> >The number of killer apps for 4+ cores
> >will likely remain small into the foreseeable future.
> >Greg
>
> I disagree... at least for the apps that matter to me. But only time
> will answer that. For me Quad is the value choice. In fact, I am
> thinking about a Xeon Dual Quad, which is really
> I am surprised that anybody is still screwing around with
> overclocking considering the the price and power of modern
> processors. I have enough trouble getting a perfect encoding without
> adding in the added risk that comes from overclocking.
I encode raw HD transport streams to H.264 on my
> > The difference in encode times
> >between 4 cores 2.4GHz and 4 cores at 3.2GHz is dramatic--overclocking
> is
> >still very much alive and very much worthwhile.
>
> For you, maybe, not for me. I can spend hours editing, and encoding
> video... I might not even see an annoying anomaly in the f
They are. It's all in binning. At the beginning of a new design or new
process, generally, the trouble is getting enough parts that qualify for the
top speed bins. Chips that fail the top grade are generally re-rested at all
bins the manufacturer has, going into the appropriate bin that it qualifie
Wireshark (formerly known as the venerable Ethereal) is all I use. :) Great
software.
Greg
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DHSinclair
> Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 3:19 PM
> To: Hardware Group
> Subject: [H] packet snif
d bucks. Didn't investigate further, maybe there was
> a cheaper solution.
>
> On Nov 9, 2007 4:26 PM, Greg Sevart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Wireshark (formerly known as the venerable Ethereal) is all I use. :)
> Great
> > software.
> >
> > Gr
The drives weren't internal drives. They were external USB Maxtor-branded
drives, specifically the Basics Personal Storage 3200 model. Since external
drives come pre-formatted, Windows will attempt to autorun when attached
(unless, of course, that functionality is disabled)
Greg
> -Original
PM
> To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
> Subject: Re: [H] HD Virus ?
>
> figures the media would get it wrong, they showed Seagate.
>
> fp
> At 12:32 PM 11/22/2007, Greg Sevart Poked the stick with:
> >The drives weren't internal drives. They were external USB Maxtor-
>
> . People on Nvidia 680i boards: you're totally f*(&*. It doesn't work.
> Hell, it barely posts. But, like the Q6600, it just sticks at
> multiplier 6
> when it does post.. and that's not often. Humorously, the Intel
> 965/Q33/P35/X38 all get it. (The Intel 975 does not..). So, if you
> inves
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of j maccraw
> Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 12:20 AM
> To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
> Subject: Re: [H] QX9650 & Phenom 9500 thoughts
>
> Got a heads up on what's good in X38 boards that are
The press is going crazy about this. Unless there's been new testing since,
the original report of 10% faster was ONE test performed by ONE person on
ONE application suite--Office 2007. I very much doubt that SP3 is going to
bring sweeping performance gains across the board.
Yay, Word is 10% faste
Just x86. XP x64 uses Server 2k3's service packs.
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> Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 7:26 AM
> To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
> Subject: Re: [H] Any WinXP SP3 users out there?
>
>
You're going to need an add-in PCI card anyway. The 440BX in that BX6 board
only supported ATA33, and didn't support 48bit LBA. Hence, no drives > 128GB
are supported. The OS may be able to override this, but would you trust it?
Plus, assuming you're using gigabit, your interface is going to limit
Like I said, the OS can sometimes override the limitation, but I just don't
trust it. I'm anal about my data, though. :)
Greg
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Reeves
> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 7:23 PM
> To: ha
There's also synthetic full, where a full is followed by incrementals that
are rolled into the full. So while the backup "across the wire" (so to
speak) is an incremental, the backup software then plays that incremental
against the previous full to create a new effective full and discards the
incre
I think the advice is to stay away from Nvidia's 680i chipset completely,
regardless of the board maker. I could not agree more. Awful chipset.
Greg
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wayne Johnson
> Sent: Monday, December 17,
680i is the only
> way to
> go.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tim "The Beave" Lider
> MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.myspace.com/dowbeave
>
> -Original Message-
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
>
> That's good stuff Thane - thanks.
