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Maybe you should try a non conductive 1

It always happened to me when just browsing the net, any pop-up window could cause it to happen, even an AD window. Only way to get rid of it was to kill the no-name explorer window from task man.

Just go the ddr route if you want a guaranteed 133mhz bus. You might have to lower your ram to 3x if you do it on rambus

Hi Id go for the 845, you cant really go wrong with it

Also, managed to grab some new drivers for my 8500, just given me 500 more 3dmarks which was nice 10,000 is in reach, ill be well impressed if i can manage that.

Well i got a 1.8a p4, very nice, 2.4gig an climbing, quite impressive.

I didnt say that the system was better. Just that if there was a 100% guaranteed stable amd system i would have 1 instead of my p4. I dont see how thats a hard pill to swallow, its only my opinion, ive had both, i know what to expect and the pros/cons of each. Im not disapointed in my p4 system btw, best system i have ever owned. Also, authough price really isnt an issue for me, i think you will find that an amd system is alot cheaper than an intel 1 with both systems having the same kind of performance.

Ghost can burn directly to CD from a boot disk, only drawback of ghost is that it cant write to an NTFS partition, which is very annoying.

But an athlon 1800xp will destroy a p4 1800 in games With both at stock speed. Authough factor in stability and thats why i have my current system, but you gotta say that amd processors are much better. Whenever you see em in comparason they just make the p4 look so poor, what we really need is amd chips with intel chipsets wonder if that will ever happen ;(

This thread is coming dangerously close to becoming 'battle of the geeks' oops too late

I dont get it

Yup had that loads of times under XP. Only way i found was to kill the window. 1 of the reasons i went back to 2000.

Absolutly excellent game The best bit about it is that ive almost finished it and i dont think ive used a gun since right at the start where you get the saber. You can do some great things as well like pushing ppl off cliffs with force push and force gripping them and slamming them into walls, or just holding them off a cliff and letting them go....fantastic

hehe, they make some quality songs honest

Think youll find that the backstreet boys are the best band ever, go download some songs

Abit are my fav, at least for home use but i suspect Asus will win this poll

Yeah jedi knight 2 "rocks" Good game, especially with the lightsaber, almost finished the game and i dont think ive used a gun for ages

Ive got 1 running a duron 850 (at stock speed). Its easily a match for my Intel P4 system with Intel chipset stability wise. Dont think ive had 1 single problem with it. Thats on an Abit NV7M.

If you overclock right you have no incompatibility 'issues' Authough i do see people that think that there athlon 1 @ 1.7 is stable just cos it manages 1 run of 3dmark *cough* madonion.com *cough* Shame really

heh i assure you d3d is not better on the ati cards.

booya

This reminds me of what our IT dept used to do when i was at school. They had a system setup where you got a certain amount of print 'credits' and a b&w page cost say 5 and a colour 1 cost 10, and you had to actually go a pay for credits (with real money ) Certainly put people off wasting paper it was done with some 3rd party software but cant remember what its called atm.

Think ill give this ago later. I know my 60GXP supports the speed/quiet operation modes but you have to go into the IBM diag utility to change it. Authough the drive is basically silent anyway, ill give this a go just to see if it works and what other cool settings i can mess about with.

ATi drivers = good now no complaints here, but cant they be a bit faster

[Edit] Duh, sorry i cant read ignore this