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Quote : "IT WILL COME as no surprise that the tests involved, although performed by an independent lab, were sponsored by Microsoft. But that doesn't change their basic validity. " No need to say that I totally disagree with this statement.

You just can't trust test payed for by one of the participants. Of course, performance tests on the same config give the same results, even if it's a microsoft employee that does the testing. However, how do we know that both configs are "fair" (ie that only one has been optimized or that the...

LOL. Now they have to find a character that will bug IE ;) .

I don't blame only the auto industry for this. I also blame the consumers. Most people would be satisfied with a 4 cylinder engine car. It's not the lack of fuel efficient cars that makes fuel consumption rise. It’s the fact that consumers don’t care about fuel efficiency. What's the point of...

What the government actually do is impose a minimum price for oil. This prevents big oil companies to sell a ridiculously low prices. This minimum price depends on the price of a barrel on the world market. I think it’s a very good move.

We had a very clear example of very questionable tactics here in Québec. It happened a few years ago. In the oil market here, there are two kinds of distributors. There's those affiliated with an oil company (Shell) and the independents. Back then, the price of gas was about 60 cents/l. Then...

It's about time that the record industry stops trying to control piracy. They can file a lawsuit against any p2p network they want, others will appear. It's the sad truth but they have to accept it. How about trying to adapt to the new situation? Yes such thing is hard, and their profits may...

Very odd mobo. Why would someone need 3 ISA slots in a modern motherboard? (Ok, I know there are freaks out there, but not enough to be considered a market :D ).

Um... like, hello! LOL! Now I know what you mean!

Videotron High-Speed service 4,8 Mbits D/L 180 KBits U/L 10 GB download limit 5 GB upload limit 35 $ ....but you have to buy the cable modem (170$ - otherwise add 10$ per month for cable modem rent) and you have to subscribe to another videotron service (cable TV, digital TV...). Otherwise...

Very nice indeed.

LOL. Very nice.

A fix to fix a fix. WOW!

I had a problem where it would take about 4 minutes for the computer to show the logon screen in my home network. I think it was due to the fact that I had to ghost-restore the domain controller. The solution was to get the computer out of the domain (make sure it was unregistered from the DC)...

This happened to me once. But with a 20gig hard drive. Also, it pushed all the way in. I don't know why because I did not put that much pressure on it... :(

LOL, cat and mouse game!

No I don't think it's that bad, and I’ve also seen worse. My point it to show how people can end up hating each other over ideas. It can get to the point that it's worse than a religion or nationality difference. Religion and nationalities are not the reason people hate each other. However...

You can suppress borders, religion and race, but they all lead to one fundamental division : ideas. You can't get rid of differect ideas. Nationality, religion and race all point to the same division. "You are an american, you must think like me, i like you"..."you're a christian, you must think...

Doesn't you tax money go to fund olympic athletes? You should be proud Tannin!

Look at those freaky winbench scores! 18.4 MB for the promise controller and 28.7 for the SI controller in buisness disk winmark! Any explination for this?

I think i'll have to agree with you here. Even though i've been against the war all along, there is no need to show opposition now. If I was an American, i would avoid protesting during this war. Like you said, there is no turning back, and what must be done, must be done. I'd do this to...

I have a TBred 1.8GHz...to bad that my mobo does not permit any kind of overclocking...

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Yes....war is inevitable right now and we can't do anything about it. I'll just hope for the best. A short clean war. I hope that the many predictions the pentagon made are right (that Iraki generals will defect). That way we can have a short war without to much bloodshed.

I did not have to do much research. One of the links you gave me already linked another article talking about that. But like I said, I don't need to be convinced that Saddam is evil. That I already know. I made a typo there. I should read "not that i'm not already convinced". To make it more...

A small conclusion on this...Howell, you did prove me wrong, as I did not know Saddam Hussein offered other than moral support to the palestinians. However, the evidence presented is not enough to start a war. Many of it is not official and needs to be confirmed. In other words, it's enough to...

