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The reason I had made up my mind was the VIA chipset, etc. problems of the previous Athlons. Too much drama, buying a motherboard, finding out later the chipset was not all that great, etc. I'm still a bit out of sorts about the processor eating twain driver, and Photoshop. Doesn't affect my...

http://arstechnica.com/tweak/win2k/others/memory-1.html this helps.

Or, better yet, look at the "Splash what are you using..." thread. s

Ask Splash. s

I forgot to mention I've been watching the HD stuff at high resolutions, that sucked on the G550, on the 650, with no problems. In fact, no problems with any of the stuff that was in the prior thread from MSFT. I really enjoyed viewing the Step into Liquid in HDTV on this setup. It's crystal...

The real key to this is Supermicro doesn't support Athlons. If they did, Tyan would do it better, and the price factor would be better. s

Pradeep: I don't even know what the cable is that came with the Lacie's. I've run into cheap cabling, in ethernet setups, that will run on macs, but not PC's. Guess I need to buy a premium cable, and see if that helps. s

Pradeep: You are right. However, I do like having everything on the motherboard, and being able to raid my boot setup. I also didn't like the problems with the first athlon Thunder boards. I have already invested in scsi, and so far, sata has not offered anything I'm intrested in. No drives...

It's a cardbus, IEEE 1984 card. As for the cables, I'm using the ones that came with the FW external Lacie CDRW drives. s

Thanks; I can do that... s

Well, I'm listening to Klipsch 4 + woofer speakers, on the AC97 that came on my Supermicro motherboard. I would like it slightly louder, but, if it did that, I would be evicted. It's pretty incredible, at about 75 percent volume, it maxes out the speakers, and, almost, my old ears. The...

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Yes, but nuder the full volume Klipsch speakers, my wine glass moves, who knows what the CRT sounds like???? s

DD I must be missing something. I look at the entire combination of features. Expandability, motherboard features, values, etc. When I priced this setup, Splash has, and I'm convinced, made the right performance choice. I looked at the Athlons, since I fully believe, without them, we would...

Prices? I'd like a PCI-X, solid state ram storage card, for the pagefile in XP or windows. s

Clocker got rid of his dually? :cry: He, and Splash are my inspirations... Not to mention Flagreen. OK: Please see the Splash, what are you running...? Thread. My two cents are the Athlons are overpriced, weird in some cases, at doing some tasks, scanning in Photoshop for me, using a Canon...

Thanks. On the subject, when I installed the P650, the usb setup that connects to the motherboard didn't work, since the cables, when streched over the matrox card, are too short. I can put it over one of the PCI-x slots, but I loose the slot. Do you have any usb 1-2 type connectors that work...

Well, I downloaded the latest bios flash, and the latest beta stuff, and unlike most beta stufff, it all works. I'm at billions of colors, and, it's about as good as it gets. The matrox cards are both pretty incredible. Thanks for the suggestions. gs

OWC suggests the card maybe defective, since it doesn't work to connect to either PC or mac, from either a pc laptop, or a mac. I guess you get what you pay for... s

I Suspect you are right about the power requirements, and the hub. My external power devices work fine when hooked up to powered boxes. They have serious problems hooked up to laptops, like they don't even work. Still not having luck with connecting a laptop, through firewire, to a regular...

86 Raptors.... s

I'm trying to figure out which to go with. Scsi drives are avaliable all the time, cheap, on EBay, and they are fast, and cheap. They have lower capacity, but better longevity, for storage, even if they have lower capacity. IDE looks pretty good, since buck for mb they can't be beat. SATA...

I really have to say that while I agree with about 99% of what's said here, for this kind of use, the Klipsch 2.1 5 speaker sets, running even off my AC97 onboard sound, is plenty for DVD's in my house. I've got a couple Philips PSC 706, and another, one step down, collecting dust. Seems to me...

Ok: Moved the Matrox G550 over to the attorney home/office computer. When she gets back, she should be in shock, it's so clear. Typing on it, right now, watching my cat go patszo. She must have house fever, since she's climbing all over everything, and tearing the screens up. At 2-4 pounds no...

How can you hook up a real amp amd speakers to your computer? Please explain. gs

Splash: You were right. Even though it doesn't have the 128 or 256 mb of vram I was after, the P650 sure is one heck of a video card. It's so clear, it's scary, and, it's fast enough to run most anything I can throw at it. Been watching DVD's and it's a definite step up from the G550, speed...

