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If you don't want TF2 (like me - not a fan of class-based shooters) you have the choice: Pay $49.90 for Portal and Ep2 or Pay $49.95 for all three plus two games you don't want and won't be able to "gift" because everyone owns them anyway. Its a great deal if you haven't got HL2 and Ep1...

Create a password for your user account, and Administrator. Problem solved - unless you're running something older than Win2000.

I used to go with: wedf, but it got tiresome changing the controls every time me and my brother switched playing when we shared a computer at Lan parties. Eventually I went over to wasd. For a long time I played Doom on joystick (back when we played using a serial link :D ). But that was...

I'd just like to point out that this isn't the first time Valve has pulled this stunt. I bought the Special Edition package of HL2 that contained (for extra cost) a T-shirt (low quality) and a tin box. Also involved (this is the important bit) HL2 (obviously), HLS and HLDMS. Later on I got...

Learn from this experience, folks. When it does finally come to upgrade you no longer just look at the benchmark scores. It's time to factor in the longevity of the socket you're sticking it in. Buying a 775 wouldn't make much sense if it only had a 6 month lifespan. Its just that 939...

You also need to balance it against what you'll lose. I lost access to a few of my media keyboard's functions. You may have problems with some of your software, maybe there aren't your printer's drivers out there. If you know you need it (you need access to more than 2GB) you'll probably...

Beautiful, Crim. Just beautiful.

You have GOT to tape up your drilling - that's where you're going wrong. Get some masking tape (the paper kind you'd use for masking off in paint spraying something). Cover the area you're going to drill. Drill. The drill bit will be much less likely to slip. Also use a speed-controlable...

Always read the small print! :D I had a mate who never even had any vents in his PC. Popped the side off and bingo - his hard locks stopped. I always thought this guy knew better too. Those sticks are in the wrong slots too. The MSI boards are the only ones that have the ram populated...

If Memtest doesn't crash it, it sounds like your PC is overheating. (Symptoms are it runs games for a while fine, then crashes. Reboot and it will crash almost immediately.) Run a torturous cpu test (SuperPI for example) and see if that can crash it. If it does, dettach, reapply paste and...

Err... I'd guess about 3.2 kilos heavier. :rolleyes:

I'm not so sure of the Dungeon Sieges and Diablos of the world really stacking up as proper role-playing games (though I won't get too beardy here). I haven't played the full version of Dungeon Siege 1 or 2, but have played the demo of DS2. I played Diablo 1 to death at LAN parties back in...

If you touch the sides of a HD that has been working hard recently, the sides will be scorchio hot. Note, that this won't be the case if your (ahem) case is made of metal and comes into contact with the drives (the case will be conducting heat away). Also, many of the latest SATA disks have...

This is an odd thing to say. In my opinion (which other people may or may not share - this is not a flame), the PC is the home of the finest RPGs ever created, throughout time... The Ultima games (pretty much covering all of the 90s and Underworld 2 in particular). Anything by Bioware...

I have an issue with a hard disk here. It has been formatted from being a massive NTFS drive (20+ Gig) to being a teeny tiny (7 Meg) FAT drive. The previous owner has since realised there was data on it that he needs back. :rolleyes: In all likelihood the drive hasn't actually been...

Where did the DVI output come from? There was a worklog mod for a Q-Pack case on here that needed one, but I couldn't find one and neither could the Q-Pack modder.

Wouldn't the coat of clearcoat impede heat transfer to the air (act like an insulator)?

Hmmm. I hadn't thought of the coreage of the cables, I must admit! You have 2 left...cutting it fine, unless you can use a common GND, without frying the Atari parts. Good luck on this!

As far as I know, all socket 939 motherboards support X2s. Certainly all nForce 3 and 4s do. Some don't recognise the second core immediately, but just require a bios flash to rectify that.

No. If you shell out for a console when it first comes out historically they've had better graphics than PCs of their time. With each round it's been getting closer, with the Xbox containing a GeForce2.5 when the GeForce3 was imminent. With consoles, you are paying a premium for the...

