Recent content by Anzu

Get a USB hub and ditch the slot cooler. You'll have one slot for your TV tuner and one free slot besides that.

Look for the Digital Doc 5.

What would make Serial ATA better? Something seems inherently better about sending multiple bits at once instead of just one. :P

I can just picture that thing saying "Quake in fear, mortal! For your insolence I shall now devour you!" or "If you value your life, foolish mortal, you will flee before Murray, scourge of the living and Überskull of the underworld!"

If you have enough space around the socket for it, I highly recommend the Alpha PAL8045. It's an 80mm heatsink, so it might not fit. I get temps in the high 30's-low 40's C with a low-noise fan.

I don't shop at one particular shop. I look on Price Watch most of the time to pick the seller I want.

If the front left and right speakers go through a standard headphone style plug, then this trick will work. Go to Radio Shack and look for a "headphone volume knob" or something like that. Basically, it's a cord with a headphone plug at one end, a headphone socket at the other, and a volume...

That's really, really odd. As the sig shows, I have a 1600+ running about 25% faster than that, and it's never given me a bit of trouble.

<< I have the pioneer DVD-106S drive and I love it. The slot load is a neat feature and has no problems reading any cds I throw at it. >> Same here. The only problems you might have with it would be with using 3.5" CDs, but they're not all that common so it's not much of an issue.

<< Just curious how often you guys/gals format your hard drive. I just installed a new cpu and motherboard. Everything seems fine, but got an urge to format haha. So how often you format? >> Once or twice a year. I know it's good to do that now and then, but it's a pain to set up all my...

There's nothing unusual about it. Hard drive manufactures sell their drives using the equation 1 GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes. However, the computer measures the drive's size using the equation 1 GB = 1,073,741,824 bytes. They're not quite the same, which is why your drive seems to be a little...

<< It's fairly popular due to its high price to performance ratio. >> Exactly the reason I bought it. << I believe that the most popular mainboards are the EPoX 8KHA+ and the Asus P4B266-C, two mainboards I dislike... >> What do you have against those two? Just want to know what I...

Now this is a handy guide to have! :)

Is it still under warranty?

<< I'm looking for a good solid QUIET cheap keyboard. I dont want any specific features like programmable buttons or anything i hate those extras. Just a plain normal keyboard without the J shaped enter key though. Searched through the forums and saw lots of keyboard threads but all had their...