Re: [H] [Bulk] WoW Cataclysm my new game pc

2010-10-11 Thread Scoobydo
No action on that front that I know of for several months but I don't pay too much attention to Intel.. On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 10:18:25 -0500, Joe User joeu...@chronic.org wrote: Hello, Does anyone know if there are going to be any major CPU changes in the next 30 days or so? Just trying to

Re: [H] 3.5 mm Stereo to PC Speakers with two-wire connections?

2010-10-10 Thread Scoobydo
Are you sure of the ohms and matching speaker sensitivity? There may be other considerations before I'd rush over to Radio Shack and start chopping wires. IMHO, not a good idea to mix speakers unless you're prepared for a negative outcome. Good luck! On Sun, 10 Oct 2010 15:19:54 -0500,

Re: [H] ESATA

2010-10-09 Thread Scoobydo
You have to enable the SATA AHCI function in the BIOS and have an OS that supports it in order to have hot swapping and NCQ functionality. AMD chipset mobo's are problematic getting AHCI working but perhaps they've gotten it fixed in the latest 890GX/FX SB850 series along with Windows 7.

Re: [H] ESATA

2010-10-09 Thread Scoobydo
Identical to internal SATA. Works exactly the same because it is SATA just external. In fact, some cheap mobo's with eSATA will have you run a SATA cable from one of the internal connections to the external port which is kind of tacky if you have a case window and care about the tidiness of

[H] Solved: Re: HD-DVD conversion to Media Player Classic Home Cinema playback help please..

2010-10-09 Thread Scoobydo
On Wed, 06 Oct 2010 10:51:44 -0500, Scoobydo swza...@yahoo.com wrote: Hey guys, I've been trying to convert my old HD-DVD movies to disk and convert to .mkv h.261 or something just so I can play them back without having to buy expensive software to watch. I can use Demon Tools Lite or Any

Re: [H] [Bulk] Re: Solved: Re: HD-DVD conversion to Media Player Classic HomeCinema playback help please..

2010-10-09 Thread Scoobydo
any suggestions for any of this I'd appreciate benefit of your experience on the back channel if you like. Thanks for asking.. On Sat, 09 Oct 2010 16:43:02 -0500, tmse...@rlrnews.com wrote: What solution did you chose? Sent via BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Scoobydo swza

Re: [H] WoW Cataclysm my new game pc

2010-10-08 Thread Scoobydo
wrote: Hello Scoobydo, Thanks... It is. Not a fan of water cooling and not going to OC other suggestions then? Would dual ATI be better for performance? Thursday, October 7, 2010, 4:48:03 PM, you wrote: You never said what resolution your monitor is but I assume 1920X1200 probably.. ASUS

Re: [H] WoW Cataclysm my new game pc

2010-10-08 Thread Scoobydo
:04 To: Scoobydohardware@hardwaregroup.com Reply-To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] WoW Cataclysm my new game pc Hello Scoobydo, Thanks... It is. Not a fan of water cooling and not going to OC other suggestions then? Would dual ATI be better for performance? Thursday, October 7

Re: [H] WoW Cataclysm my new game pc

2010-10-07 Thread Scoobydo
You never said what resolution your monitor is but I assume 1920X1200 probably.. ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 AMD Phenom II X4 970 (3.5 GHz) Corsair H50 Water Cooler G.Skill Ripjaws DDR3 1600 (4x4) Nvidia GTX460 1 Gig Video Card or AMD HD 5770 Crossfire setup OCZ Agility 2 SSD (Sandforce 1200

[H] HD-DVD conversion to Media Player Classic Home Cinema playback help please..

2010-10-06 Thread Scoobydo
Hey guys, I've been trying to convert my old HD-DVD movies to disk and convert to .mkv h.261 or something just so I can play them back without having to buy expensive software to watch. I can use Demon Tools Lite or Any DVD HD to rip to .iso but I'm stuck figuring out where to go from

Re: [H] 2TB Drives

2010-09-20 Thread Scoobydo
Good link on the hardware review. My own personal pick would be the WD green. On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 10:38:06 -0500, Brian Weeden brian.wee...@gmail.com wrote: Hot hardware did a big roundup earlier this year: http://hothardware.com/Articles/Definitive-2TB-Hard-Drive-Roundup/ ---

Re: [H] Can I delete these uninstall folders from Win XP?

