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The oldschool notebook probably isn't a good idea, even if we didn't need the PCI cards - I dont know of any notebooks that have AC-back functionality. Cheers

Good stuff - i'll investigate the C7's. I've heard of them in the past however I recall the first gen (733 & 800MHz???) were slower than a cel300 (the non-"a" model, without any L2 cache) in many tasks. I'm hoping they've improved since, and retain the ultra low power consumption. Will report...

Oh, the 2Gb idea came from the intention to use a RAM drive to save data to, thereby reducing physical drive access. When a stick of DDR2 2Gb is dirt cheap and the power penalty is perhaps 1 watt, I thought that would be more justified. I'm completely open to ideas, that's why I'm asking.

The site has a 600w inverter, connected to a large lead acid battery bank which retains (from memory - only been there once) about 200 amp-hours of reserve. The datalogging software is not the best I've seen. It writes about a meg per minute of raw data. It's currently in an old P3 system -...

I'm told these PCI cards only have Windows 2000 or XP drivers- so 512Mb is minimum. Solid state drives being slow? Last I checked the bigger ones were reasonably fast, not the same performance as maximum sequential write speed of most 7200RPM drives however close to. They benefit from not...

heh, I wish it were something that cool Its for a volunteer organisation. I've never been asked to do something like this before so I dont really know what I need. Doesn't seem like many others do either :)

A few other points I forgot to mention There will be regular power outages, it needs to have the ability to turn itself back on without user intervention. Most boards have the option in BIOS however this is a deal-breaker, if it doesn't support AC-back functionality then it's not suitable...

I have a remote site that is powered by hydroelectricity for a project that requires a few specific details - The computer needs to consume as little electricity as possible. Video performance is irrelevant. Onboard is preferable or no video is fine too Must have two PCI slots for the data...

Sounds good. I read Q2, 2008 for the G45 chipset so thats from now till middle of the year. Anyone know more specific details? Cheers

I need a motherboard to support 8Gb of RAM and a Q9450, or preferably a Xeon X3350 since they're practically identical however I'd suspect the Xeon is a more validated product and the price is very similar. I dont game so 3D graphics isn't a priority, onboard video and sound is preferable...

Yeah, I was fairly certain that would be the answer, Intel doesn't like to bend the rules to increase home performance by cheating with multiple channels.... Guess I gotta stick with the boring 2mb/sec speeds..... ah heck eh. Cheers mate

I'm after more throughput on my WLAN, have a D-Link DWL2100 AP and a laptop with the Intel 3495ABG card. I reckon I'm SOL since the laptop doesn't use a compatible chipset but hoping someone may know if it can or can't be done Cheers

Good stuff Thanks for the replies

How does a brand new controller know an array exists that was created from two HDDs on a different controller altogether?

As per title, how do hardware controllers know which disk is which? I suspect they write a signature somewhere on the disk that they dont make available to the OS or user, is there any more in-depth info about it or if its done another way, how its done? Cheers