>
> Aside from the viewing angles, I could see that if you are in the
> graphics business not being able to do full 8-bit color would be a big
> negative. But that's not a huge issue for me and neither is the
> viewing angle.
>
There may be some models tha
Is there actually any appreciable difference in cost?
But, to answer your question, the PCI bus (assuming standard 32bit/33MHz) is
limited to an aggregate theoretical 133MB/s, so even SATA150 can saturate
the entire bus.
Greg
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardwar
> Note: You may be somewhat confused by the bandwidth numbers I have
> listed in the table above. For example, shouldn't the bandwidth of
> standard PCI be 32/8*33.3=133.3 MB/sec? This is how most people and
> even
> companies write it, but this is not technically correct, because of the
> old pro
>
>
> That is what I figured, thanks, why would they make a PCI 3MB/s
> controller... just marketing?
>
>
Most of the controllers that I've seen are actually capable of running at
64bit, 66(+)MHz, or both. A 32bit/66MHz bus would yield 266MB/s, and a
64bit/66MHz bus would yield 533MB/s. In gen
Interesting. Haven't looked at FreeNAS until now, but looks like it supports
both MS AD authentication and has the ability to create iSCSI targets. Those
two features alone make it a very compelling project to me. I have a ton of
old 250GB drives gathering dust, might have to slap together a box.
Interesting. I just did a quick install of FreeNAS in a VM and everything
seemed operational. I had a 128MB virtual drive for OS and a 1GB virtual
drive for data. I set up a quick iSCSI target and connected to it without
any apparent problems.
It would appear as though some people prefer OpenFiler
No.
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington
> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 10:44 AM
> To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
> Subject: Re: [H] Running a scheduled task in XP
>
> At 12:16 PM 28/12/2007, FORC5 wrote:
>
> Updated cpu from a 6000 to a 6400x2
>
> With dnetc running cpu temps are to high, (59c) Took off the
> factory paste and put my goop on, worse. (63c)
> Gives problems in games. Have never had trouble with dnetc b4 ever and
> have been constantly running it for years. grins I guess.
Make sur
They don't. I've had 3 drives (out of probably 25 or 30 total ordered from
them) packaged in this way arrive dead. Try returning a drive to any HD
manufacturer in that packaging...bet the warranty will be invalidated. I,
too, generally buy drives from ZZF due to their excellent foam HD enclosure
pa
The Scythe S-Flex FDB fans are excellent. I have 3 of the 1600rpm models
cooling my water radiator. SilenX has a fan out that looks even better...
> -Original Message-
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of GPL
> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 9:20 P
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington
> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 7:36 PM
> To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
> Subject: Re: [H] My PC Build for January
>
> At 07:29 PM 03/01/2008, Gr
Like I said before, the sample sizes most of us work with are utterly
irrelevant. My Seagate drives (7200.9, 7200.10) generally run hotter than my
WDs, and have had a higher failure rate (especially those pre-7200.9). But,
for my part, I discount my experience when someone asks "which drive is the
> DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) for under a 100 bucks after rebates. This
> doesn't appear to be an unusual price as they have other brands at
> similar deals.
>
> Is this the fastest DDR2 speed available
JEDEC-standard, yes. Don't go over JEDEC standard 1.8v for DDR2 unless you
like swapping out
To effectively use anything over 3GB (excepting, of course, rare PAE-aware
applications), yes, you must use a 64-bit version of Windows. 4GB is a hard
32-bit OS limit--regardless of the OS. Windows just chooses to reserve
between 1 and 2GB (dependent upon the /3GB switch) exclusively for the
kernel
> At 11:37 AM 1/7/2008, you wrote:
> >Winterlight,
> >1) I am really pleased with the last 8 years of service by my 3 or 4
> >ASUS m/bs.
> >That said, I think you will have some trouble mating an A478 to an
> >A775 without some
> >really jazzy adapter block 'tween the cpu and the A775
> >socket. S
>
> Well, heck, if they say it is pin-compatible, I'd say you can "go-4-
> it."
Funny thing--LGA775 processors don't even have pins--makes it tough for them
to be "pin-compatible". I can't even begin to imagine WTF Asus support was
smoking.