2010-09-18 Thread Scoobydo
I've never uninstalled any Microsoft updates or patches and everything I've read about freeing up disk space says to delete them. I think that is for legacy business apps that an update may break so MS gives the option of rolling it back to a previous state. Have a nice weekend.. On Sat,

Re: [H] [Bulk] Re: New Intel SSD tool out.

2010-09-17 Thread Scoobydo
Intel? Who dat? On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 22:47:35 -0500, John R Steinbruner stei...@pacbell.net wrote: Hmm I woulda thought there would be some Intel SSD users in this group.. :) On Sep 12, 2010, at 1:18 AM, John R Steinbruner wrote: for you Intel SSD users. New version 2.0.0 also

Re: [H] Modular PSUs?

2010-08-31 Thread Scoobydo
Seasonic M12's are excellent and I have two. I only wish the P4 and P8 lines were also modular because I only use one or the other but never both.. On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:14:50 -0500, DSinc dx7...@bellsouth.net wrote: Are there List members that use Modular PSUs? If so, opinions are

Re: [H] Modular PSUs?

2010-08-31 Thread Scoobydo
Seasonic ships their's in a zippered black bag that's not too difficult to store.. On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:06:40 -0500, DSinc dx7...@bellsouth.net wrote: FORC5, Understand. How do you keep track of the spare cables you do NOT use? I see many spare boxes of stuff to keep track of :)

Re: [H] Modular PSUs?

2010-08-31 Thread Scoobydo
:25:22 -0500, DSinc dx7...@bellsouth.net wrote: Scoobydo, Understand. I can learn storage. Think I now have to! LOL! Congrats on the new m/b. Duncan On 08/31/2010 18:18, Scoobydo wrote: Seasonic ships their's in a zippered black bag that's not too difficult to store.. On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:06

[H] Palit Sonic Platinum GTX 460 1GB

2010-08-30 Thread Scoobydo
This is the video card I'm currently using in my main box that I Fold with 24/7. Keep in mind that mine is overclocked to 865/2000/1730 at 1.012v and completely stable. I'm getting 11,000 PPD with this setup and I couldn't be happier with it. Here is a review I was pleased to see on my exact

[H] Main box upgrade was: Lower price on the best ASUS 890GX/SB850 mobo..

2010-08-30 Thread Scoobydo
UPS tracking says my new board will be in tomorrow. Here's a link to a really great review on this exact board done back in March when it was first released.. ASUS M4A89GTD USB 3 review http://www.guru3d.com/article/asus-m4a89gtd-usb-3-review/ On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:52:21 -0500, Scoobydo

[H] Catalyst 10.8 has been released today..

2010-08-25 Thread Scoobydo
Minor bug fixes and some small performance improvements. Yawn.. -- Opera's e-mail client Generic Steel Case Gigabyte 785G/SB710 Mobo AMD Phenom II X6 1055T (Default speed) Corsair DDR2 1066 (2x2=4) Palit GTX460 1 Gig (OC'd to 865 MHz) WD Cariar Black 640 Gig Lite On 22X DVD Burner Acer 24

Re: [H] MS dot-NET-COMPLETE!

2010-08-16 Thread Scoobydo
Heard of 3.5 but not 4. Didn't know there was one.. On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:11:21 -0500, Bryan Seitz se...@bsd-unix.net wrote: 4 is definitely a no-install for us here as well. (on all servers and workstations) On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 01:27:52PM -0400, DSinc wrote: For Scott/Chris,

Re: [H] AnyDVD

2010-08-11 Thread Scoobydo
after 3 or 4 years of not having watched them. Isn't this whole Blu-ray 3D thing a scam (needed a 3D HDTV and a 3D Blu-ray player)? I can't see this catching on. But I wonder what others here think. On 8/11/2010 2:25 PM, Scoobydo wrote: I think there may be 2 kinds of collectors. Those who

