I'm not looking for high performance. My use is a basic Win98 boot drive with a handful of applications for media file playback (Zoomplayer, PowerDVD). However slow CF cards are I doubt they'd be much slower than the old 1-1.2Gig 3.5" drives I've been using so far. The actual media files are on chea...

Does anyone here boot off of a compact flash card instead of a hard drive? These can be very quiet, while not being too outrageously expensive. But I'm wondering what is better to use. A 1Gig microdrive is only a bit less expensive than a 1Gig flash card, so price isn't the deciding factor. What I'm...

You want a crazy idea? Forget using the board itself as a heat sink, use the board's WIRING as a heat sink. Imagine that instead of just flat tracings on the back, all ground lines are finned to draw away heat. Better yet, these fins are exactly tall enough to touch the side of the case--an aluminum...

Soldering the wires to the headers? If you're going to that sort of measure, I think it'd be easier and safer to just take some needle nose pliers and bend the headers off at an angle to clear any PCI board.

http://einolu.tripod.com/pix/4tboard/dust.txt sry for the low quality picture, but here you can see that the dust is attracted to the recording head of my MD recorder (Panasonic MR220)... The units itself isnt that dusty on the inside, the dust seems to be magnetiaclly attracked only to the recordi...