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More interested in what the price of these new monsters once introduced will do to push down price on smaller drives such as the 400 and 500GB models. That and a 5 platter drive (particularly) from Hitachi still sounds alarm bells. $399 though does have some appeal. :)

Hadn't come across or heard of that patch before. None of my models were made within that period anyway. Surprised Hitachi cheaper where you are. Currently Samsung SP2504C is amongst the cheapest (if not the cheapest) in Oz for 250GB at $100au while Hitachi are dearest at around $140au for T7K250.

I still come in and check out all the old farts posts now and then ;)

That's surely only guaranteed applicable from your position as a business? I had my first Samsung failure a few months back on a SP2504C. Bloody broke my perfect record with them since my first which was a SHD-30420A (420MB) I had in a 486. :( The drive I got back I couldn't discern whether...

Well, I've never been one for badge engineering. In my experience its always been best to buy the original no matter what the product is. So if the product is a turd to begin with you might be able to polish the turd but it will still be a turd that stinks. :D That's not unique to Sony as most...

I don't know why people hold such views about Sony products?, specifically in this case optical drives since Sony no longer make and market their own drives. AFAIK, all recent burners have been OEM Lite-On drives. The only potential for Sony to screw things up further over what is already a very...

The only issue I've had with both the 109 and LG 4163B was that after a firmware update a tub of Melody 8x DVD+R ( I had just started) would no longer work on either burner without making coasters. :evil: The NEC 3520A still produces good burns with them so I'm not updating the firmware on that...

It's probably a rebadged Lite-On rather than a true Sony product. Whats the model number? Good choice with the NEC. I've found that my 3520A happily burns media that my Pioneer and LG have trouble with.

For the average or novice PC user who does the occasional burn a Lite-On is fine, and as long as the resultant burn can be accessed or played they're happy and think about it no further. But, anyone who delves deeper into what constitutes a 'good burn' and does a bit of research would not be...

I agree. I've had many Lite-On CD burners in various machines. I've still got a 16X model kicking around here somewhere. They were great and I always looked forward to the next model. They always recieved good to excellent reviews, burned just about anything thrown at them and they were cheap...

It was the 66MHz version and installation was fine. Anyone that fitted and sold an M571 with a 75MHz version "M-II" wants reaming with a nail studded basball bat IMO. ;) The chipset only had official 66MHz support and to use the 75 or 83 MHz FSB put the PCI bus out of spec. On 83MHz it was...

I also owned the 3.2a revision. The chipset was not designed for above 66MHz use but seemed to be stable at either 75MHz or 83MHz but not both. Mine didn't like 75MHz at all no matter what type of CPU was used. With regard to the fallacy! remark.. I was referring to the later K62's that in spec...

I had one of those horrid P60's and to this day it has given me hesitation when thinking of buying anything new that's Intel based again because I'm still pissed off about it. I subsequently had several early Cyrix and AMD CPU based systems, some with chipsets other than Intel (when available)...

The HDA-X10 is available. I can't say for sure its available where you live, but its readily available in Australia as I bought one. Its not cheap however as it cost me AU $60 plus postage. Seems it is intended for other cards or at least a version of it is. I can make out references to...

I got what you meant, hence the wink ;) Perhaps other potential companies are waiting for the C-Media drivers to mature. From what I've read most bug complaints are referred back to C-Media so I'm unsure of exactly how much driver development is being preformed by HDA themselves?. I'm sure...

I can't say I've experienced any popping sounds yet but I have experienced the card dropping sound very briefly via SPDIF coaxial when in DD5.1 as if the coax cable has a bad connection. It hasn't done this while it is in direct pass through with DTS so I suspect the card rather than cable. It...

Didn't intend to touch a nerve ;) I migrated through early Intel stuff both CPU and chipset into C64's and Amstrad CPC's and then Amiga's then got back into PC's with Cyrix and AMD CPU's utilising both SIS and VIA chipsets. In the early days it was fun trying to solve problems and learn along...

My appologies, In my haste I phrased that statement very poorly and it was obviously taken to mean something other than what I intended. :o I meant 'possible issues' and I was generalising from what I have read so far in my travels. It seems most mobo manufacturers customer service droids have...

It's all in the + ;) Actually, after reading this thread and Mercutio's other thread about 939 boards, I spent the last few hours researching this card and from all accounts its a very good card, so much so I parted with the cash and bought one. :)

I still haven't made the jump to socket 939 myself yet because I can't find a board that really grabs me in its feature list. I've always been attracted to high end boards with lots of integrated solutions (except video) Currently I think the top end 939 based boards are still a little spartan...