LGA775 processors have pads. The pins are in the mother
> >Funny thing--LGA775 processors don't even have pins--makes it tough
> for them
> >to be "pin-compatible". I can't even begin to imagine WTF Asus support
> was
> >smoking.
> >
> >LGA775 processors have pads. The pins are in the motherboard socket.
>
> There are Pentium 4 CPUs that use the Socket
The whole thing is really pretty irritating. The only reason Intel moved the
pins to the motherboard was to offload liability for bent pins. Intel did a
review and determined that the overwhelming reason for processor returns was
due to bent pins--either through shipping damage to their distributo
Is it windows? If so, why not just use the /maxmem=xxx boot.ini switch? It'd
be a far more accurate test, too...
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington
> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 3:59 PM
> To: hardware@har
That's quite odd. I see 5.9 all the time...doesn't matter if I'm running
DDR2 at 800MHz, 900MHz, 1066MHz, CAS4, CAS5...Corsair, OCZ...only time I
didn't see 5.9 was when I was running at 720MHz C4 for a short period, and
on legacy DDR.
Could memory size play a role perhaps? All I ever mess with is
I disagree. There are a number of substantial improvements in Vista for
group policy configuration that are great for IT administrators. But people
tend to overlook those things and zero in on the interface. Frankly, the
interface is among the least interesting things about Vista for me.
> -
Oh, I understand completely. If you go back and look, however, I was
responding specifically to Brian's primary position that Vista is especially
bad for IT admins.
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DHSinclair
> Sent: Tuesday
I admin (in a team) over 100 workstations and over 30 servers on a corporate
network. We deploy pretty nice machines--almost everybody has a dual-core
box with 2GB of memory and dual monitors. Vista should, from a hardware
perspective, do quite decent.
One of the big things I'm looking forward to
I can prevent them from doing anything by telling Vista not to interact with
that device ID. For all intents and purposes, the iPod to PC interface will
not exist.
iPods have no place on a corporate network. I don't mind users bringing them
in and using them--just don't attach them to my machines.
> You can't prevent them from pluggin in the cables, though you can make
> the PC not react to their actions.
I don't care if they plug them in. It won't do anything, and that's the
point.
>
> Why do you have this god complex..."I don't mind them bringing them in
> and using them...just don't at
You clearly have not ever worked in a formal IT department in a corporate
environment. Frankly, if corporate executive management knew it was
possible, they'd have us implement software restriction policies to only
allow Outlook, Excel, Word, Project, and Internet Explorer to run in the
first place
> Absolutely true, though I have worked in corporate environments.
> Companies that use such a limited set of apps and impose serious
> restrictions also kill off creativity, too. Probably why corp America
> is
> such a mess these days.
>
Oh, make no mistake--I have no desire to clamp things down
First, let me preface...I would never use a Dell for my home workstations.
However, putting on the corporate hat once again, Dell (or, rather, any
large vendor) has definite advantages. I don't have time to build every
machine and server we deploy, and for servers, guaranteed interoperability
is
Vista supports DUN? :)
Greg
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington
> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 12:56 PM
> To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
> Subject: [H] Vista DUN won't work
>
> I have a brand new Toshi
I strongly recommend using your registrar's WHOIS privacy unless the domain
is actually owned by a commercial entity. Unfortunately, the operator of the
.org gTLD does not allow it. You would have to use some other gTLD (like
.com or .net) to enable that feature. You can certainly use a throwaway w
Yeah, I think 10990 is the expected answer, but you could take it a step
further...
The information, as presented, is that the girls are ON the bus...which
could be interpreted as sitting on top of the roof or something. That'd
mean, potentially, zero are IN (the confines of) the bus, as the quest
Dunno--image compression/resolution? PDF Factory, for its part, has an
option to specify the compression level and resolution of image data...that
can, obviously, make a huge difference.
Greg
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Depending on what you're doing, you could just use IE to save to .mht files
(includes all embedded graphics, etc, put it'd be a per-page thing).
Alternatively, I used to use an app called Teleport Pro. Haven't used it in
years, and it isn't free, but it did an excellent job at mirroring websites.
