Recent content by double-t

I just bought a refub HP from buy.com. Got an incredible PC for an incredibly low price. PC works great.

I've got a Pentium-2 350 from about a hundred years ago and a couple of 80 gb hard drives sitting around. Not really sure what to do with them. The PC's got XP on it, and it runs. Is it powerful enough to put next to my TV, and run converted Divx or Xvid videos from? I don't have an extra...

I have 3gb of RAM so upgrading that isn't really feasable... but from what I've read, once Readyboost "learns" your useage patterns there can be some benefit. The minimal cost seems worth even modest speed increase. Maybe I'm naive, but it seems that everyone who's tried readyboost for a...

I'm debating between spending $10-15 for a 150x 2gb SD card versus $20-25 dollars for a 233x 2 gb CF card for use with readyboost in Vista. Anyone have any thoughts about how much speed difference it would make? Thanks in advance.

I've got a 500gb usb drive for backup.

I've about to get a new pc with a 640gb raid 0. I'm thinking about making: C: about 50gb for Vista only D: about 150gb for all programs, E: for all video,music and data files. I know it's all personal preference. Just wondering how you set up your system and what works best for you.

Can I ask what part(s) in particular do you think are getting overloaded?

My aging system is listed below. The OS is installed on the Raid0. I recently added a new 500gb hard drive to replace an 80gb that was running out of space. The 80gb was (correctly) listed as a master and was working fine, but for some reason the new 500gb is listed as a slave. The problem...

As for the RAM, maybe you didn't catch it, but I had 2x2gb kits, not 1. I plan on buying whatever videocard is cheap at the time, since I don't play games at all. I plan on cheaping out on the video card... just making sure I can hook up dual monitors. Any more thoughts on original...

here's the link to my newegg wish list: http://secure.newegg.com/NewVersion/wishlist/PublicWishDetail.asp?WishListNumber=5964454 The parts aren't final choices, but close. The system will be used for video editing, mostly using DV-AVI, dixv and MPEG-2 rendering/DVD authoring. Right...

For the build obviously... not the parts.

I'm going to need someone to put together a new system for me, including setting up a RAID-0 and overclocking a Q6600. I was thinking of trying to get someone from the local PC shop to help out, or maybe just giving them the parts to them and paying them to do it. I'm just not handy or...

You know, I looked at a lot of boards. I need Firewire, which a lot of them don't have. Sure I could add a sound card, but would prefer to leave the slot open. Also would like eSATA. An suggestions for around the same $150 or so?

This will be my first build, and I plan on asking a tech from a local PC shop to help me put it together freelance. I'm looking to spend $800-900 dollars for a system to be used for video encoding and video storage. I plan to run raid-0 on Win XP Pro, with a separate, third drive to be...