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Given the nature of the application, I'd give some consideration to a genuine Intel board rather than some other OEM. The D845GEBV2 does most of what you want, but it has audio and LAN on-board (and 6 PCI slots - are you going to install any DSP 'boards for accelerating your editing?). It also...

I'd actually worry more about your battery than anything else. Cold will kill that battery very, very quickly. My rule of thumb is to not leave anything that has a battery in a car that you would wouldn't leave a pet in. Thinking of my laptop and cell phone that way makes it a bit easier to...

Tannin is correct in saying that Microsoft upped the criteria for issuing a security notification. Microsoft also has instituted some other interesting practices, like not notifying the public of severe bugs/security problems until after a patch has been made, and not acknowledging that some...

Actually, the girl who shares my office is a leggy 6'1" blonde. The rest, though, are basically pear shaped, like me. :)

Hot damn. I qualify for that one! I'm gettin' another PC. ;)

The inspiron 8200 has two slots. I was just inside of one a couple hours ago, since one of my cow-orkers just got one.

Windows XP's time synch actually works pretty well if you synch to someplace you know has good time. I use one of the machines at my alma mater.

No problem. I was just amazed when one of my linux boxes started making noise out its speakers after I put in a GA7VRXP board (which has the same chip as the SB128) and install RedHat 7.2.

Have you set you pagefile to a single size yet? Do that, and see if it's just XP being lame and randomly increasing/decreasing your swap file. In general, especially with a laptop, where hitting the hard drive is really painful, the answer to your question is "yes, you need more RAM." ;)

I *hate* those Palo Alto cases. They're thick, cheap plastic, and IMO the interior arrangement of components leaves something to be desired, as does the "it'll never fit the same way again" side panel. The case I use is steel, through and through. It is exceptionally quiet, and access is by two...

... and because I'm the kind of guy that voted for Al Gore in a state so republican that my vote is irrelevant, I'd like to point out that 1.) that statement was taken vastly out of context, 2.) That Al Gore did, in fact, sponsor legislation creating DARPAnet (this is essentially the correct...

So do you actually work for Dell, honold? My $600 machine will be XP2100 + GA7VAX + 256MB Crucial RAM + 80GB Samsung disk + 48x Lite on burner + my favorite case & power supply (Compucase 6812) + 1394 card + two removable 3.5" disk bays for swapping drives around. Total comes to something like...

Any version of Ghost that isn't Personal Edition is a single binary with no serial number requirement. Personal Edition is included with lots of motherboards, and is probably the version that guys like Tannin are familiar with.

JoJo - for Linux, try an SB128. They're autodetected and basically self-configuring in Linux (er, Red Hat, anyway). The Live has Linux drivers, but they don't do everything the Windows versions do. Anyway, SB128s are cheap and practical. The Santa Cruz does have Linux support, also. I've...

For those wondering, I haggled and haggled and managed to get a respectable amount of money for one lab - $600 per PC. The others will not be as nice, probably more like $480 apiece. Parts are being ordered tomorrow, or maybe today if someone hands me a PO in time. ;) And honold, I'm absolutely...

The enterprise version does offer some useful features. The basic (systemworks or Personal Edition) version doesn't want to save to network drives. The enterprise version will save to any UNC path. Not to mention that anything better than Ghost PE doesn't do that B.S. "two binaries and type in...

You don't have a PC next to your bed? (Granted, I have a special need - it's easier to kick off an extra video encoding session over VNC without crawling out from under the covers). I can read for long periods on a high-quality monitor, and I don't mind doing so in the least. I like paper just...

I like the Philips Acoustic Edge better than the Turtle Beach. But then, I'm still willing to put up with Creative, too.

I have 2.1TB in my apartment right now (pretty easy in 80GB chunks), and I need more. I think I can use as much as I'm given. :)

WD Enterprise drives were pretty nice for their day, too. Too bad I don't have a U160 controller...

Hrm. The total package works out to around $600 on pricewatch right now, if anyone else felt like looking.

I started buying Samsungs a few months ago, also. I notice newegg.com has been having a REALLY hard time keeping the 80GB drives in stock, too.

Er, that should be "warm and noisy". Not "loud and noisy". My mistake (and now you see how I got to 1800ish posts...)

... and I've had zero returns on any Maxtor drive I've purchased, ever. Given that Seagate is entirely in the 1-year warranty camp, I'm at a loss to find a reason to purchase Seagate ATA drives. The WD *AB drives are very cool and quiet. I don't know about friction, obviously. They are...

