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Ironically when I opened up this thread I was greeted by that same pop-over window. Well played Hardforums. :p

I didn't think that was too unreasonable, though I could be wrong. I see GT 620s for around $50 and I haven't spent a lot of time looking yet, and GT 520s are $40 at the bottom end of the listings on Newegg. Another option I'm looking at is a 6570, also coming in at $50ish. Much more than $50...

I've working on a Dell Inspiron 530 that has an old 8400 GS video card in it now. The CPU is a Core2Duo in about the 2.8Ghz range I think, and it still has the stock 350W PSU. I'd like to just find something in the $30-40 range that will refresh this thing a bit without needing a new PSU. The...

I never managed to pick up a 5100, but I do have a couple 5155s (IBM PC/XT in a suitcase) still around. I took one apart about 10 or 12 years ago and upgraded the motherboard to a 486, gave it an IDE hard drive, network card, and installed Novell Netware 3.12 on it. Hmm, now I want to go dig...

I had a Netware 4.x server in my house on a pair of Maxtor full height SCSI drives that I had running for 4.5 years straight. I would probably still have going (barring hardware failure) except for a divorce and move. It also was running for just under 4 years in its prior location, down for a...

Conan the Librarian will ensure punishment is swift. Seriously though, seems it would be difficult to track and enforce this on the end user. So you unlock your phone from AT&T and move to T-Mobile. AT&T is just not going to see your phone on its network any longer, and T-Mobile has little...

Ironically as I was reading this news bit on the front page, I got an email from Instagram explaining how they had considered all the feedback they had gotten about their TOS and that the new TOS will take effect Jan 19th. Basically, a nice suck up message saying: "PLEASE PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF...

I find it a bit odd that the 9400 didn't even POST, I would have guessed it would boot but not run at the correct speed. I've never tried to run a 1066Mhz bus CPU in a Vostro 1500 though, could be it sees it as incompatible and refuses to go anywhere. That said, I have a Vostro 1500 with a...

Is it just me or does that line sound like pointy haired manager speak for "give me a chance to stock up on pencils and post-its before I jump ship"

They should be forced to use their "product".

When I was watching Chuck E Cheese and the band rock at this link I noticed in the related videos list on the right there was one called "Westboro Baptist Church Reacts - The Rosie Show - Oprah Winfrey Network" Funny how YouTube relates things you wouldn't expect, and nails it.

Yep. For when the band crashes at your house they need to be able to vomit on the carpet, and to be able to empty your liquor supply, refrigerator, and leave cigarette burns in your coffee table. These guys might also siphon motor oil from your car and smoke up your stash of AA batteries too.

This project isn't likely to break any precious metals markets. The description of the mission in the news story says they are going to target an asteroid around 7 meters wide. Any returned material would be worth more by virtue of it being part of an asteroid than its weight in precious metals...

It took eight replies to get a "That's no moon"? Kudos to Steve for the Yo dawg line, very nice. Now in the spirit of the rest of this thread, I'd rather see a couple billion invested on the future of humanity than watch it spent on hookers and blow in DC. Just don't miss orbit and launch...

Am I the only one wondering if this could be used to say, heat the water back up? In a home use situation, you pay money to get your hot water hot, often with electricity, then these nice pipes will charge up my Nintendo DS while I take a luke warm shower. I can see plenty of good uses in...

Gotta love a company that supports the [H], and their cards look solid. If I got this though, it would force me to upgrade my motherboard from the S478 DDR AGP antique I've still got running. Can't say that would be a bad thing.

I've got a Vostro 1500 laptop (with the known unreliable nVidia 8600GT video) that I bought originally from the Dell outlet as a refurb. It has worked perfectly for me, still running it. It looked and performed as though it was brand new, no sign but the sticker that it was a refurb. I...

Good selection of cards, something for every application and price range. Plus they support the [H] which is a big plus for any company I'd buy from.

Good selection of cards, something for every application and price range. Plus they support the [H] which is a big plus for any company I'd buy from.

As long as you get it completely dry quickly enough it should not cause any problems. By quickly enough I mean before corrosion sets in on any of the parts. Hit it with a hair dryer a few times to get it good and warmed up or park it right over a heater. As long as you rinse good, don't leave...

