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Let me see if I understand You have a 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapter, think of that as your computers speed limit within your building... Your host (level3) sets the limit between your house and the internet. example: I have 100Mbps home networking between my computers, while RoadRunner gives me 10Mbps downloads

The motherboard has not been changed since the P4 and mobo install. My only good news about the computer is that after I increased the northbridge voltage there have only been one computer crash in two months compared to before where it crashed 1-5 times a day. (Much better!) I have taken the FSB from 200 to 211 before it crashes. (3.16 Ghz OC) I have found quite a few reviews that found my mobo to be poor. My 6800gt can only overclock from 350/1000 to 375/1100 even with 0.1 volt bios increase. Some where beyond that and the screen goes to a rainbow checkerboard, followed by a black screen, followed by the monitor turning off saying "no signal". I have found simar problems by other owners of this video card but at least for me, its stable at stock settings.

Thank you ghostmaster. My P4 3.0 Ghz was beaten by core 2 duo 1.8 Ghz in 3dmark05 cpu test. http://service.futuremark.com/orb/projectsearch.jsp

Well I left home sunday night, and went to a friends place that invited us over. We awoke to the smell of smoke and ash falling in the street. So we traveled north of san diego toward clean air. Im starting the second night sleeping in a friend's house. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2007/10/23/us/20071023_FIRES_GRAPHIC.html# http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20071023-1502-bn23fires1.html http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?uid=103734099241550080511&hl=en&gl=us&ptab=2&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=107592071260393044446.00043d12d7e7e7af51aaa&z=11&om=1

Im packing up

Massive Evacuations cover an area 10 miles wide from east to west and 6 miles wide from north to south _Maps_ _Video_ O ya, a dew point of -4 degrees was mentioned

Once the smoke is lite up after sunrise light look at this satellite loop: Southern California visable satellite Interstate 15 is closed through San Diego and the fire has jumped I-15 which is 8-10 lanes wide. I walked out side for 10 minutes and the hair on my legs was standing up to my pants because of the static, thats dry! Malibu weather LA Times

I think I was google-ing "free accurate internet speed test". Since then TMN has been my geek squad I can advise from my experience and get more advice in return. [glow=blue,2,300]Thank You Everyone[/glow]

In my opinion there is comfortable overclocking and extreme. Comfortable overclocking might be to OC a E2160 (stock 1.8GHz) to 3.0GHz with stock fan, heatsink and voltage. Thus money is conserved when compared to purchasing a higher priced cpu. Extreme OC could be spending a thousand dollars to have your cpu run at 4-5GHz. To generalize: Are you overclocking to save money or for braging rights? Concerning water cooling, the advantage to water cooling is the rate of the transfer of thermal energy is greater then with air. Brainstrorm! A heatsink would perform much better if there were liquid flowing through the fins and not a gas (air).

What windows applications and games are you planing on? Give us a feal for what your going to ask your computer to do. Video Card Comparison chart Single, Dual Or Quad Core? article

Are you taking a laptop to the hospital and college and to home and getting different results? Is there a router at home? Can you give me some more info to work with here?

If your cpu is rated for 72 degrees and your getting up to 50 degrees, that sounds fine to me. Do you have a log file to see what the max temp was during gameplay? Did the cpu come with a maximum recomended ambient temp? I know its a totally different processor but my P4 came with a paper specificing max ambient 38c, and max core 70c. The ambient sensor reports 34c, while idle 43c core, 58c load. My P4 is a monster heat producer and requires a heatsink rated at 89 watts of thermal energy. For comparison your cpu needs to be able to disapate 65 watts of thermal energy. (I might be using the wrong lingo so here is a link) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_Design_Power

My motherboard clamps down the heatsink with 2-4 lbs of force on the cpu, so the paste was squezed toward the edges.

