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I just built a new rig for a family member: MSI K8N neo4 Athlon X2 3800 Enermax 535w 1 gig kingston seagate baracuda The CPU runs at around 60C idle with the stock heatsink/fan that came with the processor. In my main rig I have a 3500 with the stock heatsink/fan on it and the hottest...

I just got a 3com corebuilder 3500 for $50 ( being shipped as we speak ) and I'm wondering, does it support etherchannel? Thanks in advance for any input.

I just bought a new motherboard and processor ( A64 3500 and MSI K8N non-SLI ). Right now it's running at around 31 Celcius with the stock AMD HSF. How hot is too hot for an A64? Thanks in advance for any input.

What do you all think of the BFG tech BFGRNF4U motherboard? I don't really need SLI and it's going for a decent price. Plus the Hardocp reviewers say that it's a good board. If you don't like it, what would you recommend? Also does it support athlon64 X2 processors?

I'm thinking about setting up some more boxen, which cpus work better with which cores? Thanks in advance for any input.

I have a question regarding sysprep.exe. I'm upgrading the motherboard and processor in my domain controller which has server 2003 installed. Can I use the sysprep utility to upgrade the motherboard and processor without having to reinstall server 2003? Or should I use the repair option on the...

I'm going to be upgrading my gaming rig and I need some advise on a motherboard. I'm thinking about getting the ABIT AN8-SLI. Is that a good motherboard to get? any other recommendations? Thanks in advance for any advise

I just recently purchaced a Bay Networks ( nortel ) 350f-HD and I have a question regarding vlan trunking. I want to have a one link vlan trunk from the baystack to my cisco 2612 and I've been reading the documentation and it seems that it only supports multilink trunking ( etherchannel ). Is...

A friend of mine is going to give me a copy of small business server 2003 and I have a question, can it be an active directory domain controller or did microsoft strip that feature out of small business server 2003?

I just bought a cisco 2612 and I want to hook it up to my cable modem which is a RJ-45 connection. My ISP uses DHCP ( comcast ) and I'm wondering if the ethernet interface on cisco 2612 router can be made to be a DHCP client. Thanks in advance for any responses

I just did a fresh XP install on my gaming rig and my 9700pro worked fine until I installed the catalyst 5.4 driver. After installing the driver and rebooting, the XP logon screen was heavily artifacted and eventually froze the whole computer. I uninstalled and reinstalled the driver and still...

Could someone recommend a good media ( audio/video ) player for linux? Thanks in advance

The motherboard in my gaming rig is dying and I plan on upgrading the motherboard, processor and videocard. Will the A64 3000+ be any faster then the Barton 3200+ i currently have in my system?

I'm wanting to upgrade my videocard and I'm thinking that 6600gt is the way to go. How much faster is it then the 9700pro? Should I even upgrade my current box with a 6600gt? Specs in sig

I just picked up a bay networks baystack 313 24 port 10baseT switch so i can learn how to configure switches using an IOS. I'm wondering, would 10baseT be too slow to use on a home network. I have everything on a 10/100 linksys switch but I never see 100 mbps. Do you think that I'll see a major...

I plan on upgrading my videocard in the next couple of months and I'm thinking that the 6600gt is the way to go,. I have a 9700pro and I'm wondering how much faster is the 6600gt is over the 9700pro? Also i've got an athlon xp ( system specs are gaming rig in sig ) and would the 6600gt be...

I'm starting to get into music recording and I have three questions. First: I need a platform for doing recording and midi-type work. I have a fairly fast PC but it already has enough to do so I would like a dedicated computer for doing all the work on. Also my pc is quite loud which is not...

I just installed a 20 gig harddrive a separate IDE controller on my gaming rig ( in sig ) which i'm using solely for the swapfile and nothing else. I would like to test to see if i get any performance improvement over having the swap file on the same drive windows xp is installed on. Could...

I'm setting up a pentium 166 MHz box with FreeBSD to act as a home router. I'm wondering which network cards have the onboard processors? I would like to install network cards that have onboard processors to reduce CPU load. Thanks in advance for any help

I set up my gentoo linux box with a freenet6 ipv6 tunnel and am trying to bet BItchX work with it. I'm trying to fugure out which ipv6 address to use and which BitchX flags/syntax i need to use to use it with ipv6. When i type "ifconfig" i get this output: eth0: inet addr: 67.160.1.135...

