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Ouch! True enough, though. <runs and hides> Tannin, the MSI HX boards were rip-snorters that, AFAIK, eclipsed everything else regardless of CPU. Cheap, however, they were not. Neither were the DFI that I remember. In fact, "bloody expensive" would be a better adjective. I think the...

Apart from developing bearing whine and having amazingly slow seek performance, they're just fine - if you ignore the people who have experienced an epidemic of failures. In this land way down under, Seagate drives are about the same price as the WD offerings. Oh yeah, plus they're quieter...

That really is an unreasonable assumption! Look, the damn things not only worked, they worked well, at least with suitable motherboards (eg Shuttle VX). They needed extra cooling, but not that much when compared to Socket A, for instance. Bluntly, I've had more problems with Intel CPUs of that...

My God, are you still here?!!! Can't you just bugger off while we have endless debate over the usefulness of multiple CPU cores? :mrgrn:

I also have a complaint with Tannin's account: the Intel HX chipset was an excellent platform for Cyrix CPUs - in fact, the best, provided you had a motherboard that supported 75MHz operation. Boards that fulfilled this criteria included ones from MSI (the best) and DFI (really quite remarkable...

Mercutio touched a small, lonely, nearly forgotten nerve with me when he viciously savaged poor, defenceless Cyrix CPUs. Below PR233, Cyrix chips were head and shoulders above Intel equivalents - except for floating point operations, where they unequivocally sucked. Part of the substantial...

I notice that Mubs hasn't yet had an answer to this, so here goes: No. If you are unhappy with your magnificent P3-800, Socket 939/PCI-e is a very, very good solution that is unlikely to be significantly bettered in the next couple of years - IMHO.

Cool, although I doubt that LCDs are a good choice here.

Re the Roger Waters interview: he's still an arrogant SOB, I see. :) Actually, I fell out with Pink Floyd over The Wall. The only track I really liked was "Comfortably Numb", so I never bought the album. I agree with you about the solo albums, although I haven't listened to Nick Mason's effort.

Bozo wrote: 1. We don't have any nForce 4 boards. :( 2. We have over 100 PCs with the 3C905 cards installed. :( :( 3. We use a program for backups over a network that has limited NIC drivers. The 3C905 being one of them. :( :( :( 4. We only use Intel MBs :( :( :( :( Looks like #3 is you real...

Remarkably perspicacious for someone with orange hair. However, I'd suggest a less catchy motto: "Think of the future but don't live there" or "Plan ahead but don't spend ahead". or "It's smart to allow for future usage, but that doesn't mean you have to buy a truck now to tow a boat you...

I agree with pretty much everything Greg said in this post. I suspect you don't really need the Swiftech heatsink - just get a quieter fan, or rely on motherboard speed control. I've been experimenting with XP 64-bit on an nForce 4 rig with Radeon X300 PCI-e graphics, and had no problems...

Well, there's also the outside chance that replacing the drive's circuit board will make the data accessible, but you'd need to find an identical drive to scavenge one from.

To me, that didn't sound like a folk song. In fact, it appears to be a song called "The Black Swan", composed by Gian Carlo Menotti in 1946 for his opera "The Medium".

Try it without the 20-24 pin adaptor. The extra pins aren't essential, and it sounds like it may be wired incorrectly.

Why would they be special? :scratch:

Just two small corrections: - All except one Soltek 75KAV that I've managed to check had leaks, but none have become unusable. - I found an Epox board that doesn't have leaky caps! Also, Epox actually replaced the last two boards, and significantly, the 'new' 8RDA3+ has different caps! I'll...

I think the Drunken Bastard would have preferred a name like Benjamin Alexander Rickards. ;) Get a good night's sleep, Will - you won't get another for some time. Cheers!

Sounds more like a disgruntled former customer. :lol: Welcome, we're a bit light on for Aussies since James left and Pradeep emigrated.

Speaking of which, what's the "generic heat sink" on the shopping list? Small fans should be avoided at all costs, both from noise and reliability standpoints. :x Your case and RAM both seem a tad expensive to me, but of course they pale next to the CPU ... You could buy a seriously fast...

So let me get this straight: buy Via and get no support for either dual-core CPUs or SATA-II, plus have to accept inferior gigabit LAN solutions? Via appears to be at least a year behind at the moment - no wonder Tannin likes them. P.S. I've read that the Hitachi SATA-II comes set to the old...

Surely Greg's sock puppet goes by the name "Rambo"? I have a 7 year old P450/440BX - not a Dell or Supermicro - which ran 24x7 up until about a year ago (now I just turn it on occasionally). Yes, I do wonder why you think sometimes value is in Supermicro :wink:

Anyone considering the Tiger Direct bundle should probably read this thread (third post onwards) or similar. :o The incredibly exotic XP2900 CPU has a 200MHz FSB, which may be contributing to some of the problems. Personally, I'd rather scrape up the extra cash and go for a socket 754...

You're sort of got it the wrong way around. Here's both a simple explanation and a more complex one. Your electricity company's meter measures true power, you're measuring Volt-Amps.

Power supplies only achieve rated efficiency at full load. Efficiency will be lower if you're only using less than half of the PS capacity. Every online power supply calculator I have seen is utter rubbish. Ask yourself how the large PC vendors get by with such apparently low PS ratings. :-...

