Recent content by Nomans

I forgot to mention, warranty time for the Maxtor Ultra16 HDDs is 1 year.

Not all Maxtor HDDs with 16MB cache are "DiamondMax 10" HDDs. Maxtor also has a new HDD line called "Ultra16" with 16MB. The Maxtor Ultra16 with 250MB PATA is on sale this week at Staples B&M, I'm not sure about online though. No idea, how fast the "Ultra16" HDDs are compared to the "DiamondMax...

Don't feel sorry. You would have wasted your time there. I was one of the first 5 customers at Fry's Fountain Valley CA yesterday morning at 8:00 AM. Just try to grab a GQ 50pk DVD-R or DVD+R on the way to work. They didn't have that stuff in stock, also none of the FRY's in the surrounding...

I have the combo AMD XP 2400+ (Thornton boxed) with ECS from Fry's for a couple weeks now. I believe a Thornton CPU is actually a Barton with half of the cache (with 256KB instead of 512 KB) disabled from manufacturer for whatever reasons. I overclock it slightly in ASUS A7N8X, works great.

I have 2 sticks of Kingston's HyperX PC4000 512MB, got from BB a couple months ago when they were on sale for $99 AR. The timing is also CAS3. Actually I haven't seen any PC4000 with timings < CAS3. Anybody knows why?

I've been using HDDs from WD, Seagate, Maxtor, and IBM (now Hitachi) with capacity range from 40GB-200GB over the years. I know there was a lot of problems with IBM DeskStar series 75GXP (and also with the 60GXP, I think) that went public 2-3 years ago and I know a lot of you guys still stay...

Darkswordsman17: just cut the entire top portion of the box (this would include with the UPC code among other things) and mail to them following the rebatte instructions carefully. That's what I did a couple weeks ago. They've emailed me about 4 weeks later saying the rebatte had been approved...

The other guy talked about $267 RETAIL price of the ATI Radeon 9800 Pro, and you pointed him to $229 OEM price. That's not quite the same deal, isn't it?

I've tried with 3 DVD movie backup solutions: 321 Stusdio's DVD XCopy Xpress 3.0, Pinnacle Instant Copy 2.0, and DVD Shrink 2.3 To backup a DVD movie, the simplest solution is DVD XCopy Xpress (it's like two-click operations, put the original into the DVD drive, click Start, then wait until it...

I have both Pioneer DVR-105 and Optorite DD0203 with the latest firmware upgrade. So far I can tell, the Optorite seems to be more picky about the DVD media. I have to use more expensive DVD media (TDK DVD-R 2X, Verbatim DVD+R 4X) while I can throw any cheap DVD media at the DVR-105 (DVDPro...

Thanks Conehead433 for the HD-BURN info. Really appreciated.

Sorry for being off topics for this. Does anybody with the Optorite0203 Dual DVD burner manage to get some info about the HD-BURN (supposedly enable the drive to put 1.4 GB data on a regular 700 MB CD-R, albeit readabe only on the Optoride)? The installation CD that comes with the DVD burner...

I do feel sorry for Ambrosius01 and Falconx80 that they got something DOA instead of a working MSI GF4 Ti4600. Everybody who has ordered this "Refurbed" card know the risk they're running into, and IT IS EXTREMELY RISKY because of the nature of the "Refurbed", i.e you ARE MORE LIKELY TO GET some...

For someone who takled about frame rate 21fps in UT2k3. I've benchmark the UT2k3 with my non-overclocked MSI GF4 Ti4600 on a stock speed P4 2.4 with SOYO KT333 Ultra: 46 fps. Maybe your frame rate is with FSAA and everything else turned on to the max but for me it's OK 'cause at the speed of the...

The Fry's combo deal includes a BARE XP 2400+ (supposedly T'Bred). It's not bad for 110 buck with ECS K7S5A though. You get the mobo almost for free. The only thing I don't like about this deal is I don't know what to do with the mobo. Right now, I have 2 K7S5A sitting around at home collecting...