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Hi I am interested in one of these brackets that one can use to route the audio jacks from you soundcard to the front. I am particularly interested in a bracket with a headphone jack and volume control. Can anyone recommend a specific brand, I have an original sblive. Thanks

Hi I thank you all for the info and I made up my mind. I'll have to go with the 128 pro since I forgot to mention that I'm on a budget and in South Africa the price for the 7000 radeon is double that of the 128pro-based card. Thanks for the help again.

Hi I'm running an lg 16x dvd drive which is udma33 as secondary master and a samsung 8x cdburner which I assume is pio4 mode. The dvd playback was terrible and I moved the dvd to slave on primary because my hard disk is udma33 as well and it seems to be better. I'm running a 500 celeron with...

Hi I've got a choice between two video cards. The heaviest tasks they will be doing is dvd playback. Games won't be played at all. I've got the Gigabyte Maya AG32s which features the rage128 chipset and also the Gigabyte Radeon 7000 Pro, Maya av64s-t. My question is, will the...

Hi I'd like to know if anyone on this thread has this drive? Can you tell me whatyou think of it. Also, it is supposed to be multizone, can anyone confirm this or was this loophole removed with later firmware updates? Thanks

Hi I'd like to know if there are a list of region-free drives. I heard that the pioneer 106s drive is region free. Is this true? I was forced to considder a region free drive because some bright individual in my region 2 country, South Africa, decided that it would be clever to release a...

Hi I'd like to know how much of a performance difference a video card makes? I'll be using very limited vodeo functionality, 2cd and divx/dvd movies. Can I buy a sis645 mobo and a sis 6326 card or would it be better to buy the integrated sis650 chipset? The only memory real intensive work...

Hi I want to buy a mobo with integrated graphics and I like stability so I guess an intel platform is a good call. Which integrated chipset would you recommend? also, is the graphics really only bad in 3d and acceptable in 2d and dvd playback or would it be better for me to buy a normal mobo...

Hi Sorry for the stupid question but what are ICS and CYP chips and why would one want one over the other? thanks

Hi The title says it all. Which board would overclock the furthest? p4te, s333 or p4b266? Also, can intergrated hardware such as onboard lan diminish your overclock or is this a myth? Thanks

Hi I have had two replies on here, one says memory doesn't make a difference and one says it does. My question now is an estimate of how much difference ddr or even rambus will make over sdram when a dvd is encoded into divx? Thanks

Hi The message title sort of says it all. I heard that it's possible to encode a divx movie in realtime using a 2.0 pentium iv. My question is, if I should use a sis 645 with sdr or the intel 845 sdr motherboards, what kind of performance hit would I take purely as far as divx encoding is...

Hi I've got an hp 5p scanner which i use for ocr. I'm very happy with it and as far as I know there isn't anything much faster available in terms of ocr scanning. It uses an isa scsi card and with newer motherboards not having many isa slots or not at all, I wondered if I can buy a new...

Hi Thanks for all the replies. I also saw on Anandtech news that Aopen has a board coming out using this chipset. Would I be better off going with AOpen in terms of stability or are the ecs/pcchips boards fine? I won't be overclocking. Thanks

Hi I'd like to know about the sis 650 chipset. I heard that that is the sis integrated chipset for the p4 at the moment. Are there any motherboards out with that chipset and can anybody tell me about their stability. I'm looking for a stabil integrated chipset for the p4 but would like to...