OK: If I hook up two computers by firewire cable, and cards, can one see the other? If so, does it just see the disks? Thanks gs

I like the Klipsch 4 speakers plus a sub. They were 250 new. Now you might be able to find a cheaper set some where, if you look. s

I just did a fast install of 2000, thanks to a legal program, Dissomaster, requiring an old version disk that we didn't have. We had the newer version, but that wouldn't work to stop the loop. Anyway, the point is, I ended up with Real Player and some other crappy programs I never...

Hi I've had good luck with a couple tweaks in XP that I used in 2000. With sufficent ram, DisablePagingExecutive, value 1, and LargeSystemCache value 1, along with clear pagefileAtShutdown at 1, seem to noticeably improve preformance on my XP machine. The same settings, with 384 mb of ram on...

Well, so far things are going pretty well. The Epson is about 4-5 times faster then the Canon scanner. It doesn't give me much time to type stuff. I just got done burning two CDS, scanning papers as fast as I can, Trying to watch the net, and do email. The highest the processors went was...

Well, I just looked at two empty PCI-x slots when installing my last cheetah. I guess I could move my G550 to Travel Whore's machine, and put the PCI-X card in place. I'm sold on the Matrox multi screen gaming, and abilities. I'm must wondering if 700 bucks is a bit much for a card, that in...

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Well, glad to hear that's your recommendation, Splash. I decided on this one: http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/consumer/consDetail.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes&oid=35836301 Costco carried it for about 170 bucks, and with tax, and shipping, it's 200 dollars. Anandtech did a test on the 3200, and...

The only problem with the database stuff is it's missing the 650 and 750, so comparing them to the PWHATEVER :wink: is king of hard. PARHELIA, PARHELIAPARHELIAPARHELIAPARHELIAPARHELIAPARHELIAPARHELIAPAR HELIAPARHELIAPARHELIAPARHELIAPARHELIAPARHELIAPARHELIAPARHELI...

Splash: If they are doing pro-editing, will their new cards be targeted at that market, and how would that differ from the current cards? I just got done reading a real good review of the card, http://www.nvnews.net/reviews/matrox_parhelia/index.shtml The guy did a great job of really going...

Mercutio: I just got the X15 with the click replaced by Seagate. The reinstall wasn't due to the java stuff, it was due to installing the last of 4 drives, so I have my boot raid back in place. The other computer I decided to install 98se on, and, I did manage to delete the MBR ftom the disk...

Why don't the Matrox Parahelia or the 750 go down in price? s

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Gary suggested that video cards may become a thing of the past. Get around this power, and bandwidth problem by using 64 bit data paths, straight to and from the cpu. Or, better yet, integrate the GPU with the cpu. Hook your gpu to your processor like ram is currently linked using the G5...

I'm real intrested :roll: I've got a bunch of Jazz and zips I can't give away. s

Actually, I have an external pci box I could give it 7 slots, and it's own power supply. :mrgrn:

Well, it's nice to know that I can now use that extra 550Watt powersupply for my video card :roll: :roll: :excl: s

All I've got avaliable are two PCI-X slots. Not enough bandwidth?? :wink:

JoJo: It sure does make it easier. My Cannon scanner is going out. The connection on the back of the scanner is really flimsy. Think Jumpster(our cat) jumping off it, or hitting the wires has done it in. NOT a happy camper about that part. I've been looking at scanners this morning, and the...

Well, I'm doing the same Photoshop work, with the same scanner and software that used to eat my processor, use it 100%, freezing 2000 from doing anything else, on my Xeon Dual 2.8. It's doing it way faster, with rarely over 10% processor usage, but it is hitting the pagefile big time, like 400...

Hmmm. To be accurate, I think it's 2700 pounds of HE with a range of 20 miles. I guess they have a little spotter plane they use. In the middle east, they would see the spotter plane, and start waving white flags. Guess going to Allah via 16" high explosive rounds wasn't what they have in...

oH, MY GOD! It just dawned on me that about:blank is a pos msft website. I want the Missouri targeted at MSFT, asap... s

The only reason I can type this is another computer on the network is not requiring reinstalling XP to get rid of a f....g adware bug. The funny part is both Spybot and adware see this one, delete it,and it still steals my default homepage... s

NOT FUNNY :excl: The only solution I've found is reinstalling XP, and, I'm currently comparing the merits of a 450 Nitro Express, No 2 2150 with 480 grains, and 375 H&H, while contemplating reinstalling windows. I'll let you connect the dots... s