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I decided to dig up a bunch of hardware recently and put together a nostalgia machine for tearing up all those old games designed with 3Dfx/Glide in mind (specifically Interstate '76 to be honest). My current problem is that I can't for the life of me remember how the hell you're supposed to...

I have a Tyan Thunder i840 (S2520) that had dual P3 1.0GHz procs in it... I recently picked up a pair of 1.26GHz Tualatins (due to more L2 cache and whatnot) and seem to have hit a brick wall (the machine will not POST with one or both procs installed). Do I need any kind of adapter to put a...

I've finally settled into my new place, with which came a loft that is now my office (God damn it's nice having my bedroom completely seperated from my computer stuff). Now, in the process of making it the ultimate workspace, I am in a dilemma finding a suitable sound system. There was, once...

A client's office is trying to go paperless, so I'm trying to find the fastest scanner on the market... The software (Dentrix) has built-in image management, non-OCR, so basically I need a scanner that can scan an 8.5" x 11" piece of paper as quickly as possible. Not many web sites list this...

I'm in the market for a new laptop, and am looking for the most portable laptop possible (a la Sony Picturebooks of yore). However, I'd like to avoid any Transmeta processors and such due to the fact that it will be running exclusively Linux, and I need the best performance I can possibly get...

http://www.intel.com/products/motherboard/d955xbk/index.htm I'm building a file server for a local orthodontist's office (because 15+ years worth of data is currently residing on a freakin Dell Optiplex, 3 of which have died in his office in the past 4 months... it's fun coming in and...

Interstate '76. For some reason, it just struck me tonight as the game I really and truly miss. The fact that it was never OpenGL powered, and its Direct3D implementation blew chunks (the Glide rendering, though, was quite impressive for its day), not to mention that it never ran on anything...

I did a search and just wanted to see if I could get a collaborative opinion going... I'm obsessed with scissor keyboards (i.e. "laptop"-feel keyboards), and seem to hear the Benq brand come up a lot. I'm eying this one in particular...

One of my coworkers needs money and is selling a flawless Dell 1905FP for $260... I see them selling new on eBay for ~$300 + shipping, so I'm wondering if you guys would find this to be worth it? It's 8 months old, and has been sitting for 2 (he's got a 21" CRT he uses at home instead since...

A buddy of mine rolled an ATV while carrying his Treo 650 and ended up cracking the screen... So, after buying a new one, he gave it to me. The case is damned near flawless and it still works, but the right side of the screen is, well, cracked (thereby totally botching the LCD element on that...

A friend of mine offered to sell me his BFG 6800 Ultra Extreme AGP for $200... Should I jump on it given the next generations of cards coming out? I'm on a god-forsaken FX5600 right now, so I want out.

I've got a GeForceFX 5600 that for some reason, when attempting to force "Adapter scaling" under the digital flat panel settings (I'm using a 23" Apple Cinema Display, so no display scaling for me), the settings never work, nor do they retain. I read someone mention something somewhere about...

I just picked up two 23" Apple Cinema Displays from a friend of mine (the aluminum-bezeled straight-DVI version, not the first gen), and am hitting a problem with one connected to my PC. First, with the integrated USB hub plugged in, my system will not complete POSTing. USB boot is disabled...

I've got a P4 2.4 on an older i845 motherboard and need a good SATA RAID 5 controller. I'd prefer a 32-bit/33MHz card to prevent the need for a complete system overhaul to PCIe or 64-bit slots, but if I'd be making a huge sacrifice, I'll just save my money a bit longer and go for a complete...

I've finally cut out on my own after withdrawing from the U of I after just shy of 2 years, moved back to San Antonio, and am a little over a month into my new job at Rackspace... Now I get to buy toys :) . A friend of mine gave me his PS2 and an old, hit-it-to-make-it-work 27" RCA stereo TV...

I've got a pair of Kicker Resolution RMB6 midbass drivers that I need to get rid of considering that I bought them 2 or 3 years ago with the intent of installing in my car, but due to financial limitations (and not being able to find a good way of integrating them into my system) I need to get...

I was browsing through Intel's desktop boards section on their web site and couldn't find any mention of SLI anywhere (specifically in the i915 and i925 boards). Does anyone know if any of these boards are SLI enabled? Or if Intel plans on ever releasing maybe a workstation-class SLI board...

