Re: Do all Socket 478 motherboards support a Celeron D 330 processor?

Posted on 2014-01-31, 13:35

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The EPoX supports Celeron D,but the caps are bad and I don't bother fixing it. VIA PM800 was used in the Chaintech board,but I didn't have any PT800 board so far.Why avoid SiS?I'd more avoid Intel chipsets,and go for SiS/VIA. In my experience SiS chipsets appear on the cheapest of the cheap, and …

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Re: Favorite form factor for PC case?

Posted on 2014-01-31, 13:31

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Full towers hands down (aluminum when possible). I agree with the points on working on pizza boxes and desktops - the loud fans is usually what seals it for me. Used to go caseless but that's a whole'nother bucket of worms when you have to transport the machine or have guests/children/dogs/generally …

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Re: Athlon Problems

Posted on 2014-01-31, 13:24

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Anybody tried Sonic Tower with just case fans blowing at a 1.4 GHz Athlon? If a Prescott can survive it then I would think that a 1.4 GHz Athlon would be a cakewalk, but "hot as hell" doesn't inspire confidence. No idea about that one, but my SI-97 cannot run an AthlonXP without a fan mounted on it …

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Re: Ever get the feeling you missed the boat?

Posted on 2014-01-31, 13:12

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Having worked in IT for a few short (and horrible) years, and having seen a friend completely sink their life savings into a PC repair shop and be left with nothing, I'll agree with the general thrust of this thread - if you want to move careers/jobs/whatever pick something that has an "upside" to …

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Re: Your favorite shareware/freeware?

Posted on 2014-01-31, 12:49

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I like: 7zip, DisplayFusion (finally did purchase), Opera (until the most recent releases that strip functionality), and OpenOffice.org

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Re: Are there any good books to teach raw audio programming?

Posted on 2014-01-31, 12:44

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Depends on what do you want to do and with what. I think what would mostly be interesting is an example of a certain chip and some background info on sound programming from somebody who tried quite a bit of this. There are a lot of different types of chips and different types of sound generation. …

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Re: subwoofer explained

Posted on 2014-01-31, 12:35

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What, are you kidding? List them here, better with photos! Alas I don't have my own (digital) camera - I've borrowed one from time to time over the years, and I have some pictures as a result (with wildly variable quality as well). Part of the reason I'm remiss to "list them here" is that I …

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Re: Motherboard with AGP 4x and PCI 64

Posted on 2014-01-27, 04:10

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Well, i do have PCI only SATA controller as well, but the 4x SATA2 Adaptec one is better. I would like to know what are the best possible if i ever run into some, but no PCI-X is also OK. As long as Voodoo can work with out the need of neutering :lol: You should be able to get SATA2 on PCI; not …

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Re: Motherboard with AGP 4x and PCI 64

Posted on 2014-01-26, 06:36

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Out of curiosity, why do we need a PCI-X card for SATA? What's wrong with PCI? :confused: Also, I'm fairly sure the Voodoo5 is AGP 2x only - I've seen mods that try to put one into an AGP 8x slot (this requires cutting) and it still will only enable up to 2x. So you only need a board with …

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Re: hybrid computer

Posted on 2014-01-26, 06:22

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I thought there were some P4 motherboards that had an ISA slot, or maybe those were for industrial systems and not entirely suitable for general computing. Yes, they're from SuperMicro, like this one: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/P4/E7210/P4SCA.cfm I'm told that the ISA slots are …

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Re: Ever wish something had replaced the floppy beside CDs?

Posted on 2014-01-26, 06:20

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There's no hard evidence to support this thought of mine. It's just a theory but one that holds merit given the DRM-happy attitudes of most of the top entertainment companies and the much smaller amount of DRM on HD-DVD compared to Blu-Ray. Well... that, and Blu-Ray discs are cheaper to produce and …

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Re: Which systems to keep? With which sound cards?

Posted on 2014-01-26, 05:38

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10 looks like a winner - I'd throw the better of the Live! cards in there too. Probably go with the Radeon; should make a fairly stout Win98SE box. I'd look at "combining" 6 and 7 if possible - if you can get SLI, more RAM, and both disks in whichever has the better motherboard you should be doing …

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Re: Hard Disk Password (IBM/Hitachi DeskStar)

Posted on 2014-01-26, 05:32

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I remember that MHDD can alter some of those settings, but if you "unlock" that HDD maybe the contents are gone. I guess you could use other utilities, look into Hiren's Boot CD or Ultimate Boot CD. Those CDs have plenty of utils, and maybe one of them can unset that protection. Maybe that …

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Re: Ever wish something had replaced the floppy beside CDs?

Posted on 2014-01-25, 08:16

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What about those Blu-Ray discs? Did it really take off? I remember PS3 made big news with BR as the future of media - but seeing Xbox360 plays the same games as the PS3, without a Blu-Ray drive, did it really matter? What about it's impact on home movies? It's been a very long time since I bought a …

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Hard Disk Password (IBM/Hitachi DeskStar)

Posted on 2014-01-25, 07:55

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Okay - was tinkering with my Pentium 4 tonight, getting read to load an OS on it and move to re-casing, and figured I'd do some diagnostics on the hard-drives just to be safe (Good thing I did - caught one that's bad, and replaced it). Anyways - the primary drive, a Hitachi IC35L060AVV207-0 seems to …

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Re: Do all Socket 478 motherboards support a Celeron D 330 processor?

Posted on 2014-01-25, 07:42

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Well,I then need to hunt a motherboard with VIA or SiS chipset. Isn't the 865 actually the "Breeds Hill"chipset?I've found out that my EPoX board used a 848P (865)chipset and supported a Celeron D. 865 is known as Springdale (And there's variants that include IGP and those that don't), 848p is …

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Re: Ever wish something had replaced the floppy beside CDs?

Posted on 2014-01-25, 05:42

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(On another note, DRMs suck. Big time. If not for the occasional sales, I wouldn't want to have anything to do with Steam. It's much preferable to get a no-cd fix to play these games with a piece of mind.) Aye. Bioshock 1 and 2 are the worst I've seen - the first one I don't think can be re- …

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Re: What games to play?

Posted on 2014-01-25, 03:23

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Star Wars - Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II was and is a great game. Playing it through right now actually. The 90s was a Golden Age for Lucasarts. Aye! :-D If you like strategy games more than action/adventure games, you might also consider: Empire Earth (may be a little rough depending on how …

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Re: Do all Socket 478 motherboards support a Celeron D 330 processor?

Posted on 2014-01-25, 03:11

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Celeron D is a Prescott core with less cache - the board has to support Prescott in order to have a chance of supporting the Celeron D. Like Mau1wurf1977 points out, look online if possible for documentation of what is supported - it may require a BIOS update or something in order to be compatible. …

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Re: Ever wish something had replaced the floppy beside CDs?

Posted on 2014-01-25, 03:01

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Steam and Gog are nice, but I still want something to be able to archive things to long-term. Not to mention the internet/cloud isn't always available. I've thought about picking up a floptical drive for certain things since they have a really long shelf life, but I'm not sure how much longer media …

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