Brian Frank

Looking ahead for stuff like real DX 8 support and having some longevity on the graphics card, I'd get either a GeForce 3 Ti200, as it has DX8 support unlike the GF4MX which are just higher clocked GF2's. Or, if you're willing to wait a little, the GF4 Ti4200's will be out soon, and will be in the same neighborhood of $150-200, or less and be faster than the GF3 Ti500. I know you said you're not an FPS freak, but I'd suggest going for something with DX 8 support that is newer in features, not just has a jacked up clock speed. I'm not against the GF2 MX, but frankly, you could get a bigger bang if you went with something beefier to really show off that P4.

Ummmm, I'm gonna disagree on RDRAM not being better than SDRAM on the P4 front SHS. Yeah, the latency is high, but RDRAM's bandwith spanks SDRAM. For office applications, the P4 SDRAM combo is fine, but for the performance of a P4, I'd just as soon go the RDRAM route, as DDR is kinda pricey right now. I'd really like to see how you're coming up with the RDRAM killing the P4.

While Via is know to have problems, it does make me a bit annoyed when people automatically blame them first without considering other things first.

10's the limit in this forum anyway. Philipp or SHS can only change the Polls. I hate Abit!!!! Now that we've got that cleared up, I've got the Epox KT333 board here, and it's a nice board---tho I would warn against it if you have a full tower with drives at the top, as the board has a really stupid placement of the IDE connectors at the bottom of the board. From past experience Asus would be another good choice. If you want to overclock, the NForce boards seem to be mysteriously stripped of many good OC features. Even Abit's NV7/-RAID boards don't have the usual fair of options in BIOS. It's speculated that Nvidia is having a tight grip on what options are available on boards.

Okay, I've got a 20GB Maxtor, that I think is going kaput. First, I get a new motherboard (Epox 8K3A+) and, now this hard drive seems to be giving me errors from hell, yet a 2nd 40GB drive hasn't be givin me any trouble at all. No big deal, I thought...Now 2 out of the three partitions on it cannot be checked for errors---and this is hooked up to a different PC, just to test it out...so like WTF? Everything is NTFS...

LOL!

Not necessarily. I've run 2k and XP on a KT133 board, no problems. From the info given, I can't rightly say what it could be without some system specs.

I'm not thinking very well----looooong day.

On the good PC it's hooked up to, I tried formatting one of the partitions, and while it does this, I still cannot scan the disk for errors at all.

Try the forums at www.rage3d.com . Some people are arrogant SOB's, but if they can't help you, I don't know who can.

That won't work too well if you cannot install the OS;) System specs, please, fatih.

Since the card is as 33MHz/32-bit PCI card, and you're using IDE devices, you will not constantly max out the card. Like mentioned previously, the bursts rates will hit 100MB/s, and that is the only time you can come close to maxing out the card is during burst transfer rates. Since IDE devices cannot access more than 1 device at a time, regardless of any RAID array, you will be using only 2 drives at once, tops. Adding the third drive won't max out the card because the card can't access more than 2 drives anyway.

I don't have a huge heatsink anyway, so the shim is kinda pointless and I haven't killed a core yet.

Also consider that since you only have two channels, that 3rd one may not be accessible all the time, slowing down the array, and thus defeating the purpose of RAID 0.

One of my buds got it a little while ago and didn't have any problems with it either. He refers to that big cable as "the beat-down cable".

I'd make sure they show up as 512 in a different system. You could've been sold a pair of 256MB sticks by accident, or the sticks could be bad.

I'd personally see if you could try someone else's modem and see if that fixes it. Everything else looks good, far as I can tell.

I found out something: shims suck! I had one on my T-bird and it was preventing me from using anything but the default multiplier. That sucked!

I'm gonna have to say that SiS has come back with a serious wallop with the 745 chipset. i845D would be the only other one that I'd be looking at. [H]ardOCP just slapped up a P4 mobo round up, so you might wanna check that out since you plan on some overclocking.

Not really sure, but it would help if we could see your system specs;)

I've been mellowing out to Third Eye Blind and No Doubt much more recently. Sometimes ya gotta take a break from all the obscenity-screaming groups. *puts in Nothingface*

Yeah, the Northwood is a nice overclocker. I know some dude that's trying to hit 2.6 with his 1.6A, and he might do it too with his H2O setup.

Well, the Epox is in. Had to up the memory voltage before WinXP would stop giving me a MEMORY_MANAGEMENT BSOD. I also found out the HTP372 controller doesn't like my rounded cables...

I don't really care for it personally. I am gonna try to get a plexiglass panel on one side for my main rig and another string of GloWire. The hard part is gonna be mounting the plexi. My Epox should come in tomorrow...hopefully I won't be out when they come this time.

Haven't heard anything about it, but I don't look for those kinda things. If it shows up on a major site, I'll know, but other than that I don't. 12MB cache...mmmm. Of course that would add a few bucks to the drive, but the speed increase would hopefully be worth it.