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I'm sorry. Let's get this straight. My uncle, his father, both went, and graduated from Stanford. Both my uncle's sons, and myself border on genius, at least according to our test scores. None of us have been admitted. I guess my uncle, and his father didn't pay the bastards enough fucking...

LSAT is a test designed to perpetuate the status quo. As a older, wiser, experienced person, I didn't fit the profile, or limited life experience to do well on the LSAT. I did OK. If I was 23 when I took it, I would have scored in the top 3%, and, they would have been chasing me. Truth is, age...

There is no reason, other then affirmitive action that I don't have a law degree from Stanford, instead of JFK. I should say, that's not true. My uncle, and his father should have contributed more money, then I'd have a frigging Stanford law degree. So, I'll die in hell before I run folding @...

If they want to pay my PG&E bill, I'll be happy to run my dual Xeon rig with their program...

By the way, f...k stanford. My uncle, his father, all went, and graduated. They paid the bastards too. Did I get in, applying Magna Sum laude, 3.73, from St. Mary's, to their law school? No. Guess I need to play the tuba....or be black...

I guess the specifics are what cpu usage are you getting with DVD Shrink, DVD Dcripter, NERO 9, etc.? while I'm typing this, I'm running about 8% cpu usage, with a DVD playing LOUD, Rolling Stones, What's MY NAME?

OK: First off, the dual xeons have been REALLY fast, since when most people where using 30 mb/sec 5400 rpm drives, I was using 2 X 15's in raid 0 for a boot drive. SSD's represent the first time, in a LONG time, like 12 years, that actual desktop top systems can surpass that setup, or, the SCA...

David is doing well since I'm sure he doesn't save any expense in doing it. SATA 3.0 excellent grade RAID controller, Raid 0 to increase cache, etc. Mercutio is probably pretty much the same. Intel seems to be the way to go, but, they are as they always are: ripping the profit on their topend...

I agree. The only thing is, I'm not going from a 7200 rpm drive with a 16 ms Random Access time to a SSD. Sustained through put does have an effect on speed, and, is noticeable, when the numbers are fairly large. I notice a large difference in Seagates 7200's when one is working at 60 mb/sec ...

http://www.behardware.com/articles/742-3/mtron-mobi-3500.html Looks like this generation of SSD's just aren't that fast in sequential reads.

I guess what I'm getting at is after checking these benchmarks, here is what I come up with. Access time is .02 ms for a SSD. For mine it's 6.0 ms. So, 29 times faster. From the tests on that website, the highest sustained read is 144 mb/sec. Seems like not a bunch different. Take the raid...

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I went through an article about SSD's here http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=270&Itemid=38&limit=1&limitstart=11 "...but EVEREST Disk Benchmark will become the primary indicator. This makes our Solid State Drive product reviews seem very limited, but at...

Anyway you can quantify why you think it's not as fast as you were expecting? Which SAS drive did it replace? Access, random, sequential read speed for the drive it was replacing? Thanks Sechs

Or, Intel's pricing on it's best Xeon chips...

That's absurd. Reminds me of paying 1264. for 32 mb of ram for a 540C Mac laptop. Next year it was 150 dollars.

Honestly, though, I wouldn't recommend picking up any SSD until we have a clearer picture of which drives will support the TRIM command and how they'll perform in Windows 7 ntel's X25-M remains the all-around performance leader, and even with a higher cost per gigabyte than its rivals, the 80GB...

Anyone have an idea what's going on with LCD's, Samsung in particular? New issue, cheaper price coming? Thanks GS

hmmm. I got out of it wait, and buy later. However, considering I'm pretty much XP Pro, and 2003 Server, and, I'm not real likely to go to 7 anytime soon, I wonder where that leaves me.?

I noticed David's ramdisk numbers are about 3X mine. I was also wondering if anyone had done any actual comparisions with the new chips, and motherboards, and games, programs, etc.? Hard Disks and bus speeds have been the limit for speed on computer setups for quite awhile. If my ramdisk works...

I'm trying to get a handle on comparing the old 604 Xeons to the newer cpus. David has made the point that the actual clock speed is more important then core numbers. I was wondering if it's possible to find a motherboard with dual Wolfdales at 3.0 ghz, and have a viable machine. I'm also...

Don't get this. What motherboards are these guys using to get 4.2 ghz out of a 175 dollar dual core Xeon? http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=N82E16819117165

Found another link that mirrors your post, but, with a promise of lower prices... Can't remember where, now...