I'm not having good luck with them either. :( Buck, what do your return figures for WD and others look like?

How much? I can always use better encoders.

In proper (US, which to some might be an oxymoron) usage, disk refers to your basic platter-shaped object. Both the US dictionaries I have in my office say that "disc" is the variant spelling. Interestingly, in the US, "disc" is widely used to describe recorded media (records and CDs), and in...

Speaking as someone who just lost a 120GB drive (WD1200AB) five months after I bought it, I'm going on record as saying drives with one year warranties aren't worth a bucket of warm spit. Not that I'm bitter or anything. For those counting, I've had three WD drives fail since January (600AB...

... or buy a real sound card, like everyone else who wants high-quality sound and gobs of options. A $6 Cmedia or Avance card can do it all, and things only get better from there. :P

Isn't Newark the place where the mayor is trying to repopulate the city with Liberian immigrants? Or is that Patterson?

I was actually playing with TMPGenc Plus last night also. I got amazing results setting up virtualdub to frameserve from TMPGenc. That gave me more flexibility than I ever thought I'd possibly get. I was able to get TMPGenc to open some decoded .VOB files directly, but not very many. Gotta look...

Gigabyte's high-end boards have a backplate for center/rear and digital output. That's probably what Epox is doing, too.

I disagree on that one, Greg. The Klipsch computer speakers are boomy and bass-heavy. They remind me a lot of Bose speakers in that way. I think in the realm of computer speakers, one gets a much better overall listening experience from Logitech. ... and yes, I think Yamaha makes very nice 2...

Yeah. Now I'm curious. I'm grabbing a bunch of different packages from doom9.net to see whether I can do MPEG2 with anything that's out there. I think the "Plus" version of TMPGEnc handles MPEG2. Maybe I'll try that.

Oh. Yes. Playback. Playback of ATI's MPEG2 files is fine. But my need is to capture and encode in a more efficient format. Hence the high-bit-rate MPEG1.

I kinda like Cobalt.

Yes, but I don't want to use it, since ATI's MPEG2 files don't open up in FlaskMPEG or in XMPEG, or anything else I've tried. :( I haven't tried it with the 9700, though. Maybe it's different now.

AIW9700: I can watch a movie on on VCR and cap off another (@640x480 MPEG1, 5000kbps) without dropping appreciable numbers of frames on an XP2100. I still can't cap and do anything particularly interactive at the same time (e.g. I'll drop frames if I start a game of Freecell). It was an impulse...

I in-theory own an '80something Volvo 740 (I inherited it, and it sits in storage all the time because it only has 20,000 miles on it). I've had it out a few times. Granted, it's Swedish, not German, but for a big/long car, I think it's marvelous. Good handling, comfortable, decent pick-up -...

Tannin, give any recent Logitech computer speaker a go. They're excellent, far better than Creative's. Cambridge SW speakers are better than the Creative-branded ones as well. Mostly the ones labelled Creative are $10 - $50 models.

I bought one this weekend.

I'll like to Anand's "chock-full-o-ads" preview rather than Tom's, but a quick visit to either site will get you to a preview of some kind. http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.html?i=1749

A look at the cooling system on the NV30 reference board: The Tom's hardware article also says that this heat pipe system was audible over that of an already noisy computer, and that the air coming out the back was "hot to the touch". And suddenly, the largish fan on a Radeon 9700 looks...

That's a Speeze Model 5F263B1M3. I had to go look it up.

The Speeze wound up being best of the bunch. It doesn't cool quite as well as the Volcano 97, but it isn't quite as loud with the 7 at the "low" setting, and it cost about a third of what the 7 did as well. Good deal for a budget fan if it turns out to be a reliable unit.

I've never seen an nvidia product that I would say is of high enough quality that I'd want it in my own PC. I had a VisionTek Geforce 1, and I thought its display was lousy. I had a Chaintech Geforce 2 MX, and it wasn't any better. I had a Chaintech Geforce 2 GTS, and it was worst of all. I've...

So when will all the nifty links (Chat, Folding, Reviews etc) on the top of the page start doing stuff?

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The sky is blue in my world, blakerwry. What color is it in yours? G400s don't get anything like hot. Warm, maybe, as in "a couple degrees over air temperature", but also not "I dare you to touch it after four hours of Max Payne" hot like nvidia cards manage. Image quality is subjective and...