Recent content by Limberlost

Thanks Jack. I appreciate the extremely quick response (not to mention it's the one I was hoping for).

After I finish rewiring my house, I'll have 10 network jacks available in various rooms, with all the cabling leading to a single point in the basement where I'll be placing my networking equipment. I'm wondering what to purchase for a switch. This model is a likely candidate, based on...

Like most people my C: drive contains my installed applications/utilities, but I make certain that no data I actually want to keep is stored there if ever I want to roll-back to a previously saved image of Windows using Ghost. Using TweakUI I've redefined the default locations for my documents...

Just a quick follow up here. I was successful in finding a better heatsink yesterday. For $10 I snagged a used model that has about 3 times the overall volume (outer dimensions), a 6.5cm fan that runs nice and quiet, and keeps the idle temperature (as reported in the BIOS) down to a steady...

That's reassuring... and not too surprising given that your processor and my friends' were the two most power-hungry models from that family of CPUs. I just wish the words "AMD ATHLON 850 MHz", which adorn the label on the cooling fan, weren't staring me in the face as I type this. Kind of...

Yep, I used thermal paste. However, after doing some more research since posting, it seems clear that the original owner of this computer (who sold it to my friend) must have swapped the larger heatsink that came with the 1333MHz chip for a smaller one that came with an 850Mhz chip (which I...

A friend of mine recently bought a new computer, and he's asked me to fix up his old one to give to his daughter. I'm concerned about the CPU temperature the BIOS is reporting, and I need to know whether I've got a problem here. I tried searching the forum beforehand, but I guess it only goes...

Greetings all, I've been putting together a very budget-oriented system for a friend, built around Abit's NF-M2 thanks to its inclusion of Nvidia's 6150 integrated graphics with a DVI output, but I was disappointed over not having found a comparable choice for Intel processors, since the C2D...