The Official PC building thread -3rd Edition

i was kinda leary to getting the GP WD mostly cause ive had nothing but segate's.you know the saying if it ain broke why fix it..lol
so only time will tell

 

99.9% of us don have the super hyper hearing(Sam being the .1%)
but my old(5yo)100gb 8mb cache ide segate that puppy sounds like i got 12 lifters chattering when being used...lol

 

cincyrob,

Sata II 3.0GB/s is much faster than ATA133, which is the fastest IDE. Optical drives are inherently slow compared to a HDD, to begin with. That's why there's so little to chose either way with an ODD. I doubt, given the technology if that's ever likely to change much! I don't see any 20x DVDs for sale and 20x has been around for a while! As long as the MB makers keep the IDE interface, I'll stay with the IDE ODDs! That leaves me with 6 available Sata ports, 4 Intel and 2 Gigabyte, with my Boot drive and my storage drive using the first two Intels. I can even have "Hot Swap" for two externals if I choose to use the two Gigabyte Sata ports! Even if my next MB has no IDE, I have two adapters that plug into the drive and become Sata Drives. It works either way, too! Plug it into your IDE MB header, and you have 1 additional Sata port!

Russ

 

i bought a card controler that has a extra ide plug and 2 extra sata plugs on it... didnt have no need for it so i gave it to bigwill...in the mean time i needed a extra ide slot so he bought me another card controler with 2 ide plugins on it so i got plenty ide slots now but have used all 6 of my sata plugins on the mobo. 2 hdd 3 odd and 1 esata plugin... guess i could but another one of the card controllers to add 2 more sata's or unhook the Esata. hell i dont use for anything..lol

 

if you are going to blame anyone blame the hdd manufacturers. they lie about the actual size of the drive. they say 500gb is 500,000,000,000 bytes when it is actually 536,870,912,000 bytes.

 

Does anybody know where I can get a Catalyst that works other then from AMD or ATI
I've got a Saphire ATI Radeon X1900 GT. But it seems everytime I D/L Drivers & Catalyst I end up with the 600 series, the drivers seem to work but the Catalyst doesn't

 

600 series? All PCIe cards share the same version of catalyst.

 

OK Thanks, Just can't find a Catalyst that works

 

try dna drivers. they are good.

 

spamual Is that a Catalyst or just drivers..The drivers work fine 4 me, but the Catalyst doesn't. I need the Catalyst to incorporate my TV for viewing. Its the only way I know how (Catalyst wizard), other wise it won't display, even at the 1024x768

 

1024x768 won't work on a standard TV, it has to be high def. You need 640x480 or 850x480 for a normal TV in the US, 768x576 or 1024x576 for a UK TV.

 

its an LG LCD 34" TV W/RGB PC/DTV Input 1080i/1080p. Back a few installations ago it worked fine when the Catalyst worked

 

Go to http://www.filehippo.com and download an older Catalyst release.

 

Been their can't find one
http://www.filehippo.com/

 

Do you use XP or Vista?

 

XP W/SP3 NO UPDATES

 

http://www.filehippo.com/download_ati_catalyst_xp/

 

Thank you I also found this site
http://www.oldapps.com/old_version_ati.php
Which Catalyst would U suggest

 

Anything but one of the recent ones, so I dunno, 8.6?

 

I just tried 8.5
CCCInstall.exe Failed to initialize
MOM.exe failed
So I guess I'll just keep going back till one works