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  1. soydios

    Verilog assign statement help

    A little Verilog question that has been driving me up the wall: why does the following code produce undefined values in the assign statement and correct values in the display statement? assign cache_uid = (transmit_uid & {uidw{transmit}}) | (receive_write_uid & {uidw{receive}}) |...
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    autocrossed the G35

    Whoo that was a fun five laps. Had my first time autocrossing in my new-to-me car that I got a month ago. It's a stock '06 Infiniti G35 sedan 6MT. I didn't spin out anywhere, I didn't DNF, but I learned the embarassing soft-rubber-cone way to brake before instead of during the turn or suffer...
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    CA driver, out-of-state speeding ticket (82/70) from SC

    I just got a speeding ticket in South Carolina. It states on the ticket 82mph in a 70mph-limit zone on Interstate 95. My driver's license is from California; car is registered in North Carolina. Fine is $135, which I don't see any way to not pay since I can't make it to court from 5 hours...
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    Update: $20k (want advice: first used car <$15k)

    I'm currently a college student in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina. Instead of shipping my '94 Jeep Grand Cherokee from the west coast, I'm looking for a car here. Budget is $15k out the door, so figure $10-14k before title, tax, and registration. This car will preferably last me...
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    Motorola Droid & HTC Touch Pro2

    So, my Verizon new-every-two came and went this past August and I've been on the lookout for a really good smartphone. I went to the Verizon store today to try these both out. In short, the Motorola Droid is, well, the Droid and cool and Android and all that, and I want. But then I took a few...
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    Nikon AF-s 35mm f/1.8G DX

    http://www.dpreview.com/news/0...020901nikon35mm1p8.asp I bloody called it. 35mm f/1.8G DX with AF-s (focusing motor inside the lens, but not true AF-S with fulltime manual override). It's the new lens to get for DX instead of the 50mm f/1.8. If I didn't already have an AF 35mm f/2D for my...
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    D3X

    http://imaging.nikon.com/produ...mera/slr/d3x/index.htm yay new confusing marketing term from Nikon: Total Imaging System. for other examples of confusion, note Nikon's AF-S using SWM motors, CLS using i-TTL, etc. other than that I don't see anything new. it's a D3 with a 24.5MP, ISO...
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    Great Smoky Mountains N.P.

    For fall break last month I went to Tennessee/North Carolina's Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Taken with a D90 and 18-200mm VR lens (broad views with circular polarizer): a trail single photo from rock slide area on Boulevard Trail panorama from rock slide area on Boulevard Trail...
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    Nikon AF 35mm f/2.0D partial disassembly

    Periodically I have to clean grease off the aperture blades of my Nikkor AF 35mm f/2.0D. It?s a well-known problem, and about $100 to have it professionally and permanently cleaned. However, it?s easy enough to do the job yourself if you?ve got a medium-small screwdriver and enough guts to...
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    Nikon lens performance

    So one morning over the summer I had some free time, and I decided to test all my lenses to see how they performed. These tests are entirely subjective and really only apply to the system comprising the lens and my D50's 6MP sensor; thus I will not be linking to this thread from my Nikon Lens...
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    Advanced Blending large panorama in CS2

    I've got thirty-six six-megapixel images that I want to stitch together in a 3 rows by 12 columns pattern into a panorama using Photoshop CS2's Photomerge tool with Advanced Blending enabled. It works fine without Advanced Blending, but the transitions between each individual picture look...
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    Nikon AF-S 50mm f/1.4G

    http://press.nikonusa.com/2008...ates_the_75th_anni.php http://www.dpreview.com/news/0...kkor_50mm_1_4glens.asp http://imaging.nikon.com/produ...-s_50mmf_14g/index.htm So, we've got the AF-S 50mm f/1.4. Now we need it with kit AF-S (no full-time manual override) in an f/1.8 flavor, along...
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    Nikon Lens Guide

    Nikon Lens Guide Note from the author: In this guide, I will attempt to cover most of the popular Nikkor lenses, and explain some terminology specific to the Nikon F-mount SLR system. First, some disclaimers: (1) I do not have hands-on experience with all the lenses that I will discuss. If...
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    photos from this weekend

    Whew, I just finished an extremely busy weekend of photography (make that busy in general, but with all fun events). First, on Saturday morning, I took headshots for a theater musical production I'm a part of. Photos were taken with my D50, SB-800, and 50mm f/1.8D (at f/2.8). Since I only...
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    basketball shooting

    As many of you may know, I'm much more familiar with Nikon in my hands than Canon. But, I'm shooting my first basketball game today for the college newspaper, and the other more senior photographer wants to use the D2H. So I'm using a 1DmkIIn and 30D, with a 24-70mm, 70-200mm, and 300mm (all...
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    2/20/08 Lunar Eclipse photos

    ok, here's my pics of the lunar eclipse. they were taken with the college newspaper's AF-S 400mm f/2.8DII with a TC-20EII. working 35mm-equivalent focal length was 1200mm f/5.6 on my D50. lens mounted to my Bogen-Manfrotto 190XPRO tripod and 486RC2 ball head. the ball head did make things...
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    Vista/XP dual-boot fiasco

    I've been using Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit OEM for six months now, but I discovered the other day that the video capture functionality on ATi graphics cards is only available under Windows XP. So, I dropped an old 30GB IDE hard drive into my system, and began installing Windows XP...
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    cannot play DVDs in Vista Ultimate

    I am unable to play DVDs in Vista Ultimate x64, no matter what application I use. I have Roxio Easy Media Creator Suite 9 installed for the myriad of things it does. In Windows Media Player, it tells me this: "Windows Media Player cannot play this DVD because there is a problem with digital...
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    RMA: OCZ Platinum DDR2-800?

