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  1. Santilli

    PDF editor?

    Is there a program that allows you to click on an area of the PDF document, fill it in, and save it, quickly, easily without 8-10 clicks? Thanks GS PS trying to fill out a PDF, print it, or save and email back.
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    Anyone Building AMD Systems?

    "System 3: 754 Athlon 64 3400+. Radeon 9600XT, Samsung HD322J ~120MB/s hard drive & Vista Business SP2. Snappy." HTPC is similar, with a 3200+, and Nvidia 9600 Sparkle, and, perfect match for it, Velociraptor, with XP Pro, SP current. Also Explosion 7.1 sound card. I recently installed a 30...
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    What's the verdict on Windows 7?

    Somehow the comment to install one version over the other, because the uninstaller might/will corrupt your registry doesn't give me the warm and fuzzies...
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    >500GB Drives

    Several companies, including LG, Sharp and Hitachi have pleaded guilty to price-fixing and agreed to pay out more than $890 million in fines, the AP cited the filing as saying.
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    Finally got the toaster working...

    Has anyone every actually installed and used one of these? How rigid are they?
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    Finally got the toaster working...

    I have two of these in the box, http://www.granitedigital.com/satahot-swapinternalenclosure1.aspx and had a third one. Oddly, they aren't rigid enough to work well, stacked three up. I pulled the middle one, and they flexed correctly, allowing proper contact. I could install that Antec device...
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    Finally got the toaster working...

    Yes, it seems to be a POS. Others have had similar problems, low quality power supplies etc. However, DD isn't one of them. One port would be fine. I got my backup stuff done, prior to the failure...
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    Finally got the toaster working...

    Pulled the SSD, but, gave up on connecting to that port. You did such a neat job of connecting and bundling the cables I don't want to take them apart. Plus, with the giant video card housing, I can't really get in there anyway. So, I powered it up again, and, green light to power brick...
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    Finally got the toaster working...

    When I switched the cable end on the computer, it changed to the other slot. Appears the right Esata port is not working. Both cables work. I might pull the extra SSD and connect to that SATA port, since it really isn't doing anything sitting there.
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    Finally got the toaster working...

    Yes.
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    Finally got the toaster working...

    Spoke too soon. Only one channel is working...
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    Finally got the toaster working...

    THAT'S WHAT THE WEIRD CABLE IS FOR! :lightbulb:
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    Finally got the toaster working...

    The card I'm using comes with the Gigabyte motherboards. Don't know who makes it;-) This is the Toaster: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817707170&cm_re=esata_external_hard_drive-_-17-707-170-_-Product This was the defective card...
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    Finally got the toaster working...

    DD had a real nice, Startech removeable drive setup last time I was down. I bought the Esata card, and the toaster. Esata card was defective. One of the ports didn't work, and, the toaster ran at USB speeds, not SATA. Newegg replaced the card free, and, I just threw the old one away, with their...
  15. Santilli

    What's the verdict on Windows 7?

    Might that help add to a possible slow down?
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    What's the verdict on Windows 7?

    Anybody know how 32 bit apps are run on 64 bit windows? Emulation?
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    SSDs - State of the Product?

    120 bucks for a 60 gig SSD? http://www.newegg.com/Special/ShellShocker.aspx?cm_sp=ShellShocker-_-20-227-394-_-08072010 Looks like a great deal, despite the rebate part.
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    Real innovation

    That idea is perfect for places like Osaka, where in peak rush, or even on Sundays, going over 30 rarely happens. What about LA? They already have dedicated, some toll, car pool lanes. Why not put something like that over the car pool lane? GS
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    What's the verdict on Windows 7?

    Hi Just installed a Flash blocker in Firefox. That's cut the plugincontainer down to about 4-5% even with double the number of windows open. Whoops! It just happened again, worse then before, typing and trying to erase something. This is typing in Firefox, here, and, Firefox is using about...
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    What's the verdict on Windows 7?

    I found Mercutio's slow down. I've got streaming video, about 3 different windows open, and, I was typing in another. The web pages are www.wetsand.com and www.surfline.com Both have flash adds going , surfline in particular. I started typing in another forum, and, nothing for about 2 seconds...
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    Beware Acronis Drive Monitor

    Thanks for the heads up.
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    What's the verdict on Windows 7?

    Vuze, AVAST, Peerblock, and Firefox are a pretty common set running on my server. Vuze is the primary culprit, and, once in awhile, typing is slow because I'm using near 100% of my processors, combined with a higher then normal priority for Vuze. YMMV. gs PS Have you considered optimizing for...
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    What's the verdict on Windows 7?

    Hi Bill: There are a bunch of registry settings that Microsoft put in that REALLY slow down the visual effects, and snappiness of 7 Ultimate, which is what I'm using. I'm currently looking through a bunch of stuff to see what I've missed in using the OS. You can use the classic theme, and...
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    What's the verdict on Windows 7?

    Flagreen! Great to see you posting again. How have you been? Thanks to David D. I'm using 7 32 bit on my old Dual Xeon machine, and 64 bit on The Beast(see signature). At the same time I went to 7, I also moved up to SSD's on both machines. 7 was the choice mainly since it had drivers for...
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    Anyone Building AMD Systems?

