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Header from Supermicro's website " X58 (Tylersburg-36S) BOARDS / Socket 1366 [ top ] Supermicro motherboards based on the Intel X58 Express chipset and Intel® Core™ i7 and Xeon® 5500/3500 series processors feature 2 PCI-E 2.0 x16 slots, NVIDIA SLI® and ATI™ CrossFireX™ technology, and up to 24...

http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Core2Duo/X58/C7X58.cfm ??? Or, if I want to bring the raid cards with me: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon3000/X58/X8SAX.cfm

http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Core2Duo/X58/C7X58.cfm ???

I was hoping, considering the topic, that she would say vintage port...

HMMM. What's Tea's favorite beverage? Mt. Gay Rum?????

Guess I was not clear. I like the form factor for my box. Fits under my desk. Plenty of cooling, and the heat keeps the cat happy. I didn't really plan on it, but, the Vizio 37" HST makes me want to build a faster cpu box that has more head room then my current system. Supermicro has some...

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html ??????

Hi Getting the bug. What motherboard would you suggest, considering I have a PCI-X raid card, actually two, and a scsi box I like for storage, and, what OS do you use, XP Pro? I didn't think it would support 4 cores, and 4 more virtual cores? Also, do these numbers reflect actual speed results...

Been using AVAST, and, I like it. I like an easy interface to scan certain files, constantly, manually. I wish it had an OFF button...I also like not having another firewall, since I'm using windows, and Peerblock...

The above feature is NOT in the trial version.

http://kb.eset.com/esetkb/index?page=content&id=SOLN2149

Hi I've been trying to open a port in the current trial version of eset. No joy. Is this feature avaliable, and just not useable in the trial version? If not, any other suggestions for AV, that allows using Vuze?

Perhaps that should read: Maxipad? The Mac is now based on the COOL scale. As long as the Mac loyalists believe, and buy, Apple will sell computers. This thing just looks like a big iPhone, for 500 bucks, and, it's sort of an expensive, slow, Netbook? Nothing new. If it looks cool, it is...

WHY would I want to get the bad version, play it, to find out it's the bad version, by playing it through PowerDVD? Also, The Punisher disk wouldn't play at all. I mean not even load, or have XP even see it was in the drive...

You've been using Linux too much;-)

Thank you for reminding me of all the installs I did that didn't work;-). It's coming back, sort of like a memory of a really painful breakup with a girl... I will say an SSD makes the swapping much less painful in XP Pro...

One HUGE plus is I finally have a screen I can read the entire history of National Geographic on. Due to in part being a port from the Mac, and, seriously lacking normal functionality, on a normal screen it's nearly impossible to get the page large enough to read the type, and, when you do, it's...

Would someone explain the logic of having a swapfile on the same disk setup? Do you NEED a different partition for the swapfile? Sorry I missed the motherboard/form factor issue. My bad. Turned out to be a great thread on Linux distros, and history.

WOW! I feel your pain. Ubuntu has installed on a couple laptops, and been useable. That said, I REALLY wonder why you don't go with a hardware raid card? I'm pretty sure the card I paid 75 bucks for, 9500, IIRC, 8 ports, would do in about 5 minutes what you are trying to do, but, I'm not sure...

I'm looking at two boxes, and, they don't mention mpeg2 at all. I loved the 5th Element, and would really like to see a decent version of it on Bluray... What does the good one say to indicate the picture quality, off the box if possible.

Thanks. I've only found one disk I can't play at all: The Punisher. Other then that, screwing with the settings, I've been able to play pretty much everything.

So far, the article reads like a total logical failure: "The students who viewed luxury goods were significantly more likely than the second group to endorse production of a new car that might pollute the environment, launch a new software with bugs, or market a video game that might induce...

With the SSDs, watching a bluray movie, ripping, AnyDVD, another, doing this, and, cpu usage is mainly 25-30%, with high spikes on P1 at 50%, and, 1.15 gb pf usage.

Two 30 gig Vertex Turbos, 309 bucks, Tiger.direct. I want to max out my card, and, the bus. That will give me 120 gigs for a c drive, at 255 mb/sec or better. See what that does. So far, they only confirm what I found with SCSI, access time RULES. I wish Eugene was still around... I ran...

So does Blue Planet, filmed in IMax, and by NASA from space, Seems the better you start with... the better the Bluray result.

Figured out the DVD and some Bluray problems with the ATI 4670, and PowerDVD 9 Ultra. With newer movies, hardware decoding works great. With older Bluray, some of them anyway, and regular DVD's, you have to use software decoding on this machine. Strange, but that single setting is what was...

For what? How do those factors affect the things I do? My functions seem internet speed limited, and, hard disk limited.

Who ever said anything about slow? The only thing it doesn't do really well is play games. Other then that, for what I do with it, it's perfect.

This phone through Costco, free: http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/phones/Cell-Phone-Detail.aspx?cell-phone=Samsung-Highlight-Fire&Wt.z_searchCategory=Site+Search+Summary&Wt.z_searchZone=Products&WT.z_searchTerm=Samsung+Highlight&WT.z_searchProduct=Highlight+-+Fire This plan...

