Re: [H] One of two 8800 GTS (SLI) on the fritz.. next move?
the GTS512 is actually faster than the GTS640 (it's a 128 shader part with higher clockspeeds, compared to the 96 shader... 500Mhz? of the GTS320/640) ATI's 5870's should be dropping in two or three weeks, so I'd recommend waiting to see what that can do before spending any money. On 26 Aug 2009, at 06:58, Veech wrote: I had two EVGA e-Geforce 8800GTS running in SLI and one went bad, I think the RAM may have overheated. So I pulled out the bad one and am now running with just one 8800 GTS. So far it is fine for my purposes, but I've been out of the video-card market for almost 3 years and am wondering what the next move should be. I plan to contact EVGA and see if by any chance it is under warranty, I heard that it is possible that they may replace it although I don't know yet for sure. I have an EVGA nForce 680i board and am running Win XP. I see a similar card available at Amazon but it looks different than mine, probably a newer version. Anyway it's $89.99 so even if I buy two of them, for $180 I could run two new 8800s in SLI. edit: I see it's the 512MB version of the card. nevermind.. e-GeForce 8800 GTS P/N 640-P2-N821-AR serial 6088212000644 640MB PCI-E What do you folks recommend, is 8800 GTS old tech now, is there something else much better for about the same price that would work for PCI-E? thnaks
Re: [H] Universal remotes?
Try this: http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Harmony-Advanced-Universal-Remote/dp/B00119T6NQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8s=electronicsqid=1251280494sr=8-1 as your link did work. Or search on Harmony One. Bobby Heid wrote: Is this the One? http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Harmony-Advanced-Universal-Remote/dp/B00119T6 NQ Bobby -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Anthony Q. Martin Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 8:27 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Universal remotes? Get The One. Then be done with remotes. Bobby Heid wrote: And I'd like to keep it under about $125 or so. Thanks, Bobby From: Bobby Heid [mailto:bh...@sc.rr.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 8:20 PM To: 'hardware@hardwaregroup.com' Subject: Universal remotes? Hey, I'm looking at getting a universal remote. What do you all like in the way of remotes? I was looking at the Logitech Harmony SST 659, 690, and 880 models. Any suggestions? SST 659 http://tinyurl.com/n7x76x http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Harmony-SST-659-Universal-Control/dp/BTNZ DK/ref=sr_1_21?ie=UTF8 http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Harmony-SST-659-Universal-Control/dp/BTN ZDK/ref=sr_1_21?ie=UTF8s=electronicsqid=1251239592sr=8-21 s=electronicsqid=1251239592sr=8-21 670 http://tinyurl.com/n87b4m http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Harmony-670-Universal-Remote/dp/B000IMSK8Y/re f=sr_1_15?ie=UTF8 http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Harmony-670-Universal-Remote/dp/B000IMSK8Y/r ef=sr_1_15?ie=UTF8s=electronicsqid=1251239526sr=8-15 s=electronicsqid=1251239526sr=8-15 880 http://tinyurl.com/n2b3w4 http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Harmony-Advanced-Universal-Control/dp/B00093I IRA/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8 http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Harmony-Advanced-Universal-Control/dp/B00093 IIRA/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8s=electronicsqid=1251239675sr=1-5 s=electronicsqid=1251239675sr=1-5 Thanks, Bobby
Re: [H] One of two 8800 GTS (SLI) on the fritz.. next move?