Sam: This is Davids new chip, bought for over a grand: Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition 965 Nehalem 3.2GHz 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor - Retail 1019. This is the chip I'd be looking at: ntel Xeon X3370 Yorkfield 3.0GHz LGA 775 95W Quad-Core Server Processor...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117173 or a Quad core, at 3.0 ghz, with double the L2 cache. Considering the fastest chip is this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117179 and, it's only 3.2 ghz, what's not to like? And, the fastest i7 is...

Don't know about that. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117165 A 3.0 ghz Xeon, dual core, for 175 dollars, that overclocks to 4.2? Motherboards aren't cheap, but two of these would make a cool running, fast system? And, I agree with your reasoning on the single core...

Well, David was looking for the fastest cpu possible. That might be a dual Xeon rig. If Intel comes out with a reasonable priced SSD, why not raid 0 two or four of these drives? The reliability issue is now pretty much moot, and my pci bus fastest slot is PCI X 133, which should work up to a...

David: What about a dual Xeon rig? http://www.tomshardware.com/gallery/RAM-Core2-scaling,0201--6464----jpg-.html

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/core-i7-975,2318-11.html After spending two days going through their notes, and tests: http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/processors,6.html "Intel’s Core i7 processor, formerly referred to as Bloomfield, has been architecturally dissected one bit at a time...

Mercutio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSDN_Academic_Alliance Wouldn't work for me. I would like to try a number of MSFT products, but, the price usually stops me, not to mention the principles...

How many subscribers here, and, it sure looks like it's worth it....

Set the guy up with a cheap Netgear, that worked. 12 mb/sec on the laptop, 7 on the desktop both are Gateways. I've been taking a long shower to get the smell off from working on them...

Hi I remember someone saying he was converting over to Google apps? What do you think of them and, which ones do you use? Thanks GS

Would it be possible to build a PC that functions as the source for broadcasting to multiple computers, using wireless? Would the components you use for a wireless broadcast from a PCI slot be better then the components currently used in routers?

Nothing new. Caught em doing this with Grackle chipset on the G3's, limiting PCI bus speed. Only a few true speed freaks would ever push it fast enough to find out about it. Probably about 2% of MacUsers ever hit such a barrier, and, at that point, they become ex-macusers...

Would something like this be the way to go? http://www.expressitoptions.com/node/75809

So, at what point does it stop being consumer hardware? Seems even some of the Cisco stuff, for 300-500 doesn't work. Also, is it worth investing in an Aero or something like it, when the standards may change as they have to N? Or should I tell the guy to buy two cheap DLinks with his store...

This router http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833124285

Hi I just spent 4 hours trying to setup a defective Linksys router, 110 IIRC. It's supposed to retail for 80 bucks, but, it has all the quality of components that cost 10 bucks. I think the reset button was stuck in, or it had a poor power supply, or connection. I couldn't get into settings...

That's sad. I had such high hopes.....

Since I had one go bad, I've bought Samsung's at Costco. I'm using the 21.5" 2233's. Only Samsung they are carrying. The more you spend, however, the better the percentage, at least in Kali, with the 16.00 monitor tax, plus 9% sales tax.

David: Why don't you give me a great price on those two OCZ 32 gigs, and, buy another Intel X-25E for your system? Tax write off? ;-) What's the advantages of the Auzentech X-Fi Forte over the Xplosion?

Forgot to mention that both computers are limited to 150 mb/sec, sata 1, or whatever...

OK: Merc, DD, do you think the Intel 25-M is worth 350 bucks? Other ideas? 80 gigs is enough for my boot drive. Thanks gs

Don't know about the messing systems up part. Seems like mine seem to run, and run well, for a long time. While I know some complain of server motherboard costs, as Splash used to point out, you usually don't have much in drivers to worry about, and, they generally just plug and play, provided...

I used to use that with my macs to set a minimum block size. I do it less with Windows, don't know why. Do you do the same?

It's all good. Glad he posts that stuff, so it reminds me of what a racket macs are. Charge 100% more for the video card, with a driver that doesn't work, and takes months to get right, if they ever do.. Thanks U...

This isn't really rocket science. HDTACH, the free version, will pretty much be good enough. ATTO works, as well.

By the way, I agree with David on the smaller SATA box from Supermicro, and, it's a steal, at that price. I also replaced the fan with a Stealth, and, it works fine, though if the fan dies, the alarm goes off, and, it's very high pitched, and annoying. Likewise if one of the drives dies, the...

It's for my HTPC. Now I just have to figure out the best deal for memory for this motherboard: GA-K8N Pro- SLI F7 AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3200+ 2 gigs ram It's got 2 gigs of ram in it now. Wonder what's compatible with it? The Patriot stuff that's in it is 75 bucks for 2 gigs, kind of expensive...