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Ddrueding, there's an Asus S939 board with integrated nVidia 6100 graphics that includes a DVI connector. It's the only one I've seen.

Like one of the people who commented on the article, I only use it (3DMark01) for testing system stability. I did download 3DMark03 a while ago; recently I actually ran it on a couple of newer graphics cards out of curiosity. It did highlight how weak and useless FX5200 cards are, but I already...

Great read, Bill! The minimum system requirements, from Futuremark's site: Intel® or AMD® compatible processor 2.5GHz or higher DirectX® 9 compatible graphics adapter with Pixel Shader 2.0 support or later Graphics memory of 256 MB minimum* 1GB of system RAM or more - 1.5GB of free hard disk...

Wow - I agree with you 100%! :D Unfortunately, I'd now have to add motherboards to the list, thanks to my epidemic of leaking capacitors - although that's usually after two years or more.

You can still get these? What sort of graphics chip did they use?

Like just about every appliance I can think of, computers use a switching mode power supply - there is no transformer. Ignoring the effect of input filters, it doesn't much matter whether the input is AC or DC. Voltages are dropped in the same way on your motherboard. Increasingly, the onboard...

Dow Corning thermal transfer compound (white goop) has long been proven to last many years in general electronics applications. The pads are even better, partly because of their tolerance of movement - an issue with oversized coolers. I'm surprised that no-one has pointed out that with the...

Your idea is sound, Doug. Please do it. And therefore move i's SATA thread into Computers?

AFAIK, "dinki-di" is an adjective rather than a noun. So you should say that someone "is a dinki-di Australian" or that they "are dinki-di". I always thought the "cactus" reference was in fact "cactused", which I think helps one visualize the intent. Surpisingly, I've never heard the term...

Sorry, Sechs. My eyes sometimes glaze over when there's a lot of news postings. :oops:

Priceless. Especially the bit about the CD-ROM drive. :wink:

Great find, Bill.

You were mistaken. People can be arrested for breaching a court's (judge's) orders, or on suspicion of them committing a crime (i.e. breaking a law). In our brave new (free) world, we also have the concept of 'detention', which is not always arrest. AFAIK, this is the sole province of...

The fan had already been replaced, although it would have needed replacing again. :x The caps are clearly bulging. It still boots, but may or may not make it into Windows. I've checked another of the same vintage and it also has two bulging capacitors, but is yet to misbehave.

Just had my first Gigabyte failure, a 7VAXP. :cry: I'm clinging to the fact that it used an unknown brand of capacitor, whereas more recent Gigabyte motherboards I've seen have generally stuck with Japanese 'name' brands. Unlike Asus, which I used to replace it ... :(

This seems to be our most recent video card thread, so ... I picked up a Sapphire 9250SE 128MB (64-bit) card on Friday to replace an MX440 with a noisily dying fan (I tried fitting a passive cooler but it ran way too hot). I've used them before and thought they were comparable to an FX5200...

The service manager at one of my suppliers told me a nasty story about some Silverstone power supplies. After reading that thread (and considering their prices), I think I'll be avoiding them.

No, no, no! You can be fined etc for breaking copyright law, not for breaching a contract. You would have to be sued. However, laws such as the DMCA may give legal backing to certain aspects of a licence agreement. Shrinkwrap licences are highly contentious and may be unenforceable (because the...

You can get a 6100 solution for s754? I haven't seen any in my pricelists. :( :cry:

They don't have to be actually leaking, just bulging. Normally, the tops of the capacitors should be slightly concave. As gas builds up, this changes to convex; ultimately, the top will open enough to allow some electrolyte to escape. But the caps are shot well before then.

Check your capacitors - seriously.

The licence "agreement" (as it is so fancifully known) is a worthless piece of paper without a specific law to back it up. Under pressure from the US, such laws have already been enacted in most of "the free world". DMCA-style laws will be the icing on the cake.

Highly amusing indeed - but unfortunately, not at all surprising. :-? I see that NOD32 has added 'generic' detection of rootkits, to prevent new unknown ones being installed, i.e., it's less reliant on identfying signatures. Users should already have the update through the automated regular...

How far is it getting into the setup process? Can you try a different Win98 boot floppy? Do you have a PATA HDD? Have you tried without the TV capture card or anything else? Sometimes, it pays to just try a different CD-ROM drive. You could also try disabling ACPI in the BIOS (just to see...

Asus provides more BIOS updates than probably any other manufacturer. You could be cynical and suggest they need to, but I'll concede that it does confer advantages, such as compatibility with new CPUs. For example, the DFI nForce3 board I used recently couldn't identify a current Sempron 3100...

I'd interpret this as saying it's a bog standard DDR2-400 SO-DIMM (which is good). Therefore, if you have a second slot available, the Kingston module you linked to should be just fine.