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Veech wrote: I had two EVGA e-Geforce 8800GTS running in SLI and one went bad, I think the RAM may have overheated. So I pulled out the bad one and am now running with just one 8800 GTS. So far it is fine for my purposes, but I've been out of the video-card market for almost 3 years and am wondering what the next move should be. I plan to contact EVGA and see if by any chance it is under warranty, I heard that it is possible that they may replace it although I don't know yet for sure. EVGA Warranty information can be found here: http://www.evga.com/support/warranty/ The 8800 is an OK card still, not sure if it'll be in warranty. Did you register the card when you got it? Christopher FIsk -- rac klieber: is the distfiles-fetching thing working as far as you're concerned? klieber rac: as far as I'm concerned, yes. If it isn't, give me a minute to shove my head in the sand before you tell me otherwise. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Re: [H] pfsense vs. smoothwall
I've been using pfSense for 6 months or so, and absolutely love it. The rules engine reminds me of more enterprise-class offerings, which coming from a Cisco/CheckPoint world, I find very appealing. It even supports stateful failover using CARP. I can't speak to application-level filtering capabilities, but it has a very robust rules engine that I know can use a schedule. It uses ALTQ for QoS, which from my understanding is one of the very best implementations available. There are a fairly large number of plugins to extend base functionality. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Robert Martin Jr. Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 6:49 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] pfsense vs. smoothwall Anyone tried both of these and have any comparative info. Smoothwalls been around for a while and has some good plugins so will be my top pick unless there are some reasons pfsense would be better. The firewall box I'm going to put together has to have 1) good QOS 2) handles VOIP well 3) handles P2P (torrent/emule) throttles correctly 4) good blacklist plugins 5) NIDS capability Plus's would be 1) good filtering capability 2) timed rules 3) logging website use Any feedback on either appreciated. lopaka
Re: [H] pfsense vs. smoothwall
Thanks for the input Greg. Since I grabbed 2 of those 4 port embedded systems, I may do 1 smoothwall and 1 pfsense and see which one handles the load with less problems. I've never used anything other than hacked DD-WRT/tomato routers, so I'm hoping to have more options available to use without any slowdown since the boxes have a lot more horsepower and memory. I looked into running DD-WRT x86, but both pfsense and smoothwall seemed to have more to offer. lopaka --- On Wed, 8/26/09, Greg Sevart ad...@xfury.net wrote: From: Greg Sevart ad...@xfury.net Subject: Re: [H] pfsense vs. smoothwall To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Date: Wednesday, August 26, 2009, 7:44 AM I've been using pfSense for 6 months or so, and absolutely love it. The rules engine reminds me of more enterprise-class offerings, which coming from a Cisco/CheckPoint world, I find very appealing. It even supports stateful failover using CARP. I can't speak to application-level filtering capabilities, but it has a very robust rules engine that I know can use a schedule. It uses ALTQ for QoS, which from my understanding is one of the very best implementations available. There are a fairly large number of plugins to extend base functionality. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Robert Martin Jr. Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 6:49 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] pfsense vs. smoothwall Anyone tried both of these and have any comparative info. Smoothwalls been around for a while and has some good plugins so will be my top pick unless there are some reasons pfsense would be better. The firewall box I'm going to put together has to have 1) good QOS 2) handles VOIP well 3) handles P2P (torrent/emule) throttles correctly 4) good blacklist plugins 5) NIDS capability Plus's would be 1) good filtering capability 2) timed rules 3) logging website use Any feedback on either appreciated. lopaka
Re: [H] One of two 8800 GTS (SLI) on the fritz.. next move?
I don't think I registered them, so I may be s.o.l. in that regard. - Original Message - From: Christopher Fisk chr...@mhonline.net To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 05:52 Subject: Re: [H] One of two 8800 GTS (SLI) on the fritz.. next move? On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Veech wrote: I had two EVGA e-Geforce 8800GTS running in SLI and one went bad, I think the RAM may have overheated. So I pulled out the bad one and am now running with just one 8800 GTS. So far it is fine for my purposes, but I've been out of the video-card market for almost 3 years and am wondering what the next move should be. I plan to contact EVGA and see if by any chance it is under warranty, I heard that it is possible that they may replace it although I don't know yet for sure. EVGA Warranty information can be found here: http://www.evga.com/support/warranty/ The 8800 is an OK card still, not sure if it'll be in warranty. Did you register the card when you got it? Christopher FIsk -- rac klieber: is the distfiles-fetching thing working as far as you're concerned? klieber rac: as far as I'm concerned, yes. If it isn't, give me a minute to shove my head in the sand before you tell me otherwise. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Re: [H] One of two 8800 GTS (SLI) on the fritz.. next move?
