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I'm afraid I have no input. I've gone pretty much 100% Vista now, including client machines. (Except for one "Feisty" user ;))

I'm still hurting with the price of 2GB DDR2-800 modules...

*up to 4GB max

Academic is the same as full retail, they wouldn't know and likely don't care.

Not that bad. You need physical access to the machine, or to have PXE enabled. And most BIOS have a boot sector protection switch in them. Of course, the default is disabled, and PXE is enabled sometimes as default, but it's not that bad...

I did the same with ddrueding.com until I switched it to google's free hosting. Now it has some crap on the website.

So long as there isn't a page file on the drive, that shouldn't be an issue.

Did you have the 8800GTX or the 1950XTX in at the time? ;)

Good idea. Also, doesn't power management only spin up drives that are being accessed? If the drive has nothing but backups on it, and windows is told not to index it, it should only spin up when needed.

Basically you are looking for a way to power up/down the drive? The most elegant solution I can think of is that the Seagate external drives have a power button on the front. Of course, any power strip/switch would do.

I wasn't in choir, or anything else. I never went to a dance, except for prom, but that was about drinking, anyway. I have never attempted to "shake my groove thang" or anything of the sort. This is different, the directions are clear, and your task is well described. Speed, strength, and...

My 7950 is passively cooled with airflow provided by a 120mm chassis fan that @800RPM is also able to cool the chipset, RAM, PCI cards (audio and TV tuner), and a good portion of the CPU (assisted by another 120mm chassis fan @800RPM). I just wrapped up a 2hr CNC3 gaming session, popped the...

About the 2900XT staying under 80C in open air? Nevermind. I'm sure they were looking for the hottest point on the card, which by the looks of it is on the backside memory modules. So it's not just the core that is cooking, it's practically the entire card. I'll likely need a separate fan in...

No, just into the central valley. That party was in Berkeley, CA. I'm not in the pics because i was in a pool at the time ;)

For those who want the ability to speak to/meet women. http://picasaweb.google.com/mnapier61/070512BenefitForChristina Tango. Learn it. Not for fun; it isn't fun for the first many months, and everyone is uncomfortable when they start. But because it is so fricking useful. Consider it a...

Case and CPU temp and fan speed (there is only one)

I use this one I have some IDE to SATA adapters somewhere around here; I might have to give that a shot. How much does an 8GB 300x cost?

They are both rated for 100C, and apparently it didn't exceed 80C in open air...so you have some room ;)

He could be a sadist? In which case he is wishing everyone the best...;)

Highly disappointed that you already own the fastest card available? What a crazy world...

With 1TB drives at $0.60/GB; they are truly off the charts. 750GB and 500GB drives are both currently $0.32/GB, but 400GB is still the leader at $0.23/GB.

unless you think eternal torment is a good thing?

...only hotter and more power hungry...

8GB @ 45MB/sec is quite respectable. RAID-0 a couple of them and you have quite the performance in a silent compact and cool package. Too bad all the new MoBos only support RAID on their SATA ports and only have 1 IDE port...

I've been using regular CF cards as hard drives (with IDE adapters) in low-performance applications for years. What is the largest capacity/speed for a 300x card?

Congratulations. Quite a find, looks to be in excellent condition. A friend picked up an 3.0S from the same time period, it was a surprisingly nice ride considering the age.

Through a rather random set of circumstances yesterday, I ended up playing pool volleyball with a dozen female international students from Stanford. There was a guy on NPR a while ago, talking about random events and making yourself open to opportunities that present themselves. This certainly...

I forgot about that....

Has anyone here thought of OC'ing the cheapest quad-core CPU around?

I have a program called PTGui that works quite well and quite quickly.

I have and N router and currently only have g devices. N simply isn't that much more expensive, you might as well go for it. Linksys has a very nice selection of routers, APs, and NICs.

I guess not...I couldn't complain with a 104% overclock. Well I could, and I probably would; but it would really be bragging, wouldn't it ;)

Good numbers Merc. Were you able to keep it over 4Ghz stable?

This is my workstation ;) I felt that even GbE access to my data was too slow, and having another machine just to host my files too complicated. I have a server; but it only gets turned on to take another backup. 1 copy of all my data is local ;)

I thought it was going to be a $300 MSRP, but I would happily pay $400. Maybe even $450. But now that I can support a large (24+) number of drives; it's not as important to get the largest possible.

Nu jumper (just standard SATA drives) but I hope the 3Ware controller I'm about to hook them up to supports staggered spin-up, then I won't have to get a 1kW PS.

IIRC, the only additional load for a computer is spinning the drives up. 4x running load (20W vs. 5W) is what I remember hearing. My system (see sig) never posts from a cold start (video fails to initialize). All I need to do is power it on, count to 5 (so the drives spin up), then hit the...

When did WMP11 come out? I remember having this same issue almost a year ago? I know I have some clients that have WMP11 (religious about their updates) and at least one of them uses XPs CD-Burning regularly...

It looks like it blows out the bottom? So it's sucking in hot air from the GPU (not a good idea) and trying to blow hot air down (also not a good idea)? I hope I'm wrong interpreting the diagram. Taking cool air in from beneath the chassis and exhausting it out the front would be preferable...

My vague remembrance is is that your vague recollection is correct. Once you stray from 2 sticks it slowed down. But, if you are actually needing 2GB+, it will certainly be faster to have it!

...and weight, and is less convenient if you are going to be swapping out drives and leaving the cables (for backup, etc)

That looks very cool. Thanks for the link

I'll second TrueCrypt. Easy, fast, overkill, and free in all the good ways.

The idea is to have a complete copy of all files at all locations. By using p2p instead of FTP, all the existing users could help bring a new node up to speed.

Sweet. :-D

Nevermind. You need their premium version to transfer more than one file at a time, or to download a file from multiple sources. I'm OK with paying for software, but they are charging monthly for stand-alone software? FTS. Still looking...

I'm looking to set up a small private p2p network. I saw these guys and it looks pretty good. Thoughts?

...and what does it do while flashing? Crash! Of course! Now I have a brick... :(

Lovely. In a BIOS release a year after the original, is an entry titled: "1. Added system stabilization." That gives me confidence...

This has been an incredibly frustrating weekend. Objective: Build a basic Shuttle SFF system. So far I've used: 2 Shuttle SK22G2v2 barebones mobo/PSU (one from newegg, one from Frys) 1 AMD 3800+ 65w from newegg 1 AMD 4200+ 65w known good from my last system 2x Geil DDR2-800 known good from my...