We're back this week with edition # 44 of our weekly Forums Spotlight! This week in the Forums Spotlight we've highlighted discussions on home networking, MP3 Players, The Sims, NVIDIA drivers, and more!
The Forums Spotlight is a highlight of just a few of the new topics posted in the SharkyForums, where over ten-thousand enthusiastic computer users post daily for help or to discuss the latest trends and products.
Each week in the Forums Spotlight, we take several of the most popular, insightful, or even controversial threads and present them to you for easy digestion. Feel free to add your own thoughts (subtract the profanity, please) and help us multiply the reader participation here at Sharky Extreme (and you thought math was tough...). We've added links on each spotlight page so you can easily add your own comments and contribute to the debate! If your repartee strikes us as useful, humorous, or otherwise entertaining, it stands the distinct possibility of being featured next week.
Without further ado...
Last Week's Sharky Forums Stats
Registered Users: 18,493
Current Sharky Forums Stats
Registered Users: : 18,710
Gadgets & Gizmos: Looking For A New MP3 Player
One of our forum readers is currently using a minidisc player, but thinks its time for a new one - either an 8cm CD Player or a good (but cheap) MP3 player. NOMAD, RioVolt, and the Iomega HipZip Player are just a few suggestions our readers provide.
Highly Technical PC Forum: The Future Of CPUs
While Intel and AMD are both pushing for faster CPUs, one reader questions why no one has bothered looking at on a slower and less complex chip that will work in parallel. This of course leads to a rather interesting discussion on parallel programming, your average consumer market, and the development of Itanium and EPIC. x86.
CPU/Processors & Overclocking: My New System!
Congrats to adamff77 who has a new rig on the horizon. After listing the specs, other forum readers chirp in with suggestions and questions on specific components and a bit of a debate on the GF3Ti500.
Video Cards: 22.50 NVIDIA Drivers
The latest 22.50 NVIDIA Drivers for Win9x/2K are out and in this forum thread you can find out about the performance increase, benchmarks, and even some bits from on forum reader who had problems with 'Giants' after installing them.
Networks & Networking: 2 IPs 1 Router 3 Computers
One of our forum readers found that their @home service came with 2 ips and wonders about hooking up the three computers. Two computers could share one IP and the third have its own, but what are some of the things needed to get this set up and going; after all, who wants to waste an IP?
General Games: The Sims, What's The Point?
One of our readers just tried out The Sims game and stops to wonders what the point is. Obviously one has to have some kind of like of micromanagement - otherwise it just may turn out to be a game you can use to decorate your bookshelf.