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my bro did the pest control thing...he worked for a guy for several years then finally got to know enough people (accounts) that he got his own license and started his own buisness. this was in florida dont know how the market is in jersey. all i know is make sure if you get into it they supply you a vehical because my bro was saying he puts 100,00miles+ on a vehical in one year....

i agree CPDMF, no bios/sli related problems here either in fact i havent had to flash the bios yet for any reason...maybe i should just to do it, but from what ive read on many forums its the initial batches of 7900s' that are screwy in sli...whether or not they straightened out the problem yet i dunno

....i could blow u some acrylic enamel automotive paint on there like a mirror with no buffing in any color u want. about an hour to strip the case down about an hour to DA it, about an hour to prime and sand it, and about 15mins to paint it...overnight to dry. to get fancy and basecoat/clearcoat using different colors and taping in between would take a couple of more hours probably and run ur paint costs up depending on if the local supplier is willing to sell by small quantities like pints....if u knew an auto painter you would be in buisness. hobby paints, rustoleum type enamels, and puff can paint will look like a turd in no time. unfortunately paying someone u dont know to do a jam up job will cost u..i'd charge at least 200$ for perfection and maybe more for a complex basecoat/clearcoat multicolor design....but if i knew u i'd do it for materials heh...monotone probably 50$...base/clear probably close to 100$ depending on how many colors and if i could get small quantities of paint.... but thats my opinion...a quality paint job and painter is hard to find.

there used to be more problems with raid0 several years ago when raid was first being integrated onto mobos and after playing around with it for awhile i learned that raid1 gives almost the same performance as far as what u notice however you dont double the drive space it only equals the size of one drive in the array ...anyway raid1 isnt talked about much becoz of the space issue. all i can say for sure is that instaling the operating system on a raid settup gives ALOT more performance...its noticeable for sure. You take a chance with raid0 imo but with todays backup software like ghost or acronis true image i would say its not as much of a risk as it used to be. The drivers? just load them at f6 its no big deal. My opinion on the ide driver is its alot better than it was before just get the latest one but really i would NOT install it when prompted but just see if everything works fine without it and later if you have issues install it. Be sure if your going to install to a raid array there is no other hd attached to the system until after windows and all the drivers are installed...then plug them in. TLER i know nothing about but windows+raid=awesome performance.

theres an epoxy called JB weld available at some autoparts stores. its the same color kinda almost black. i'd say that, and a toothpick to apply it carefully around the edges should make it look almost stock...

i think its fair they got slapped with a lawsuit....most computer users buying a harddrive for the first time probably got surprized by the actual capacity thing. it IS false advertizing coz the consumer believes the number on the box is for his/her machine. its a deception plain and simple designed to increase sales.

