Recent content by mkaresh

This thread just gets more and more interesting. I like the post about how we should all go out and buy these monitors in NeoV's memory, because he would have wanted it that way. Come on, guys, he's NOT DEAD. He's clearly a talented guy with a lot of character, so any company with half a...

Find this person out? Does anyone here think that only one person got NeoV fired? I bet there were dozens. I know that when I went to my local OM hoping that I might somehow get the TFT I was told that three other people had already been there and asked about the same SKU. Two had waited outside...

This has been an interesting thread. Sorry NeoV got in trouble. At the same time, like another poster I'm surprised he provided so much personal information when he was providing info he could get in trouble for. You've got to assume some bonehead who cares only about getting some deal--a deal...

When you say you're running CAS3 RAM at CAS2, you don't say what your bus speed is. CAS3 PC133 should fairly easily be able to run CAS2 at 100Mhz. On the other hand, just booting doesn't mean the RAM is stable at that setting. My own RAM (Kingmax PC133) is OK at 3-2-2 at 133 on my BX board in...

I haven't seen both of these forms, but I suspect that the one showing $40 for the 40GB is the one with the stupid typo. I told them about it. Possible they haven't fixed it. The one with the typo shows that the $35 rebate is for the 35GB drive...which doesn't exist. Someone got all caught up in...

I posted about the performance difference on the original thread somewhere. A year ago when I first put my system together I tested RAM at 2-2-2 and 3-3-3 to see what I was losing by having to go to 3-3-3 with two DIMMs at higher FSB speeds. Turned out I wasn't losing much at all. In most...

When the 842 came down in price, I thought maybe my sister should get one. Only $60 after coupon and rebate, after all. Then I had second thoughts because of the small cartridges--same price for half the capacity. So I did a little investigation. What I did was I went to Staples and swapped the...

People make a huge deal out of CL2 vs. CL3. When I put together a new system a year ago I benchmarked both settings. In most benchmarks the difference was 1-3%. In other words, there is a difference, but not one you'll ever notice. Nice to have CL2 if you can get it for a good price (especially...