>
> Overall a 10k or 15k rpm drive should definitely out
> win out over a 7200rpm drive regardless of the
> interface. The main idea is that sustained transfers
> from all conventional hard disks aren't capable of
> even saturating the slower interfaces much less the
> faster ones.
>
While this
That one's a tougher call. The 1st gen Raptors (WD360GD) aren't near the
performers of the 2nd and 3rd gens--they're also louder and run hotter. Two
of them in a RAID0 (the striping really isn't going to help much--it doesn't
aid single-user performance much except on very specific access patterns)
Confirmed on MSDN too.
I love the MSDN blog post announcing the availability:
"We heard you."
Greg
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bobby Heid
> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 7:09 PM
> To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
>
5, 2008 8:17 AM
> To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
> Subject: Re: [H] Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 RTM'd today.
>
> I went looking on MSDN (we have the basic membership - Visual Studio +
> MSDN) and I couldn't find it.
>
> Greg Sevart wrote:
> > Confirmed on MS
I was considering moving to X48 in the coming weeks in anticipation of a
45nm quad-core upgrade (currently running a 65nm quad-core part at 3.2GHz on
P35), but I think I'm going to hold off on the mobo move until P45. P45
sports ICH10R, which supposedly has 10GbE, and likely will do a better job
ov
.
>
> It's feasible that no chipset will get around that, sadly :/ although
> stranger things have happened.
>
> http://chryx.shacknet.nu/wolfdale4250.png
>
>
> On 20 Feb 2008, at 03:35, Greg Sevart wrote:
>
> > I was considering moving to X48 in the coming week
Thane,
I'm actually kinda surprised you don't just run an internal WSUS server for
in-house patching. I've always preferred it over third party tools. Sure, it
still requires multiple reboots, but at least pulling updates is nearly
instantaneous. After a couple botched systems caused by Autopatche
Oh, absolutely. You also don't need a domain and group policy--you just use
a .reg file to add the WSUS server info, then delete the key when you're
fully patched. We use it internally to bring new machines up to date
-before- joining the corporate domain.
Here's a sample wsus-enable.reg file:
W
ws Updater
>
> At 03:04 PM 20/02/2008, Greg Sevart wrote:
> >Oh, absolutely. You also don't need a domain and group policy--you
> just use
> >a .reg file to add the WSUS server info, then delete the key when
> you're
> >fully patched. We use it intern
gt; From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wayne Johnson
> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 2:36 AM
> To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
> Subject: Re: [H] Offline Windows Updater
>
> At 02:04 PM 2/20/2008, Greg Sevart typed:
> >You'll w
You could also try moving every -other- directory somewhere else and just do
a format...
Greg
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Ruset
> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 7:39 PM
> To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
> Subject:
I would look for a Sparkle/FSP FSP400-60PFN or FSP400-60GN(12V) or something
like that. They offer 40.0A on the +5v rail. I got one off fleabay for $30 a
while back for a dual K7 board. Sparkle/SPI/FSP units have always been among
the best.
As far as Antec, yes, they were awful. Antec PSUs were,
Hmm, that's contrary to the SP1 reviews I'd read...were these "established"
Pre-SP1 Vista machines, or clean installs of both?
The reason I ask is that SP1 clears Vista's SuperFetch learned behavior
cache, so it's re-learning from scratch. That could play a big role in that
test...
I personally d
Gah. This again?
No, SP3 does not speed up XP. The test everybody references was comparing MS
Office 2007 pre- and post-SP3, and the improvement was only 10%. I am not
sure that I could actually determine if office is running 30% faster, let
alone 10%.
Other tests have not found any appreciable d
Sherrington
> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 2:03 PM
> To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
> Subject: Re: [H] Vista SP1 comments
>
> At 03:40 PM 05/03/2008, Greg Sevart wrote:
> >Gah. This again?
