Brian Frank

LG Flatron Wide L196WTQ I use a table as a desk, and the Dell 17" Trinitron CRT has made it bow some when on the thing. Still works, but boy, these LCD's have gotten nicer, and quite acceptable, even for a nitpicky person like I can be sometimes.

Oh wow! This thing is still going on after 6-7 years. For the heck of it: Main box: -DFI LanPartyUT Ultra-D -Athlon64 X2 3800+ -2x512MB Ballistix PC3200 -PNY GeForce 7900GS -Western Digital 160GB SATA -Seagate 160GB SATA -Pioneer 16x DVDRW -Samsung 52x CDRW -Philips Dynamic Edge 4.1 -CMD ATA100 PCI -Artic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro -Thermaltake ToughPower 600W -WinXP Pro SP2 Second box: -MSI P965 Neo-F -Pentium D 920 (2.8GHz) -2x512MB SuperTalent PC5300 DDR2 -Sapphire Radeon X1650 512MB -Seagate 80GB SATA -Pioneer 16x DVDRW -Hercules Fortissimo II -IEEE1394 PCI card -Intel stock LGA775 cooler -OCZ ModStream 450 -Windows XP SP2 *Nix box -Asus A8V-MX -Athlon 3700+ -2x256MB PC2700 -Hercules GeForce 2 MX -Seagate 120GB PATA -Lite-ON 52x CD-ROM -ThermalTake SilentBoost K8 -Antec TruePower 330 -CentOS x86-64 5.0 (yes, I know 5.1 is out)

Got stuff I don't need, but would like to make some cash off of. I won't ship until I have payment. Period. I take Paypal or Money Order. E-mail: bjgrifter AT verizon DOT net Heat: BigB Paypal: same as e-mail Items: Heatercore: approximately 2"x5"x7" Will fit 2 80mm fans per side. 3/8" brass barbs JBwelded on. Tested to be water tight. It's ugly and has some water deposits that need to be cleaned out, but it'll do the job. -$25 shipped. Motherboard: MSI 865P Neo, i865P + ICH4. 6 PCI, 1 AGP, 6 USB total w bracket. Nothing special about this board, but it's been stable and never given me issues. If you want to overclock, sorry, this board really can't do that: PCI/AGP not locked and there's no way with the current BIOS on it to do that. vcore only goes up to 1.6V. Other than that, it's a nice little board. Comes with manual, D-LED/USB 2.0 bracket, driver+app CD. -$65 shipped, but if this seems to high, shoot me with a reasonable offer at my e-mail addy. DO NOT pm me, as I don't hit this board up as much as I used to. PIIIs: both 800EB's. Different steppings: one is SL4MB (1.7V) and the other is SL52P (1.75V). Each comes with an active heatsink. I've run them in SMP together w/o a problem. ---SOLD--- SuperMicro P3TDDE. Just got it back from RMA. Dual S370 board with Via Apollo Pro 266T chipset and supports Tualtins. Also has a VRM for each CPU. 1 AGP 4x Pro, 5 PCI. Intel 10/100 NIC, Promise RAID. --SOLD--- Not really looking for trades as I'd much rather have/need the money.

Hmm...I guess I never posted my current rigs, which have settled at two + a laptop. Quite a bit lower than the 5 I've had a few times throughout my geekness hobby. Main box: -DFI LanPartyUT NF4 Ultra-D -Athlon64 3000+ -512MB (2x256) Patriot PC3200+XBL -eVGA GeForce 6600GT 128MB -Western Digital 7200RPM 60GB -Maxtor 5400RPM 40GB -Samsung 52x CDRW (SW-252B) -Pioneer A109BK 16x DVD+-RW -Philips Dynamic Edge -CMD ATA100 PCI controller -Enermax EG565P-VE 535W -Chaintech VNF3-250 -Athlon64 3000+ -512MB Samsung PC2700 -Sapphire Radeon 9600XT 128MB -Maxtor 45GB -Maxtor 40GB -Toshiba 6x DVD-ROM (the longest used piece of hardware I own) -PCI Firewire card -Antec TruePower 330

You sure the CD Drive isn't going out? *and don't type in all caps: it's considered shouting---which is rude.

See if there's anything relating to System Defaults, or BIOS/CMOS Default settings on the main screen of the BIOS utility. Failing that, you could always clear CMOS with the jumper (see your motherboard manual for the location and how to clear CMOS). If that doesn't do the job, Google Memtest and download that. You can download it to be used on a floppy, or you can download an .ISO and burn that to CD (it's bootable, and quite handy for future troubleshooting). If you can run that for 12+ hours without any errors, the RAM is good. If not, test each stick at a time.

Try running the game in compatibility mode if you haven't already. Also, check the compatibility database. I might be wrong, but I just seem to recall FF7 needing a few things done to get it working. Of course, the newer hardware may also be an issue too, but I'm not sure.

Im looking at going to DX8a, but Im not sure if it will screw stuff up like last time. But that could've been a combination of things. Basics specs Asus A7V bios 1007 final Duron800@912MHz Herucles GF2 MX Det. 10.80 448MB ram Everything works fine now, but Im wondering if things will improve D3 or screw them up.

