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There seems to be a good number of people running 64GB+ on systems in the "How Much RAM you Got?" thread/poll. There wasn't a lot of detail on what kind of systems they were running though. Are most of you doing this on consumer systems without ECC? Or with Workstation/Server setups? Have...

I'm planning out a new computer build and instead of dual booting Windows/Linux, I've been thinking that with all the VT-x and VT-d extensions + plus VM software maturity now, it would make my life easier and still have good performance in linux if I ran it virtualized from Windows. ( Windows...

Charity LanParty Dec 10th - Austin, TX Intel is returning to Austin with the very generous help of KeepAustinLan and AustinModders.com for another LANFest benefiting the local Capital Area United Way. Like other Lanfest events; 100%* of the ticket proceeds will be donated to the United Way...

Hey guys, It's almost time for another LANFest in Loveland Colorado! Head on over to lanfest.intel.com/colorado to check things out. Also check the forums for more details. All registration fees go to charity and are matched by Intel and there are prizes. Tentative Tournament list: CSS...

Hey guys, I have heard enough bad things about newegg's hard drive packaging for oem drives that I don't really want to buy HD's from them. What are some retailers that do quality packaging? How is Zipzoomfly in particular, as they seem to have prices pretty much in line with newegg's...

We will be hosting our second LAN fest in the Fort Collins/Loveland area with proceeds again going to the United Way and matched by Intel. We are moving to a new venue in order to have a larger attendance. The new location is about 10 minutes South of Fort Collins right off I-25. Here are...

I am looking for a low power/noise linux file server and found the Via NAS 7800 to be quite intriguing. I wonder though if the C7 or fanless Eden processor is sufficient to sustain good transfer rates. You'd think they wold put a sufficiently powerful processor on there to make good use of the...

I have been asked to give a recommendation on a graphics card for someone who wants to start doing 3D graphics work. One of the things I don't do with my computer is basically any sort of graphics work, so I am a bit out of my element. Can regular graphics cards that we use for games be used...

I'll keep this short. I am one of the gamers at Intel Fort Collins who is organizing this. 100 person, 24 hour LAN party: March 29th, 2008 @ 9AM to March 30th, 2008 @ 9AM at the Intel site in Fort Collins, Colorado. $25 per person - all proceeds go to the United Way and are matched by...

I've been contemplating building a file server for some time now, but I want a somewhat sophisticated setup that I don't know how hard it is to do or if it is possible (probably is, I can't be the first to want this) What I want is a file server that I can map the drives to on my main...

I just picked up mechcommander 2 since it is now free.....but when I play it, it plays like it is on hyper mode, the mechs move so fast you can't click on them while moving and the animations are clipping because they are trying to go to fast. Has anyone else encountered this?

Hi guys, I have recently started my first job. My first task is debugging a program that can take a very long time when in run through DDD (I suspect mostly because of LOTS of stdout and stderr messages that have to be rendered in X, because it does not take nearly as long when run regularly...

Article According to the article Google gets custom made 90% efficient power supplies. I don't keep up on power supplies too much, but I seem to remember ~80% being as good asa consumer could buy. Does any one know of companies that sell to consumers with 90%+ efficiencies? Just curious.

My old HP 4m laser has given up the ghost, and so it is time for me to start looking for a new one. I am going to put this on the network so all my computers can print to it. I primarily use black and white printing, but if a color laser is affordable that would would be a nice addition. I...

I have well over 1000 wallpapers categorized by subject or anime series title. I want to write a perl(or python) script to go through and find all the wallpapers that are of a certain resolution, right now it is 1600x1200 that I am interested in specifically. I have looked at the JPEG FIF spec...

I just got a Nostromo N52 and so far like it quite a bit. However I have a small hand and would like to try it without the removable black grip on, but the otherwise excellent instructions do not mention how to adjust/remove the grip. I have tried pushing away on it, but to no avail. I could...

Hi guys, I've noticed on both my laptop and my desktop that if I turn of "Show Desktop Icons" in Windows XP (both Home and Pro), my background gets jaggies (aliasing, whatever you might call it) along lines. Whent the desktop icons are on, the background looks smooth and has nice clean sharp...

Hi guys, I was wondering if anyone else had this hardware and had the breakout box running in linux (I am curious about any distro, though I use Gentoo). I saw a thread about getting it to work using lirc because it said the IO ports send MIDI commands just like the remote does, but I cannot...

This is a question that has been bugging me for a long, long time. After searching I feel that I have found only a partial answer at best. Perhaps someone knows or can point me in the right direction. Are programs you make with GCC required to be licensed under the GPL? What I have found...

I should have known better than to get brand spanking new hardware and try to put linux on it...but I did.....everything works fine cept my 7800GT with x.org 6.8.2-r4(gentoo) the nv driver does not work and the official nvidia driver does not yet support the 7800GT. I have seen at least one...