Its an example of economics: Low prices to a square mile of NY metro customers is more profitable then high prices to a square mile of Nebraska. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r19244731-Verizon-to-offer-20meg-symetrical-FiOS

Online games like Battlefield 2? or online games like miniclip.com? I turned off one service using msconfig and all online games worked but not a single website. (The reverse of your question) A firewall or router would prevent you from hosting a game... but not being able to connect to "battlenet" for example sounds like a firewall could of denied you access. If the firewall's default answer to "can this program use the internet?", is "no", then its possable that no exception for that game has ever been added to the firewall. (how many nurses pay online games on their coffee break?) I'm not entirely sure.

http://www.arcticsilver.com/arctic_silver_instructions.htm Please try this link. High purity isopropyl alcohol likely means 91-99% I didn't spread it around since the cpu core is in the center of the heatspreader and only 1/4 of the area. Once the bond between the cpu heat spreader and the (aluminum or copper) heatsink is broken you will need to reapply the paste or face higher temps as I saw. Also remember the job of the paste is to make an air tight bond, and the distance between the heat spreader and heatsink is thinner then the width of a human hair.

Alan, what is your current dvd burn speed and cpu? Suquoia, what is your dvd burn speed and cpu? Im interested to see if the AnyDvd program is more efficient than DvdShrink given the same processing power. and how much faster can a new cpu work on a 4GB decryption compared to and older cpu?

I would guess you do something like this: Read a dvd, save a few GB of data in a multiple files, then you get another program to read those files and burn to dvd. So the primary demands are read & write on dvd drive, and read & write on hard drive. Other than that stating the obivious I would direct you see what kind of fast dvd drives are on the market. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-RAM

I would test the system. Run stock and record some kind of memory benchmark. Increase the ram by ratio of cpu:ram (5:6 perhaps) record results. Underclock the ram by the ratio (6:5) and tighten the latencies, record results. It sounds like you took your stock fsb and 1:1 ratio of 200mhz = 200 ram, double data = 400 then you overclocked fsb = 300mhz = ram 300, double data rate = 600

LOL its the goats fault, officer. United States history when trains frequently stoped to let 10's of thousands of bison cross the railroad tracks. One train waited for over 5 hours to let the heard pass.

Well I never looked into it, but heres what I know. You would have to pay your ISP for a second cable coming into your home. If there is only one computer in your home you might need: Two internet connections (double the montly bill), connected to a pair of modems connected to a dual router capable of load balancing, which is finally connected to your computer. OR Two internet connections (double the bill), going to a single modem with two internet ports (can't even find the thing exists, but i heard of it), then connected to your computer. It sounds like you do some research of dual ethernet adapters If there are two or more computers in your home then the dual router can take those two internets and divide it to however many computers you have. On another note, my research mostly turned up results from the ancient days of dial-up internet where the physical telephone wire was the limit on bandwidth. This led the desire for dual dial-up modems effectively giving you 56kb times two! But the ethernet cable is not a major bottleneck today. For that reason ISP's offer multiple speed packages to their customers giving each one the same cable modem and same set of wires.

Its been said before, wiring the nation of Japan costs alot less then re-wiring the USA. person per sq mile USA = 74.4 person per sq mile Japan = 866.8 http://virgil.org/dswo/fs/japantour/shared/japan-usa-comparison.gif

Im not familar with all those designations (x5500, g5, g15)

Going from 5Mbps to 10Mbps won't be any improvement (in my opinion) when downloading from web sites. With any connection you still have to wait for the server to acknowledge your request then send data to you. Lets say: msn.com = about 200kByte = 1600kbit, 1.6Mbit / 5Mbps = 0.32 second 1.6Mbit / 10Mbps = 0.16 second You will only experience a difference if your waiting solely on your internet connection and not on your CPU to open the web browser, store to memory, and display the window. If that be the case, you can put what ever value you feal appropriate on the 0.16 seconds of your life you saved. cnet.com = about 500kByte = 4Mbit Larger website 4Mb / 5Mbps = 0.8 second 4Mb / 10Mbps = 0.4 second google.com = about 10kByte = 80kbit Smaller website 80kb / 5Mbps = 0.016 second 80kb / 10Mbps = 0.008 second I think ratchet would benefit from hearing the opinion from multiple testmy members.