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Sound... AFAIK, the RealTek ALC650 is an audio CODEC (coder/decoder) it doesn't actually produce the sound. The nForce2 MPU is the Digital Signal Processor (DSP) which handles all the grunt work. The CODEC turns the stream from digital into analog. AC '97 is a software implementation of the...

I work with a couple of hundred software developers. We also get a lot of new graduates every year. Some of them think they are über developers. Most (nearly all) fall short. Maybe with support, time and good mentoring they might make the grade. I can count on one hand the number of guru's...

Clocker, the USA will get about 20 000 first year, but shipments aren't due until later this year. Last I heard, reaction to the GTO was good and they doubled their order to around 40K, but without a new paint shop (that's the bottleneck), Holden can't build them - well they can build 'em, but...

For the cost of the Phantom, I would prefer an Audi RS6, E55 or BMW M5, & packet the change. But that's just me. I like to drive. :)

Cliptin, you can make cells any size you want. 0.15um had some support because 0.18um lithography tools could be re-used with some re-jigging to "scribe" the smaller photomasks (gross simplification). 0.13um was too big a step as the light wavelengths used were too large. Every semi-con...

Original Slot A (up to 650Mhz) was 0.25um 700 Slot A was hybrid 0.22um 750 Slot A + (512KB cache) & all Thunderbird Slot A's (256KB cache) were 0.18um Al Most Thunderbird Athlon and Spitfire Duron Socket A below 950MHz were 0.18um Al All Thunderbird Athlon > 1GHz were 0.18um Cu I _think _...

Thank you K. Say hello to J for me :) I should have got off of my arse and looked on George's site...

Overclocking experiences Currently my system is T'bred A 1900+ (ES - unlocked), EPoX 8KHA+, 512MB Crucial PC2100, TripleXXX GF4 4200 64MB, WD 600JB, Volcano 7+ (1/2 kilo coppa whoppa) System runs as 2200+ via 150MHz bus (300DDR) and 12X multiplier. Memory latency times as low as I can...

??? And that is? I did run into the VIA IDE bug with KT133A but am unfamiliar with this one.

Abit KT7A Rev 1.0 ~ 1.2 Sometimes boot, sometimes not. Whilst I play Powerball, I dislike lotteries in my computers :) I have an Iwill KA266 that (with latest BIOS) will run a Palomino but not a Thoroughbred. I don't expect Iwill to do anything about it, but it would be nice if they did...

just read the thread and damn if honold and SteveC aren't clever b*st*rds :mrgrn: (the mail addy's) Hope I never get on your bad sides ;)

While on the subject of laughs (oldies but goodies), I offer http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html

I did send WD an email about advertising 60GB platters and shipping 40GB/platter drives. I requested that they replace the drive with one meeting the advertised specifications. I haven't heard back but I checked their web site this morning, and it seems they have made a slight change to the...

My guess is that it will be a lot like NVIDIA, second or third time right. While ATi's designers and engineers are talented, they haven't (AFAIK) done a core logic chipset before. I still think there is a bit of the "black arts" in chipset and CPU designs...

Thank you :)

:mrgrn: Telstra would have fits! Yeah, but all I did was update that article I asked for some feedback on and post on my main page and everybody here has seen it so...

BTW Handruin, I should drop you a note for the front page...

Woohoo! At least I haven't been /.ed My ISP says I'm only allowed 200MB of traffic per month :)

Thank you

I think this is a good thing. Now THG is less readable than before, so hopefully the number of times I have to explain why THG's reviews are less than forthright will decrease...

I've have been thinking the same thing. In my case, that web site is exactly why I bought the drive - expecting the 60GB per platter version.

Got burnt by the same thing http://www.storageforum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1450 Very upset

Lord Groltz und Baron CougTek it shall be. No harm meant, it was just Friday for me, I've been working 60~70 hours a week for a couple of months and I just landed my first weekend off in a while (plus the following Monday). Just going a little stir crazy I think...

Oops :oops: My sincerest apologies Sir Groltz, I had just read one of your posts and got myself confuzzled. I meant Sir CougTek.

Sir Tannin and Lady Tea, don't look at my drive bench graphs as I ran the D740X with AAM enabled. With it disabled it returned slighty better results, but not much. I also added 1000BB-SE scores, but I haven't had time to upload the graphs. My first attempt lead to horrible pixelated text...

