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I like my XM but not that much, I just have the radio here with some really old PC speakers. Thinking about this now: http://www.turtlebeach.com/products/mtgoddl/home.aspx Dolby Digital Live and some form of digital out is all I'm looking for so I can game on the big TV. Some of the quick...

Sorry, I didn't have the notify turned on. PM.

Yup, supposed to utilize the idle times that the CPU has waiting on data. Also seems to force things to "share" better when loaded at a hardware level. The OS actually sees two CPU for each hyperthreaded core.

I thought the i7 was showing gradual single threaded improvement when compared on a clock for clock speed to the Core2 chips? Not a lot but it's there, somewhat due to all the caching and memory controller improvements. If I understand correctly these things have hyperthreading too so the OS...

RMA returns are what ebays for, all my stuff is going there. It is dammed rare for anyone to cross ship an RMA anymore.

Not bad. As long as ASUS releases their own drivers I guess that's OK, that's my main problem with creative. That optical converter jack looks like it will break VERY easily though. I only really care about 5.1. Researching a digital header, my onboard is Realtec ALC883, wonder if I can find...

Seems I have inadvertently made a bad decision and the motherboard I have now has no optical or coax out. What do we have for a decent sound card these days? Hoping for something non creative... Either old PCI or PCIEx1 is fine by me.

I think my whole plan was to up the bus speed for OC and keep the same memory divisor, or something like that. Before this I used to always get corsair value ram. Think I'm back out of that phase.

Yup, I just replaced mine with some cheepo PNY that was on sale locally. Long as it does 800 should be fine. Just had a similar issue myself with a system that was running just fine, just turned up with bad memory BIOS beeps all of the sudden. May have been my fault with the voltage but I am...

Some free stuff here, cost of shipping only, your choice on the method. Dumpster material after a weeks time. AMD K6/2+ 475ACZ socket 7, with heatsink Asus P5A-B motherboard super socket 7, with accessories, box and manuals. PC133 memory 3 DIMMs, 2 are 256MB and 1 is 64MB ATI Expert @ Play AGP...

Oh yeah, I forgot about that security on the HD DVD, but in effect it's about a non-issue as it gets being bypassed long ago. Hardware wise, as I understand it HD DVD had dual tuners right from the start so they can do the multiangle or commentary window thing, guess how they do that on BD...

All the DRM tied in with BD isn't exactly helping things along either. Older TV's without HDCP won't work and if your player isn't one of the newer 2.0 versions with a network connection that is plugged in and ready you may run across disks that just won't play and have to go on the firmware...

I read somewhere they are taking care of these in and out of warranty, worth a follow up.

On the up side all that money I spent on the Q9550 and 4gig of memory pays off; running two VM's with a gig of memory and a CPU each fly on this thing. Too bad work won't pay for this, they sort of expect me to do all this software testing on a three year old D610 laptop with a mobile 1.8 and 1...

Yeah this is a little worse than that, below. Not as bad as I initially thought though. Don't forget tomcat is part of it there for that web interface, and my one defined VM is stopped. I am just a little disturbed that with only firefox and trillian open I am sitting on a whole gig of memory in...

Anyone know how to stop VMware so it's not sitting on a couple hundred meg of system memory while I am not using it?

How bout a USB floppy drive, have one of those around?

Yeah they are horns but they sound OK. Least I think they do, but I'm one of those people that can't really tell the difference of a MP3 at 190kbps+ to CD or HD quality DVD audio. We had an older set of these on the shelf and could rock half the store with them though, they aren't making up the...

Yeah, first time a couple years ago I when I first saw true HD coming from god knows what source on an Aquos set I was stunned. Now I see normal DVD on such a set and it looks so embarrassingly bad. For sound I really like to have that center to anchor voice but that seems out of the scope for...

Nice project, so your estimate w/o shipping is $7280 per station? Man that is just staggering but I bet we all have that in our current machine if not more. Do you have a thing for Aquos? I used to before I viewed the current options and prices, now I have a LN32A550, it's no 52" but same...

Sweet, never mind it was a simple permissions issue. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421&Product=winxp Love it when I can answer my own questions.

I just changed from XP32 to XP64. Before hosing my old install I ghosted it using a ghost boot floppy to another SATA HD from an intel ICH9R mirror. Creation went well and if I check the image from the ghost floppy the image is fine. Problem is I can't access that folder where the image is...

It's just malware with a name to fool the computer illiterate, and it is frankly shocking how successful a simple name and some looks are at passing these things off in this day and age.

Agreed, and for some reason I crashed firefox a couple times getting the viewer window installed and working. It works fine now but I think the older interface was slicker and much more trouble free. Is this just a narrowing of development efforts and this version is using the same code they...

