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Yeah, about 30 posts back. I guess no-one reads my posts. :cry: fool: That's a couple of interesting befuddled recollections you have there. The Italian Job is a classic; apparently that quote of yours is one of the most popular film quotes around. And the film's great entertainment; I get a...

Don't confuse overclocked Celeron 300A with castrated P4. From the benchmarks I've seen, 90% is wildly optimistic except for a handful of tasks. The obvious point is, if Dell needs to compete at the bottom, why not use Athlons? Their PR ratings are more pessimistic at lower speeds as well, so...

That's why Dell sells so many Celerons. Because they care so much about their customers.

About 40 posts back ... :-? I quite like Highlander too; the mood from Russell Mulcahy's great cinematography and the Queen soundtrack just can't be beat. It's a pity the sequels were so unbelievably bad. Another good Christopher Lambert film (there aren't many) is Gideon. It seems to have...

WTF? I expect nothing less than a full apology to Ray Bradbury over this slur. :x (Fahrenheit 451 is my favourite prophecy novel). Yeah, I still have vivid memories from seeing that as a kid. Everything else that followed in that line seems a little pale. I never "got" Close Encounters either...

S-o-o-o-o-o true! I haven't seen West Side Story, but I think it would be pretty hard to top Singin' In the Rain, even if for no other reason than Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor dance in it. Bridge on the River Kwai reminds me of Lawrence of Arabia - overly long perhaps, but a masterpiece...

Practically anything from Alfred Hitchcock, but particularly: Psycho Vertigo Rear Window North by Northwest However, in terms of enjoyment, I have very catholic tastes and can't single out any one film. Father Goose is probably Cary Grant's best film, a real showcase for one of the most...

It's true that if you shine a light on a CRT face, you will get poor contrast. But that's not how I use one, that's for sure. My complaint is related to LCDs' inability to render black successfully, and the gamma problems that go hand in hand with that. I would assume that with the same...

The article is complete bullshit from someone who seems to know SFA about Windows, or indeed, anything. The follow-up letters to The Inquirer point this out in a nicer way. I didn't realize you were that gullible, Coug. :o

700:1 and 170° certainly sounds more like what I'd expect from a true CRT replacement. It just goes to show how poor are the mass market units being flogged by Dell et al. I still believe the time to switch to LCD is next year, when decent technology such as the NEC should be less than half the...

I get it alright. Yes, it's impressive; a huge improvement over even a couple of years ago. Hardware working as expected - no goat sacrifices in sight. I think that garden-variety mass storage has become fast enough to largely mask the differences in competing devices. Having said that, I'm...

Came across this site: http://www.hippocrates.com.au/grander.html Clearly, this is the product we've all been waiting for. Did you know that Nature (and the Grander Penergiser) uses Planetary Energy to cleanse water? Or that "Filtered, purified, bottled, tap, bore, rain and distilled water have...

My fault, I'm afraid. :wink:

Opera works perfectly, no Save As required. 8) I think there is no question AMD has skewered Intel with this technology; the real question is, will they remain solvent long enough to reap any benefits?

Most of the Flash memory players are only 128MB, whereas you'll need 256MB to stretch reasonable quality out to 3-4 hours. Dan's Data has a tip on what sort to get.

I question the need for DX9 at this point in time. DX8.1 is a quarter of the size.

Logitech Mouseware. Something to monitor PC health (CPU temperature & fan speeds) - I carry six different utilities for different manufacturers/chipsets. Audio drivers - again, there are several different ones. Via's USB2.0 driver. Due to M$ bull*t, it can't be downloaded.

Thanks Tea, but with the Epox 8RDA+ that utility shows on-die temp at about 23C, while socket temperature is 41C. :( LiamC, what is the significance of running the FSB and RAM asynchronously? If the FSB works at 200MHz+, why does failure at 166MHz indicate a Northbridge problem? And above all...

On a slightly related note, does anyone know a handy utility to read the Athlon on-die temperature, rather than the socket?

I wouldn't bank on it Pradeep. Accountability doesn't seem to be in the new US vocabulary. :(

About the same straight-line acceleration as the new Subaru WRX (or the model before last) in other words. I'd guess there might be a slight difference in handling, however ...

Or Opera 7 - no popups in sight with "Open requested pop-up windows only". Great article, but depressing. BTW, is Warren Buffet always right?

I believe you are right, your RAM is the limiting factor. But you would probably have to spend two to four times as much to improve on it, with products such as Corsair XMS. Be very careful about increasing RAM voltage. I've read that the latest modules don't like anything above 2.5V (to the...

You can see that Pradeep lives on an island that's only occasionally part of Australia. :wink: Paul Hogan theoretically lives in Byron Bay, New South Wales, but I thought he had sold his mansion there? In any case, he spent most of his time in LA. Due to his high profile on Oz TV in the...

I suspect the "deadspot" argument is horse manure, but there's no denying the superior attributes of a radial fan working into a load. I'm just surprised that there haven't been more of these to date. As for the noise, people may recall the Noise Control Silverado, which despite having two...

