CPU Happenings

CPU of choice -- Athlon 850Mhz. faster than pIII. want one of my own. But I will just wait for the opportunity to get 1.5 GHz. sigh.

Damn Steve, this new server rocks man! Hats off to all involved!

Beware of marmots though, the little scamps stole my truck.

ok everyone i have a question. what FAT does everyone use for their hard drives? im am using FAT16 right now..and windows says FAT32 is better. is this true? has anyone had any experience in this area? does using FAT32 over FAT16 have any effect on Gaming speed/quality? please reply with some information. i am always on the lookout for something to speed up my system.. thanks.

well if it was. it was the dudes at Gateway that put together my computer first. they probably goofed it.

i switched. and it does run faster. and i had FAT16 because that's how Windows 98 came. it was like that when i first installed it. the original version.

Bah hum bug, use FDISK to go to FAT32. :-)

- Val (* where's that damn Daikatana? *)

If id would just make their games cheat proof none of this would be an issue!!! They say its impossible but thats total BS. Tribes went 2 years without a major cheat.. sure there were a few small bugs to exploit but no aiming bots or proxies.. I have not played Tribes in about 8 months, but I havent heard anything about any cheats. IT IS POSSIBLE TO MAKE A GREAT GAME THATS CHEAT PROOF... Tribes is it.

dshowcase

i suggest possibly applying a sticky clear substance to your keyboard and desk and having a pr0n page open, that would surely keep me away...

actually, if you open goat yourself...THAT should keep all potential fuxX0rs at bay*

SkarodoM

* some settling of product may occur during shipping/limit one per customer per visit/i am terribly bored please kill me/what is all of this crusty stuff on the bottom of my desk...

Ganked a little blurb off of SharkyExtreme for you Athlon luvers.

"ABIT is working on a VIA KX133 Athlon motherboard. While they didn't have any
specific announcements to make regarding the product, we would expect to see
this board sometime in late May or June 2000.

ABIT is well known for their SoftMenu technology, which makes overclocking so
easy even my mother could do it. We were curious as to how ABIT would handle
overclocking an Athlon, so we asked whether or not they would have a "Magic
Fingers"-like solution built into their Athlon board, which would hopefully be
controlled by SoftMenu III. The reply we received, accompanied by some
sheepish looks, was a statement along the lines of, "Our customers have written
in and told us what they want." "

A mobo with a built in "magic fingers" that could be run off of the SoftMenuIII would be one sweet ass setup. I hope it happens.

Gah FUCK, every time I go out and don't leave a screen saver password on my machine, my floormates pull up the good ole goatse.cx page to surprise me when I get back. Someone's going to pay for this...

That is such a bad interview =(

good questions, but I can't freakin' tell where the question ends and where the answer starts..... argh

thank you for all your help. i think ill convert the next time i want to reformat. then i can start anew. thanx

Anyone know why the Shack Q3 server has been down so much lately? (Steve?)

windows says i cannot uninstall windows 98 after i convert to FAT32. but what about REinstalling ? i always like to have a fresh install of Win98 every month or so. can i still do this after converting to FAT32?

so basically i am thinking i should just go for it and use the windows program to switch over to FAT32. how long does that take?

soo...if something screws up the worst that can happen is all ym shit on my drive gets deleted like a reformatted?..that's not bad..i need to reformat anyways

i'm not new to computers. i am just new to fucking with windows. i used not to care about tweaking at all.. but now i care about that stuff. and because of my lack of past experience in this area i need to catch up now. so that's why i am here asking questions. can you think of any better way of getting information than by asking fellow gamers?

why do you recommend backing up before?

WHERE CAN I FIND A MODEM< I NEED TONE GET ON THE INTERNET!

Bake me a 'thunderbird'.

DOH! I didn't read the message all the way.. god i feel like an ass now =P

Windows 98.

i want a second opinion. (no offense JT_256) but just to be sure. i don't wanna fuck it up or anything so i'd like to know for sure wether or not this is a good idea.

Chuga Chuga w00t! w00t!

wooot first post after last post!

phew :)

now. what's the news item about :)

1st post!!!!!!!!!!!!!