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    Asrock 775 DUAL-VSTA Dual View Issue

    I'm a little curious - Is your 7800GS card AGP or PCI-E?
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    Is Video Encoding more CPU or GPU intensive??????

    I do alot of editing and encoding. I used to use a P4 2.4C Northwood and 512MB ram. I recently upgraded to a Core 2 Duo and 1 GB of ram, and while the difference is incredible, I can take my new conroe and thrash it soundly with some of the encoding that I do. Truth be told, any upgrades the...
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    ASRock 775Dual-VSTA

    Just an update from my DOA - and I think that there may have been a bad batch or two that got out into circulation. well My VSTA is on the way back to newegg, sad to say I just about ordered another one to toy with in the mean time, but dropped the hammer on the P5B (vanilla) and 2x1GB of...
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    ASRock 775Dual-VSTA

    Yes, thanks for the suggestions I removed the board from the case - installed plastic standoff's to keep the board off the table made sure I was using the AUX 4 pin connector - but still couldn't get any sign of life out of the board filled out the New egg RMA form *sigh* paid extra to...
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    ASRock 775Dual-VSTA

    Well seems my Asrock -VSTA is DOA =( just got it via fedex - popped in the conroe, and some DDR ram and an AGP video card - when I plugged in the power the CPU fan started but no post beep - strage, so I swapped ot the ram, same thing - no post or display reseated the CPU twice - nothing...
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    Waiting for new Conroe mobos.

    Yes, I jumped on the ASRock 775Dual-VSTA as well for $300 I'm getting a decent E6400 CPU and basically a disposable MB that's 1/5 the price of a 975MB I was looking to make the platform upgrade but there were too many comprimises - I would have had to invest about $1000 on componenets...
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    fastest socket 478 cpu

    Why not just go Core 2 duo? You can still use your ram and video card card on the Asrock ASRock 775Dual-VSTA it only costs about $55 and then buy a E6300 Conroe for about $235 - so for under $300 you can get into a C2D setup and I'm sure it would kick down anthing that's socket 478
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    ASRock 775Dual-VSTA

    just ordered mine! honestly I couldn't decide what to get - I was fully prepared to plunk down $1500 on a new system (I upgrade once every 3 years since I love the "whoa man is this new shite fast!" feeling) but honestly....... *none of the mide or high end conroe MBs appealed to me*...
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    If AMD waits too long to drop prices, I will go with Intel

    Same here.....right now Intel has a very strong price/performance position.....I was looking to update from my 2.4ghz northwood (which is a decent chip still) but going amd to see big improvments would cost way to much.....I can get tons of performance for half the price if I chose another Intel...
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    Need Help - My personal website was attacked

    okay, different router....any suggestions?
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    Network Gurus, how do I track down an attack on my site?

    hey guys, if any of you are sys admins and have experiance with this I would appreciate it: I am a total neophyte, although I have setup my own server (win 2003) and have a site running php/mysql. the webstie I run is on a small personal machine, which allows me to have a blog and do...
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    Help me get wireless here in Japan on my crappy laptop

    there's lots of hot spots around tokyo - lots of non-encrypted wifi as well if you don't mind the casual 'borrowing' of someones connection. where are you located? I might know of a good spot where you are
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    Need Help - My personal website was attacked

    hey guys, if any of you are sys admins and have experiance with this I would appreciate it: I run a website on a small personal machine, which allows me to have a blog and do podcasting and streaming audio. The website I host is highly critical of a comapny in Japan that recruits in the...
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    Recomend a College Laptop

    about 4 months ago I picked up a used IBM 570E (450mhz PIII) 14 inch screen, upgraded the HDD and the memory, installed 2003 server (I use it for development) and wow am I pleased! only set me back about $170. From my collage days, I remember lugging around an HP laptop and I usually just...
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    Moving Back to the US, where's the best broadband?

    of course - broadband is not a real deciding factor....I have about 8 places that I am looking at, but I just want to know where good service is - it might help me focus in on employment oppertunities and growth in field services. I've been out of the states for awhile, so I am trying to get...
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    Moving Back to the US, where's the best broadband?

