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I was just checking over the recent systems I've been working on and realised... I forgot to install some form of AV on it. I have NAV running on my daily box but nothing on my servers. Then I realised why. I don't access the internet on them, don't receive email, don't any weird/unknown...

Yeah, I've stopped looking at the newest and fastest and started looking at the budget and lower power consumption. At the same time, I'm trying to keep up the same roles for my boxes. Server, daily and gaming. I'm trying to configure two Media servers for storage and can't decide if I should...

Hrm... maybe they'll go even further and start upping warranties... 3 year... 5 year... Upgrade plan... where they pro rate your drive and ship u the upgrade of your choice.... I'm in the market for some new 3 year+ warranty 200+GB drives... now, to decide on a brand...

yes, what is the best AV alt? other than linux :-P I'd have to recommend NAV over Crappafee. so please, enlighten us to a better alternative...

I'm almost tempted to say you're comparing apples and oranges with the Athlon comparison, but then I realize, Dual MP's probably would be system of choice unless you went Dual Opterons. The Athlon64 is going to feel faster with higher clock speed and faster bus. Compare the Dual MP's to a T-Bird...

Cool! This would be perfect for a computer! With that size, it could fit anywhere. Hrm... thats one less reason to be late for class...

Hrm... out of the dozen or so drives I've had... each brand comes down to the drive model and where/when I bought it. I currently run 15ish? WD drives from 80GB JB to 120AB to 200JB with very few problems. They were purchased from various places online to several different retail stores...

Woohoo I recommended something useful. I remember seeing that antenna at microcenter and wondering if they actually worked. They didn't have many but I didn't see them being sold very often. And it looked like they had several versions? They were cheap too. I was looking at getting one to boost...

but sempron > duron? and athlon xp > sempron? i see the sempron runs on a 166mhz bus. what would be the advantage of runnign a sempron over a duron or an athlonxp?

But You would look sooo much cooler if it was a black case panel with fan grills on some lights on it :mrgrn:

And here I thought they were just making black drives because they looked cooler! Having an all black case with all black interior parts makes my computer run 5% faster at night :mrgrn: black pcb on everything... black coated wires... black plugs... black led... er... i'll have to rethink...

I normally recommend people people to get an IBM or one of the better models of Dell. Most retail stores carry the same variant and and they all pretty much suck. Those that don't suck are overpriced. So I do agree with Merc about laptops at retail stores. However, I've heard Dell's QC has been...

hrm... did I mention I work at Circuit City.... It's a good idea to get the service plan. The only thing with laptops is, you have to ship it to get it fixed. The Circuit City ESP ships it back within 7 days though, so it's not too long. Now, if only I could custom build my own laptop...

Doesnt Hawking? make a wireless extender/repeater thing? I thought saw one somewhere... So it sounds like the Linksys repeater will end up with another rev 5.x while they fix all the bugs out of it.... and one would think they would improve with cisco....

I see Cletus everywhere here in southern Virginia... and yay to another laptop with service sold... Some lucky guy at CC will be keeping his job another month... wish it was my store :-P i think a laptop for 600$ is a good deal. Even if it is a POS. Cuz then, other companies will make laptops...

wait... is there a real difference between teh black drives and the silver ones? I picked up 4 WD JB drives last month 3 were black, 1 wasnt.... are teh black ones better? or FDB?

Woohoo! drives aimed for RAID and somewhat within budget. But what's up with that 3 year warranty? Oh well, it's a start. I've been running my array in JBOD for a while and so far no problems. I plan on emptying it and changing it back to RAID 5 soon. So we'll see if problems happen again.

Drives 1 and 2 are older drives. Drives 4-6 are new. AT first I had problems with drives 1 and 2 which resulted in drive 2 dying and getting RMAd. Then I replaced that drive with another drive I had from around the same time. That did not have any problems. Recently I added 2 T shaped molex...

Drives are fine, they have been checked several times. All cables were the bundled cables that came with the card and are 18inches single device. Power supply is sufficient, 550ishw and yes I am using molex cable splitters. The PSU comes with a total of 8 molex 4 pins on two cables, and I have 2...

Thats about the right. I've seen the Samsung bulb for around 250$ with an average lamp life of 8000 hours. I've asked our TV Tech about those and if I remember right, we ( Circuit City) gets the bulbs for around 200$-300$. I'll have to double check with him tomorrow, but I know sometimes they...

So last fall, I decided to get a raid5 hardware controller to create a TB storage array/server. At the time, I was runnin my main server of 3 x 200GB WDJB on an abit vp6 runnin dual vp6. After much research and lookin aroung, I picked up a Promise SX6000 with teh plan to upgrade to 6 x 200GB on...

Hrm... ok, so now Seagate has 5yr warranty on retail drives. I will assume this also means 5yr warranty on oem drives i purchase thru online stores, ie. newegg, mwave, wutever store on pricewatch i can find... So now do I still stick with Samsung and it's 3 years? or go with Seagate? And who...

LED bulbs? > fluorescent? What about keeping the rooms cool while keeping power low? We've already got fans in most rooms but one room facing the sun always cooks at >82F during the day. There's only 3 comps in there and they don't produce that much heat. Even with the window open and the fan...

