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Early this afternoon, I found that Phoenix was much slower to load pages on Anandtech than Mozilla. Don't know why. It seemed to hang mostly when loading images.

Phoenix is a browser based on Mozilla, but with a thrimmer interface. There are still a few quirks here and there, but so far (half an hour of use), I like it. Version 0.2 is also supposed to come out soon. Version 0.1 still takes 8MB of space, but once they'll have done most of the code...

I found the bag of screws...after I was finished installing the motherboard. There's a bracket on the plastic slot protector that can be removed and give access to a small cavity within the plastic piece. This is where they put the damn bag of screws. Would have it been that hard to just tape...

I received today the new budget Antec enclosure I told you about in a previous thread. The SLK2600AMB comes with a 300W power supply with only one fan (but with temp monitoring nonetheless) and unlike most other Antec cases, no included fans. When I first lifted the case out of the box, I...

The above is the raw, un-previewed version of my post. I accidentaly hit "submit" instead of "preview". You can now all have an idea of my (poor) real-time written english quality.

Thank you Clocker. I'll stick to the TYAN then. Primordial means paramount...in french. I wasn't sure if it meant the same in both languages (like many other words) and I didn't had the time to look for the correct term. Timwhit, I currently don't have much time to test hardware and I'm...

I can get the Asus 760MPX-based for 10$CDN less than the TYAN S2466N-4M I highly consider. The reason why I'm interested about the Asus (or Azoose? ;) ) is because of its overclocking features and because I could save around 90$CDN with overclocked MP 1800+ instead of MP 2000+ at stock...

Nope. I just had to learn the big lines back when I was in little school. Didn't really had the choice too, unfortunately.

So Doug, have you decided what you were going to buy (if you do buy something)?

(Looking at Statsman's SF spec page...) I think Doug has added one or two duallies to his F@H farm. 62 points in a single day, out of nowhere, there has to be a rational explanation.

I would advise milk for the baby rather than Gin, but I'm not the father so I'll leave it up to your judgement.

??? You have a law preventing criminal to use a motor vehicule during their crime? I fail to see how a robber who flee in a car is worst than another who flee on foot. If he drives his vehicule like a mad, then yes, but here we have laws for dangerous driving violations. Charging someone...

Nevermind, it's just the Doc Brown looking for McFly. You aren't concerned.

I fail to see the point to bring someone in court for criticizing what is, all summed up, a book of tales and legends. Because that's what the Bible is. Ever noticed similarities between the Silmarion and the Ancient Testament?

How much would it cost you to register a pure and simple dot com? Currently, RedHill.com leads to http://www.sayaloha.com/ , but redhilltech.com seems free.

I've always pronounced it A-zuss. But since my spoken english (and even more, my spoken Taiwanese) leaves much to be desired, I don't think my opinion has much weight here.

I already said what I think about it on SR. I'll let Mercutio comment here. ...scratch that, saw something I cannot not comment. grown to love IE? :eekers: Edit your index.dat and tell me about it. After downloading patches after patches for YEARS, it still needed an 11MB service pack in...

This might have been true in the past, but not for the latest Compaq laptops like the 1510 and 900. Both are better made than any Dell I saw (although not superior to the IBM). I agree about your comment when applied to HP stuff though.

For those who have VIA cheapset-based motherboards.

I'm not saying that putting a drive into a computer system will morph it into a snail. But it will be slightly slower for most disk intensive tasks. Depending on the tasks the user will do, it might or might not be perceivable. Net browsing and messing with small Office documents won't show...

You forgot to insert the words "but sluggish" in reference to the very reliable drive.

For a single worstation + F@H cruncher setup and with your new ±1000U$ budget, I came up with the idea listed below. All prices are from NewEgg.com again, although I'm sure you could get several parts for les at some local stores. 2x Athlon MP 2000+ retail - 157$ each TYAN Tiger MPX S2466N-4M...

Another suggestion : I saw the Gagabite GA-VAX based on the KT400 with the VT8235 south bridge selling for only 93$ at NewEgg. IMO, if you want to buy a VIA-based motherboard, you can't hardly find a better value than this one IMO. However, I see KTxxx whatever motherboards more like...

Upon verification, the EP-8K3AE has the VT8233A south bridge - ie, not the one you'd want for high transfer speed on the PCI bus. The EP-8K5A2 has the supposedly "fixed" south bridge (VT8235). I wrote "supposedly" because I only read what VIA's PR guys claim about it. I saw no test to confirm...

Hem, Doug, I though we were talking about a 250$ to 350$ box or upgrade here. Did I misse something or ...? Talking about value for the money.... Why buy a Thoroughbred 2200+ instead of a more reasonnably priced 2000+? Why buy very expensive Mushkin PC2700 when there're close to none...