I've got some patriot RAM that is years old and still going strong. Good product line covering the extremes and the regular every day needs.

Good products and they support the [H], what else do I need to say?

Pretty much my typical shopping criteria, does HardOCP like Galaxy and their products? Ok then, cuz I don't have time to read a bunch of paid for reviews full of vapor and fluff to find a good product.

These lists are always somewhat subjective, and I'd bet anyone that comes up with a top 100 would find something they missed after listening to a few suggestions. My opinions: Less Quake and more Quake II Any Mechwarrior after 2, the intro vid for mech2 still makes me smile MOH:AA Unreal...

Same first thought here. "Dude, I think I dropped that prototype iPhone case back at that Tijuana jail we woke up in. I am never drinking real tequila again."

That looks like a clone to me, a DTK brand. An XT "compatible". ;) I still have a few original XT 5160 true blue IBMs stashed in case I need to hack into W.O.P.R and save the world from nuclear holocaust.

You might want to put in the nVidia FX 5200 and also connect it to a VooDoo2 (or a couple in SLI). Some of the better older games would run better in OpenGL than directX. Having a PCI nVidia card and a pair of V2s would give you more than one option for getting the best out of a game.

I had an ATI Rage card back in the day, one of the first 3D accelerators on the market. Might be time for me to try something besides nVidia again. ;)

I forgot about that. Been so long since I was running stock ROM I forgot they load a bunch of crap that custom ROMs can strip out. Big chunk of the performance/efficiency boost of custom ROM is that alone.

If you are looking at this PC for the 5 year plan, I'd say go for it. You will see a bit of a gain now, and down the road a couple years 16GB will be standard. I also don't see DDR3 getting too much cheaper really. Won't be long and it will be obsolete, supplies will dry up, and it will be more...

I very nearly picked up an Atrix 4G when I finally upgraded from my old Tilt2. Hardware wise they are easily a match for ICS and more. Lucky for me I found a black friday deal and went Galaxy S2 instead.

There are a lot of factors here, but in part you are on the right track with the overclocking analogy. Google, the hardware Manufacturers (samsung/htc/etc), and then also phone carriers would all like to ship a phone that never crashes, locks up, or has incompatibilities with apps. I'd wager...

I'm betting the P410 in your server does not have battery backed write cache module. Take a look at this from HP HP ProLiant DL120 G7 Notice I saw the same thing on my DL380 G6 servers with the P410 controller and 256KB non battery backed cache module. Upgrade to the 512KB battery cache, or...

Unless they are ducted together I doubt there is any kind of measurable effect going on. Air pressure doesn't really change much except very near fans on one side or the other. Or if there is some kind of closed system, duct work or such. You could always flip the CPU fan and see what the...

I've seen iddqd and idkfa, but it no one mentioned idspispopd (clipping off) another game I played a lot of used these: mineeyeshaveseentheglory lorrie osmium rockandrollpeople and what about: dncornholio dnstuff dnkeys

The most primal feature of any new card, raw speed. I haven't had a desktop running in quite a while, basically back to my ASUS CUSL tualatin board. Give me a reason to build out a desktop, please.

Sounds like the problem is the how the router is put in the chain of things. When it worked you had ViaSAT to Netgear WAN port, then Netgear LAN side to everything else(via the switch). The setup you described after the move has ViaSAT to everything else via the switch, to Netgear WAN...

What Dan_D said. Paint.NET is almost as easy and simple as Win7 Paint, but then can ramp up to replace Photoshop for a surprising amount of functions. Give it a try, its free. Has anyone just copied off the mspaint.exe file from a Win7 system onto XP? I don't have an XP box handy to test this...

Often times transistors in PSUs or other circuits have the collector electrically connected to the package/case. The case is then also what is pressed against the heatsink to keep them cool. So you either insulate the transistors from the heatsink with mica sheets and plastic washers, or design...

A contest entrant is me! I still have the first ATX case I bought, an Antec. It was bought to house my Abit BX6 slot 1 motherboard when it was spanking new, and held many upgrades since.