Mr.Guvernment

^^^^^ thnx for the info that is pretty messed, perhaps open gl was not designed to be split up or something...lol the matrox at least just uses one plug, that splits into 2, then has an extra conneciton as well, ithink it is DVI.. dunno.

^^^^ what was not good about it? it worked fine for my uncles the 2 years he had it, no problems, nothing, made games look great!..... (compared to his old all in wonder 128 32mb PRO card.

^^^^^ and your thought is backed by what?...lol MACS do things for some people , and PC do others. to each their own i have worked on a MAC G3, only had 128mb of ram, and saw NO positives over it from my p3 500. it was my sis b/f, and he alwayy was like, my MAC is better then your PC. Until i started multitasking with PS, Illustrator, bryce, and running an ftp, icq, a few IE windows, i then told him to try that, he opened Photoshop, then tried to open Illustrator and got the error of "You are out of system resources, in order to blah blah, please close some applications" that shut him up for a while Macs can be good, for interior decorating maybe

Heyall well, i know i am not really one to talk, but i use the tags in my sig to make it somewhat smaller.... i was thinking perhaps make it a rule that people need to use the or 2, tag or something, and make their specs go left to right, instead of upand down to trim down on the size? Just an idea.. Or perhaps get the VB hack to only allow a sig to appear once per page....?

For now just use the tag, and make it size 1, that is what mine is at. SIG GOES HERE[/size of course add a following ] @ the end.

^^^^ what are you using for your outgoing mail server, if it is like mail.mail.com ping that address, and put in the straight IP address, do this for your incoming as well, this will also result in faster email sending / receiving. Do u use teh same outgoing, as incoming? If so, make sure u got it set in outlook to use the same login info as your incoming. Express - tools /accounts / mail/ your account/ servers /advance i beleive.

i have this issue with all XP Pro systems @ work it sends the job to the XP pro comp with the printer, but just says can not print., we have tried everything! nadda!

Enhanced music cd's? as in one swith like video' and stuff on them? if so, winamp works fine, i have 2 or 3 of these cd's, that have like quicktime video's and extra's on them. always used winamp fine to play them. (the music that is..)

But as all beta's, if u want your system to run fine, don't get it, there is still alot of bugs to work out, and nothing is using DX 9 feature yet anyways... i don't think. (games etc)

i would sign up but it is likely the cd would never make to me in Antigua.

works fine for me retail, and priated (actually bought office XP) 2k went in fine with out any issues, what is the "exact" error? i know sometimes, once ina blue moon i would get an error like INstall has encoutner an unexpected error and willstop" or something i simply went into my "temp" folder, delete the install logs, rebooted, and it went fine, if that did not work, i ran the disk off a networked drive,and it worked fine....

kew kew also good to get the same card as your first, this can prevent driver issues an such. or just get a new nvidia, ati, or matrox card they all have dual, and matrox has triple dislay but that is if u need to upgrade.

as said......... those poeple who are obbessed with scores, well, no offence, but perhaps u need to get out more often, cause a month later, your scores won't mean anything, yeah, it may seem kew to have soemthing that just came out. but still. I got my G4 4600 cause i needed a new card, over the crap 32mb TNT2 card that came with this vaio, was not doing what i wanted. as said, if your omputer can do what u want it to, great, don't upgrade, but if your system is not doing what u want, upgrade, simple. u don't see people running out, well, maybe u do, but buying the newest years model of a car every year. and if u can afford it, go for it, just personally i can think of better things to spend my money one as opposed to buying something that will be out of date by next month, and just beaten by something new.

didn't even know there was a new james bond game out....?

SERVER it is not a "gaming" o/s Maybe if u want to run UT dedicated server, but SERVER O/S = well, are amde to be servers, not for game playing (hence why they make XP home and PRO) and if u got the right hardware, they will probably run fine.

