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I'm quite alright with the CPU util being high, I just don't want it to affect the quality of the playback. It's currently at the point where it's noticeable to non-geeks, and that's pretty bad.

Yes, I was thinking about those. I used to have the Sapphire "ultimate edition" of the card which was fanless. However, I'm concerned that it produces too much heat for this case. This is a SFF chassis with a large PCI sound card between the graphics card and the only fan. I don't think there...

Great. It has an AGP port and very limited airflow, and I won't put more fans in. What video card should I look at to give it some more punch?

My first performance beef with the cheap systems: Playing an XviD video stream is showing average of 80% CPU useage and dropped frames. Is this because of the crappy onboard video? I'd think a Semperon 3100+ should handle some multimedia?

Yes. Flashing the BIOS will remove it's contents and then copy new contents on. Unless the virus was written to specifically take advandage of Dual-BIOS features.

The closest I've come to peeing myself in a long time. traceroute thepiratebay.org ;)

I would feel a lot worse if the price drops had hit already, but Newegg hasn't dropped their prices yet; and I got that 4000+ up to 3.2Ghz :o .

These actually don't. The only USB-related switch (that doesn't disable the plugs) is for whether USB drives should be treated as a floppy or a hard drive. Reseting BIOS does nothing, flashing to latest does nothing.

Not yet. I still have the stock PSU in there, which should be fine for a 3100+, 2.5" HDD, and 512MB.

None of my new Shuttle XPS systems will boot if there is a USB keyboard/mouse attached. PS/2 works fine, none at all (plugging in USB after boot) works fine. If the USB is connected to any port, either the progress bar halts permanently (normal mode) or safe mode halts at agp30xk.dll or...

Doesn't OpenOffice have something that does that?

I just build 2 servers and keep a manual copy on each. That protects from all possible failure points. 1. Drive/array failure 2. System Failure 3. Housefire (other system is in another building) 4. Accidental deletion (when I bother to maintain my backups.

I heby officially promote you to "IT guy in charge of drive testing". Now go get your drive and tell us about how cool it is.

Yep, I've been doing JBOD arrays for this reason. Add drives as you need them, they don't need to be the same size, and you get one big (and growing) volume.

A boat like Merlin in our conditions down here will race with perhaps two dozen people aboard. While going to windward all but 2 or 3 will be sitting side by side on the high side of the boat trying to keep it level. My 24-footer is best raced with 4 people on board. 20 knots isn't that unusual...

I actually had a pretty wild night last night. Worked until 3PM, raced my boat until 8PM in Monterey, then drove to SF to dance until about 2AM, then drove home. I'm kinda tired at the moment.

Yep, my boat was designed for a single-handed race from SF-Hawaii. It competes regularly in transpac with 2 people. I just don't know anyone I could tolerate for 11 days. It's design is acutally based on my other keelboat (Cal 20), but has been lengthened considerably and widened moderatly...

2.5" drives are the noisiest thing in my computers, and I don't consider the write count an issue. The number of cycles is pretty high these days and I never keep a system around for more than a year or so.

*shrug* I haven't been in a hospital or doctors office in nearly a decade, don't keep track of that stuff ;)

I don't know, but it was quite funny nonetheless.

Thinking about these for my media boxes. Much slower than even my 2.5" 5400RPM drives, but silent and very low power requirements. Does anyone see a problem using these to launch winamp and media player classic?

Merc, Thanks so much for turning me onto this card. I just spent the last hour standing at my workbench listening to songs instead of working. This machine is destined for my comfortable desk in less than an hour, but I couldn't put the headphones down. Really amazing.

Oh, and this power supply is too bloody loud, so a 120W picoPSU (with P4 adapter) is on order :P

When I read this, I thought "yeah, you're probably right; I don't think there will be an appreciable difference." Still thinking that I'd be able to tell. No. I can't. Not in boot times, not in Firefox, not in Office apps, not in Winamp or RDC or Google SketchUp or Google Earth...wtf? This is...

If you're going to do it, do it right. The last thing we need is the earth in an ER of some sort.

Really, really easy. I reccomend VMWare's products over the others; easier to use, faster VM, just better. Download VMWare Server (free) and set one up, it's really straightforward. If you have any questions, post them here.

If anyone is interested in Titanium rings, I happen to have a catalogue right here. They also have some tungsten carbide rings which look very nice IMO. PM me if you like more info.

I have had issues like this where the culprit was a thermal cutoff either on the mobo or the CPU. I assume all the computers have been cleaned, all fans inspected and possibly HSFs removed and reinstalled?

Santa Barbara?

yep.

The OS does need to be coded for it, but since we all use XP/2003 (the sensible ones, anyway), and both support dual-core, than that's taken care of. Re: Apps. You don't need an app that supports dual-processors (multi-threaded), you just need 2 or more threads. That could be 2 games of...

So that would be an X2 3800+ for $150? I may have just ordered my last single-core processor.

I don't think so. There haven't been any posts on any topic here in days... whats going on? Is there a porn convention or something?

Dunno yet, I'll do a side-by-side comparison when I get the new boxes on Tuesday.

Maybe. But it is quad-core, and I thought I'd read elsewhere that it would be compatible with any of their AM2 chips, so it will be the cheapest way to dual-core/quad-proc we're likely to see. Me? I want a faster core, not more of them.

So, I've sold my nice computer and will be using one of the "cheap" boxes mentioned in another thread until I build another for myself. What should I be waiting for? K8L looks neat, but that's not until next year, right? This new Intel thing? I haven't run an Intel proc since my dual Celerons...

Nah, I was hoping the ceasefire was because the generals on both sides of the conflict were players on the national team! Then they would be hooligans.

A lot is a relative thing. Too much for a hobby? Yep. Too much if there's a profit involved? Perhaps not.

How about this... Before you can have a child you need to have 4 men and 4 women sign that they never will. You need to prove your worthiness among your peers, and will be held accountable. If you fail in your responsabilities, the child will be passed over to another member of the group.

Shame the cold war was so cold, WWIII would have put this problem off another century...

MP3Tag is the easiest and most powerful ID3 tag editor i've ever seen, and it's pretty too. Anyone have suggestions for a MP3 web server app?

They didn't before?

100% agreed. Part of the licence should be a fee of $250,000. That would go quite a ways towards educating the brats. Of course, we first need to keep the alternative legal, then we can start enforcing it.

Looking for a small (6" cube?) CNC machine capable of working with all metals and plastics. Does anyone have suggestions on where to start?

LOL

This might address one of Tannin's complaints.

yay. The day after I buy some 4000+ :(

Everyone must hear the "woot off anthem" or whatever, it's quite funny.

Now I'm really interested. Let me know when you do it so I can fly down there and watch.

Interesting concept. Considering that it's not in my backyard by any streach, and that I have no feelings for the survival of the earth in general or humans in particular beyond my own lifespan; I think it sounds like a neat science expirament!