Brian Frank

I've been reading over at AMDMB that The MSI KT3 series has had problems with certain memory. That Samsung is probably pretty good, but if the mobo doesn't like it for whatever reason, you're SOL. I'd try obtaining another stick of RAM and see if the stuff continues. The only other thing that comes to mind is an improperly mounted heatsink or not getting enough power.

One thing I've discovered and enjoy about NS7 is the tabbed browsing. Instead of having multiple instances of NS running, just have some extra tabs instead. Save a few sites that have something NS is griping at me for, I pretty much use it now all the time.

Via is gonna be hurting on the AMD front as well, since ALi has managed to make a half-decent chipet and nVidia's nForce was pretty much on par with the KT333, and nForce 2 should give the overclockers what they want. I'm still sticking with my i845D board for my P4 though, but the 648 is pretty sweet, regardless.

Monitor died, and being out of warranty, I needed a new one. Dell 17" Trinitron flat-screen. It's used, but it's a steal @ $85.

An NT driver will not work on a Win9x OS, I can tell you that much. Unfortunately, I can't give you much more than that. Sometimes an NT driver will work under 2k, sometimes it won't. It all depends.

How big of a power supply do you have?

That was good.

I've stuck with the 21.81's for a long while now and haven't had any good reason to go further.

The Radeon 9000 is pretty much on par with the 8500 currently. Drivers may improve it in the future, however. As far as ATI's drivers sucking, that's no longer a very valid argument. I was on the same fence as Four and Twenty, but I put my money where my mouth was and found the 8500 to be very nice. ATI has done a massive improvement in the driver arena. They are 100 times a better company then they were a year ago.

2 words: Dual Xeon

Both overclock pretty well, though Intel's P4's seem to be doing very well here. As for overclocking your HP, it can be done, but it will be very difficult as the options are severly limited to cut down on unnecessary tech support calls.

Win2k did have some known issues with hard drives, but Sandra isn't a very good benchmark when it comes to disk tests, so take those results with a grain of salt.

I've had good luck with Samsung. I've also heard very, very, very good things about Corsair---I can't recall a single complaint at all. For the motherboard... The KT400 boards are on their way, as well as the nForce 2 boards. The KK400 is a specific KT400 board that is to be released by Iwill;) If you can wait a month, you should see boards based on the KT400 and nForce 2 start being available. I don't know if you're one that has anything against Via, but if you do, I'd highly suggest looking at the nForce 2 boards. If you need to buy right now, look at the Abit NV7-133R (nForce 415) or the MSI KT3 Ultra. These are very good boards. The Asus and Gigabyte boards seem to have some serious problems from what I've been reading. Also, Abit's KX7-333 seems to be very good as well.

Yeah, the Promise controllers are still pretty castrated unfortunately.

You can, but it could be a problem down the road. I'd do it now when you can make time for it rather than later on when you need to but at a less convient time. My 2 cents.

Congrats, clutch

What heatsink are you using?

Yup. It is very good.

Barton is gonna be the last Socket A core before Hammer. It is not the 64-bit chip either.

One problem: the KT133 never was able to run an FSB of 133. Most people were lucky to see much past 110MHz.

About the only reason I even keep a floppy is so that I can install certain IDE controllers from the get go. That's basically it. If MS would make it so I could install drivers off a CD, I'd have no need for the floppy.

I'm doing this from XP, but I believe there should be this option under 2k as well. Go into Computer Management under Administrative tools-->Storage and go to disk management. Here, you can right click on the drive you want in the right-hand pane and you should seen an option to "Change drive letter and path" That should fix it.

Never mind...didn't see a page 2 before I posted.

8) I sincerely hope you're not gonna try PC133: it's SDR SDRAM, not DDR. It should not be put in a DDR slot or you'll cause more problems.

For me: nForce 415->Via KT333.