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    What will replace 975X and how soon?

    Title pretty much sums it up. The 975X chipset is getting long in the tooth. Is the P965 the way forward for high-end 775 boards, or is there a new chipset coming down the pipe? I haven't seen any AT articles about this.
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    HDD enclosure for several disks?

    I'm looking for an external HDD enclosure for my HTPC. I'd like to put 4 or more SATA disks in a single enclosure, preferably connecting via eSATA. I looked on Newegg and only found one enclosure that holds 4 disks, and it's for IDE disks only. There's got to be larger enclosures on the...
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    HTPC for digital cable: set-top boxes, captures, and encoders

    I'm building an HTPC for use with digital cable (time warner). As far as I can tell, all of those TV tuner cards (i.e. Haupauge) are pointless. I can only tune and decode channels using a set-top box with the CableCard (right?), so all I need is a capture device and an MPEG-2 encoder for...
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    newfangled power connectors

    With my pants hiked-up nearly to my neck, I say to you that my last build was an Athlon T-bird, and it was the sweet hotness at the time. There was one power plug on the motherboard for the ATX 20-pin, and life was simple, minus the uphills both ways in the snow part... Fast forward to...
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    quality mb for massive I/O: HTPC and multi-track recording

    I'm spec-ing a new build, which is a weird feeling considering my last build was an Athlon T-bird rig. Things have changed a bit... This will be a monster. HTPC, pro audio multi-track recording, and software development, running on Linux of course. I will have two or three 1920x1200 LCDs...
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    What's the deal with HyperTransport?

    Is it just a marketing term for a loosly defined bus, or is there something else? I know that HT buses are two-way with 2,4,8,16,or 32 data paths in each direction working at a maximum of 1.6 Gbit/sec. However, AMD says stuff about it being specifically low latency and low power. What factors...
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    NVIDIA drivers under Linux

    I am a seasoned windows user who is trying his hand at Linux. I had Red Hat 7.0 installed and working on my previous machine with an old S3 integrated video chip. Now I installed Mandrake 8.0 on my new system with an Asus V7100 2V1D currently driving a NEC Ambix LCD in digital (DVI-D) mode. I...
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    Sound skipping on Epox 8K7A+

    Here's my system: Epox 8K7A+ (AMD 761/ VIA 686B) AMD Athlon T-Bird 1.4 Ghz 266 MHz FSB 512 MB (2x 256 MB) Crucial PC2100 DDR Asus V7100 2V1D GeForce2 MX200 Hercules Game Theater XP Linksys LNE100TX NIC Creative Ovation 12x DVD Sony Spressa 12/8/32x CDRW Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 60 40 GB 7200 rpm...
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    Long boot for Win2K

    Hi, I upgraded my OS from Win98SE to Win2K Pro this week and am having a small problem.  Booting into windows takes an incredibly long time, although I always eventually get a clean desktop at the end.  Also, the boot time is very inconsistant.  Somtimes it stays on...
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    MoBo's with new Via KT266 chipset?

    Are there any motherboards out that use the new Via KT266 chipset that has just been released? I am a big Via chipset fan and I would like to run a 133 MHz DDR FSB with a 266 MHz FSB Thunderbird and DDR PC2100 SDRAM. Unfortunately, the AMD 761's are too expensive and the Ali Magik 1 is crap...