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My bad. It should have been Ati vs. Nvidia. From the list, the ATI cards had fill rates at 3 million, Nvidia 4 million, yet the ATI cards are now THE card. Weird. s

There they go again, copying apple :wink: OS X requires powerful graphics cards to function correctly. Of couse, to buy one, through apple, they have half the vram of the pc side, cost twice as much, and are truly sucktacular, giving you a mercedes feel, vs. what should be a Viper. Truly a...

Splash: When you buy something, I've noticed it stays relatively current for a LONG time. This Supermicro board is going to last a long time, both ram wise, feature wise, processor wise, and, most important for me, pci wise. With PCI-X when the raid cards from LSI finally drop in price, I'll...

Splash: When you buy something, I've noticed it stays relatively current for a LONG time. This Supermicro board is going to last a long time, both ram wise, feature wise, processor wise, and, most important for me, pci wise. With PCI-X when the raid cards from LSI finally drop in price, I'll...

Merc: We are in the perversion capital of the world, or very close. If you want to really deal with all kinds of weird stuff, come to SF. I understand that you had a really bad experience. Come to SF, and your really bad experience becomes normal, and deal. I can remember riding bart, to go...

And, it comes to mind: People quizing me on why I bought a Supermicro mobo, and dual 2.8 xeons... It's amazing to me how quickly stuff becomes obselete, requiring ever increasing computer power. Pretty soon, all the stuff I'm buying will be required for net surfing... s

I'm looking at this thread, and the video card thread, and the ATI cards fill at 3 billion pixels, the Nvidia at 4 billion, and the Matrox parahelia, at it's very high price, at, 800 million per sec.???? So, for playing Quake 3, surfing the net, playing HD stuff, and running dual monitors, am...

"The Game" Simply fantastic. s

Well, then that's cool, since cpu horsepower I have... Dual 2.8 Xeons... s

How come ATI top end cards are about 25% slower in pixel fill rate, top end, yet get great reviews against the ATI topend cards? 128 mb of memory, and more, need only apply. s

Hi Splash. What I did was increase priority to real time. This moved up the ram usage by about 30%, and, increased speed. However, it's still pretty obvious it's the video card. To check this, I tried playing Quake III today, with VM off, and checking processor and ram usage. It used about...

OK: Yes, I've been computer addicted, but, I only have DVD, no tv. I have felt as you all do, and, my savior was AA, and God. As I stray from that path, so it seems, does my success in life. I try and help with a local basketball team, they hired my best friend to coach, and, they have a...

OK: Yes, I've been computer addicted, but, I only have DVD, no tv. I have felt as you all do, and, my savior was AA, and God. As I stray from that path, so it seems, does my success in life. I try and help with a local basketball team, they hired my best friend to coach, and, they have a...

Yes, a bit of stupidity. I ended up returning the 2 a gig sticks. Hopefully money will be refunded tomorrow. The store that helped put the computer together, giving me near cost, or cost, on most of the items, had some quality Micron Ram, that checked against the recommended ram on the...

Update: Final config: Dual Xeon 2.8's, with stock fans, supermicro mobo, Adaptec 2010S with 3 x 15's for boot raid: I don't like the speed, but the cache, 48 mb, seems to help, speedwise. Adaptec 29160N mounting Cheetah 10 K XL 18, Plextor 32 x scsi writer, 40 x reader, pioneer DVD reader...

Bamf!!! This is a great thread... s

Tried running it at max, which is 1880X1400, and scaled down from there. It's really noticeably slower, and jerkier at the higher resolutions. s

It runs at an average between 28=33% processor usage. The Third processor runs around 40 percent, with spikes to maybe 60%. The first doesn't do much at all, like 10%. s

SD is still about 30% of processor, but, the audio is loud, but when the characters speak, they don't say anything. The music seems in sync, however, and it appears that's the whole idea. s

I'm an ocean guy. Actually I've opened the dolphins, the MF Into Deep Water, etc. I'm downloading the scooby one, 1028 right now. Keep in mind, I've got dual Xeon 2.8s, on a supermicro mobo... s

29% processor use, and, runs crystal clear and fast at 1024. As the Video quality goes up from there, the speed slows down. I strongly suspect it's either Video card limitations, Matrox G550, or ram limitiations, 1 gb. It isn't the Xeon processors, or the motherboard, nor the disk system. s

HMM. Links please, and reports? I missed these... s

http://www.macgurus.com/productpages/ata/40Gmomentus.php I could use two of these right now... s

DD: Just tried the *.PST search, and no file. Wonder what I'm doing wrong? s

n o p r o b l e m :excl: :wink: g r e g s a n t i l l i :mrgrn:

"2.99 average latency 4.7/4.5/4.3 ms average seek time (read) 1078 Mbit/s maximum internal transfer rate 89 MB/s maximum sustained data transfer rate Ultra 320 SCSI and 2Gb/s FCAL .75 Kg max. weight 3.4 Bels typical idle acoustics About Hitachi Global Storage " Looks like the sectional...

