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@rootworm - What's with the attitude? jcarle is often just picky when it comes to specifics, but those details can mean a lot at times. It certainly doesn't hurt to have these things on file.

Almost - you stated for recent documents, not recent programs. In the same dialog, find this: Number of programs on Start menu: Set that to however many you want.

Nope. No padding in my case. Just quiet fans and suspended hard drives.

@war59312 - That will only work if hotlinking is prevented by means of .htaccess. For most of the anti-hotlinking schemes I've setup, a session variable is required for download, and it's only set if the user has visited the main page.

True, they're quieter than most, but compared to Scythe and Yate Loons (YL fans are repackaged as Nexus fans sometimes) they're really freakin' noisy. A single Zalman 80mm fan at 6V is still louder than the two systems I have here at home. They run 24/7 and the ambient (when the fridge is off) is about 21dBa. It's also not just about the noise level, it's the tone. I've always found Zalman fans to have a slight growl, whlie other fans have a much smoother sound.

Zalman fans are nothing short of horrible when it comes to noise. Scythe S-Flex and Yate Loon fans are the best you can get.

If that's true, then they're breaking existing patents held by BrightSide Technologies Inc., which was recently acquired by Dolby... BrightSide held a patent that essentially took control of any technology that uses variable intensity backlighting to increase visual contrast and brightness. The HDR-37 (their latest model) had a contrast ratio of about 250,000:1 and was brighter than any other display I had ever seen. Watching Return of the King on that thing was just awesome...

You NET-hater you... List of Raster Graphics Editors

@ripken - he wants to hotlink to a site that doesn't allow hotlinking. A link like that just won't work... Why don't you provide a link to the page that contains the download link? Getting around hotlinked files isn't very nice...

You haven't really listened to my suggestion... I'm saying that your planned airflow will not be as efficient as it could be. I know you want to use that 250mm fan, but doing so will give you worse thermal performance than not using it.

The large fan will affect airflow throughout the entire case, so yes, it will hurt performance. Just because the large fan doesn't blow directly on it... where does the air come from? You have to think about where the air that flows over this component - where does it come from, where is it going to exhaust, is it going to pass over any other components, is it right behind another fan, so the air is dirty? The 250mm fan will probably hurt performance more than it will help. People forget - fans work best with smooth airflow at their intake. The more fans you have, the more turbulent the airflow is, and the worse your fans perform.

Paint.NET is a great simple image editing tool. It's small, quick to load (unlike PS), and does most things that most people need. I don't do that much crazy photoshopping, so for the simple edits, Paint.NET does what I need.

Those two files are limited to McAfee. You won't be missing any critical data if you exclude them from your backups. I'd just put a filter on those two files, since they're in use by McAfee. Any decent backup software should be able to exclude files.

As a reply to the original post: The best way for you to find out is to test it. Just a word of warning - those 250mm fans aren't really all they're cooked up to be. If you're getting a heatsink that has the airflow parallel to the motherboard, the cross-breeze fans (the ones from the side) actually hurt cooling performance more than they help. You'd be better off sealing that side vent and making sure that the airflow can move smoothly from the front to the rear of the case. Think of your case as a tunnel, with air going from the lower front to the upper rear. The more un-fanned holes you have, the less control you have over where the airflow goes.

The main factor is what games you want to play. You'll have to look at the requirements of the current "version" of the games you want to play. If they're pushing the limits of the 320MB version, then you need to get the 640MB variant. I don't know of that many games that need 512MB of graphics memory just yet...

In most cases, if a program is made for 1.0 or 1.1, then it will work with 2.0 installed. However, some installers check for the specific version number, so will not install unless you have the correct version installed.

I honestly don't think you need to worry about the lifetime of the DVD drive. I used my old laptop CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive all the time and after two years, it was still fine. Never a single read error, and by that time, DVD-burners were common for a very reasonable price (I was contemplating upgrading it). I'd suggest using a single DVD-RW drive, running over PATA. SATA DVD drives exist, but AFAIK they aren't quite as reliable as you'd hope they'd be. The more SATA power connectors you can have, the better. You'll never know when you might want to upgrade. It's one thing I wish I had more of in my main server...

I loved the third movie! The only thing I wished that they would have strictly kept from the comics was the usage of the term "We" by Venom. It was a manifestation of how the symbiote and Eddie were still separate entities, but they thought together, while Carnage used the term "I" (because the symbiote actually fused with his mind).

@jcarle - What's with you and gnomes today?

450W is plenty for that setup. Many computers have far over specced PSUs. Read here for more info Just as a follow up to the "amps per rail" question. Intel specced this out as part of their ATX standard for "safety requirements". The premise is that very high currents lead to high temperatures. Without limitations on how much current you can have per rail (IIRC the limit is 18A) then you could theoretically end up drawing all 400 or 500W through a few thin strands of copper. Before long, the sheathing would melt under the heat, and bad things would happen after that... However, many manufacturers don't actually have independent rails. Chances are they simply use breakers that trip when the current gets too high, but all of the separate "rails" are feeding off the same source. I've seen this all too often when testing PSU's for SilentPCReview.com - when you load a single source, the other 12V lines drop as well. They're all interconnected inside.

Yea yea... the Silver Edition, but that's the same system with a faster CPU. It's still an outdated calculator in terms of usability. I was talking about the original systems, in which the TI-83 has a 6MHz processor, while the TI-89 is 10 or 12 MHz (depending on the revision). The TI-83 SE has a 15MHz processor, hence the speed boost you get when doing your numeric integration... but it still can't do symbolic integration or simplification of equations.

<-- My favorite :yes: I like the M the most personally, but all of the above are great. Good work deXter.

@Idontwantspam - Just a word of warning. If you're trying to make this program work on both TI-83's and TI-84's, then your solution will give very different times for each. The clock speed of the 84 is far higher than that of the original 83, and the 83+ IIRC. I've got a TI-89, which is also of the same generation as the 83, but it's still FAR faster than it. The TI-83 is a highly outdated calculator, only used because our education systems force us to.

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