Drakantus, the 1.4GHz was the last Pentium III and built on the smallest process. I'll hazard a wild guess that it can't draw more than about 60W. Even a P4 isn't especially hungry at that speed. I'd estimate 100-150W per server (no monitor, and it's not realistic to expect a server CPU to be...

How about Thunderbird? Is it going to get any enhancements, or remain a half-assed product forever?

Merc or someone would know more about this, but my understanding is that passive decrypters need to capture a certain amount of traffic (5-10 million packets for AirSnort). If the network is extremely busy, it might take only an hour, but if there's not much activity, it could take days or...

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Yes, you're actually editing the temporary file, which allows other people to still read the unchanged document. Other word processors create temporary files in appropriate directories, it's just Microsoft who are brain dead. Of course, this is the opposite behaviour to Excel, where you are...

I still use Word Perfect 9, which I think is the first version that Corel brought out. I haven't bought any upgrades because I'm not convinced that they're worthwhile. It doesn't raise my stress levels anywhere near as much as M$ Office, and has quite a few useful tricks that Word can't do...

He can't, he just died.

Here's the best account I've found, compiled from the WSJ and Newsweek: On February 27, 1992, Stella Liebeck, her son Jim and her grandson Chris Tiano left Santa Fe at dawn to drive to the Albuquerque airport to drop off Jim for an early flight. Stella, 79 years old but "quite spry," had just...

Here's a description of water at various temperatures, from a tea brewing guide: 60°C - Slightest sign of bubbles and steam; water not too hot to touch 70°C - Small bubbles developed, slow steam starts to rise 90°C - Full bubbles developed, brisk steam rising 95°C - Roaring boil

Finally, there's Tea's drink serving temperature guidelines. No, barely above zero would be an 'ice-cold' drink. Cold drinks such as white wine are often served at 10C. Human breast milk is about 30C. Skin temperature varies widely, but averages 33C. Anything above that will feel warm. A hot...

I can't keep up with this. :( Santilli, who worked in the restaurant trade for 20 years, is of course correct. The Bartender needs to recheck his sources. 93C would be appropriate for black tea, but not much else. There's a commercial incentive to brew at the hottest possible temperature, but...

Secondly, Tannin's claim that "You can't get water hotter than 100 degrees. It is that simple." is nonsense. To quote from the superheating article, "in the absence of bubbles, water can be heated above 100 °C". Although more likely in microwave ovens, it happens in saucepans too. Santilli has...

Before we go any further, Tea's home experiment is an incredibly foolish thing to advocate, and I hope no-one here is gullible enough to try it. Never mind scalds to the hand - you're looking at a potential explosion and therefore your face is at risk. This neat little article explains the...

Sorry, I assumed a "trial court" was not an appellate court. I'm not familiar with the roles that different US courts play, so I thought it meant that the judge at the first trial reduced the damages awarded by the jury, as well as denying McDonalds leave to appeal. Can you clarify?

I don't want to embark on some sort of campaign here, but Tannin et al, what makes you think the victim did anything stupid? She wasn't the driver, the car wasn't moving. Pray, what exactly did she do wrong? Became a customer of McDonalds, perhaps? Please read the bloody Google link. :P

Do you work for McDonalds or something? :P There have been a number of cases of customers being injured by McDonalds coffee - 700 according to McDonalds themselves. The definitive lawsuit is widely referenced on Google. There was no appeal because McDonalds settled after the first court. And...

PNG files are a cool alternative to GIF, they're best suited to drawings and screenshots. Unfortunately, they're not even on the same page as JPG when it comes to photos. Tea, you are right, tools like gzip can't compress JPEG images at all. Actually, even the best compression algorithms in...

You're a fair way off in your understanding of different temperatures (as is Tannin). There is a huge difference between the minor burn one would reasonably expect from a beverage spill and the third degree burns experienced by some unfortunate people who experienced sustained contact with 85C...

Boy oh boy do I sympathize! On a related topic, can anyone tell me if Linksys wireless adaptors come with a WPA supplicant (like most Netgear), or is WinXP the only supported OS? BTW, the Canon Pixma IP4000R, an incredibly cheap networked printer that also comes with 802.11g, supports WPA out...

But what if you're using other software at the same time? Is the margin that great?

My daughter sometimes used to answer the phone with: "City Morgue". Callers never really recover after that.

As a followup to my small whinge about Asus here, the Asus A7V400-MX-SE has now hung several times on warm reboot. The single DIMM is known good and has worked in a variety of PCs. Apart from failing to work with the TV card, I have created a number of DVD coasters - the machine locks solid...

I'm attracted to a hardware MPEG 2 encoder, such as the Leadtek PVR2000 TV card. It's supported by Ulead at least (and ChrisTV, I see), and the idea of direct MPEG capture without slowing your PC to a crawl seems appealing. The target machine is an Athlon 64-939 3000, which is only 1.8GHz. I'm...

Yes.

Until you corrected it, I was going to comment that the display card is a Turbo Cache model. Although the shared memory probably isn't supposed to kick in if you're not using 3D, in a server it makes me nervous. Opteron can be considerably more effective than Xeon, which in turn has lousy...