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and an old Maxtor 5120 in my 1.4 gig athlon, for storage server. Decided to pull all my scsi stuff out, and set the box up with the above drives, I have laying around from trying to use them in my mac, a 2940 Adaptec card so I can talk to my external raid box for storage, and, (shuddersl, a...

Hi I was looking around for used Matrox cards, and found these: http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduct.asp?submit=manufactory&catalog=48&manufactory=1291&Type=Refurbish&sortby=14&order=1 179.00 is about what I think the Parhelia 128 is worth. Hmmm. They seem to go quickly. s

Well, my guys, we, finished second at Arco, to Fairfax. They had a bit too much height, and we didn't screen out, or play to the level required. Still, a great team, and a great game. s

The G 550 I bought was a refurb, for about 60 dollars. Couldn't beat the price, and wanted to see if the cards are THAT good. :wink: As usual, you are right on the money. This card should work great in my Dell P2 400mhz office computer for my girl friend. When I get the chance, I'll swap out...

I guess the numbers don't lie. I just got done reading about the Parahelia and games, and, the guys pretty much said the Parahelia won't run the current generation of games, won't support DX 9, and is questionable for longhorn. Apparently a new card is due from Matrox, this summer? What is...

Splash: One thing I have noticed is that with the Matrox card, I use MUCH higher resolutions on the two monitors, like 1600X1200, and, I can use them, and still see clearly. MAJOR advantage in productivity. ATI was likewise crystal clear on the mac side. Wonder if it's that good on the pc...

Pradeep: So the current Computer DVD's are different from our store bought DVD's? Funny, I thought the format was the same. I guess using Disk copy is not going to work with a store bought DVD, until the new Dual layer burners come out??? What was the format used in the industry in the...

"Dual layers"? ????? s

I love the books. The movies are very good, and in someways better. Lynch's version captures a few things better then my imagination. The countryside he used, his view of Minas Tirth, the arrival of Aragorn at the battle field in front of MS, these I thought, while different then the books, in...

Well, this sucker rocks. If I can RMA my clicking, firmware version 2 X 15, I can raid 4 drives to boot from. Haven't decided if the ATTO UL#D Dual channel hardware raid card is better for raid 0, or the current adaptec 21010S or whatever it is. It returns, with 3 drives, 85-95 mb/sec using...

R2D2: Yeong Yang YY-0221 Cube Case EEB3.0 Version Here's a link to the case: http://www.virtual-hideout.net/reviews/yeong_yang_cube_server_case/index.shtml s

OK: But, what's this stuff about the Perihelia being faster then any of them? I thought Matrox put out cards that were 3-4 years behind the top cards, in playing quake 3, etc.? While the dual Matrox G550 is a great 2d card, for this rig, I want a world class video card, for doing HD, and...

Couldn't find it. And I looked. Sucktacular. Well, maybe I can get the guys to let my put 2003 server on my machine. Any reasons not to buy a copy? Have XP Pro currently. s

Brings back a couple Crocodile Dundee parodies, but, that's pretty close to the truth, except this guy girl was REALLY pretty... :cry: On top of being the perversion capital of the world, for a straight male, it offers a pretty good situation, but, not nearly like San Diego, or LA. LA is...

My bad. It should have been Ati vs. Nvidia. From the list, the ATI cards had fill rates at 3 million, Nvidia 4 million, yet the ATI cards are now THE card. Weird. s

There they go again, copying apple :wink: OS X requires powerful graphics cards to function correctly. Of couse, to buy one, through apple, they have half the vram of the pc side, cost twice as much, and are truly sucktacular, giving you a mercedes feel, vs. what should be a Viper. Truly a...

Splash: When you buy something, I've noticed it stays relatively current for a LONG time. This Supermicro board is going to last a long time, both ram wise, feature wise, processor wise, and, most important for me, pci wise. With PCI-X when the raid cards from LSI finally drop in price, I'll...

Splash: When you buy something, I've noticed it stays relatively current for a LONG time. This Supermicro board is going to last a long time, both ram wise, feature wise, processor wise, and, most important for me, pci wise. With PCI-X when the raid cards from LSI finally drop in price, I'll...

Merc: We are in the perversion capital of the world, or very close. If you want to really deal with all kinds of weird stuff, come to SF. I understand that you had a really bad experience. Come to SF, and your really bad experience becomes normal, and deal. I can remember riding bart, to go...

And, it comes to mind: People quizing me on why I bought a Supermicro mobo, and dual 2.8 xeons... It's amazing to me how quickly stuff becomes obselete, requiring ever increasing computer power. Pretty soon, all the stuff I'm buying will be required for net surfing... s

I'm looking at this thread, and the video card thread, and the ATI cards fill at 3 billion pixels, the Nvidia at 4 billion, and the Matrox parahelia, at it's very high price, at, 800 million per sec.???? So, for playing Quake 3, surfing the net, playing HD stuff, and running dual monitors, am...

