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Well if anyone cares... The 650 GTX I ordered works fantastic. _____p60 video scales to the 2560x1440 resolution of the monitor perfectly while maintaining 60FPS with no hiccups or dropped frames. I can also enabled the better deinterlacing in the LAV video decoder and everything stays smooth.

Uh... You can't be serious...

AnyDVD HD + ClownBD is probably your best bet if you want to keep something that's still a Blu-Ray and have the process be highly automated. This spits out a "movie only" disc with no menu and only the audio tracks and subtitles you choose. There's still no guarantee that a "movie only" disc...

Need more details on what you plan to do with them. So you plan to burn them to BD-R and watch them on a stand alone player? Or watch discs from a HTPC? Are you willing to re-compress them to make them smaller? Do you care about special features or would you be okay with just the movie? Do you...

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Here's what NTFSInfo reports for one of the Seagate drives: NTFS Information Dump V1.01 Copyright (C) 1997 Mark Russinovich http://www.sysinternals.com Volume Size ----------- Volume size : 2861586 MB Total sectors : 732566271 Total clusters : 732566271 Free...

Use NTFSInfo.

Wouldn't it be 48000/1001 if we want to get picky? Or is film projection not drop frame?

I'm pretty sure only USB drives over 2.2TiB are 4k sector drives due to limitations of the USB interface. I have 2 3TB Seagate USB 3.0 Backup+ drives that have 4k sectors (or at least present themselves to the OS as having 4k sectors).

It's worked fine for me on more than one system. It's really just Server 2003 with a different name on it. Still gets weekly updates, so I'm not inclined to upgrade any machine running it.

Gimp is crap because it pretends to be like Photoshop but it sucks at it. Paint.net is okay because it doesn't pretend to be some giant, wonderful, powerful image editing software. It's reasonably basic, but works well.

I might get tempted if the Stealth 8's to go on sale though I certainly wouldn't be putting them on my desk at work.

Did you end up buying anything to satisfy your quest for a beefier bottom end?

So, I decided to overpay for a MSI GTX 650 today. My GeForce 8600 GT can't drive my 2560x1440 monitor adequately for video playback. I can't play back ___p60 video smoothly using VMR (not overlay). The decision to get this card was based on these charts and these charts. I would have bought...

Tell that to my 63 character one. :)

I'm not so sure about that. You have to be quite the trooper to zap yourself with 25kV repeatedly. And, he seems genuinely surprised every time he gets zapped. If it's acting he should be up for an academy award or something.

The audio is at least half the fun! :rofl:

My coworker e-mail this one to me earlier today. We were literally in tears watching it.

In other news the insurance companies cooked up a new test cars do poorly on so they can justify further raising your insurance rates.

I should clarify my earlier comment. The PERC 5 and 6 cards don't support drives larger than 2TB. The PERC H7xx and H8xx series cards do. I don't know if they're still firmware locked to only certain drives. The PERC 5 and 6 cards had good appeal because they could be bought cheaply on ebay...

Look, believe in AGW or don't. It doesn't matter to me, but the whole idea that the AGW pushers have established a non-falsifiable premise for AGW pushes them out of the realm of science and into something else. The scientific method relies on and is built around falsifiable theories. Someone...

IMHO, he should use something with RAID-6 and have a backup (or two) that's equivalently large. The specifics of which I'm a little bit more fuzzy on. Last big array I built was a PERC 6i with 8 2TB drives running RAID-6. The PERC cards (AFAIK) don't support 3TB or larger drives. The new...

Yes, that's essential if you want a premise that can't be proven false.

Happy 2013 fellow SF members (and readers)!

So I used the latest Gparted (0.14.1-6-i486) and had no issues deleting the existing partition, creating a new MS-DOS partition table (not a GPT partition table) and then making a single NTFS partition that took up the entire drive.

Based on what I've seen posted around, apparently the answer is no.

Either my Google-fu is weak or almost no one else is attempting to dig into making MBR partitions >2TB because of the larger than 512byte sectors that you get as a side effect of the USB interface. I've seen a few posts around the web with people asking how to make 'em, but the replies are...

Mainly so they're readable by XP machines. I accidentally destroyed the factory format of one of them while trying to wipe it clean / test all the sectors (full format). However, I was able to use Clonezilla to mirror the one that was still factory fresh to the one where I messed up the...

