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Every 42 seconds in fact, a frame would have to be shown for 2/24 of a second instead of 1/24. If the TV refresh was synced, which it isn't. I can tell it isn't because PAL sets use 50, 100 or 200Hz, none of which are exact multiples of 24Hz (or 23.976). Bear in mind that a popular film to PAL...

Interesting. What I call "relocatable homes" here are steel framed and designed to be transported in two sections, then reassembled onsite. They seem to use conventional interior materials, but maybe it's stronger than regular plasterboard/drywall. Certainly, timber is conspicuous by its absence.

Obviously, I don't understand something here. The Intel technical response seemed spot on to me. Panel refresh rate has nothing to do with progressive scan frame rate. Most TVs are now at least 120Hz (or 100 in PAL countries). That's 5 refreshes for every video frame. It wouldn't matter if the...

The video shows what looks very much like a timber framed wall. Where did you get the idea that it was a trailer? In any case, I don't know why a steel-framed relocatable home would be harder to manage than a conventional house. They're stronger if anything - not that that counts as fire...

I was referring to HDMI Type A, BTW. That's the connector that's currently available.

You've probably already done this, but I can't find anything on the Net or AvsForums in particular. I suspect the info is out of date. Looks like either AMD or Intel IGP solutions can handle it just fine these days. Based on advice on AvsForums, yes. Display Port is way more future-proof than...

I've run a couple of quick benchmarks on the 1.86Ghz Pentium P6000. CPUmark 99 (it's cache sensitive and still seems to be a reasonable indicator of single-threaded office application performance after all these years) says it's matching the AMD XP5200 (2.6GHz) and Passmark says it's equivalent...

Let's pretend it was your house and your wife forgot to pay the fee. There's also been some sort of bank mixup and the insurance company didn't receive your premium. The sprinkler system that you spent thousands on fails because you mixed up the LED lighting with the high-pressure plumbing. And...

Agree 100%.

That's really interesting Ddrueding. From your posts, I get the impression that you have mainly OCZ drives? Checking their site, I see that it's simple to download the latest (custom) firmware for their Sandforce drives (if needed).

Wow, it's rare that breaking news is so relevant. Nice pickup Bozo. So the Sandforce 2000 series pretty much doubles performance across all parameters. Says it all really. Makes a complete mockery of Intel's 'roadmap', reliability included. On the other hand, there's this chilling prediction:

It's frustrating, but they are coming down. Price per gigabyte is now $2 at Newegg for 120GB Sandforce drives. Spare a thought for people in countries such as New Zealand - they have to pay 30-40% above that.

Well that's a good point, where is the revolutionary stuff promised with these new Intel drives? The increased write life could be due to more intelligent firmware - that's what Sandforce is really about. And all manufacturers will have access to the new smaller-die flash. On the face of it...

No SATA 6Gb/s? Pffft.

Thanks for that, very useful. :thumbleft:

The Naked Chef.

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I've never tried calling a motherboard manufacturer. None of them have offices in this country anyway. The normal procedure is to contact the retailer or distributor who send them back to Taiwan in batches. Typically takes 4-8 weeks (regardless of manufacturer). I prefer that they don't fail in...

The Corsairs are shipping with beta (or alpha really) firmware. To make matters worse, they're still not able to offer an update to fix exactly the sort of issues you described.

Thanks for that. I've looked at the websites for Corsair, G.Skill, MachXtreme, Patriot and Solidata. Only MachXtreme appears to be offering updated Sandforce firmware; it's 3.20. This makes me lean very heavily towards the firm that actually bothers to pay for production-ready updates and make...

This thread's a bit long - which brand/model was that, Lunar? I notice that TechReport and Anandtech have contrasting results with their SSD comparisons. TechReport thinks the Corsair Nova is great and Sandforce really sucks, while Anandtech thinks Nova is weak and Sandforce rocks. In...

Sandforce firmware woes? What's the story with SSD firmware updates? I had assumed that everything had settled down, but a trip to the Corsair forums doesn't fill me with confidence. I'm aware that Crucial was shipping shite with their C300 for a while, and now it seems most Sandforce drives...

I'm not so sure, Lunar. Hitachi 7K1000.B: 117/175 MB/s = 67% Allowing for 13.5% encoding overhead brings the raw rate down to 152MB/s. If the average head switch/cylinder switch time is 2.5mS, that equates exactly, so no mystery here. Samsung claims an order of magnitude better hard error...

Good point, it's more about the RAID controller than the drives. Your example is wrong, should be: 2x 120GB OCZ Agility 2 ($500) + 1x 2-port SATA II controller ($10). Looks like 4-port SATA II controllers are about $35. Obviously, there's no point paying for coprocessor power in RAID-0. An...

But not per standard drive: 4x SATA 6Gb/s = 2.4GB/s I was referring to the article, where Anand said, "four of these in RAID-0 should be amazing".

To summarize sustained transfer rates compared to media transfer rates: 5400rpm F2 1.5TB: 64% 7200rpm F3 1TB: 57% 5400rpm F4 2TB: 55% 7200rpm F4 320GB: 53% So the trend is apparently to almost two revolutions to read one track. I can sorta understand the 320GB having more problems because it...