Howell, thatks for taking the time to find some links. But let me comment on the articles you linked. First, both Fox news articles. The first is an AP article, titled "Israel: Iraq Aids Palestinian Terror, But No Links to Al Qaeda". The families of suicide bombers do need aid. Don't...

Does he fall in the "everything" category or the "crap" category?

That's new... I know that Arafat supported Irak (we're talking moral support here) during the gulf war. That's about all i can tell about the relation between the palestinians and Irak. Evidence would be much appreciated. Also, I hear often the argument that Irak could start selling their...

If you want low noise, Antec PSU's are a good choice. They seem to have a very good quality too.

I only reboot for service updates and to make an Image of my disk. Except, of course, when I change my computer.

Yep...sad but true :( .

It's safe to say that both chipsets are at the same level in terms of performance. This review shows that dual channel DDR for athlon is way overrated. I see many people that think that Nforce's dual channel technology will give them a big boost of some sort...

Man....look at the WD1200JB in the anandtech review! It considerably outperforms all other drives in all desktop application tests!

Hehehe....I saw that in the news today and thought of posting it. But I was sure that someone already did! And in fact, I was right :) . I think it's better with a baseball bat...but that's just me...

Totally agree with you. This guy is trying to find every excuse to go to war. I mean in 91, Irak had actually invaded his neighbour. Now? A preventive war you say? Yes, as it will prevent the US from running out of oil!

The most interesting thing about the review is that it will give us an example of how the performance of a pre-production "beta" drive compares to the final version. As for the tests, the only real disappointment is the high-end scores. While other scores are equal or close to actual 7200rpm...

The noise must be wonderfull!

Very strange though....The 80gig/platter version of the DM+9 outscores all SCSI drives in both winmarks. What does it mean : 1. winmarks are outdated ? 2. ATA drives are getting very close to SCSI in terms of "desktop" performance ? 3. manufacturers do everything they can do to have good...

I also have a friend with an A7N8X deluxe...i'll keep you informed :). The best thing is to buy a board that's matured. In other words, never buy the latest and greatest if you want very good stability. If you buy new stuff, there's a chance that it might have problems...

Heh :) . I stand corrected then...

I really don't like the new approach that Maxtor is taking with the DM+9. Of course, I mean that varible platter desity stuff. That being said, fortunately all three drives have almost the same performance. However, they do not have the same noise level. Maxtor's DM+9 seem a less interesting...

I didn't know that a motherboard maker could actually change how a chipset behaves. And even if you tell me and it's a somewhat valid explination, I still have my doubts. Anyway, I guess that could explain why some KT133A boards are bad and some are much better. At first, I thought that it was...

Why is : SiS735 + ECS (cheap crappy shit) = good board KT266 + MSI (mi-range?) = crappy board KT133A + Abit(variable quality?) = crappy board Tannin, have you tried other socket A chipsets? Also, if you can't notice that the KT133A's ATA controller is bad when you do not burn CD's or copy...

Uh-oh....just bought two WD400JB myslf. I'm not concerned though :P .

So you say that the bad reputation that VIA got was due to bad individual boards? How come this only happened to VIA? I got a SiS chipset on an ECS board that works perfectly. It's much faster and stable than my old KT7A. I mean ECS isen't in the best in terms of quality... I did not see any...

I didn't know that Tea worked at IBM... :lol:

Maybe I have to remind people of good old KT133A and KT266 (without the A). I had one board based on both, and it was slow, shitty and unstable. The board with the KT266 (MSI) actually never worked well. It had stability problems from the start that ranged from frequent lock-ups to very regular...

That's excellent news for AMD and for the processor market in general. he more AMD and Intel are close in market share, the more we have better products at a better price.

There is something that I really don't get with people and SUV's. Why would you spend 25000$ on a car that does not handle well. Of the few cars I drove in my life, i like driving those who have acceptable handling. Plus, my sence of security is much higher in a car that handles well than in a...