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I've noticed that, too. The DRU500AX isn't even particularly good as a playback device. It might as well be burner-only.

Ah ! Well aday! What evil looks Had I from old and young ! Instead of the cross, the Albatross About my neck was hung.

I think they need to change their name. Albatron sounds entirely too much like something PC Chips would make up.

I don't get new cars. You're throwing down minimum $15k (and probably more like $25k if want something that's decent) for something that's only worth $15k until the second you drive it off the lot . That's a substantial chunk of the cost of a HOUSE. All that car does is consume. Gas, oil...

Seems we know two different companies. The DFI boards I'm familiar with are as vanilla as all get-out. Average price (a bit more proud than FIC or Shuttle at any rate), stable but far from perfect, almost always spot-on reference boards (except maybe for a header layout that makes me want to get...

Sounds like we found our PC Chips!

The Soundstorm was a hard requirement. SPDIF is a hard requirement. Looking at pictures of various nforce2 boards, the Asus was the only one I could see that had Soundstorm and SPDIF. If you'll recall, I asked around here about that very issue a few weeks ago, but no one replied.

Hey, I'm trying aren't I?

What's up with haranguing me about my posts, mubs?

If you haven't guessed, I'm something of a pessimist.

It has a chance. I wouldn't buy something that doesn't have a chance. I wouldn't mind at all changing my blanket disgust with nvidia in general for a blanket disgust for nvidia video cards. I've never personally tried an nforce2. Personally, I have ZERO interest in performance. Anything I can...

DFI = Diamond Flower International. Haven't heard of them?

Hentai also leaves me limp in all possible senses of the phrase. Tentacle rape ain't my thing.

I bought a refurb Nforce2 today. An Asus something or other. I had some credit at newegg nothing else sounded good. Of course, I hate nvidia with the sort of passion that really defines such words as "deide", "contemn", or "execrate",so, I'm more-or-less expecting to be utterly disappointed...

I'm an Anime-not-terribly-interested-at-all-er. I watched Mononoke. It didn't do anything for me. I'm pretty much into all things geeky, but man, Anime leaves me limp. Of course, my first exposure was the utterly, utterly incomprehenisble mess known as Akira. I know it was based on 20-odd hours...

If AOpen is Ford, DFI = Chevy. Chaintech = Kia. Don't think I'll get much argument for that one. WTF is a Lada?

It depends on the motherboard. Nothing to do but try, but a high density 256MB chip on the DFI LX-based boards that're sitting around here pop up as 16MB (ie just this side of useless) when installed.

A lot of those places are probably B&M too, even if B&M just means a 10x10 cinderblock building with a phone and a web connection. If Gov. Davis signs this into law, yes, some of those businesses will no doubt virtually relocate to, say, Oregon, but I have a feeling that most of the majors...

Amy used to pay for my Mach IIIs. She said they were worth it... Someone bought me an expensive electric not too long ago, so I feel obligated to used it, but when I'm done I'll go back to my Mach III. VW is certainly the cheapest of the German firms, and historically, my statements hold...

Oh yeah. Link.

Someone can make this news later. In a move that must obviously be meant to drive amazon and newegg out of business, the California State Legislature today passed a "net tax" bill requiring that sales tax be tacked on to all purchases in California. Add on 8.25% to everything newegg sells, and...

SuperMicro = Land Rover. It'll get you where you're going. Maybe not in style.

I was going to suggest AOpen for Ford. Utterly, utterly vanilla products. A lot of resellers in my area use AOpen as a step up from ECS or PC Chips. I'm happy to see them, if only because I know that I COULD be seeing ECS in the same place. Soyo = Dodge. Something that looks sporty and may in...

The only time I have ever been fishing, I was about eight years old. Probably within five minutes of casting my line, a gigantic snapper roared up out of the water about five feet from where I was standing - reminding me of nothing so much as the Rancor from Return of the Jedi. I did the only...

I have a slight preference for Promise over HPT but subjectively they seem to be about the same.

We've had severe thunderstorms for about the last 10 days. Infrastructure is generally really good, but one or two lightning strikes in the wrong place(s) and suddenly everything is hosed.

They don't. I have a bunch (well, four) of Epox boards with bad fuses on the PS/2 ports. I still use them, but it was annoying to have to replace a keyboard I like with some USB POS.

Don't feel bad. I spent most of the weekend without power, and working at businesses that had lost power as well. Amazing how much stuff can break when power flips on and off every five or ten minutes.

