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EvilHorace- keep at least 3 months salary in cash (saving account/money market/cd's...easy to liquidate) for emergencies, etc. i prefer 6 months, then you are FREE from worrying about emergency needs or a job problem (layoff, injury, etc) credit cards may supplement this, but they are BAD and should...

a friend just got stuff from them...fast shipping and all that good stuff.


http://www.pccables.com/cgi-bin/orders6 ... com&rcode=

$13.50 for the crimper and 100 rj45's!

i'm guessing NO. the problem is that they can simply monitor your upload bandwidth...which will give you away. they also search for FTP servers anyways (as you've found out), so it's unlikely you can hide it from them. now that they've noticed you they will probably be more aware of your throughput ...

thanks for the info. i ended up going back to the 1004d that it had to begin with.

i formatted and reinstalled WinME and it's so-far-so-good.

i haven't tried to overclock yet, just being happy that it's stable for a few days!

wowsers. what's that ftp site? hehehehe

i don't have 1st hand experience with the k7v, but i've always heard that the a7v is more stable. extra options won't do much if the system is unstable.

i'm sure they are both excellent boards. kind of falls in the "are you an Asus or Abit type of person".


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you owe him nothing and if you are not comfortable with the deal----ABORT!

nothing wrong with telling him exactly why, either.

i vote for either the:

asus A7V
or
msi k7tpro2a

and

alpha PAL6035 heatsink
globalwin or sunon fan (60mm)
arctic silver thermal compound

don't forget that 10 or 100Mbps is a theoretical peak throughput statistic achieved on paper by someone doing alot of math. the IP packet bits are not taking up the entire 60% that is "missing". it's just like a 56K modem (with the fine print that says the current limits are 52 or 53K anyw...

my best guess (haven't seen any for a few weeks)

v3 2000 $50-55 shipped
v3 3000 $60-65 shipped


hope this helps!


(just guessing here...last i saw was $65+)

go for a v3 2000 or 3000. i don't care what everyone is saying about the lack of support from now on...the current drivers for these cards are good and will perform well for those on a budget.



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1ghz tbird
a7v

mine sits at 41C idle...43-44C after use (q3/ut/seti)

yours seems to be pretty erratic and mine doesn't change enough! ????

what kind of cooling you have on it? i've got an alpha w/ arctic silver goo

hi all- i just swapped this: abit bf6 p3 550e @ 715 (130fsb) for this: asus a7v 1gig thunderbird alpha pal6035 w/ sunon 60mm arctic silver goo i did the infamous "swap" and let WinME detect all of the changes. everything seems to work except the following: 1. the system hangs periodically ...

you're correct that it's probably not temperature...but 41C seems pretty high for a motherboard temp. my mobo's temp is aroun 30C and i don't use any fancy cooling. maybe your cpu did get too hot for a few seconds and it decided to give up for a little while?

no applause from me. it is cool that he didn't "destroy everything", but he still shouldn't have been there in the first place. too bad people don't have simple respect for others. i think i've got better things to do than search through websites and random IP addresses trying to find one ...