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Damn it Mercutio, this could take forever to get right! Let's start with a very rough draft. General-purpose home/office system: Trident TVGA 9000 S3 Trio 3D/2X Nvidia TNT II M64 Trident 9680 S3 Trio 3D Cirrus Logic 5429 Avance Logic VESA Realtek ISA ATI Expert Trident TVGA 8900 Trident 9440...

You are dead right about perspectives, Mercutio. I care far more about the return rate and the niggle rate than any other factor, no matter if I'm talking about video cards or main board chipsets. (A thread to which I must return - I've let myself become obsessed with adding more and more old...

I've got to hand it to her. She's quick! I hadn't even hit "submit" and she had already replied!

Hmm ... wouldn't be the first time Tom's has .... er ... "corrected" a "mistake".

wot's tax?

If it's anything like the Pro 2, sell it and buy something less fussy about RAM, like an Epox or a Soltek. I don't know about the Pro 2A, but Skallas says that the performance defaults on the Pro 2 are buggy and that other KT266A boards go faster anyway. I know I've got 512MB of RAM in my system...

Damn! I didn't mean 15 miles away! No, seeing as I'd covered the other continents I was just trying to think of a place in South America. (OK, I forgot Asia. Moscow was probably close enough.)

Mark is 100% correct. Tell him no and tell him why, gently. Lying is always bad policy. But I think it would be worth your while to help him move next time. Just so long as he is moving to ... oh ... Durban, Perth, Moscow, Budapest, or Valparaiso.

That's it Sol. You're elected. Want to borrow my Mandrake and OS/2 install CDs?

Too late! I sold my JB to Sol. :(

As I think I mentioned, Pradeep, I just changed the power supply over to a Seventeam 250W because it's quieter. Even with a smaller board, the A-Open case still makes it difficult to use the 3.5 inch slots. With the MSI KT-266 I had up until last night, you had to pull the RAM out to change the...

Euuuuch! It's bad enough having to look at Bill Gates' pig-ugly mug every time Mercutio posts, but surely we don't have to look at that bloody windows word every time we see the forum logo. No! No! No! Anything but that. Seriously, I really do find the gratuitous use of that "W" word offensive.

"I were" can be perfectly good English. For example: "If I were an elephant, I'd have big feet." It's one of those complicated tense thingies that Buck and Cliptin seem to understand.

I've got plenty of them. But rather a long way to ship. Like a WD93044?

Hmmm ... I certainly don't like too many of them. But like them so long as they are used sparingly. I use smilies in maybe one post in five, and only a few of them. Of the ones that are available: Sometimes: :wink: :( :) :-? Rarely: :D :mrgrn: :eekers: Never: :?: :right: :idea...

My word people talk a lot of horseshit about VIA drivers. Updates every week. Huh? Constantly changing. What was that again? Two years to get it right. Speak louder, you're not making sense. Now I know nothing about the big iron, I just play with desktops. And you know what method I use to make...

:D :) :( :o :-? 8) :lol: :x :P :oops: :cry: :evil: :roll: :wink: :>: :?: :idea: :excl: :mrgrn: :eekers: :>: :>: :>: ?

"Has Overtaken" sounds right to me", says Mercutio. It doesn't sound right, it is right. I have no idea what the correct terms for these things is (thankyou Buck for making at least a small hole in my large black hole of ignorance), but no child of my mother would ever get that one wrong.:(

2dB is below the theoretical threshold of human detection. But I don't doubt you Clocker. The difficulty of useful, objective noise measurement is a subject I have waxed long and eloquent on before. Well, long, at any rate. I'm tempted to buy your Atlas just so that I have something to compare...

42. And a half.

I'd rather see it covered with a sniperscope.

Hmmm... I see that the average of the votes is 75. :)

The English watch because ... well ... just because they are the English. Not everything in this world is subject to rational explanation. Some things just are. Ocassionally very drunk people manage to stumble across this essential truth and give voice to it in song - the one that goes "We're...

On the other hand, 70 is not too much different from 50. :)

Actually, I think Tea is rather sweet on the Bartender, and no doubt about it, that moustache is cool. (She seems to have a bit of a thing about hairy men.) As for Mercutio's ..... well, now I know why he surfs with graphics disabled!

I voted for 50, but I could live with 100 no problem. More than that would be a real pain though. As, for that matter, would 25. My ideal length would be about 70 or 80.

