Recent content by P220ST

Pascal, Thank you for your time. I sincerely appreciate it. Please take a gander at my hardware profile. dB versus degrees, how does it look? -P220ST CoolerMaster WaveMaster TAC-T01 Mid-Tower, Intel D975XBX2KR Bad Axe 2 Mobo, Thermaltake Toughpower 750W W0117RU Power, Intel® Core™2 Duo...

I recently discovered that Comcast, my ISP/Email Server has failed to transmit numerous emails both to and from my account. Oddly, I have received no notification of any problem from Comcast. These failures (for me) represent a small percentage of the total emails associated with my account...

Ton Hu - thank you so much for the article. Do you know of anyone who has implemented this system? Does it work seamlessly as though the updates were slipstreamed right from the download>installer into XP-Pro resulting in an integral, not patchworked, up to-date OS on my HDD? Again, thanks...

Wow! Do I just suffer from budding awareness or is this super-300W consumption thing relatively new? I hope they are efficient or we can fry up a lot of burgers in there. Thanks for the numbers. Hard to admit: I'm a numbers kinda guy. They turn chaos into order for me and that I like. I...

Can't I have my cake and eat it too? When I'm doing my DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) stuff it's rare, rare, rare, that I'd concurrently be into DVE complex enough to engage my video card. And it's a dual boot, so if I'm goofing off playing a game, all I'm doing is playing a game. But we're...

Sorry, if you have suggestions outside of the Asus EN line, do tell. Again, thanks. -P220ST

You guys have been immensely helpful. Unfortunately youve driven me to a decision point and another question, posted above. Thank you for you help. -P220ST

For the love of quiet I've been considering a passively cooled video card. I've (of course) been researching this stuff. Of course, passive cooling gives one the risk:benefit of power/heat:silence. The Asus EN series, depending on who rates it and how, gives an average idle/load of: Power -...

Follow Up Questions: Re video playback - have any vid cards shown themself to be a best bet? Again w/ the CrossFire platform thing: does it matter at all?

That makes more sense. Thanks. In addition to the ones that are cabled together (DVI - see my original post), the are also dual sets where ATI decided to use the PCI Express bus. As the cards will not likely saturate the PCI Express bus, even with two of them, this seems reasonable. To operate...

Nelviticus, Thanks for your reply. My Mobo is definitely CrossFire and CrossFire only. My mainmisunderstanding is what video cards can be used in a crossfire board. All? A subset that are "CrossFire compatable"? That's my primary confusion. Thank you for the link. It's open on another...

I'm getting a new system set up and was doing some research on CrossFire technology as I went with Intel's I975X Bad Axe 2 (over Asus/nForce). Bad Axe 2: gotta love that moniker! Anyway, I was doing fine until I came across this: and immediately had acid flashbacks to the days of Canopus...

khalidaaa - so I install MMC 3.0 on the HDD with the internet and the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 onto the blinded HDD so as to be able to "snap-in" updates to its OS (XP-Pro). Simplified I know, but the basic idea? -P220ST

Ton Hu - thanks; I'm already reading your article. I think it hits the nail on the head. Thanks for taking the time to respond. Davetoo, you are definitely correct but not all of them apply to security. I can't afford to be excluded from the ability to keep my operating system up to date...

khalidaaa, thank you for responding to my query. I'm reading th link in another window. Being a standalone workstation, not on a server or organizationally affiliated, should I have any problems? "WSUS 3.0 Administration Console Software Prerequisites: Additional Supported Operating Systems...