Just for the record, I don't know what ganja is. I suppose it must be something related to marijuana. Here's what SR got from their tests on the Samsung P40 compared to other similar drives : Office DriveMark P40 261 Barr. IV 296 D740X...

They are all a bunch of bastards! As for the collusion law, in North America, this law is a joke. Corporations are more powerful than the government, especially in the United States where the governement tries to stay as far as possible from the business side (except for screwing other...

From the review you pointed out : Apparently, the exhaust fan is what's making most of this noise. Here's my opinion about it : PIII aren't very good F@H crunchers. If you buy this box for F@H, it's not such a good value. However, if you have other things in mind for it and if you don't...

Fucking "A" button. Now Antec eats its own enclosures thanks to my damn keyboard. :(

Antec enclosures just went cheaper on my list from this week. Their new Performance II serie is an especially good value, while their new AMG colored (metallic grey) Performance Plus, supposed to replace their former beige and black models, is also some 20$CDN cheaper than it was before. In...

Antec is the major brand I sell, although I also sometimes sell InWin J series too. The Antec recently became cheaper (recently as in this week), so I'll probaly only sell Antec for a while now, or at least for this Fall. The most common complain about Antec's enclosures is that people find...

IMO, while the Inspiron 8200 isn't bad at all, the current best bang for the buck among latops is the Compaq 1510. Ok, the screen is a SXGA+, but the casing is in magnesium and the finish is overall superior to the one of the Inspiron 8200. Simonstre is in love with his 1510 since he has it...

4 million users! F@H barely has 65000 at the moment. I'm sticking with F@h. Much better chances to reach the top 100 someday than SETI. Besides, the cause is more important IMO, unless ET really has a magic finger that cures all diseases.

I wouldn't touch the 1200A if I were you Doug. It's a low-end RAID card with low performances, nothing comparable with the much better 2400A. Go with the 3Ware.

For both the Challenger crash and the WTC collapse, I first thought it wasn't really happening. In fact, I thought it couldn't be happening. Like you Merc, I saw Challenger boomed in direct on TV and it took me like 30 seconds to realize that it wasn't normal to see the shuttle explode. I...

Couple of months..that means November. :mrgrn: Just out of curiosity, how much time and on which machine did you complete these 2500 units? And about what overall rank does it place you (2500 units I mean)? I don't plan switching from FAH to ET searching, but I just want to compare. I...

Doug, read SteveC's post two posts above yours.

Sorry Fushi, but I have to say it : I downloaded the SP1's full 133MB at over 300KB/s last night. It took less than 10 minutes. Don't worry, Mercutio is probably more jealous than you are. I don't even have WinXP here, but I plan to make Installation CD of it with the SP1 already included as...

My news about MS' security flaws don't seem to gather much attention, but I continue to post them since I feel they are important things to be aware of and it's like a duty to warn my collegues about them.

Well, it's written "superb image quality" so how can you go wrong? ;-) I own a G400 and I'm a bit disapointed by the brightness variance accross the screen. That's a problem with most Trinitron screens that Diamondtron don't have as much. Besides, the A series of Sony monitors is Sony's...

Saw it today : IE 6 SP1. Available since yesterday's evening (September 9th)

Why don't you get RedHat 7.3 Buck? The ISO are easily downloadable on the Net. RH 7.3 has KDE 3.0, which is a nice improvement compared to the 2.xx version that you currently use with RedHat 7.1. I saw on kernel.org that version 2.4.19 of Linux's kernel is now available. I'll have to look...

Communism shouldn't be compared against capitalism because communism is a political term and capitalism is an economical term. Socialism is what should be compared against capitalism (and IMO, socialism could be way superior in term of fairness than capitalism is - not at all). The fight of...

The box left today. They are supposed to change the enclosure soon. I captured a screen shot of TYAN's monitoring software showing both CPUs at 74C and all the rest of the motherboard's temps at 70C or more. When I packed it, the top of the case was too hot to be touched for more than a...

Good guys often leave sooner. In a way, this is a good thing for me. My sympathies for your family.

If Statsman was Chisese, I would say there's something wong with it. Stanford's stats page is showing the correct result though.

My expertise won't be affected at all if the crappy box melts Time, for the simple reason that I recommended something else than this configuration. Since it's different from what I told them to get (different in a bad way), it's no wonder that the thing overheats and if it ultimately fails...

The temperature stabilized at 66-67C for both CPUs. Problem is all the other places inside the enclosure are between 64C and 67C too. But at 67C, the processors (unfortunately) won't melt. I won't kill it during the week-end, but the box will experience stability problems soon and I don't...

I don't know in details what's your position and who are your contacts Gary, but you seem to be pretty well positioned for everything that touches Microsoft. Sometimes, I'm surprised you live in Houston and not Redmont... It's great to have you around.

Is it what you're talking about? I just installed it.