Father Xmas

Nice episode, old (at least I've seen it a number of times before) con, steal the original to sell the forgeries.

Really enjoyed last week with Peter and Mozzie getting the money. Shows of Mozzie's mix of foresight and paranoia at a whole new level. The magazine was a nice touch. It also gave us a needed backstory on Diana.

And as something a bit off kilter if not off topic there's this video from Comic-con.

Pushing Daisies

Better Off Ted

Archer

Dead Like Me

Clerks the Animated Series

The Tick

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Freaks and Geeks

Sorry got in late. No real problems, just a few comments.

First, I don't think you can achieve DDR3-1600 without overclocking the base clock on the i5-7xx series. You still get "better" memory with an increased likelihood for achieving improved timings at DDR3-1333 speeds if you like to diddle with those settings in the BIOS. I have DDR3-1600 memory in my rig specs for that reason, either overclocking or better timings at -1333 speeds.

If you might consider overclocking, even modestly, then a third party CPU heatsink is a must. It's also a lot easier to add one before you install the motherboard into the case unless the case has an access hole cut out of the motherboard tray as these type of heatsinks are best attached through the motherboard to a back plate and not directly to the motherboard.

I'm going to say probably no due to a BIOS limitation in recognizing such a "new" processor (manual from August 2001, 533MHz FSB P4s came out about six months later). So the FSB speed might be fixed at 400MHz making the CPU run only at 1.9GHz. The next question is if the voltage regulator on the MB can be set to a lower voltage since the Northwood ran a 1.4-1.5 volts while the older P4s ran at 1.75 volts.

If you have an idea which HP model carried this MB then maybe you can see if 1) there is a BIOS upgrade that may include the early Northwoods and 2) there's a list of potential CPUs that were compatible. This doesn't say a whole lot.

Also don't forget, and I'm sure you realize this, single channel SDRAM memory. Just what Pentium 4s like, really limited memory bandwidth. In real world terms this limited bandwidth may erode a significant chunk of expected performance gains even if you get this running at it's 2.53GHz because it will be always waiting on memory fetches.

The downside of simply sticking it in and giving it a try is how well the Northwood can handle Willamette voltages, worse case fry the chip.

Well I saw BillZ posted in that thread last night I knew something was up since he was the one that started that thread years ago to give guidance about ATI's "quirks" pre I-17 as well as post I-17 settings and thus it was made sticky. And because of the fix he asked it to become unstuck.

Sorry you je_saist thought his efforts and information weren't worth your notice.

However I do agree with Master-Blade that news of this magnitude deserved it's own thread.

It's a temp power, like the Halloween costumes. Check under powers.

Sorry, it's late and someone else only had the CoHHelper file, confused the two.

Did you try the game's safe mode? Check box located on the 2nd page of the updater.

Tagging out.

Sorry, so both monitors are attached to the same video card? I'm asking because I believe that might be the problem. Also please post a HiJackThis report, it'll let us see all the software currently running on the system.

Have you tried it in the game's safe mode, the check box for it is found on the updater on the second page. The embedded video solution on your motherboard isn't all that powerful, safe mode should reset all the video options to minimum.

And when you say freeze, do you mean freeze and never comes back or freeze as in long pause and it starts running again?

You should also check the Asus site for an updated drivers and possibly a newer BIOS.

Two monitors or two video card?

I seem to remember something about eVGA's control panel software causing problems. Try unloading it first.

I bet this is a generational or weened on a console Vs PC gaming thing. Those of us playing PC games since the time of CGA and Hercules B+W graphics are keyboard/mouse while those whose very first computer gaming experience was an XBox or PlayStation prefer a game controller.

Trigun

Invader Zim

Neon Genesis Evangelion

Freakazoid

Baccano!

Martian Successor Nadesico

The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot

Cowboy Bebop

Surprised nobody suggested the original Jonny Quest from the 60s. Also Zim ran two seasons according to IMDB, three according to TV.COM. Freakazoid was also two seasons. Who vetted these selections? :P

I'm with je_saist here. Everyone I know use a keyboard and a mouse. Maybe a game board controller like the ones from Saitek PZ31A, Logitech G13 or Belkin N52 (left hand keyboard with thumb controller).

