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i just picked up an nec 1760nx 17" 16ms lcd. it's much better than, say, a 25ms dell 2000fp, in terms of response but it's still not up to truly competitive first person shooter gaming

as far as benchmark fudging i'd say #1 is apple, #2 is amd, #3 is intel. remember those god-awful k6-2 benchmarks? lol. at any rate, i think it used to break down like this: intel claims you will get some wondrous experience amd claims you will get the same wondrous experience for less...

http://www.haxial.com/spls-soapbox/apple-powermac-G5/

wow those captions are awesome :)

howell, nearby bugs count as moving parts.

almost forgot, dell-branded pcs or peripherals purchased through them are a notable exception to this rule!

THE ONLY REASON ANYTHING IN THE HISTORY OF TIME HAS EVER FAILED WAS THE PRESENCE OF AT LEAST ONE MOVING PART

i've always been frustrated by asus in a specific area where abit excels: signifigant bios upgrades on ancient motherboards case in point: asus p2b and acpi issues :( abit constantly updates bios on very dated boards to ensure they have support for later cpus. the only abit board i've owned...

i've been abit-only in my home systems for as long as i can remember running a th7-ii now with a p4 1.8a overclocked to 2.4, and i'm replacing it with an ic7 and a p4 2.4c overclocked to 3.4 :)

http://www.myaopen.com/aopaxtubddpc.html

so they're not technically in error then, correct?

by "my more objective tastes" i meant as compared to my own, not others. i was a zealot once.

(and the wear/tear on your camera's data port)

or you could buy a usb2 cardreader and skip the kettle...

using linux as a desktop is an academic and/or philosophical exercise. i did it for a long time a long time ago, and things are much better now, but still not general-purpose usable enough for my more objective tastes.

go see spirited away!

Microsoft has said the high rate of software piracy in the country did not allow for strong growth of its own software. Microsoft's China deal comes on the heels of an announcement earlier this month by the Business Software Alliance trade group naming China the number two nation in the world...

perhaps it also has something to do with the enormous piracy statistics for asia as well

you're speaking on behalf of a whole lot of people there, and i've met plenty who hate any corporation just for its size i got in a conversation with one of them at a party shortly after the first matrix movie was released, and i entered the conversation after his anti-commercial preachings...

feel free to disagree with me on that one. tell me floppy drives and cd audio cables fail more often - i don't care. how will reducing dependency on hard drives/fans fail to change or reduce reliability?

it doesn't take an astronomer to observe that the sun comes up in the morning. i did warranty work on desktops/workstations/servers for 6 years for hp/compaq/ibm/dell. and a debate isn't needed. there is fact and there is fiction, and any time we spend getting to fact is wasted if the...

you didn't respond on the other one... didn't the vote to secede from canada fail (by a narrow margin) the last time it was placed? that would make quebec still legally part of canada. you'd know way better than i would, i'm curious.

did you determine this by verifying fan functionality on every dead psu you encountered? dead fans promote such symptoms. and this is yet another irrelevant point. we're talking about general pcs and general failures. the majority of people who experience disk crashes don't experience them...

before this one gets yanked out of context, i didn't mean 'we're talking about pcs' to say that cougtek's points (however irrelevant) were at all invalid. rather, that they don't matter in this thread, as such factors cannot be reasonably determined by consumers for pc components.

sure. it's a fantastic point. too bad we're talking about pcs. dead athlon cpu fan = dead athlon cpu. the system will lock and the load will signifigantly decrease, but they will still self-immolate doing nothing at all. emphasis added on 'if'. so that's an 'if'. wow! very interesting...

i never said it was a substitute of good design. i 'ignored' other points of failure because they are categorically irrelevant. perhaps next time i'll do the right thing and suggest he buy a psu whose caps won't leak? i never said anything about other points of failure, but it's pretty...