I've got until Feb 3 to consider. The pluses are T-Mobile is worse then AT&T, at least in the areas I use it in, signal avaliability wise. In Napa, some of the schools have NO reception at all. However, their 10 dollar internet, and, Samsung Highlight phone make up for a bit of that. Would...

Hi I just got a note from Vonage for 25 bucks, and a service agreement, 60 countries, and free local and long distance. Anyone using this? Comments, hidden costs? I've got Astound unlimited for US and it's due to double in price this month. Thanks GS

Not for most of my useage. I may get spikes in the first couple cores to 60%, but, they go back down below 50% quickly. I was just testing a Bluray disk, and the processors spiked to about 80% briefly, then settled down to about 20-40% while the DVD was playing.

Except for that one program, even playing DVD's, or Bluray run at around 40%, and thats pretty much all of them. I'll do a bit more cpu watching, but, most of my tasks just don't stress the Xeons.

I know the system bus is about 1200 MB/sec, vs. David's which is around 3500 MB/SEC IIRC from the Ram disk tests. Still don't really get much over 50% of processor useage, maybe a 60% spike opening programs now. Only one program I run takes nearly all the processor power.

While they are always changing, when I buy a monitor, it does NOT fall under the 'special limited' policy, or hasn't in the past. Haven't checked on the website, but, the last Samsung monitor I returned just required cables and software, plus the monitor for a full store usable refund, and...

I guess I can justify the Samsung 21.5" monitors being 175.-270 dollars, only because they are a life warranty at Costco. When comparing the Samsung computer monitors to this Vizio 37", and the value, I feel used and abused when I look at how much I paid for the Samsungs, and, what I got for it...

Went back, did a clean install, used the downloads of 2 and 3 service packs. Installed latest drivers from HIS, up and running. Watching a BIG kitty, read lion, on her back. Super Seven is truly incredible, visually, and, the AnyDVD to Clone read off the hard disk is working great. Plus, I'm...

Sechs mentioned in one of his posts that coming from a fast scsi system the difference is not as much as people have been lead to believe. I sort of second that. Depending on your drive choice, and controller, you could get a system that was equal, or slower. I can do that. Just plug the two...

Power DVD 9 Ultra,Loading a 700MB CD off a hard drive, about 5 seconds to actually playing the movie. It's loaded off a 10K 147 gig cheetah I use for storage.

I don't know if the setup is worth the money, but, I think it may have put another 5 years useage on this machine. It's noticeably snappier, certain things happen MUCH faster, others not so much then SCSI, but, I'm not sending this setup back anytime soon... Two Vertex Turbos, 30 gig, raid 0...

Boot is 1:52, thanks to every slot having either SATA or SCSI, and, no way to disable the onboard SCSI boot, that has no drives connected. Firefox is between 2-4 seconds. My prior figure was perhaps due to operator not being as fast as computer. Opening another page on another screen is under...

Photoshop loads in 5 seconds. Microsoft Word 2000 in under one second. IE 8 in about 4 seconds. ESET took a LONG time to scan the C disk. I'll post that next time I run the thing. Slow opening would be Firefox, Vuze. About 8 seconds to open Power DVD 9 Ultra. Load add/remove control panel: 8.22...

It's kind of odd that programs that take a lot of time, NOD 32 for example, even at Realtime, use about 10% of the processors, and, the read on C drive was NOT fast. Overall it's faster, but, I just don't see that much speed increase, except in a few, very specific areas.

Appears I managed to get a NZH trojan, according t Nod32. Wonder if that had something to do with it? Still scanning... I've managed to play some of the Bluray Iso stuff, but only after ripping it from iso. Then it plays in Spanish, and, the Ultra setting that allowed changing audio steams is...

Turns out the 'upgrade' to 9 Ultra is screwed up, and FUBARS the program so it doesn't even start. Hope someone starts writing a bluray program to give them some competition...

Got the name wrong, I think. I think it was write caching, not write through. Came with a warning that without power backup, you can corrupt data. I think Cyberlink's installer is picking up the install on the other drives, so I reformatted my other Raid, cleaning it off, then deinstalled, and...

I'm waiting for a Bluray disk to arrive, so I can go back to square one, and figure this thing out. Should be in the mail today, I hope. Don't feel like renting one right now. Can't get the disk images to load... My speakers don't have any optical out. They just have a standard, plug into the...

Back to the topic: Now I have most of the stuff up and running on the Turbos, I can't get Power DVD 9 Ultra to open and play at all. I've tried a bunch of different installs, and, no joy. I've got a retail copy of 9, and, 8, and, they install. I can't get any of them to play off the Virtual...

I'm seeing your point, Sam. I guess for a while, the commodity end was not important, since most of what I did was not real fancy. I do wonder what the limit is on the 133MHZ/64 bit slot, speed wise at this point.

Walked into Costco today, and, they have an 80 dollar Rebate on the 32" XVT Vivio, that means about 450 dollars. It was 529 or so.