<Kermitcheer>Yea!!!</Kermitcheer>

I found that the links from the CityofHeroes home page pass the wrong certificate for where they are linking you to and Firefox prevents the connection from being made.

The links take you to secure.plaync.com but the certificate passed is for secure.ncsoft.com.

Going to www.plaync.com takes you to (in my case) us.ncsoft.com and the account management link is to secure.ncsoft.com. That works for me.

Now I'm not sure about players who try that link and can't get through.

Sounds like major hardware maintenance. Considering the backups they are making the previous two days I'm guessing updating the RAID disk arrays and server board upgrades.

Either that or they are going to be going though a lot of can air and give the servers a good cleaning.

Got to prep for the influx of GR players.

Well depends on the game, the resolution, etc. techPowerUp! review has the aggregate difference at 1920x1200 with AA at 8%. Similar results seen at AnandTech. It's enough to move the 1GB GTX 460 ahead of the 1GB GTX 465 in a number of benchmarks.

Bye bye GTX 465, nice knowing you for a month or two. Talk about stop gap measures.

Okay, so a Socket 1156 motherboard. Do you care if it's SLi and Crossfire (nVidia's and ATI's multiple video card standards) compatible, just poor Crossfire compatible or is single video card support fine with you? Do you care about USB 3.0 or SATA 6Gbps? Those are the usual differences between the various motherboard models.

USB 3.0 is the new USB standard at 10x the speed of USB 2.0, being embraced by the external hard drive market as we speak. Older external drives had around a 30-40MB/s speed limit, USB 3.0 allows external drives to reach very close to SATA internal speeds.

SATA 6Gbps is the new SATA standard by conventional hard drives aren't even getting close to SATA 3Gbps speeds so it's a tad ahead of it's time. However the SSD market is starting to look at this as their drives are starting to bump against the SATA 3Gbps limits.

And when I say just poor Crossfire compatible, I mean motherboards that combine a x16 video card slot with one that's only wired as x4 (and half speed at that). Doesn't really provide a worthwhile boost sticking a 2nd video card into that half speed x4 slot.

On 1156 motherboards that do support SLi and Crossfire with two slots, they run as x8/x8 with two video cards present, x16 with one video card. Yes, it won't be a fast as two x16/x16 slots but you don't really loose too much performance (compare 2-way Crossfire between X58 at x16/x16 and the P55 at x8/x8).

Warning about Gigabyte and their Socket 1156, -P55A series of motherboards. Enabling USB3.0 or SATA 6Gbps support on the GA-P55A-UD3R, the primary video card slot is downgraded from an x16 to an x8 (lose about 5% in video performance), no SLi or real Crossfire support. Using SLi or Crossfire on either the GA-P55A-UD4 or -UD5 will downgrade the USB3.0 or SATA 6Gbps ports to USB 2.0 and SATA 3Gbps. Gigabyte were being "cheap" on how they wedged in USB 3.0 and SATA 6.0Gbps support into their motherboards.

Overclockers UK do have two of the older GA-P55-xxxx motherboards still available (don't have this option stateside, everything is -P55A). The GA-P55-USB3 has only USB 3.0 ports and a single fully functional at the same time x16 video card slot. The GA-P55-UD5 can do either SLi or Crossfire but has no USB 3.0 or SATA 6.0Gbps ports at all.

Now looking at the Asus models at Overclockers UK it's either full SLi and Crossfire support (P7P55D Deluxe or Pro) or USB 3.0/SATA 6Gbps support (P7P55D-E or -E LX) but not both (well, not unless you pay through the nose for the Asus Maximus III Extreme (should be called Maximus Ridiculous being over twice the price of the others).

Yes, it's all rather confusing.

I would like a decent pair of cargo shorts for male and huge models as well. Had to settle on full length pants when I rolled up Kangaroo Hunter years ago, deleted after Steve Irwin's death. The only character I took Jump Kick on.

Decorum I liked your use of the fire pack for scuba tanks, nice job.

SSDs perform great. Downside is you can buy a good 7200PRM 1TB (1000GB) drive for $80-100 but only get a 30-32GB SSD for that price. A good 160GB SSD is around $400-450 today.

SSDs aren't inexpensive, there performance varies widely and they are evolving at a rapid pace. If you can afford one, please at least read the current reviews to find out which ones are the best right now.

I think we've bludgeoned the poor OP about the head and shoulders enough about this.