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Why David, it's nice to see you finally settled on a reasonable solution for your girlfriends gaming machine... :mrgrn: :wink: s

Swifttech has offered full cooling a long time ago. Bit pricy, but I'm sure it works, and, no noise. s

I've yet to add ram, and think the machine was slower. I would love to have another gig,.... s :mrgrn:

Aren't shuttles kind of big, and don't they require NASA support? Gary, where are you??? :mrgrn: gs

Cute case, but I like this one. http://www.virtual-hideout.net/reviews/yeong_yang_cube_server_case/index.shtml It's way more expandable, doesn't have any of the limiting issues, and she can grow into it. It has casters, and if you use one of those airport suitcase carriers, she could wheel...

I found some notes that NEC does not approve of flashing their drives to go to dual layer. They also are not very good when put in external firewire enclosures. They say that's not supported, and there are issues. I don't have links, just stuff from their website, and forums... s

David: I don't like it. I think she's going to get sick of disconnecting, and re-connecting everything. If she has an old computer, leave that in the place she is the least, and put the new one in San Jose. If she's working as an intern for a law firm, the data problems are easy. Most of the...

HMMM. Perhaps as the amount of ram increases, the neccessity for registered ram comes into the picture??? S

Another problem is insufficent room, I think it's in ROM, for compressed PCI drivers to load. The beige has this problem. It has only 3 slots, but if the drivers are compressed, their is insufficent memory to allow them to load,=frozen machine. Until someone finally tells you the truth, you...

Another example of apple using substandard chips on their motherboards. Beige G3 was a double case of this: IDE channel only does 16 mb/sec, and the grackle motherboard chipset limits the PCI bus to 75 mb/sec. It got even worse. The Blue and whites, IIRC, couldn't even do 55 mb/sec, thanks to...

Keep us posted. s

Odd part is, I think it's OWC that had the information about the 64 bit slots... http://eshop.macsales.com/Catalog_Item.cfm?ID=5777&Item=OWCFW800PCI3

This reminds me way to much of my mother and step-father. Sometimes life just sucks, and there isn't much you can do about it. Also, the aunt maybe the one asking for the raised rent. Renter provided a service, that with the aunt no longer there, is no longer needed, and, therefore, the...

I've been looking into this a bit. Problem with 1394B is it requires a 64 bit slot, IIRC. I really wonder if cost wise, a SATA hotswap system wouldn't be the way to go. http://www.granitedigital.com/catalog/pg53_satahot-swapbackup.htm I wonder if this system uses IDE drives? Can't tell from...

That's what I just used. Thanks s

Guys have been getting nearly 300 MB/sec using atto UL4D card, and 4 X 15.3s in the new G5's. Boot under Panther, using Raid 0, seems to be pretty bad. Driver conflicts, thanks to apple trying to make third party cards not work...or, that's at least what it appears to be. s

Found one. Current speed is 1.2 megabits per second. Average ADSl is .85. T-1 is 1.54. Bundled with my phone, the rate went from 50 to 29 dollars for the year. Likely to go back up, soon. s

Andy, anyone have one of those testing utilities? s

I'm with edawg... s

I guess you wanted gaming cards. The G550 blows away any of the other cards with 2D clarity. I won't sacrifice this kind of clarity, and color, for gaming results, again. The P650 is a nice compromise for gaming and clarity, but it's out of your price range, by a little. gs

http://www.micromart.co.uk/content/reviews/default.asp?Category=article&Type=&ID=1664 Armed with Dual-DVI output (two HD-15 adapters are included), dual independent hardware video overlays, and DVD-Video acceleration, the P650 is aimed primarily at the 2D digital artist and Computer-Aided...

Matrox P550 and P650 http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduct.asp?submit=manufactory&catalog=48&manufactory=1291&Type=Refurbish&sortby=14&order=1 Looking at a 21 inch monitor on one right now. Bought it for under 70 bucks. AMAZING. Just got done gaming on one of these...

