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Well he has some ground there, I was thinking myself that this could use some software optimization as others have already mentioned but you clearly don't have control over that. The 7000 series controller is it native SATA, thought that was PATA?? I had a couple 6xxx and 7xxx a long time ago...

What about a mirror with a controller that can read data back from both drives at the same time like a 3Ware twin store feature? With so many small files I don't see where the throughput of RAID 0 helps here? Kind of an interesting problem with the presented bazillion tiny random files situation.

Yeah it's worth saying twice, I have had a 32" Samsung here for about four months now and it is fantastic. I also work from home and spend like 10 hours a day in front of this thing too so totally worth it for me.

Hmm good to know.

I'm thinking the real sweetspot isn't in monitors at all but the smaller (32ish) 1080P LCD TV's. They are well under a grand and while they aren't the highest resolution they really make a pleasant work desk. You can set the monitor way back on the desk and see everything just fine with no...

Grrr, now having a problem with the whole "Advance" part of the advance replacement. If I don't see tracking info soon (as in left today) I'm not going to be happy. At first they didn't want to do it at all but then they decided it was OK once they saw tracking info on the return. Don't know...

Cool, that's what I did. The box was a little banged up but you never see a perfect box come out of UPS. Attached is the damage, I was nearly ready to instal the drive when I finally caught it. I was thinking that if I had done this myself (the more common method of breaking by yanking the...

Hmm when I fill out carrier damage they say they they won't accept an RMA and to call, should I do that or just mark it as defective. In the end I don't feel this is UPS's fault, thoughts?

Been discussed before but never happen to me right? Well it happened to me, have a new 300gb raptor here with a broken SATA connector, bent right over. Sorry Newegg but a layer of bubblewrap around several OEM drives in the bottom of a box with packing peanuts on top of it all doesn't work...

Throw me a couple dollars for shipping and it is yours. Dell wireless Bluetooth 350 module that fits a LOT of notebooks. Comes with the module, FCC sticker and driver disk but does NOT come with the extra cable if your particular notebook needs it.

Seems to be a very through procedure, thanks for the link merc.

+1 to the K lite pack, it's pretty good. I would also stay with 32bit under XP. If it were vista I would answer different though.

Sounds suspicious, do you run AV?

Should be great for torrents and DVD's, I am highly disappointed in media center myself. It baffles me why I can't play something in media center when media player will play the item. It's like your one step away from awesomeness and just completely fail every time I see the one or more codecs...

I did this on my last one. Check in your local hospital, they may have a bin for just this. There are supposedly places you can sell it where it gets to be refurbed and sold again on gray market too. Don't expect a lot but maybe up to $50. Always ebay too.

Ebay with a really good writeup, you know really sell it in the description? Likely in a lot or logical bundles. Could be sitting on some money, weirder things have happened. Especially if it is wacky enough to get /. mentioned or something.

I like ddrueding upgrade strategy after a failure. Are the Realtek and Marvell NIC's failing? If so how many of those are because of unprotected lines and power or other electrical problems that weren't the NIC's fault?

Is it ok to delete these folders? C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstallKB938464$ And the like? These are just there in case you wan to uninstall windows updates right?

Intervention with a card cutting ceremony in order? You can pry my Amex Clear from my cold dead hands...

Was the nero warez (sorry have to ask)? Nero has grown to a big pile of crap in the past year or so, my advice is to never do a default install of it, just select nero burning rom and nothing else from the whole "media" suite. Well sometimes I make an exception for cover designer...

The Inspiron is the economy/consumer line basically for housewives and students right? I haven't heard a lot of positive stuff on them really, most of the fora I circulate in knows better. I think if you are going dell you want Latitude at a minimum or the stupid expensive waste of money XPS...

That's a truly unique cluster F on that layout. Least they could have done is put the drives at the top or something. Does it even conform to BTX or is that just a lets try this project? I rather like my huge case layout on the yeong yang, has a hole in that area that passes through so you can...

I have an old corporate 8703e berry and I totally agree with the solid tactile feel of having keys, I can rip out a quick message on this thing surprisingly fast (for me, took me about forever to become a touch typist). This is why I was sort of interested in the new berry with tactile touch...

