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been a long time since ive purchased any hardware over the past month weeks and lately more often days my pc will hard shut down for no reason. not even when gaming or stuff, say web browsing also when i put the pc to sleep and try n wake it up it says it had a power failure. im running this...

so ive been considering the idea of upgrading my 9800gtx+ used in the rig in sig. what a reasonable upgrade? ive been looking at the gtx 275 pretty hard, want to stay with nvidia generally. game at 1920x1200, and like to have all the eye candy turned up... 8x AA 16x af....so im wanting at...

so right now i have the rig in sig. 24in wide screen with a 9800gtx+ my board supports the crossfire, and ive been thinking about what to do, if its worth it, sure its a gimmick, but would it be useful? whats a semi budget crossfire setup that could compete against my card, or beat it...

so im very familiar with freebsd as all my server boxes run it, and of course windows. however as my main os i always just run xp64, because of drivers. what *nix os will support first my creative x-fi music, and my 9800gtx+ but not only support them but also support 64bit. i know...

it seems when i install nvidia physx drivers on a fresh system install it will not see my phsyx card at all, and just use the physx on my 9800 but if i install ageias drivers for the card first, then nvidias drivers 2nd it will pick it up fine. any ideas? am i doing it wrong? LOL also...

so ive used amd for years. used to build intel rigs at work and slightly use them. now i went from my rig in sig. amd x2 4800 am2 socket. it runs about high 30's idle and loads around mid 40's. that was with this silly water cooling setup i had on it. but even then my older amd rig would...

apparently your x-fi will work with OSS now http://www.opensound.com/download.cgi support for my fav bsd is there too....im not home to test this and wont be for a few days, anybody else get this to work on their 32bit x86 system yet? this is 1 of the hold outs for me moving fully over...

this place is great, but YOURE KILLIN ME SMALLS! with the no new posts search :( im hanging in there with yall though, keep up the good work, this place owns! :D

so i got my freebsd 6.2 fileserver built, 2 graid5 arrays of 3 x 250gb disks (3 are like kinds of diff brands) workin great, got samba, webmin, and proftpd on it. this is holding lots of video, avi, mpeg, dixv xvid stuff.... any cool ports to load it up with. i know ampache will come...

so i have a shuttle sk43g, its an older socket A with a 2700+ cpu, gig of ram, kt400 chipset and some s3 integrated video so i wanted to get back the memory that the onboard was using, something like 64mb. and i popped in a pci 3dfx voodoo banshee 16mb card. turned off the onboard video...

so i was goin to be using freenas for my NAS, but i still had stuff to setup and whatnot on the box b4 the final move. so i had 3 250gb disks and setup them as dynamic discs, then just created a raid 5 volume. its about 479gb total, not bad so where are my raid tools in win2k3? would it be...

so i know the deal for the most part and im goin to either go with freenas or openfiler, quite liklely freenas since its bsd based, anyhow i have alot of drives at home, but theyre not all the same brand. i do have 4 120gb and 4 250gb all identical model/brand which will probably be the way...

so i have an older Enermax 430W ps in it now...the fans are dying and making a pretty nasty grinding sound. so im wanting to get a replacement for it... what should i be looking for? this pc is only used as a fileserver, and runs some torrent downloading, and runs irc for me...using the PS...

so i got my ipcop box up :) wasnt much trouble at all. more trouble figuring out which interfaces were red/greeen/blue seeing as how i used 3 nics all with the same realtek chipset :) its all up n good now tho and im quite enjoying it. but i was wondering what are some addons you guys...

basically i got the newest beta of monowall...never used it before, but i know the routine. the real reason i want it is because of this review. and their traffic shaping rules file, for bf2 and others i play :) http://www.langamereviews.com/content/view/144/2/ so i get together an old...

so i just got this. im hittin up the athlon 64 oc faq. this is my firt 939 athlon 64 rig. time to learn it up. i decided to get this board ( the one in my sig also. after some reviews, and since i have that 7800GS OC too. and went with a 4000+ cpu :) my bf2 gamin is loving it now. but anybody...

well i bit the bullet and bought a Geforce 7800 GS OC by BFG Tech. i had a redeon x800 pro, and put this in its place. possibly the last top of line agp card to be made, correct? at least my 2nd pc got a great upgrade from a 9600 pro to the x800 pro :) bf2 never looked better on my rig of...

