Recent content by rond36

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    Kentsfield mobo

    If your motherboard is rev 1.0 and Gigabyte says that the boards that support kentsfield will be rev 2.0, your motherboard will not support kentsfield.
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    Anyone use SCSI drives??

    Western Digital Raptors are enterprise class drives that were developed to compete as an inexpensive alternitive to SAS drives in workstation and server systems. The only advantage raptors have over SAS drives is price! All Serial Attached SCSI Host Bus Adaptors and RAID controllers are...
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    Anyone use SCSI drives??

    I don't see where you would save allot of money SCSI is very expensive compared to S-ATA Western Digital Raptor WD740ADFD 74GB 10,000 RPM 16MB Cache Serial ATA150 Hard Drive - OEM $159.99 $2.16 per GB Seagate Cheetah 10K.7 ST373207LW 74GB 10,000 RPM 8MB Cache SCSI Ultra320 68pin Hard...
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    Flashing a Radeon 9800 Pro to XT

    Where can I get the ATI tool
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    How do I format a hard drive after boot?

    Microsoft's instructions on how to use Fdisk and Format
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    Mod please close post

    As long as the modules are the same size and speed the RAM will be able to run in duel-channel mode whether or not they were purchased as a kit.
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    Using a second drive for storage

    I am also using the Asus P4C800-E Deluxe and have 2 WD 120GB S-ATA hard drives installed. Disable RAID in BIOS setup or set it to IDE. The BIOS may do that by default because your drives are not of equal size. If you need instructions for BIOS setup post back. Install the drive in a bay...
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    Help me identify this tv tuner and cable questions

    Yes the cable going to your cable MODEM also carries a TV signal and you can split it and have it go to a TV tuner card and your cable MODEM. My cable is split one goes to my cable MODEM and the other goes to my ATI AIW 9800 Pro video card's TV tuner. As mentioned above spliting the cable...
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    New House Wired With Cat5....

    That's funny because a telephone system uses RJ11 plugs and ports and a LAN uses RJ45 and you can not plug a RJ45 into a RJ11 port because the plug is to big to fit in the port.
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    P4 800FSB Backwards Compatible to 400FSB?

    The fastest processor that motherboard will handle is the P4 2.8B 533MHz FSB 512 cache and no HT You may or may not be able to use the P4 3.06C 533MHz 512 cache with HT but your MB does not support HT so it will be dissabled Your board does not support 800MHz FSB the max FSB is 555MHz or HT or...
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    Internet trouble, sorry!

    Hold the reset button on your router in for about 30sec then release it after that the router should assign the computer a new IP address
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    Highest CFM case fan with 3 pin connector?

    The 80mm and 92mm tornadoes have a 4 pin molex for power and a 3 pin sensor plug for the CPU fan MB header. It works great on my SLK-947U
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    if u had $10000. what would u put in ur computer

    Opterons should not be compared to Xeon DP processors they are in a different processor class they are more compareable to the Xeon MP or Itanium II
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    Case fan positioning/orientation

    I also have my side fan blowing in on my AIW 9800 Pro. The Thermaltake Xaser II cases are almost the same as the Antec AMG cases.
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    if u had $10000. what would u put in ur computer

    If I had $10,000 to spend on a computer this is what I would buy: 1 x SuperWorkstation 7033A-TB SATA MidTower (blk) W/ Supermicro X5DAL-TG2 Motherboard 2 x Intel Xeon 3.2 GHz 533FSB w/2MB Cache 4 x 1GB ECC Reg DDR Kingston ValueRAM Lifetime 1 x LSI MegaRAID SATA 150-4-port Serial ATA RAID...