I've tried over and over to install it but to no avail, not even compatibility settings can trick it. Anyone have any tips? FYI I just want to revisit the craptacular Lithtech engine :)

For some reason, with the latest BIOS on my D875PBZ (Intel reference board, i875P-based), no drives are detected on the primary IDE channel nor on SATA channel 1 whenever the SATA controller is enabled and a drive is connected to SATA 0 (or not, it's basically just that the only drives detected...

I've got a brand new 350-watt nSpire PSU (installed about a week ago), and one of my buddies just went to Mac, so he's tossing me his 6800 Ultra Extreme for a while (knowing him, it'll probably be indefinitely). It supplies 21A on the +12V rail. Think I'll have enough juice to handle the...

I've got a brand new 350-watt nSpire PSU (installed about a week ago), and one of my buddies just went to Mac, so he's tossing me his 6800 Ultra Extreme for a while (knowing him, it'll probably be indefinitely). It supplies 21A on the +12V rail. Think I'll have enough juice to handle the...

I'm building a fleet of new systems for a local attorney, and the specs are as follows: Pentium 4 2.4C CPUs (800 MHz bus, Northwood cores) Intel D875PBZ motherboards (rev. 205, Northwood-only, latest BIOS v P33) 1024 MB PC3200 DDR RAM (2x 512 MB sticks, one per channel) 74 GB Western...

I was doing a little cleaning out of my closet (just moved back home from IL for a little while, so I figured I'd get all my old shit cleaned out for my next move in a couple months) and came across a forgotten gem from years ago - a Panaflo "Purple Orb". I had ordered it with the intent of...

This is great. I got a 74 gig WD Raptor about 3 weeks ago and it's been great, but upon returning from a trip to IL this morning (I was there for 5 days), my monitor wouldn't come out of power save... Hmmm... Num-lock cycled, so the system wasn't totally seized. My system was pingable as...

I'm going to be building 3 systems here pretty soon all based on the Intel i875P chipset with built in SATA RAID (Intel D875PBZ motherboards), and I was curious... To speed it along a little, could I simply install 2 drives in 1 machine as a RAID mirroring array, and upon installation...

I'm in the process of building 4 new computers for a dentist's office, all sporting P4 3.0E CPUs, Intel D875PBZLK motherboards (i875P-based, details here), and 1024 MB of PC3200 DDR RAM. However, the boards will not work with the 3.0Es (I know they're Prescotts, and I bought them despite the...

I'm about to move home to San Antonio, TX, and I've gotta offload all my stuff I can't fit into my car. So, here's what I've gotta sell. I can't ship any of these items, as I'm moving in approximately 72 hours, so make offers, as any reasonable offer has to be accepted. Jesus, I sound like a...

We just got GTA San Andreas here at my apartment (awesome game, btw), and somehow we found the checkpoint to add a 2nd player into the game. You're limited to wreaking havoc, but it's still a damned good time. Anyway, the only problem is that we were plastered beyond belief last time we found...

I've got a GeForceFX 5600 (it was worth the $50, but not much more) and for some reason, whenever playing Half-Life (CS specifically, both 1.5 and 1.6), my framerate will drop from a smooth 100 fps to a rock-solid, seemingly capped 75 fps. It'll sometime even drop to 50 fps. And I'm not...

It looks like it's about time for me to start selling my backup markers... Being a broke-as-hell college student, I don't get the time to play very often anymore, so I don't need my backup mag. It shoots absolutely beautifully though, and the Stabilizer (male) makes running the marker on CO2 a...

Is there a major performance difference between the PE and the G? I know the G has integrated video, but that's the extent of my knowledge of the differences... Enlighten me.

For a while I had my file server connected to my main machine via serial console (so I could mess with network settings and stuff remotely without botching it). However, in recent times, my file server's started flaking out on me and fails to boot pretty frequently, so I want to figure out what...

My file server is running two 80 gig drives striped in a RAID 0 array off the onboard HPT370 ATA RAID controller (the mobo is an EPoX 8K7A+). Just recently, the motherboard seems to have taken a turn for the worst, and rarely manages to boot at this point. My question is this... If I was to...