"The Game" Simply fantastic. s

Well, then that's cool, since cpu horsepower I have... Dual 2.8 Xeons... s

How come ATI top end cards are about 25% slower in pixel fill rate, top end, yet get great reviews against the ATI topend cards? 128 mb of memory, and more, need only apply. s

Hi Splash. What I did was increase priority to real time. This moved up the ram usage by about 30%, and, increased speed. However, it's still pretty obvious it's the video card. To check this, I tried playing Quake III today, with VM off, and checking processor and ram usage. It used about...

OK: Yes, I've been computer addicted, but, I only have DVD, no tv. I have felt as you all do, and, my savior was AA, and God. As I stray from that path, so it seems, does my success in life. I try and help with a local basketball team, they hired my best friend to coach, and, they have a...

OK: Yes, I've been computer addicted, but, I only have DVD, no tv. I have felt as you all do, and, my savior was AA, and God. As I stray from that path, so it seems, does my success in life. I try and help with a local basketball team, they hired my best friend to coach, and, they have a...

Yes, a bit of stupidity. I ended up returning the 2 a gig sticks. Hopefully money will be refunded tomorrow. The store that helped put the computer together, giving me near cost, or cost, on most of the items, had some quality Micron Ram, that checked against the recommended ram on the...

Update: Final config: Dual Xeon 2.8's, with stock fans, supermicro mobo, Adaptec 2010S with 3 x 15's for boot raid: I don't like the speed, but the cache, 48 mb, seems to help, speedwise. Adaptec 29160N mounting Cheetah 10 K XL 18, Plextor 32 x scsi writer, 40 x reader, pioneer DVD reader...

Bamf!!! This is a great thread... s

Tried running it at max, which is 1880X1400, and scaled down from there. It's really noticeably slower, and jerkier at the higher resolutions. s

It runs at an average between 28=33% processor usage. The Third processor runs around 40 percent, with spikes to maybe 60%. The first doesn't do much at all, like 10%. s

SD is still about 30% of processor, but, the audio is loud, but when the characters speak, they don't say anything. The music seems in sync, however, and it appears that's the whole idea. s

I'm an ocean guy. Actually I've opened the dolphins, the MF Into Deep Water, etc. I'm downloading the scooby one, 1028 right now. Keep in mind, I've got dual Xeon 2.8s, on a supermicro mobo... s

29% processor use, and, runs crystal clear and fast at 1024. As the Video quality goes up from there, the speed slows down. I strongly suspect it's either Video card limitations, Matrox G550, or ram limitiations, 1 gb. It isn't the Xeon processors, or the motherboard, nor the disk system. s

HMM. Links please, and reports? I missed these... s

http://www.macgurus.com/productpages/ata/40Gmomentus.php I could use two of these right now... s

DD: Just tried the *.PST search, and no file. Wonder what I'm doing wrong? s

n o p r o b l e m :excl: :wink: g r e g s a n t i l l i :mrgrn:

"2.99 average latency 4.7/4.5/4.3 ms average seek time (read) 1078 Mbit/s maximum internal transfer rate 89 MB/s maximum sustained data transfer rate Ultra 320 SCSI and 2Gb/s FCAL .75 Kg max. weight 3.4 Bels typical idle acoustics About Hitachi Global Storage " Looks like the sectional...

SUCKTACULAR :excl: :wink:

OK: The printer does have an ethernet connection, and, it functions. However, on a Windows setup, the printer does not appear when you do a search to install new printer. The PC Maclan software installs sort of an apple networking language, system, like netbeui(sp) or MSFT networking. When you...

Hi I've recently got my server/workstation up and running. However, I have a problem. At work we use nothing but macs. I scan a lot of stuff using an Epson CX5200 onto the hard drives of an imac and a G3 333 mhz. I can burn the scans to CD, but, when I try and transfer to the PC for storage...

The results are weird. I have a single XL 18 that it shows with reads around 100 mb sec. Yet my array, averages about 28 mb/sec, with good burst and access time. REALLY weird. gs

Haven't done it yet, since I lost any stuff I had saved in the last couple reinstalls. Happily, the raid is plenty fast, even if the numbers don't look great. s

It's Outlook, and thank you again, for your help. Windows Media Player Classic is beyond cool. gs

What does bother me, is I can't figure out how to setup Outlook so that I can back up my favorite emails,and my favorite web addresses, and my email list. Help! How do you do this? s

Never fails, something has to be really screwed up. My copy of PCMACLAN Blue screens Windows XP. When I open in safe mode, which I managed to do once, I am not allowed to run the deinstaller to remove the program. :evil: So, for the second time, after recovery failed to restore the system...

THANK YOU :excl: Solved that problem. Awesome. This setup rocks!!! Splash: YOU ARE THE DOLPHIN :excl: :mrgrn: GS

G 550 rocks :excl: While not blinding, the graphics in Quake 3 are pretty amazing. WAY better then the 5500 Voodoo. The dual monitors work well, but, I can't use the second monitor for playing DVD's, as intended, with the DVD playing software I have. Overall, this setup really moves...