well i should thank my lucky stars for not needing to view real/wmp9 files :) i use wmp6.4 on xp (kudos ms for leaving that in), and quicktime when i need it. never use it enough to crash. but i do derail threads with internet explorer!

np. i'm blown away at how hot these things run safely, i have a ton of k7s5a/1.4 tbird combos at work that hit 65-70c under load, and they've all been up 24/7 for over a year doing heavy development work.

i had wasted a bit of time quoting and whatnot, but it really was wasted time. i'm truly sick of the pedantic responses from all the emotionals around here who can't even seem to keep threads orthogonal. if you want to prove me wrong on the dell thread, do it on the dell thread. you see, i...

uh, i didn't start the thread beat the prices or shut up, okay?

if you have realplayer installed and your system has a problem (e.g. spontaneous combustion), it is realplayer's fault!

when did i mention parts that don't need fans? there is little doubt in my mind the #1 cause of psu failure is fan failure followed by component overheating yes, all electric devices like cool operating temps. the most common causes of pc failure are crashed drives and blown psus...

MultiSync LCD1760NX-BK 17-inch Black LCD Monitor 1 $426.66 $426.66 36.7 GB 10000 rpm WD Raptor Enterprise Serial ATA Internal Hard Drive 1 $133.41 $133.41 256 MB USB JumpDrive 2.0 Pro 1 $65.17 $65.17 Sub-Total $625.24...

http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/categories.cfm?catid=18 don't forget that too :) really, it's only 5 minutes a day i just bought a 256mb lexar jumpdrive for $40 :)

gotcha. perhaps somebody should make a company to act as an in-between for international customers just because of us-only deals heh. with regard to tannin's posts, his lame authoritative 'if you can't beat dell you suck' and 'don't go into retailing pcs' were speaking to me, understanding...

lol :)

you could try the 15% + 15% thing that's on techbargains.com right now 200gb/8mb maxtor = $92, lite-on multi-dvd burner = $189, etc

a1400ams3c - 1.4ghz/266fsb tbird w/stock hsf. i wouldn't expect to overclock this since afaik it's the hottest chip amd has ever produced :) i haven't powered it on in a long time, but it worked before. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3418742900&category=15919 is an active...

yes, it does. fan failure = component failure. this is avoided if the component doesn't need one.

www.soekris.com i've got one of those running openbsd 2.9 on 32mb compactflash acting as a router for a company that has over a year of uptime :)

if reliability is clearly paramount to speed, i would give consideration to a fanless mini-itx board and a fanless (possibly dc) power supply. the less moving parts you have, the better.

another thing heh 'for businesses' meaning business workstations, not servers. dell completely smokes mom&pop in that arena (see yesterday as an example).

i would like to observe that the 'can't beat dell under any circumstances' talk is specifically addressing singular systems, singular components. for businesses, i think it's closer, but dell wins because of the reliability of the company, competitive pricing (call a rep - they will discount...

forgot to address the last part, sorry i wouldn't consider going through somebody local because of the fact that they can die, go out of business, decide to go into another business, etc and the fact that almost every business i work with already uses or would trust to use dell. so, there...

depends on the deal. many involve one-time coupons and/or rebates, so doing bulk is not an easy option (short of collecting coupons, using multiple addresses, etc). there are still plenty that involve instant rebates/discounts and volume discounts (e.g. additional $300 off any order over 2k...

yeah. metal case, removable drive cage for 4 drives (no rails), 2 free 5 1/4 bays, single 80mm fan up front, single 120mm fan in back, low noise for a server i've got a few 1600scs as well. the deals on those have been awesome, last one was a dual-capable xeon 2.4/533 with 2 73g 10k drives

he's talking about a remote system

i'll take your lip flapping as a 'no, i cannot match those prices' if it's something i rehashed in another thread, where was your price quote then? where is it now? today i actually passed on a pe600sc because i've seen better deals. serverworks ddr/533 chipset board with 4x64bit 2x32bit pci...

i really like the look/feel