sapiens74

CNET are pieces of **** IMO. Buy a 3com. Never have problems

Story is a bit thin. More immersive IMO. Diablo 2 great story, not so great gameplay. All of them have good poin ts I guess.

Dungeon Siege

I have never had a problem with IBM. tho I have read too much too know there does exist problems

Welcome back ..... To Intel.

no ****. who cares

FSB maybe, unlocking the Athlon no. By the time you use a good cooler, and some thermal grease, just buy a faster one

Nope

I have owned more AMD systems, and have built more, I am willing to bet then anyone on this board. I ran AMD form the K6 to the K6-2, the first Athlon to the XP. And I just bought INtel. WHen you work in the IT field you see a lot of systems, plus my need to upgrade every 2 months, I have had a lot of rigs to play with. We are providing the best options for his needs. No biased here, I'm not married to any platform. But as a pro, paid to know this ****, I can easily say go INTEL.

I Use my raid for performance, and have a large drive for backup.

WOn't copy an XP partition tho

SCSI raid is faster of course. But SCSI raid was never mentioned. IDE Raid is faster and hella cheaper vs. SCSI drives by themselves. Even a 15 K drive cannot compete with good IDE raid. And the problem with SCSI is the densities are so low, You have to buy like 2 36 GB and thats off the scale with price, not to mention the raid controller. 2 ATA 7200 RPM 120GB w/8mb of cache = $400 ATA 100 Raid Controller = $100 2 SCSI 15k Seagate = $500 1 SCSI Adaptec Raid Controller = $400 So twice the cost and 1/5th the storage. Both max the PCI bandwidth out, the only thing with SCSI is that it's access times are faster. THat doesnt matter when your pushing lots of data through, just like Rambus. If money is no object then a board with a 64Bit PCI should be considered, then SCSI RAID, for max performance. But on a standard INTEL 850 board, then IDE IMHO is the Best choice.

SCSI is nice, but a 2 or 4 disk IDE raid is much faster and cheaper.

Was gonna say Samsung too, great Ram. Also You might not want to overlcock when doing DV. Most cards have problems when moving that kinda of data overclocked.

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P4 and the Rambus. Its actually cheaper for Rambus right now, You can get a GB for less then 300 bucks. Go with the WD 120 GB with 8MB of cache. Get 3 of them, One to boot and the other 2 for raid. GO with the Abit Board, or an ASUS, either way you cannot go wrong. Make sure to get name brand memory too. Get the Sound Blaster Audigy, it has Firewire port, and get a 30 dollar USB 2.0 card as well. THat will give you plenty o Ports. You can also get another firewire card if necessary.

yeah, games rocks tho. I really like the engine. Easy to use, and a beautiful game. ON the stuttering issue, I got the same thing out of the demo , so it must be in need of a patch. O well its still playable

People suck in general

You might try manually doing the voltage, i read somewhere that the default for some AMD XP's are too low

Only in an AMD system would you see this.

Right click on the bar, go the the menu toolbars and make sure quicklaunch is checked

I use the refernece drivers. They are updated more often

MSI are ok. I have had great boards, like the KT266 but they had two different versions of that board, the other of which fried 2 sticks of my ram, one at a time.

ASUS personally. I would probably only use an ASUS or INTEL in one I build for someone else, unless they have specfific thing they want. ABIT are nice too. FIC suck ***

Got mine already