Camel_Man

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drop the grudge. rebuild the friendship. keep the dagger sharp. dont forget to twist the blade.

i remember mentioning the blackviper site somewhere around here a long time ago. its great because it gives you complete descriptions of services and their dependencies on other services. the site also shows you how to make a batch file to disable selected services.

how did you even remember that today is my birthday? this explains why lately ive felt as if i were being watched.

lol w00t! why thankyou thankyou.

just curious but what is the trop clone's server location? im hopin a wee bit more south because my ping hasn't been great since the plat days.

muter ill have yo baby, just gimmie a ring

doesnt matter if its a domestic or import. you dont need a wing of that size and nature for a car that only puts out 140hp. unless its boosted i shall eat my words (cant see an intercooler)

eww rice. is that a pontiac?

even with the glands removed ferrets are still very smelly. i would keep it and name it Mr. Bojangles but thats just me.

i would suggest staying with whatever fastest ram that cpu uses. ddr400 is pretty old now and by the next time you upgrade dd400 will be dinosaur and you would prolly want to buy something faster than that anyways. i would suggest sticking with crucial ram. its a little bit pricer than some of the other stuff but ive never had a problem with crucial ram. with kingston i have had some compatablility issues. figure out how much everything is gonna cost and just wait until you have enough money to buy everything. the prices on parts are always dropping and buying it piece by piece is silly since you cant use it until you have everything. getting the video card now however would be a good choice since you can use it and take advantage of it now. get that and then just save up until you have enough to buy the rest and you will be good to go

how old was the compaq? ive tried using cdroms and hds from name brand computers and it didnt work at all. the compaq cdroms wouldnt be detected correctly in windows and wouldnt work. and the dell harddrives would post errors after the bios post and would not load.

if you want to take advantage of the 333fsb then you need to get ddr 400 ram. if your motherboard doesnt support it then i wouldnt bother. 512 total ram will do nicely

should also mention that nforce2 boards have onboard sound which is much better than yer sb pci 128.

the compaq harddrive and cdrom drive and the ram will not work with another mb other than compaq, so you would have to figure in the cost of a new hd and cdrom too. as for that ecs motherboard i would not suggest buying from ecs. i've owned and built computers using their products before and had nothing but problems with them. biostar makes a pretty decent motherboard (much better than ecs) you can get a biostar nforce2 motherboard for 49 or the biostar nforce2 ultra 400 board for 62. the nforce2 400 ulta board also has a 15 dollar mail in rebate right now which brings the board down to 47 if you use the rebate. both boards can be found on www.newegg.com