Birdman

I'm a big fan of the folding at home. Been folding for the MaximumPC team for a couple years now.

That's is the worst idea for a controller ever. LOL. I guess I'll have to try it to be sure though, I actually enjoyed the N64 controller.

I'd go 6600GT.

A lot of people are gonna miss that guy. I really liked his act.

154.58FPS If i dont follow the directions and run it like people did up top.

72.23FPS

No love for EKU We almost had the upset.

So im guessing the server needs an update.

What motherboard do u have man? I would replace that processor with something faster if your motherboard can handle it.

Good News! Version 3 has SATA support! http://global.shuttle.com/Product/barebone...iew.asp?B_id=42 I wouldnt recommend the socket A platform, but it's an option.

Dream Hack http://www.dreamhack.se/dhw04/dhw04.1_100.en.html Here's some huge pictures of the place where they have the event. http://www.dreamhack.org/dhw03/foton/031125_panoramabak.jpg http://www.dreamhack.org/dhw03/foton/03112..._mot_sovsal.jpg http://www.dreamhack.org/dhw03/foton/031125_panoramafram.jpg Lan War is about 500 people. MML is around 1,000. Dream Hack in around 5,000.

Million Man Lan is even bigger. It's the biggest Lan Party event in North America who's only purpose is lan gaming. Other attractions like Quakecon and CPL bring more numbers, but the purpose for those events aren't just lan gaming. That's what makes MML impressive. I'll try to find some pics of the largest lan party in the world. I think it's held in Germany, and it's crazy large.

Nice. I really like my AV8 motherboard so far. Very stable from the get go, and it seems to have no problems overclocking if you've got the ram to handle it.

True. I have one in a shuttle pc that hits 2.5GHz stable at like 1.65 volts or something silly like that. I haven't messed with it in awhile so I can't remember the exact numbers. Great processor though. For 50 dollars more though you can get a 939 pin athlon 64 winchester 3000+ processor. So the mobiles aren't the deal that they originally were.

Well. To start. You can lower the latency of your RAM by running the tightest stable timings possible. A lot of people will run something close to a 3-3-3-8 timing. But if you crank some voltage to your ram and run tighter timings like 2-2-2-5 you'll boost 3dmark scores. Another is to try benchmark runs with AGP fast writes on and off. Most of the time this won't make a difference, but in older systems having it on will speed your scores up some. You can always slide your video card driver image quality bars to performance for about a 300 point improvement in 3dmark 2001 too. A good defrag seems to help at times, and even if it doesn't help your score it should help regular windows performance. I always like to shut every program I have running down while running a benchmark. No firewall or antivirus. Close my IM services. Turn the screen saver off, and set my back ground to a plain black wallpaper, that is, no 5MB jpeg's for a desktop. Setting windows to 16 bit color used to make a difference for me too, but i havent tried it in awhile. A lil' overclock on your video card or processor never hurt either. You don't need anything too radical at first. Just try it with a 5-10MHz increase in speed. Nice motherboard btw Mini. It is a great board for tweaking.