Damn it, I grew up in the Sixties, when teaching formal grammer went out of fashion until everyone realised what a horrible mistake that had been, and stuck it back into the curriculum again. Too late for me though, so although I know what the rules are, I don't know what the proper names for...

Were is Groltz when you need him?

Ha! Now I've let myself in for it! Probably just as easy for me to FILE / SAVE AS isn't it? Be nice to hear some other opinions on this, but I guess the best would be for me to dovetail the generic phpBB FAQ and the current Storage Forum site FAQ into one document, yes? Then I can un-announce...

You too Pradeep? That's what I have for my home system too: the A-Open full tower, though I changed the power supply for some reason I forget. Probably when I had it at the office and got tired of the noise. It's got a Seventeam 250W now, which is just fine. And, yes, those over-the-PSU 3.5 inch...

One word, Doug: yes. Looking good. The FAQ should be the site FAQ, as opposed to the generic phpBB FAQ. When you get to that part, let me know, and I'll spruce up some text for you.

But apart from that, he's a nice bloke?

Ever watched someone trying to work out how to resize, move, and rearrange the toolbars on the Win98/2K/ME start bar? Ever watched them trying to get it back?

I have mixed feelings about changing back from summer time. On the one hand, it's good to change the clocks at the office so that I can open the doors on time. On the other hand, my main clock here at home I don't change. It is set to daylight saving 365 days a year, simply because I hate having...

"Lest" is old English, seldom used these days, Coug. It means either "for fear that" or "so as not to". I was using it in the second sense. It is most commonly heard in just one particular phrase these days - that "lest we forget" I said above. It was a little naughty of me, somewhat...

Ha! You should have seen their Object Desktop 1.0! (Windows Blinds is a subset of Object Desktop, more or less.) That could lock OS/2 up solid, and believe me, that ain't an easy task. I installed it, said (a) it doesn't do anything usefull that I can't already do with other packages, (b) it's...

Damn! I missed it.

Lest we forget.

Relax and accept it, Flags, you're just the best damn moderator around. :) But how come I'm wearing a badge too? I thought we elected Mercutio as the other mod? No matter, I'll just sit here in the station drinking tea and minding the radio. You can cruise on out on patrol and handle all the...

Ahh, you're behind the times, Mercutio. Intercal is old hat. What you need now is J-Intercal. And yes, I remember buying a 6800 assembler book years ago, when I was doing a lot of Z-80 work. (I no doubt still have it somewhere.) I'm not sure that I actualy did more than flip the pages over, but...

Real assembley language starts with "Z".

I can't think of any. Oh, unless you count Algol. And ADA. Oh, and APL. They are probably best filed under "F", where the F stands for: "if you like FORTRAN you are probably twisted enough to like these too".

" What makes this interesting is that ..... there is absolutely no gain in performance when adding memory." (From Dean's article on Sysmark.) And this on a benchmark that purports to be measuring multi-tasking actvity. Ouch!

(Tannin slips on over to RWT, where he has not visited for far too long, to do some in-depth reading.)

Now another example, from more recent times: 6x86-200 Classic Pentium MMX 166 K6-166 6x86MX-166 Pentium MMX 200 Celeron 266 C6-200 K6-200 Celeron 300 Pentium MMX 233 6x86MX-200 C6-225 6x86MX-233 K6-233 Pentium II 233 Here again there is no particular difficulty about the rankings. By the time...

Quite a can of worms already! Many an interesting comment to ponder and respond to also. Let's see if I can simplify matters by focussing on my actual present need, then return to the broader issue. At the moment, all I need is a rank-ordering of the more recent CPUs. I'd prefer that it have a...

Oh, and I forgot to mention one more thing. So far as I am concerned, it makes no sense to consider CPUs in isolation. You have to take the main board and RAM into consideration too. Now the common way to do this is to take just one particular mainboard, usually the best one you can lay your...

And this is why I think office application performance still matters - because although a perfectly-configured Celeron 800 is damn near as fast as an XP 1700 when you first build it, by the time it's been out there in the real world with real non-nerds using it for a while, there will be a...

The obvious objection to this is that we are not running 486SX-33s anymore and that any modern system, if properly set up and tuned, can deliver a reasonable amount of desktop snap. That's true, but in reality, the vast majority of real-world systems don't! We see a really good variety of...

Once upon a time, it used to be a simple and uncontroversial matter to speed-rate CPUs. Sure, you could argue round the edges and quibble over details, but if you picked the best motherboard you could find, or something that was reasonably close to it, and then ran Business Winstone 97, you'd...