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Some posts may have been edited or even removed (by him or us), because they were plain flames. This isn't the only thread he used to frequent, besides, he was a returned bannee.

Actually, we can. But it's not fun having to use that right though, we're both better off if this dispute ends peacefully. On the internet, freedom of speech only goes as far as the person owning the website (or those that have been put there by that person for moderating) allows it, and you're treading into dangerous territory with that attitude. Enough with the warnings, it needs to change (at least on this website), or you're outta here (again).

Thing is, that program is from 2001, so I'd be pretty impressed if SmartBro made a deal with AnalogX back then. Last update on the site is of 2005, there might have been a SmartBro back then. But to me, that comment is just

Typical advertiser words. CPU usage can be really easily measured through Task Manager, and monitoring data flow is done by many programs. Its only saving grace would be price, if it's free then it might actually be worth using. Apparantly, it's quite old. Have you run into any compatability problems?

I still consider large amounts of memory on a low card to be a waste of manufacturing money and of consumer money. It's an easy 'money maker' for the reason I mentioned above, because a faster chip with less memory is hard to sell when all the slower cards show off their huge, but rarely used, memory capacity. People tend to look at what is advertised for what they seek, and memory of video cards is a real big seller for the wrong reason.

No, it's there to put in BIG LETTERS on the box that it has omg256MB JUST AS MUCH AS A 7800GT(X). And texture size does have an influence on the fps, since there would be no reason not to have an 'ultra quality' setting where the texture size is increased as a standard setting if the MB is over x. Because that doesn't happen, it's easy to conclude that the video card does have to deal with extra internal pixels, which slows it down. On resolutions like 800*600 you can't see the eye-candy anyway. Perhaps the best option is to search for a used card, one that is faster than the one bought in the stores, and most likely cheaper. But it could be that such cards are very rare in India.

Video cards at this price range are just temporary cards that won't do much more than display a 2d image. 256 MB on low cards is just a marketing gimmick to make people believe the cards actually have any processing power. Besides, a 7300GT for 100 dollar? hiteshsomai: You mentioned 760 MB of ram, which means that 8 MB is being used by an onboard chip. You could opt to save the money and wait till next year to upgrade then.

The riots tell me they want to be shot. But then again, that's just me.

The parts may be harder to get, but it's still possible to upgrade to s939 and get a dual core. That way you can keep your RAM, and if you get the right motherboard you could keep your AGP card. But my real recommendation would be to upgrade to AM2. Motherboard for 50, CPU for 50-70, memory for 30-60 and then anywhere between 0 and 100 for the video card.

Make that: "die of laughter"

Ok, for overclocking you generally increase the FSB, which affects memory speed and northbridge speed. Memory can be put on a divider, or you can buy memory made for the overclocked speed; the northbridge can be put on a strap, which lets the FSB go higher. It's not all linked anymore, and don't believe that stock is the only safe solution.

Not in this case, Core 2 Duo has so much headroom that Intel doesn't seem in the least bit worried about Phenom. The architecture just scales that well. And those really speedy cards at stock come at a price. The difference between a 1.8 Ghz dual core and a 3 Ghz one is big, unless you only browse a bit. Take a look at this table, OCing will let you go from just barely playable to perfectly playable with the same CPU, the only difference is the speed it runs at. Take another good look at where your CPU is in that table. It's not just bragging rights, it helps anyone to build an affordable pc that will run just about anything at high quality. Enjoy the power usage of those twin dual cores. And IMO you're trying to simplify this waaay too much. ExtremeFusion: Depends on the brand. Cheap ones claiming 600 watt will only let you run anywhere near that maximum for a minute or so. Never skimp on the PSU.

