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If you're sure you don't need to uninstall them, you can remove the WU uninstallation files from your C:\WINDOWS folder.

Not to make things more confusing... There are 4 bits to a nibble, and 2 nibbles to a Byte. The reason why they named this is because 4 bits is the exact amount of data stored in a hexadecimal number.

It depends on how you've set it up. You can make the user pay the extra fee, or you can pay it out of what you get from them.

If you setup a Paypal donation button on your site, the actual amount that goes into your paypal account will be slightly less than what the other people actually sent you. For example, I was sent $10 USD a while back through my website, but only $9.47 was put into my paypal account.

A CD/DVD/duplicator doesn't need that much RAM. I'm guessing that part of the problem also lies in the fact that you're using multiple burners on a single PCI card and with a limited number of PATA channels. Try to put the various drives on separate PATA channels and see if that helps a little bit.

Typically shorthand for money uses capital letters (B, M, K).

*flails arms in panic* People!!! The key part that just about EVERYONE in this thread missed is the capitalization! 1Mbps = One megabit per second. The lowercase 'b' indicates a bit. 1MBps = One megabyte per second. Uppercase 'B' indicates a byte. Just to minimize confusion, I'll typically write rated network speeds in terms of Mbps, while I'll write download speeds in KB/s or MB/s. That way there's a clear distinction between the two. Now that that's been said, it makes sense that your 1Mbps connection is getting you about 100KB/s download speeds.

The first number in nVidia's lineup is the family of cards (6000, 7000, 8000). The "hundreds" digit gives a general idea of how powerful each card is within that class. Just so there's no confusion. The lettering scheme places the card within the same kind of cards (typically GT > GS for example). The 7800 series cards are much more powerful than the 8500GT that you're looking at. My recommendatation still stands though.

Depending on what kind of heatsink it is, see if you can touch it with your finger somewhere close to the base. If the computer is running, then the heatsink should be at least warm. If it's cold to the touch, then your heatsink isn't doing anything to help cool your system. If that's the case, then you'll need to remove the heatsink and reinstall it with proper thermal paste.

nLite problems go in the nLite forums. Moved

What program is telling you this? Check out SpeedFan for a good temperature reading on CPUs (except Core 2 Duo/Quad).

The 8600GT will play crysis. You won't be able to max out the settings, but it'll still play it reasonably well. (Medium settings, 2x AA 1680x1050 = 40-50FPS)

@Panarchy - that's out of his price range. The 8800GT would start at about 150-170 pounds...

The fact that it's got 1GB of VRAM doesn't really mean anything. The processing power of that card is still below what you'd get from the 8600GT. 120 quid should get you one of those without too much difficulty.

http://www.nextlevelhardware.com/storage/battleship/ All I can say is... I want.

The new system uses MySQL as a backend, instead of a flat-file system. As more users begin to use the system, the performance of MySQL helps out a lot. Management and administrative functions are also much improved in the new version.

What exactly do you want to do with these various operating systems? There are no "virtual drives" with Virtualization. VirtualBox creates a file that it uses as the VM's use. For one thing - you're never going to be using all of the operating systems equally, and secondly, setting aside 80GB for a regular Linux distro is complete and utter overkill. 10 or 15GB would be plenty of space. Multi-booting is ugly - plain and simple. I can't even begin to tell you how many headaches I've run into when trying to setup Windows and Linux on the same system. Not to mention that you need to reboot your system when you want to move from one OS to the other. If you use a virtual machine, then you can keep using your regular OS while working in the other, and you can switch back and forth as quickly as you please. The problem with dual-booting is that you can't "go-back" to an older state. If you were to set things up the way you say you want them, you'd have a LOT of work to reconfigure things if you wanted to add or remove an OS from your system. With VirtualBox, it's as easy as going "add/delete virtual machine". Multi-booting across hard drives is also more trouble than it's worth. To answer your question directly - there is no program that will let you magically setup a multi-boot environment. Grub/Lilo can set this up for you after you've got your various OSes installed.

Those PSU calculators are notorious for overestimating your actual power usage. When I put my entire system in there (I've probably missed a couple of things), I get over 300W from the calculator, while my Kill-a-Watt meter has never measured this system use more than 250W. For what you're doing, the Corsair HX620 is plenty of power.

Forget about actually multi-booting your system. That thinking is going the way of the dodo. Get yourself VirtualBox and run the other operating systems in a virtual environment. There is absolutely no way that you're actually going to use all of those operating systems seriously, so you're better off using virtualization and keeping your main (Windows) installation as clean as possible.

KwikPiks.com has been updated yet again! I've updated the Uploader script to v 6.3.5 from CeleronDude, as he was kind enough to sell it to me. Biggest change - public uploads! This means that you don't need to sign up for an account if you don't want to!! I've got some bugs to work out with the theme (he changed the theme layout completely), but the functionality should all be there. Let me know what you guys think! Tell all your friends to sign up! Scratch that... something went wrong in the upgrade... *grumble*

Yes, you can get strange behaviour from an underpowered system, but there is NO way that the parts you've described would need 1000W. I've got a comparable system at home, and it pulls 250W from the wall when running at full tilt. I'd suggest getting a better quality PSU, such as the Corsair HX series. 520W or 620W would be plenty for your system. The Q9650 is the latest and greatest... but it's also bloody expensive. Forget about getting the Extreme processor (6850 or 9650) - it's more money than it's worth, and you can easily hit those speeds on other CPUs with a little bit of overclocking. SLI isn't worth it either, unless you're wanting to play games maxed out at resolutions above 1920x1200. The 8800GT or the new G92-based 8800GTS would be just fine for your needs.

For pure file serving, you don't need very much CPU power at all. I'd go with the PIII - the extra FSB would probably do more for overall system performance than the CPU clock speed.

The pictures load for me in the latest Opera and the beta. Did you code the site yourself? It's very nicely done.