Posts by aaronjb

I'm in the process of doing this at the moment - albeit Gentoo, not Ubuntu. It took me a while to find a LiveCD that would boot properly (Kanotix was the key there), and now I'm banging my head against WiFi issues as the RT2500 drivers...

Quote: Originally Posted by Hammerhead The problem is it won't work well for a 17" notebook. Actually it seems to work pretty well at it's intended function - keeping temperatures under control.. It...

What do you intend to do with it - primarily gaming, development, desktop work? If it's gaming, I'd go for the 7950 - a) the GPU will probably yield a bigger difference in gaming than the (relatively small, AFAIK) difference between...

The rationale used to be that you were filling in any microscopic voids on the heatsink by 'pushing' tiny particles of AS into them - then you wipe off everything else off the surface so all you have is a grey 'haze' on the surface of...

Good point - that would make for a nice benfit, on-chip physics calculations. As you say, it's going to be some time before game developers start coding with dual core in mind - since they'll be coding for whatever the majority...

Quote: Originally Posted by Hammerhead It'll be interesting to see how they compare. I'm guessing the 3dMark05 benchmarks won't be much different if at all clock for clock, but the 3dMark06 benchmarks should be...

Quote: Originally Posted by FutureDealer http://www.pioneercomputers.com.au/p...&c2=92&id=1662 Judging by the case design and speaker position, I'd say that's the exact same base model that the mALX...

Quote: Originally Posted by ez2remember Its unlikely dell or any manufacturer to have a network port yet not have ethernet built in. Actually, I have an old Compaq Armada M300 (probably a similar vintage to...

I rather like Outpost Firewall, myself - it has some very neat component protection features (i.e. it warns you if a dll or executable changes) as well.

It should work fine - I haven't yet needed the extra end to power my drives, and I've had them plugged into a three different laptops and three desktops