Re: [H] AnyDVD

2010-08-09 Thread Scoobydo
, was successful, then tried it again and it didn't complain and neither did AnyDVD. On 8/8/2010 11:06 PM, Scoobydo wrote: Maybe a stupid question but have you updated it to the latest build? I download and install a new version 1 or 2 times per month. That's how rapidly they evolve it. On Sun, 08

Re: [H] AnyDVD

2010-08-09 Thread Scoobydo
to say that every disk that AnyDVD can't read is absolutely and totally someone else's fault. On 8/9/2010 9:09 AM, Scoobydo wrote: Personally, I like the great support. It has to be frequently updated to counter the latest anti-copy schemes on the latest releases. Hey, I bought it why shouldn't

Re: [H] Asus Netbook

2010-08-08 Thread Scoobydo
XP is faster especially with only 2 gigs of RAM.. On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 19:30:08 -0500, Steve Tomporowski didym...@gmail.com wrote: I went out and got a netbook, it's an Asus Eee PC 1005PEB, which I've upgraded to 2GB memory. It has an N450 in it, and, although I expected it to be slow,

Re: [H] AnyDVD

2010-08-08 Thread Scoobydo
Maybe a stupid question but have you updated it to the latest build? I download and install a new version 1 or 2 times per month. That's how rapidly they evolve it. On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 19:23:43 -0500, Steve Tomporowski didym...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone have any experience with

Re: [H] come on guys

2010-08-02 Thread Scoobydo
Gigabyte 890GX/SB850 mobo, AMD X6 1055T, Corsair DDR3, Nvidia GTX640 1024 video card and an SSD boot drive with a WD 2 TB hardrive. That pretty much sums it up for me.. On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 08:49:16 -0500, Anthony A Riederer ariede...@new.rr.com wrote: Where are all the opinions. I

Re: [H] come on guys

2010-08-02 Thread Scoobydo
Bummer, my 5770 has run flawlessly since last year with every driver release to date. Bad card me thinks.. On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 10:51:53 -0500, Gary gm...@verizon.net wrote: My 5770 sucks.constantly display driver has stop working (10.7)..will not run SC2. -Original

[H] Fermi GTX 460 installed and my Folding scores have doubled..

2010-07-26 Thread Scoobydo
Hey guys, the UPS lady brought my new Palit factory overclocked GTX 460 awhile ago and I pulled my older XFX GTX 260 out and posted it on Ebay. My fold...@home score went from 5200 PPD to 10,100 PPD and one review I read said the two cards use the same amount of juice. Anybody else bought

[H] AMD Catalyst 10.7 is now released today..

2010-07-26 Thread Scoobydo
Bug fixes, enhancements and this: ATI Radeon GPU acceleration of VLC 1.1.1 Media Player z Enables GPU acceleration of h.264 video content when using the VLC 1.1.1 Media Player – delivering a better user experience by consuming less system resources z Supported on the ATI Radeon™ HD 5000

Re: [H] Secondary Mild Gamer

2010-06-21 Thread Scoobydo
My only suggestion would be to get a lesser PSU in the 450 watt range to save some cash. Seasonic is the best IMHO.. On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 09:35:40 -0500, GPL hardwarelistrea...@gmail.com wrote: Looking to build a milder gaming maching. This is not a primary machine, but secondary and

[H] Nvidia beta driver 257.15 on my GTX 260 (216)

2010-05-28 Thread Scoobydo
The newly released Nvidia beta driver 257.15 is more stable on my system than the latest official driver. My box has been fold...@home for 3 days straight without the VPU crashing and recovering once. The latest official driver was crashing daily and sometimes several times per day which

Re: [H] SSE Firefox?