The debate's still going whether keeping a computer on 24/7 versus turning it off whenever you don't use it will make the parts last longer, but either way that argument of yours still doesn't hold. The pump will go out, just like the fan on your CPU cooler will, either way the CPU overheats and the system should turn itself off. The question is, will that happen in a few weeks from installing it, or after 10+ years, and the answer to that is you just can't know. Nowadays there are quite a few cheap CPUs and the scaling from low-end to high-end doesn't add all that much, so overclocking may seem to have less of a point. The point I can still make is that any Core 2 Duo will run at 3 Ghz, if not more. And if a E6320 runs at that speed against a X6800, no benchmark can see the difference, but your wallet is emptier if you pick the latter. Intels new 45nm CPUs will have that nasty price scaling again for a while, and the Q9450 will happily run at QX9650 speed, for a fraction of the price. All it takes is a good aircooler, which I would recommend anyway, since stock is usually as cheap as possible. Your X2 4200+ will happily run at 2.5 if not more, but on stock volts I guess 2.5 will be the average. It may add a degree of two to your temperatures, still completely safe though. What's not to like about 400 extra (and free) Mhz? Especially since the impact on the lifespan of your CPU is neglectible.

Liquid cooling results in lower and more consistent temperatures and generally less noise. You complain about water, but pure water is a really bad conductor, and with aircooling your cpu fan could die, leaving your CPU to overheat just the same. So I take it you check that fan all the time too? CFM rating aren't always accurate, and a side fan will help in some cases, and hurt in others. It's not as simple as you say it is. I certainly do recommend OCing, if you for example game a lot. Core 2 Duos scale well, and by far most will do 3.2+ Ghz 100% 24/7 stable. If you buy the right aircooler, that is even possible with a quad. On the other hand, if a computer is only used for browsing/text editing, then you're right, as the performance increase goes mostly unnoticed. In that situation you'd be better off lowering the voltage supplied to the CPU, lowering the number of watts the whole computer uses.

I'd say the keyboard is shot because the other one works fine.

I swear they reduced the points given per WU for normal computers, can't even reach 500 points per day. Damn them PS3 bastids.

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And thus it is assumed that a single person sharing a single song will result in thousands of copies of that song. That can't be right. There are plenty more people sharing that same song and at some point saturation occurs and the numbers of copies per original drops. You can also assume a percentage of the people downloading it own the CD, but are unable to copy it thanks to DRM and have to download a DRM-free song to play it at places where the DRM is not allowing it. Of course, it'll be a minority, but I bet that the RIAA includes it in the extremely complex calculations for their random number generator.

I don't know about you, but I can't see the logic in granting the RIAA 9,250 dollar per song per person. iTunes generally sells single songs for 1 dollar (which I still consider quite a lot), so for the RIAA to lose 9,250 dollar in profit that woman would've had to upload 9,250 times a considerable part of the a song per song. Say about 4 MB per song, that's 36 GB per song. In other words she uploaded 864 GB. Good luck pulling that kinda bandwidth on a residential account that is most likely cheap and slow and capped. The numbers are obviously not accurate, but whatever numbers you pick (that still make sense, unlike the RIAA piracy reports), they still add up to something that just doesn't make sense (like the RIAA piracy reports). Sueing with big numbers ain't the way to counter piracy. Currently the recording industry has no interest in competing with piracy, when the digital world had been doing so for ages and did quite well. The general public will prefer the easiest way, and right now pirating has become so much easier, while legally doing stuff has become so much harder, because it seems that the top executives are convinced they can make more money by handing a much bigger part of the budget to 'countering' piracy, and thus the quality of the program becomes less, and thus is worth less money.

One you call "Ham", the other "Star". HamStar to the rescue!

Sure, I don't mind, but you might not have superiors left after that.

I say today is the 16th of October. Anyone claiming otherwise will have to deal with me. Therefore I win.

Or just give the award to them all. It's a simple solution, but then again, it's a bit lame.

Because the cost of a cheaper cpu + a decent cooler is + time invested in OCing is generally far less than that of a faster cpu (and you get the cheap stock cooler then).