Recent content by smadavid

Yup, mine works great. 2.6C. First thing i did was replace the hard drive w/ my Cheetah 15K.3 and upgrade the memory. Runs fast, runs cool, runs solid.

Yeah, I mostly bought it because they had a special deal which made it a pretty good buy. For most things I'll just burn CDs, but I could see myself transferring some old home video VHS tapes onto DVD eventually...

Just ordered from dell (not up for building this time around): Intel P4 2.6C 800 MHz, HT i875 chipset 256 MB DDR 400 RAM (purchased add'l 512 MB separately) ATI Radeon 9800 128 MB 60 GB HD (will replace w/ Cheetah 15K.3 already owned) 4x DVD+RW/CD-R drive Sound Blaster Audigy 2 $1,066 Really...

On a server, it can be good for several things... the cards can work together to create a single connection with double the bandwidth or more (depending on how many cards are used). Also, for redundancy -- if one card fails, the connection doesn't go down. Of course all of this is pretty much...

The point is not to ensure the survival of competitors, the point is to make sure consumers get the lowest price possible, even at the expense of the compeition. AMD going out of business would be a bad thing for AMD, nothing more. There would be no long-term effect on consumer prices, it...

I don't get your argument... First you say its a good, competitive thing for AMD to force intel to lower its prices, but then when intel goes ahead and does it, you say Intel's being anti-competitive. Which is it? Why is it wrong for Intel to undercut AMD's prices when AMD undercuts their...

Take it! Sounds like lots of fun. What I've read of IA64, the architecture sounds very intersting, and to learn from an Intel guy would be fun too.

No, Intel is not planning to do it with banias. They are going to market the chip primarily based on power usage / battery time. I don't remember the exact details (this was a while ago), but they're still going to use MHz to indicate chip speed. Marketing the batter life of a chip is...

Thanks again for the help. I ended up purchasing that kit from Mwave -- it seemed reasonably priced w/ the cable, terminator and all. Plus they also sell the SCA adapter, so I was able to get everything all at once. I'll let ya know how it goes :-) Dave

Thanks for the suggestions, guys, that really helps me out. Looks like the Adaptec 29160N or perhaps even the 19160 might suit me perfectly, since this is the only device I'll be running on it. Newegg has a 19160 for $185, its OEM, but says it comes with the cable, so I'd be all set there. As...

Hi everyone! I was lucky enough to find a Cheetah 15K.3 18 GB in stock from Newegg just a few minutes ago, so I took the opportunity and snatched one up Anyway I'm looking for some advice on a controller card. I've haven't worked with SCSI before, so any tips are appreciated. I'll be buying...

Don't have an answer, but I'm wondering the exact same thing. I'm thinking of picking up a 15,000 model for my next system along with an Adaptec controller (don't forget the controller costs quite a bit too -- prob. $200 for something good). I think its the perfect solution for a boot drive...

Thanks for the reply. I've just kinda got fed up with the hastles of building my own systems -- A nice OEM system sounds wonderful especially when I'm short on time. If I did this, I'd order it with the least RAM possible. I guess I don't have a great reason for needing the PC1066... not like...

I'm looking to get a new system, probably a Dell, since I don't have the time to build my own this time around. I want to get one of the new 533 MHz bus P4's, but I haven't decided what to do about the memory yet. I don't want to cripple a system that really shines using PC1066 RDRAM. The...

I've got a 486-SX 33 MHz from back in the day. Made by ExpoTech, anyone remember them? Anyway, the AT keyboard controller died on the thing, and I'd love to fix it. I don't know why I even bother, but there's something about it, it was my first computer and I want to keep it going :-) I...