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I ordered this card the other day (one of the last AGP cards your going to find) and it works amazingly. Couldn't as for more! http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814143069

and alot of RAM

yup ;). Different boxes, different tasks. where does it say that he is getting a server? no where.. Yea... because we asked. Had we asked "what will it be used for" and he said 'server', the posts in this thread would be completly different then if he said "email / ms word" or "playing quake 5 and half life 4"

turn off caps lock :P but as to this: I have no clue what your talking about. If you mean by scanning your computer with two seperate programs at once... it will make it lag a little, but they won't "kill" eachother. That is the silliest thing I've heard.

Lol, when I read that opening line I laughed so god damn hard. That was the funniest thing I've read all day. Thanks.

torrents are usually rediculously slow, if you can find hosts in the first place, and so many times I have gotten to 90% and no one else has it past 90% either, so there it sits, never finishing.

In reference to the person raging about the other person who said "It depends on what you want to use it for" he is completely correct. If your building a server box, for instance, you could easilly put $8000 into it, and make it run increadibly smooth with several servers running on it.... and yet you wouldn't be able to play a single game on it.

If it was stopped, I don't think so, if it was pause, you can continue it, but that depends on the server your downloading from... for instance, you can't unpause downloads from places like filefront and such.

MIDI? lol ty

actually the SW Synth only controls the intro music, as I have it muted and I still hear ingame fine. In game stuff I think is mini, but don't quote me on that. It may have changed.

Hmmm... what format are the songs in? I know that if I am playing a high CPU based game like BF2, and I listen to a .wma with a high-bit rate, it will sound choppy... a few seconds of music, then a pause, and a few more. However, if I convert that same song to an MP3, it plays just fine. So once again: I use winamp to listen to my music. I also have SW Synth muted / set to 0 in my volume controls (to mute the annoying intro music for RS) and, however, I do notice a 1/2 second skip in my music when I first begin "loading" everything for RS, after that everything runs fine. Could you be a little more specific? What are you using to listen to music, and when does it occur? The entire time you have RS running? What if you try turning off the sound, playing on low detail, ect? What format is the music your listening to? I guess you answered a few of these. I'm not familiar with itunes though, and I'm not sure if they invented their own obscure format...

Well I'm sure if you just politly asked your proff, they would let you jack in somewhere without a problem... unless, of course, their name is Adolf or Joseph

hmm, I use winamp to listen to my music. I also have SW Synth muted / set to 0 in my volume controls (to mute the annoying intro music for RS) and, however, I do notice a 1/2 second skip in my music when I first begin "loading" everything for RS, after that everything runs fine. Could you be a little more specific? What are you using to listen to music, and when does it occur? The entire time you have RS running? What if you try turning off the sound, playing on low detail, ect?

the windows firewall really isn't a firewall at all per say. It's more of an annoyance than anything. If your going to use it, for whatever reason, I wouldn't recommend using it along with another firewall. If you feel like you need that extra protection, you could always pay for a firewall like Mcafee, or bunker down with a decent hardware firewall setting thru your router, if you have one that is.

Yes... I know... but he doesn't need to chop the song up and convert it and do a bunch of work he doesn't need to, not to mention he would end up losing a lot of quality. If you just drag it to syn with the movie in the timeline, it will end at the same time, no extra work done, no quality lost.

Omg I wish I had $5000 to put into a computer.... i haet yu0

Eh, it located me, my college IP, and several of my friends down to a T. Maybe you guys are just having tough luck or not using it correctly?

I had this same problem. I don't think we ever narrowed it down to exactly what the problem was, but me and one other person took note of things that diminished the choppyness, I know if we played RS on the client, with something else open to the internet like IE or limewire, it ran just fine... but I think that was only temporary. Well like I said, in the end we couldn't figure out what is was, it definitly wasn't our hardware or anything like that, however rather then using Sun Java, we switched to the Microsoft Java VM, which is what I still use today, and the choppyness is gone. If I revery to sun java, its back. Anyway, you could try using the microsoft java vm (if you can find it), but your going to have like 10 people say "zomg your going to get a virus that will launch nukes at russia and cause a nuclear holocaust" but most of that is mere fabrication.

I'm just the opposite. I hate dual monitors. I would prefere alt+tab any day.

er... its a laptop, not a gaming desktop. You can't expect much from laptops unless you want to have it sitting on a block of ice. And also, the scoring method for each 3d mark version were different.

carefull with things like CCleaner and TuneXP, they can really mess up your computer if you dont know what your doing.

xfire can also take screen shots, as well as automatically post them on the web, download game updates, and do a variety of things.

No, your correct. However, as soon as you begin sharing a file or anything of the such you have a direct connection with that person

you could also get your friends IP through something as simple as MSN if you know how to use DOS.

the could have used a proxy however, then it becomes a wild goose chase.