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Thanks Dan, just what i wanted to know. Cheers

Sorry if this has been discussed before, but i searched and couldn't find anything. I wasn't as in-depth into computers when the IBM "deathstar" fiasco occured. Recently i've been invovled in a project that i need a couple notebook drives to complete (doing it on the cheap, so E-bay, refurbs...

DVI = DIGITAL Video Interface, so it should either be perfect video or none at all. Digital being either you have the signal or not. degrading video quality only really applies to analogue signals, ie. VGA connections. i think lopri has the idea, you need a KVM switch not a splitter. i...

I believe Burn-in testing is pretty similar to binning chips for speed grades that AMD/Intel do, or the major of memory manufacturers, etc.. stress testing the drives would be the final manufacturing step to determine if they will operate correctly when purchased by us, the consumers. Raptors...

Anand News On the WD RE Drives when they were first released last august. originally just a Caviar drive that got the same burn in test as the raptors to "prove" their reliability. the newer enterprise drives sound the same, but the TLER sounds like an extra chip or maybe a new bit flipped in a...

Are you looking at just using the monitor on the second laptop as a display only? or just have it display a second copy of the video. IE, the second laptop is still fully functional, but is displaying the video? If it's the second, i think the maxivista software might work for you. or you...

Homercles, your assertion that a fetus is not a person until cortical activity begins is, to my view, flawed. The difference between no cortical and all brain stem activity in a case like Terri shiavo is that her cortical activity was halted by injury, leaving only brain stem activity...

my apologies to homercles for a bad example. I am glad I am not a politician as well. as for bodies, have you seen this case in Canada? http://www.missingpeople.net/dig_for_remains-june_3,_2002.htm some of the evidence they have of murder is based only on DNA remains (i.e.. blood) some is...

if you are being investigated for murder, and the police find blood in the back of your car they will likely DNA test it to determine if it's your blood or not. The test results show that it is not your blood, but in fact, it is the blood of the victum in the murder case you are under...

your main constraints will be mostly network and disk access on the server side. i'd recommend a RAID-5 array for through-put/redundancy. preferrably SCSI drives for reliability due to this being for work use. a RAID-5 array on a good SCSI RAID Card using 15 K RPM drives on a PCI-X 133 slot...

actually there are a few vid cards made for PCI-X slots.. (well, 64 bit PCI, or PCI-X compatability) and yes, we all agree that PCI-SIG made a bad choice when the used PCIe as the abbreviation for the PCI Express standard. direct response to OP, have heard good and bad about all brands, but...

anandtech had an article detailing the new XPS gen 2 notebook from Dell that had the 6800 go ultra in it here are results just from HL2, the rest you can read in the article. for hands down gaming, the 6800 go ultra keeps pace even with desktop cards. i know results are slightly scewed due to...

uhmm.. either will "work" just one will be way better. PCI-X has much much more bandwidth than PCI, so for large raid arrays pushing lots of data it's better to go with PCI-X, PCI will work it will just be much slower. PCI = 32 bits X 33 Mhz = 133 MB/sec PCI-X = 64 Bit X 66 Mhz, or 100 Mhz...

uhmm.. isn't video editing more dependant on CPU and drive system? The graphics cards has very little to do with actual editing, at least i don't remember it having much to do with it. . now, encoding on the other hand would have more benefits from a beefier GPU, the Geforce 6600/6800 w/ the...

basically, yes. i am unaware of any mobo's that have RAID-5 funcationality built-in, but there may be some. if any of the more experienced members here know of any, please chime in. you can get a seperate RAID card and forego the SATA connectors yes. or you could use one of the ones on the...