Posts by Investorguy

I have the same thing you have, but w/ a 2.53 and 2 HDs. I haven't had any problems w/ the MP3 player. You can get a 128MB SD card from Costco for $50 (if there's one near you) or go to newegg.com for the best price/service combo on...

Even changed the swap file to my other hard drive (I heard that helps). Absolutely no programs are running in the background now (except the ATi thing). I disabled all my virus protection stuff too. Nothing really helps. The...

right click on start bar, select "show desktop" I use that all the time; granted it's an extra click, but w/ WinXP you only get three icons down there so you've got to save real estate. IMHO

I got the game post-patch so I installed it prior to even playing it... I've looked at some of the "optimization guides" too--no luck there, that's for sure. I even defragged to see if that would help. I'll say this tho,...

MY '86 seems to be becoming less and less proficient playing Morrowind. Frame rates seem to be slowing down, albeit slowly and not by a significant margin. But I will say this: the first few times I played, nary a single fram dropped,...

The CDs weren't burnt using the Nero Express that came w/ the 8886. I was transfering files from my old PC (couldn't get the network to work in WIN98--not SE) so I used an 8x burner that was capable of burning 700 MB CDs (that was...

here's a brief explanation on SPDIF http://www.aopen.com/tech/techinside/spdif.htm But I'm still not entirely sure how I'd use it w/ speakers--would I use it w/ speakers. The more complicatied this gets, the better those USB...

What exactly IS S/PDIF? How is it used? Is this where you can use the "optical" inputs that some speaker systems have? Need some help here... Thanks

Would all these fancy speakers work w/ just my plugging them into the headphone jack? That seems kinda weird... Is 5.1 sound even a possibility? As far as cost goes, I'll pay for quality (after all, I dropped close to 3 Grrr on this...

I have the 8886 but I don't have cable to it yet. But I have read somewhere else either here or at Hardforums.com that the ATI USB TV box just isn't fast enough to be worthwhile. I'll post the TV results I get soon enough, but I...