Pyrion

Depends on the product. If you see any from "Pyrion," that guy knows wtf he's talking about.

Not that hard to figure out.

$10 sent, plus I've been ordering ocremix stuff off of estarland as it's been offered. (EDIT: This means "moar lewt plz." An ocremix coffee mug, perhaps? Mouse pad? I'd buy 'em. )

Vista + Creative? Come on. I'll take 'How to use Google' for $200, Alex.

This sound is being played by your computer, right? I'm sure just disabling whatever relevant sound event in the Sound control panel would solve that.

Even if you have a really good computer, turn them down anyways. Dual 8800GT's and I still run standard simply because the less complex the game is, the faster it runs and the less laggy my FRAPS recordings are. One other tip, if you're playing casual mono, go ahead and turn on ironmode. It's easier. I'm not kidding, taking away the shoulder lanes allows you to make fast moves without overshooting and ending up in a shoulder lane.

Quartet SummerTrance OCReMix. Seriously. That's gotta be about the most loaded track I've found so far. EDIT: Top Gear "Las Vegas." Don't believe me?

AVG Free Edition.

MP3 Tag Tools.

Shadow copy documents the changes to files though (they're incremental snapshots, so only the changes are documented). Backing up an entire volume's worth of changes will generally take up a lot less space than backing up an entire volume's worth of duplicate files minus a few bits modified here and there.

Shadow copy creates local backups. Not at all useful if the drive itself fails. Shadow copies are only useful for reversion to earlier versions of files if they're accidentally deleted or modified. Yeah I was leery of this description too cuz it doesn't make sense. If this were the case then RAID 1 would put unnecessary strain on drive 0 to re-read the data it just wrote simply to put it on drive 1. It makes more sense for the controller to write to both drives more-or-less simultaneously. Well this is generally due to the people making backups not actually making backups until they suspect the drive is about to die. Too little too late at that point.

They're not really "horror stories" insofar that they make things worse. Typically things are already so bad that software won't help any. Software can't magically fix a fried control board or readwrite heads dancing on the platter.

You'd be surprised.

This would actually be a non-issue if you already had Vista installed. You'd just convert your drive from basic to dynamic and then resize the volumes as necessary. Can't do that within XP though. GPartEd works. I've used it before, with NTFS, no problems from what I could tell, it doesn't actually commit the changes until you're satisfied with your choices.

I can reliably guarantee that two 8800GT's in SLI will still choke on Crysis and World in Conflict.

Around 150 minutes (2.5 hours) to maintain quality. Otherwise, like you said, the encoders will sacrifice quality to make it all fit.

Agreed, reluctantly. Especially if you're looking at AMD's Phenom, which currently sucks. Wait for AMD to release the 9550 and 9650 soon.

ID3V1 character limits, I imagine.

My personal recommendation: Sennheiser PX-100. EDIT: Oh wait, in-ear phones. Hrm. Never tried those.

Graybird isn't. Graybird's also been around for quite a long time. This is all Symantec has on it (that's useful, anyway).

What graphics settings are you attempting to run?

btw on Friday I ordered 2 8800GT's and a 800W PSU off of Newegg, should arrive Monday or Tuesday.

Capacitors. Even after you've turned it off, they can hold a lot of electricity for a long time.

8080's also used for web proxies.

As far as nvidia's offerings are concerned, the 8800GT is the only card that matters. Is that better?