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Can you think of anything to use these for? I have five of these systems on ebay for dirt cheap but since I have zero bids maybe they are not useful anymore? It seems like at least 32GB ram could be good for caching or something? Dual XEON X5492 3.4GHz, 12MB cache, 1600 MHz FSB 32GB...

Finally made the jump to SSD from a mechanical hard drive. Yes, it's much faster but I still wait on it quite a bit. Starting up Win7 within VMWare Fusion takes 27 seconds. Wth? I don't know if there is some configuration I'm missing, this is after Fusion is already running and I...

Has anyone heard of the Sandforce 2xxx nightmare being a problem on Macs? I don't seem to hear about as many problems there, not sure if the reason is: 1) There are less Macs out there so you hear less reports 2) It actually has less problems since there were fewer...

I think we need more SSD benchmarks that measure time to execute real life tasks. When starting and stopping tasks throughout the day, it's too easy to get your "flow" broken by waiting on IO. These are things people do pretty frequently (at least some dev people) but there are no benchmarks...

nice answer, thanks-

Has anyone ever experienced a difference in speeds in real life usage between two different SSDs? File copy performance I can see being different, but all this random IOPs stuff - has anyone really noticed a difference outside of a benchmark?

I would consider joining the volunteer list if we could carve out an SSD forum. I'm sure this has come up before, but memory and storage are just too much for one topic on an enthusiast site. Beyond this, it would be paradise to separate Mechanical from Solid State drives. Of course...

I'm seeing a lot of SSDs that can be used in Macs (OSX), but require a Windows machine to update firmware. WTH? For example I've heard none of the new Sandforce drives (like Vertex3) can be updated. I actually have mostly Windows systems, but I don't want to buy an SSD for my Mac that...

Actually Jim it's comparing to the relatively new New Fermi 460 GPU. Even if it comes out a tie power required to encode will likely decrease dramatically. Being that Sandy Bridge is only a 95w part and does not require any GPU to encode at this speed. regards-

I scraped together the numbers from today's Sandy Bridge demo and Badaboom and tried to compare apples to apples as much as possible at this point: http://lee.hdgreetings.com/2010/09/intel-cpu-vs-nvidia-gpu-video-transcoding.html Is this bad for NVidia?

Ah, good eye thanks. Too bad about the cooling. I guess that means P55 4.0Ghz on air is out for that one...

Is the smallest volume case in the world fitting the AMD 5850 GPU the "Da Box"? (http://www.lan-gear.com/products.php) Or does anything else come close? LTG

Wrong. Not only could DX10 do this, DX9 could also. It's doing it really fast, but that's mostly because the card has a lot of raw horsepower. Here is an example of real time ray tracing using Adobe's version of a pixel shader on top of opengl, which is really not different from a...

Btw, if the enterprise version of the Intel drive comes as close to it's specs as the Intel consumer drive does, they will totally open a can of whoopass on the samsung enterprise drives.

JVNK, the first graph is misleading because they don't use the same scale. The intel drive overall beats the samsung drive.