hmm.. ATI? Interesting, I'm hoping/assuming the ATI cards will work ok on an nVidia mobo? - Original Message - From: James Boswell torazch...@gmail.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 02:41 Subject: Re: [H] One of two 8800 GTS (SLI) on the fritz.. next move? the GTS512 is actually faster than the GTS640 (it's a 128 shader part with higher clockspeeds, compared to the 96 shader... 500Mhz? of the GTS320/640) ATI's 5870's should be dropping in two or three weeks, so I'd recommend waiting to see what that can do before spending any money. On 26 Aug 2009, at 06:58, Veech wrote: I had two EVGA e-Geforce 8800GTS running in SLI and one went bad, I think the RAM may have overheated. So I pulled out the bad one and am now running with just one 8800 GTS. So far it is fine for my purposes, but I've been out of the video-card market for almost 3 years and am wondering what the next move should be. I plan to contact EVGA and see if by any chance it is under warranty, I heard that it is possible that they may replace it although I don't know yet for sure. I have an EVGA nForce 680i board and am running Win XP. I see a similar card available at Amazon but it looks different than mine, probably a newer version. Anyway it's $89.99 so even if I buy two of them, for $180 I could run two new 8800s in SLI. edit: I see it's the 512MB version of the card. nevermind.. e-GeForce 8800 GTS P/N 640-P2-N821-AR serial 6088212000644 640MB PCI-E What do you folks recommend, is 8800 GTS old tech now, is there something else much better for about the same price that would work for PCI-E? thnaks
[H] Pentium 4-M 2.8GHz vs. Core 2 Duo 1.6GHz
I'm building a box that will be doing a wide variety of tasks. It will be running 1-2 vmware OSes, capturing and converting video from analog TV, running some home automation, and serving 4TB of video files (eventually expanded to 8TB) to all the networked media players in the house. I have 2 CPU's available that run fine on the MB. 1 is a Pentium 4-M 2.80GHz CPU and I'm using an adapter so I can run it (s478) in a s775 MB. I also have a Core 2 Duo 1.6 cpu that works on this board. I tried a Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz cpu but it is not recognized and does not boot in the system or that was my first choice. Since it is a specialty system, I have been unable to find what the maximum CPU support is. It is a Norco 7851F system. Any thoughts on why one would be better than the other? lopaka
Re: [H] One of two 8800 GTS (SLI) on the fritz.. next move?
Well, one of them will, a pair won't function in crossfire though. On 26 Aug 2009, at 17:39, Veech wrote: hmm.. ATI? Interesting, I'm hoping/assuming the ATI cards will work ok on an nVidia mobo? - Original Message - From: James Boswell torazch...@gmail.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 02:41 Subject: Re: [H] One of two 8800 GTS (SLI) on the fritz.. next move? the GTS512 is actually faster than the GTS640 (it's a 128 shader part with higher clockspeeds, compared to the 96 shader... 500Mhz? of the GTS320/640) ATI's 5870's should be dropping in two or three weeks, so I'd recommend waiting to see what that can do before spending any money. On 26 Aug 2009, at 06:58, Veech wrote: I had two EVGA e-Geforce 8800GTS running in SLI and one went bad, I think the RAM may have overheated. So I pulled out the bad one and am now running with just one 8800 GTS. So far it is fine for my purposes, but I've been out of the video-card market for almost 3 years and am wondering what the next move should be. I plan to contact EVGA and see if by any chance it is under warranty, I heard that it is possible that they may replace it although I don't know yet for sure. I have an EVGA nForce 680i board and am running Win XP. I see a similar card available at Amazon but it looks different than mine, probably a newer version. Anyway it's $89.99 so even if I buy two of them, for $180 I could run two new 8800s in SLI. edit: I see it's the 512MB version of the card. nevermind.. e-GeForce 8800 GTS P/N 640-P2-N821-AR serial 6088212000644 640MB PCI-E What do you folks recommend, is 8800 GTS old tech now, is there something else much better for about the same price that would work for PCI-E? thnaks
Re: [H] One of two 8800 GTS (SLI) on the fritz.. next move?
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Veech wrote: I don't think I registered them, so I may be s.o.l. in that regard. You have a standard 1 year warranty without registering. Also, you can see if it'll let you register it now, just say you bought it last month =) Christopher Fisk -- You know you're using the computer too much when: people ask your name, you give them your screen name (for AIM or Yahoo) -- electrofreak -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Re: [H] Pentium 4-M 2.8GHz vs. Core 2 Duo 1.6GHz
The 1.6GHz C2D is going to have double the processing power of the 2.8GHz P4M. Each core is roughly equal in performance, but you have two cores... -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Robert Martin Jr. Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 11:53 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Pentium 4-M 2.8GHz vs. Core 2 Duo 1.6GHz I'm building a box that will be doing a wide variety of tasks. It will be running 1-2 vmware OSes, capturing and converting video from analog TV, running some home automation, and serving 4TB of video files (eventually expanded to 8TB) to all the networked media players in the house. I have 2 CPU's available that run fine on the MB. 1 is a Pentium 4-M 2.80GHz CPU and I'm using an adapter so I can run it (s478) in a s775 MB. I also have a Core 2 Duo 1.6 cpu that works on this board. I tried a Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz cpu but it is not recognized and does not boot in the system or that was my first choice. Since it is a specialty system, I have been unable to find what the maximum CPU support is. It is a Norco 7851F system. Any thoughts on why one would be better than the other? lopaka