Does anyone know how the 3TB USB HDs are formatted? I have 2 USB 3.0 Seagates 3TB drives. They show up as a single 3TB partition (base 10). They are not GPT, but MBR partitions. My rough understanding is that is possible because they have 4k sectors, not 512byte sectors they can exceed 2TB...

That depends... Do you want to be able to do all the fancy video post processing (top tier deinterlacing etc)? If so the card lacks the power to process the video after it hardware decodes it. If you're just looking for 1080p (or higher) playback with minimal post processing it should be okay.

I'd still be tempted to find a used receiver like a Denon 2805. It'll do everything you want in a single box. Feed it SPDIF and voila.

Reportedly Emotiva has factory renewed USP-1's available for $299. link It's 2.1 capable (though a little simplistic). You would still need a DAC upstream of it, but there are lots of USB or SPDIF capable DACs. You could couple a FIO D3 to your on board sound card if you wanted to do it...

Well, it's not a 2.1 device. It has no bass management or ability to properly drive a subwoofer. Sure you can split the output and send it to your Airmotiv 4's and your subwoofer, but that's not the right way to do it. Heck, you could do that with your USB sound card.

Well, there's lots of ways to half ass it. ddrueding doesn't seem like someone who wants to half ass things. I'm suggesting the right way to do it. Do you have any free slots in your PC for an actual sound card or do you want something USB or what? Are you just looking to play music or do...

Give the Asus GT440 a shot then. It shouldn't have any issues with 1080p hardware accelerated playback.

You got me, but there don't seem to be many fanless options. There's the Asus GT440 you linked to earlier and two GT640 cards. One from Asus and one from Zotac.

Please... There are lots of quality subwoofers from non-boutique / audiosnobbery brands that easily meet that criteria. They just happen to give you a lot more value for your dollar.

Err... it looks like I spoke too soon. The GDDR5 GT 640 is the GTX 650, not to be confused with the GTX 650 Ti, which is not a GK107, but a GK106 (GT660 chip). :rofl:

You also can't overlook that Nvidia gimping all the GT 640 cards with DDR3 instead of GDDR5. The GT 440 was available both ways. I'm pretty sure mine has GDDR5.

By really good you mean subwoofers with performance that ranges anywhere from ho-hum to poor from long established boutique audio brands that cost an arm and a leg? Something akin to buying a genuine IBM desktop for $15k when the equivalent clone was $2500. Except for this analogy to line up...

FWIW, the MiniDSP ships out of China also.

I should point out that supposedly the 6x0 series cards have the VP5 (per Wikipedia). However, it seems some of them are rebadged cards from previous generations (the 630 is the 440 and the 610 is the 520). The 620 is a Fermi card also. That likely means only 640 is Kepler based with the VP5...

The 520 has a more advanced hardware decoder, but the 440 has better post processing capabilities. I'm not sure where the 620/630/640 fit. I know they have the VP5 engine that's in the 520, but I don't know if they have the post processing muscle of the 440.

You can get something for a lot less than that. Amazon had the Onkyo 809 as low as $427 last week. The price has been slowly climbing since. You could get a USB dac / pre-amp like the Audio-gd unit I bought and use a small DSP after that like the MiniDSP with the 2.1 plugin.

IMHO, he needs proper bass management. That means a crossover and variable delays (distance settings). His current sound card doesn't offer that. Even a sub with a pass through / quasi crossover isn't really going to do it right no to mention that will severely restrict his subwoofer choices...

I'm okay with some refurb products, but an SSD (or anything else with a finite lifespan) wouldn't be one of them. How do you know how much wear the flash chips have on them unless the manufacturer explicitly guarantees all units have fresh flash chips, or have a max usage of like 5%. Adding in...

Yes, but that's about as cheap as they get not withstanding a few Emotiva products that I can't recommend based on their history of releasing pre-pros with quirky implementations, bugs, and fundamentally flawed "features". There is a cheaper unit from Outlaw, but I have no idea if it's worth...

I'd probably suggest adding a receiver or pre-pro with pre-amp outputs. You can use the SPDIF output from your USB sound card to feed it.

Yeah, something like that.

As long as your sound card has a subwoofer output it's fine. The next step up is a receiver or pre-pro. You would want to use SPDIF or HDMI from your PC to the receiver/pre-pro and then take the pre-amp outputs from that to the subwoofer and Airmotiv 4's.