Anyone know of a halfway decent forum for security camera equipment like Storageforum is for storage and computers here? I am on my condo board and we have some security concerns that need to be addressed with a camera system I may be called upon to advise, purchase and manage. I admit...

I generally distrust MIR's too, total ripoff method that prays on lazy or stupid customers. Years ago when I worked in BBY you would be sick to see how many items came back for repair with all the paperwork, including sometimes multiple hundreds of dollars in rebates past their expiration...

Monitors are 100% personal preference as far as I am concerned, get what you like big or small etc. As far as using a TV for a monitor the only advice is check out its "PC mode" and see how friendly it is. In using my LN32A550 I found the PC mode was a pain to find and enable but the thing...

Heh, you think they did something to address the bad press?

Will look into an RMA on the Gigabyte too wonder what they will say...

Well the new memory works fine in the old motherboard too. So off to RMA on the memory and ebay for one of the motherboards. Which motherboard would you all keep? Gigabyte 965P-DQ6 with Intel P965+ICH8R -or- Supermicro C2SBA+II-O with Intel G33+ICH9R Before all this happened I was already...

Just got the motherboard in today (I was out of town on business), but it wasn't the motherboard. It was the memory. Both pieces as in never could happen. Neither one worked individually in either motherboard. Go figure. Got some cheap PNY on sale locally that works fine. As far as this...

Maybe because of the cache and wearing them out?

Is WinFS part of Windows 7? I haven't heard anything about that yet, would be cool. Merc: I suspect you are right. Personally I'm skipping vista and going straight for this.

Older Antec 500 PS pulled out of another computer didn't' change anything. Don't have memory around to test with. Thinking about just going back to supermicro and just sticking with the lower memory rating. Or I could really spend some money and switch to DDR3, but I think ill just wait for the...

They are also listed the other way around on Corsairs site for that board. If this board with "Quad triple phase power supply" and "heatpipe" cooling can't handle some memory voltage when it is marketed as a overclocker board then I don't know why I paid extra for it over some base models...

Aw crap, I see the logic in that train of thought and I think you are right but a motherboard isn't something I can get locally. Been running for nearly a year, but it wasn't always running with the CPU OC. Only ran that for the past 8 months or so. Checked and both pieces of memory in slot 1...

The memory is rated at 1066 at 2.2v by Corsair, there is no OC or OV on it, actually it's underclocked a hair. Besides, clearing the CMOS would have reset all that. Even found this in a quick google: http://www.houseofhelp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=55292

Place your bets, Memory or Power supply! My desktop died last night, had a mystery reboot last week and locked up all of the sudden yesterday during use. With both sticks of memory in any of the two paired slots I get one long beep = memory error. With only one stick of memory in the slot next...

My choice isn't for everyone but I got a PDA with built in GPS, an Asus A696 and it is fantastic, but I switched to TomTom instead of included destinator. Not really happy with TomTom's lack of updates for the PDA software package so I might switch to the garmen software but at least I have the...

I pinged my friend with the eee and he had to return to a XP light situation for compatibility in the office and isn't really happy with the performance, BUT all the chicks in the office like it because it's so "small and cute".

Yes, that Dot Net 3.5 measures 231meg for me which is rather staggering isn't it? Required for SQLE08 too. I really don't get the whole sub installer idea, you aren't really saving time just shifting the download to a different time from what I can see. I don't see a lot of time saved for...

I duno, in the folder properties, security tab does your user have full control?

Looks like a bigger and nastier business than the ship breakers.

I think its significant that many of these come with Linux, they simply don't have the horsepower to drive XP really well and forget vista. My friend has one of the Asus ones with the SSD and said it basically sucked under XP but was quite happy under a couple Linux variants a browser and OOO. I...

Looks like we ran into a compatibility issue that will likely stop this in its tracks. The app our team is working with doesn't care between SQL 2005 Express and 2008 Express, but we have a new documentation engine deploying in another month or two and it's married to SQLE05 so it looks like we...

I am rather involved in SNMP traps and polling but unfortunately only in our narrow focus for our corporate monitoring solutions of our own products and a small amount of third party stuff. We sell Nform for a kind of medium solution but I am not involved in that end at all but sometimes we are...

Never heard of it, I will do some reading but this looks like a possibility at first glance. Thanks for the lead.

To give you all an idea these are my instructions on the setup of this stuff, SQL has twelve things you have to click through and choose stuff, most of which is plain default for us. The installer I am using for SQL Express 2008 is the minimum one too without all the extras...

I need something to help our technicians deploy SQL Express on computers. Is there an installer wrapper or deployment kit I am not aware of? Some sites won't have internet access either... SQL 2008 Express has prerequisites of installer 4.5, .NET 3.5SP1. Those are easy several click installs...

+? to jtr's rant but I don't have the skills to form an opinion on the tax situation, it is an interesting theory though.