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  1. Mercutio

    [NEWS] - Intel invents overclock deterrent method

    By my count there's about a $35 price difference between a P4 2.4/533 and an AMD XP2400, a difference of around 20%. That's a pretty big premium just to have something that says "Intel" on the package.
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    Unlocking Tbreds

    13 x 133.33 = 1734 (same as XP2100) 13 x 166.66 = 2167 (same as XP2700) I'm not seeing any room for debate. I've got one of these chips up at 13x166, after getting a BIOS update for my #$%#$% motherboard. Hope it stays stable.
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    Unlocking Tbreds

    Anyone here familiar with the literary works of O. Henry? Not a single motherboard I have in my apartment is capable of attaining a 166MHz FSB. My GA-7AX(P)s are a PCB rev1, without the 166MHz selector. I've had the newer ones. I've sold them. The most current shipment I got (newegg) had two...
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    Unlocking Tbreds

    I haven't tried to overclock anything for a long time. I honestly don't know. One place says you can pencil trick L1s on tbreds. Another says you don't need to. A third says you need a special motherboard and a fourth says they're un-unlockable. This is all on the first page of google results...
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    Unlocking Tbreds

    I just got four tbred XP2100s from newegg.com. Serial numbers are contiguous (except for one) and they're all - and if I'm reading the little black sticker right "actually" 2800s. Black sticker ADXA2100DUT3C 9819807280064 AIUHB0308WPGW The odd man out is marked as a 2600. 1.) SWEET! 2.) What...
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    Best bargain board

    The AK32A is missing USB2. I'm willing to forgive this at the moment, since I can buy USB2 cards for $6, locally (VIA chipset, plain-packed in a static bag, four external, 2 internal interfaces), but I really want to provide that feature with my builds. It is a good board, other than that.
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    Iraqi crisis explained...

    The BBC no longer broadcasts directly in the USA, its, and hasn't for several years. The only way to get BBC news is shortwave or from non-corporate broadcast source (CBC, NPR, Pacifica Radio) that happens to carry it. I wouldn't exactly call it an unbiased source at this point, either. Also...
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    Good PC Games to Play with a GamePad

    The Microsoft Mechwarrior games work pretty well with a joystick, but if you're going to use one, it has to have lots of programmable buttons.
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    Forums sluggish

    Lower loads are better. A load of about 1 is ideal. Someone you're sharing your box with is creating lots of processes and generally not being a very good neighbor.
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    Do NOT upgrade to ATI MMC 8.1

    This wasn't macrovision. I've already fixed macrovision. This was something embedded in a TV signal that came OTA on a channel I don't get well enough to have a picture. I'm not aware of any technology that "copyrights" broadcast signals, but the error message didn't come up until after the...
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    Iraqi crisis explained...

    It wasn't so much that I specifically went downtown to protest as I was downtown already and decided to spend a little time getting "held back by police" in front of the Daley Building (where the Picasso statue is). There were maybe a thousand people milling around shouting nasty things at each...
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    Thanks Merc: Speeze CPU cooler

    Why isn't anyone else talking about them? They're hard to find and this thread probably has a link to every review of these coolers online.
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    Thanks Merc: Speeze CPU cooler

    I would use either a Microflow II or a WhisperRock. They both cool well, and they're both quiet. I didn't have to pay for shipping on the more expensive Microflow, and with other things being as they are, I'd take the Microflow for its better clip. If I had to pay shipping charges, making the...
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    Iraqi crisis explained...

    Naw... If you want to talk to crackpots, either listen to the idiots who are STILL babbling about Vincent Foster's death, or talk to the people who managed to get arrested at the protest I went to this morning.
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    New range of forum ranks for SF fixtures

    Hairy Aussie. I now have a goal in life. man I wish I was kidding
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    Do NOT upgrade to ATI MMC 8.1

    Subject says it all. Ahem. "This video stream is copyright protected. ATI MMC will stop recording now. [OK]" I got that message when my recording of a VHS movie (which recorded just fine, of course, despite being copy protected itself) ran over into regualar broadcast. I've been trying to...
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    Mini-review: Pinnacle InstantCopy

    Copying DVDs is most certainly at the top of the list of things most DVD burner owners want to do with their hardware, even if they won't admit it. It certainly was for me. Sadly, most movies seem to have been specifically engineered to be a little bit larger than the 4.7GB disks that are...
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    Thanks Merc: Speeze CPU cooler

    Maybe half as tall, or a little more. I think it's a little louder than the WhisperRock, but it cools quite well. 4C cooler than my last read of the stock HSF, but those are both readings at idle temperatures (the PC in question had been serving files for the last couple of months, and after...
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    HD price, performance, price survey - Fantasy

    If a company is prepared to drop from a three year warranty to a one year, without stopping at, say, 2 years or 18 months, that suggests to me that there's a large drop off in reliability - such that the incremental cost is greater than the "goodwill" and/or market advantage accumulated by a...
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    HD price, performance, price survey - Fantasy

    As far as cost v. reliability: I am presently working under the assumption that every drive I buy will fail within three years (and I'm willing to give WD's stuff only about 9 months at this point). I believe this is true because changes in warranty policies suggest that a "modern" hard is not...
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    Thanks Merc: Speeze CPU cooler

    I got my hands on a few Microflow coolers today. Haven't tried them yet, but my first impression is a little disappointment. I'm now used to the punishing bulk of the WhisperRock. The Microflow is maybe 2/3rds the size of the big guys, with a less substantial fan. Clip certainly is better...
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    HD price, performance, price survey - Fantasy

