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You should be able to get something with AM2 and Nforce4. 6100/6150-series boards are basically nforce 4s and they're basically fine in Linux. For what it's worth, Linux isn't likely to puke or kernel panic from a hardware change. There's a decent chance you could just pop in whatever and the...

ddrueding, the 8800s, if you haven't played with one, are REALLY quiet. The only time you can hear the fan at all is when you're playing a game, and even at that, you might not notice because you've probably got speakers or headphones turned up a bit. I think a smart man would be waiting to see...

Just to clarify something: I was comparing the GS to the more expensive sorts of GT. ...all the cheap X1650 Pro I can buy come with noisy cheapo fans. The Sapphire and genuine ATI X1650s I've purchased have quiet fans on them. I'd expect "real" ATI stuff to be common and cheap up in...

I think those guys mostly don't know what the hell they're talking about. But then, I'm basing that on the god-awful signature graphics they're using. Well, that and thinking that a 500W power supply isn't enough to handle a fairly vanilla computer like yours.

Another woot off today.

Just watch it. It's cool.

Also, Duke Nukem Forever was announced 10 years ago today.

Pure awesome

There's not too much wrong with onboard video these days. GMA3000 and nv6100 can both do DX9 well enough to make UT2004 or WoW playable. R200's probably pretty good, too. Via's still shipping basically a Savage4, which was sucky the day it came out in 1999, let alone today, but even that's good...

Live View is so insanely useful that I weep tears of joy for having found it.

He's probably been over 5k for a couple weeks and we did not notice. :( Welcome to the Hair Club, Handy!

The 7900GS does seem to be a bargain in terms of graphics power, for the money. It's still an nVidia product and therefore not worthy of my money, but seeing one side-by-side with a much more expensive -GT, the smaller one seems like a better deal. I don't know why you don't have inexpensive...

Tour of Woot's new HQ. I like the bit about "Soviet Post-Brutalist Architecture".

Those machines don't get any. Since we re-image them every couple days, I don't bother to update them unless I'm making a new image. I have no idea how long the PCs in question haven't been able to burn, either.

No clue, but I'll bet the ones I got are a lot cheaper than that Zalman thing. I think Bluegears rails are $11 or $12 for a set of two.

Turns out my heat sink rail thingies were made by BlueGears.

I have a whole lab of PCs where, for some reason, Windows integrated CD burning has stopped working. These machines all have Nero 6.3 installed on Windows XP, and Nero works just fine, but when I try to burn a CD with Windows Explorer I'm told to that the media I'm using is not writable and to...

No toilet. Just a trough or something... ;) Actually, my bed is physically about as far from my bathroom as it could be. I actually got up and paced it out so I'm pretty confident of the measurement. And I'm down to only eight computers now, not including laptops. I think that 's pretty...

It is the same size as my living room. :)

I've tried about six different video cards on my 865P-S3, including (in a rare display of magnanimity) a 7900GT, a Sapphire x1900XT and an 8800GTX and not experienced anything like that, even in with extreme overclocking. HOWEVER... *All* the video cards I have tried (except a PCI one that...

You have to be smart enough to know you want a Mac. I really do wish I could install Linux on every home PC. It really does make the machine better in every way once no one can install spyware/virus laden crap on a computer.

Bed to bathroom: 24 feet. Bed to front door: 36 feet. Bed to car: About 90 feet total. I do not want a larger apartment. Then there would be more to clean.

Merc does not like biking. I did walk to work today. One of the places I occasionally teach is directly across the street from my apartment. I thought about driving anyway.

My "standard" case for non-rackmount computers is one very similar to the Antec SLK3800, which takes seven 3.5" drives. The ones I have were made by Chieftec, and do not have drive rails for the 5.25" bays. When I am pressed, I use some really nifty solid-piece heat-sink 3.5 to 5.25" rails to...

The 6320 is looking like a real winner to me.

I think, in times of war - justifiable, non-treasonous wars unlike the one we're fighting now - that it would be more important to have our flag stand at full mast to show the spirit of our country is unbowed by our enemies. Hey, speaking of treason and justification for impeachments and other...

