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Ha, of course I just bought a 7 earlier this week to keep myself entertained when away from the desktop. I'm liking the new upgrades to the 7 model though, I'll probably be going for one in a few months, or maybe downsize to the 43.

If I go more than 2 HDs I will use external SATA ports on a PCI card and make an external enclosure for the drives. 1TB sounds like more than I would use for quite a while so I think I'll be safe for a few years with just that, at which point I could probably get a used mini ITX bored that...

Its like a 5 dollar difference. I was thinking 7200 because of access speeds, but when sending everything over a 10/100 network does the difference between 7200 and 5400 rpm become negligible? I can see where the power savings of the 5400 rpm green drives would be beneficial as well.

For 200 on the nose: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148240 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152185 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856119023 Unless there's a reason not to go with any of those.

I guess I missed the board first time through on newegg. Now just a waiting game on my stuff to sell.

I want to go with Mini ITX. I have very little space to work with. Power consumption isn't my main cost factor, its more cost to build the system. I want to stay under 200 for the whole system minus HDs. Originally my budget was 100 before harddrive but that doesn't look feasible. As far as...

I've heard for years buy XYZ expensive power supply, and I've used some of the cheapest and nicest stuff around and they both have the same fail/success ratios in my experience.

that barebones server doesn't seem as good dollars wise, I can get the atom board for ~80-90, a case/PSU for 35, RAM from my desktop, and a TB HD for under a hundred. At a little over 200 I'd be done instead of just starting with the barebones.

If you were able to do transcoding with the atom it sounds like it will be more than enough muscle for my needs thanks.

I'm still not sure on the 140 since I'd have to pick up DDR3 it seems. If I go with the atom I could just take one of the 2gb modules out of my desktop(I have 8gb now which is probably more than I'm realistically using) The atom D510 is looking good right now, although it does put me at about...

I'm looking to build myself a small and power efficient fileserver. I'll be running a small very lightweight linux distro on it with little to no GUI. I'm looking to hold in the neighborhood of a TB of files, mostly movie(non HD) and music which I will need to stream the file, as some of the...

5 years ago, I had a 14 inch HP that fit perfectly into a leather folder/traper keeper thing that zipped up... I guess I should have sold it for $$$ when I got rid of the HP

Agreed, set the cash aside now, and add a couple dollars each week the card survives. By the time it actually dies you will be able to upgrade to a lot higher tech.

Pending This is the ram I have, I'd like to trade for 4gb of DDR2. Heatware: http://heatware.com/eval.php?id=51092 eBay: http://myworld.ebay.com/cuog

Lots of mobile stuff: Dell Mini 9 -Atom N270 -2GB Ram -4GB SSD with Dell Ubuntu Netbook remix Dell Axim X5 -Pocket PC 2003 -300MHz ARM -32MB ROM 32MB RAM Dell Inspirion 1525 -C2D T5550 -4GB RAM -Vista Home Premium -120GB HD Viewsonic V1100 Tablet PC -864 MHz Pentium 3 Tualatin mobile -376 MB...

I finally got around to posting a pic, its messy yet empty... Also almost everything is Dell, I can't help that it just seems to be cost effective that way.

Its the Palermo core sempron, also I like your analogy to old cars seeing as I drive a 69 VW bug, it seems fitting.

I've been running a 754 Sempron 3000+ as my primary desktop since ~05 specs: Sempron 3000+ @2.4GHz 1.5GB Adata ddr400 Biostar TForce 6100 XFX Geforce 7950 I'm kind of surprised the overclock has lasted this long, when I started people always told me that you...

How would this work physically with different headphones. For example when I use a set of studio headphones on my laptop, I have to turn the volume up all the way to get to a decent listening volume. However if I plug in my earbuds without adjusting that sound down to about half my ears would...

- Some 386 don't remember exactly - Pentium 233 MMX - Pentium 2 266MHz - AMD K6-2 400Mhz - Pentium 3 524Mhz -->Pentium 3 6xxMhz - Dual Pentium 3 1Ghz - Dual Pentium 3 1.26 Ghz - AMD Sempron 3000+(socket 754) - Pentium 4 3.0Ghz I think I had some more P2/3 era chips but they weren't...

I usually get some of that anti-static foam that CPUs and motherboards are usually shipped with, and I stick the pins into that then sandwhich the whole thing in carboard. If its shipping alone that goes in a padded envelope, if its going with other things that goes in the box with everything else.

Not to mention the wires are now bigger, making them even harder to manage. I'm not sure how that would be beneficial. I thought the whole point of sleeving is to bundle the wires together anyway... Maybe I'm just old school or something.

One thing about silent cars is in the city some of us bike and skateboard places(sadly I've timed it and for trips of a mile or less biking/skateboarding can take half the time of driving). Anyway most modern cars usually come up to about 5 feet behind me before I can hear them and move out of...

Just an FYI, VA is not one of the states with a duty to retreat, assuming that you have the right to be where you are(such as your house or public property). However there are some states with duty to retreat, which I agree is complete BS. Also I would recommend to anyone intending to keep...

The problem with finding info on the web about this stuff is people haven't paid much attention to instruction sets and architecture compatibility in years so much of it has been deleted to make space, or buried at the bottom of the archives. Either way sounds like an upgrade is in order...

Nothing wrong with it going in every budget box, Sounds like a good upgrade path to me before going with a better multi-core a paycheck or two later.

Yah Syndicated_Death got it, it is an oscilloscope, a pretty basic one, but useful nonetheless. and OofC_S7v7N they are kinda tucked in although they're pretty safe, and better than moving them out into the room where my roommate might kill them when he comes home drunk at 4 AM.

My desk just before calling it quits last night, probably should have gotten an after cleaning shot >.<

Virgin mobile gives a pretty nice balance, they don't stick you in a contract if you go for their monthly service and if you go prepaid they have pretty goood rates too. I have it with the minimum minutes service and unlimited texts for 35 a month. prepaid they're 20cents a call, and I...

As old as that card is its always worked wonderfully for me. Granted the Audigy in my main computer can do more soft synth, but back when I got that card in the late nineties it was awesome.

Finally got a new laptop to replace my old messes >.<

Heres the link to the original: http://fantasyartdesign.com/free-wallpapers/imgs/new/483d-ghost-ship-poster.jpg (apparently the rest of the site has a bit of spyware/adware etc but the image file is clean)

New laptop means shiny clean new desktop, hopefully it will stay that way

Another company I'd keep an eye on would be the fujitsu laptops they're fairly sleek although I do not know if they offer docking stations.

I had this happen on my desktop with my razor, it just decided to stop working, all I ended up doing was leaving everything off for a few days and it fixed itself... The other thing I would try is reinstalling drivers in case one of them got corrupted or something along those lines.

one word: evolution. If someone is dumb enough to get in front of a speeding car they deserve whats coming to them. If it is in fact the driver's fault, they get whats coming to them. I'm not so sure that an airbag moving at 55 mph is gonna be much better than plastic moving at 55 miles per...

That is a very nice Opteron box. I'm planning to get dual quads for my next system(sadly wont be for a while, but my single core sempron s754, and dual p3s just aren't cutting it anymore >.< New case for the messy one though, and the dell carefully tucked away.

Heres the Two Dualies I have now, ones a for fun in progress build since I can't afford parts for a new system yet >.< Server is dual 1.34GHz tualtins with 2 GB ram, and the one on the desk is dual 750MHz coppermines with 384MB RAM

You can also use multiple VMs testing network interaction of systems without having a bunch of boxes up and running as well. And I still vote for 8gb as being a useful futureproofing option(at least for the next year or two >.<)

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