So I have finally gotten together my new computer. I went to install WinXP w/SP2 that I got from the MSDN academic alliance, but it always crashes after it copies files, reboots and enters the graphical setup portion(fatal error: could not install a service). I tried with two different CDs and...

My guess is that creative is trying to clear a bit o stock with the new xi-fi stuff coming out. I took one look at those prices for xi-fi and decided it wasn't going to be in my new comp. So I went looking at the older models and found this hefty rebate on pricegrabber. ZipZoomFly is not the...

At my work I have a comp with an AGP TNT2 card and I just scavenged a PCI S3 Trio32/64 video card that I wanted to use for a second monitor. I plugged it in, but it won't display anything. Windows correctly detects the card, but says there is a problem in the device manager(only it doesnt say...

Has anyone bought Combo's from Monarch Computer? It looks like I could save about 20 bucks on the motherboard and 60 bucks on the proc if I buy one of their combos. I am wondering if they still give you all the cables and stuff that come with the motherboard? Do they ship it assembled right...

Working on deciding what to get for my comp and this was very interesting/disturbing. So I was just wondering if any of you SLI people (the people who bought it for an upgrade option, not the buy two cards at once) have run into the problem outlined by theInquirer in the article here . If this...

So I am working on gathering components for my new comp and I had planned to get 2x 1GB sticks of ram for my new comp to start (probably something like the patriot 2-3-2-5 stuff) and a MSI Neo 4 Platinum motherboard. Doing additional research to make sure I didn't fall into any pitfalls, I have...

Saw this on fatwallet, surprised it hadn't been posted here, so I thought I would. At newegg the 500 is going for $129+S/H and I think the 600 is $160+S/H. Good reseller ratings too. http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?name=PS-S12-5000

Looking to build a new system from the ground up and am considering a Lian Li V1000. It looks nice and it looks like it should be good for keeping stuff cool, but with all those holes in it(front, bottom, back) I am wondering how the noise levels from it are. Assume 2x120mm fan, PSU fan(s)...

Hey guys, I'm looking to get my own multimeter and am wondering what kinda specs/brands I should be looking for. I'd love to get one of those bench multimeters from Agilent but there is no way I have the cash for that as I think they cost in the area of $1k. So instead I'm probably looking at...

I have two monitors and would like to set up a dual monitor display but I don't know if my gf3ti500 can handle that. I am somewhat doubtful as I know I could not run 1600x1200 on one monitor with a 32mb integrated graphics card. Granted integrated solutions are never very powerful, so who...

I've just gotten a 2001fp monitor and cannot seem to run at 1600x1200 with 32-bit color. I can run in all other resolutions with 32bit color except this one. Everytime I select it to use 32bit color at 1600x1200 it kicks me down the next lower resolution (1600x1024). If I then go and set the...

Hey guys, trying to fix the family computer on my christmas visit home, I've fixed most of the problems, but there is a weird bug I am encountering with the wireless access that this the computer in question uses. For some reason it keeps picking up a really weird ip address when it boots up...

I just got in on that $750 off dell laptop deal, and now I need a good bag to go with it. I am a student and am thinking an over-the-shoulder/messenger type bag is what I want, but I have not found too much in my initial searches that look good. Most seem like they have too little depth to...

Hey guys, with prices starting to get cheaper and cheaper like with those crazy deals on dell 2001FPs it is getting harder and harder for me to resist one. I've been reading around and have seen people commenting on this 'screen door' effect. I was wondering if it is at all similar to the...

I'm just getting linux and have picked up SUSE 9.1 Personal for my install. I installed all nice and happy and went to Nvidia's site to get drivers for my Geforce4 MX 4000 (this is a cheap comp built with no gaming in mind). The nvidia site said to use Yast Online Update to get their drivers...

Hey guys, i just bought a retail xp 2800+ cuz i got a mobo with a cap in the way that prevents anything bigger than a stock cooler from being used. I think its an easy question(I'd say AS2), but just to be sure since AS2 is old stuff, which would you go with? the AS2 or thermal pad that comes...

i've seen a super cheap deal for a barebones system using this chipset and am thinking it would make for a good cheap way for me to make a second PC to learn linux with....but I've heard people saying bad things about older via chipsets on the forum....is this one of them and what is good/bad...

How much of an overclock could i expect with a 35watt amd mobile 2400+ and this hsf? Zalman Fan I am not looking for an extreme overclock, but something decent.

Recently one of my Hard Drives died, and I've gotten a replacement for it, but before I start using it, I want to run a thorough scan on it to make sure it has no problems. Unforuntately the drive did not come with any diagnostic software and the scan disk in windows is crummy(it could not...

Hey guys, I was wondering if motherboards these days can boot off a usb connection( like a flash drive) instead of using a floppy for doing things like bios flashing or using hard drive tools. I think I remember it was talked about when USB first started getting big, but I stopped following...