We're back this week with edition # 43 of our weekly Forums Spotlight! This week in the Forums Spotlight we've highlighted discussions on Flight Simulator 2002, A7M266 problems, Audigy OEM, and Crucial pricing.

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: 18,302

Current Sharky Forums Stats
Registered Users: : 18,493

General Hardware: Crucial, Just When I Thought They Couldn't Go Any Lower...
Memory prices are falling everywhere and it's no different at Crucial. Right now you can get a 15% discount coupon at their site and you can stop by this forum thread and check out our readers views on Crucial and memory prices in general.

Operating Systems: Running Stable NT Server - Consultant Want UNIX - Why?
One of our forum readers wonders why a consultant would request thousands of dollars to convert a perfectly good and stable NT network to a Unix based one. This of course raises a few questions - is the consultant trying to scam money out of a private school or is a Unix based network really worth the change. Read on to find out more...

Motherboards: A7M266 Not Going To Windows
Time for a little of that magical SharkyForum Reader trouble-shooting! It seems that "mille933" has put together a new computer and (ta-da!) its not working properly. He can make it right up to the 'Starting Windows ' screen then it never gets past that. Check out some of the sound and informative trouble-shooting tips that our readers offer. Definitely worth reading and keeping some of these tips in mind should you yourself ever end up with an unbootable rig.

Upcoming Games: Flight Simulator 2002 On Friday
By the looks of the popularity of this forum thread, MS Flight Sim 2002 is a game many are looking forward to. For anyone wanting to know what all the fuss is about this game, stop by the forum and get a good dose of Flight Sim info.

Audio / Sound: Audigy OEM
One reader wonders out loud in the forums if the Audigy OEM comes with the joystick extension. As one may expect this brings up a whole interesting conversation about Audigy cards, the IEE1394 (Firewire) port, and gameport adapter.