bit of background. 2nd pc (dads) he plays rome total war and the addons...not much else we also use his pc to do some BF2 gaming :) the system is an Asus a7v8-x board, amd 2700+ cpu, 1.5gb ram, SB Audigy 2. currently theres a 9600 pro 256mb in there and the gfx have to be turned down...

so i have a sk43g shuttle http://global.shuttle.com/Product/barebone/brb_OverView.asp?B_id=26 and i have a amd xp 1700+ cpu in it i also have a gig of ddr400 ram running at 2-3-3-6 @ ddr 266, i can losen timings for overclocking the chipset on the boad only does 333fsb, even tho its...

so today i got a killer deal on a logitech x-530 5.1 sound system....never used surround b4 but im truly amazed at it.. currently my soundcard is an audigy 2 value from best buy, ya kno.. is it worth it to upgrade to say an audigy 4 or the x-fi? i game but mostly bf2 and cod2...would the...

my setup is as follows, as far as disks are concerned. 2 74gb raptors on a promise sata card 1 120gb wd http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc...ated=1037222838 i have the swap file on the 120gb now and it seems slower when loading into a level usually its a tiny lag but its alot more with...

well before i moved my swap file it seemed to load up quicker, basiclly once im ingame, it will lag cuz i only have 1 gig of ram but then after 3 to 8 seconds its fine....well i moved the swap file and it seems to have slowed it down and its alot more choppy.....anybody got suggestions? my...

well so this old gaming box im puttin together has been goin thru changes(k6-2 500mhz with 16mb voodoo banshee 192 mb ram) first i had an awe64 gold in it....ok isa, meh, but since im loading unreal on it i decided to go with my old SBLive! after trackin down drivers ok cool, loaded drivers...

so i recently threw together another file server. keepin things easier by seperating file servers, games, video, apps/drivers/utils well my latest beast is up and i KNOW im underpowering her...the specs are as follows 550mhz p3 katami some hp board, pulled from work pc 512mb pc 133 sdram...

which one would be better for an amd k6/2 500 older system for a tiny bit of 3d gaming and old dos gaming doom quake hexen maybe heretic shadow warriro duke 3d, unreal tournament and unreal 1, maybe blood and some sin...old school shooters basically, some dos some windows, but ill be running...

so right now i have these dragon orb cpu coolers, LOUD as hell, but keep my cpus nice n cool about 35 to 39 under load btw, im using socket 370 ppga celron 366's, in a dual board, bp6, so it needs to be socket 370, but i want them silent, its way too loud as it is... right now im lookin...

so i got this brilliant idea from another thread to make a dns caching server on my network...why not right? so i dont kno anythign about it though. but i can read, i can research, which i will be doing. im installin 2k3 standard on it now...its a slow machin, but im gonna emove services...

just wondering if theres some program that can monitor apache. i want to see some sort of realtime display, netwrk bandwidth, connections, some sort of display of it. any program to run on windows to do that, or even a php or some soft of script that i can login to a page on the webserver and...

my buddy wants to know this...... you know if they make any dual proc dual core boards with sli ? but dual cpu w/ dual core support, and sli so thats the sum of it, anybody know

so im way in over my head here...i can run networks, work with hardware and all that server stuff, but when it comed to coding and stuff im lost.. basically i had a brilliant idea for helping us out here, and its turned into something else.... what i invision...a website on our intranet...

so basically my buddy has a HIS radeon x800pro...and his temp idle is uaually in 40's and under load and in game its like 66 ish....is that normal he wants to know... as it is now i just alt tabbed out of the game its 55c now....playin bf2... hes got a msi k8neo 2 plat w/3400 clawhammer...

im currently fiddling with this board..i got it for free when boss was tossin old parts out On the CASE of the system it said Gateway GP7-550 ive looked @ gateways site for this model but i cant find any info i want to make sure the bios is up to date, and ive done some googling, diggin...

so basically this talon controller card i have states in the manual it installs to any available 32 bit pci slot, it also installs to the 32bit portion of a 64bit pci slot on a system motherboard if your system has 33mhz and 66mhz pci slots the talon card can transfer data at twice the...

first if this post belongs in the network forum plz move it basically what im trying to do it i have a lil setup @ home. main server has ethernet and wireless i have a client downstairs wireless linked to my server, and i just play my movies and videos over the network using media...

i probably already know the answer, but can i put pci devices in a pci-e slot? currently we have these capture cards we use here where i work, and theyre considering upgrading our lione of motherboards, but im wondering can you put pci devices in a pci-e slot? are they that different? im...