I once purchased a Seagate HDD (80-gig) from a computer shop; it was an OEM version, packed in a layer of bubble wrap. While walking out of the computer shop, I managed to whack the drive against a concrete-filled guardrail support post.

It's working without a hitch as I speak, fortunately!

Tzupy wrote:Zalman site says X1900 series OK, but the bridge chip may get in the way.

I've been looking around; it seems that ATi cards put the AGP bridge chip on the "back" side of the card to avoid cooler compatibility problems.

Nice work! The photo of the heat-pipe clearance punch-out is still down (got a Comcast 404 page on this end). What will you be using as a PVR storage drive when you remove the WD?

I like the sound of this build, but can't see the images. Is it possible for you to re-host them? (photobucket, etc.)

Sorry to hear about that... someone from thecarlounge.net's computers forum also posted about suffering dud BFG cards this week. I suppose if nothing else can work, you can get yourself an ATi X850 board.

Cerberus, Thats an amazing announcement- quite surprising for AGP users... might be a little life left in the old platform afterall! Yeah, I was gobsmacked to see the headline! I also noticed that Newegg has AGP-flavor cards based on ATi's X850 GPU. Probably have noisy stock coolers, but I guess AT...

Is that a Coppermine or Tualatin PIII? I would so crush the processor die on a Coppermine if I tried to set up a heatsink like that

And here is a wonderfully Franglais translation of the website that announced the news, courtesy Google and DailyTech. Looks like it'll come stock with an Accelero strapped to it.

This is interesting... X-bit Labs: ATi readying X1950 Pro AGP graphic boards

My folks have you all beat. They still have their Northgate 316SX (i386 processor, 16mHz clock speed) PC from 1991. It uses 30-pin RAM modules! :lol: They have since moved on to a Pentium-120 Acer Aspire desktop (long departed), a Pentium II-400 IBM Aptiva (now mine to tinker, trying to figure out h...

Seeing all these wooden PC case builds makes me think we should start a letter-writing campaign to PBS and Norm Abrams for a special episode of New Yankee Workshop. That, or I should stop posting at 4:30am...

The CPU cooler in my system is a passive modified Ninja (Arctic Silver 5). I removed the little 'bolthead' decoration on the heatpipes, removed 8 out of the 23 fins, and then bent the heatpipes around a screwdriver shaft as mandrel, the ones that were close to the fin edge to the inside and the oth...

I've noticed this too; the clicksplat server on which the sigs are supposed to be hosted has been down for a while. Wonder if there are any alternates...

After selling off an overkill not-very-quiet system I built last year, I wound up with a S754 Sempy 3100 on an ECS board with VIA's K8M-800 chipset, as noted in my sig. Unfortunately, the onboard NIC decided to take a dump. Since I can onlly RMA for a replacement ECS board, and since I discovered (t...

I was wondering is there any way to mount one in the HDD bay?...if not would a 5.25" converter work for the main 2 bays? I would really like the hidden idea of the 2 hdd bays tho since I only use it when Im flashing bios or doing DOS stuff. Thanks Yes, the 7700 does fit, at least with the MSI 6150 ...

You were right; I'd installed the console version but was too clueless to work it. Deleted that and installed the graphical client and have it running at ~60% CPU usage. We'll see how this works.


(...wonder how effective a Pentium 133 system would be as an auxiliary folding machine...)

I'm doing my part with my A64 3000+ system, pegged at 40% CPU load max... I'm a complete noob, so I can't remember how to adjust max usage upward.

Team username is cerberus1981.

R. Hutter, Serial number on my NeoHE is 05110043xxx, so apparently a Nov. 2005 manufacture date. I am using a 2*SATA cable, plugged into the middle connector on the PS (hard drives); and 2 2*Molex connector cables, plugged into the bottom two connectors (LG 4167B Super-Multi DVD burner, Vantec fan c...

I currently have a NeoHE 430 running the following system: Foxconn NF4UK8AA-8EKRS S939 board AMD Athlon6 3000+ Winchester core 1*1GB Geil RAM Rosewill R6600-256SLI PCI-E 16x card 1* 80GB WD Caviar 7200rpm SATA2 HDD 1* 120GB Seagate Barracude 7200.9 SATA2 HDD No problems to date. Will try it with a S...