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They don't want to : that's how they make money. If they ship something which would be close to flawless, how could they taunt people to upgrade to something else later? They are still having misery to make a large portion of their customers update their Win98 operating system!

The Sapphire crossfire board looks like an awesome base for a computer. Fanless design is icing on the cake. Its main weekness is its poor USB2.0 performance, but since I have no USB 2.0 device (or maybe my printer is, but I don't need a lot of speed for it), I don't really mind. Firewire 800...

The article in question. Unlike Eugene's latest benchmarks, enabling NCQ on TR's testbed leaded to noticeable performance gains. TR's didn't use light office applications though, but tasks that put a significant workload on the storage system. And according to their test, Maxtor's DiamondMax...

Ape, PCI-E ain't PCI-X. PCI-E stands for PCI-Express, while PCI-X means only PCI-X. Do not confuse them or you'll confuse us. I don't think Tannin builds a lot of systems with PCI-X slots. In fact, I would be surprised if he built more than 5 of such system in his entire career.

What Buck meant to write...

Someone had to mention it. www.storagereview.com for those who might have forgotten the address. Oz's orange fur ball will be happy to see how the Samsung fares.

Ugly liar. You have the Seasonic S12-600HT, which is a 600W PSU, not the 430W model from Seasonic. I'll tell your mamma.

It would be really pissing to see JTR on his bike with wings, in New York, trying to pass between two lines of yellow cabs taxis. I have a silver Minelli mountain bike, but I haven't ride it enough this summer.

He copied me.

The only ATI RS480 board I can buy here is the one from MSI. I see no DVI output on it :

He has the same expression on his face as the drunken bastard at the end of a night ;-) Congrats.

I needed a new system for one aging box in which the graphic card became a ghost. I already had RAM, HDD, optical drive. I wanted to stay below 500$CDN. I wasn't very inspired by any of the socket 754 Athlon 64 since all were based on older manufacturing processes (0.13µm) and the Sempron on...

Are you absolutely sure about that? I think there's an upset "K" out there that's been screwed by a sneaky "M" while playing the musical chair or something. :wink: Thanks for the the missing info.

That's good news. Eset makes the most effective AV software out there.

You forgot to mention the processor. Up to this day, my main and only computer system left is a two years old box consisting of the following elements : Athlon XP 1800+ thoroughbred at stock speed (used to be overclocked, not anymore) Thermaltake SilentBoost heatsink GigaByte GA-7N400 Pro...

On a positive note, my stuff arrived very quickly from the store I ordered it (NCIX.com). I placed my order yesterday at 4:00pm and it arrived here this morning at around 10:30am. I did not even ask for overnight shipping, just their express shipping which is supposed to take two days...

I still didn't try to power it up, but I'm pretty sure I've bent a few pins when I placed the processor. Now I understand why several among you cursed Intel for their socket 775 design. Next time, I'll read the instructions first and put the processor and heatsink afterward. Also, last time...

A posting hurricane "qui n'existe pas", still wet behind the ears and with a fondness for smashing through barriers, came from Houston, Tejas, to shake up the forums and everything in its path.

It required too much pression on the motherboard (25lbs equivalent) to my taste. I always worried that I could damage the board each and every time I inserted one.

Get the Dell 2005FPW instead of the 2001FP. Ok, it doesn't display as many pixels, but the image quality is better (Higher contrast, faster mesured response time, more accurate colors and probably wider viewing angles too). The 2005FPW was on sale just above 500$ lately.

Hitachi didn't mind to exchange them? I mean, they really swallowed that the drives were DOA and that it wasn't the customer's fault?

No problem with 1.0.5 here. Sorry for you, but happy for myself.

Read the announcement : announcement I post it just for your general knowledge. The thing is surely expensive as Hell.

850W??? Isn't it a little overkill? And since it comes from PC Power & Cooling, the price must be exagerated.

