jcarle

Why don't you just buy a new keyboard from dell? Call them. It's like $20... I replaced my wife's Inspiron 9300 keyboard and got a spare one at the same time. Shipped puro to my house next day cost me less then $50 for both.

Possibly if you can figure out exactly what it is first.

Missed the DDR3 part... still not used to the fact that there are starting to be people that are using that. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16820231193 would be my suggestion in that case.

What blows me away is how prices keep dropping for everything. I just added a 24" screen to my setup which I never could have done a few years ago.

It may in fact be 8x electrical and the bottleneck he may be refering to would be the one caused by the interconnection between the north bridge and the south bridge is my guess.

That's not completely true. It 2 devices per channel, 2 channels per controller. Depending on the controller setup, there may be more then one SATA controller, also, IIRC even in IDE emulation mode, I believe most chipsets emulate more then one controller to allow all SATA ports to be used in IDE mode. Most of the time, the SATA ports are split up over two controllers as well.

It's not a feature that's implemented yet... I'm collecting feedback on questions like that... and will probably implement that soon...

Actually, it's a 16 port telecom daughter board. It's used to feed telephone sets... You'll recognize this as having the same plug configuration : http://www.teletronics-photography.com/Mer...ategory_Code=C2 Knowing for which exact system the card is designed for would take further inspection of labels or markings on the card.

These are amazing and inexpensive at the same time : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16820231148

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I'm wondering on the usefulness of keeping the WM11 Integrator around anymore... because of (obviously) better alternatives...

I must have misread when I checked, I thought it was part of the 1066MHz group. My bad.

Well, I didn't say that everything that was said was wrong either, just that there was a large quantity of incorrect statements. I will never understand the AMD fanboys... blind faith is all I can toss it up to... I simply can't justify spending more for less when you can have better for the same or cheaper (Intel vs AMD). The only reason I favored the E2200 over the E5200 is that I find a system feels more responsive when the FSB is either overclocked to match a 1:1 ratio with the memory or at the least for a non-overclocked system, an even divisor. 5:3 mismatched configurations always seem to have that slight pause feeling when you do anything with it... just doesn't seem as smooth.

It's not that much of a ball game, all it requires is Vista x64, which by the way runs fine, is more stable then x86 and has no compatibility issues with 32-bit application (even games, except applications that use low level hardware such as disk editors). I was once the biggest Vista critic and now can't live without it, I run Vista x64 on 8GB of RAM and even use my box to play games such as Crysis, FarCry 2 and Unreal Tournament 3 without a single issue. In fact, my XP box wasn't even this stable... Nothing, absolutely NOTHING you buy TODAY is future proof. You're on the cusp of an architecture change with both Intel and AMD. If you want to buy something future proof AND stay within your budget you'd have to wait anywhere from a year to two years for the same type of machine at the same budget. However, keep in mind that what I suggested is still a very powerful machine and the only thing that you would really need to upgrade for gaming would be the video card and PCI-Express 2.0 video cards will be available for years to come.

