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[not having enough time to kill to visit the link] So that's why you have studied in biology and anatomy?

Yet you're the one dropping to name-calling level. And the reason why I was blunt with you was because of the arrogancy yet blatant ignorance that you displayed in your first Bose-loving post. Face it, you don't know Jack-shit about audio. And you were wrong too in the analog vs digital...

You are way too sensitive. Temperature here outside often varies of 15C during the same day (in Summer) and as much as 25C within a 24 hours period in some Winter or early Spring days. So complaining about a scant two Celsius difference, I mean, give me a break. My sensitivity level is very...

...but doesn't include graphics. So if he wants a new graphic card, he's going to spend more at the end.

Overclocking the lower rating Athlon XP IS safe as long as you don't boost the Vcore over ~1.75V. Target should be around 2.25GHz, often more. As for your budget system : Soltek SL-75MRN-L @ Newegg : 96$ shipped Athlon XP 1700+ @ Newegg : 44$ shipped Speeze MicroFlow II @ Newegg : 14$ shipped...

I don't know how much the Zenith (yes, Zenith) 32" flat model cost, but at the time I bought my Trinitron, it was quite a bit cheaper than Sony, while offering a better image. I didn't buy it because there was no demo model on site to look at and I didn't trust the Zenith brand back then. I...

New protein p346_gnra_nat_Mg on Gromacs has been processing for more than two days on my 1700+ Athlon XP...and it's still going. I'm at step 80 out of 100. So overall, that nasty unit will have taken two days and a half of my most powerful box time. I hope it will pay, point wise.

While browsing through a few online stores, I saw that Newegg still sells the same old enclosure my four years old Athlon 500MHz system nest in (on the right). No need to say that this old thing doesn't offer enough air flow for a modern system. I suggested a new graphic card because the 2D...

Office work means AMD. Photoshop, I don't remember, but logically, it should perform better with a Pentium 4 than with an Athlon XP. However, since she was able until recently to make her stuff on a lowly Pentium II 400MHz, any modern platform should be adequate for her requirements. KT400...

From the article : The above surprised me, as I thought I saw the GeForce FX 5200 behind the Radeon 9000 Pro in benchmarks. My memory had a failure and upon verification (X-bit Labs' review of the 5200/5600), the GeFarce FX 5200 is indeed a little bit in front of the 9000 Pro in most...

Take a look : http://www.visiontek.com/ Warning, there's flash involved.

Read that at WinInfo : And yet there are still people using IE by choice (doesn't include those who are forced to use it at work)...

I found that page when searching for T-8 fluorescent tubes. This is all very informative (just like your post, JTR), but there's a part I have a hard time to understand : A light with a CRI of 90 should be quite close to what sunlight is and therefore, should replicate the normal conditions...

I'm no longer a wannabee, but a full-grade Storage Freak and it's not from yesterday. Doug is also of "storage Freak" level, but has chosen to be in perpetual sleep deprivation. Nevermind. Intention is what counts. Congratulations to Pradeep. No money to pay beer though.

Just want to let the northern members of our forum that you can get free shipping from Monarchcomputer.com just like our I-hate-them-all-caused-they-get-free-shipping-all-the-time American neighboors. Barton 2500+ OEM, is 94U$ (~129$CDN) shipped...and shipped HERE! Ok, it's only 9$CDN better...

[looking at picture...then reading this] Of course it's overkill! BTW, just out of curiosity...did you lapped the heatsink on the south bridge? It certainly won't overheat.

Found the answer. At page 16 of the Samsung pdf manual of the P80 model, it is written that models with the 8MB cache have the following # : SP0421N : 40GB, 8MB cache SP0812N : 80GB, 8MB cache SP1213N : 120GB, 8MB cache SP1614N : 160GB, 8MB cache Those with the smaller 2MB cache are ...

Thanks for spreading the news. I would really like to replace all my lamps by LED-based ones. Be it just for the better color reproduction they allow compaired to the reddish light of incandescent bulbs. Unfortunately, Nichia doesn't plan to market its new LED before 2005. Two years away.

Boff...if you succeed to insert the bowling ball, it would kill them within seconds. That would be kinda boring IMO. However, trying the same with a snooker ball would certainly be much more entertaining to watch.

You might consider buying the RAM immediately. On my yesterday's pricelist, the RAM prices of ALL types of PC RAM have increased by 10% compared to the week before. I see it in the sky, this is a sign of things to come... CPU : Can't say what's gonna be the best bang for the buck in August as...

www.dslreports.com/1054270375]Just for Merc[/url]. ~50$CDN / month with the cable modem. That's about 37U$. Not quite as good as SteveC, but not too shaby either.

MicroStar couldn't keep up with the rest of the pack, so what do they do? Overclock the FSB dynamically. Once CPU load reaches 100%, the FSB jumps from 800 to 860 and then back to 800 once the load is reduced. Read MSI's pathetic excuse on Tom's site. Submitted by NRG = mc²

I happen to own shares of ATI... :mrgrn: However, I'm very sceptical about the claim in bold. ATI's first chipset was so sluggish that seeing their second try matching what's probably the most optimized chipset of the entire PC market is unlikely IMO.