    In Japan (it's looney but cool here) at the moment, I'll be moving back to the U.S. soon. I'm just wondering where good solid broadband is, any carriers out there that have good bandwidth and decent upstream? I'm pretty open to any part of the US, but of course I have my preference for...
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    Thinkpads

    well, I can't recommend IBM thnkpads enough.....so many people, including myself, have good experiances with IBM thinkpads. I still use my 1999 570E that's 7 years old and it is a great machine. games on laptops has always been dicey......no matter what you choose to go with you're probably...
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    MAXTOR can go to hell !!!! UPDATED

    actully I was going to suggest you carefully inspect the IDE ribbon, recentally I had a drive go bad but careful inspection of the IDE ribbon revealed a tiny bit of the wire was exposed and must have been touching part of my case or something, replacing the ribbon with a brand new one worked for me
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    You have KILLED PC Gaming

    After reading the original post for this thread all I can do is chuckle. Call me sadistic....But I am delighted to see the 'twitch-fest I need more pointless eye candy so I can chase frame rates' take a bitter pill I had to witness the decline of the production of well made strategy games...
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    3-8-05 Japan tells Intel to stop stiffling competition in Japan or else

    lets see.......an artist signs an exclusive agreement with sony to distribute music albums.........exclusive agreements are widespread in every industy and every country......especially japan (where they often settle this type of thing without legal documents over drinks and also discuss price...
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    Need recommendation for nForce3 Ultra motherboard .

    I'm drooling over that K8N-E deluxe! I have lots of SATA drives so that's one of the major selling points for me I too could use a good CPU recommendation for 754
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    Need recommendation for nForce3 Ultra motherboard .

    I'm working over here.............and yes there is culture shock...........actually its more like bewilderment..........there's alot of 2+2=5 type stuff going on here. Here's an example: 256 sony duo memory card on 1st floor of electronics store: (approx) $78............same store on 2nd floor...
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    Asus P4P E deluxe crash and burn

    maybe the Northbridge heatsink isn't sitting correctly on the chip??? also.....are you overclocking it?
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    Need recommendation for nForce3 Ultra motherboard .

    well, if you want to save alittle money, why not just go with the DFI board? If you were just building a 2nd system to monkey around with then yea, the soltek would be fine, but if it's going to be your main system, DFI or Asus is money well spent. Occasioanlly I will buy a really cheap MB...
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    Need recommendation for nForce3 Ultra motherboard .

    Yea.....I figure I will probably get the K8N-E deluxe and a 3000 or 3200, I dunno, I am in Japan and the AMD chips are a little mroe expensive here. Then in about a year I will get a dual core system - top of the line everything I think the K8N-E delux would be a good replacement for my...
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    Need recommendation for nForce3 Ultra motherboard .

    I don't know if anyone mentioned this one, but I think the Asus K8N-E Deluxe seems to be a honey of a board 6 SATA ports ( with onboard raid controller) 2 firewire ports, Nforce3 250Gb chipset, Gb lan, and lots more I am really seriously thinking about getting it myself Asus K8N-E...
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    How can I boot to DOS without a floppy or CDROM

    Have you thought about booting from a USB memory stick? that's what I use. I used "free DOS" files and created a boot disk with my USB memory stick and was able to flash the bios from there. You'll need to check, test if you can boot from a USB device. Sorry, these instructions are not...
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    Help with PHP includes and passing variables

    I would recommend you visit : http://www.sitepoint.com/ check out their message boards and do a search , then if you can't find anything post a message, those guys really know what they are doing
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    Mobile intel CPU motherboards

    I wasn't implying anything but.........come to think of it, they were offering 2MB Pentium M's in what appeared to be dolthan flavors to go with the MB's. Unfortunately my Japanese is terrible (especially my kanji), but I think 2 of the motherboards I took pictures of do support the dolthan...
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    Installing an SATA Drive on ASUS P4PE

    shouldn't be a problem........... you will probably need to do 1 or 2 things though, #1 in the bios, you need to make sure that SATA support is enabled (probably already is by default) #2 in bios, You may need to check the boot device options, and make sure you have the HDD you want to...
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    Mobile intel CPU motherboards

    thought this may interest some of you guys......... I was crusing akihabra (as much as I loathe it, occasionally I am compelled to go there) anyways, I saw ATX and MINI-ITX MB's that support intel mobile CPU's Edit : the Mini-ITX is actually a LGA775 supporting Mb with the intel 915...
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    Is Sveasoft breaking GNU GPL?

    I think what really struck me is that there have been reports of sveasoft software on P2P and other sources that have been modified by sveasoft to allow back doors, control, and even curruption of nvram in the hardware - imagine if Microsoft included backdoors it's OS that allowed them to...
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    ~~~ The New Official Gmail Thread ~~~

    I swear to god and all that is powerful that I will name my first born after your anandtech user name - if only I could have a G-mail invite! neal@neal.homeunix.com
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    Is Sveasoft breaking GNU GPL?

    Hi there, Nope, not a party involved. I am reader of "I, Cringley" and saw this article: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040722.html Now, initially I agreed with Bob, but then somethings got me wondering after I checked the Sveasoft website. I checked all around the 'net...
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    Is Sveasoft breaking GNU GPL?

    Sveasoft modifies firmware used on linksys routers. they switced thier policy of making source code available, and are charging $20 to access to "beta" software. I'm betting nothing will get released. This is a very interesting page: http://wrt54g.thermoman.de/ seems sveasoft is...