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I saw some benchmarks showing the 480 and 5870 to be MUCH faster, like twice, then the 295. Real world tests, and reviews show the gap to be MUCH smaller, for the games, few that they are, that I play. It only gets a little noisy with extended game play, and I don't do that often.

Anyone played with one of these? How do they compare to the 285-295? Card you've used?

It would be MUCH cheaper, and probably better to just buy a VCR/DVD player, that can copy a tape right to a DVD, in the machine. I'm not convinced a setup exists in a computer that allows the VCR tape to be converted to a DVD format, without software. The plextor-converter software wouldn't...

You may want to rethink that. Drive issues. I've purchased a bunch of Samsung 1.5 TB from Newegg, a bunch being 6-8. They have come in plastic, with the foam, and once in awhile some bubble wrap. No problems here. That said, I don't usually use them 24/7, but use them in removeable drive...

Turned off defender as well. ESET is enough. Auto updates as well. Also looked through msconfig. Adobe puts WAY too much auto garbage in the startup folder.

Tried changing the priortiy for connections, nothing. Still have to use run, and the cards IP address to get gigabyte speeds between the two machines. New annoyance. LOTS of slow downs lately. Seems indexing is running at shutdown, and, with 3 1.4 gig drives, it effectively was freezing the...

THANK YOU. Now let's see if it works...

Thanks Sechs. Worked just fine. Haven't mucked around to really look for features, just installed it.

LM: For what it's worth: For some reason, on the HTPC, my install on a Vertex Turbo did not include the sound control panel. Conjecture is I should have pulled the sound card, done the install, gone back later and put the sound card in. However, it's too much work, for little benefit, since...

I've got it installed, and no problems so far...

I guess. Using a restore point is an easy fix, without leaving junk in the registry...

I'll have to give that a try. 2003 still requires activation, right? Still using 2000 office on a couple machines... GS

Great thing about having the server with 7 Ultimate. I can try stuff on it, and, if it screws the pooch, I can, and have reinstalled the OS. Do not want to do this on the beast. Odd as it may seem, those old Xeons keep working, and, keep being plenty for this kind of work.

DD: Tried AA 9.2 Pro. It pretty much sucks. Not easy on this. Thinking the best way to go on this is to print the documents, scan with Omni Form Filler, and fill them out. See how it works. GS

Is there a program that allows you to click on an area of the PDF document, fill it in, and save it, quickly, easily without 8-10 clicks? Thanks GS PS trying to fill out a PDF, print it, or save and email back.

"System 3: 754 Athlon 64 3400+. Radeon 9600XT, Samsung HD322J ~120MB/s hard drive & Vista Business SP2. Snappy." HTPC is similar, with a 3200+, and Nvidia 9600 Sparkle, and, perfect match for it, Velociraptor, with XP Pro, SP current. Also Explosion 7.1 sound card. I recently installed a 30...

Somehow the comment to install one version over the other, because the uninstaller might/will corrupt your registry doesn't give me the warm and fuzzies...

Several companies, including LG, Sharp and Hitachi have pleaded guilty to price-fixing and agreed to pay out more than $890 million in fines, the AP cited the filing as saying.

Has anyone every actually installed and used one of these? How rigid are they?

I have two of these in the box, http://www.granitedigital.com/satahot-swapinternalenclosure1.aspx and had a third one. Oddly, they aren't rigid enough to work well, stacked three up. I pulled the middle one, and they flexed correctly, allowing proper contact. I could install that Antec device...

Yes, it seems to be a POS. Others have had similar problems, low quality power supplies etc. However, DD isn't one of them. One port would be fine. I got my backup stuff done, prior to the failure...

Pulled the SSD, but, gave up on connecting to that port. You did such a neat job of connecting and bundling the cables I don't want to take them apart. Plus, with the giant video card housing, I can't really get in there anyway. So, I powered it up again, and, green light to power brick...

When I switched the cable end on the computer, it changed to the other slot. Appears the right Esata port is not working. Both cables work. I might pull the extra SSD and connect to that SATA port, since it really isn't doing anything sitting there.

Yes.

Spoke too soon. Only one channel is working...

THAT'S WHAT THE WEIRD CABLE IS FOR! :lightbulb:

The card I'm using comes with the Gigabyte motherboards. Don't know who makes it;-) This is the Toaster: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817707170&cm_re=esata_external_hard_drive-_-17-707-170-_-Product This was the defective card...