I'm brushing dust off of 20 year old memories here (the days of Quickshot 2 for the aged amongst us), but the Atari joysticks leads were Up, Down, Left, Right, Fire and Ground, surely? That leaves 3 left on a 9 pin D socket. Couldn't you pump the juice for the LEDs down those? That way your...

The former king of AGP+Socket939 was the K8N Neo2 Platinum, but it's a little fickle, and is certainly not a board for beginners!

Apparently, at leats one CD protection scheme falls foul of XPx64. I'm not entirely sure what the scheme is called, but X2-The Threat has the issue, and Egosoft themselves posted a CD crack to let you play it on 64 bit Windows. It's likely that any other game with such protection won't work...

Have you tried messing with the refresh rate? Try RefreshLock or similar from Guru3d and setting it to the lowest 60. Test then raise it within the projectors limits.

To save you hours wading through threads elsewhere... The AGP lock does work - just set the AGP speed to 67 in the Bios. When overclocking, use the SATA sockets closest to the CPU as they get locked, but the other don't. Obviously this only applies if you use SATA. Pop the chipset hsf...

Ah. Looking very closely at the pic you can see this, but it wasn't immediately obvious. That is some fiiiine detail, man. Very nice. But I can see this being an issue. You could file it down by the thickness of the aluminium, but that's walking a very fine line between "looking great" and...

No, the problem was that they had joystick ports on them. Joystick=Entertainment!=Business. :D I'm not so sure. It could have been that the Amiga and Atari ST were too different. The PC had come along in the business sector, sat it's bloated arse down and evolved as the software demanded...

Maybe it's just because it's a different colour (or texture, and the camera makes it look a different colour). You could respray, but there's a chance that you'll have to respray the whole thing, because the whole of that side will look odd. Or maybe it's because of the curved corners at the...

Rubbing alcohol, a soft plastic stick or popsicle/match stick for stubborn bits, and elbow grease until it's clean. If you're using a sledgehammer and chisel to remove the excess, then that's too much force! Don't use anything metal to clean up a hsf unit. You're likely to scratch the...

Go back to your original A64 spec sheet (that was a good spec). Change the motherboard for a PCIe one (AGP will not last very much longer, and you stated you wanted to avoid instant obsolescence). If you decide to keep your existing stuff, ditch the power supply for a decent one (modern...

It needs to be flat where it contacts the cpu. With the naked cores of Athlons it just needs to be flat in the centre. With an Athlon64, it ought to be flat all over, but if its only a small graze, it can be polished out with really fine sand paper (available at auto stores) quickly or slot it...

So you're thinking that someone who makes a casemod from My Little Pony "clearly has issues..."? :D

This will be amazing if you can pull it off! Looking forward to seeing how it ends up. Unfortunate that the wires will be coming out of the side of the case though. Just audio and video...I think I could live with that. Thinking about it, the audio could be fairly easily "extended"...

That looks pretty cool, though pre-painting shiny isn't Doom's thing, I can see this looking real good. When the mesh is fixed, the struts propping up the centre of the "O"s and "D" won't be necessary, stick 'em to the mesh.

You could really do with scaling the size of those pics down...too much sideways scrolling! :) Looking good though.

6.5" is very close to 5.25" - wouldn't it be easier to take a dead CD-ROM drive and turn that into a res by sealing it?

No built in kvm switchbox? And how are they all going to switch on without blowing up the building's supply circuit? I wish my psu had pass through on it. Damn, I miss the monitor switching off from the old AT days!

I'd go with one strip of 1Gig, then if you find yourself needing more (entirely possible with all the new graphics/physics engines coming out) slap in another. Going 2x512 may mean a speed hit when you add another 2x512. The benefit of Dual Channel ram will be less than this hit later (which...

Thanks for pointing that out, Eclipse. Back to the drawing board, I suppose. I was VERY close to ordering that stuff! Anyone know how the LL series are on NF3 boards? Not that my usual supplier does it of course...

Nope, cathode. The way to remember is that a non-flatpanel monitor or television is a "cathode ray tube" - CRT - and it spews electrons at it's screen and electrons are -ve charged.