Recent content by hinet

This just suddenly happened? I mean, your HDD was working fine before that? Or is this a new unformatted HDD? If not, is your OS and applications on this HDD? I guess not, since otherwise you won't even be able to boot up?

well, I tried both manual and auto, neither one worked better than the other one, they're both as random. Just right after I did the post, I tried starting up my system, to my surprise it actually worked, so I quickly set up everything, but then I noticed the system only detected 256MB when I...

Judging from your current system specs, if you wanna go with AMD, I think you should wait, because there are a couple of pretty exciting CPUs that have been announced, but aren't in the market yet. They will be soon though, possible within the next 1-2 months. These are the Athlon XP 2400+ and...

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Hi guys... I have an old Abit BH6 with a slotket + FC-PGA Celeron 566MHz clocked to 850MHz. I was using a generic slotket until today when I bought an Abit Slotket III thinking my old slotket was the one causing all my instability and finicky slot connection. Basically, there's apparently a...

Actually its the other way round. The Audigy has 24bit DACs, but its only 16bit internally right before the DAC...I haven't seen any reviews of the Audigy2 yet, so I guess the jury's still out on its audio capabilities.

The MX500 looks funky, but too freaky for my taste. Frankly I don't really like the designs of Logitech's higher end mice - I prefer their lower end mice's design, which is why I have a FirstMouse 3-button coupled with a Microsoft Intellimouse Optical(6000Hz scanrate ain't shabby either)

My admittedly limited experience with Nanya is otherwise great. I have 2 sticks of Kingston PC2100 ValueRAM with Nanya chips, and they're running perfectly fine at the most aggressive memory settings(including CL2, even though they're only rated at CL2.5) available on my ECS K7S5A running my...

That's not a lot, are you happy with it? If so, why not keep it? CRT monitors are still the norm now, and a reasonably sized LCD would probably cost more. Sony Trinitron monitors are very good, and monitors are meant to last through many upgrades anyway, so if you're not unhappy with it, why...

Looks like the lack of thermal paste is your problem. My XP 1800+ is on full CPU load all the time too, and even now in the warm afternoon its reading 56C, but I have a different motherboard with a different sensor so it can't be compared directly.

The Matrox G550 would be a great card for normal Photoshop and AutoCAD use, but for 3DSMax, you'd better be looking at something else, something like an nvidia Quadro, ATI FireGL or something from 3DLabs. However, it seems like you're on a real tight budget, so maybe you don't want to spend so...

I also leave my computer on all day long. Even though the system runs quite hot, it still is stable, so I guess its ok. I don't sleep in the room where my computer is either, so the noise doesn't bother me :)