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On almost all LCDs, the slower response time creates ghosting on fast moving objects on the screen. It makes FPS gaming and the like less enjoyable. I thought the 25ms response time LCD generation of last year would fix that problem for good, but most of those early fast-response time displays...

Hey, I almost forgot how it looked back then. Strangely, I remember the look in the first picture, but not the one in the second, although I've started to visit SR around April 99 and more often since ~August 99. Good old memories.

Wow, I've already received the card. I haven't opened the packaged yet, I'm just amazed that it taked only four days to arrive from Michigan to here. Will try the card soon. :mrgrn:

I cannot say that that Daniel is a very open minded person. A few salty critics and the ban immediately arrives. Not a place for me. I would be too tempted to turn him to a donkey and make him ban me as it's probably the only way he could win an argument.

And if you're not, do like me and create your own.

While I have little knowledge about Seagate's refurbished drives, their SCSI drives, on the whole, are very reliable. I wouldn't be worry if I were you.

IIRC, there's been two Seagate 36ES from Seagate : Barracuda 36ES and Cheetah 36ES. The former was a slug, but the latter was an acceptable desktop (not server) hard drive. Its main problem was its relatively high cost compared to almost-as-fast IDE hard drives. ...scratch the IIRC above, I...

CityK, Pay a special attention to the new NEC 1760NX (or 1760V if you only have an analog output). It has an advertized response time of 16ms. Not 16ms rise or fall time. 16ms OVERALL. According to a review of an Hitachi LCD on Tom's Hardware, even the 20ms response time of an Iyama LCD was...

The easiest way to know if your graphic card performs like a 9500 or like a 9700 is IMO to run 3DMark 2001SE build 330 and to compare with the many other results posted everywhere on the Net. http://www.futuremark.com/download/?3dmark2001.shtml

I've had a pleasant surprise when I browsed my pricelist this evening. Many of my favorite monitor models have had a significant price drop this week : NEC FE791SB 17" : -13% down to 304$CDN Samsung SyncMaster 765MB 17" : -11% to 279$CDN Samsung SyncMaster 957MB 19" (my favorite CRT at the...

A good thing. The EPoX, along with maybe the Abit NF7-S, is probably the best nForce2 implementation so far. Generally, they are a notch above, but FIC made some good boards too. They are just not as constant in their quality as EPoX is. Since both apparently share the same design, I presume...

If you look carefully, you'll see that the pins are even there for the LED display on the FIC. It's just that the chips aren't sold on. I didn't notice the USB port lenght difference, but I'm still pretty sure those two boards only differ on a few aesthetic points. I would be curious to flash...

Now I know. There is an updated version of the SiS648 supporting Hyer threading, but it isn't the one used on the GA-8SG667. The new GA-8SG800 however, features Hyper threading support (as announced at OCWorkbench). It looks like a very interesting budget motherboard for a cheap P4 platform...

That possibility stoke me when I saw the picture of the FIC AU11 : FIC AU11 EPoX EP-8RDA+ Or is this just the reference design from nVIDIA?

I hope you still like it here Gary. We would miss you if you were to vanish for good.

Agreed. I have been using Phoenix instead of Mozilla since maybe November and I don't plan to come back. Acrobat Reader used to crash my system when I used it in combo with Moz, but it doesn't happen with Phoenix. BTW, I know Acrobat Reader is evil, but a computer resseller often doesn't have...

IIRC, there were ATI cards based on the first Rage 128 chipset (Magnum, Xpert2000 and cie - this is the kind I have here) and the higher clocked Rage 128 Pro, based on a thinner wiring process. There's no way the first gen Rage 128 can match a Voodoo3, but the Rage 128 Pro could. Thank you...

Gary, Wouldn't the P4SGE (i845GE instead of older i845G) be better for someone buying a SuperMicro motherboard now? 2 gigabit Intel LAN controllers sure is impressive on a single CPU board. Plus Hyper threading support too. I don't think Tony can buy this motherboard though, has SuperMicro...

Wow, awesome : It must not be very fast though, but still. I don't think it can be slower than a 3½ floppy disk reader. We need this in evey PC so that we can finally get rid of the utter obsolescence that the 1.44MB disk is.

I have a box sitting aside of me and his owner wants to play SoF on it, but can't. The computer is an Athlon 500MHz/FIC SD11/384MB PC100/ATI Rage128. I don't know this game at all. I think it's based on the aging Half-Life 3D engine, but I'm not sure. CPU + motherboard + RAM + graphic card...

Steve, What the Hell is that new avatar? It doesn't match your usual style at all. For Bill it would be ok, but YOU?! Change that to something more normal like a bleeding skull or snake head with red glowing eyes immediately.

The Ultra2 shares the same layout than the UUltra and Pro version. Only a few features differ. The Ultra2 is the only one with serial ATA instead of PATA. It also has a gigabit integrated LAN where the other two have 10/100 LAN chips. However, the Ultra2 has several less USB 2.0 connectors...

:eekers: Scoozy, but me no comprende senior.

Maybe Pricewatching a powerful 350U$ cruncher for Mercutio's lab, so he can buy some twenty boxes more and install F@h on all of them? Not that unknown. It is true that we get more valuable WUs than before, but we also have two or three additional "regular" contributors than before. Mercutio...

