Recent content by srg

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    Xeon64 or Opteron

    Hi Nemesis2038 Would you consider Hyperthreading an innovation?? srg
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    POLL! Were you spanked as a child?

    My dad would tell me off for doing something wrong three times when I was a kid. After that I would be spanked. Just once, not again and again. I know that I'm better for it as when I was a kid, as anybody, I would try to push it just that too far, and not I know there the ground rules are...
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    Ex Toms Hardware Guide Defector

    Hi For years I used toms hardware guide as my number 1 place for hardware information. Also, with things like the video showing Athlons burning up, they do seem to have some industry cout of their own. Also their forums were helpful, if a bit highly charged at times. These days, I think their...
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    A Question for any old timers out there

    hi I'm trying to build a 386 system (out of curiosity) and have all the parts bought new (4MB or 30-pin RAM and an IDE, Floppy etc Atapter card) and some second hand (ISA Graphics card, Motherboard, CPU). The CPU is an AMD 386DX-40 in PGA form and the Motherboard is a SOYO SY-019R1. I got the...
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    which HDD brand to go for?

    My IBM Deskstar 60GXP (40GB) is also now 2 years old and it's been the best drive I've ever had. Still going perfectly.