techie32

K9 (search on majorgeeks.com) seems to work good, as well it's gotta be trained, it's getting 98% for me so far.

the case makes a difference too.. not nessesary to goto exremes like me, (total of 10 fans in case) but at 3.2ghz same cpu (overclocked of course) gets up to 45 celcius, when being maxed out. using the original cooler supplied by intel.

in the console you should also try "fixboot" "fixmbr" just does the master boot record, "fixboot" does the initial boot files.

I just select the other drive in the bios on this box

Lets not foreget the good ol' MWAVE from IBM... them's brutal.

I'm thinking back to when the Pentium replaced the 486... it wasn't all that fast either, took a couple years. it all goes back to software support, if the 64bit apps aren't out yet, there's not much point in going 64bit now, especially when if you wait till the apps are out, the 64bit cpu will likely be much faster anyway.

it's about 80cents/L in northern Alberta. strange considering that the main supply of oil in Canada is up here... and as for hugeness the nearest decent sized city is a 5 hour drive away, the next one is another 3 hours. all in the same province. (province = state) I feel sorry for the people who live further north, they get to drive lots just to get to the store... of course they could always use the good old dogsled.

Star Trek Armada with the 1.2 patch runs ok in xp, but the actual gameplay is extremely slow. I've found this to be the case in pretty much any system over 2.0Ghz. I've tried a couple of programs that claim to "slow the processor down," but they just use up cpu time, rather than emulate a slow processor... already tried the app compatiblity toolkit, with no luck.

as far as hibernation itself is concerned, it won't hurt yer drive. I've had it fail once, but then you just get windows to boot normally, it gives some error messages, but it's ok afterwards. I seem to recall something about a patch from microsoft about that. but no, it can't physically damage the drive.

On my laptop I use hibernation lots (xp pro) because it does load faster/saves that load time on the battries. but on a desktop machine I don't see the point, unless it's a really slow machine... reboots are nessesary even on xp. in the long run more reboots will save ya time by keeping yer memory less cluttered.

there's a RivaTNT patch at www.patches-scrolls.de for FF7, all the patch does is make the game forget about the 8bit problem. I've used it on my Radeon 8500, worked good. I dunno about it working on winXP though. (was on win98se at the time.)

Anyone know if the P5 is gonna be 64bit? I've heared something about advanced Hyperthreading, as well as a new socket, but not much else.

I've seen that too, a lot of it depends on the case, a well ventolated case makes a big difference. another thing amd has done with their coolers is make it use all 3 clips on the socket, making it more reliable (I've seen a few heatsinks break off in shipping). If they keep on this trend, they'll be giving intel another run for their money.

try www.asuscom.de or www.asus.tw if ya have trouble with German use ftp.asuscom.de it's not hard to find stuff on, also seems more up to date usually.

I'm an OEM System builder... have built 1000's of machines. I find that AMD based systems all seem to run way too hot. I mean 50degrees+ is too much for a stock cooled/stock clocked/stock volted system. I run my p4 2.4HT at 3.0 without voltage increase or cooling mods (stock cooler no thermal grease) and it's between 30 and 40 degrees depending on how much load I put on it (never above 40, even maxed out) Ja get what Ja pay for