I have just bought a Pioneer 115 16X drive and it's unbearably noisy. I'm now planning to exchange that for a Toshiba drive. The Toshiba 16X is only about $10 more expensive than the 12X. Which one should I get? Is the 12X significantly quieter than the 16X?
I have just received the OEM version of a Gladiac MX I ordered. I am disappointed to see that the board is not the same board featured on the cover of the retail box. I chose this brand primarily for the low-profile board design but the OEM board I received is a regular full-height board...
I'm really excited by the new Athlon 266MHz FSB and the KT133A chipset. I don't want to buy a 200MHz FSB CPU anymore because there shouldn't be a big price difference. However, the 266MHz FSB seems to be only available for Athlon 1GHz or above and I don't want to spend top dollar for that extra...
For NT 4.0, the size limit of the boot partition (C: drive) is something like 7.8GB, provided that it's formated as NTFS.
Note that you can also potentially have the WINNT directory in a drive other than C. In that case, you will have your boot.ini, ntdetect.com, and ntldr in a very small C...
I have seen quite many problems reported on the W2K driver for the ATI Radeon. I'm interested in buying a cheaper (thus older) ATI card such as the XPERT 2000. I wonder if anyone has similarly bad experience with its W2K driver. BTW, what other inexpensive (~$100) video cards have good 2D...
I'm planning to build a relatively inexpensive system for simple web surfing and running MS Office, etc. However, I'm also the kind of person who would spend extra money on certain components simply because I like the technology involved (BTW, I'm an engineer who writes realtime embedded...
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