Partly because of the very low interest rates these days. You can get more credit and still not bust your payment ratio because the minimal (3%) monthly payment on your card(s) mostly pays capital, not interest on your debts. Since no matter how big your credit gets, due to the low interest...

I did the math too. I'm not as bad as you are. My credit card is only worth 18.63 weeks of my salary. Now I know that I'm a lucky man ;-)

He probably wants to do backups with the LG DVD-burner. Or else, why put a DVD writer inside a server?

Why an nForce 4 SLI board if the only thing you manage to plug into it is a x300??? I mean, if you want SATA II, there are cheaper nForce 4 Ultra boards. ...or maybe : "Woohoo!! look at my futuremark 2003 score with my 2x x300 in SLI mode. Almost x600-like. I rule!!" ;-)

If the motherboard was DOA, you just had to send me an e-mail and I would have refund you. I think it was in a period when I was kind of short on cash, but for honor purpose, I would have done it anyway. I think the board worked here before I shipped it (or else, why would I have sold it?)...

Just charge the mofo who opened the door for the 5100$ worth of Hibachi drives.

Not rare as a blue moon, but it doesn't happen everyday either. The 2005FPW is now 759.20$ and the 2405FPW is 1119,20$ (the lowest it has ever been to my knowledge here). The prices will probably stay like that until thursday next week. I'm freaking tempted. How nice's the 2405FPW Pradeep...

The entire site (sf.net) is awefully slow right now (8h30am, Eastern Time). I don't know what it is, but it's probably not on my end of the line because the other sites I visited were fine.

I started checking for all Sempron models and what amount of L2 cache they have depending on their core and... it's freakingly complicated. We need to make or find a chart about this. Paris, then Palermo, then "E" revision Palermo and this one brings this and this one brings that. AMD is...

Most of those with the Palermo core I see on my pricelists feature 128KB of L2 cache, not 256KB. One notable exception is the 1.6GHz Sempron 2800+, which has 256KB L2 cache. Most of the others have half as much. I hope the newer 3300+, running at 2.0GHz, made on the 90nm process and...

Press release News source Wow, I don't give a shit

Damn I hate when it happens to me. Read all µm mesures as nm in my previous post here. Seems I was very tired this morning...

If it hasn't been hot here for the last few days, then I don't want to know what hot is. I remember late last week (or this week end, whatever), I look at the thermometer when I sat in my car and it was written 37 freaking celsius. My car was in the shadow of a big tree. 37C, F***! 37C...

Getting the FX 57 isn't making much sense right now as the 90µm FX 55 is also available. The FX 55 used to be made on with 130µm wires but the newer batch is simply an FX 57 with a lower multiplier (and 200$ less MSRP). The Athlon FX aren't locked, so you're free to bump the FX 55 to FX 57...

Ok, maybe it's me who didn't take my pills, but what the Hell is that : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103546 I thought all Athlon 64 X2 were made for socket 939.

Cold? You Aussies don't know what cold is.

Can't. I sold them all.

You don't know what they've been through...

I know it's a bit late to ask, but why didn't you go with ATA drives instead? Probably quieter and a lot cheaper for the same amount of storage. As for reliability, most of my ATA drives haven't failed and most of them have survived a lot of abuse.

I'm also looking for it. I'm not sure I'll get it (I hate 5:4 format like 1280x1024), but it's certainly the most tempting 19" screen I've seen yet. I hope it doesn't have the same reddish color tendency as other PVA panels.

Glad to know, that's what the review suggested too. It's good to feel I'm helping here.

I would suggest the Seasonic S12-500. It received a good review from SilentPC. I don't know if it's a paper certification (meaning that it is meanless), but it is one of the few PSU that is compliant with the 80Plus validation. It also has active PFC, but that fact won't change much of...

First step to get the F@h client to run on the PS3 is done. The PS3 HDD will come with Linux pre-installed. Woohoo.

And I really, really, really hate Rambus.

The pdf says 8.5ms.