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Analada, you made me laugh, thank you for that (shows humanity). Let me quote some of your questions and reply to them. I agree that actions should have taken earlier, but as an official topic was opened for the project we had to take action on it.

We do, they are set on hold, not deleted.As we speak, the staff has come together about this issue, not only about Tihiy attitude but also about breaking the "rights" in other projects. I suspended Tihiy for 3 days, after that MSFN will see what can and will be done. Let me clear one thing, it´s not about misuse of authority here, It´s NEVER personal.

Bleeder, you are right about that. I see that you have more brains then the others have, and with that respect. Analada, call it whatever you want, but there are "legal" issues here, and they could hold the forum staff responsible for it.

That would be enough to pull a HD2600XT or nVidia GF 8600GT. The +12V line is rated at 15A and the +5V line at 30A. Some crappy new PSU makers will sell this as 400-450W!

I thought the video of 300 was perhaps an Apple Quicktime trailer? I did think there was something a bit odd with the video though, did you also notice that quite a lot of time is spend away from the screen? The other thing I found a little bit suspicious was the two 'folders' that have been purposefully resized with no address bar! I thought that they used small drives or so, let me see that video again as it´s months now that I didn’t see it (could be half a year or more).

It´s set on hold for now, there could be legal issues.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Do not post complains directly, nor discuss it here as I have to remove them directly. The MSFN staff will not reply. When all is cleared out, we will release the topic. Thank you for your understanding.

-= It´s the one from my friend zxian! =- -= While your girlfriend is cooking for you, I´ll have my own party for you! Let´s have cake! =- Congratulations my friend, 23 years young and much to go. Sorry for logging in so late at MSFN else I would have posted before .

From there you will get the ATI HD2600XT or nVidia GF 8600GT both need a good 350W PSU or a normal 400W PSU or up. Most 9600GT cards come with 2 Molex (5.25") to a 6 pin PCI-E powerconnector so you can use older PSUs that still have the power but not the connector.

I would like to add that if you play games on the native LCD/TFT resolution, you eyes are getting less tired too, although screens have become better with non-native resolutions...E-66, if you have the cash for it and you like to play some newer games (2007/2008) then I really would consider the 9600GT, if you don’t care that much about the latest titles, then go with the x1650pro and swap it out when you want something more. It will be a shock for you any way when you see the speed change you will get with your new system like nmX.Memnoch already said .

No rule on that but, If you want to play the latest titles on average settings, then a nVidia 9600GT would be the best bang for the buck. Any PCI-E card would be good for that, and the page load time would be dependent on your internet connection indeed.

No, I’m not anti nVidia, but for the price ATI has better cards, however, the high-end section is dominated by nVidia.

The x1550 is more a renamed x1300, not really a powerful card. If you like to play games you would need a card that can handle textures well and fast, so any thing less then GDDR3 would not pull the latest games due to lack of memory bandwidth. Then you have vertex and pixel shaders and lately also combined shaders and programmable shaders so a shader processor can do vertexes or pixels. I will try to find something to read on that later. (There are geometry shaders too by the way). EDIT: There you go, read this first: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shader

They were deactivated yesterday, let me see the next "not to bad " card . brb. EDIT: SAPPHIRE 100165L Radeon X1650PRO 512MB 128-bit GDDR2 Sure it’s way more expensive, but I think they will respect the mail in rebate. There are a few "pros" over the x700, like faster GPU, dual DVI, 128bit memory interface, better cooler (less noisy) and more hardware features.

Always nice to see when one uses his space optimal when placing the screen on its vesa-mount . What screen are you going to get? A 24”?

There is another solution too, this time from Intel; Entry Storage System SS4000-E. Still these systems will be around 350€ (without the drives), so you could consider a cheaper system based on a normal uATX case from Coolermaster and Celeron 420*/1GB RAM/G31 or G/Q33 chipset with ICR9R. A Samba Server would run great on it, so you can keep the price down. *The 420 uses EIST and can be undervolted easily by using the appropriate motherboard.

F12 is mostly used to get the boot-order menu.

It seems that your Compaq Armada 1750 has bad cabling or a defect Southbridge/motherboard. You could try to find those parts on eBay, but in most cases you would be better of selling the laptop in parts.

I´m sure that nuhi will put his face like you use for your avatar . Congratulations nuhi!

Actually, I was considering either of the two WD GP drives for a DIY or off the shelf NAS. This was the reason for this thread -- I was considering using the components already owned with the other components I listed in order to build a DIY NAS.However, I know I wouldn't be able to match the form factor or the power savings (and perhaps even the performance) compared to a retail version. There are nice NAS housings that do there work well, so no need to buy a retail version at all. DIY is the way to go here .

Okay, that part, but I thought they had a small passive cooled heat sink on them, unlike the SX versions that were even running at 16MHz (almost bought it as my first PC from ACER!)...

I use just ADATA/VDATA RAM, although there timings are not the best, they can hit high frequencies without raising the voltage above 2.1. For the low price on DRAM now, you could get 2x 2GB stick for less then 70USD at this moment with 5-5-5-18 timings (tuned at 5-5-4-13) and there Vitesta 4GB(2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 for 81USD with tighter timings at 4-4-4-12. Both work very well.

That’s true, office apps will do nothing really faster, but multicore will when you open more apps at the same time. But hey, in this case there is nothing to lose . For real, how did you manage that? I must say that I was scared to try running my Pentium pro at 5volt as well and swapping out some components too from the motherboard; but it worked and kept working with the big amplifier cooling blocks on it, even working so good hat I started my own business with it in 1997 .

No, in this case it´s that I´m not a normal member...

Wait to flash that router until everything works! It will void your warranty IF you flash it with a non LinkSYS firmware (just to inform).Gaphrum, welcome to the forum, and good info! nmX.Memnoch, thank you for your link too. Moving this to a more appropriate forum part.

funny? Try to hook the drive in another system to see if it works well there. If not then you have you answer; clean the drive inside or get your self a new one. And that was not mended to be funny...