Brian Frank

Spaceballs by Mel Brooks

Great board ain't it. God, I love nForce!

Start->Run type gpedit.msc and go to administrative Template->System. Under this there is an option: Turn off Autoplay. Double-click on that and select the enable button and hit apply.

Hell, I was one of those people that bought (and until recently) had the Guillemot Maxi Sound Fortissimo (in some peeps PC that I assembled). That was a sweet card: half the cost of a Live! and none of the Live! problems. The sound wasn't as good as the Live!, but it was pretty close. I had purchased a Live! and honestly, the sound was the same, IMO.

Let the insanity begin:D:p

Not the way vB works. It goes by # of posts, not by length, but still, it's a bad thing when your sig routinely is longer than your actual message.

That was Inferno2000. I am currently the spam king around here, though I suspect clutch will probably pass me en route to 3 or 4k marks.

Currently, I'm posting my rigs in the Overclockers Australia PC Database (PCDB) and linking from there. That way I can show off pictures and the specs of my boxes.

I have the Fortissimo II, and comparing it with the Audigy, I think the sound is slightly better. Hercules has recently released some new drivers that address some issue the FII had. I had the original Fortissimo and that was an excellent card for the money, and I say the same thing with the Fortissimo II. I don't have the Muse XL, but the Iwill P4D has integrated sound that is similar to what is on that card (it may even be the same chip) and it's fine for what you want to do.

Tom's used to be a good read, but I hardly ever hit that site up anymore since the writing has gone down a bit. For AMD being limited to Via chipsets for high-performance need to consider nVidia's nForce. I am a big proponent of the nForce for anyone that wants speed and stability. It is the fastest non-Via platform currently available as of this posting. I really haven't had problems with Via, but I feel the nForce offers a lot more in cost, performance and integration.

LOL! I guess you came back:p

I like to show off my rigs, but it was getting ridiculously long, so I just started linking my specs instead.

I've got a 350W sparkle ATX 2.03PSU running my main rig (see sig link for more details)---works great.

What hardware are you running this on?

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Alright, my new system, final specs: --TRANSMATiC-- Iwill P4D Pentium 4 1.6A (no OC yet) 256MB PC2700 Samsung Radeon 8500LE Realtek 8029 10/100 NIC Maxtor 20GB 5400RPM ATA100 Panasonic 32x CD-ROM Antec 350W ATX 2.03 PSU mid tower case I may have to dual with the other 1.6A owners here. This is the first Intel chipset based board I've used since Intel's own SE-440BX and a PII 400...whoa!</keanu reeves>

Heh. I got hired for a 2nd job 3rd shift maintenance at a Meijers (close to where I work currently and doing about the same thing--minus dealing with a church and private K-12 school). I really hope this goes full-time so I can make more money...

If you can speak Klingon, you are a real wierdo in my book. I'm a geek and all, but speaking Klingon...riiiight. I'd like the chance at marriage one of these days.

I almost always put on the floppy cable wrong anytime I assemble a system. It's pretty much a given when I put a system together. Probably will happen tomorrow when the rest of my parts come in and I put another rig together.

In addition to the RAM, also consider what features you want on the motherboard. I've got some parts coming in (one package today) for a P4 box, and I went with a fairly stripped down board, the Iwill P4D which uses the Intel i845D (DDR support, official). The only on-board extra it has is sound. Weather or not that's your bag is up to you. I can say that Asus is also a very good company, although definitely one of the more costly ones to buy from.

I haven't seen your other posts and/or can't answer them.

I love the nForce boards. I am extremly satisfied with my Abit NV7-133R nForce 415 board (no integrated video--I have a GF3). Oh, and this can be found under $90 online...though I bought mine locally, which added a substatial price jump to the board. People want a fast non-Via solution, it's here people: the nForce. I'll probably upgrade my current nForce board for a Hammer/nForce combo in the future, but that's later on.

Yeah. I run a couple rigs with NTFS partitions, and for a while even ran a combo of NTFS/FAT32 partitions (not both on each partition, mind you). If you plan on formatting it as one big drive, NTFS would be your best bet.

Hehe, don't I know. I got their GF3 above and beyond Ti500 speeds no sweat.

WTF?! You comparing a similar CPU and stuff? Are you overclocking that thing? Seems awfly high for the budget GF4 Ti...no offense...