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Whats the most affordable SLI motherboard?

billytong — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:53:19 +0800

As you all know it is rather confusing for Intel chipset naming scheme,

I had not been following the hardware motherboard lately, searching each motherboard and viewing each brand on each motherboard prove to be rather tedious job. And those manufactuer dont group SLI board together.

Having plan to upgrade my existing computer. I would like to know

- SLI support (I dont feel like dumping my 9800GT for newer card)
- Number of RAM DIMM wont matter be it 2 DIMMs or 4 DIMMs (preferable)
- Able to use Pentium D 2.66GHz until I upgrade my CPU to Core 2 Quad later when price went down further.
- Use DDR2
- Number of SATA ports, other features are not my primary concern
- Chipset either Nvidia/Intel wont matter as long their are realiable.

My budget is around somewhere RM250-RM350.

I am wondering does the market offer this kind of motherboard that anyone here can highlight to me?

or do I have to switch over to AMD?

Ping Issues

billytong — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:32:15 +0800

Hi there,

I am facing some problem that I cannot ping certain IPs even I know the server is not dead.

for example.

I can use ping to ping google, yahoo.com, it all work fine.

but if I ping the IP that I typed in it return timeout. *Note the server is not dead. I can use their software to log into that server and use zonealarm log to catch the IP. Then I try to ping that IP, which return timeout.

Does this have to do with the server on the other side does not respond to any ping request? Anyone here can enlighten me?

Inactive Machine - Was in good condition

billytong — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:32:29 +0800

Hi Lowyatian,

I have 2 Old machines that was as good as 100% condition when I switch off long ago (may be 1-2years, couldnt remember) but today I checked and try switch it on but I cant get it to power up. It just wont switch on.

Heres are the following machine
Pentium 3 733MHz - 9 years old.
AthlonXp2400+ - 8 years old.

It was working perfectly the last time I switch it off which is long ago. Now it doesnt seems to switching on at all. Anyone here face this kind of weird problem, can u guys list the possible problem I could be facing?

Inactive Machine

billytong — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:30:25 +0800

RWI needs improvement

billytong — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 09:20:15 +0800

I agree with the Threadstarter

If u guys check the real world forum. At least half of the members are posting news, source, articles, links. then nothing else. Then another 25% of the members quoting the news, source & etc with just a 1 line reply without saying anything constructive. And there is already a sticky thread in the forum for those news articles, links, but the members are still posting news across the forum.

Some of the members if u trace their posts about 80% of their posts is all about news,source, articles & etc. They have say little or none constructive reply in the entire forum.
I find it it ultimately defeat the purpose of having "real world forum". May be we should rename it as "The Star" in lowyat forum, it is becoming to look like Kopitiam/Spamming heaven.

I had PM 3 Mods to fix this problem, and try keep it within PMs. So far I only got one reply from one of the highly respected mod that stating to follow up after the other 2 who did online recently. 6 days has passes, no update or anything happen, and the real world forum still polluted.

I guess I have no choice but to post here to get notice.

if such problem still unsolve, I start a thread about it in this forum.

If all didnt work, I step out of Real world forum and call it as another version of Kopitiam.

Regards
billytong.

Disable post count increment

billytong — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 01:22:42 +0800

Recently I found out there a lot of low life creatures who like to waste their time to reply their post in a few post together.

It makes me harder to scroll through a few post continuously just to read the same loser who write a few lines of thing.

I would like to purpose, If the user post a few post in a row, it will counted as 1 post. Is it possible/programitically implement this feature.

Thank you for reading.

Kopete login problem

billytong — Fri, 20 May 2005 09:47:20 +0800

I cant seem to login to my account at all. It keep saying I provide the wrong password althought I am typing the correct password. Whats the problem?

[GUIDE]Customize Simcity's city size & region size

billytong — Sat, 30 Oct 2004 09:08:55 +0800

A Guide for Simcity 4 & Rush Hour

Customize city size and location.

1. Create a new region. Must be entirely new one(totally flat). Old city cannot work. (including those that u had edited the landscape also consider old one)
2. Exit the game.
3. Go to your simcity 4 save game.
4. Go into your newly created region folder.
5. There is a bitmap(BMP) picture in it.
6. Use photoshop to edit it.
7. When you open the picture u will see different colors.

Small city = true red color =color code is (255, x , x)
Medium city = true green color = color code is (x, 255, x)
Large city = true blue color = color code is (x, x, 255)

x = any number as long it is below 150. I recommend below 150 so that u can see the color different and still within main color. Never set other color to 255. Ex. Small city red must 255, other must not 255.

Each small city map is represent by a square block of SINGLE pixel. Zoom in and start editing your picture.
Each medium city map is represent by a square block of FOUR pixels in the same color.
Each Large city map is represent by a square block of SIXTEEN pixels in thr same color.

Larger region or customize your region.

Simcity create a default region size of 16x16 pixel = total number of 256 pixels. That means you can create a total of 16 large size cities.

However we can customize our region size also. Try to resize the picture size.

for example I can create a 32x32 pixel region that is 4 times as larger as the default size.

You can also create a long rectangle region. Ex. 32x8. You can also create a smaller region 6x6, 8x8. All it depends on your design.

You create a region of 128x128. But I will not recommend it. Because it will lag and take ages for loading the city...and to build such big region it takes a lot of time.

The most I tried on my last old AXP1700+ system with 512MB of RAM is 48x48. I am not sure how much the newer PC AMD64, Intel Prescott can handle.May be these PC can handle more. But A 32x32 is a very very very very large region already. A 64x64 will lag a bit and it will require a team of members to create this super region.