I second James' recommendation for GagaByte motherboards. If you are whiling to spend more for PC3200 memory, the SiS648-based 8SG667 is an excellent choice. However, since the SiS648 is only faster than the i845PE when using PC3200 and slower when paired to PC2700, the Intel chipset would be...

See! SEE! Hong Kong and our eternal rival Team Austech will fall behind us. I should be paid for my premonition services. Am I good or am I not? No need to tell me, you're all lucky to team with me ;-) [/ego trip]

Nope, it wouldn't. F@h isn't supposed to benefit from addtional RAM or even cache since it uses tiny bits of data. Or so was I told.

I'm stuck today with another overly optimistic customer who wants to upgrade his box for not enough money. The CPU/motherboard/memory/PSU and probably the chassis too would need to be changed. He also wants a burner into this too. He didn't talk about the graphic card (crossing fingers). All...

Thanks Groltz. Nice new avatar BTW.

I rarely visit SR's B&G forum anymore. I posted twice on two threads recently, but generally, I don't even bother reading it. The Computer forum, on the other hand, is still a fine place to be IMO. More action than here, although the overall quality isn't up to our standard. There again, we...

How did you manage to paint the face plate of the optical drives without having paint entering into the drives' mecanism? I know the plastic plate can be remove, but the swinging door and buttons aren't.

Just a little follow-up... I know most of you who are interested in modifying their R300 chips can read X-bit Labs just like me, but just in case some newby steps on this thread in a few months and didn't follow the entire story, I have to add two other links to X-bit Laboratories. First...

The best idea I ever saw for powering a car was the electric motor-wheel developped by Hydro-Québec some 8 years ago. But something screwed up during the development and although it worked perfectly fine (only two wheels could pushed a big Chrysler Intrepid from 0-60mph in 8 sec, imagine four)...

Scratch that last "d" on notice.

You didn't noticed simply because it wasn't there. I'm almost sure it wasn't there yesterday. No clue what it is.

But...the driver's wheel is on the wrong side. I watched a T.V. evaluation of the Maybach by our local best renowned car journalist (Jacques Duval) and it won't be easy to do better. The only two points that left to be desired on the Maybach were its considerable weight and, of course, its...

Shit! My fault, I should have noticed it. Now's too late, better keep the titles like they are. sigh.

Saw this on Anandtech's news section. Apparently, the next version of RivaTuner will allow to make a Radeon Pro out of a Radeon 9500 64MB and a Radeon 9700 out of a regular 9500 128MB. Can't wait. The original should be somewhere on this page.

This is a great idea. Just too bad the Linux client performs so poorly. Other subject : I don't know what weird mix our Bartender drank, but he is like a freak on speed since 3 or 4 days.

Many web stores won't deliver to P.O. boxes. Anyway, I figure that it must be a hassle to setup one of those for a non-US resident. Since I sometimes wear a beard, they could think I'm an evil arab terrorist and refuse my request ;-) I'm at least at an hour and a half of the lines. I think...

Check the temps of your hard drive. Aluminum enclosures, while they don't change much of anything regarding the CPU and overall interior temperatures, are better to dissipate the heat from the hard drive. It's the only thing they are superior at compared to steel enclosures. Oh and they are...

Barton is supposed to support 400MHz FSB, or so did I read. It will also be launched at lower frequencies than the elder Thoroughbred, so its rating won't be that much higher. I wouldn't wait for it if I were you. Toroughbred rev.B is the hot CPU to get.

I was talking to Mercutio. But if Blakerwry is also interested into a 300$ (please, allow at least 350$), I can provide suggestions too. You can have a lot more for 300$-350$ in the US than you could get here. I will buy a little house someday in the States, just so I can have an address to...

I overclock my Athlon XP 1500+ to ~1700+ ½, strickly to boost my F@h numbers. Nothing else here is overclocked. My two other local CPUs aren't very overclockable (Athlon 500MHz and Thunderbird 800MHz) and I have little to gain by overclocking my graphic card since I'm not a gamer. Regarding...

Let's hope Davin doesn't work for them now. ;-)

Am I the only one to be affected? I tried several times, certain that I don't make a mistake when typing my password, but I receive the message that the connection failed either because their server is too busy or because my connection is at fault. I have been on the Net since 9am this...

Don't know if it's what you were looking for, but you can always try NetBench from e-TestingLabs.

Since this thread is about an ECS board, maybe I should have directly pm'ed Buck, but anyway... Anyone has tried this board and is willing to emit comments? I'm more interested in the fact that it's based on SiS' new 746 north bridge than because it's made by Elitegroup. I'm curious to know...

Recent systems I built using a Radeon 8500 and the Realtek ALC650 found on the GigaByte GA-7VAX don't have any skipping sound problems. However, one of my older computer systems, a Thunderbird 1.4GHz on an ECS K7S5A and an ATI Radeon 7500, had the problem you described. My Athlon 500MHz on the...

Thanks Steve. Does this machine runs 24x7? If so, it's weird that you don't out-produce Tea's much slower Athlon XP 1900+.