Recent content by NewBlackDak

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    My school requires XP professional. Is there a way around this???

    By that time they will be crammin Vista down everyone's throat.
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    My school requires XP professional. Is there a way around this???

    I have personally seen XP Home act stupid on large-"ish" networks with DHCP. The machine's DHCP lease expires, it's shutdown, another machine comes up and takes the address, and the XP Home machine refuses to get a new address. The Active Directory thing could be part of it too. We require...
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    Why are macs better at standby?

    I'm hard on my boss to replace my aging 800MHz powerbook. It's getting long in the tooth, and the C2D refresh should be here right about the time it gets on the budget.
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    Shall I open the box?

    Got a DFI Lanparty UT nf4 Ultra-D Tuesday. Modded it to SLI, and popped in all my stuff. Don't know why I did the mod except for "I can". Preliminary testing: First night I took the Ram to 234 2-2-2-5-1T@3.1v and it ran memtest for ~10 hours without errors. Last night I took the 4200 to...
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    Why are macs better at standby?

    That's a really good question!! Anybody with an intel mac that can test?
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    Why are macs better at standby?

    Integration.
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    Finding sys info for a mac where?

    Click on the blue apple, and click on "About this mac"
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    Trying to Break a Computer :UPDATE:

    Actually I didn't. I replied before I noticed there were 3 pages of this dribble!
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    Trying to Break a Computer :UPDATE:

    Anybody else read this? Newegg takes paypal.
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    5000X2 ETA?

    You ever think that this is why you didn't see any difference. A well-built 3000+ makes a 2.4 PIV feel like a pig.
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    Premier HD editing

    We have an Opteron 170 rig with 4GB of Ram doing this. We found that 2GB of ram just wasn't enough. Furthermore they do the live editing on a 4-disk raid 0 aray, and move it off to the RAID5 2TB SAN when they're done. We tried with a single Raptor at first, and it just wasn't enough. Haven't...
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    Running X2 3800 with DDR 333?

    Games that are CPU bound do show the difference, and compiling shows a difference. With most useage you won't even notice.
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    What Core 2 Duo chipsets support AGP?

    That board is a stepping stone/launch pad to let you break in for relatively cheap. You'll want to buy DDR2 soon, and once the new motherboards get more reasonable you'll want to get one.
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    Which S939 dual core + motherboard?

    If you're not a heavy overclocker I'm going to suggest the AsRock boards. They're cheap and great boards for the money. They are even an OK overclocker. I have my 4200+ clocked to 2.6@1.37v, and I can't make it lockup or give me an error. I tend to OC, leave it there for a week to test, then...
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    Shall I open the box?

    Got home and stopped it after no errors for 18 hours and 4 minutes. Temp got up to 57C during the hottest part of the day, but apparently it was a non-issue. I don't install CnQ or enable it in my BIOS. I use RMCLock. It gives you complete control over FIDs and voltage.