Quote: Oh the guy who thinks anything after 512 megs of ram makes the computer slower. Wrong. I have all day to play with my computer. I had 512 megs of ram in my system tryed sissoftsandra. Then tried with 1024 mb. I had about a 3% incrase in speed. And I can run more programs at once. So that 3% is use for other programs Like winamp. kew kew i had read a review, from a site, and god know's i can not remeber the name, and they had run benchmarks as well, and it seemed with more then 512, your system runs slower, but this was only for pc66/100/133, it does make sense, as your system needs to read through more memory to find things. Just a review i read, that is all.

Quote: Well... TELL ME! * lol! APK P.S.=> I like it man... good stuff! apk lol were the heck did i post that...lol anyways, just use the tag and end it with Code: [size=12]SIG IN HERE [/size followed with /size]

Quote: You do know the GF4 MX's aren't even GF4's don't you? They're riced out GF2's but still, for the price they're a steal, especially if you don't take your PC gaming all that seriously (like me). i had ehard it was a G3 card it was based on. get an ATI Radeon 7500 - 64mb card, $80 US, or canadian.

Anythign over 521mb of ram can slow system performance, so i have read.. if pc 100 or pc133, this is because the system has FAR more memory to read through. that is really a simple, lame answer..lol ignore, haha, listen to the pro's!

both rt II and gold edition ran fine for me on both win 2k, adn XP dunno what to suggest. fresh format, and get all XP udpates...?

Quote: Originally posted by paul_h_amiga My Question is this: Why is everyone so obsessed with having the very latest kit when there is nothing that will take advantage for a long time to come? there is PLENTY to take advantage of it!! trust me try ripping a DVD on a p4 2.5 - it still takes for ever. try rendering a 1280 x 1024 Bryce image with like 15 glass sphers in it and numerous reflective surfaces. - 1 image i did took over 28 hours on My vaio system below! So yes, there are PLENTY of things which use ALL of todays power if you do that sort of thing, and games now are hitting that level as well, many games will only play well on top of the line systems.

Quote: ATi has the same problem AMD has. They have to overcome Years of mediocre products, so they have to fight twice as hard to get the same customers. IMO they released this card too close the the NV30. If they could have pulled it off 3 months ago that would have been a true Geforce killer. It will take at least 2 good leading edge Video Cards in a row to get my attention. Till then, I wish them the best Mediocore? ALl-in wonder radeon 128mb card, even the 64mb and now this (9700) there is your 2 cards. HECK!! ALL!! of the "all in wonder" cards Nvidia just tried to release a "all in wonder" card a while back, and it got laughed at to the ground! the rage fury maxx was a great card, for it's times, first 64mb card, just they did crap on NT support / 2k. but at that time it was a "gamers" card, and gamers did not use NT or 2k. i would always prefer ATI over Nividia, if your not a "gamer". Although i did buy an g4 4600, cause i could not find an ATi all in wonder DV card 128mb around, and have bene getting more into games lately (dam u gta 3!! and spiderman) So ithought i would see what all this Nvidia hype is about, i now wish i had of waited for the NEW ati chip to come out.

the 8500 was the competition for the G4's. So now we know Nvidia will be coming out with a new card to match this one, same thing u see every year (the NV30 i beleive and Maxtor has word of a 256mb card , so i would wait till cards hit 256mb before buying my next card)) ATI ontop, then nvidia, then ATI, then NIvidia! it will always be a see-saw up and down. just a matter of being able to get the good cards in between i bought a 4600 cause the 128mb 8500 were crap in comparison on alot of games, and i was a PURE ATI guy before that, but i did my research., last card i had was teh all in wonder 128 RAGE PRO card 32mb one.

if they are diff RPM, it will slow it down, cause the air flow will not go at the same speed, u would want all fans with the same speed or rpm's. my little bit

yeah ditch the comcrap software, and use nero or adaptec. Also, a clean install is ALOT better, since XP is more NT kernal based, not 9x. almost any cd burner is compatible in XP, more like COMpaq is not compatible with XP!