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you certainly dont need a fan.... or even thermal paste to keep a p5 166 MMX happy...

from the 1st article, it shows that in WinBench99 there is only a couple percent difference in speed between the two barracudas, however in IOmeter, there is a ~7% difference in speed.... Access times for the barracuda's differ by .9ms or a ~6% increase in access times when AAM is enabled...

That's true, I often see vomit boxes sold with 128MB RAM... running anything more than win98 and you are having to page stuff on bootup... leaving you with only a paltry 15% or so of free RAM. This can lead to some slow computing in alot of cases(esp when packaged with a U series HDD) If I goto...

yup, those mmx's were based on newer design.. they were the coolest running PC processors I can remember... I almost doubt if you need a heatsink on them. You certainly don't need thermal paste (As I have noticed from a few gateway2000 machines)

I bet it's harder in the US.... Dell seems to not be too good at support outside of the US... which IMO is the only reason to buy them(unless they just have a stellar deal available) I assume you sell on the lower overall longterm cost of owning a single computer by buying redhill vs Dell...

great, i was thinking it came bundled as OEM with some other norton software.... Sure beats the pants off the price listen on norton's website... was that the "retail" version or the "enterprise" version?

I am using ghost 2003 to backup a computer using the CD-RW.... wow... I am really impressed. This is such a nice and easy solution. If I can find a copy of it for under $20 I will definately buy it. (Im using the trialware that expires images after a 15 day period) THis software belongs in my...

sounds like a good deal to me... but you'd need to add a sound card and maybe a vid card for more typical uses...

who made the 10,000th post?

that is a good idea. I have done similar things before... But unfortunately I am not a computer repair shop and seem to have run out of decent HDD's at the moment.... my best are the 200 and 240MB caviars and my biggest are a ~1 and 1.2 GB conner (I know one of them has bad sectors). Maybe I...

In my bedroom I currently have 4 PC's turned on, one that is unplugged and hasn't been used for a few months, and most of the parts to build another. I would estimate the average distance from me to a PC while in bed to be just further away than my height of 5' 9".

I will third the turtle beach santa cruz. There are other cards out there with the same processor (such as the Hercules Game theatre) However, their drivers and software simply don't compare to the santa cruz from all the comments I've read. I think I picked mine up about a year ago for $48...

about upgrading... it wont be done.. infact too much upgrading has allready been done and will probably be gone to waste.... My friend is probably getting an Apple laptop as a graduation gift.. when that happens this PC is going to grandma.... it's a shame I even put an ata IV and my beloved...

like I said, I ran Prime95's torture test and folding@home.... Not a single problem the CPU heatsink gets warm when the fan is on... but not hot... If I remove the ducting the heatsink does get hot so I know the heatsink is working... I've been running memtest86 for the past 3-4 hours and...

well i know its a 266, i ripped the dang heatsink off.... But I would like to know what you guys think about shuttle now saying that it is based off of a kt266a when it is really manufactured with a kt266. And they are doing this without changing mobo revisions or anything... Note that the...

LiamC, do you agree with my opinions? I need feedback for my feedback...

I am one of those developers that used to use Netscape as their other browser... Now I only check Moz(llinux and windows) and IE.. because that is who I care about most. I don't even bother with comunicator because of the lack of support for CSS and the fact that it's use is declining. I have...

funny.. didn't i post almost the exact same thing a month or two ago? maybe that was at the other forum... this was of course not the 600JB

wow, am I the only one who can stare at a computer screen all day (16 hours) and not get eye strain or tired at all? At school for 1 semester I was infront of a computer for three 2 hour blocks every day.... when I went to work, i was infront of a computer.... came home... I was on the...

Games are getting larger many games now require 3 CD's and could probably easily fill a DVD in the next few years to come. still, that is not all that large... say 5 games at 5GB each and you don't even begin to fill the larger HDD's of today. hmm... operating systesm are getting larger, but...

I think alot of the newer virus specificlly try to disable the anti virus programs and stop their ability to update themselves.... I am not uptodate on my viruses but I have heard of several of the newer (last year or two) virus doing this kind of thing.