grrr ummm well heres some settings to look at, theyre all expert bios but maybe u can get somthing out of it: DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 SLI-DR Expert - 12/07/05 BIOS AMD Opteron 148 Venus CABNE 0528GPMW (2 x1GB) G.SKILL DDR 500 (PC 4000) F1-4000USU2-2GBHZ UCCC Sapphire X800GTO^2 16p 256MB, 400/980 Cat 6.4drivers 2 x Maxtor 6B200RO 200GB IDE hdd (16MB cache) Lite-On 52327S White IDE CD-ROM Drive NEC 16X White DVD Burner 3550A Chaintech AV-710 Envy24 HT-S - 4.73b OCZ PowerStream OCZ520ADJ ATX 520W PSU * * ========== Genie BIOS Settings: FSB Bus Frequency - 285 LDT/FSB Frequency Ratio - 3X CPU/FSB Frequency Ratio - 10 PCI eXpress Frequency - 100Mhz CPU VID StartUp Value - 1.400v CPU VID Control - 1.400v CPU VID Special Control - Auto LDT Voltage Control - 1.20v Chip Set Voltage Control - 1.59v DRAM Voltage Control - 2.60v DRAM Configuration Settings: DRAM Frequency Set - 200=RAM/FSB:01/01 Command Per Clock (CPC) - Enable CAS Latency Control (Tcl) - 03 Bus Clocks RAS# to CAS# delay (Trcd) - 04 Bus Clocks Min RAS# active time (Tras) - 08 Bus Clocks Row precharge time (Trp) - 04 Bus Clocks Row Cycle time (Trc) - 07 Bus Clocks Row refresh cyc time (Trfc) - 13 Bus Clocks Row to Row delay (Trrd) - 02 Bus Clocks Write recovery time (Twr) - 02 Bus Clocks Write to Read delay (Twtr) - 02 Bus Clocks Read to Write delay (Trwt) - 03 Bus Clocks Refresh Period (Tref) - 3684 Cycles Write CAS Latency (Twcl) - 1 DRAM Bank Interleave - Enabled DQS Skew Control - Auto DQS Skew Value - 0 DRAM Drive Strength - Level 3 DRAM Data Drive Strength - Auto (Reports Level 1-Reduce 50% in Everest) Max Async Latency - 8.0 Nano Seconds DRAM Response Time - Fastest Read Preamble Time - 5.0 Nano Seconds IdleCycle Limit - 16 Cycles Dynamic Counter - Disable R/W Queue Bypass - 8 x Bypass Max - 04 x 32 Byte Granularity - Disable(4 Bursts) ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// DFI LANPARTY nF4 SLI-DR EXPERT (E7/04-2BTA BIOS) AMD OPTERON 148 CABYE 0540FPBW TDX CPU BLOCK, SWIFTECH MCP650 @ 14 VOLTS, 280 X 160 HEATER CORE, 4 X 120 PANAFLO, MEANWELL S12-500 2x1024M G.SKILL HZ PC4000 1 X BFG 7800GT + 1 X EVGA 7800GT/ MAZE4 COOLED, 425/1050 91.31 drivers 4 X 36GB Western Digital RaptorS 10,000RPM SATA RAID0 SONY DUAL LAYER BURNER OCZ 600 POWERSTREAM SLI Genie BIOS Settings: FSB Bus Frequency............................. - 288 LDT/FSB Frequency Ratio....................... - X 3 CPU/FSB Frequency Ratio....................... - X 11 PCI eXpress Frequency......................... - 101Mhz CPU VID StartUp Value......................... - 1.500v CPU VID Control............................... - 1.375 CPU VID Special Control....................... - 116.8% LDT Voltage Control........................... - 1.30v Chip Set Voltage Control...................... - 1.52v DRAM Voltage Control.......................... - 2.61v DRAM Configuration Settings: DRAM Frequency Set............................ - 180=RAM/FSB:09/10 Command Per Clock (CPC)....................... - Enable CAS Latency Control (Tcl)..................... - 3 RAS# to CAS# delay (Trcd)..................... - 4 Min RAS# active time (Tras)................... - 8 Row precharge time (Trp)...................... - 4 Row Cycle time (Trc).......................... - 8 Bus Clocks Row refresh cyc time (Trfc)................... - 16 Bus Clocks Row to Row delay (Trrd)....................... - 02 Bus Clocks Write recovery time (Twr)..................... - 02 Bus Clocks Write to Read delay (Twtr).................... - 02 Bus Clocks Read to Write delay (Trwt).................... - 03 Bus Clocks Refresh Period (Tref)......................... - 3684 Cycles DRAM Bank Interleave.......................... - Enabled DQS Skew Control.............................. - Auto DQS Skew Value................................ - 0 DRAM Drive Strength........................... - LEVEL 8 DRAM Data Drive Strength...................... - LEVEL 2 Max Async Latency............................. - 8.0NS DRAM Response Time............................ - Normal Read Preamble Time............................ - 5.5NS IdleCycle Limit............................... - 128 Cycles Dynamic Counter............................... - Disable R/W Queue Bypass.............................. - 08 x Bypass Max.................................... - 04 x 32 Byte Granularity........................... - Disable(4 Bursts) //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// DFI LANPARTY nF4 ut expert -Bios: 12-7-05 AMD Opteron 148 Venus 2x1Gb G.Skill F1-4000USU2-2GBHZ (UCCC) XFX 7900GTX XT 512MB, 690/1750 84.20beta drivers 2x WD Raptor -Raid 0- (8MB cache) LG DVD-Rom Enermax Liberty 620W ( Liberty ELT620AWT ) ========== Genie BIOS Settings: FSB Bus Frequency - 300 LDT/FSB Frequency Ratio - 3 CPU/FSB Frequency Ratio - 10 PCI eXpress Frequency - 101Mhz CPU VID StartUp Value - 1.450v CPU VID Control - 1.400v CPU VID Special Control - Above VID * 114.4% LDT Voltage Control - 1.30v Chip Set Voltage Control - 1.65v DRAM Voltage Control - 2.58v DRAM Configuration Settings: DRAM Frequency Set - 166=RAM/FSB:09/10 Command Per Clock (CPC) - Enable CAS Latency Control (Tcl) - 3 RAS# to CAS# delay (Trcd) - 04 Bus Clocks Min RAS# active time (Tras) - 06 Bus Clocks Row precharge time (Trp) - 03 Bus Clocks Row Cycle time (Trc) - 07 Bus Clocks Row refresh cyc time (Trfc) - 13 Bus Clocks Row to Row delay (Trrd) - 02 Bus Clocks Write recovery time (Twr) - 03 Bus Clocks Write to Read delay (Twtr) - 01 Bus Clocks Read to Write delay (Trwt) - 04 Bus Clocks Refresh Period (Tref) - 3120 Cycles Write CAS Latency (Twcl) - 1 DRAM Bank Interleave - Enabled DQS Skew Control - Auto DQS Skew Value - 0 DRAM Drive Strength - Auto DRAM Data Drive Strength - Auto Max Async Latency - 10.0 Nano Seconds DRAM Response Time - Normal Read Preamble Time - 8.5 Nano Seconds IdleCycle Limit - 256 Cycles Dynamic Counter - Enabled R/W Queue Bypass - 16 x Bypass Max - 07 x 32 Byte Granularity - Disable(4 Bursts)

