Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
Don't you hate it when you've just gotten into your bunny suit and walked into the class 4 clean room, and then realized you hafta take a leak?
Santilli said:The maker requested the numbers on the ram, and the type, to make sure they match, and work in the Supermicro motherboards. I suspect they might make the ram for some of the distributors Splash mentioned, but, I could be wrong.
Anyone know if the cable resistance is the same for LVD 2 and 3? 132 ohms? Wondering if I can use my Granite Digital cables and terminators from LVD 2, for 3?
Splash: Is the included cable with the Supermicro mobo any good?
Hows the sound on the motherboard?
After I look at all of the features on the Supermicro motherboards, no one should be saying they are under priced. When you add up all the onboard stuff, the motherboard is the steal of the century.
Even though the Parhelia is a decent graphics card, it's basically overpriced. Unless you are running some CAD package, which the Parhelia is quite good at, I'd recommend the Millennium P-650.The only hang up is getting the Parahelia. It's back ordered...
...the only PCI cards I need are firewire 2, and that's it.
Mercutio said:...If they made a modern equivalent to the G100 I'd buy them day and night...
Santilli said:I was after the 3 heads of the Perihelia, because I can totally see myself running 3 21 inch monitors, or, adding a couple LCD's when they come down a bit in price.
Are the Firewire direct cards the same as the cards Ken is selling at Granite Digital?
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Mercutio said:...If they made a modern equivalent to the G100 I'd buy them day and night...
The G200 is really a much better card than the somewhat short-lived G100. On the used market, I suspect the G200 is about the same price as the G100. Driver development is still alive with the G200/400/450/550.
Mercutio said:As far as I recall, the G100 and G200 were released at the same time in... 1998, I think...
Santilli said:Sort of figured out the problem. RAM. As Splash said.
Could explain poor hard drive tests as well.
Decided to keep the SCSI 2010S, since it works, and, it has 48 mb of ram on it for cache.
Santilli said:It's Outlook, and thank you again, for your help. Windows Media Player Classic is beyond cool.
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Santilli said:Meanwhile, I'm real tempted to buy a Firewire DVD burner, 180 at Costco, for a 4X, and, looking at the Matrox cards, I'm trying to convince myself that it's worth waiting for the the bucks to buy a 256 mb VRAM Parahelia.
Santilli said:...and, I figure one of these days, LSI will drop PCI-x dual channel cards down in price, and I'll go with one.
...looking at the Matrox cards, I'm trying to convince myself that it's worth waiting for the the bucks to buy a 256 mb VRAM Parahelia.
The more I look at stuff, the more I'm convinced that the new MSFT systems will need lots of VRAM, likewise new games. For my uses, it would assure being able to run pretty much anything.Well, if you are talking "Longhorn," then you are talking a few years from now, meaning it's WAY likely you would want a whole new graphics card, or even a whole new 'puter by then!
I had a novel idea a while back about -RENTING GRAPHICS CARDS- but I don't think it would work as well as renting video tapes, etc.
Thinking of the "renting graphics cards" idea reminds me of an original joke I was telling last summer about how the human of the future would become prosthetically enhanced with various computer components... yada yada yada... they could see visions of computer graphics overlays via patching into their optical nerves... yada yada yada... Well the punch line was something about how the human of the future would also have to stay up-to-date by going to the doctor every 3 months for their required "quarterly nVidia nEma." I've since sort of since forgot the rest of the joke, fortunately.
Splash, where would I find slot to channel info on the motherboard I'm using? I'm trying to find out which slots are on which separate bus. Not that easy to figure out, reading their manual or related info.
They are colour coded, but the one or two of the PCI-X slots are on individual buses, the regular 64-bit PCI slots are on another bus, and the 32-bit slots are on yet another PCI bus segment.
Any suggestions on quiet 120mm case fans, and, how do the Swiftech Xeon coolers work, and which fans do you use to quite the system down?
Well, I went a shopping at this local establishment once, and they had fans and stuff like that out the wazoo -- quiet and not. Their quietest are the Vantec fans which YOU should easily find locally:
http://www.directron.com/quietfans.html
I recently bought a couple of REALLY fans at another local outlet that doesn't have an Internet presence (at least none that I've found), but this place (and others) have the same fans -- called Stealth Pro:
http://www.coolerguys.com/ProductDetails.aspx?productID=122
Strangely enough, I have the recently-released Swiftech Xeon fans on order at work. These are for a couple of small dual-Xeon (604-pin Xeon) image processing workstations.
Santilli said:"Dual layers"?
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