In english class it was great... I didn't have to buy some of the books because they were online.... and If i had some extra time I could just pop into the computer lab for 1/2 hour and read.... I've never heard of the pay to print thing you've ran into... but I imagine you could hit the...

oh, and yes, I went to http://housecall.antivirus.com and ran a virus check... clean... I've been surfing for about 3 and 1/2 hours now.. seems pretty decent for a 28800 connection..... my phone lines are terrbile though... never been able to connect fater here... my friend connects at 48000...

case is dust free... It has terrible ventalation with the only fan being a 60mm case fan... no other mounts are possible. I will double check all the cable seatings as well as RAM and CPU(if possible) I am using the default win98 drivers for video as they have been running fine and that...

why are people still using Netscape communicator? Any ISP that gives out netscpae communicator AND suggests that their customers use it above IE, opera, or mozilla are, IMO, short changing their customers. Comunicator never ran that well anyway, I would rather run Moz because of (1) the lack...

that reminds me of famous quote... i think it was said by the inventor of the modern computer... it goes something like "because of the expense and complexity of a computer, I cannot see there being any practical application/market for more than a few hundred of these computers" How short...

who is your audience for this project? I think you could easily make this document work well for people with low-mid level hardware experience. Also, is this intended for people who are interested in buying a new drive how is it going to influence their purchasing decisions? However, as it...

oh, i finally figured out how to Blue screen the dang thing.... By running the Nero CD speed benchmark I was able to get reproducable Blue screens during the seek tests.... however these were not hard lockups and I could just press enter to get out of them and return normal operation.... I...

the case has plenty of airflow where it is ontop of her desk... This is a different monitor, but i am running @ same color, res, refresh rate... She uses her modem and I am using the ethernet card connection at the moment.... however, she is not online much... but i will check it out. we...

Hey all... A friend of mine says that they are increasingly seeing blue screens while using their computer... increasingly having problems even starting their computer (windows freezes).... and now cannot even get windows to load at all.... So, being a kind friend, I take a look at the PC...

heh.... right... good ol days... .IRQ conflict even after carefully picking out hardware.... endlessly switching cards from ISA to ISA slot.... only being able to put 4 expansion cards in a computer at a time.... endless conflicts... OEM programs to determine the best IRQ for each piece of...

that is my recent addition. The shuttle AK-32L

Are you suggesting we build another continent out of our old obsolete hdd's after we reach the LBA 48 limit?

I think storage technologies like CD's, DVD's... basically reliable, portable, Random Access mechanical storage will be around for awhile.... I can only guess that it will be for the next 5 years... maybe as long as 10. I think that we will move more towards things like Memory cards (such as...

cool, freeware

what frightens me the most about hot extraction is that I might inadvertantly create a short between connectors or possibly insert the BIOS chip wrong.... Those square chips look alot easier to remove (the rectangular ones are a bitch if they are inserted into a tight connector) However, the...

a WD SCSI drive? I thought they stopped making those....

I have a mobo here that originally stated it was using a kt266 northbridge during POST. After a BIOS update it now states kt266A.... the manufacturer also states that the board is made with a kt266a northbridge.... I was curious, so I ripped up the heatsink to uncover... the kt266... not the...

I'll see your 4mb EDO and raise you an 8MB stick of fast page. However, for the average person in the UK I wonder how likely it is that they can get an entirely different mobo. Especially one with SATA, Firewire, 6 channel sound, AGP 3.0, USB2, gigabit ethernet..... Sticking with the VIA...

My soyo has a "C-Media" chip in it for sound... I used it for about a day and then put in my turtle beach Santa cruz.... the on board sound was terrible in comparison.... it made a poping every time the sound came on or off like it was being muted inbetween sounds.... My latest Shuttle mobo...

i wonder what the graph would look like using other file systems.... how about unformated? un partitioned?

i can speak for the heat produced by the ata IV... i had one that burned me.. literally.... still works fine though...

no. Epox sells a backplate... but it only includes the SPDIF conenctors... Note that I said sells... it does not come with the mobo. The 8RDA+ mobo also offers conenctions on the baord (basically wire wrap posts) for front audio connectors.. However, according to the manual, when they are...

it's a joke... aparently he made a statement that he was in some how involved with the creation of the internet and it seemed like he was taking credit. He was publicy joked about for months.... even a snickers candy bar commercial was created that made fun of this.

Al Gore the vice president of the united states from 1993-2001... the guy I listened to on National Public Radio for 20 minutes today...

oh, but always verbatim for audio..... best stuff on earth

yeah, target has alot of verbatim media cheap now.. I'd buy some if I didnt already have ~30 verbatims and ~70 Taiyu yuden's laying around

That would be a wise decision. USR... maybe even tech supp for your ISP. They might be aware of any problems with the modem on newer computers... or your ISP might be able to make a deal with you for trading or replacing your modem... dunno, but you can try.

did anybody else notice the audio conenctors on the 8RDA+??? 3 jacks.... that's it? Hey... I want ... err rather nequire a mic, headphone, line in, and front/rear audio outs simultaneously.... mic/headphone for headset used in gaming front/rear output for 4.1 sound line in used for TV audio...

yes, well done animation. I like the challenge of trying to fit an image into as little bytes as possible... Photoshop's "save for web" feature makes that task alot easier and convenient.... kinda takes the fun out of it...