So will this thread be the revenge for those who don't like the performance/sports cars idolized in the Car Fans thread? It seems a shame to include 3-ton tanks on the same page as the sub-14-second Holden 'truck'. :P

Big Brother has arrived. It seems apt that the relevant law was passed in 1984. The Australian government wants to pass the same sorts of laws, but so far the opposition parties have denied them. As for SuperDMCA, doesn't that mean that blocking your CallerID is a crime punishable by up to...

It's a while since I've touched Linksys switches, but a couple of years ago some ran alarmingly hot. The inadequate thermal design relied on lateral convective cooling. If they're using the same half-baked approach again, I'm not surprised that turning it vertically helps so much.

I believe the original TNT2 was lower clocked - that's the only reason you could mention them in the same breath. The TNT2 Pro and TNT2 Ultra were the current products when the M64 was introduced, and they really do offer twice the performance, although as you point out, I'm talking 1024x768x32...

It's not the first time nVidia has tried to put one over an unwary industry: http://www.storageforum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=28237#28237 The nVidia cards are limited by memory bandwidth, so halving it will very probably halve the peformance. Or it may be worse, as I noted in the linked post...

Well, it's all true; they removed the ability to select 166MHz FSB if your CPU is 133MHz by default - it autodetects. So for Athlons up to XP2600+, you're stuck with 133-165MHz FSB. And as Merc discovered in another thread, that's further limited by the absence of PCI/AGP bus locking, with some...

Good call, Coug. I changed my theme from SubSilver and all was well. But then I changed it back again, and it was still all well! So I guess that's one way to fix the problem. :-? Weirdness from php?

This is probably a good opportunity to ask what became of Skallas?

I can empathize with honold's view. It makes me squirm when someone starts another SR bashing thread - not that this one started out that way ... I agree that there sometimes seems to be nothing going on here but another round of mutual back-slapping, but then things seem to move on. Because...

I'm a big fan of Spire (which BTW is the name under which they have AMD approvals and what www.fanner.com redirects to; I have no idea why they also have the Speeze brand with slightly different models). But the AVC cooler that appears to now come bundled with XP1700s is quiet and effective...

It must be wonderful to have such amazing intelligence concerning the opinions of all those Iraqis. And it's really remarkable that your press is confirming it. I guess you hadn't noticed that there's quite a few "corrupt dictatorships" about - many of them US allies. Unfortunately, we don't...

Hmmm, underestimated the posting activity. My initial statement was in response to The Giver crying "Sour Grapes". But while I'm at it, if you think 20 or so people milling about watching a couple of young turks trying to pull a statue down - all the while guarded by a US tank - is...

No, I don't think so Giver. I, like Tea, am slightly alarmed that you and other intelligent people here have apparently forgotten the moral dilemma that confronted The World going into this conflict. No-one, not even Blind Freddy, ever doubted that the US could crush the shattered remains of...

For shame! You broke Tannin's first law ("if it ain't broke, don't 'fix' it"). In addition, you want sympathy for an Outbreak problem ... :o If I say any more, Honold or someone will condemn me as an M$ basher, and there is surely no worse crime? :eekers: In all seriousness, you have my...

I invited Frank twice in the last year, but he declined. I think he enjoys throwing his weight around there. :wink:

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/09/1049567739732.html

As ever, it's money sucked out of the system. M$ sucks ever increasing amounts out as well. So there's less and less profitable work ... The reaction from Government will be along the lines of "insufficient project management", so the next time, they'll choose an even bigger contractor and lose...

That's going back a fair way, but yes, both. Mind you, I can't even remember what the plugs looked like, but they must have been 9-pin. Lots of people got caught with otherwise good EGA monitors in a VGA era. For a while there, a really useful display card feature was dual outputs, both EGA and...

The IT industry in Australia is heavily dependent on government and semi-government work. This gives you some idea of the state of the industry. Myself, I want to grow tomatoes, but it won't pay the mortgage. :cry:

Well, there's not really much alternative to the A7N266-VM if you need a cheap AIO board that doesn't suck. Just to back up your experience however, about a month ago I made a warranty claim on an old Asus A7VL-VM. The replacement finally arrived last week and I fitted it; it seemed to POST...

Sorry Fushigi, misread your post - internet access was down here yesterday (Arstel Big Pong), and I skimmed the thread to try to catch up. I agree with CougTek - removing those stupid grills with tiny punched holes helps noise as well as airflow - so go for it - assuming you can't get a case...

Now if you had read the Fans thread, you would know that the Athlon XP1700 already comes with a decent fan, that is in fact quieter than the Microflow. :P I'm keen on Papst, but they're very expensive, and much of their noise reduction comes from lower rpm. Like I said, the AVC fan supplied...

A quick update: The XP1700+ remained solid at 2192MHz (12.5x175.4). I have since been pushing an XP2400+. It needs a lot of extra voltage to be useful at 2300MHz (1.8V, 1.84 reported), and IMO better cooling than the stock Falcon Rock II I've fallen in love with. On the other hand, it seems...

Here are my results from testing the different AMD retail coolers. Apart from the interesting AVC design, I also tested the Tai Sol model that seems to come with the XP2400+ and other faster Athlons. Topped with a Delta 4800rpm 11-blade low-profile fan, its most prominent feature is a...

Hmmm, my workaround didn't work above 2.2GHz - but then I realized I had an old version of Winbench 99 and downloaded the latest v2.0. Same problem, but "Ignore" does actually work now. :-?