I had some guy insisting that a 3DFX V3 3000 was more powerful than a GeForce 4 Ti4600...or something like that. This was also after 3DFX was long gone and the V3 was no longer a high-end card.

Comp upgrade time. I order some stuff from ZipZoomFly yesterday and I can't way for my new toys. -DFI NF4 Ultra-D -Athlon 64 3000+ (Winchester) retail -eVGA GeForce 6600GT -512MB (2x256MB) Patriot PDP+XBL PC3200 -Enermax EG565P-VE FMA SLI PSU

Make sure your floppies aren't write-protected and that they are formatted. What program are you using to burn a CD?

I wonder if Philipp has an announcement feature built in. That'd be very useful to display one message across every forum: DO NOT start any more Sims 2 threads. [link to sims 2 thread] is the place to ask them and search for your problems. Failure to follow this will result in your demise. (j/k).

I'd have at least a dual CPU rig with SLI and some GeForce 6800 Ultras for starters. Probably 2-4GB of RAM too. Probably 2-3TB (and I could do it pretty easily too with 400GB drives available. Get the largest watt PSU that PC Power & Cooling has... I'd use some LN2 cooling setup...for everything, but if something couldn't work, I supposed I'd do a peltier setup and just toss in a 300-400W power supply just to run the peltiers.

I don't come by here as much as I used to like a few years ago, but I regularly hit up: [H]ardOCP, 2CPU, PC Perspective, and Zone365 (then again, you would hit up a website you're on staff with ).

I'm not up on what you plan to do, but I know vBulletin has a feature that allows people to send the admin/mods an alert about a member's post. The reason I bring this up is mostly because I've noticed what I would consider a pimp in the Buy/Sell/Trade forum.

The Athlon 64's run pretty cool, but the Athlon XP's are different. True, the Barton/Thorton core is fairly cool, but the Northwood core P4's run pretty cool themselves. The Prescott core is the flaming hot one, and part of the problem lies when it's in Socket 478 packaging. Mainly because S478 wasn't designed for the Prescott core; LGA775 was. In otherwords, your blanket statement isn't true in all cases.

Yup. I work thirds, so I can see someone and then a few minutes later go "Haven't seen you since last year"

You hit the bullseye, dosfreak. The idea isn't the issue, it's how Valve has made it work out. The thing is that you have to install Steam, and if it wasn't such a problematic piece of software, I don't think you'd see nearly as many complaints. It's terribly slow at unlocking the files. The vast majority of people have paid for their copy, and if Valve insists on Steam, then they need to make it faster and have more bandwith available. Nov 16 was utter hell to register.

I'm not into consoles mostly because what I play (FPS) works better with a mouse and keyboard better than a control pad. I also like to tinker, so the consoles don't give me that much. I think for some stuff like fighting (Street Fighter, Soul Caliber, etc) a console is more suitable. I don't think that PC > Console is always true, nor vise versa. Now I did play Halo on the Xbox, and it seemed to be pretty good, but the controls just weren't familiar to me. I did like how you didn't have to push three buttons to do one thing (my main beef with FPS on consoles) and it wasn't really confusing either.

I don't think the 9500XT is going to work...probably because it doesn't exist. Now, the GeForce FX 5900's, yes, those will work with an nForce 2 board just fine.

I've tried Linux, and while it may be great for some people, it's not what I would consider a desktop OS. It's not the OS or the distributions so much as, like Eddie stated, the support or lackthereof. Most people use Windows for a desktop OS, and I'm pretty sure it's over 95%. Gee, who's gonna get the support first: Windows which almost all of the user base uses, or the small handful that use a certain OS. Let's think here. Sure, Windows does have it's problems. OTOH, just because it's Unix, Linux, or *BSD doesn't mean you're going to have a better computer. If you don't set up the Linux box correctly, it can still be left wide open. The coding is imperfect just like Windows. The reason Windows exploits or other vulnerabilities get mentioned first is becuase more people are using it and more people will be affected. Linux does not suck, however. It may very well not be the fit for you. Saying Linux sucks because it doesn't work for you is like saying all country music sucks because you don't like that type of music. Linux has it's place

Yup. To add to that, PCI Express should be denoted as either PCIe or PCI-E. PCI-X is PCI eXtended, and is based on the same parallel architecture as standard PCI slots. I see tons of people mistakenly thinking PCI-X=PCI Express, but I can easily understand how that'd happen.

Spaceballs rules. "You idiots! You captured their stunt doubles!" The A$$-hole scene is one of the best in the entire movie, but it always gets taken out on TV. As far as SW goes, I like Episode 5 the best. The Hoth battle is the best, partially because of the walkers in it.

Athlon XP 2400+, 512MB PC2700, Radeon 9600XT. I'm doing 1024x768 with low detail settings, and it runs pretty good. If I get alot of action going on at the same time, things start to get a little choppy, but otherwise it's great. I have to quit every so often, because it's just that creepy. It's like the Alien vids, but you're in ripley's shoes and your fighting demons not extraterrestrials. Zombies are a welcome sight actually, since they're easy to deal with.

It's definitely better than the FX 5200, but it will be slower than the FX5700 Ultra. For around £7 extra, the extra performance would really be worth it. Everything else looks good from what I can tell.