$325 USD. Good PSU, nice fans, lots of RAM. Minus a few bucks for the nvidia card, plus a few for Soltek...

Tyan = Volvo. Not as popular as the other guys. High quality, bulletproof but there's always some minor little thing that keeps it from being the best thing on the road. If Gigabyte is Toyota (and it is, e_dawg), Epox can only be Nissan - much adventurous and slightly less reliable, but still a...

From time to time I find it necessary to explain my distaste for a particular motherboard via analogy, usually to nontechnical people who are interested in purchasing a new PC. The analogy I end up repeating over and over goes: "That ECS motherboard in your quote from XXXXXX, if that were a...

Another budget. I set aside $100 for that out of the cost per PC. You're right that it's exceedingly difficult to make a PC that cheap, but I wouldn't be ashamed to own or to build a machine like that. We probably all would've been envious of that machine in, say, January of last year. The...

I ended up with... Biostar 7vmIQ (s3 graphics, NIC, sound) XP1800+ retail 40GB SP40 40x Liteon CD-RW 256MB of the ultra-generic stuff Intel HaM 56k (yup, I hafta shoehorn in a modem, too) floppy Premier (yuck!) case w/ 300W PSU HP DJ3320 USB Cable (costs $1, but the printer doesn't include it...

I'm pretty sure Half-Life was one of the first titles to support EAX, blake. Seemed to work pretty well for me.

I make no claim on Indiana. I spent the first half of my life in Illinois. And no, I don't know what a "Hoosier" is, either. For those that don't know, Indiana, as a state, was once largely governed by members of the Ku Klux Klan. It probably still is - that would explain local political...

Perhaps DB has finally corrupted poor sweet little Tea. Oh. Yup. I guess she was like that to start out with.

"Good ole boys" frighten me. Perhaps they wouldn't, if that image were not so easy for me to picture. Me, I think everyone living south of the Mason-Dixon line is one date with their sister away from being an extra in "Deliverance II: Bobby's Revenge". I base this on some truly scary visits...

Knowing full well that no one shares my particular taste in fiction, I'm going to go ahead and mention that I thoroughly enjoyed the three books to date that have been published in John Ringo's "Posleen saga". Today I bought and finished "Wigfield, the Can-do Town that just May Not", by Amy...

I can't justify $38/month for standard cable service but $300 or $13 a month for a TV guide... wow. ... that was me rolling my eyes, in case you missed it. Here, let me do it again. Free TiVo is certainly a step in the right direction. Being able to pause any home entertainment, or...

Judging by my spelling in this thread, I must've taken the brown acid again. Reading the review, it sounds like there's real plot. I don't think that much time would be taken with facial expressions if the characters were just decoration. I actually finished Half Life and all the expansions...

Damn tim, don't do that to me when I have open windows with dirty pcitures in 'em. Let's do linkage instead... Link.

The details of those buildings, the shadows... wow.

Iwish I knew what the HELL to do about that fact.

I'm not anti-government. I'm anti-George Bush. I'm not anti-corporation, I'm pro-small-business.

Less software and administrative costs I'm looking at under $350 in total. Dell and Gateway are out. These computers will be assembled by members of the local Steelworker's union and distributed to students entering college by the Urban League of Northwest Indiana.

Those a Textronics Phasers, man. You agree to buy the, um, crayons (little under $600 to fill one up). Finding out about that program actually led me to purchase an 850DP for myself.

Oh. And printers. $21000 for 25 PCs, printers, monitors, Windows and some training. That's $300 for the actual computer hardware, nearly as I can tell. Called CDW. No one has gotten back to me. Their charity hamster must be broken.

See above. Waiting to die. That's it. I sincerely doubt that I have the force of will to maintain any kind of exercise regime. I used to walk with Amy, in the morning, but then I had a single motivating factor (ie Amy's company).

Anyone ever dealt with this before? I got "volunteered" to specify and purchase computers for a US 503(1) charitable organization just a moment ago, and unless the discounts for software licensing for charity are a LOT better than the ones for academic software, I don't know whether I'll be able...

Really, honestly, 210 and 215 are practically the same test. 218 is kind of hard. Administering Network Infrastructure is a total PITA 'cause it asks about a ton of stuff you never have to mess with. Anyway, I go back and forth about how valuable certs are. Right now I've got a couple of...