DD had a real nice, Startech removeable drive setup last time I was down. I bought the Esata card, and the toaster. Esata card was defective. One of the ports didn't work, and, the toaster ran at USB speeds, not SATA. Newegg replaced the card free, and, I just threw the old one away, with their...

Might that help add to a possible slow down?

Anybody know how 32 bit apps are run on 64 bit windows? Emulation?

120 bucks for a 60 gig SSD? http://www.newegg.com/Special/ShellShocker.aspx?cm_sp=ShellShocker-_-20-227-394-_-08072010 Looks like a great deal, despite the rebate part.

That idea is perfect for places like Osaka, where in peak rush, or even on Sundays, going over 30 rarely happens. What about LA? They already have dedicated, some toll, car pool lanes. Why not put something like that over the car pool lane? GS

Hi Just installed a Flash blocker in Firefox. That's cut the plugincontainer down to about 4-5% even with double the number of windows open. Whoops! It just happened again, worse then before, typing and trying to erase something. This is typing in Firefox, here, and, Firefox is using about...

I found Mercutio's slow down. I've got streaming video, about 3 different windows open, and, I was typing in another. The web pages are www.wetsand.com and www.surfline.com Both have flash adds going , surfline in particular. I started typing in another forum, and, nothing for about 2 seconds...

Thanks for the heads up.

Vuze, AVAST, Peerblock, and Firefox are a pretty common set running on my server. Vuze is the primary culprit, and, once in awhile, typing is slow because I'm using near 100% of my processors, combined with a higher then normal priority for Vuze. YMMV. gs PS Have you considered optimizing for...

Hi Bill: There are a bunch of registry settings that Microsoft put in that REALLY slow down the visual effects, and snappiness of 7 Ultimate, which is what I'm using. I'm currently looking through a bunch of stuff to see what I've missed in using the OS. You can use the classic theme, and...

Flagreen! Great to see you posting again. How have you been? Thanks to David D. I'm using 7 32 bit on my old Dual Xeon machine, and 64 bit on The Beast(see signature). At the same time I went to 7, I also moved up to SSD's on both machines. 7 was the choice mainly since it had drivers for...

HMMMM. While I've been buying Intel, I can't help but notice that value wise, at least using Passmark's cpu Value the AMD chips seem to dominate. http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_value_available.html

Thanks. That explains my memory speed;-)

It's not quite that linear, but, pretty close. .2ms is the usual tests for SSD seeks. Raid 0 usually doesn't scale exactly double, but it's close enough for government work. Where this really shows is with the Kingspec SSD that transfers data at about half the speed of the 7200 RPM that it...

Extreme National Geo on my birthday swell, 1998, 70 foot, or bigger, in Hawaii, and, incredible skiing.

;-( I was looking forward to it. Sounds like you found a good card, however.

http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF05a/382087-382087-64283-72270-3884471-4194577.html 30 bit Panel? Still, you could get one heck of a TV for 1300 dollars...

No, you are not wrong. What looks really spectacular in Bluray is the issue, for whatever reason...

Dinosaurs worked for a LONG TIME.;-) Since Granite Digital specializes in removeable drive setups, and this seemed to be part of the issue, I would certainly check with them on their card experience. SI may have made a new generation card that is worth it, or may not have.

Yes, it is. I was just looking at the specs and got the really sick idea of using SLI, as the prices drop... The card doesn't even come into play until I start gaming. I also have a large exhaust setup that blows on it.

Testing the 2.8 ghz xeons, running about 56-70 % and its running about 200-220 Watts.Thats with 3 vertex turbos, one SATA drive. 4670 ATI card, and one DVD burner, plus Magic Jack. Seasonic 550W power supply. At 5% processors, it's running 135 WATTS. At 15%, and this is what it usually is...

Appears that adding a SATA drive would add about 15 WATTS, at least on the Dual Xeons it did. It booted at 135 Watts, and went up 15 WATTS when the removeable drive was put in. Define "load" on your tests, please.

Found my Kil a Watt. Just got done running The Beast doing Call of Duty 4 at about 30% processor power. It was in the 450-500Watt range. At idle it's about 221w. This with two Sata drives installed, and the others listed in the sig.