    HMMMM. While I've been buying Intel, I can't help but notice that value wise, at least using Passmark's cpu Value the AMD chips seem to dominate. http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_value_available.html
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    quik i7 and memory question.

    Thanks. That explains my memory speed;-)
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    SSDs - State of the Product?

    It's not quite that linear, but, pretty close. .2ms is the usual tests for SSD seeks. Raid 0 usually doesn't scale exactly double, but it's close enough for government work. Where this really shows is with the Kingspec SSD that transfers data at about half the speed of the 7200 RPM that it...
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    Bluray benchmarks

    Extreme National Geo on my birthday swell, 1998, 70 foot, or bigger, in Hawaii, and, incredible skiing.
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    RAID SSD controller?

    ;-( I was looking forward to it. Sounds like you found a good card, however.
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    Quality 24"-28" LCD monitors

    http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF05a/382087-382087-64283-72270-3884471-4194577.html 30 bit Panel? Still, you could get one heck of a TV for 1300 dollars...
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    Bluray benchmarks

    No, you are not wrong. What looks really spectacular in Bluray is the issue, for whatever reason...
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    4-Port Internal Controller

    Dinosaurs worked for a LONG TIME.;-) Since Granite Digital specializes in removeable drive setups, and this seemed to be part of the issue, I would certainly check with them on their card experience. SI may have made a new generation card that is worth it, or may not have.
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    Lower Power

    Yes, it is. I was just looking at the specs and got the really sick idea of using SLI, as the prices drop... The card doesn't even come into play until I start gaming. I also have a large exhaust setup that blows on it.
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    Lower Power

    Testing the 2.8 ghz xeons, running about 56-70 % and its running about 200-220 Watts.Thats with 3 vertex turbos, one SATA drive. 4670 ATI card, and one DVD burner, plus Magic Jack. Seasonic 550W power supply. At 5% processors, it's running 135 WATTS. At 15%, and this is what it usually is...
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    Lower Power

    Appears that adding a SATA drive would add about 15 WATTS, at least on the Dual Xeons it did. It booted at 135 Watts, and went up 15 WATTS when the removeable drive was put in. Define "load" on your tests, please.
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    Lower Power

    Found my Kil a Watt. Just got done running The Beast doing Call of Duty 4 at about 30% processor power. It was in the 450-500Watt range. At idle it's about 221w. This with two Sata drives installed, and the others listed in the sig.
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    4-Port Internal Controller

    HI I've been using the Silcon Image SiL 3112 Sata Link Controller with excellent results. It's an old two port, but, I'd have a look at them for such stuff. I've found Granite Digital generally has had stuff that works, pretty much always. The problem is, they are some times too expensive...
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    Bluray benchmarks

    Avatar Playground by Warren Miller Ski movie
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    Quality 24"-28" LCD monitors

    I just got back from Costco, and I was thinking of your post. The 24-27" Samsungs they had were expensive, and, the picture quality while very good, pales next to even the 60HZ VXT Vizios and Sony's, in 27-32". The TV's are built for much more abuse, heavier, more solid,and, the 32" side lit...
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    Quality 24"-28" LCD monitors

    You'll find the 32"-42" TV's, like the Vizio SVT, and some Sonys, 120hz or better, have the best screens, 10 bit, IIRC around. MUCH better then the computer monitors, at least from my side by side comparisions, and, with many more inputs.
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    Mac and HighPoint RR 2220

    I was a mac fanatic, just prior to X. When X came in, it pretty much made all my hardware worthless, no drivers. I tried to run multiple cards, in both PC's and Macs, with little success. My general experience with Macs was that the chipsets were designed for what Apple thought was going to be...
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    RAID SSD controller?

    LM Going to be intresting to see if the chipsets allow you anywhere near what the controller and drives are going to be capable of.
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    RAID SSD controller?

    Sounds good, if it works. One of the things I didn't like about the SCA 'backplane' from Supermicro was that each drive required it's own SATA cable. Not a 'backplane', at least to me, if that's the case(excuse the pun;-) How much are the cables?
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    RAID SSD controller?

    Is that just two ports?? Can't tell.
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    SSDs - State of the Product?

    Striker: I got a complete dog, that cost me about 33 dollars in shipping, a lot of time, with ebay finally backing me. The other, even though it's half your speed with the CF-51, or my regular drive, the access time improvement is so huge, the XP pro install feels like a new computer. Bottom...
  46. Santilli

    SSDs - State of the Product?

    That's twice what mine is. Congrats.
  47. Santilli

    Lower Power

    Seasonics tend to be very good as well. That's my choice.
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    SSDs - State of the Product?

    Some do, some don't. I'm glad yours does. Would you post numbers and tests using ATTO and HardDisk Tach, or something like that? Also, what you are testing it in, OS, etc? Thanks GS
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    Lower Power

    So, go to new egg, look at CPU's, and look at thermal design power in the advanced options: So, I start with the same 140W the two Xeons are rated at, and come up with AMD Phenom X 4 9550 Black Edition. Not bad price, 157. 2152 on passmark, but, figure you buy that to overclock, which means...
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    Lower Power

    Mines doing stuff 24/7. And no, just 118 volts on the UPS. I do have a tester somewhere around. CPU usage right now is 7%, though sometimes it does go way up. Also running the phone off that computer, and that saves 30 dollars a month. Unless something breaks, it's unlikely that I would be...
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