Recent content by tom1000000

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    HELP - DVD viewing disabled at work

    Hi, At work the bastards have some how stopped all DVD players from working. If I run dxdiag and go to "Display" it shows the following 3 disabled with the "Enable" button disabled: DirectDraw Acceleration Direct3d Acceleration AGP Texture Acceleration How can I reenable these...
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    IBM Thinkcentre / nVidia Quadro - DVD Movies don't work

    Hi, At work we have IBM Thinkcentres with nVidia Quadro video cards. Recently the bastards have somehow disabled DVD viewing. It appears the graphics card has no support for overlay and YUV video modes - obviously they were disabled. This may be an IBM specific or nVidia specific hack I'm...
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    64 bit CPU. A true technical review please

    Look at the prices, don't even worry about 64 bit - that is a bonus. An AMD setup will be cheaper and give you the same performance. Consquently you should choose AMD if you have any brains.
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    Slot Processors

    You all seem to have forgotten Intel's marketing ploy. The P2 slot was developed to deliberately be incompatible with Pentium motherboards. Then Intel got a patent on it so no other processors could use it. This was to make life harder for other CPU manufacturers (AMD etc). The other...
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    Video encoding: P4 3.0 vs two (2) Barton 2500+

    Well my maths is bad! Say for arguments sake the P4 takes 100Hrs to complete the copying. The 2 Bartons would do it in 60-75hrs in my estimation. So you don't SAVE 60% of your time, more like 25-40%.
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    Video encoding: P4 3.0 vs two (2) Barton 2500+

    If you want to copy lots of DVDs then there is no doubt running 2 computers side by side is faster than just 1 computer. It would probably reduce the total time by about 60 - 75%. Get the Bartons. Tom
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    How to convince IT to get Opterons?

    Hi, Firstly did you read the latest "web serving" comparison on Anandtech? Any competent IT guru knows that the biggest bottleneck on a server is the disks. Frankly both a Xeon and an Opteron will be twiddling their thumbs waiting for the disks. So if you are choosing between a Xeon and an...
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    How do Opterons (in MP config) manage access to memory?

    OK so the built-in memory controller just sends out the request onto the hypertransport link and waits for a reply. Fair enough. Thats seems dead obvious actually, why didn't I think of it.
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    How do Opterons (in MP config) manage access to memory?

    Hi, I was wondering how multiple Opteron CPUs manage accessing all of physical ram, as it is different from Xeons or AthlonMPs. Imagine a single CPU with 2GB of RAM. It has one address bus so to read memory it places address X on the address bus. The northbridge gets the data from mem and...