Actually, Hynix = Hyundai Electronics + LG Semiconductor :) Or more accurately: Old Hyundai + Old LGE = New Hyundai + New LGE + Hynix Hynix was spun off as a completely separate company.

Cats are smart enough to adapt to bells - some people have resorted to multiple bells without success. If they cheese the cat off enough, it will find a way to remove them. Some prey is just too stupid to take any notice of the bell - and snakes are deaf. But yeah, the recognition system...

Buck, I know you're a graphics agnostic, so I'm curious - why FX5200 over 9250? Availability? Price? Regarding your bad board, I take it you mean the voltage regulator rather than the memory controller, seeing the latter is (AFAIK) part of the CPU?

No. They don't have the relevant flag set in the header. No. AFAIK, /PAE is independent of /3G. The former tells the OS to use Intel's extensions to access more than 4GB of actual RAM, whereas the latter refers to the virtual address space available to an individual process. It's also worth...

If you are a Photoshop user who can take advantage of large amounts of RAM, you need Windows XP 64-bit (and Photoshop CS2).

I do as little hardware as possible these days, and that does make it tougher to get what I want when I want. Cases: HEC with dust filter (but I wish they were more attractive). Power Supplies: HEC with 12cm fan (although I'm flirting with the FSP equivalent). Motherboards: Gigabyte. Failing...

Excellent post, CityK! Eugene has frequently used his proprietary benchmarks to claim that WD drives are faster. The JB series topped his charts for ages, despite inferior mechanical specs to some competitors. Hence his mantra that firmware is everything while seeks and STR don't matter (much)...

A huge improvement! Congratulations, David. Before rushing out to get an SLR for this, ask yourself what you expect to achieve. I'd also agree with Tannin - I think you need some highlights, so more diffusion may not be such a great idea.

At the risk of beating a drum here, try Opera with the Cached images option enabled. The browser displays already cached graphics (such as buttons, avatars, etc) but won't load additional graphics unless you tell it to, so bandwidth usage is the same as text only. It's a bit like having your...

It's long overdue. If they become available, I'd certainly favour them over a traditional orientation. GIgabyte used to mount heatsinks back and front in a sandwich configuration for the same reason.

So you can't see your own avatar?

In Australia, we are indeed fortunate that News Corp (aka Fox aka Rupert Murdoch) owns nearly all of the newspapers. That way, we get accurate, truthful headlines like this: The article contains these gems to back up the angle: But then there's this: This was buried in the middle as the...

The entire thread is about 12MB. Using a different browser to avoid local caching, it took me about 12 seconds to load the page. Hey, my speeds aren't normally this good - I need to brag when they are! :wink:

I see it's been a bug for one year, three months and 19 days (475 days all up). There appears to be some difficulty fixing it because of design problems: + /** + * In certain situations the focus controller's concept of focus gets out of + * whack with mCurrentFocus. This is used in known...

I am viewing this thread just fine on a display running at 800x600. But then, I use Opera and just click on 'Fit to window width' - it does the rest. Alternatively, I could hit the minus key a few times and reduce the entire view to say, 50%. Or I could do that with a single keystroke: Ctrl +...

You shouldn't have to do this. It's really stupid default behaviour.

I'd like to wish everyone (including myself) a better year than 2005. May we all experience more positives in our lives. Cheers!

They're ideal for backups, especially with packet writing software such as Ahead InCD. Not as good as DVD-RAM of course, but much cheaper and widely supported. I wouldn't consider using anything except Verbatim for DVD+RW, and I'd still stick with DVD+R for other purposes (DVD-R is no longer...

The price quoted in the article is completely ridiculous - more than 8 times the cost per gigabyte of a 7200rpm SATA drive. :boom:

Let me get this straight: your girlfirend has chosen a Mac as her computing platform, and you want to inflict MS Outlook - and even MS Project - on her? Given your last few threads, it sounds like you're trying to reorganize her life. Are you sure she will appreciate your efforts? Seriously...

Whilst I agree that it's plainly slanted, I would have thought that the claimed facts are fairly widely known - i.e. more or less true.

Combustion heaters chew up your oxygen, and to a greater or lesser extent replace some of it with Carbon Monoxide. Ergo, they can kill you in an enclosed space (although a shed is hardly likely to be airtight). Here's a plan for keeping warm: 1. Seal everything, especially the ill-fitting...

A practical application of 'electronic paper'.

JTR, I'd just like to say that I think you're either courageous or crazy. :o I pretty much agree with what Tannin said. A couple of tips: If the Asus BIOS doesn't include an explicit option to reset the PnP data, clear the CMOS. BIOS updates are usually to support newer stuff - not ancient -...