Pro with a 500W power...

Oh and thanks for the explanation regarding the famous illuminated Spanish.

The FAH SMP client runs about 5% slower than on WinXP on similar hardware. After a few days of use, I think I'll be able to survive Vista. But I plan to demo Vista 64bit and Kubuntu systems side to side and let customers decide which one is better considering the fact that the Linux distro...

What's the status of the low-thirst Tahoe/Yukon? When will it be out? Also, GM confirmed that the Chevy Volt was scheduled for a 2010 release. As of today, it should take 36 months before it appears in showrooms.

Anyway, it's too late. The deadline was 5pm Eastern Time. Now I can no longer have it at this price.

Confirmed. It feels slow on the fastest system I have. And the "long goodbye" bug doesn't help either (5 seconds to delete a 1.89KB shortcut is revolting). Vista 64bit on a C2Duo E6400 with 2GB of RAM feels about as snappy as WinXP on a P3 1GHz with 256MB of RAM. No more. I'm not...

Maybe I should start teaching... Imagine me in a classroom full of old people who don't understand a damn thing about computers. How many minutes would I tough before beating one of the old buggers?

No, I'm not jealous at all. You only beat me by a factor of ten. What's your secret outside being handsome? Are you looking for employees? In fact, I'm pretty sure you sell more than Buck or Tony these days. Regarding the support calls on Vista : we won't avoid it no matter what. Better...

Oh and opt for a motherboard with the new P35 chipset from Intel. The memory controller is quite a bit better than the one on the 965P. Now, the supply of P35-based motherboards is scarse, but it won't be at the end of July. Get one with the DDR2 slots. Fast DDR2 modules give better...

What will you use instead of the X1950 Pro? A cheapo GeFarce 7200GS or X1050? Even with the recent price drop regarding processors, I'm still able to make money out of it. What sells is and has been for a while CPUs between 100$ and 200$. That still exists, they are only faster. RAM price...

This guy thinks Vista is an improvement over whatever else got out of Redmond. About the kernel, here's what he wrote : That made me plan to try Vista 64bit a second time. I know I won't fall in love with it, but July is coming quickly and I'll have to try to make it usable for my customers...

Thanks Will for taking the time to post that table. The 8GB GT Flash Voyager cost me more than what Newegg sells it. I would have to sell it 120U$ plus shipping just to break even. I would buy the 16GB flash drive for myself if I hadn't other more urgent hardware to acquire. Vista can be...

Just seen that Newegg sells the 400GB model at 101.28$ shipped. That's cheap :( I suppose I could match, but I wouldn't do many pennies.

What is the price to beat and which capacity are you looking for?

Voayager = Voyager

I can have those until tomorrow 5pm. PM me if interested. Quantities are limited. I'll ship anywhere, but of course it will only be cheap for Québec, Canada and United States. http://www.corsairmemory.com/corsair/flash_memory.html

You can only use certified drivers in 64bit. That's quite limitating.

I have a mighty influence over the site.

Tomorrow I'll be going to my weekly visit at my RAM supplier and I'm gonna ask my representant when she'll start giving 1GB DDR2 modules as presence price to her visiting customers. No, seriously I won't ask. I already did a month ago.

Anyone else amazed at how low the price of DRAM (especially DDR2) has felt recently? I keep saying : "No, it CAN'T drop below that price." and I'm always wrong. Visit www.dramexchange.com. The average price indicated for 1GB U-DIMM 667MHz is about what I pay for 1GB DDR2 667MHz, but in...

Thanks for your input.

It's perfectly normal for two separated instances under Winblows. However, in order to maximize your FAH production, you could run the FAH SMP client under a 64bit Linux installation. Your stats would double.

I managed to find a free domain name for my company. I have two questions for people in the know : Is it useful to have a "certified" domain? I am proposed a "domain name registration" as well as a "business registration" and "private registration services". Do I need all three for a...

I have pictures of the case, if anyone wants to see it. I would have posted them online, but my plans to have a web site for my company went down yesterday. I founded my company in August 2002. Back then, I didn't need a web site. Recently, I felt I needed to be online so I looked if there...

That drive appeared on my price lists this morning. Please buy it and tell me if it's good. It costs me more than 95U$, but I'm starting to have demand for 8GB USB drive, so maybe I'll be able to sell a few. The GT is supposed to be very fast for a USB flash drive.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/26/vbootkit_authors_interview/ This is bad.

Good luck to find a motherboard with a LGA771 and overclocking options. You would have better luck with the Q6600, although it's close to 600U$ (but will drop to ~260$-280$ in a few months).

What BIOS revision have you installed for the GigaByte GA-965P-DS3? F9, F10, later?

It was the standard license, but the customer decided to try to re-install Windows 2K3 himself. I told him it could me the memory too, but he's no hardware guy so he won't check this. The problem is now on his hands and not mine. Thanks for your help.

Is ntbtlog the equivalent of bootlog for WinXP? It's been a while since I debugged using the boot log. Anyway, the computer will always bluecreen in standard mode. It boots fine in safe mode. User can't tell me what he did to screw the installation. I have the iso CD for Win2K3 Advanced...