So for a storage server of either 120GB or 160GB, they say Hitachi and Samsung are good. Since the results from the 120GB and the 160GB were similar, Hitachi and Samsung would be the drives of choice for a storage/file server. While Maxtors would be good for capping video. So, one were to build...

Just for the record, I recently had to RMA two WD SE drives. Both had 2+years left on the warranty. The replacements had the warranty reflecting the remaining period. So the replacements have the same warranty as ur original drive. How good the "recertified" drives are is still up for debate...

Depending on ur area and availabitlity, I would consider getting 2 x 900va/500w UPS. Here in the US, Microcenter has an APC/Conext 900va for 60$US. The 1000va APC is normally 150$ and the 1500va is like 200$. One of our APC 1000va just kicked into overload mode and won't kick out. So I picked up...

ooo neat... now to find some of these more effecient power supplies... and i a found a device called a kill-a-watt which measures wattage from a device plugged into it. Now to find a store that sells it. Anyone have any experience with this item?

It's never about real life performance. It's More about the cost of the thing and the upgrade ladder for that technology. So while a stick of DDR is 4 times faster, 256MB of SDRAM is near the top of the line since most people would not buy more than a stick of 512MB. IT's the same reason P3...

My dad has habit of using 25w bulbs and just adding 4 bulbs to a ceiling fan. We also have ceiling fans in every room cuz it saves on power over AC. However, I don't think 8 rooms w/ ceiling fans running 24/7 saves a lot over running the AC for 4-6 hours a day. It's mainly winter during the...

16X for DVDs and 52x for CDs is the physical max. I'm waiting for 16x DVDrs and prob 8x for DL before I plan on getting another burner. Currently have a POS 4x DVDR that only does 4x on +R and crapsp out on random -R. Besides.... DL is like 8 GIGS!!! a disc.... so 2.4x is how slow? and 4x is...

er... I live in Virginia. We have Northern VA and Southern VA. Southern VA is where the banjos play. Northern VA is where all the govt ppl who work in DC live. There's Fairfax, Alexandria, Annandale, and a bunch of other insignificant places. FYI, Fairfax was/is the richest county in the US...

However, running an array with 6-8 hard drives makes having half a dozen individual external enclosures kind of pointless. For one or two drives, sure an external USB2/Firewire is great. But for a storage server running RAID5 on some overpriced RAID5 card, external is not a solution. Hotswap is...

I'm not sure if power companies in the US are obligated to offer alternative sources. Will have to look into that sometime. IIRC, last time i checked, solar wasn't efficient enough to completely run the whole house. But that was several years ago. Prices have probably dropped a bit, however it...

Something I've been wondering for a while and been debating with friends and parents about, is how much power a computer uses. The ratings on power supplies are in hundreds of watts, 300w, 500w, and the like, but what exactly does that mean for the normal user. How is that 300w, 400w, measured...

security hole in mozilla?!?!?! Thats unimpossible! oh well, still tons better than the integrated...

how sad... MBM was one of the essentials to an OCer It was like, immediately installed after the OS... Alas, all good things come to an end... too bad the clones don't... A toast to old times, of OCing to reach that 1Ghz and the beginning of the modding craze. Cheers

well then good for you. It's always better to hear it's working than not. The sticks I got a hold of were also blue. but, I like Mushkin colors better :-p I'll have to look around and see if other people had good experiences with it. I'd actually heard Geil had compatibility problems, but...

interesting, consdering I had a friend purchase some of the Geil memory off newegg sometime last year. It didn't work in his athlon setup. I tried it in my athlon box and it seemed to run fine, until I benched it with some memtest and some 3dmark. Then it would give me BSODs. Swapped the ram...

If you run an IDE Raid card that supports hot swapping, you can hot swap IDE. It really depends on the raid card and the drive caddies being used. So anyone else wanna mention what type of caddies they use and where they got it from?

Well that drive rack partially works and isn't ata100 and I can't find a replacement for it. But I wasn't complaining about the one I have. I was noting that the one on Granite Digital looked very similar to the cheapo one I purchased and wanted to make sure it did what it was supposed to. Since...

Yeah, I have that looks *exactly* like that but it'd not hot swappable. And It's not supporting any drive >120GB. It's about 2 years old and cost around 20$. These seeem to be the cheapest I can find. Wish someone did a review of 3-2 bay backplanes. Or 5 - 3 bay versions...

1-3 years??? What do you do with your old ones? Do your drives die that fast? or do u just like upgrading? I plan on changing my out towards the end of hte 3 year warranties and i move warrantied drives to non critical stuff w/backups. I've got maybe a dozen drives on hand and some did involve...

so would hte only reason to get a passive video card is so the fan doesn't fail? and the noise? I was wondering why passive was recommended. And along the same lines, I'm guesing pci and agp wouldn't matter much in a server. What about a media box running some small linux/windows client for...

got a linky? Im lookin at replacing the cheapo ones I got from compgeeks last year http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=BS-2231A They're nice, but the fan is loosely held and rattles which makes an annoying buzz. The heat flow could be much better and the drive screws got stripped real...

budget video card so, wut constitutes a budget video card? sub 50$? sub 100$? cheapest possible? if you're not gaming, then would an ati radeon 9000 for 50$ be good? or would it be better to spend the extra 10$ for a 9200 or 9600se? And does anyone know if the radeon series is natively detected...