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SiliconJon · 10-10-2003, 10:57 PM

Ahh, it feels so good. Had this machine, and after taking on a project to convert all my media to alternate mediums, my big machine up and died [well, it would work long enough to get half-way through an encode]. long story short, I have smashed one Macron PSU and the Allied is next. The Macron had issues from the start, but being frugle I stuck it out until it became unbearable. I thought I had lost two mobos, but one has checked out AOK after 5 days of intense "testing". I'll get around to the other sometime next year probably, as I don't have enough parts to do anything with it right now anyway.

Well anyway, off to convert my CD's to higher quality MP3's, and my DVD's to DIVX. I am wondering if I should just put the WAV files on my drives instead of converting them to MP3. So I'll start with the DVD's first since I already have the CD's in 190kbps.

Also going to play around with some overclocking (yeah, all those problems, and I'm looking to create more! I can never have enough stress...)

XP1700+ (running @ 21C baby)
512MB Kingston 2700 2-2-2
Asus K7V8X
Antec True430
MSI FX5600 (VIVO)
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Jeordiewhite · 10-10-2003, 11:00 PM

It's best to throw out those psu's especially when they even begin to go bad. They can easily fry a system if you keep a defunct psu.

SiliconJon · 10-10-2003, 11:02 PM

Yes, I'm going to keep them as WAV's. Anybody know of a good program that will check a CDDB and tag & name the files for me...I hate to do all these by hand, and the programs I've used only do this for MP3 conversions.