Greetings... A few months ago I bought a NEO-FIS2R motherboard with various other bits and pieces and made my latest box. Routing everything through the onboard Promise 20378 controller, I created two RAID arrays: a RAID 1 array from the SATA1 HD and the Master HD off the IDE cable; and a RAID 0 arr...
Greetings... I'm looking at putting together a new system with an A64 3400+. I would like to get SATA RAID 1+0, but every motherboard that offers it seems to have the RAID controller hanging off the PCI bus (ala ABIT's MAX3 reviewed on the main page). Does anyone know of an A64 motherboard that has ...
First of all, anyone calling a product "CounterGay" automatically makes their opinion pretty worthless. Just like I would ignore someone who spouts about the "Itanic" I ignore someone who calls it "CounterGay". Hint: If you want to present your opinion, try not to look TOO obviously biased and fooli...
I don't know how much Morrowind follows in the steps of it's predecessors but I found the Daggerfall/Elder Scrolls game formula seriously boring. It's essentially Rogue on a grand scale. i.e. randomized quests, towns, people, etc.. To me most everything worthwhile in an RPG is a unique immerseful s...
IMHO, either way you shouldn't go for a 2 GHz pentium. If you decide to go single proc, buy an Athlon 2000+ system instead, get the same performance, and save some $$.
What will you use your computer for? I have 2x 1800+ Athlon MPs. Just before writing this, I was playing the War III Beta while ripping a CD to MP3 and playing Winamp, all with no slowdown anywhere. Smooth as butter. Is doing something like this worth the extra $300 or so bucks? It was for me. -Polare
Well, do you mean PC game specifically or computer game in general? PC, it was Might and Magic III (man I loved that game, wish I could find it again), Doom, and GemStone III (a mud on Prodigy back when it was still Prodigy :). Computer, it was Telengard, Burgertime, and Taipan on my Apple II. Taipa...
Good morning all... I need to re-rip my collection of CDs to MP3s for my car MP3 player (since it's easier to re-rip everything than to manually edit all the .id3 tags to what they're supposed to be). Unfortunately the ripping program I used is no longer usable. Can someone point me to a ripping pro...
Sorry. I've gotta say that I don't think it could be done without too much being lost. Why not? Well, a couple of reasons. First, you've gotta work with the assumption that a movie with the quality of LOTR can _only_ be made if it expects to make a lot of money -- thus it must appeal to a mass marke...
Circlestrafing is your friend against bulls. The grenade launcher works particularly well against them, just be careful not to blow yourself up. Finally, what I always do when there's just a few of them is play toreador -- wait until they're just about to hit and leap to the side, shooting them as y...
Who's on which side? My vote is definitely for PC RPGs. Console games are waaaaaay too linear for me. My favore RPG of all time is Darklands, from '91... the very definition of a non-linear RPG. There wasn't even a real 'ending' (although there were main quests to do, once you finished 'em you didn'...
Something that nobody's yet mentioned is getting a cheaper dual proc setup. I believe Photoshop is dual-proc capable (as is Q3, though that's not as big a gain). I'd say your best bet would be dual Athlon XPs --probably 1500+ or 1600+ for the best value right now -- on a Tyan board (rock-solid, thou...
Grrrr! I enabled HTML and this is what I get. I see "HTML is ON." and "Disable HTML in this post" is NOT checked. What's up? -Polare <table width="350" border="0" bgcolor="#000099"><tr bgcolor="#FF6B40"><td width="125" bgcolor="#1C1CFF"><div align="center"><img src="http://www.geraldfield.com/nadine...
On 2002-04-05 09:30, gyrfalcon wrote: No where near enough ram, and you won't be able to run windows data center without atleast 8 CPU's!!! Oh and that SCSI drive was a nice touch since you skimped on the graphics card and don't have have a SCSI card to use it. Anyhow have fun with your system... h...
On 2002-04-02 19:34, Speed wrote: Polare, if you're that new to Windows, then you really don't have enough experience to make an informed evaluation. Face it, you're looking at the issue with blinders on, not to mention a HUGE prejudice. Until you can make an informed and experienced business case,...
Speed, I didn't pick "2k to XP" because it was the easiest upgrade path -- I picked it because it's the only upgrade path that my company might possibly look at in the next 3 years. Trying to look farther than 3 years (I'd even say farther than 2 years) out in a small tech company these days is no m...
I've gotta jump in here to throw some support Dissonance's way here. My experience is as an engineer at a software-producing company (one produced server software, my current one is a dot-com). Both products were not really platform-specific (although QA had to test on both MS and *nix OS'). None of...
Well, so far I can see: The Tyan board includes LAN (not a big deal with the 4 or 5 Ethernet cards I have sitting around, but it frees up one more PCI slot) The Asus board's USB add-in is 2.0, unlike the USB 1.1 included with the Tyan board I can't tell if the Asus board contains PS/2 connectors for...
Is there anything to recommend the Tyan MPX board (S2466N) over the Asus version for the same chipset (A7M266D)? I saw Damage's review of the Tyan board but can't seem to find anything on the Tyan board on any of the tech sites I visit regularly.
OK, thanks for the warning. I had been looking at that though so not to worry Actually, every GF4 4400 I've looked at so far -- no matter the outputs -- has included 2 RAMDAC's on it.
On 2002-03-29 21:55, lenzenm wrote: Do you want to go from a DVI connector on the card to a VGA connector on the monitor cable? Yes, DVI --> VGA connection adapters do exist. So then you could use the VGA, plus the DVI (with the DVI --> VGA adapter) to have two VGA outputs. I have done this with my...
I'm looking to buy a GF4 4400, but I want a card with 2 VGA-outs (I don't care about TV-out, DVI, S-Video... just VGA). Can anyone point me to such a beast? Every brand I've looked at seems to have the wrong combination of connectors... Alternatively, is there anywhere I could possibly get a VGA -> ...
No wicker baskets for us. No wicker chairs, either. Come to think of it I guess we're just not wicker people. Of course, maybe that's because "And then the wicker shall be smited, and the meat inherit the earth"... or did I get that quote wrong?
On 2002-03-29 13:37, Spune wrote: That has got to be one of the stupidest things I have ever seen. I always wondered what makes people do stupid things like this and then put it on the net for the whole world to see! Now I don't know about that. If you read through the article, the guy agrees that ...
Actually, every GF4 4400 I've looked at so far -- no matter the outputs -- has included 2 RAMDAC's on it.