2010-05-27 Thread Scoobydo
Guess not, figured it was a gimmick for a programmer to drum up business. The world is full of charlatans.. On Thu, 27 May 2010 09:24:59 -0500, Thane Sherrington th...@computerconnectionltd.com wrote: At 05:10 PM 26/05/2010, Scoobydo wrote: I'm pretty sure that AMD and Intel both support

Re: [H] Cleaning and purging clutter in XP

2010-05-27 Thread Scoobydo
MyDefrag huh? Guess I'll be downloading that myself.. On Thu, 27 May 2010 09:31:55 -0500, Thane Sherrington th...@computerconnectionltd.com wrote: At 02:46 PM 16/05/2010, maccrawj wrote: No because just as back then I know of no benchmark that will exhaustively read all files to

Re: [H] [Bulk] Re: Cleaning and purging clutter in XP

2010-05-27 Thread Scoobydo
a system and makes it perform but saving that for a new build and will stream this box to server status and stream my existing a7n8z asus to the pile. :-D fp At 07:52 AM 5/27/2010, Scoobydo Poked the stick with: MyDefrag huh? Guess I'll be downloading that myself.. On Thu, 27 May 2010 09:31:55

Re: [H] SSE Firefox?

2010-05-26 Thread Scoobydo
I'm pretty sure that AMD and Intel both support SSE and SSE2 extensions so what optimization is dude referring to? I'm skeptical there is any speed difference that Mozilla hasn't already taken advantage of. Have you downloaded and tried for yourself? On Wed, 26 May 2010 14:41:49 -0500,

[H] Catalyst 10.5 released today..

2010-05-26 Thread Scoobydo
Grab em while their hot.. -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

Re: [H] Catalyst 10.5 released today..

2010-05-26 Thread Scoobydo
and never survives a VPU recover. Thanks for the heads up, downloading to review... 5/26/2010 7:49 PM, Scoobydo wrote: Grab em while their hot.. -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

Re: [H] XP System Restore?

2010-05-24 Thread Scoobydo
I used CCleaner to check my system restores in Vista 64 and there were 25 spaced roughly 2-3 days apart except for Windows Updates. I deleted 24 of them and kept the latest.. On Mon, 24 May 2010 12:01:30 -0500, DSinc dx7...@bellsouth.net wrote: Are there any good books to read about

Re: [H] Greg what do you think of this SSD?

2010-05-22 Thread Scoobydo
Anand doesn't expect the price to drop significantly this year. Even with the recent die shrink from Intel/Micron and Samsung they haven't passed along the savings to consumers yet. Next year we can expect the prices to finally start to fall more and within 5 years the mechanical hardrive

Re: [H] Greg what do you think of this SSD?

2010-05-22 Thread Scoobydo
- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Scoobydo Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2010 6:01 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Greg what do you think of this SSD? Anand doesn't expect the price to drop significantly this year. Even

Re: [H] Greg what do you think of this SSD?

2010-05-22 Thread Scoobydo
at the earliest. I can absolutely guarantee you that there is no SSD shipping today that uses 25nm IMFT NAND ICs. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Scoobydo Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2010 9:43 AM To: hardware

Re: [H] Greg what do you think of this SSD?

2010-05-22 Thread Scoobydo
that it's likely to be 2011 or 2012 before SSDs really enter the big time for most consumers. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Scoobydo Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2010 10:01 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com

Re: [H] Odd CPU issue

2010-05-21 Thread Scoobydo
I assume you've looked for a borked BIOS setting? Doesn't make sense the CPU is bad. I've never heard of one going bad so must assume something else is happening.. On Fri, 21 May 2010 06:24:39 -0500, Thane Sherrington th...@computerconnectionltd.com wrote: I have an HP machine that

Re: [H] Odd CPU issue

2010-05-21 Thread Scoobydo
that.. On Fri, 21 May 2010 14:09:01 -0500, Gaffer 14...@castle-computer.co.uk wrote: On Friday 21 May 2010 15:02:35 Scoobydo wrote: I assume you've looked for a borked BIOS setting? Doesn't make sense the CPU is bad. I've never heard of one going bad so must assume something else is happening

Re: [H] Odd CPU issue

2010-05-21 Thread Scoobydo
a week back in the old days. Now that I don't have a lot of time, I've probably done new boxes 3 this month. lopaka From: Scoobydo swza...@yahoo.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Fri, May 21, 2010 2:59:23 PM Subject: Re: [H] Odd CPU issue If you've had