Interesting, but I was thinking we would hit holographic memory before this.

Nope, just prints garbage. HP says the driver is supported and in vista, just like they say it is in XP. Only it is in XP and left out of vista.

My point is there is no PCL driver available in the included windows driver list. I either get this list or the option to load from somewhere else finding an INF. I spent a LOT of time on this last night... I can't even share the printer through a virtual machine: 1. In the guest I can't load...

Exact same behavior, plus I never had to do that in XP. BUT if I do that in XP it works find both ways. BUT: I see the issue, that is a Postscript driver verses PCL. I don't have a Postscript SIMM in the printer and I don't see a PCL driver listed in Vista anymore (sc*** you bill gates)...

What vista nonsense causes this? I have a Color Laserjet 5 that won't print in Vista x64 for some reason. I know it works fine in XP and the process for adding the printer seems to be the same in Vista as it was in XP. The only catch is the printer is IP attached via the network card in the...

I got the ISO's but haven't really done anything with them yet and on the media center question I had a duh moment when I realized ultimate is mentioned in the file name. Doesn't seem like a polished beta when all the literature and instructions on the disk mention vista though. I am sure...

Phew, just the 7200.6 and 7200.10 here. I heard rumors on the terabyte ones spreading on forums for a while now...

Is there a media center in this beta? I am guessing winFS didn't make it into this one either? I'm going to download this and check it out in a VM for the heck of it.

I have one of these in black with all accessories I am not using, yours for the cost of shipping which might be significant but there it is. It has dynomat slapped in relevant locations plus caster wheels. Has decent fans (can't remember what) but no power supply...

Doh, I see the point now. Regardless when speedstep drops the speed and voltage to whatever I don't think you are going to see one bit of power difference unless you tweak the core voltage down further somehow. I'd probably try for the 333x9 to start with, assuming your chipset supports 1333fsb...

I don't get it, your multiplier is unlocked? This an engineering sample?

Feels great when a lot of hard work finally starts paying off doesn't it! Thumbs up man

Weird, your sure that that behavior goes away if you unplug the drive? Nero is such bloatware now, used to be nice and slim but now I will never make the default install option mistake again.

Oh and check out hiren's boot CD and emergency repair disk. They should both have decent data recovery tools.

I used this a couple times, not exactly heartily endorsing it. Ultimate Data Recovery 5.0 MISPBO Technologies

Especially when you know you didn't do anything.

Now we are talking, let us know when he gets up to black powder!

American Express officially kicks ass, I knew all those member benefits would kick in some day. Basically they refunded the cost of my new video card less shipping. Claim Number : 24xxxx Status : Claim Paid The following payment(s) have been made on your Extended Warranty claim: DATE 12/30/2008...

Actually I like that, usually auto completes for you or suggests better key words that lead to better results.

Well I am a real fan of supermicro after the P4SCT which is still running flawlessly in a friends computer now. Zero trouble with this board either. Also the P965 doesn't really officially support the 1333FSB I now need. The only thing I want that it doesn't have is some sort of digital out for...

A feature to look out for would be 120hz display, usually only available in the 40+ range. Could be important if you go blueray and gives a much more fluid motion image.

Merry Christmas all.

Minor update, the memory was replaced and the motherboard was returned with no comment. I don't see a repair and it all works fine now and passes memtest and everything. Quite happy with my new kit though, this kicked off quite the spending spree so off to ebay with all the other stuff.

Cool. Didn't know it existed and never thought to look.

Has anyone else noticed that the UPS tracking info you get through ups.com and the newegg shipment tracking utility is different and newegg includes more details? Usually the extra stuff you see are location scans etc but I find the extra detail interesting. Take any UPS tracking number and...

Thanks for bringing up Paint.net. Tried it for the first time today looking for a CSx alternative and I was really surprised a free app was so good.

Well I took the really cheap way out and got some headphone splitters and some 3.5mm to RCA adapters to go to my stereos analog in. If I really hate it I will be out 5 bucks but I am sort of waiting on that X-Fi HomeTheater HD if I do anything, I think the HDMI sound processing may be worth it...