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   #3. Posted at 10:24 AM on Sep 14th 2007 Edit   Reply
PRIME1
the aging 975X

And yet some people still use floppies ;-)
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#3, I also have floppy drive in my system but it's disconnected ...  :  Jigar  (#4)  «
#3, Still useful for RAID drivers + BIOS updates. I installed my ...  :  LoneWolf15  (#7)  «
#7, Wasting a cd-r? Hehe. I've got like 400 blank one's rando...  :  Usacomp2k3  (#8)  «
#7, A BIOS update from floppy is very risky. Floppies often h...  :  Kent_dieGo  (#16)  «
#16, Even then the bloody floppy might go bad on you as the...  :  bthylafh  (#17)  «
#16, People were doing BIOS updates with floppies for a ver...  :  evermore  (#21)  «
#16, Which would explain why I unconditionally format any f...  :  LoneWolf15  (#22)  «
#7, RAID drivers and BIOS updates go on a CD-R or CD-RW, too.  :  JustAnEngineer  (#19)  «
#19, Not when installing XP.  :  evermore  (#20)  «
#3, the aging 975X and yet my 975x does 400fsb, granted its pract...  :  rosselt  (#18)  «
# Low latency DDR2 Heh, never expected to see that phrase.  :  bthylafh  (#14)  «
#14, There's plenty of low latency DDR 2. Keeping in mind that...  :  evermore  (#15)  «

   #5. Posted at 10:59 AM on Sep 14th 2007, Edited at 11:00 AM on Sep 14th 2007 Edit   Reply
bdwilcox
Floppies are still INCREDIBLY useful for a number of reasons:

-CD-based unattended installs 2000/XP where the WINNT.SIF needs to be on a floppy.

-Many of the best diagnostic utilities only work off of boot floppies, especially the old ones that still work and have never been updated

-Ghost if the machine isn't capable or doesn't want to boot off a USB thumb drive. (Ghost 8, the last REAL Ghost, won't boot off of a CD)

And a whole host of reasons more. When I need to fix a machine, I cringe when I see that there's no floppy. I usually plug in a USB floppy drive and pray the machine can boot off of it.
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#5, Anything you can run off a floppy, you can also run off a CD...  :  jwb  (#11)  «
#11, Unless it wants to save a file. :-)  :  evermore  (#12)  «
#5, Ghost 2003 was the last consumer version which used the orig...  :  evermore  (#13)  «

   #1. Posted at 08:40 AM on Sep 14th 2007, Edited at 08:40 AM on Sep 14th 2007 Edit   Reply
Jigar
I don't know much about Intel's chipset. Can any one guide me here ?? Will my Q6600 work on this mobo along with DDR3 ??
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#1, Intel's X38 mainboard is codenamed "BoneTrail". It will supp...  :  LoneWolf15  (#6)  «

   #2. Posted at 08:42 AM on Sep 14th 2007 Edit   Reply
SHOES
being that P35 boards which support DDR3 are compatible with your 6600 I have to assume that tey will.
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