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Very nice indeed. I'd say that qualifies as the "ultimate workstation motherboard" to date. Dual Opteron, Dual true 16x PCI-E, PCI-X@133, SATA II. Drool.

I knew we'd talked about this before... In search of the perfect swingarm Something from this page should do it. I like this baby:

I'll be following my GF to wherever she goes to grad school. I'm rooting for my local ones: Stanford or UCSF. But she only has interviews there, so #3 (where she's already been accepted) looms large: Madison, WI Where it is currently 19F with windchill taking it healthily negative and the...

Last weekend I got to play in an ice storm in Portland, OR. As I was driving through it on my way to Monterey, I throught of Mark as I drove past him with 1cm sheets of ice slowly melting and peeling from my car at 80mph. Monterey was nice, 60/70s all week while I enjoyed the convertible. Now...

Should have seen how long the drive would run "topless" ;)

The P160 was also quite expensive when it forst came out...I didn't buy it until it came down to $120. I don't think I'll be able to wait that long with this one, though. I mount my LCD screen on the side of my chassis, and the composite case sides would be much better than the 1mm aluminium I'm...

That is definatl my next case. After reading though the thread on SPCR about it, it has just about everything I'd want.

Darn, wrong thread

Seems to be that time again for me as well, though my storage needs aren't as extreme as some of yours. When I encode DVDs using AutoGK, I shrink them to 2GB. Excessive I know, but I'd like to be able to re-sample them back to DVDs without loss. And for audio I'm still happy with 320Kbps ABR...

Nice tagwork, time. The main use for my home DSL is for remote desktop connections, having a chunky upload helps a lot.

I can also vouch for Mitsu 22" CRTs. When I had the space, it was the primary monitor of my setup. Absolutely beautiful. Now I'm down to just a single 191T :(

I'm only getting 4Mb down, but almost a full 1Mb up is nice. I am also drooling over the FTTP possibilities.

Maxtor for me. I had a great series of drives that would erase themselves if they overheated. A reformat would make them right again, but they were never quiet or fast. I put them at the other end of a 100MBit network connection so I wouldn't notice.

In case anyone is interested...here is their pricelist in PDF.

That is an option. I was expecting it to be more... Corporate Server Version 3.0 - $324.00 SmoothTraffic (2 Megabit/Sec)- $540.00 The difference between 1 and 2 Megabit/Sec is brutal. Shame they don't have anything in between.

I'm running a Smoothwall on the T-1 at my game center. The problem starts when someone tries to download something and maxes the connection, immediatly the CS guys are whining about 200ms+ ping times. I'm under the impression that some kind of traffic shaping could solve my problems? The...

Bartender! Nothing but Coors Light for our friend RW until he realizes the evil of his ways...

Yep, an A64 should smoke an equally clocked P4 (or anything, really except for a Pentium-M)

Go ahead Jan, I'm still a noob over there.

Done and done. I am now open to suggestions on what to do with them when they come back.

:mrgrn: Yes, I will accept all the "I told you so"s now....the ones that come most quickly to mind are Mercutio and Tea, but there were others. I find it really amazing that the systems that have been swapped with 120GB/8MB Samsung SATA drives have no performance decrease at all.

Gilbo, Thanks for the links. The conclusion of the mini article is hilarious, though the image may be disturbing.

I'll second that.

Please forgive the misunderstanding on the mouse, my recent knowledge of Macs comes from my GFs Powerbook...only one button there, and it slows my surfing significantly. Re: WinXP, I'm not a hard-core gamer, but I do enjoy some from time to time...your own beloved COH won't run on it. As a...

I have 8 of an original batch of 25 Raptors sitting on the shelf waiting for RMA. Can I put in a negative vote for them?

I found that through my overclocking adventures, MBM5 started to give really inaccurate results. The latest version of speedfan still works great, though. It also does temp reporting for my GPU, and would do fan control for it if it had a fan :P

It needs to either: A: Use at least 2 mouse buttons B: Run WinXP I love the form factor, though.

The only modern game that has me really interested is Theif: Deadly Shadows. Nice gameplay, nice graphics, good plot, and playable @ 1280x1024 on a 6800...very nice.

Ever since getting strong reccomendations here and elsewhere, Samsung has been my drive of choice. Especially now that my Raptors are beginning to drop like flys :(

Looks like a different type of game to me. I'm not into the MMORPG scene, just not enough time. But I certainly enjoy RTSs and the occasional fling with an FPS. Currently LOTR: BFME is my favorite (not counting Transport Tycoon and Sim Golf of course).

Just one more reason to run some kind of spam-blocking software yourself. Just be sure to NOT send auto-responses, you've seen that it does more harm than good.

Sounds like someone decided to use your address as the "from" in a batch of spam mails. The mails you are getting are likely from mail servers that are blocking the spam "you" sent.

I actually put in a registry key (basically the same as the start-up folder) that includes arguments to start minimized. I haven't played with overclocking yet, but I think I'll start now that my 6800 has show up and I'm doing a lot more DIVX encoding...

Mine doesn't, I've had the CPU in the mid-60s for extended periods without issue. What is the northbridge temp? Might it's heatsink be incorrectly installed?

I'm digging the 8 SATA connectors...

Complete system specs as follows: Antec P160 Case (heavily modded) ASUS K8N-E Deluxe Mobo (undervolted/modded) A64 Mobile 2700+ (undervolted/underclocked) Thermalright SLK-948 with Panaflo 92mm "L" @ 4v 2x 512MB PC3200 DIMMs (Mushkin) Gigabyte 6800 (fanless) Samsung 160GB/8MB SATA HDD with...

I certainly have the Silent computing bug, but have found Nexus fans at low speed to be a more comprehensive solution than a fanless PSU/alternative exhaust method. I was obsesing about noise, but I am now finnished, my system is as fast as I will want for a while and inaudible from 2 inches away.

But I will take issue with the electoral process in general. We have the technology to make direct elections possible, so why don't we? Also, we could weight people's vote based on their financial staus! :P

Seconded. I also had an interesting debate about the value of only having presidential elections, and having second place end up as VP. Of course, we'd need to get the VP position more responsability. One of the interesting propositions of this system was requiring both to agree to a war...

Move "family values" to the Conservative party (if you mean the republican definition of the word) and sign me up as a New Republican. But that is just dreaming. The current electoral process can't support more than 2 major parties unless something really crazy swayed a bunch of voters at...

Well, I'm off. I'm surrounded by the 12 boxes I've managed to condense my life into, and am about to break down my system. I'll be driving first to Santa Barbara to visit with family, then from there straight to Eugene on the 26th. I'll be ordering broadband once I get there, so you may not see...

Discovered a new wine? Mmmm....Primativo....

Almost? Nevermind, Merc is good enough reason to drink through a hangover!

I'll drink to that!

I actually still use "net send" and the messanger service for interfacing with a POS foxpro app....

Oh, god......the SNR is astounding....perhaps I'll just expirament on my own. :(

According to Spacemonger: 50% of my storage is MP3 20% is Video (non-porn - TV Shows and movies) 15% is ISOs 10% is porn 5% is misc. downloads

I've been out of the overclocking game for a long time, but as I'll be installing a 3D-accelerated GPU to my machine for the first time in over a year, I'm tempted to look into getting some more power out of my box. Any favorite websites for this kind of thing? I currently use CrystalCPUID to...

It's not that much if you stick to high-quality video; DVDs and...erm...home movies :mrgrn:

-fNI didn't work for me. It just freezes on the splash screen. I think I need the newer version that works from within windows...