jcarle

You cannot software RAID your system partition.

This article's a bit old, but you may find valuable information anyway : http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/opengl...phics,1269.html

"compatible with MS Sound System and Sound Blaster Pro, occupies IRQ5, DMA channel 1, and address bank 220H" So, yes.

I don't understand why people throw around Lite-On and LG like they're supposed to be any good. You can buy high quality DVD+/-RWs from reliable companies at budget prices, the technology has become so affordable that even the high quality products are inexpensive. Get yourself any drive from Pioneer or NEC. You'll enjoy your burner and not have to worry about it's quality. 299 reviews and a 5 egg average... Pioneer is where it's at.

We don't have anyone available to maintain the Vista x64 versions of the ULs at this time.

Most people use WUD to download the updates for integration into their Windows media to allow seemless installation of updates when they install/reinstall Windows.

Windows Updates Downloader 2.30 Build 988 is the latest release.

You forgot to mention the Noctua NH-U12P, another top dog next to the ThermalRight Ultra-120 Extreme.

Install WUD, choose your Update List by visiting the site and choosing to run the ULZ file, it will install in WUD. After which, you can download all the updates into a folder on your computer. Then you can use a program such as nLite to integrate those updates into your original Windows XP disc.

Windows XP x86 2008-07-09 34 windows-xp-x86-dan.ulz Is for SP3.

Look at the release dates.

D-Link has several solutions that come packaged with their own software.

Version 2.30 Final Build 988 of Windows Updates Downloader was released today! Available for download at http://www.windowsupdatesdownloader.com/ (new URL) Seems like the last release was stable. I've added XML exception handling and finalized this version for official release. Thanks for the support and cheers!

The latest Update Lists are for Windows XP SP3. I'll clarify this when I post this month's ULs.

Yea, I think I'll code in some exception handling for XML malformations. As for cookie support, I'm affraid crahak's pretty much nailed the complications associated with doing that (in terms of retrieving an already existing cookie for, say, the forum login). The reason why (to my understanding, maybe crahak could confirm this) download managers achieve this is because they're basically browser plugins, so they have access to the browser cookies. Finally, handling individual status codes is not necessary as it is per default behavior of the HttpWebRequest class to automatically follow URL redirection.

Also keep in mind when thinking about how to plan changes to your network, you can easily split the network in a multiple of ways. You'll find network switches to be quite nimble. You could even go as far as putting your cable modem in your living room, sending the cable downstairs to the router and sending a return cable back to your HTPC and find absolutely no loss in performance. Although by far not the ideal solution, it's simply to illustrate that there are multitude of ways to solve networking issues without resorting to wireless. Ideally you'd want to place your cable modem with your router (regarless of where) and arrange your configuration for the least amount of there-and-back. Configurations such as having your router and your cable modem under your stairs, then going to a switch for downstairs then next to a switch for upstairs are perfectly good configurations for example.

Looks like Crahak got to you before I could... Although I should put in some error handling to deal with the crash caused by the ampersand, he's correct that it is indeed invalid. The XML standard does indeed state that you must escaped ampersands and use their escaped equivalent, thus, &. If either one of you figure out what's wrong with the download URL, I can make the relevant changes to WUD. Let me know, I'll be glad to help accomodate.

If you plan it right, you could do two birds with one stone... Since from what I gather, all you really want from a NAS is always-on availability and you're planning on building an HTPC (Home Theater PC), you could essentially do both at the same time. If you get yourself a good quality motherboard at a reasonable price that has on-board Intel RAID, you can easily accomodate a storage system for backup, sharing, etc at a very low cost. Something like the ASUS P5K-E would be perfect for this. Combine this with a well thought out HTPC case with lots of internal bays, such as the wonderful Silverstone CW02, you've got the beginnings of a beautiful friendship. Silverstone CW02 : http://www.silverstonetek.com/products/p_c...ts.php?pno=cw02 Asus P5K-E : http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&amp...amp;modelmenu=2

You'd probably want to look at professional series video cards such as the nVidia Quadro series.

I just checked the Russian UL again, the one for Windows XP dated 2008-07-09 contains all Post-SP3 updates as well as SP3.

The Update List that are just marked as Windows XP are for SP3...

The hard drive score is based on the drive containing the System partition only.

Thank you. If the video memory is faulty, then there's nothing I can do about it to fix it I guess? (I really loved that video card) If indeed that's the cause, then short of soldering on new memory chips, unfortunately no.

The errors you mentioned were indicative of bad video memory. Glad you got the issue resolved.

I get 5.9 on all categories except CPU which I get 5.8. The secret to most of the score are determined by a few factors that most of the time transform into no real world indicator of the benefits of each type of part. Processor: Quad core won't necessarily get you to the top because the processor speed and the amount of cache plays a big role here as well. That's why even with a simple E8400 that's overclocked I can still achieve 5.8 even if it's just a dual core processor. This is, however, the age old argument between dual core vs quad core. Quad core is only better if the speed is close to that of the dual core when compared. Memory: Just like when talking the number of cores vs speed when talking about processors, memory is not only influenced by speed. Timings and the CPU / Memory ratio also have a big role here as they increase the maximum bandwidth running at the same speed. Graphics: The GPU clock speed ways in a more then the number of stream processor units in this score. Gaming graphics: Number of stream processor units are just as important as the GPU's clock speed. Same arguments as above regarding memory and processors. Primary hard disk: RAID can help a lot here as this score mostly based on data transfer rates, large hard drive caches can also help with burst speeds.