Send me a.... Send you a what, Doug? A postcard? A chanted message? A paypal payment?

I believe KaZaA lite is also affected and I know many of you use it. You might consider switching to other file-swapping tools like eDonkey. News source.

T'bred 1700+ are only 42U$ shipped at Newegg. But Newegg doesn't ship here. AAAAAARRGHH!!!

I have the 9GB version of the 18LP, but I don't know if it's still functioonal or not. It has a 68pins connector, but I have a converter to plug it into 50pin cables.

Congratulations Gary. Not only are you good for your age, but you are still good, period. I'm curious to know how I would fare on one mile. I don't know any track where I could test myself. 8 years ago, I would have blown the 4 minutes bar for a single mile, I'm almost sure. Now, I would...

No, I will resist the temptation of saying it. I won't say it. I'll think it REALLY hard, but I won't say it. Resist Coug, resist! I won't...

Earlier today, Intel announced it would slash the prices of its Celeron processors. Quickly after, AMD replied with an almost generalized price drop of its Athlon XP lineup (with the exception of the highest and lowest-end model : 3200+ and 2000+). As a result, we'll be able to get, in the...

ROFL! AFAIK, you don't know very far the audio business. BOSE is a name and that's it nowadays. They have failed to deliver something worthy in the low to middle range segment for the last five years at least. They may make something good, but not in the price range allowing you or I to buy...

This guy just doesn't stop to give me reasons to loathe him.

Since last Fall, I think I only sold Western Digital JB drives. These aren't necessarily considered to be quiet, but they sure are among the fastest IDE drives there is (except for the very recent Raptor). I don't consider the JB to be "budget" 7200rpm drives.

I just saw that the results for the Serial ATA version of the Barracuda 7200.7 are also in the database now. Much better than the ATA100 version. The 8MB cache, SATA version of the 7200.7 performs up to Western Digital's Special Edition Caviar's level. It's also quieter and easier to connect...

I remember their drive rail system wasn't the best. No idea if they have improved. For the case you linked... The fan hole on the rear should allow a relatively good airflow as it is unobtrusive. However, I wouldn't buy that case for an Athlon XP platform as it doesn't meet AMD's minimal...

Look like a happy man. Glasses, is this new since you work more in front of blurry CRT screens or did you simply had lens in the 90s' picture? Budget monitors are awful for eyesight.

What's the link of that question with what I've written above? I wrote about 7200rpm drives.

Groltz, Apparently, there are some problems when the 2.4x are installed above the previous versions of the driver without uninstalling the old version. Saw it there. There's a .zip on nVidia's site explaining the recovery process in case you screwed up your system with the 2.4x driver.

The ATI Radeon 9600, while it might not be passively cooled, is supposed to be relatively quiet. I haven't tried one myself though. It's made on a thinner process than the other members of the Radeon 9x00 family so it runs cooler. But ok, it isn't passively cooled...

It seems the way that manufacturers found to cut cost is to use budget actuators (read simplified and slow) in their designs. With higher density platters and decent cache algorythms, they can make those drives bearably fast for Joe average. However, for us, the storage enthousiasts, those...

Nope. Like many recent 7200rpm'ers, the 7200.7's problem is its lazy actuator. The DM+9 shares that weakness too. Just look at the Server benchmarks at SR and you'll see the trend among the new 7200rpm hard drives isn't something that will make you droll.

It's quite remarkable that you cannot find who this newcomer is.

I noticed this drive on my pricelist today (although it's been there for a few days already) and what stroke me was its price compared to other similar offerings. It is 10-15% cheaper than other 2MB cache 7200rpm hard drives. Am I the only one with such a price difference in favor of the new...

I once hot-swapped a Quantum hard drive of ~210MB that was inside a Compaq 486DX33 desktop. It didn't kill it instantly, but the drive eventually failed one week later in his new bed. That was in '95 IIRC, so the drive was already old.

Yes, it is. half the memory bus bandwidth and only SDRAM IIRC. Slower RAM too. Castrated really fits here. I've always seen it as a 2D only card, and blury 2D to top it. Not a GeFarce 2 MX200 fan here.

Who told my eyes were blue? They are grey. And I like the black and blue color combo. It would be better if the blue was darker, but we can't have everything I guess. Mercutio, If green PCB with standard connector colors is your trill, may I suggest EPoX?

At Explosive Labs. There's so many flaws to that review that it's not even worth mentioning them. They used PC Mark, which should tell you enough. The main reason I link it is to provide a hint of the performances (or lack of) of the upcoming 160GB SpinPoint. Look at the transfer rates...

A passive heatsink can be appealing for people with a noise issue. However, a passive motherboard is generally something considered to be bad and to avoid, except for those collecting museum parts.

If I were to buy a Pentium 4 motherboard, I would probably get the Abit IC7-G : I read somewhere that they have engineered this board so that it can operate safely at FSB frequencies of either 1000MHz or 1200MHz (can't remember, probably 1000MHz). Of course, you'll need one hell of a memory...

Not surprising that you could beat the best time indicated since you were already in relatively good shape. I wonder what running has in common with agility though. Now it's push-ups time for you. 23 isn't that hard. Many average people make 40 or 50 regularly. You too are able to I'm sure.