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I don't think a Joe Six-Pack would be interested in high-end SCSI gears and therefore, I doubt I'll be selling those to a computer-illiterate buyer. The cheapest brand new computer I saw here was 630$CDN and it was a huge special, with half the memory than I have in my Athlon 500MHz and with...

If it's through the Realtek ALC650, then it's perfectly ok for gaming IMO (except for 3D positioning). That's what I use on most of the computers I sell and I 've never had complains about the sound quality. Computer speakers generally are the lowest quality part of the audio system. It...

150U$ for the Athlon 500MHz....Ugh. That's only 240$CDN. I was hoping to get at least 325$DCN for it (~205U$) since it has a better-than-average graphic card, hard drive and memory amount. New, the SCSI parts would cost ~1075$CDN (~675U$). At least around here. I figure that, since they...

More than 110 points a week out of a 1900+, wow. I thought about getting at least a 2100+, so that would be a nice boost for my stats.

Athlon 500MHz Asus K7M (AMD751/VIA 686B) 256MB PC100 Cas2 Guillemot Xentor 32 (TNT2 Pro) AC'97 audio Quantum Fireball Plus LM 15GB AOpen 52X CD-ROM Floppy Sturdy Mid-Tower enclosure with "war paints" Antec 300W PSU (PP303X) No OS or software included, except those that might be added for free...

I think it's the default background for Mandrake 9.0.

Browsing the results of our team on both Statsman and Stanford's stats page, I see that both Tea and Groltz (Mourn) achieve impressive results, despite uing a single CPU each. I'm curious to know what processor allows Tea to produce 111 points/week and Groltz to be good for 99.7 (let's say 100...

I don't think it's a guy working for another manufacturer as posting 9 times the same message is more effective to discredit yourself than your target. I think he's just a frustrated customer who lacks in the judgement department. Tony's experience with Samsung's support, good or bad, won't...

I object. You and I are very different, Tea. While I'm only part time sick, you're only part time sane.

Seen at AMDmb.com : Good thing to know. Just curious ; those of you who use anti-spyware programs, which one is your favorite? I had to use a few recently. I tried Tauscan and Pest Patrol. The first one is very simple to use, but the later gives more details, like infected cookies and web...

Thanks for the info/confirmation. You're a lucky guy. It's probably some Windows' related annoyance, but just if you're curious, try the same with the WD1600JB connected to the motherboard ATA controller instead of the Promise. Who knows (yes I know it will be sluggier, but just for testing...

Damn, I never thought about this. So even I have a flaw :(

Oh and BTW (and since I'm sadistic :diablo: ), how much did you pay your WD1600JB? (rebate)

Since you bought it today, couldn't you just go back to the store and exchange your 160GB for a 200GB? Afterall, they probably don't make more money on one over the other so for them, it doesn't change much of anything. There will always be another fush...err, fish ( :wink: ) to buy the 160GB...

Ballarat's race rages on. Kristy, that all observers thought to be capout and hopeless, trampled over Tannin and now stands confortably in third place. Meanwhile, our long time vice-leader, Sol, continues his nap, still too bored by the lack of competitivity of his trailing opponents and (way)...

Toshiba offers UXGA screens on some of their higher-end notebook models. I would like to know if it's an old king of UXGA screen of if it's something comparable to Dell's UltraSharp UXGA (optional on the Inspiron 8200) and IBM's Thinpad A31p. The first generation of UXGA screen for notebooks...

Could you run Winbench's disk transfer test to see/inform us of the platter size of your WD1600JB? If it tops at ~50MBps, it's a 40GB/platter model. If it's ~57MBps, then it's a >60GB and we'll all be jealous (since both I and JTR1962 have been screwed with 40GB per platter versions of another...

Their own, at least on all the cards I saw from them.

The LSI Logic U160 SCSI controller sold in a white box kit at Hypermicro.com for 89U$ with free shippinig if you mention Storagereview.com in your order. The item # is LSIU160-WB and you can find it on this page. It is fairly cheap for a standard U160 SCSI controller with drivers for most...

So there was 29 days in February 2002 in Tennessee?

The only 16X DVD reader from Lite-On I've used is the LTD-163 and it's hard to complain against it. There has been several firmware updates for it and now it doesn't have many problem left. I don't know a Lite-On DVD reader beginning with LTD-122... You must be talking about a 16X CD-ROM...

I doubt you'll be able to reach 166MHz FSB with a Thunderbird, even if it's unlocked. I heard some have been able, but it is rarissim. I don't remember what was the marking of the last T'bird to be produced, but they were the best overclockers of the family since they were made on the same...

Why don't they simply adopt Steno as the deFacto written language standard? AFAI'm concerned, learning to write two different languages was just enough. I'm not even remotely interested in re-learning my second tongue's spelling. I already make well enough spelling mistakes as it is.

They won't replace Tim Horton on my list for sure.

I think the Hyperion driver was the beginning of what you could call "a reaction". It gave a 5% boost in 3DMarks on the box on which I installed it. Almost enough to reach the performance level of an average nForce2 motherboard. What I really like about the nForce2 chipset isn't just the...

Firingsquad compared the performances of various ATI cards using the CATALYST 2.5/DirectX 8.1 against the CATALYST 3.0/DirectX 9.0. The only place where there was significant improvements was for the Radeon 9500 (non-Pro) under Quake III with 4xAA. Otherwise, there was no real difference to...