Ah yes Sir Groltz, but you are misinterpreting the results. The Winstone tests were run in groups of 5. Standard Winstone methodology. so the first 5 red boxes have a average, and the next 5 and so on. What you are interpreting is the average of the five highest score (of twenty five). What...

blakewry, One huge difference between my results and SR's is that they use the Winbench reported score - ie the highest. This is psuedo science at its worst. You cannot draw any conclusions from such "golden samples", especially across different benchmarks. The conclusion you drew above (and...

So Tannin, how much faith do you have in Winbench or Winstone (or SANDRA or SYSMark) scores for that matter. They all report the extreme outlier as "the score" - which IMHO is utter crap, and why I don't do it in my articles :)

The Inquirer ws stating that the Barton will have a 400MHz FSB and that nForce2 already has support for it. Has anybody seen or heard anything to confirm this?

Hey, I'm with Tea. I run for the hill when I see another bill in the post!

Glenfarclas 15yo if you don't mind thanks. http://www.glenfarclas.co.uk or Balvenie 12yo double wood http://www.thebalvenie.com/ or perhaps Glenmorangie 10yo. http://www.glenmorangie.com/home.asp JW Black isn't bad either. Hey Tannin (or anyone), you may be interested in this...

Tea, an absolutely outstanding contribution :) Any chance you will post that on Red Hill so I can link it? Or could I host it with suitable acknoledgements and links? I get asked that so many times it is not funny. FWIW, I believe that the answer is in the number of address lines on the...

Outstanding Merc. I've been looking for something like this for ages - > Long Live MoM and MoO! UFO (X-Com) as well :)

Where I work we have 480 (give or take a few) servers. Scheme that! :)

Ahh, IOMeter. SR own doco says that IOMeter readings are more applicable to server loads than personal use PC's. The fact that the 'Cuda made barely any improvement in personal use benchmarks indicates to me that for measuring hard drive performance for personal use, IOMeter is irrelevant (or...

blakerwry, I do agree with a lot of your feedback - I will expand on some of the points you mentioned, because yes , my site is aimed at the n00b. The only two points I see differently to you are: Seek times (IMO) aren't important -> have a look at the SR artile comparing the 1000BB-SE to the...

Handruin, the message was this Not Found The requested URL /modules/news/ was not found on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

blakerwry, I will need a little time to think about your tome :) I'll post again later - had to go shopping with my wife and bub

It was on the WD spec sheet for the 600JB two weeks ago, 1 platter, 2 heads and the same Buffer To Disk 736.0 Mbits/s (Max) as the 200/180GB series. http://www.westerndigital.com/products/Products.asp?DriveID=39 I should note that now the number of heads has been changed to 4, which doesn't...

I purchased a WD600JB for use and hoped to use it in an article. I hadn't seen them before and the specs on the WD site state that these use 60GB platters. Get it home, bench it and the transfer rate is identical to to WD400JB I have - so it must use two 40GB platters -> I can't tell you how...

Buck, W2K's FDISK.

Hi people, I've been benching some hard drives with some not so common applications and run up a few graphs and thoughts. This will be sort of a hard drive version of DansData Cooler Guide (if I can make it work). Anyway, the first part is only a 300BB v D740X v 400JB (a preview because I'm...

2 and 3. Makes no difference

Changed nothing except formatting as NTFS and the graph dips at the half-way mark!

More info (see above). I went looking for specifications for this drive (WD300BB). I initially ran tests upon it over a year ago here: http://users.bigpond.net.au/liamc/q22001/zdrevisitedp3.htm if you have a look at the transfer rate you'll see that it is 33600KB/s So I though to myself...

OK, this is just plain weird. Deleted the NTFS partition, (as an aside, whenever I re-installed W2K I deleted the partition and started again) re-created the primary and formattd as FAT32. The mysterious drop disappeared! But the drive is still stuck in UDMA-33 mode. I had changed the round...

Unfortunately no. I only have Socket A boards KT266A AM760/VIA686B ALi MAGiK1 I will try it on the Iwill board though.

I'll third that. T, you don't have an ETA on EPoX nForce2 boards do you? I feel like playing early adopter again (against my better judgement) :)

jtr1962, is there any utility that will reset/redo the formatting?

Thanks for picking that up jtr (about the UDMA-33 mode). Here's what I have still to try to form a definitive opinion Format drive into three partitions, one either side of boundary and one crossing and test drive throughput on each with a couple of other proggy's to form a definitive opinion...