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Update: David sent me the Azuntech Xplosion card. It's pretty amazing. Runs the stereo, which is actually 6 speakers, perfectly through the SPID/whatever cable, in 5.1 Surround. Just amazing. That's the good news. The bad is I spent pretty much an all nighter moving the OS from the scsi setup...

That's what's listed for my motherboard. Not sure what I can go with that would work, and be faster. I'm considering just leaving it alone, and, buying a new motherboard, ram, etc. The i7, and the accompanying bus speed looks like a pretty good jump. IIRC, the Athlon 3200 is really running at...

Sounds good. Does it have XP Pro drivers? Got the system hooked up using SPDIF out from the computer to the amp. It only has a couple such ins, but, it also has TOSLINK as well. May hook it up with the multiple connectors just to get true sound. Have to try the card first. I'm getting 4 of 6...

XP Pro, ram disk vs. SSD?

SSD vs. ram disk? Anyone have a suggestion, which one? 2 gigs of ram is about 80 bucks, shipped. How much is a decent ram disk program for XP pro?

System is up and running. The 9600 GT plays Quake 4, @ ultra high settings, no problem. Sound out IS a problem. Don't have a cable connection that will go to my high fi. David: Do you still have that sound card, and, does it support the normal cables to go to my amp? I just cut the cord on my...

WHAT a pain. Went to Sparkle's site for current software for this card, and, it's downloading at a lightning like 40k per sec. 3 minutes to go. Forgot how BIG a 850XT really is... So far, this card is smaller, takes up one less slot...

Thanks. For what it's worth, going from a 60 mb sec to 105 mb/sec Seagate SATA drive produced a noticeable change in OS response, and, a noticeable change and snap in loading. After that, the difference diminishes. Considering the failure rates of current SATA/PATA drives, one really wonders...

Kind of ironic that after 10 years my original argument, placing access time over SDT is being clearly shown to be accurate, thanks to SSD's. The one thing you forgot to factor in is that the Raided SCSI drives do have the advantage of so far superior interface, and caching. Given time, or...

Doesn't seem quite as user friendly, and, the stuff I'm after seems to revert back to being originally Vuze anyway...;-(

Faster???? I will...

http://www.ntfs.com/ntfs_optimization.htm http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q314878 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q174619 After reading this, I still wonder what the best cluster size is for your raids? If the cluster size is set at 4k, does that...

Hi I had Vuze going 24/7 on the Athlon 3200. I came in this morning to check on the download progress, and, the machine seemed frozen. I opened Task Manager, and Vuze was using 99-100% of my processor!;-0 Seems the 4 uploads, and, mainly the 4 completed torrents being sent out hogged the entire...

David: The default cluster size is 4kb, right? that would mean 71 mb/sec and 91 mb/sec? Does the cluster size limit the data transfer rate to just that one figure? I will say I wished you hadn't put up that ram disk test. Your machine is now more then twice as fast as mine, bus speed, and, I...

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Sorry. My bad. Thanks again for the help...again...

Seth: I just didn't see numbers that I felt were statistically far enough apart to justify some of their strongly worded conclusions. Also, I think they should include the mb of vram on each card they are testing.

Thanks for the update. Nice to know I didn't totally screw the pooch on this one. I'm actually more into making sure the card can play DVD's, at high resolution, on a LCD, like 1080. My experience has been the amount of VRAM helped play stuff smoothly, that wouldn't prior. HDTV in particular.

I stand corrected. I've got the spliter from the old ATI cards, and, you are right.

I'm perplexed. The video out on the cards I have is S video. If I use an adapter, to go to component video, I'm still starting with a video out with s video compression, right????? I'm really just trying to get DVD's to play on the TV, through the computer, or DVD quality stuff off the computer...

You may not be an ATI zealot, but that website sure is. They must have stock in ATI, or something. On another set of numbers they can't beat the 9800 GT, so they throw in a 4850 with a gig of ram, clearly in another category, to beat it...

Seth: If you look at the test page on the article in fudzilla, it's kind of hard to figure how the 4830 'wipes the floor' with the 9800. Their test results just don't give a clear winner, which is kind of what Tom's said about the two cards. Since I've got an Nvidia motherboard, I'm going with...

Try this one if you want lots of VRAM. I did. Thats the one I ordered Saturday night. The combination of VRAM, and, the price made it too good to pass up. I would have liked a 9800 GT, with a gig of VRAM, at least, but, I couldn't find one for much under 150 dollars...

The current card, 850XT, ATI, used to be state of the art. It does not have an s-video out, which is why it's being replaced, not to mention that with 512mb of memory, it just won't load the Quake 4 maps, much less anything more current, at Ultra settings. As David, and Tom's have pointed out...

Much as I hate to admit it, I bought monster cables just like that a while back, before I found out about the company. I've got a couple sitting in a box by the door, one of many things I need to go through, and either use or throw out...