SUCKTACULAR :excl: :wink:

OK: The printer does have an ethernet connection, and, it functions. However, on a Windows setup, the printer does not appear when you do a search to install new printer. The PC Maclan software installs sort of an apple networking language, system, like netbeui(sp) or MSFT networking. When you...

Hi I've recently got my server/workstation up and running. However, I have a problem. At work we use nothing but macs. I scan a lot of stuff using an Epson CX5200 onto the hard drives of an imac and a G3 333 mhz. I can burn the scans to CD, but, when I try and transfer to the PC for storage...

The results are weird. I have a single XL 18 that it shows with reads around 100 mb sec. Yet my array, averages about 28 mb/sec, with good burst and access time. REALLY weird. gs

Haven't done it yet, since I lost any stuff I had saved in the last couple reinstalls. Happily, the raid is plenty fast, even if the numbers don't look great. s

It's Outlook, and thank you again, for your help. Windows Media Player Classic is beyond cool. gs

What does bother me, is I can't figure out how to setup Outlook so that I can back up my favorite emails,and my favorite web addresses, and my email list. Help! How do you do this? s

Never fails, something has to be really screwed up. My copy of PCMACLAN Blue screens Windows XP. When I open in safe mode, which I managed to do once, I am not allowed to run the deinstaller to remove the program. :evil: So, for the second time, after recovery failed to restore the system...

THANK YOU :excl: Solved that problem. Awesome. This setup rocks!!! Splash: YOU ARE THE DOLPHIN :excl: :mrgrn: GS

G 550 rocks :excl: While not blinding, the graphics in Quake 3 are pretty amazing. WAY better then the 5500 Voodoo. The dual monitors work well, but, I can't use the second monitor for playing DVD's, as intended, with the DVD playing software I have. Overall, this setup really moves...

Sort of figured out the problem. RAM. As Splash said. I checked, and the 2 gigs of ram is showing up as one gig, despite promise the ram would work from maker. Returning now, with specific requirements. Could explain poor hard drive tests as well. Decided to keep the SCSI 2010S, since it...

Costco is carrying Diamond Max Plus (Quaxtor) drives, 160 gig, with card and cable, for 129 bucks. Bought one for the mac, and it appears to be a good fit. Supposed to have a 5 year warranty, and scsi like reliability. Currently appears I'm having problems with a couple Seagate drives. Has...

More info: The Adaptec 2010S is setup, but, with the 4 drives, it's only doing, max, 70 mb/sec. Ready to reinstall the ATTO card, and go with two Fst Gen X15's to boot from. Apparently I have an odd man out. One of the 4 X 15's has firmware 002, vs. 003 for the other three. That drive is...

"HALF :excl: " S

Got the second stick of memory, a pain, since in small print, the mobo requires matching dimms. Final stats, depending upon final discussion should look something like this: 2 Xeons, 2.8 ghz, with intel fans and sinks 2 gigs of PC 2100 memory, made by the maker of Apple system memory...

ALSO THANKS TO ALL WHO POSTED ON THIS TOPIC. AWESOME HELP, AND, I LISTENED TO EVERY WORD. THANK YOU. S

Splash: I would like to say thank you for all your help. I refer to you, first, and Tea second :wink: , for my computer advice-information, and, even though I may ask a thousand questions, I would really like to thank you, Tea, and all for the time you spend answering my juvenille questions...

Tea: Yes, just a little bit :wink: Funny I expected it to be considerably faster, since it should pull 75 ms sec but, on my machine only does 65 mb/s. Those are many atto 250 benchmarks. My raid does a bit more, about 110 mb/sec, and, I guess that is nearly twice as fast. Still, it seems...

Well, I've been using one drive, a third generation Cheetah, for booting, in the same machine I've used the 4 cheetah raid 0, on the same ATTO UL3D. There is a HUGE speed difference, in loading applications, program speed, and OS snapiness. s

DD: Come to think of it, I agree. I think I'll leave the TNT 16 mb card in it, pull the DVD player, and forget it. Anyone know if the heat sinks shipped with the retail package Xeons are any good? Thanks gs

Hi I decided on the G550, and with the money I saved, bought another 2.8 ghz Xeon. When I save up more money, I'll order the Perehelia, and put the G550 in either my server, or, in my girlfriends computer. I love it when a plan comes together.... s

Hi Splash I was after the 3 heads of the Perihelia, because I can totally see myself running 3 21 inch monitors, or, adding a couple LCD's when they come down a bit in price. My current sound card is a Phillips PSC 706. I've got Klipsch Pro Media 5 speaker 5.1, IIRC. I use that for some...

Very funny. Comtex? Something like that. They make the ram for apple computers. Apparently the MacGuy I go to has some sort of in with Comtex, calls them up, and orders direct, without apple in the middle. The maker requested the numbers on the ram, and the type, to make sure they match, and...

Well, I forwarded this to the guy making the ram dimms. I told him if it's questionable, I'll start from scratch, though that wasn't my intention when I bought the dimm. I want this rig to be reliable. s