> >
> >No, SP3 does not speed up XP. The test everybody references was
Had similar issues with some machines at work--namely, ultra-portable
laptops with slow hard drives. When Windows was resumed from standby, the
hard drives were taking a while to spin back up--and Windows was trying to
access them before they were ready and timing out. After a set number of
errors,
> At 07:54 PM 3/27/2008, Joe User typed:
> >Hello,
> >
> >Back in the day - xcopy source destination /r /i /c /h /k /e /y
>
> Sorry but your command line is in error if you're putting spaces
> between the switches
Ah, what? Strictly speaking, there SHOULD be spaces--it'll usually work if
there
s a NAS itself for any drives
> attached to those ports and even has a built-in BitTorrent server which
> is
> like an added bonus. Also looks like it supports DVD playback from an
> external drive attached to the USB ports, haven't tried that yet.
>
> More than e
Started looking at it (not to replace my HTPC, it does more than simple
playback), but saw it only has a 10/100 NIC. That basically means no
playback of non-recompressed HD content over the network interface, which
would be a deal breaker for me.
Looks pretty solid otherwise, though.
Greg
>
http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.0b4&os=win&lang=en-US
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden
> Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 5:35 PM
> To: hwg
> Subject: [H] Firefox 3 beta 4 download?
>
> Anyone have
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> Brian
>
> On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Greg Sevart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.0b4&os=win&lang=en-US
> >
> >
> >
> > > -Original Message-
> > > From: [EMAIL PRO
Check the firewall. There's at least one Vista update that seems to re-enable
it if it were previously disabled. Otherwise check that all is okay (network
discovery, file sharing, etc enabled) in the network center.
-Original Message-
From: FORC5 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, April
There are a good number of cards that can perform this now. The feature
you're looking for is "Dolby Digital Live" or, alternatively, "DTS Connect".
Cards that have those features can encode all output into either DD or DTS.
A growing number of motherboards even use onboard audio ICs that can do it
Definitely second any solution that uses the ICH[7/8/9]R. I've used other
onboard "RAID controllers" (I use the term -very- loosely here) and while
Intel's Matrix RAID isn't perfect, it's vastly superior to anything else.
Excepting, of course, real controllers. :)
All of the workstations we dep
Indeed. StorageReview's piece specifically made it look damn impressive. Most
interesting, however, is that they were able to dramatically improve multi-user
performance (and hence enterprise appeal) without dropping single-user
performance (enthusiast appeal). You usually have to optimize for o
> Western Digital made a fatal mistake, which will keep me from using
> many
> of these drives.
>
> The drive is a 2.5" drive in a heatsink. Instead of putting the drive
> in the middle, and using an extension cable set to put the SATA and
> SATA
> power connectors in the "correct" location, they
What's your case? Most (all?) of the 680/780i designs I've seen made pretty
extensive use of heatpipe coolers. If your case uses an inverted mount, like
a number of Lian Li cases do, those heat pipes don't work worth a damn. They
supposedly have a wick inside to allow for inverted operation, but on
Haven't tried it yet, but I downloaded it off MS TechNet. It was posted to
TechNet and MSDN yesterday in the Top Downloads section (not the normal
download center). I hate that they do that, but they use Akamai to
distribute new popular items...which seems to be incompatible with their
traditional
What DRM is included in SP3?
They changed the product activation model to allow you to install without a
key. That's a good move, since it lets you use it in test/demo environments
without a key.
They updated it to work with NAP (Network Access Protection), allowing
organizations to start using N
And the same issue exists in Vista SP1. From what I've read real quick, it
looks like the delay isn't to fix SP3, but rather to put filtering in place
on MU/WU to prevent automatic deployment to those users running GP RMS. The
SP itself will not be modified, it seems.
I very much doubt that the is
Don't worry, it's final. The KB article itself just hasn't been updated yet
to reflect the final bits. Same thing happened for Vista SP1.
The TechNet version is the same.
WINDOWSXP-KB936929-SP3-X86-ENU.EXE bb25707c919dd835a9d9706b5725af58
Greg
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL P
Yeah, Sapphire's support is awful. I had a problem with a 1950 Pro, they too
told me to take it up with Newegg.
My brother had a 1900 XT die on him, past the Newegg support period...he
sent it in, and they informed him that they couldn't replace it with a 1900
XT because it was OOS, and his only o
Depends on the line...the Silencer (as the S75QB is) series is built by
SeaSonic, while the Turbo-Cool line is produced by Win-Tact. I don't think
CWT makes any PCP&C supplies currently.
