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Okay, this is going to be long.... The thing that stood out the most in the article Fushigi linked was: Great, just what I need sucking up my bandwidth and making my web surfing experience all that much slower....more flash, more crap, less content blah blah blah. I can understand your...

Caution: http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archives/products.xml?avg.xml CK

This is all very true Merc. Its funny because I had a similar conversation about this at a dinner event last Saturday. Anyways, I as well notice a strong correlation between the size of the media and the annoyingness level of the cats. Whenever I sit on the couch and try to read a newspaper...

:) I never noticed that before. Interesting correlation. Cheers, CK

For a supposedly boring subject, this sure is generating a lot of discussion. Do you mean Trinity is another one of Tony's aliases too? CK

Perhaps you've seen this before...anyways, the other night I was watching a show on sharks that was aired on the Discovery Channel. They played a now infamous clip that I wanted to see again...unfortunately I didn't get to capture the rebroadcast because it came on at some ridiculous hour in...

Re: TAO. Here's what BarryKNathan had to say about it. True? CK

lol, I'll except that charge. But it doesn't stop me from thinking that there are some folk at Intel doing their best Cheshire right now. Incidently, I completely agree with your comment on the present tense. It was poor choice to have only included the past tense. CK

honold, think outside the Jetta :wink: Indeed, much of Intel's success was piggybacked by the qualitiy of Serverworks chipsets. But continuance of such a paradoxical relationship (especially given Broadcom's and Intel's feelings for each other) is not in Intel's interests. A) True, in...

Its a couple of days old, but its some interesting news from the server market. If the news I saw today is true - more Vegesna supporters forced to leave, and several key resignations submitted out of disgust - then the CSFB analyst is way off the mark. Vegesna might end up taking a big chunk...

Is it just me or is there some sort of denial of service attack going on today, cause a lot of the net is crawling at times. Noticed things started slowing down late last night. CK

No doubt. I guess if you look at what AMD says about their absolute rating: one might conclude that the key word is *can*. Ironically, there is nothing absolute implied by that word - either it will or it won't. Those using an extreme cooling apparatus may very well never experience a...

AMD's PDF Using the documents page numbers (as opposed to Adobe's): Page 23 (table of electrical & thermal properties for CPUID 681) gives your processor Vcc_core = 1.60V....nothing new there, we all knew that. Note this value is later refered to as Vcc_core_Nom (nominal voltage) and the...

Blake, Given your recent frustration with your WD80JB, you might want to take note of what Eugene wrote here. I have a feeling that its noise level will make it one annoying SOB. CK

Was looking at the Spire website again and noticed that a "WhisperRock IV" is in the works - supposed to be quieter. And check out that purrty blue fan - I betch ya that helps its cooling performance. http://www.spirecoolers.com/asp/fcc.asp?ProdID=105 They really don't like to follow a...

...which probably was concieved immediately following the consumption of the beer..... PS. when getting that drunk, it is customary for one to wake up with an ugly girl in your bed, not an ugly computer on your desk. CK

So what is it, $6 now as opposed to $7 ? :) CK

Doug, Off Topic: Love the new theme. On Topic: 12:13AM EST.....forum...crawling...Must finish...post ....before its too lat.........................

Not lately...or at least not until you mentioned it :) Same scenario as CWT - site is different from when I viewed it previously. I don't remember seeing all the models that they now have showing ( http://www.ttgitech.com/Products.htm ). What I recall were strictly PP-xxx type derivatives...

Coug, It hasn't always been like this situation. When I saw the Mikhailtech articles last year I looked around for a CWT Truepower analog, but at that time none of their supplies appeared to be the same (both visually and spec wise). Also, CWT's web page went down shortly afterwards, and was...

I had a terrible day, but some of those certainly brightened things up. Thanks for sharing that Jake. :)

- Why isn't it beefy? Cause it doesn't say Enermax 650W on it? - Usually need 350W for a basic PC !! Whatever. - Obviously subscribes to the "Wattage" school of thought, and does not demonstrate an understanding of the important aspects of system power requirements - And he spells them out so...

Jan, there's a few pictures of that PSU here.... P.S. don't bother reading the article, cause it contains erronous information...which is hardly surprising considering the type of site....anyways, just look at the pretty pictures. Perhaps you can just get one cheaper straight from FSP ...

http://www.mozillazine.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=52435#52435 I haven't played with Phoenix since trying a build in early Dec....liked it. I'm looking forward to the things to come as things ramp up in their camp again. Sorry Tea, I think they've already decided against using "zzzzzzzzz...

