What a whacko!!! -- Herb Winston Bonita Springs, FL "He may look like an idiot, and he may sound like an idiot, but don't let him fool you. He really is an idiot."

I have a brand new custom-built PC that I've assembled for the sole purpose of playing games and absolutely nothing else (to the best of my budget, that is). I'm having only one problem, unfortunately it is the most frustrating one I've ever dealt with. Every once in a while, my monitor will...

As long as it's a Cooler Master 'retail', you'll be fine. Their retail sinks are badass. Just make sure it's not OEM. Their OEM sinks leave a bit to be desired. If it's retail, you won't even need the thermal grease, trust me. - fred.do stood up, at show-n-tell, and said:

Dave... thanks.. That is exactly how I ended up configuring it after Ari & Pen's replies.. No more parity errors. thanks to all -d "Dave" wrote in message ...

http://www.lian-li.com/proclass.php "Herb Winston" wrote in message ... Can someone post the web site URL & email address for Lian-Li? TIA, -- Herb Winston

The correct model is CNPS7000-AlCu? J. "John Smith" wrote in message ... Also, have these ones now replaced the flower as the 'better' coolers in terms of noise? Or did the flower occupy too much room?

My son and I are finally going to replace his old Gateway PII 267, and we are looking for some advice on what parts to buy to build it ourselves. I think he needs it mainly for schoolwork, and he, of course, thinks it's mainly for games. I'm thinking an AMD processor in the 2 to 2.6 gig or...

PS - Fix your clock! Grrrrr - Strontium stood up, at show-n-tell, and said: I would think that the main source of your headache, is the OS. Win98 was great, when it was current with the hardware. Unfortunately, it ain't so wonderful, anymore. The 9500 is a fairly 'next generation' video...

Am interested in mounting in a spare 5.25" drive bay, a combination flash memory reader/USB port/firewire port. I have seen several of these in ads. Anyone have any experience with them? Brands I have seen but never handled a Apacer, ABIT Media XP, BayOne from Soyo, Atech.

Adshield? - johnny8977 stood up, at show-n-tell, and said: Hi all. Does anyone know how to turn off the really annoying function IE where when you have more than one window open at a time, it will auto switch to the latest loaded page when it has finished loading. Its so

There are a couple of options from Creative Labs that would suit what you want to do. There is an internal sound card option, and an external USB option. The internal option would be a SB Audigy or Audigy 2 Platinum. These include a front mounted interface with extra inputs as well as an infrared...

"Hackworth" wrote in message ... I guess this is sort of on topic because it involves a new hard disk for a home-built computer. I'm using Windows XP Home SP1. I recently used the Disk Cleanup utility in System Tools, and in...

"Ralph Wade Phillips" wrote in message ... You've just run into why I don't use it, recommend against it, and feel like it's almost SatanSpawn for people to use. RwP

Martin wrote: Only a 9 Gig 7200 RPM. My 30 Gig is a 5400 I believe. My video card is an ATI All in Wonder 128. I will replace it. Probably Matrox. Not as fast as nForce but I've read it plays better with Linux. Nvidia provide the best linux support. For example there are now...

Brand loyality doesn't mean much when it comes to computer components ("here today, gone tomorrow" in many cases), but I'm partial to Intel too. Price isn't a big deal so why not. "Boba & Ilinka" wrote in message ... "JK"...

well known jockey Keiron Fallon wrote: On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 20:06:08 GMT, "John123" wrote: The panaflo 80mm fan there is more expensive, pumps less air, and has the same noise rating as a Vantec Stealth fan. Why choose the Panaflo? In answer to the OP the fan I found too...

jaster wrote: Yes of course. Well as I said my top choices were the Antec SLK3700 from www.accupc.com (was free shipping US) or the Antec SX835II . There's another Entermax or X-spider tower case with an exhaust fan on the top is perfect for an XP2000 Palamino or OC'd AMD. What have...

I wouldn't want to drive in Houston under any circumstances, either. JTH "Strontium" wrote in message ... It's a bad CMOS chip. The board is going back. I've cleared CMOS, till the cows came home. Thanks for your input, anyway. ...

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