Another typo, F1 s/b F3. :oops: It's the same drive as yours, Doug. Results marginally better for some unknown reason. Note that the 7200rpm F3 1TB has a quoted media transfer rate of 250MB/s. It's only the 5400rpm F3 1.5TB (and 2TB?) that has the lower specs.

Mercutio, what do you recommend for scheduled shadow copies like you said you preferred for desktop PCs? What about servers?

I struggled to follow what Anand is so excited about. So they bundled 4 SSDs together with a RAID-0 controller, connected it straight to the PCI-e bus and said, "Ta-da"? As he said at one point, you could just buy 4 normal SSDs and create your own RAID. The individual drive throughput doesn't...

Typo, s/b 250MB/s for the 5400rpm 2TB drive. You're right, they're seems to be a much larger drop than I expected from the quoted raw transfer rate to measure sustained transfer rates. The 2TB seems to top out at about 137MB/s and the 7200rpm 320GB at 150MB/s. Still impressive, but not a...

I've had a look through the specs for quite a few of Samsung's drives, and it does appear that there was some sort of problem going from the F2 500GB platters to the F3 666GB platters. I'll hazard a guess that the transfer rate is approximately half what it could be, so presumably Samsung had to...

Not quite, it's 2.6" shallower and 6" taller (7" when compared to the P183). Did everyone notice that the optical drive is on the side rather than the front? This means you can position the case sideways on your desk behind your monitor(s) and still have direct access to the optical drive, as...

That's similar to how the Oz distributor used to pack IBM and Seagate drives in the old days (more tightly in bulk, obviously). Not sure why retailers thought that drives had toughened up enough to cut corners ...

There are a few glowing reviews out there, here's one.

Probably not what you guys are looking for, but I felt obliged to respond to my own complaint. I see that In Win Dragon Slayer addresses some of my criticisms. You can use an oversized graphics card yet still have 3-4 3.5" drives as well as a 2.5" drive, all in a 36 liter case with 426mm depth...

I haven't used the converter, but I've used other Paragon products over the years and they've been rock-solid. A lot slower than Acronis perhaps, but dependable.

Not a technical problem, just a PITA trying to find a location for it where it doesn't get in the way. :) Mid-towers are normally 470-500mm deep. With traditional layout, you have to sacrifice extra hard drives if you want to fit an oversized graphics card such as a 5970 (300-315mm). The...

Based on the published dimensions (which I tried to crosscheck), the Corsair 600T is a huge case; I calculate 80 liters! The depth could be a real problem, it's almost 600mm. Does this mean you guys are looking for a case to accommodate six 3.5 drives?

You could save even more money by buying candles, or maybe just sticking to matches. :p This sort of thing is always evolving, but in my experience cheap LED flashlights are inferior to cheap incandescent flashlights - unless you're using them close up. There are technical and economical...

Chewy, I confess I was way out of date on this, I thought it was still the downstream-only regime where you had to use dialup/ISDN for upstream data. I also assumed most people weren't eligible because ISDN was counted as broadband, but I *think* they stipulated 512kb/s minimum download speed...

Given you're coming from an $11 base, I suspect that 4Sevens, Nitecore, Fenix etc are not on your radar? I've shied away from Ultrafire because there are just too many reports of dodgy construction. I do have one here - they spilled a bit of glue on the LED and it broke when I tried to clear...

When did Samsung start cutting their monitor warranty to just 12 months?

No, that's a VX2739wm. It very likely uses exactly the same panel as the Samsung. I also made a mistake - sorry. The Viewsonic I mentioned is only a 23" 16:9 monitor, I was just trying to point to possible alternatives - it appears they're aren't any. How did you go with the visual tests? Did...

Greg, you may care to inspect the following images, from this excellent article at TFT Central. They should reveal that you have just bought a TN panel, which regardless of advertised bit-depth, uses dithering to render 16.7 million colors. You might also like to visit the LCD monitor test...

May get taken down again ... My reaction to the video was: Whimper I was particularly shocked when after idly observing the small bolts protruding from a pipe, the realization dawned that he was about to climb them!

They're monochromatic - can you live with that? If I had direct control over the backlight and therefore the chroma, I think it could be a great idea. I see you can buy your own panel to retrofit to certain netbooks.

I've wondered, perhaps fancifully, if Samsung is chiefly to blame for the preponderance of TN panels. Other volume manufacturers that I can think of, such as Acer, AOC, HP, LG-Philips and Viewsonic, have all offered IPS panels in their monitors. Samsung never, although in the past they...

Wow. Not good. :eekers: I assume you don't want to upgrade the power box until you've finished the wiring, so I'd strongly recommend you rush out and get a portable GFCI box.

It sounds like some sort of middleware running as a system process. It isn't detecting that the clients have disconnected. Logging back in as the same user may well pick up the previous connection; if so you'd only notice if you had a bunch of different users. My two cent guess ...

So this quite excellent site says you are doing exactly the right thing! That might just drive you insane though. I'd also suggest trying a nail gun and maybe thinner nails - a nail gun can drive thinner nails than a hammer without bending. AFAIK, the thickness of the nail is to support the...