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Perhaps. My primary goal is a quiet system, and nothing does that better than a low-powered CPU, a large slow fan, and a laptop hard drive. If quiet is important, a 2.5" HDD is a practical neccesity. And if the PS is too loud, than I will swap it with the very one you linked to; I've had great...

Specs as follows: Shuttle SK21-G1-SV-V1 AMD Socket 754 VIA K8M800 AMD Sempron 3100+ Palermo 1600MHz HT Socket 754 Kingston ValueRAM 512MB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 Travelstar 5K100 40GB 5400 RPM Serial ATA150 Notebook Drive BenQ 16x DVD+R DVD Burner Model DW1625 ~$350 I've never before used a...

I was looking at an RX-8 for a while, then decided on an Evo IX, then bought a boat and am looking at motorcycles. I can never make up my mind. Meh, just bought a AuzenTech XPlosion 7.1 to keep the buying urges under control.

16GB would be nice, but I'll take 8GB. I can almost get XP in 1GB; so that leaves 1GB for office/apps, 4GB for games, and 1GB for swap.

Although I have to hide this post from my GF, I think they look cool. Especially in the orange or green. I do like the ability to hose out the car. It's a bit underpowered for my lead-footed driving style, but it should work quite well for you. Contrats on the new purchase ;)

That does suck. How long/how many miles did it have? What type was it?

12ms @ 4200RPM? I don't think so.

Have you tried slower timings?

I like these 7-port hubs from belkin. I have two connected to my machine, one below the desk for all the printers (3), cameras (2), and scanners (2). And one on the desk for all the Keyboards/mice (3), USB Drives (3) and media card reader.

Damn, that looks good. Perhaps my budget can streach a bit...

I've started teaching Agentine Tango. I need a portable speaker system that is as easy to carry as possible, while providing powerful high-quality sound. Oh, and I'd like it to be under $300. Right now I'm using my Klipsch 2.1 system in a duffel. This is a little big, and a lot heavy, but it...

Not that that's likely ;) Damn, look at the time again! All those of the AUS persuasion...enjoy your Monday :P

Nice link, that put a smile on my face ;)

IIRC, some crossfire setups on the high end have their own interconnect, and therefore only require a board with 2 PCI-E x16 slots. On the low end, they require the motherboard to supply the interconnect.

Thanks. I remember volume limitations on the 3Ware cards, good to hear software doesn't have that issue.

Nevermind about the XP install on 1GB either; it "windows updated" itself out of disk space...what a POS

For the record; XviD video on this hardware? Sure!* * @2FPS with choppy audio

I was actually thinking of killing off some of my fileservers as well. With 500GB and 750GB drives readily available, 4TB is less than 6 disks. I just can't remember how big a single JBOD array can be in 32-bit windows server 2003.

I haven't. Considering I lost about 300GB of MP3s, then promptly added 500GB of video to the volume with only 300GB free, I figured there wasn't a chance. I'll run it now.

This is quite useable as long as you follow two simple rules: 1. Don't be in a hurry 2. DO NOT MULTITASK In other words; slow, but completely functional. I'll be trying some XviD mivies soon :eekers:

Interesting, I'd be interested to see if the IO on the motherboard is even capable of sustaining solid transfer rates. I'm spoiled, I have GbE everywhere...

Just for fun, I took one of my Smoothwall boxes and installed XP SP2 on it. Here's the specs: VIA 600Mhz Fanless CPU 256MB RAM 1GB CF Card on IDE adapter PicoPSU 60W power supply Running fine. I did run the XPLite demo mode to clean some stuff up, but I have XP Pro, Latest Firefox, and Media...

Wow, I just realized I'm up with all the people on the other side of the world...time to go to bed. Have a good friday you guys!

I was just about to order some Antec P150 with NeoPower 380W PSs. for about $100US. What would you guys reccomend in that market?

Funny my Antec TruePower550 in my server had a fan fail quite a while ago...I'm just too lazy to fix it. The other fan is still working, and their is plenty of airflow from the other fans to keep it happy.

Yep. I had been using Moodlogic, which costs $10US for every 10,000 songs. It works great and has tons of features. Then I say one which was free and decided to try. I didn't even notice until a week later (on vacation) and by then I had too much disk activity to even try an undelete. For the...

Nope, the iPod didn't go in the drink. It can't hold 100k songs anyway. This was off my primary fileserver, and was backed up to a 500GB USB drive. Unfortunatly, while running one of those utilities that rename songs and remove duplicates it decided to delete the majority of my songs. The USB...

I've been doing this on my Smoothwall boxes for about 6 months. The hardware is readily avialable at newegg for about $10.

You guys can appreciate my Golf towing my boat here Meanwhile I'll mourn the loss of ~100,000 songs from my library due to my stupidity about 30 minutes ago... I don't wanna re-rip them all :cry:

300GB for $100 :P

...the more faith you have in humanity ;)

Depends on whether the entire device can handle extended submersion in water. If there are any electronics involved, the control mechanism might not be water tight. I've also had ones that say they're water tight not survive a simple bath, much less a dishwasher.

Preaching to the choir Merc, I agree with what was said; I just think that they (and to a lesser extent, you) would get further by not being so emotionally wrapped up in the thing. Like a PR guy on NPR said: keep to the facts that no one can dismiss; they're bad enough, and will keep anyone...

Although I appreciate the content of the article, and agree with it's conclusions, I have to say that that was the least neutral article I've read in a long time. Dripping with sarcasm and implications of things not proven, it makes it difficult to swallow as a whole. I don't hate all...

Without breaking apps? Really?

Client of mine got his machine from a shady dealer, and it has a pirated copy of XP on it. Updates refuse to run, and he can't download certain things from microsoft. He has a legal copy of Windows that I provided for him, but doesn't want to blow away his install (and all his apps) to do it. Is...

That is a PCIe card, and it says "crossfire supported".

Why does Tea have an elephant with rubber boots?

I'd doubt it. But look on the bright side, you could crossfire a pair of these!

That would be iTunes. iTunes != iPod. Apple would love it if it did; but it doesn't. Use ephPod, use it like a harddrive, move your music off of it, and anjoy a sweet piece of hardware ;)

Whoops, wrong tab...sorry. That's what I get for posting so late (only 1:30AM now). Here's the link:

I really like my iPod, I'm still trying to decide which software to use (since I obviously will not be installing iTunes on my machines). I think ephpod is my favorite so far.

More cores, more money, Dual PCIe

Congratz to you guyz; thatz a whole lot of postz. Every post includes your current number of posts, not the number you had when you typed it.

Nice excuse, Coug ;) If you guys would just make up your mind on the languages and choose english, this wouldn't be a problem :mrgrn:

Thanks Time. I did do the firmware update, and I'll try the things you suggested on Monday. If they don't work, perhaps I'll get you some router time?

This is for remote users, and is supposed to be using the microsoft VPN client. I have also tried their client without success.

Well, everything seemed to go like a charm. Unfortunatly, it doesn't actually work. The Draytek's interface is relatively straightforward, with just a few syntactical PITAs that were quickly sorted. I went into: VPM-PPTP-General Setup ...and set Active MS-CHAPv2 MPPE 40 bits / 128 bits Local...

Too many nested OSes! My XP Pro machine, RDCed (DSL->T1) to Server 2003 at client site, RDCed (Fiber point-to-point) to another Server 2003 running VMWare, VMWare console connected to another Server 2003 instance I'm in the process of setting up! I have 4 start buttons visible right now!