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some dells ship with an empty pci-e slot and a pci-based graphics card. besides, aren't there some 8-series cards that are PCI based? i don't remember.

i realize that. however, whatever computer he's using might not have built-in support for widescreen - a lot of laptops and desktops with basic built-in video don't - and so i was suggesting something low-end. since most graphics drivers nowadays don't support the standard 640x480 (or whatever 480p is), i suggested the standard low-end res.

xbox computer should be done by then, and i might do an OCR mod just for the hellz of it.

and...thank you, bahamut! if you want to buy something, pm the seller. if you want something or are selling something, post in this thread.

i'm tenatively going as a vendor with some computers. i'd be staying with oa and avaris. i might be bringing two other people (not sure yet). i also have room in my car, i'm coming from central NY (ithaca area) straight south to the conference. i'm willing to deviate from my driving plans to pick someone up.

likely the resolution for your PC is out of range (too big or too small) for your tv. most tvs can't support the normal resolution for a pc monitor, it's far too big. if it supports 720p, turn your screen res down to like 800x600 and go from there to find the largest possible resolution that is in the correct ratio. btw, this should have been in help and newbies. i'll pm a mod to move it.

sounds like your drivers are bad. i mean, your card is bad, but your drivers probably are the issue. install, restart when they tell you, and give it a shot. see what happens. if it's still fritzing, look into a new card. even an 8500 (like 40 bucks) would be a massive upgrade.

i don't remember what it was, actually. but you still owe me a collab or two.

cerrax, you still owe me a collab on something from like two years ago.

i hear that. i have a few pics from my wedding where my eyes are suspiciously reflective.

singing that piece with my choir was one of the high points of my musical education. leonardo dreams of his flying machine by eric whitacre was the other big one i can think of.

yeah i just figured you were mistaken or something. i'm going to try that controller-to-usb mod once i get a little farther along with my setup. i'm also going to attempt to find the info on a n64-controller-to-usb mod, cause i KNOW i've see them and i don't own an n64 anymore.

gimme a few minutes, i'll work you up a good system. ok, here goes. dvd burner boot hard drive storage hard drive evga 9800gtx+ dvd drive zalman zm600-hp 600w hard drive (up to 750w under load...it's modular and amazing) 2x2gb ddr2 800mhz ram evga 780i motherboard e8500 cpu xigmatek cpu cooler retention bracket for the cooler, totalyl worth the 7 bucks shipping to me (14867, near ithaca ny) is about 25$. at that price, you could go with either two cards or just get something like the gtx 260 core 216, which is an absolute beast when it comes to processing power. one of the most powerful card profiles available today. not that much more money either, considering it almost doubles the performance of the 9800gtx+. i go with evga boards and cards - they have a lifetime warranty if you register it within 30 days. and they have the best customer service in the industry. i had a card that had issues about a month after the 1-year warranty you get if you don't register, and they still replaced it for free AND let me sign up that card for the lifetime warranty. it's worth the extra ten bucks or so. i'd say to go with a 64-bit version of your os of preference. vista's 64-bit version is excellent. if you're not going to do that, you'll get between 3.25 and 3.5 gigs of ram based on how much video ram your card has. just keep it in mind. it's not a big performance hit (xp is SO slim compared to vista) but it's there. 64-bit'd give you all 4 gigs of your ram...and at that price you could get 8 gigs easily. total with the above loadout would be $1156.33. assuming you don't need a case. if you need a case, get something big that's worth the time. if you don't mind it being a little louder and want something flashy, the sunbeam transformer is a great one (about 100$ shipped at newegg, lots of fans and blue leds). the antec nine hundred is another good one. if you want something a little classier, just dig around. but watch shipping costs, they add up a lot. if you want a quad instead of the one listed above, the q6600 is a good offering for a good price. if you want a 1tb drive for storage instead of 750, go with the samsung 1tb offering on newegg. it's the standard for price, speed, and temp performance. don't go with the 1.5tb drive, it's an open drive. more of an enthusiast item. if you're into bluray, go with this hd-rom/bd-rom/dvd-rw drive. it'll read hd and blu-ray and burn discs, and it's got lightscribe as well. if you get just that and not the other two drives, it'd be about 90 bucks more. hopefully that'd help. if you want anything more, let me know.

so, i've started attempting to get some sponsors for the system from smaller mod organizations that might want to get some advertising out of it. oh, and on a whim i contacted Stardock about a copy of their WindowBlinds skinning utility for the UI once it's done. we'll see what happens =)

blue man group's song club nowhere was a song that i really like, but it never made me cry.

i think you'd find that timing is incredibly overrated, really. i run 5-5-5-15 ddr2 800mhz ram, and when i spent some money and got 3-4-4-8 ram i barely noticed a difference. that said, asus doesn't list your board on their site. you might want to confim that board name...what graphics chipset does it use? it's a socket 478, right?

there's a possibility that those tracks are in mp3 VBR and iTunes isn't recognizing the digital tag that lets it know that. try redownloading - likely, a few bits here or there got fragmented on the dl.

in general, when you've got ram with two different timings being installed, the board generally reverts to the slower settings. so, likely, if you installed the cheapest ram (never do rebates, not worth the time...particularly with ram and power supplys, i've found), it'd revert to the timing that's the slowest. in other words, your new ram would function at your old ram's timing. just go with the cheapest ones, any bonus you'd get would be cancelled out by the poor timing on your older ram.

here's the internals in the metal casing that's inside of the plastic case. i'm probably going to install the internals into either a handbuilt case or an old 386 desktop case i've got sitting around for the lulz. with an expanded hard drive, of course. i might just chop up a broken 360 to run backups and xbox originals instead, i haven't decided if it's worth the time getting the software to run backups off of the (also hacked) hard drive. here's a better picture of the motherboard and psu of the xbox. most of this is coming out, of course. a worthy item to note is that the front controller ports are connected through a header card to the motherboard...but they're almost exactly the same as standard usb. i might even be able to reuse the header, we'll see. i'll probably just wind up using those brackets to hold reused usb ports. that's all for now. when my next computer job comes in, i'll buy the parts and get the interior set up. because all of my case mod tools are at the house i grew up in, i'll have to wait till i go home for christmas to do the case modifications. i should be able to set everything up now, though, assuming there aren't any huge issues with space inside the box.

i forgot to take pictures of it before i disassembled it, but here's what i found. there's all the case parts in the box, disassembled. all xboxes have two layers to the case - a plastic layer and a thin metal box inside as well. the plastic layer is what i'll mod up - but i will likely use the metal box to help organize everything in the htpc itself. there's a better view of the case parts. i'm still planning on using the front buttons if at all possible. here's the header for the front buttons. i'm going to try to find some wiring diagrams so i can see what button does what. the eject button should be able to stay wired the way it is (the dvd player's power and controls are attached directly to the motherboard with data through an IDE cable, so this should be easy to continue using). the power button will get a bit rewired, and i'm going to use it like a standard momentary switch with the picopsu.

i thought that the discussion of persona 3, for example, was really great.

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