Recent content by jrwood

Actually... kinda feel silly, no. see , I'm avoiding contact of any kind to the router... I returned from the US to Israel to find out tech support is So freakin' different. There - they'll do anything, anytime to help you. Here ? I wasted so much time, so much talking to get nowhere, and now...

If you want exceptional audio quality (playback/recording) then get either the new M-Audio revolution 7.1 or the Terratec DMX 6 fire LT. The Revo 7.1 does not have any hardware support for direct3d sounds so the cpu will take a small hit, the Terratec DMX 6 fire LT does have direct3d hardware...

I have two http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Western_Digital2.html raptors in RAID 0 array and they both are very much noisier (high pitch instead of low pitch humm) than my previous IBM/SEAGATE PATA harddrives.

On another forum I posed this strange 202mhz bus speed that tomshardware highlighted, someone replied saying that their bus was at 200mhz by default. So did ASUS send THG a modified motherboard at 202mhz because they knew it was going to be benchmarked against other motherboards at 200mhz ...

On another forum I posed this strange 202mhz bus speed that tomshardware highlighted, someone replied saying that their bus was at 200mhz by default. So did ASUS send THG a modified motherboard at 202mhz because they knew it was going to be benchmarked against other motherboards at 200mhz ...

re: SATA Remember that so far all the new SATA harddrives are noisy (well compared to seagates/ibms). More of a whining high pitched noise than a low brrr noise a PATA hd makes...

:disgust: I like to read the roundups but it seems that some companies want to compare apples to oranges. THG has admitted in his 865p article that the ASUS 875p motherboard FSB has a default speed of 202mhz and not 200mhz that the other 875p motherboards comply with. So may I suggest that...

I personally owned about 15 hard drives and from my experience I have found.. maxtors as ok, not loud or quiet - dont know much about their warranty backup western digital, fairly quiet, be careful of the warranty, i had one go bad on me and was told to send it to the european hq for...

re: usb drivers I thought Windows XP Service Pack 1 (or 2?) enabled USB2 support?. Windows XP by default doesnt support the new USB standard iirc.

If you look at who reviewed the first part, Tom had nothing to do with it?, some editor did it along with someone who isnt even in the contact list on their site?! 10 Boards with Intel i875P Chipsets - Part I By: Frank V&ouml;lkel Bert T&ouml;pelt < not even on contact list...

http://www.tomshardware.com/motherboard/20030519/i875p-31.html Seems that ABIT has a serious memory performance problem ?

Could someone explain what IRQ's are used in the AGP/PCI slots? AGP is shared with PCI slot 1 is that it?

http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.html?i=1820

Interesting.. http://www.x86-secret.com/articles/tweak/e7205twen.htm