idle temps dont mean much i think. unless theres somthing wrong with the voltages and u got a good cooling settup u can run pretty close to ambient at idle but usually a few degrees above at idle unless u got a radical fan on the side of ur case lol. the real proof in the puddin is priming or dual priming for an hour or so and see where its sitting...low idle temps mean nothing except u got a cold room...

silverstones are nice i have 1...if i was going to buy another fan thats what i would get, and mine came with a nice controller pot with a polished aluminum knob. i havent seen a 120 that didnt sound like a hair dryer at full speed but if u have enough fans then u can run them at lowspeed ryt...and max cfm doesnt mean much to me with a 120 either. that leaves my buying point on how quiet and vibration-free they are at lowspeed...silverstones are nice....

i agree, get a fan controller pot...i have the same problem if i use the mobo header and ur right it is annoying.

i realize that...i wasnt debunking ur advice....

i think its interesting that i was reading that there is an actual "coldboot" issue regarding using vapochill and the like to freeze a cpu and then certain cpus have the "cold boot" issue and refuse to boot. what he was describing above is more correctly labeled a "switch bounce" or load balancing issue....just felt like being annoying today

yes theres a diference but the actual load temps that the coolers can produce given the same intake temp are virtually identical. if u set up ur mobo out of the box and switch between coolers with ur ambient temps the same it will produce almost exactly the same temps regardless of cooler. so, the difference is between how the spent and heat saturated air is handled and thats exactly what i said before. if u would take the time to do a controlled experiment then you will come to the same conclusion. also, using a different sink compound or lapping wont change one thing either unless the air inlet and case temps are delt with entirely..then u might be able to record 1/2 a degree difference here and there....not a major factor imo. i personally think that how this goes is most people get home from work or school and start messing with temps and stuff and after theyre done changing heatsinks its late at night and the AC has been turned down and its about *ahem...8 degrees cooler in the house...

yeah but ur running 7900s' dude...and i doubt those temps are accurate anyway but thats besides the point...i did a long drawn out testing process with a few different coolers awhile back in this section using sli 7800s' and my testing showed to me (me only is all im saying) that the stock coolers work every bit as good as anything else. an arctic cooler or somthing that pumps the heat out of the case helps...but the largest improvement to overall lower temps without water cooling is to place a 120mm fan on the side blowing fresh air right at them and having enough airflow in the case to keep the air intake at the cards to below 30C....i used a probe right between the cards ...

..i saw this over at shoutwire and thought it was really weird...check it out: 1.) Open an empty notepad file 2.) Type "Bush hid the facts" (without the quotes) 3.) Save it as whatever you want. 4.) Close it, and re-open it. .....weird stuff