Recent content by dwcal

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    Snow Leopard retail install on a good mATX MB ?

    I get the same problem if I disable or enable the onboard ethernet, just without the last line if I disable ethernet. The Lifehacker guide is actually for an EP45UD3P, so the BIOS screens don't exactly match. EDIT: It's the video card. I pulled the 7100GS to use the Intel onboard video, and...
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    Snow Leopard retail install on a good mATX MB ?

    I'm trying to follow the Lifehacker guide with a G41M-ES2L too, but it won't boot the USB stick. In verbose boot it gets as far as AppleRTL8169Ethernet. In non-verbose the kernel panics. I have the same setup as your beater except with E6300 and Geforce 7100GS. iPC 10.5.6 with NVInject works...
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    Any free DVD play back software?

    K-lite codec pack with Media Player Classic works too.
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    What is your all time favourite CPU?

    I had some good ones over the years, but E6300 at 3.1GHz is the best yet. Rock solid at less than stock voltage.
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    99$ E7200 w/ ecs board

    Thanks, I'll check actual voltage with CPU-Z. It's pretty stable as far as booting and installing XP, but fails OCCT in less than a minute, a little longer in Orthos.
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    99$ E7200 w/ ecs board

    How's everyone's luck oc'ing this combo? I tried 1333FSB, but it's not Prime stable at stock voltage, 1.1875v. I guess I could try a pin-mod to bump up the Vcore.
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    99$ E7200 w/ ecs board

    Pretty hot. I picked one up yesterday too. ECS mobos aren't usually good overclockers, but I tried 1333 FSB in the BIOS and it runs great at 3.16 GHz. I don't have a 45nm compatible motherboard so I'll keep the ECS.
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    Pulling a drive out of a raid 1 mirror

    Server RAID cards may have a special container format on disk, and you'll have trouble reading the disk on a different RAID card, but desktop RAID 1 has a regular partition table on disk. If you pull the drive, it looks like a regular single disk.
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    No more Porsche for USA after 2011?

    OK, Porsche pays CAFE fines which are passed on to the buyers in selling price, and buyers pay the gas guzzler tax. I was trying not to be wordy.
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    Xbox360 price drop - $50 drop for the Premium

    Not a real price drop, just a clearance deal on the discontinued 20GB. Amazon had a deal for a $50 gift card with Xbox 360 and GTA4, and I ended up getting the Arcade.
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    Pulling a drive out of a raid 1 mirror

    Short answer, yes.
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    No more Porsche for USA after 2011?

    Low volume manufacturers under 10,000 are exempt from CAFE. Porsche sells a lot more than that. Maybe axe the Cayenne and they'll be close. This may have changed under new CAFE rules, I don't know. http://www.autobloggreen.com/2...on-fuel-economy-rules/ I wouldn't worry about these idle...
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    The life of 775

    Probably not. It would've been nice to upgrade my 965PT to an E8400, but no dice.
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    In your opinion, what is the BEST thermal grease (paste or T.I.M ) for air cooling?

    I've been using Ceramique too, and it definitely gives a nice improvement over the no-name silicone compound. Fry's had it for something like 8 bucks for the big tube. Easy cleanup, no setting time, and performance is pretty close to AS5.
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    What is your CPU History

    This was for the main system. I shuffled some of these down into secondary systems as I upgraded. Starting with my 8MHz Mac SE: M68000, 486DX4-120, P166MMX, Celeron 300A, PIII-650 Coppermine, Duron 1GHz Morgan, AthlonXP 2200+ TBred-A (bad choice), Athlon XP 2500+ Barton, Athlon64 3200+ Venice...