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I'm going to be upgrading my motherboard from a Gigabyte 6100-based AM2 board to a Gigabyte 570-based AM2 board and would like to keep my OS array (Raptors in RAID-0). What are the chances of this happening successfully?

All that I learned about dating I got from old movies. I still open doors and tuck in chairs for women. All doors/chairs for all women, always. I try to speak just enough to keep the conversation going; it's not my job to drive the conversation, but it is my job to stop it from dying. Pay as...

Lunar, This is a great neighborhood. This is the first shooting here for 7 years. It just happened to be 4 months after we moved in and 10 feet from our front door. The person who did the shooting rode their bicycle 10 miles to get here and shoot up the place. I can discount it fairly easily...

I really enjoyed Supreme Commander. Test Drive Unlimited is a very fun way to waste massive amounts of time, and Rainbow Six: Vegas was also quite pleasing. Though I suspect I'll be going back to SimGolf soon; it is just so peaceful.

I hate stupid people. Especially if they are neighbors and have guns.

I've been too lazy to do that for the last several months. I got a 7.1 system and the rear/side 4 speakers are still sitting on top of my front L&R channels.

Nice deal on MS Streets w/ USB GPS unit. I'd get one, but I think I want a Bluetooth wireless GPS.

I'd be tempted, but my hearing is already appreciably better than my GFs, so I need to talk loud and wach movies loud regardless.

I'm really bad at waiting, but I'll see what I can do. ;)

My exercise today left me feeling pretty euphoric. Went out for a Sailboat race; during the race conditions built until it was blowing 15 knots from the east and gusting to 40 knots from the south. We also had two sets of swells that when combined in just the right (wrong?) way, caused 20+ foot...

Then you aren't selling computers to the right people. I just closed a deal on a baseline Shuttle SFF for $999. It's likely the order will be expanded to a dozen or more units.

I'm running a 7950GT/512MB and am considering upgrading. It can't handle the games I'm playing now @ 1600x1200 with the eye candy turned on. Is the 8800GTS what I should be looking at? I have a passively cooled card now, and would love another without a fan; is there one?

Since when did Handruin pass 5k? How many Hairy Aussies are we going to have around here? Congrats ;)

I doubt they did before.

No idea. I would blame it on Nero, but I've never tried to burn in Explorer after installing Nero, so I don't really know.

Yup. The Zalman ones are double that.

If it did them all, my first guess is a windows update?

Those do look nice Merc. How do you think they compare to the heatpipe ones made by Zalman? The last time I had a drive array in a quiet computer, I removed the drive rack completely and suspended some drives mounted in these; it actually worked pretty well.

It's ATX, but the motherboard is upside-down; this keeps the GPU heat from rising into the CPU cooler and puts the hot components of any expansion cards facing up, so it isn't trapped under the cards. I think it's a good idea.

My internal measurements are about half that. And to the car varies with parking (the GF gets the carport) from 100-300 feet.

Thanks for the advice, I think I'll look at the new Lian Li V Series PC-V2100B Plus II if I can find it for sale somewhere. Otherwise I'll likely get the old version.

How about being smart enough to not need a Mac?

I'm running a 7950 (see sig) and occasionally it will post to the wrong video out. If I have my projector turned on, I can see that it just decided to use that one instead of both. It still comes back after the desktop has loaded, but until then the screen is black.

Merc, how far is it from your front door to your bed? From your bed to your bathroom? Perhaps the secret to you getting in shape is to get a larger apartment, where these things are farther apart? ;)

I could simplify that to: Stupid people need (deserve?) Dell.

At least it has space to add more drives? Thoughts?

I'm getting rid of my 2TB TeraStation in favor of returning to local storage; it's too slow even over GbE and has a disquieting rumble on a ~1s interval that is most annoying. I have 2 Raptors in RAID-0 for the OS (yeah, yeah...) and at least 4 750GB hard drives for data to start, probably at...

Interesting. I wonder if their restore partition completely re-images the C drive; them assuming you will store all your stuff on Z...

That depends on your hands. I can't hold still enough for any shots at any speed with any camera. I have a tabletop tripod that I carry with me at all times and leave the shutter on 2 sec delay.

I can agree with that. I could even agree that the flags at all military bases be at half-mast for the duration of the war; considering it is a sad state of affairs. I just want them to shut up on the news about it already. Being drafted, or having non-voluntary soldiers die, is certainly a...

I remember my best time for a mile ever (when I was 16) was 7m45s. Then I passed out due to breathing problems...

Is Gateway still in some form of bankruptcy? Weren't they in trouble for like a decade?

Congrats Chewy, that is quite impressive.

OEM software copies are available, and for about the same as the retailers charge; one way or another it isn't a significant difference. If you like your family and are able to support them, you should build them yourself. If they are too far for house calls, send them to Dell.

Mark brings up another point (I don't mean to derail too much); are there any small system builders in your areas that you would recommend? All the "small shop" machines I run across have PC-Chips motherboards in them or mega-flimsy plastic cases with windows and multi-colored lights.

I recommend Dell a lot. Of all the vomit boxen, I consider them the least vommit-ish. They are particularly nice if you format and re-install the OS only, then get the latest drivers from the website. I do this for all the clients that I don't actually want to support; either they are far away...

Yeah, I liked the looks of it as well. My only concern was how it's size would impede the airflow of the exhaust fans, and the airflow to the GPU. I have a passively cooled 7950GT, and it gets fussy if there is no airflow over it.

Wow, that is ugly. The first thing they need to do is lose the speech impediment when introducing themselves, then hire a design team that is at least headed by a fourth grade graduate.

It's a platform-type downward-firing heatsink big enough for 2 120mm fans. Including the fans it's over 1kg.

This is probably your best bet for keeping the motherboard cool; I'm considering one for my soon-to-be Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3. I can't stay away from the C2D OCing goodness...

...meaning you have it on one machine?

Something that does annoy me. In Vista's "experience index", every component of my system scores a 5.9 (the maximum) except for my 6000+ CPU! (5.4) My old 4200+ scored a 5.0. The only AMD system I have heard of that got a 5.9 was a 4x4 quad-core system. I wonder how Merc's super-overclocked C2D...

....and I actually do like Vista. With a system such as mine, sluggish performance isn't really an issue.

Good catch Coug! The CPU swap was done 2 days ago; I couldn't resist after the prices went down. My old 4200+ 65W will likely end up in a 1U server somewhere, unless someone here is interested...

I thought there was a typo in the original translation; that is actually wasn't clear which standard it was.

Ha! Got you beat. Mine are green camo ;)

From what I vaguely recall, isn't memory timings an anal-retentive thing? Am I right in remembering that the only significant impact was in synthetic benchmarks?

That was actually about my max as well. Strangely, that was when I was in my best shape (age 19). Seriously strong, I was teaching/competing in sailboat racing every day for nearly a year.

I know. I'm actually familiar with the measurement, I just think it is silly and am giving you a hard time. Merc was right, it's less fun after you explain it.

lose. damnit.