32bit will work with 4GB fine, it just won't see all of it.

onboard gfx will take some, and if you have onboard but just use a discrete gfx, it will take even more (780G+3450 512MB means windows only sees 3GB) - but it will work just fine.

Perhaps he'll want to run several poker games at once, requiring a bit more memory than just browsing, so 4GB would be just fine really. cheapest ati or nvidia card that does dual dvi should do. second the 4850E AMD, if you go with a seperate gfx you can get any am2 board really. second the rest of ...

use the blank one in xp, it's like it being off.

21. Every time a product gets pulled off the shelf because it's not performing or because nobody buys it, it leaves behind sticky breadcrumbs, messing up the floor, eventually requiring a total refurbishment.

Is there a comparison with that rmaa test and the onboard sound available on many mbs? /me shows his total lack of knowledge on audio decoding here... it did make me want to dl Tusk though, so thanks. and what you discribed for pink floyd, isn't that just exactly how it was recorded, seperately? tha...

I had a silly thing happening the other day, was working on this silent machine, and on and off there were these noises. went mad trying to find it. It were the cheap speakers I was using to test the audio. when powered, they sometimes, totally without anything happening on the machine, make this an...

guess this is the right place to post some numbers I got the other week testing some of my old cards. This is just for reference, if you have an old system you want to make a fileserver of or something, and any gfx will do to make it work, AGP or PCI. Over the years I've gathered a few cards, and wh...

I'm not just following this thread to stalk you, I have a Q8200 and the same Xigmatek HDT-S1283 with xbow ready here to be assemblied. I've been a bit busy with customers' pc's, but hope to get building this weekend. I'll give results on my own temps here too. Am impressed with the way the s1283 is ...

when making a screenshot like this, put a neutral colour on your bg instead of an image, and save to .png if you want to go quick and dirty, or gif.

http://www.imageoptimizer.net/

you can also crop:
http://www.picturemosaics.com/tools/crop/

and.or resize:
http://www.picresize.com/

EDIT: ACook: I've done a 32XP to 64Vista before - not ever going to do it again. My laptop never really recovered. When I built my desktop I threw Ult-64 in fresh and had no issues, and I suspect once all the drivers are in (Especially Nforce for the 790i) hers will vanish as well. I'd never sugges...

I'd start with a simple xp32bit install, get everything working, good temps etc, so you'd know the hardware basically is good.

I just think that having a server w lots of space on traditional HDDs hidden away where noise isn't a problem, and a small SSD w the just the OS on the computer I use is a better solution. A small SSD is not that expensive either. I have 2 rooms in my aparment, a living- and a bedroom. Where would ...

I hope pterry can fence of the alzheimers long enough to make many more discworld novels. Small Gods is one of my favourites too. btw if you leave open the possibility of any sort of supernatural being, you're more an agnostic than an atheist afaik. to me all supernatural things are just things inve...

<offtopic>where did I say not to post unless you write perfectly? It was merely a request/suggestion. English isn't my first language either, I do make mistakes myself, and I do make typo's as well. And not capitalizing the first letter is a bad habit, granted, I've probably picked it up from hangi...

I'm terribly sorry, but could you fix your quite and quiet pls? I'm getting terribly annoyed reading. and there's a few whole's that need a hole.



the pictures are perfect though, don't worry about those. quite clear.

good luck with the rest of the mod

the new sonata elite looks like the old sonata, but seems to be bigger, about as big as the P182, and this enabled them to put 2 hd's on their sides on top of eachother. Exactly how the mounting works I can't see, it looks a bit weird. They're more accessible than the p150/solo/designer and p182, th...

not sure if you can upgrade from 32bit windows to 64bit, if that's what you're after. You don't need a 64bit OS for a 64bit cpu, in case that was a confusion, seen enough ppl think that to warrant that comment. Upgrading an existing install to me is never a good idea, that's just me. but simply putt...

Nice review, and I concur with almost everything that was stated. However, having owned this board since the 2nd week of introduction, I have had a few weeks worth of soak time on it and found some issues: - 0404 BIOS and lower can cause system lockups during hard / soft poweron/reboots if the IGP ...

great, I'm still not converted to the My Documents/Video's way of thinking of XP, now they're introducing yet another metaphor?

Googly_Eyes wrote:p.s. what's up w/ frostytech listing the stock intel HSF as quiet?

Inside a good case and turned down using fx asus qfan on silent it is pretty quiet.

OMG real Dropbears!

everybody knows more ppl in a room means higher temperatures...

Kate wrote:we grow children to be better than us

Sprinkle some more water on little Kate, dear, I think she's wilting...

Gender roles are imprinted in most societies from a very early age, just see the blue/pink baby stuff. Despite the facts that girls once encouraged to do maths and other techy stuff actually do better than boys, peer pressuer and media imagery continues to define the gender roles. there's a fair bit...

first, before cutting any of the metal with a jigsaw, get big ear protection. definately when working indoors. It makes a hell of a noise and bounces off the walls like crazy making it worse. (having concrete flooring didn't help) perhaps clamping a sheet of wood below would be a good idea. You can ...

Another one I've been looking at is the BTC-6300C . All the keys in the right place at least. (Does anyone like the big enter key which pushes the \ key up next to a small backspace key?) I think it used to go for about $25. I liked it for $25 compared to the $45 that newegg has it now. Looks like ...

there are overlapping issues with OCD in AS, here's a paper on it http://www.ocfoundation.org/UserFiles/F ... etween.pdf


it's not becaue they're there, it's because they're incomplete. there's a difference. Imagine a stamp collection with 1 stamp missing...

you don't need to format it before cloning with driveimage. try a direct clone with that first. you can also find ghost and trueimage on hiren's boot disk, both wil make easy clones of your drive from within 'dos' and should see the disks no problem. (I've found one oddity lately with trueimage, it ...

in a bit i'll have a Q8200 and that xigmatek in my p182, which currently has just 1 800rpm slipstream at the back, keeping everything (chipset, cpu, hd's) under 40C at idle. I'll be interested in what the temperatures will do when given a completely new board and cpu, and whether I need to add a fan...

andy,

what are your uses for 250 and 320GB drives these days?