Thanks Stereodude. Yes, the amp is so capable. Now, I need to get the two next to each other, and see what kind of cables I need...

I plan to have a monitor, hopefully a Samsung for gaming, and, I'm after the HTPC mainly for torrent and DVD's. A High Definition TV is going to come around, but, not until they drop a bit more in price.

I've been reading at the avsforum, and someone did a chart on cards that support 7.1 sound. http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1093445 Pretty much, nothing I can afford supports 7.1, so move on. David, what do you want for that sound card? I'm also looking for any used LCD's you...

I'm planning on having the S video link to to the Panasonic 32". I can hook up another Samsung 22-24" for the games... thanks David...

Thanks David. Should I buy another one of those cards, and go SLI? In reading stuff, I've found the 1650 AGP card is supposed to be about 60% of the 3850 AGP Sapphire card. I can't figure out if the lack of video ram keeps the 1650 from playing Quake 4 at Ultra settings, or, it's the lack of...

David: What is that ram disk setup on?

Well, I was set on 1gig of memory, until I saw this card for 40 bucks cheaper then the 1 gig cards, with 2 gigs: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814187054 While the 9600 isn't blazing, it's faster, IIRC, then the 850XT, and, it has 4 times the ram, that is a real issue in...

David built it, and, the goal was a gaming machine that was quiet. With its' removeable SATA drives, it's perfect for getting rid of a lot of DVD's. I also don't want to give up it's gaming abilities.

I was hoping to find a card with a 9800 processor, 1 gig memory, and a video out and HDMI. No such luck. Any suggestions?

Thinking about this card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125269 Has HDMI out, something I'll need down the road. How do I output to the amplifier? Sound card? Don't know which to get: s-video out with two DVI, or one DVI with HDMI out put? Is there a cable that...

Thinking about this card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125269 Has HDMI out, something I'll need down the road. How do I output to the amplifier? Sound card?

The power supply is already quiet. Seasonic 550. The fans are on a variable switch on the front, and, all are Vantec Stealths. It's in a Antec 160 case. And, it has a Scythe Ninja already. Storage is two removeable SATA bays, and the SCSI drive is not very noisy. Also, if I can hook it up to...

Hi I'm considering creating a home PC out of the following system: GA-K8N Pro- SLI F7 AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3200+ 2 gigs ram XP Pro Service Pack 3 10K SCSI 147 gig boot Radeon X850XT video card 2 NEC DVD 3540A Linksys Wirless-G PCI adapter Connecting to a Yamaha RX-995 and A Panasonic 32” TV...

Mirror the desktop folder, software wise, on another disk????

Why not remove the My Documents folder from the desktop, and replace it with a shortcut to a My Documents folder on another drive?

I paid them money, and they have their little contract, for using the darn thing on one computer. Somewhere in there, they may run afoul of implied warranty, when a key component is a little sticker that easily falls out of the plastic case it's put in. I will say it's a fun game...

Well, I tried the acid test: take the Ram Disk away. BIG noticeable difference. I decided I'd reinstall it, and, this time I made it the intended 150 mb, instead of 500. Seems about the same speed, but, my games might have more room... Have to see how it works out. The pagefile is actually 125...

Thanks for the help folks. Got it running, and, no problems, other then being slightly lame... Pretty stunning graphics on the new screen and card, even if it won't run Ultra. Also seems plenty snappy, though it uses 1.0 gig of ram...

Hi Thanks all, but PM me with some better hints. Yes, with you guys I will accept I'm a cat in abowling alley. Today I got an email I lost a job to some lady that is supposed to be "a computer genius" and, doesn't even have a doctrate degree, and, she's leading a 'law academy'. My tempers...

I won't say Never again, but....

Hi I've got a legally purchased copy of Quake 4, DVD version. Somehow, the dam code sticker fell out of the box, and, I can't find the code. I emailed Raven, and, here is their REALLY lame response: "Activision Customer Support <cs7@activision.com> to santill28@gmail.com 5:02pm Recently you...

Judging from the difference, it appears a lot of those pages are small, and, of small quanity, once you get about 1.25 gigs of ram, and above, in XP. I haven't tried this with any games, other then Unreal Tournament 2004, and, it seems fast, if not faster, then with a normal page file. My...

Hi I've always wondered what the memory usage was of the games I was playing. Anyway to play, or find records, of what current, and past games use for memory? Seems like task manager is not visible when I'm playing games...

My initial response was to lock it in a safe... ;0 What was that setup from MSFT that locks the system down, writes everything in sequential cache, then deletes it on shutdown???? Check the SSD thread for the name, and setup.

OK, I made a mistake. On my 2 gig, 2003 server box, I put a 500 mb ram disk, by accident. I use about 480 gigs for OS pagefile, and, about 20 for FF_Cache. Helps quite a bit. Snappier, clear that the OS is in RAM, and, that there aren't any real hangs. Also reduced the pagefile overall to 2500...