There's so many incorrect statements that have been throw about in this thread, I don't even know where to start. First of all, everyone's been focused on an aspect of the build that's only moderately important and no one's focused on the important parts. I've seen one too many p*** poor build jobs to see where this is going. All the money is going to end up being invested into an expensive and unnecessary Quad Core with no money left for other parts and the choices will end up with a no name power supply, a craptastic motherboard, a single hard drive and 2GB of generic memory. Phenom is crap. I don't care what angle you look at it, it's a joke of an attempt by AMD to try to show that it can compete with Intel. If AMD didn't have ATI and they didn't have such a strong presence in the integrated components market, they've died a long time ago. It's not the rotting desktop processor division that's saving them. Core i7 is where the new disco ball's going to be for a while. It's hilarious to see people think that i7 can't perform when it's a first revision of a completely new architecture and there hasn't even been any retail samples out yet for real world evaluations. Phenom was led by high entusiam by the fanboys which quickly silenced when the real benchmarks were shown whilst the Intel crowd usually waits for the proof in the pudding and silently laughs at the AMD fanboys because they know they got trumped again. Intel's been doing the same tick tock for decades... every time a new architecture comes out it's never some sort of miraculous 500% increase in speed in the first releases. Usually there's no speed increase or sometimes a decrease, but Intel's real strength is the potential the new architecture holds ... every time. Take a look at every last iteration from each architecture that Intel's released and it's always a speed beast next to AMD's equivalent architecture. Sure Intel might start slow off the the flag drop, but it still crosses the finish line in half the time where it counts. Using gaming benchmarks where the CPU has no relevance to try to show dominance is not something to be proud of. With that said, the processor is not as important as people make it out to be. Unless you're running 100% CPU 100% of the time, it's not going to have as much of a significance on performance as other factors will. Instead of building the computer backwards, why not build it properly from the ground up and put the focus where it matters most in the order it matters? First, pick a good case at a reasonable price that offers good airflow using 120mm fans for a decent airflow to noise balance. The Antec 300 is a great example : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16811129042 $54.95 Second, a solid reliable power supply to ensure a long life and stability for the sytem. The Enermax modu82+ series are rated amongst the best : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16817194031 $119.99 Next, a quality dependable motherboard which offers a good balance of features and performance. The P5Q-E is a great choice here : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16813131296 $144.99 A processor with a good performance to price ratio to stay within a reasonable budget. There isn't more obvious then the Intel E2200 : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16819116063 $70.99 A large quantity of matched memory from a reputable vendor does wonders. 8GB of G.SKILL (2 kits of 2x2GB) is very affordable : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16820231148 2 x $59.99 DVD-Writers are easily found in SATA configurations for a low price now. The Pioneer DVR-216D is a good example : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16827129032 $30.99 RAID is the cheapest way to get great performance at for little investment from the most neglected portion of almost all builds. A couple of Western Digital 500GB in RAID 0 fit the bill nicely : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16822136073 2 x $64.99 Finish off with a video card that's balanced such as the SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 4670 and you've got it all : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814102804 $104.99 For $776.86, this sums up a much better system for the same price then anything else you can put together using a quad core. Laid out like this, this system can take on almost anything, last for years and still stays within budget. That's the art of building systems the right way. It's all about balance.

Sounds more like a dead power supply to me.

I put my money on a dead power supply.

A new Vista x64 UL is now available and up to date as of today.

I created a new post explaining how to package the files and where they're stored : http://www.msfn.org/board/Packaging-ULs-t126258.html

Packaging ULs Packaging an Update List (UL) for distribution simply requires that the UL XML be saved as a text file with a .ul extension and then once saved, it must be zipped and have the .zip extension renamed to .ulz. When you double-click a ULZ file, WUD extracts the UL and stores it uncompressed in the following folder: XP: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Supremus Corporation\Windows Updates Downloader VISTA: %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\Supremus Corporation\Windows Updates Downloader

After you've finished your UL file, save it with a UL extension. Then you must ZIP this file and rename the .zip extension to .ulz. After which you'll be able to double click it and it will place the UL file in the correct location and be seen by WUD. I tested your UL and it's fine. I would suggest however that you name your categories as follows to avoid repetition for legibility : <categories> <category id="1">Critical Updates</category> <category id="2">Important Updates</category> <category id="3">Recommended Updates</category> <category id="4">Service Packs</category> </categories>

The Update List for Vista that is currently available is Post-SP1.

Sounds about right...

Ironically, you can still install a 5.25" Floppy Drive into a modern PC. Who would have thought that a technology introduced in 1976 could still be installed in a PC 32 years later?

That's because when you type the copyright symbol in Windows, you're doing so in UTF-8 encoding, while in DOS, you're dealing with ASCII encoding. So the characters aren't the same.