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Exactly, it doesn't need to compete with ATX systems or chips. It's not intended to and the niche it fills doesn't ask it to. I think it's kind of obvious from the ASRock ION 330 design that it was intended as an HTPC machine. There's a lot of concentration on 24 bit sound, 5.1 audio...

Sounds like it would be easier to just distribute zipped ISOs of the CD itself.

Nice light show... Looks like two fronts, on opposite charges, merging off in the distance. Most of the lightning is cloud to cloud, with only a couple of ground strikes which generally indicates merging or splitting of storms. Where I am, sandwiched in between two major lakes, the upper...

I'm pretty much running it "as is" on Windows. I'm wondering if it is a cross-platform issue. It would be interesting it to know which is the native platform...

I agree it's not a 3ghz quad core multithreading system... and I don't think anyone really expects it to be that. And yes I agree, the CPU will hold things back a bit, which is to be expected. Still... it is a dual core, multithreading 64 bit processor running 1.6ghz, which is not exactly to...

Version 3.5.1 here... no problems to speak of. Certainly better than IE (any version)

Just for the Mad Magazine fans out there... Plumbing company... "Crapper" newsgroup, computers named Dip Dap Dobble and Dirp.... http://www.dccomics.com/mad/ ... but you gotta go back to the 60s to get the joke.

Hmmmm, sorry.... Perhaps you could clue us in?

I've probably given NewEgg about $20,000 in business over the past few years (pretty much since they announced Canadian pricing) and have never had any real problems with them... My one grumble is their occasional tendency to ship in the manufacturer's display cartons... But as with any...

Have you discovered the quirk in the "sharpness" setting yet? It took me a while to figure out that more is not better... the best image on 1080p Theatre Mode comes at a sharpness of 17, but on standard mode it works best at 50.... The good news is it saves the settings. But that's the...

I would be very interested in seeing the results of that. As I said we're talking about slight differences here... 5% or so continuous speed... Still it is a difference that might matter someplace. For now, I will stay with my original assessment that within it's intended audience --browsing...

That makes sense... One can't expect software to predict the future. But backtracking is expected. Thanks Kougar.

Windows 7 won't dual boot XP (or whatever)? That sucks.

Not so bad... There's a small corp net I tend once in a while. The workgroup is the company name (which is totally expected) the computers are One, Two, Three, Four ... Seventeen. Now THAT is boring. I've got a 4 machine setup for a private home coming up... I'm thinking of the "Bombsquad"...

This is just for laughs... but I'm a bit curious to see how people will respond.... If you had 3 (or more) computers on a network what would you name a) The workgroup? b) Each computer? Mine is the "Electric" workgroup with computers named "Volts", "Amps" and "Watts".... A friend of mine...

An addendum on this point, Rob... The drive in the ASRock is a 5400rpm unit. The drives in my desktop are 7200rpm... so that would explain the difference I was seeing.

Just a thought ... you might want to include ASUS and Gigabyte motherboards in your research list. I've used both extensively since the mid-90s and so far they've been rock solid for me. Overclocking might be fun... but ask yourself if a modest increase in performance is worth a larger...

Disagreement? I don't see no freaking disagreement! :D I am NOT angry :D Security and backup are indeed very high on my list of computer priorities. Right after ease of use and fun. Anyway... You'd be surprised how often the "go to guy" in small companies (or neighborhoods) is nothing more...

Consider the two biggest security holes in Windows ... Remote Registry and Telnet Server ... would you rather have them sitting on your system unused but easily accessed ... oooooorrrrrr... would you rather they weren't there at all? As I pointed out there's more to this than simply making...

Indeed it is a good thing this sort of problem is rare... Has he checked with others of the same make and model? Do they get as hot as his? It is possible there's a problem with the cpu cooler. A little dab of Arctic Silver and a blast of compressed air may be all the machine needs...