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nexus_7 wrote:I dont understand why a videocard has intergrated audio...I havent kept up with these things...what gives?

it's got integrated audio to simplify pass-through HDMI audio. it's been this way since 3800 series, tmk.

haha, i guess in my boredom from trying to avoid doing my schoolwork, i resurrected a couple threads

i wont go wireless, but that's not for security reasons.

i wont go wireless because i like wires.

well, i use vista x64, office 2k7, and firefox. but i dont get the problem you do.

guess it's cause i dont use windows mail?

i'd go with some x38 mobo c2D e8400 (for games) or q9300 (if you do more than game) 4x2gb of whatever ram you can get cheapest. some harddrives (i avoid seagate... they're among the loudest. samsung, WD are my choices) video card (i'd go with ATi, but that's just me.) XtremeGamer soundcard (i play a...

at this point, for a decent system it'd be crazy to get any other proc than an e8400 (for dual core) or q9300 (for quad core).

at least, imo.

i have a problem with any game that perpetuates the myth that shooting C4 = it blows up.

C4 is stable. it cant be blown up due to physical shock or heat.

i do love and use foxit.

but my school has the new adobe reader there...

and my god, it fixes some things i hate about foxit.

I had contemplated raid 5. If I'm correct, the merits of using it over raid 1 is that I will end up with 1.5TBs of space instead of 1TB. if you use raid1 with 4 drives, you're going to have 4 copies of the same thing. ie, 1 drive's capacity. i assume you're talking about a nested raid here, either ...

into windows explorer, type the IP address of the sharing computer. it should show up with a printer. click add printer.

Also, yeah, I almost forgot & this may eliminate the possibilitys for FreeNAS, I was hoping to offload torrent duties to the server as well. Though, I don't download much these days, so it might be worth living without to keep things simple. well, there's prob NAS packages that configure it rea...

this board combined with the cheapest 775 proc u can find, some DDR2, and 4 1tb WD Greenpower drives in raid5, giving u total 3 TB to play around with.

i have a k7s5a pro, but i havent fired it up in 2 years and it had tendency to forget bios settings. (not anything serious, but occasionally my xp2400 turned into an xp1800 cause the 133 bus defaulted back to 100)

the flash drives i use do 30-35 MB / sec with bench programs (hdtach)

but when i try copying a CD image to it, (700 mb or so) it goes down to 8 MB / S.

:/

normalicy wrote:There are so many fakers, it's hard to tell till the deed is done. Shame that the party system is even allowed. I'm waiting for the president that gets elected & then completely does what he actually believes & pisses off both parties.

that would be our current president.