Passive liquid, not full on plumbing. Quiet is the goal. A patch on a FUBARED case thats the size of Atlas, with a PeeWee Herman peepee. Two drive spaces, in that monster? Absurd, and for the cost, even more so. s

Check that. Cheap converters... s

The Momentus 100 gig 7200 is one I've been waiting for. I just hope Seagate maintains both quality and service levels... s

Converters are not a very good idea, IIRC. s

Yes, if you have a backplane, jump on the 80 pin scsi/sca. I've been thinking about a similar backup solution, and, I can buy, and use, a 4-6 drive scsi/sca box, with hot swapable drives, for about 200 bucks, from hypermicro. While not the cheapest solution, it would sure be nice... s

Congrats :mrgrn:

Andy: If all you want is a boot drive, get the fastest X 15.3 Cheetah you can afford. You already have the scsi expensive stuff, and selling it is just going to mean loosing more money. LVD and the new single Cheetahs are a just about perfect match. s

sechs: I'm not being a racist here. No denying we took Kalifornia from Mexico. Still, the situation I have described exists, and, it is a serious problem. I'm not jazzed when 400,000 visas are approved to bring in more tech workers from India, so they can drive the existing job market value...

I'm with DD on this one. Use legal workers, and lots of the problems that inflate our taxes etc. would be solved. Would you pick cabage for minimum wage is really the problem? College students? s

The Matrox P550 in the other room seems very clear, almost clearer then my setup. I just tried down grading to 16.8 million colors, and it really seems to remove a depth, like almost 3d feeling, in DVD playback, and on my regular screen, as well. This with the P 650. Watching Gollum take a...

I'll take that as a rehtorical you. I happen to agree with you. It would force better pay, better working conditions, and of course, a bit higher prices in the markets, but that's life. On the otherhand, with fewer mouths to feed, with the law of supply and demand, maybe we wouldn't have 16...

Wonderful layer I forgot about with the entire picture. My town, Walnut Creek, has very little violent crime, but quite a bit of theft. Why? We have an excellent police force, and here's their side. Around the town, we have a number of areas that have large numbers of illegal immigrants...

Just did a test with my current setup. I used Windows Media Explorer to run the same video file off a Diamondmax Plus 9 160 gig, on the motherboard ide channel, and, the same file off a 10k XL 18, hooked up to the Adaptec 29160N with all my CD roms, and DVD player attached. There was...

The P 650 plays Quake 3 at respectable frame rates, and at insane clarity and max settings. I wonder what their new card is going to be like? s

Clocker: It's really horrible when death hits home, and it's so close. I'm sorry. I've been posting about gang related stuff for a long time. Police and gangs are in a war no one wants to tell you about, and it's right here, in the United States, under your noses. The 18's have 4 million...

Seagate produces excellent products, backed them up, and helped when they didn't have too. I've always felt money on their drives was well spent, and an excellent value. Granite Digital is similiar. Please note I do not use Seagate ide drives, except for laptops. They are also based right...

How nice. These are the folks Clinton supported... :o

That's not good. s

Previously a P550 did not offer this feature, and while one of the better video cards for 2D I've ever used, it was truly sucktacular at 3d. s

Not with my prior video cards. Also, not nearly at this quality. s

Hi Splash has done a really good job of convincing me of the nature of Matrox cards. NO OTHER CARDS COME CLOSE. A feature he hasn't mentioned, is Matrox P650 and above have software that enables hardware support, for DVD playback. It's truly incredible. It plays DVD's at 1024 X, with hardware...

Since they are using everyone elses components, I wonder what motherboard they use? s

Amen. s

"Bang, bang, bang>" Mercuitio hitting nail on the head again. SR require money to function. No income, no storagereview.com I think I went down this road one time before. :evil: Adcadet: feel free to buy the WD drives. I'll stick with Seagate. They have never lied to me, they have never...

SATA is attractive. Granite Digital offers some very cheap controllers, I don't know if they are bootable, and the cables are much cheaper then SCSI. That said, wait until WD has competition from Seagate with SATA drives, and what the specs are going to be. Part of the brilliance of WD is...

This is the kind of crap that makes me go psycho... " Dear Friend: I recently met with local transit and rail officials in Oakland to discuss the measures we need to take to better protect public transportation travelers from terrorist attacks. The attacks in Madrid that killed almost 200...

Merc: Isn't Sony the only one out with a DL writer? Costco has a 400 dollar unit that takes a VCR tape, and converts it to DVD, probably single layer. I'll look at the ADS Pyro a bit more, but what I've found is kind of scary. What,and how, do you converte DV into MPEG2? Plextor I haven't...