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Our lame excuse for Fall has been around for a week or two; overcast in the morning, low sixties until midday. Beautiful, really dense fog at night; great for evening walks.

It's a licence that allows 5 different installations/activations of Server 2003.

We'll see how good the Yamaha YSP-1000 is; I have a new client in Marin that wants a home theater. I'll be aquiring a demo unit to try out at his place.

The Yamaha looks fascinating. If it performs as well as it's traditional competitors in that price range, it may be exactly what I'm looking for. How was the audio quality?

Screw it. I'm not going to go through the added hasstle of a reciever just to get the same 2.1 I have now. I'll get a 5.1 speaker setup at the same time. What about 7.1? Snake Oil?

All, Thanks so much for all the info. I'm really enjoying all the dialogue. What I'm most interested in at the moment is the next step after my current ~$300 configuration. Something under $1500 lets say. Not that that is a hard number, if I can be convinced that more could be wisely spent, I...

Look on the bright side....it's job security. ;)

Those look great, and include the surround decoder, but I can't find prices anywhere. I somehow suspect it's still a lot of money.

Or when you say matched speakers do you mean something like this?

Alright, back to reality. I hadn't seen Merc's most recent posts when I made my last. Surround it is. Looking for a reciever and speakers. I'll probably take the Klipsch I have and move them elsewhere, so consider me starting from scratch. Getting a reciever like this one? It has so many...

If only I had $10,000 to spend on this...these look perfect for my needs.

What a silly thought (it's passed now). One of the reasons I specifically stated stereo sound was my focus was because I wanted to concentrate on quality over number of channels. Considering 95% of my source material is stereo, I didn't think more speakers would make an appreciable difference...

Thanks for all the responses so far. Multiple inputs is not an issue, unless I want to have discreet inputs for my computers. I have no stereo, no TiVo, no TV, no DVD player, no turntable....nada. I'm just focusing on my one source mentioned above, and getting out to some speakers. If the...

FYI: P.U.ExtreemeI.: (third bottle: a Pariso '02 Syrah...$50/bottle) My apologies for any typos or indirect offense towards other posters...

Merc, Thanks for the response; yours was one of those I would value most of this group, as you have the budget and the interest to provide valuable feedback at this level. I understand that investment at this level requires an exponential increase in investment for a linear increase in quality...

That would be me...yes please.

This thread is meant to be a discussion of audio equipment. Both inside computers to the limit of computer-based audio, and viable alternatives at the high-end. This is a topic that I would like to learn more about, and any questions/information on this topic is welcome in this thread. The...

Audio DVDs as in DVD Audio? Or as in DVDs full of MP3s?

Interesting. It's cheaper than the one I have (X-Plosion) yet physically larger. I wonder what the quality difference is like?

I suspect both the 3.5" and 5400RPM are independantly considered uncool these days. The only reason they all haven't gone to 2.5" is the race to 1TB; which would be a bit more difficult without the larger platters. I wouldn't mind an array of 9 2.5" 250GB SAS drives at 5400RPM. Are there any...

Meh. Hard drives are not a source of energy, so I'm not particuarly worried. I've had chips/caps blow up in the past. The fact that an actual problem (laptop batteries made by sony) causes a non-problem (one hard drive's spectacular failure) to get press is just annoying.

Thanks guys! Aiming for true Heffner style, I got together with a half-dozen female friends and we've been hanging out for the last 2 days. Dancing, drinking, hot tubs, eating, rock climbing (lots of ass-shots doing that), and tonight is the sailing. I need a bigger boat ;)

IMHO, they are the generic blandness in the middle. Nothing exceptional, but they tend to "just work". I'd give them a go.

Thanks Mark.

That would be the grill over the fan...I bought one of those and was dissapointed.

Actually Mark, that looks like a nice board for my needs. The reason I was asking for more PCI slots is because my video card has an oversised heatsink that draws from the bottom. I only have one PCI card (X-Plosion sound card), but it effectively blocks off my video card's intake. Having the...

Wow, they're able to make everything more complicated than it needs to be. Why not just prompt for a password on setup?

Yes! That's the one I used to use, but newegg doesn't carry it anymore. They only carry the SLI boards and an actively cooled one. I loved the 8 SATA ports and dual GigE on this board. Do you have a recomended vendor where it is available?

1. Passively cooled Mobo 2. Socket 939 3. At least one PCI-E 16x slot Preferably not SLI, as that reduces the number of PCI slots.

I've built a custom lighting enclosure using daylight flourescent bulbs. I have some highly reflective stuff that I think is Mylar, and I'd love to simply wrap it around the back of the bulbs to use as a reflector. However, I know the ballasts jack the voltage up to the tens of thousands of...

My favorte watch to date was the least bulky. It was a Swatch...let me see if I can find it...nope, of course they've discontinued it. It was close to this one: http://store.swatch.com/theme_2watch/YPS402G The watch itself is as thin as the band (1-2mm) and weighs almost nothing. The one I had...

Eh, It's warmer now...the heater likely won't go on again for another month or two. The climate here is kinda weird. Summer and Winter are both nice and sunny with warm days (70s and 80s). Spring and Fall are a bit cooler with fog and overcast (50s and 60s). That's the extent of our seasons. I...

$600 Rigs are easy...they just aren't Core 2 Duo. Stick with a X2 3800+ (or a 3600+ if you can find one). If you can keep it S939 as opposed to AM2 you can use the (cheaper and faster) DDR vs. DDR2. Good motherboards with decent onboard video for $100-$130, dual-core CPU for $150. Not a problem...

Congrats on the gig Adcadet! On another note; I'm just about to do another system build. "Hm" I think "everyone is talking about how competitive Intel's new chips are, let's have a look". They start at nearly $200. $200? WTF? I haven't bought a chip (for someone else) that cost more than $200...

Actually got cool enough this morning (60F, 15C) for me to turn on the heater for the first time this season.

I'm back, and it's installed without any issues. I need e-mail addresses to get you guys invited.

I just went to install on my new system (old one fried) and it seems to have borked my FF install. I must admit I was doing some sketchy OC'ing at the time, but now I have no extensions and it killed my profile. Recognising I was likely the cause with my OC+undervolt combo, I tried to re-install...

6 USB cards at 5 Ports each...Just thinking of all the power flowing through the motherboard....holy cow.

That's one of the nicest ways anyone's made that observation...usually it starts the same and ends with the word "up".

...or as bear-proof...

Doesn't HDMI come with all that DRM stuff?

It's odd to see that I'm the only person on this continent that is online...must be nearly bedtime.

Thanks Merc, now I'm in debt another $150...living the american dream...

Damn...I almost hit the "I want one" button, and I have absolutely no need for this card. The slowest gaming system I have (hooked to a 19" LCD) already has an OC'd X1600 on it; with X850s, X1800s, and 7900GTs all around...but this is such a good deal...

BF2 Works fine....looks like it is a RoN issue. I bought the "Gold Edition" today; it includes the expansion pack, and is updated to the point where all the new updates can only be downloaded from inside the game...kinda useless for me.

Omegas Work, and now ATITool 0.24b9 works, installing BF2...

Hey, now I get a different error! Sweet! :crap:

The fact that I encounter issues in ATITool and RoN makes me think it's an issue with the driver install and not the game. I'll try the Omegas now.

-oh, except that the video card is an X1600...

I'm having problems getting the ATI driver to work. I've tried both the "full" and "driver only" versions, and I've turned up the acceleration to full. I have DX9.0c and my display settings are 1280x1024x32. When I try to run Rise of Nations it says it won't run in 256-color mode(!) When I...