In high school PE I remember being timed to do a mile and being told I could go at whatever "steady pace" I wanted. The coach made me stop when he realized my "pace" (and I *was* moving the whole time) was a 26 minute mile. :D

The extra partition was completely, 100% empty. I have done things like re-locate the documents and settings folder to another partition a time or two, but that was doing some REALLY freakish stuff, and it's just easier to do everything with TrueImage now.

I don't think Gateway has ever been bankrupt. I think they were losing millions on their retail stores so they closed them all. IBM/Lenovo PCs don't seem to me to fit in the vomit box category, since they don't sell to home users, but if it is a choice I'd say it's a decent one. I looked at a...

For a 100% legit Home PC, my price for a computer ends up being about the same as Dell's... unless I'm building for someone who has access to encheapened software (from a University or something), in which case I usually win by 20% or so, even off the slightly discounted prices Dell generally...

Just to respond to this, because no one else has: One of the main differences between the Virginia Tech thing and our troops is that our troops volunteered to put themselves in harm's way, and they are compensated (not well enough in my opinion but if you're an inner city minority or a...

OK, honestly, I can use whatever is put in front of me. My main issues with the Phone/PDA things are size - you want a PDA that is big enough that you can see what's on the screen and has space for input, but you want a phone that's small and not obtrusive to carry around because people expect...

Literally the *only* thing I see from local screwdriver shops is PC Chips. If I'm lucky, their $1500+ systems will have an Asus or perhaps Abit board, but those systems are about as common as hen's teeth.

Well, yeah. But the point here is, if someone held a gun to your head and said "Recommend a $400 - $700 PC from a multinational name brand", what would you pick? I run into that situation a lot, actually. No guns, but people looking to buy something for a kid away at college or their aunt in...

No particular reason for this, just taking a poll: What, in your opinion, are generally the least offensive vomit boxes among all vomit box brands? Is there anyone willing to stand up and champion an HP or a Dell? Sometimes someone will ask me to recommend one and I cannot bring myself to do it.

More retarded Vistaness. This time from teh Reg. I'm actually kind of sad that Dell is going back to loading XP. I was getting a lot more interest in the computers I've been building since folks have been looking brand name PCs and seeing only a Vista option.

For $50 and considering that it doesn't come with any crappy sorts of fans, that thing might actually be worthwhile for me.

What the hell is that?

OK, the Ninja sucks for my needs. I can get all kinds of stability until I need to use my video card to do something 3D-y... probably because my CPU fan is blowing hot air directly on it. The stability comes back nicely if I switch to a PCI Radeon 9250 but that's a bit limiting for gaming. :(...

Someone needs to convince S*ny to quit making expensive, pathetic failures of proprietary media formats. Preferably, the sort of persuasion that involves pointy things and the anal orifice that is located above every S*ny employee's chin.

It is as you say. One machine too many. Fun way to give a new PC a workout.

I'd have to install Vista to find out. I have it on one machine too many as it is.

An E4300 is $117 at mwave.com right now, for the USians who want some of that old time Celeron 300A feelin'.

WalMart to crushinate Blu-Ray. Generally I don't have anything good about the land of Jebus, gun racks and NASCAR, but if it's going to give the world the price pressure that will result in $200-by-Xmas HD-DVD players I think I can be slightly charitable.

My fans are set back to low now, and my CPUs are over 100% overclocked... System temp is 46C, CPU is 44. I tried blowing the fans "toward" the outside of the case but I did not find it helpful (as in, it didn't cool any better for me). My fan is mounted on the bottom of the cooler and blowing...

I have Geil DIMMs in Red, and Orange and Blue. I don't know what the difference is but they are all PC800... I think one of them is 2.0V - 2.4V or something. Whatever. I spent a very long time messing with my game rig today - trying different fans, mounting positions and even thermal compounds...

Phones are evil and should be killed on sight.

I was going for a kind of non-sequitor thing with that post. Humor isn't as fun when you have to explain it. :P

Some of my clients are real estate agents and another group are appraisers. There's a LOT of collusion between your agent and the sellers, usually. It benefits everyone but the buyer.

My E4300@3.7GHz was idling at 51C, but that was at +.1V and I'm not 100% certain I have a perfect thermal paste application. I toned it down a bit from there...