    Backing up meaningful amounts of data on DVD isn't any more useful or appealing than backing up meaningful amounts of data on CD-R three years ago.
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    K7SOM+

    I do this stuff for fun, timwhit. Working with things like that is usually a challenge I can overcome, and it gives me a sense of accomplishment. That one, though, I felt everyone should get a warning about.
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    New Raptor Review at StorageReview

    It's not all pr0n, you know.
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    New Raptor Review at StorageReview

    Screw performance. I want my 320GB drives!
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    K7SOM+

    Has anyone else here had the unbelievable misfortune to work on an ECS K7SOM? I get asked to upgrade machines to Windows XP pretty regularly, and I'm mostly nice enough to sit down and click "Next" a couple times for $30 or so. Usually, it's an utterly painless process. This thing, though...
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    Any experiences with KM266?

    I've used a Biostar KM266 board a couple of times. They're generally well-behaved and very reasonably priced.
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    Zizco buyz Linkzyz

    I actually wonder what impact this will have on public perception of of linksys. In my own estimation I've found linksys products to be very high quality, better than comparable equipment from say DLink or 3Com. 3Com products are more expensive, though, based on name recognition (I think), and...
  29. Mercutio

    [NEWS] - Low-end T'bred often downgraded models

    I looked at a couple of my more recent 1700s, and, sure enough, they were 2200s at one time. Sweet!
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    Pentium-M and Centrino, are you all excited?

    Trust me, a long network cable - if it's your only tether - is not a hinderance. I like my 802.11G just the same.
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    Iraqi crisis explained...

    I believe I said much the same thing about 100 posts ago, Tannin. About our "allies", at least. Spain is my favorite. "Spain". That's like the punchline to a joke. Spain's citizens are still pissed about the USS Maine and losing Cuba. Think support among Aussies is bad, less than 10% of our...
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    Iraqi crisis explained...

    Hoorah for tyranny. :(
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    Help me choose my wedding transportation

    There's a comanpany around Chicago that has a stretch Lamborghini Diablo.
  34. Mercutio

    Terrorism safety placards in the US

    Nothing except that his name is Legion for he is many.
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    Fans, fans, fans

    PCI cards face upside down so that a PCI card can share a slot with an ISA card that faces up. ... and we've done it that way ever since. And I have a WORSE story about an ISA graphics card, a PCI slot and some machine tools. Hammers? Pffft!
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    Any way to speed up a 56K connection?

    Million and one creative ways to speed up your crappy modem connection. First of all, I live in a hell that will send cold shivers down your spine: 14.4. 19.2 if the phase of the moon is right and I sacrifice a goat or something. Now, to get to a speed that isn't considered unlawful under the...
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    Fans, fans, fans

    I'd just like to contribute by saying that the piece of human filth who decided to put fans on northbridges needs to be removed from the no-doubt shallow end of the gene pool he's presently muddying. Was that bitter enough? No, probably not, but I somehow doubt anyone will disagree with the...
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    Best KT133(a) Chipset Mobo?

    This is the kind of crap that makes me dislike Shuttle.
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    Best KT133(a) Chipset Mobo?

    The AK32A has been around for at least six months. I've had it on my price lists that long.
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    Best KT133(a) Chipset Mobo?

    I bought the board in question as a mistake; it doesn't have SDRAM slots, physically it looks a lot like an Epox 8KHA or any other vanilla KT266-based board, but it says Spacewalker on the heat sink and my invoice lists it as an AK32A. It's definitely *not* an AK32L. The retail packaging is of...
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    Help me choose my wedding transportation

    Litter as in "gold-encrusted stretcher carried over the shoulders of a bunch of strapping men". Preferred mode of transport for evil overlords everwhere. ;)
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    Thanks Merc: Speeze CPU cooler

    I've put Palamino 2.2s under those things. They've been just fine. I think one will handle a Duron 1.1.
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    Help me choose my wedding transportation

    Litter? Rickshaw? Chariot? Horseback? Two-Person Bicycle? Carriage? Motorcycle & sidecar? Razor Scooter? Rollerskates? Sailboat? (something of a trick if there's no water between here and there). Skydiving? You can get non-traditional Limos, if that's what you're in to. There's a guy in my...
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    Iraqi crisis explained...

    Our support of Israel isn't "mindless". The problem is there's a couple of lines in the Bible about the state of Israel needing to exist for the Christian Rapture to occur, and there's a lot of nutjobs - large swathes of the Republican party - who believe that crap. There's something really...
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    Best KT133(a) Chipset Mobo?

    That's funny, 'cause I've got one right here and it's 184-pin only. The AK32L is the only one with SDRAM sockets.
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    Good Dreamweaver Primer

    Kazaalite. Search for ebooks. When you find one you like (my search found three), buy it.
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    Best KT133(a) Chipset Mobo?

    The AK32A doesn't have 168pin DIMM slots on it, Blake. That doesn't do Clocker any good.
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    Best KT133(a) Chipset Mobo?

    The one will do just fine.
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    Best KT133(a) Chipset Mobo?

    Owing to a couple of years of being forced to listen to a particularly belligerent neighbor's Wu Tangy goodness (that's a joke, people!), I sort-of got that, but the one I was referring to is the homophobic wanna-be M&M. Or Vanilla Ice. Whichever.[1] [1] Now I'm making jokes about rap. It's...
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