All that info, however, is pre-OCZ acquisition. I don't think they've
changed anything just yet, but you never
No, they don't use any appreciable difference in electricity at a given load
level for a 450W unit vs a 750W unit. You will have some minor variance as
efficiency changes throughout the output range, but it should be within a
few percent. Most modern supplies can do around 80% throughout the entire
I've had quite a few burned up Antecs as well. I've since learned that most
of the models I've had burn up were built by CWT. They now use SeaSonic for
most models. I don't know if the Antec-branded SeaSonic-build models are as
good as a branded SeaSonic, but I'd feel at least a little better about
> -Original Message-
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Winterlight
> Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 2:32 PM
> To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
> Subject: [H] Time for upgrades
>
> I am planning a new build for my Media box this summer when I get
> some
>
> >You could use Server 2003 Enterprise with PAE, but yeah, mostly for
> x64
> >users. There are an ever-growing number of us, though. :)
>
> I wouldn't mind but it apparently can't support the stuff I need to
> use. But maybe I should get a matching 4GB while it is still real
> cheap.
Agree o
> My OKIDATA color laser has partial support. None of my ATI
> TV/Capture cards are supported. MY HP Scanner isn't supported. I
> guess my 32 bit software will run OK. I would assume anything on a
> new high end board would be supported. I have only briefly thought of
> this and no little or noth
> >Although video encoding is one of the places those extra general
> >purpose registers in AMD64 mode can show themselves,
>
> that must be in bizarreo world. Every time I have run encoding tests
> with AMD CPUs against Intel they perform slower by factors of three,
> and four.
>
Not AMD vs Int
> That would work out well for me is this DDR2 supported CPU? If I
> bought a high end board now, like the ASUS P5E WS PRO
> would it support the new CPU, probably not without a BIOS flash,
> which can't be done without a modern CPU, which is kind of a catch 22
> if you have old stuff.
>
T
After first rolling to 10 machines as a test deployment, we rolled it to the
remaining ~100 at work without a single incident.
Not much of a mix of hardware (probably 15 unique hardware configurations
total), but definitely a good mix of installed software and age of original
Windows installation.
P45 just launched...should start seeing models become available over the
next couple weeks.
Greg
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I just outfit my HTPC with a bluetooth Logitech diNovo Edge--KB with
touchpad. Great range, built-in battery, looks great, and has a sturdy
feel...
Greg
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> Okay I've only been using Vista for about 2 weeks on my HTPC and it's
> got
> several things that annoy the crap out of me:
>
> 1) Only 1 session allowed at once. This is a real killer for a HTPC as
> I
> need to be able to have it autologin to one session to show the HTPC
> shell
> (I'm using
The MR 150-6 looks like it supports OCE, so you can replace one drive at a
time and then expand the LD (Logical Drive). However, the 150-6 appears to
have a 2TB LD limitation, so you'll have to split your space into multiple
2TB LDs. (Assuming Windows, you'd need XP64, Vista, or Server 2003 SP1+ to
on-board RAM?
>
> Hmm, totally forgot about the 2TB limit for 32-bit. I haven't messed
> around
> with Vista 64 yet, just barely started with regular Vista. I guess I
> will
> have to do some research to see if all the other drivers I need have
> 64-bit
> versions ou
Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme with a Scythe S-Flex SFF21F fan
Perhaps the best option, however, would be to underclock and undervolt (or
use RMclock to manually limit how high it will ramp) during the hot summer
months.
I use water to keep my G0-stepping C2Q6600 at 3.6GHz cool, and an Ultra 120
Why not run Virtual PC with an XP VM instead?
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> Subject: [H] Dual OS
>
> A friend has a computer with vista..
X86 and x64 editions are on separate discs. With Retail non-Ultimate
versions, for a small S&H fee, you can request the other media from what you
bought (ie: if you bought Business x86, you can get Business x64--they use
the same keys). Ultimate edition retail box has both x86 and x64 DVDs.
Order
Based on the name, I'd guess USB keyboard driver. (kbd=keyboard, hid=human
interface device (USB))
MS seems to agree:
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/archive/w2kbd.mspx
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