Where can I get a hardocp t-shirt?

I'm considering a videocard upgrade and was thinking about getting a geforce 6800 ( 12 pipe ). Would a 12 pipe 6800 be heavily bottlenecked by my system? Is that system (see gaming rig in the sig below) even worth a video card upgrade?

My 3200 box is crunching on P582_BBA5_tip4pEW and according to EMIII, it'll take about 3 days to complete DAMN! I really have noticed an increase in stanford sending me these monster work units. Have other people been getting hit by huge work units?

Ive checked in the MyFolding.html, unitinfo.txt, and the FAHlog.txt file and I cannot find my points per hour rating. Where or how do i find it?

I plan on building a headless dedicated folding box and I'm trying to decide whether to use a Pentium 4 ( around 2.4GHz ) or a athlon xp ( around 2GHz ) based system. I have been told that athlon xp's tear up tinkers work units and pentium 4's are better at folding gromacs work units. I'm trying...

I was looking at this motherboard for a dedicated folding box and it says that It has an AMD PRO3200A processor. What is an AMD PRO3200+ processor? Motherboard link; ECS L7VMM3A

A local vendor has the ECS L7VMM3A mobo/proc combo available for 109$. Would this be a good board for my folding boxen? Also, WTF is an AMD PRO3200A processor? Link: ECS L7VMM3A

which is better memory? My budget is 200 dollars and I plan on getting two sticks of 512 to use in single channel mode on my gaming machine (specs below). I would get corsair value select but I've heard too many horror stories with corsair ram not working in my motherboard ( gigabyte 7n400-pro2...

I have recorded someone trying to access my root account on my freebsd box over 200 times. Luckily i have a detailed ftpd log file and I'm wondering who I should report this to to make sure that the a**hole who is trying to access my root account gets some serious harassment from the FBI.

I need to upgrade my gaming machine ( specs in signature ) because the single channel 512 mb of ddr-333 is bottlenecking me bad. I plan on getting some ddr-400 but im unsure of what to get. Should I get dual channel 512 or should I get single channel 1 gig? I would get dual channel 1 gig but my...

A friend of mine wants to upgrade from a GeForce4-mx to a newer nvidia based video card so he can play doom3. His budget maximum is 300 dollars and I suggested that he get a 6800nu or a geforce fx with 256mb of ram. Which would be better for playing doom3? a 256mb geforce fx or a 128mb 6800nu?

I have a 9700pro and a 5900xt @ 5900Ultra speeds and I'm wondering which one would give me better playability in doom3? Correct me if i'm wrong but wouldn't the 5900 be better at rendering shadow volumes then the 9700pro?

I installed FAH4Console -forceSSE -advmethods on my girlfriends box ( celeron 900 MHz with Win98 and 128 MB ram ) and i must say that it's dog slow. It's being outpaced by my P3 450 MHz box running linux and with 384 MB ram. What major architectural differences are there between the PIII and the...

Which is better idea to use? The gromacs core or the fahcore_65?

I'm building a dedicated F@H folding box and I have decided on a 2400+ CPU. Newegg has both the Thornton core and the T-Bred core, which is better?

I'm setting up a dedicated folding box and I'm wondering what is the best OS to use? Here are my choices: 1) Windows XP/2000 2) Windows 9x 3) Some Linux distro ( probably Debian or Slackware ) 4) FreeBSD 5.x

I have two machines with athlon XP processors. Would it be faster if i optimized my clients for SSE or 3Dnow?

Whenever i try to push the resolution in Farcry and UT2004 to 1600x1200, my screen goes black with an error message saying: "Signal Frequency out of range, Please change the timing". I had a radeon 9700pro that died and i got the 5900xt for a bargain. I never had this problem with...

I have these parts laying around: AMD K6-2 400MHz ASUS motherboard (forgot which one) 256 MB PC-133 ATI Radeon 8500LE ATI TV-Wonder ATI Remote-Wonder 60 gig maxtor drive I'm wondering if i could build a decent HTPC with that setup? All i'm looking...

I dont mean to sound like a total n00b but can i host html web pages that i write using frontpage on my xp machine on my FreeBSD machine thats running apache 1.3.x? Any help would be appreciated.