On visiting a local wine bar I noticed that the individual staff had
to sign on in order to process your order. The idea is that hey can
trace which member off staff served which customer. BUT
They have finger print recognition. They place there finger ona

Has an Athlon XP 2500 and PC2700.  Anyone know how many slots for RAM?
Trying to help a friend in AK who knows nothing, so may need to order
RAM for him.
Think I'd read it has 2Gb ram max.  Have a bunch of old 512's, so if

Are we stuck around 3ghz? I haven't seen much speed improvement in years
other than more cores and 64 bit. Some 4ghz around,seems like we should
be at 7 or 10 ghz by now.

I am not talking to the ignorant fucktard who pretends he (or she)
knows about computers/electronics, I am talking to the dummies who
might follow his advice... Simply ask the ignorant fucktard whether
he has ever actually measured the wattage a typical PC uses. Since he

What do you think of the PC Pitstop tests?  Is that a good indicator of
a computer's performance?
I use them whenever I build a new machine or upgrade in any significant
way.  What the heck, it's free.  I find them interesting and amusing,

Hello. I've been having some troubles with my stock cpu fan. I have a
core 2 duo 6420 @ 2.13 ghz. When I shut the computer down the fan
doesn't start up unless I give it a manual push or restart again. I
can't find anywhere just to buy the fan. On newegg the cheapest decent

After 10 months experience with a 32 GB OCZ Vertex (of course
others might be better), and having to revert back to two
different drives... Going back to a Quantum Fireball on a slow
system and feeling the pain was no surprise. But then using my

Leo Laporte, on 'The Tech Guy' radio show was responding to a caller and
said hardly anyone builds their own PC anymore.  He said the reason is, PCs
are dirt cheap because the big boys buy in bulk, and companies, like Dell,
sell them with razor thin profits.

I thought this would be overlooked if I tagged it onto the rest of my
thread from a fortnight or so back:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt/browse_thread/thread/
a16f2fdb917072a/4e369820a10b9610#4e369820a10b9610
Advice from the previous wizard would be ...

New build, and some general "funkyness" happening.
I bought the ASUS mobo (M4A78T-E) and the CPU (AMD Phenom II X2 545)
from a reputable local dealer.
The Phenom Phenom II X2 545 is "retail package", not OEM. It came with