I don't think anyone has mentioned it before, and I just came across it this morning. Anyway, info/link is at the bottom of this page. Apparently the new name has been choosen, but hasn't been disclosed as of yet. CK

On a side note, LiteOn is going to be carving into the DVD+/-R/W market very shortly with their $150 units....pricing of BluRay stuff will have to drop substatially to overcome the Liteon et al. inertia. Ck

yes...FSPxxxxx-xxx I've never used a fortron/sparkle, but people do seem to have good things to say about them. Apparently, one of the versions of the 350W supply has a variable speed fan (temperature and load controlled), and is not that loud - have heard that Directron sells that version...

Right after posting, I went to the computer section and two questions "Best DVD playback" and "Best DVD ripper" were right at the top. These are exactly the type of questions that we could address in a reference section. Cheers, CK

NRG, If you haven't already, check the Asus user threads at Amdmb and NforcersHQ.....there's volumes of posts at both of those sites, so I'm sure what your seeking has been discussed before...hopefully you can track down a solution. Good luck. CK

Need for a "Toolbox Reference Section" ? I have a real affinity for organization and the centralization of information...actually its more of an affliciton that often ends up bogging me down, but that's a story for another day... Anyways, it kind of surprises me to see a site like SR lacking...

NRG: attach your disk to the SIIG controller and then create an array of 1 disk ... have seen this reported on several user boards. CK

No no... you should get several Raptors and set them up in RAID 0 !! CK

I spent several hours this morning cleaning up a relative's laptop (XP Home based) - removing built up file crud, killing unnecessary services, startups, and configuring etc etc....They had handed it to me saying that its getting rather sluggish. Turns out there were only 103,000 files...

Even if you were an avid OC, the Dan'sdata review of this cooler suggests that the FalconRock II would be an excellent candidate. Cheers, CK

Cougtek, I enjoyed reading your posts - I hope there are many others who equally share your sense of passion and frustration with this whole state of affairs. I would also like to thank all others who have added opinions and clarified points and drawn attention to some of the underlining...

Sorry, you've lost me here. What does the Atlas' release have to do with the Raptor? CK

Donate them to the Ballarat Museum of Technology. No such place? No problem, start one. You da man Tannin, you da man. CK

Good to see you in here Mickey. CK

Based upon a lot of the accounts reported on the various CD hardware sites, it appears that *several* of the Sony drives are simply rebadged LiteOns themselves. CK

I stand corrected on Jetway. Have no idea about Acorp...nor really care :wink:....The point I was trying to make was that there are several boards directly associated with ECS....looking for them would probably be a waste of time....or an excercise left for those willing to find out. Don't...

Tea, if you could, please direct Tannin's attention to my earlier question:

I thought it was common knowledge...Jetway, PCChips...I think Houston...and about a zillion other sister companies or aliases. Tannin: I know you said your list wasn't exhaustive, but I thought I'd point out you skipped the Sis745. CK

sorry, what I meant was:....your post wasn't up Handruin ....I really should be more careful. CK

when I had started my reply your post wasn't...but I took too long to post ....curses! I'll never break the big story :cry: CK

BTW, zx, there's a PCR file for the ECS available somewhere on this site if your interested in changing some of its registers, just as you can do (via WPCRxxxx) with Via chipsets etc.. I'm curious about the packaging of the OEM boards - how does it differ from the retail? Do you mean you buy...

It does indeed appear that WD is SR's posterboy, but I'm unfamilar with the words coming from the grapevine...could you elaborate? WB99 transfer rates probably the only way. CK

I was, er, trying to be diplomatic about it. The reviews have been a little thin on the analysis side haven't they....which makes me wonder, given that the raw values are placed in the database weeks beforehand, why is it taking so long to pump out the write up. ---- Any thoughts on this: The...

Haven't read it yet, but its finally out literally weeks overdue CK

Go have a look through some of the documentation on George Breeze's site....he talks about a couple of instances were manufacturers programmed registers Via's datasheets said not to touch. CK

Inconsistency is probably the key word. FWIW, I also have a ECS K7S5A and have no problems with it...not the best, but not bad either....of course, YMMV. I remember seeing owners of other KT266 based boards also complaining about the same problems plauging the MSI board (i.e. losing USB above...