Recent content by WienerDog

Are you implying that a stock 9000 Pro 128mb outperforms a stock 8500LE? This gets more and more confusing every day. I thought the benchmarks on Tom's Hardware show the 8500LE outperforming the 9000 Pro in all of the benchmarks. Did you make any decisions on which card to go with? I'm in...

I absolutely despise searching for video cards now. I need a video card that I can use for component output to a 27" TV. ATI offers the HDTV adapter for the ATI 8500 and higher cards. Having said that, I'm trying to get a decent price/value with an emphasis on saving money. I am more...

The ABIT KR7A133 without RAID is $75 from Comp-U-Plus. There is an ASUS A7S333 for $65 also. I guess what I need is what I should be looking for. My goal is to put together cheapest stable system I can. Everyone here will understand this: the cheaper the system, the more systems I will be...

Thanks, I'll check out Comp-U-Plus. I don't agree about the Athlon though. I just finished a C#/ASP.NET assignment where I used my 1ghz Athlon/512mb RAM notebook. Development for the next project will be in-house, so we need to upgrade some computers. I really DO want to hear if there is a...

It must have been the "umm" that threw everyone off, if you didn't say "Umm" maybe this conversation would not have gotten so difficult. Viper has it right though: Could someone, if they so desired, develop a system of optical drives similar to today's CDRW's that could stripe data across...

Should I save $27 and go with the ECS K7S5A mobo from Newegg for $52.99 then? We have nics, and the EP-8KHA+ is $95.

No problem, IBM is out. Personally, I thought the IBM problems were specific to a particular line of HDs, not every IBM drive made. My bad, what is the alternative?

Jan 2001, 45 posts, not new here but not a local. So what should I go with? I can't think of the last harddrive recommendation that wasn't followed up with 5 people saying "my xxx was DOA and sent back 5 times, they are crap".

I'm upgrading 10 (maybe only 5) systems for software development. Here is what I'm planning: From GoogleGear $79 Abit KR7A-RAID Via KT266A Athlon(XP)/Duron SktA DDR ATX Motherboard w/ ATA/133 RAID Retail $75 IBM Deskstar 120GXP 40GB ATA/100 7200RPM Hard Drive $84 AMD Athlon XP 1800+ 1.533GHz...

You don't need a 529 account to do this. In fact, you don't need to be accumulating for anyone in particular. The money (or credit) will stay in your Upromise account until you open a 529.

Ha, if it's a PSU for you, look it up yourself ;]

How about the Antec SX635 from EmsComputing. 350W PS and great features. Does this fit a standard ATX mobo? I have an MSI K7T266 Pro-RU. Sorry, it is $80 there.

Ohhhhh, the Anandtech telepathic interface. I got mine, forget about these other bozos, ...I know what you're talking about.

Nice deal, but I hope you used the $20 off $100 coupon if you bought three of them. Some bozo in Westchester bought the last three boxed ones at my OD. Nice looking desk, definitely go for this one if you can use a desk.

fargus- Palms don't have PC Card slots, but some PocketPCs do.