Their current IGP3xx for notebook have better integrated graphics than all other (laptop-related) chipsets, but their overall performances are lower. ie - ATI did well on the graphic part but it's behind for the rest of the system optimization. They made it clear earlier this Fall (maybe at...

Arrgghh! I clicked on "preview" for the first message, but it posted my message anyway. I didn't make a mistake by clicking the wrong button since I was brought to the "preview" window. The uncompleted message posted anyway. Damn buggy software.

Thanks for the advice. Regarding stability, I'm used to Windows and Linux, so even FreeBSD 5.0 should be fine compared to what I have already experienced in the past ;-) I mainly use OpenOffice on my Windows box since that's the one where the printer is plugged.

Thanks for the advice. Regarding stability, I'm used to Windows and Linux, so even FreeBSD 5.0 should be fine compared to what I have already experienced in the past ;-)

Re: Screwed my Mandrake 9 installation...using Mandrake upda That's what happens when I change my mind in the middle of a sentence :( About the "looking pretty" thing, shouldn't KDE or any other Xfree86 variants (add-ons, whatever) look exactly the same no matter if it's running on BSD or...

You can get it from their FTP site. I'm still a bit bitter from my rough experiences on Linux, but since FreeBSD is supposed to have an upgrading/installation system that actually works (the ports), then I'll continue to keep an eye on it. I'll wait for James comments about the second release...

The three years warranty makes them more interesting than they used to be. They are still slugs, but as they currently are the only "budget" drives with a decent warranty, they constitute a nice alternative for cheapo boxes. Since October, I have only used Western Digital SE though, since...

The main reason why I didn't fill the remaining posts after I wrote the 995th (and I could have done it easily since I've been mostly alone on the forum for almost two hours) was that I hoped this thread would remain ON-TOPIC and not deviate to something like the AtC thread. Seems I should have...

I found this. However, it's a bit late since I don't think I can access the net from the bash prompt without any Xfree86 iteration and download the packages of KDE 3.05a. Next time maybe. I upgraded the files because they were either bugfixes or security patches. It was my understanding that...

I visited my quiet little Linux box for the first time since late October this evening. It crunched 199 F@h units since then. I decided to look for updates for my distribution through Mandrake's own updater. At first, I selected all the 19 files needed to be upgraded. Quite predictably...

Clocker, I found the thread on involuntary contributors. I posted a reply to it also.

Well, I'm not sure what the look of the SM-348B really is since it looks like this : While it looks slightly different in the picture shown in CDRLabs' review : I prefer the more greyish version since a) doesn't stand out too much from most other drives usually found in the 5¼ bays and b) I'm...

Although I created the team, I think Clocker is currently more of a captain than I am since I forgot my name/password combo to modify the team and that he his our most active member on their forum. Raven, i, support, Pradeep's laptop and Clocker's Pentium 133 aren't junk names like the bunch of...

The current best CD-RW/DVD drive seems to be the Samsung SM-348B 48/24/48//16 reviewed by CDRLabs.com here. No idea where you can find it thought, but it is a notch in front of all the other comparable drives.

Is it possible that your new driver is the CATALYST 3.0? If yes, it is supposed to only work in conjonction with DirectX 9.0, which I wouldn't recommend you to install. Use the CATALYST 2.5 instead. It won't fix your Soft DVD problem, but at least it won't create new issues elsewhere.

Read it. The verdict : 32bit PC1066 RDRAM is still faster, but not by much. Unless you need a lot of RAM (more than 512MB), the Asus P4T533 is a better value. If only Rambus wasn't so evil, I might consider buying their stuff. If only they could go bankrupt and be bought by another company...

ATI has release the CATALYST 3.0 driver for its Radeon 9xxx cards, but it requires DirectX 9.0 in order to work. Problem is : DirectX 9 is supposedly as mature as Prof...err, I mean not even stable enough to be considered a Release Candidate. The best part of the joke is : the CATALYST 3.0 is...

Not that difficult, we all have quite a few...but they all end-up in politics.

It's already there. The 3Ware Escalade 8500 supports RAID 1+0 with SATA drives. http://www.3ware.com/products/serial_ata.asp for more info about it. Hypermicro sells the 4 channels version for 369U$ BTW, with free shipping in the States if you name Storagereview.com in your order.

Re: Adjusting voltages on motherbaords that allow this featu C) something else...like trying a higher quality PSU. Low voltage are often caused by a lacking PSU or a poor power circuitry on the motherboard.

I don't think we'll drop in the overall ranking that much. Our strong point is the consistency at which we produce. Remember how quickly teams Hotmail and University of Alabama past us? Well guess what, we are now over-producing them both and we've already past team Hotmail. Many of the...

Meeting me would be pointless. I'm only bilingual for reading/writing, but my spoken English is worst than the one of Shwarzeneger in the 70's.

Neither IMO. If I were you, I would get the Fuji FinePix 2650. It's around the same price point as the two others you mentioned IIRC. I've tried it and it produces very good results. The integrated LCD is also quite helpful. Here's a short review of its predecessor, the FinePix 2600. It's...

BTW : I don't quite agree with the "Alive and well", but it is apparently not dead yet.