    I built my computer nine months ago with OCZ Platinum 2GB(2x1GB) DDR2-800 4-5-4-15 2.1V memory. Since upgrading to Vista, SuperFetch seems to have actually slowed down some programs, owing to Vista having greater base memory usage, and SuperFetch having the wrong data loaded (i.e. wrong map...
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    Folding@Home GPU error w/ Vista Ultimate 64-bit

    So, I try to run the Folding@Home GPU console client v5.91 Beta3. I run it as administrator, and it sets up the config file, and downloads the core and work. But when it engages the core, I get the error that it is looking for "d3dx9_30.dll". Thinking that the "d3dx9.dll" file in...
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    C2D E6600 + P5W-DH overclocking

    My stated goal here is to reach the magic 400 FSB (x9 = 3600MHz). Components (complete list linked in sig): - processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 (Stepping 6 Revision B2) - motherboard: Asus P5W-DH Deluxe (1305 BIOS) - RAM: OCZ Platinum 2GB(2x1GB) DDR2-800 5-5-5-15 2.1V - heatsink: Zalman...
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    analog video capture issues

    I have a Radeon X1900XT w/ VIVO and 6.10 Cats, installed with an Asus P5W-DH, Intel C2D E6600, and 2GB of DDR2-800, and I'm trying to back up all my old VHS tapes (feature films, home videos, insurance videos, etc.) onto my computer for eventual transfer to either my iPod or DVD (once I have a...
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    adjusting partitions

    I have a 320GB hard drive. Currently, I'm using ~30GB on it (I just built the rig two weeks ago). I would like to insert a partition or two (~50GB each) for the latest Windows Vista build (the one with 100,000 first-come first-serve public downloads) and Linux. Is there any way to adjust the...
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    Tuesdays suck

    /discuss
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    Antec NeoHE 550W

    So, looking at PSUs for a higher-end build. The Antec NeoHE 550 caught my eye. I particularly like the Antec name, supposedly higher efficiency, and the modular cables. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817103941 Here's the system it would be running: - motherboard: Asus...
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    different Sapphire models

    So, Sapphire always puts out so many different models/packages of video cards. What's the difference between these two? Particularly, why is the Retail package cheaper than OEM? SAPPHIRE 100149 Radeon X1900XT 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card - OEM...
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    which UPS

    So, I figure that since I'm building a $2000 rig, I should at least give it clean power and protect it. I've narrowed it down to these two products, one from Belkin and one from APC: BELKIN Enterprise F6C1100-UNV 1100VA 660W UPS - Retail...
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    which Intel CPU to overclock?

    So, I'm buying parts for my Conroe-ready rig rather soon. Which CPU should I get to overclock until I pick up a Conroe? thread about the whole rig: http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=27&threadid=1885476&enterthread=y Motherboard: Asus P5W DH Deluxe RAM: OCZ Platinum XTC...
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    Intel Conroe-ready build

    So, the Asus P5W DH Deluxe just arrived at Newegg.com today. This is the motherboard I was waiting for to complete my Conroe-ready build. My plan is to buy the aforementioned motherboard and a Pentium D 805, and overclock the snot out of that processor. Sometime in September I will probably...
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    Asus P5W DH Deluxe

    So, my plan for my new rig goes like this: - buy Conroe-compatible motherboard (Asus P5W DH Deluxe) and a Pentium D 805 as soon as the motherboard is available - overclock the snot out of that poor little processor - upgrade to Core 2 Duo E6600 (2.4GHz 4MB) once the supply and possible price...
  31. soydios

    CNPS9500 LED/AT?

    CNPS9500-LED http://www.zalman.co.kr/eng/product/view.asp?idx=165&code=009 CNPS9500-AT http://www.zalman.co.kr/eng/product/view.asp?idx=193&code=009 what's the difference? the CNPS9500-LED comes with mounting hardware for 478/775/754/939/940, and the CNPS9500-AT comes with mounting...
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    4DIMMs and 975X

    So, I'm looking ahead to my Conroe build, and I'm wondering if I should go with 4GB of memory. Coming from the AMD camp, I'm familiar with the 1T/2T detail with 2DIMMs/4DIMMs, and I'm wondering whether or not this behavior also occurs on Intel chipsets, specifically the 975X. So, here are my...
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    Conroe planning

    So, I just learned from Gary Key that the Asus M2R32-MVP Deluxe (ATi RD580 for Socket AM2) won't be showing up in retail channels until early-to-mid July. That's two weeks or so before Conroe comes out. So, I've basically thrown my Socket AM2 build plans out the window, and I'm wondering how I...
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    RD580 on AM2

    So...we're coming up on a month after the Socket AM2 launch. ATi's RD580 northbridge chipset has been out there for several months now, and there was a big to-do about how it would work flawlessly with AM2 without any modifications. So why are the only motherboards out there based on nVidia...
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    RD580 on AM2

    So...we're coming up on a month after the Socket AM2 launch. ATi's RD580 northbridge chipset has been out there for several months now, and there was a big to-do about how it would work flawlessly with AM2 without any modifications. So why are the only motherboards out there based on nVidia...
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    CrossFire 3200 for AM2

    Does anybody know when CrossFire 3200 (RD580) motherboards for AMD Socket AM2 will be released? In particular, I'm wondering about when the Asus M2R32-MVP will arrive at Newegg.
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    CrossFire 3200 for AM2

    Does anybody know when CrossFire 3200 (RD580) motherboards for AMD Socket AM2 will be released? In particular, I'm wondering about when the Asus M2R32-MVP will arrive at Newegg.
  38. soydios

    CrossFire 3200 for AM2

    Does anybody know when CrossFire 3200 (RD580) motherboards for AMD Socket AM2 will be released? In particular, I'm wondering about when the Asus M2R32-MVP will arrive at Newegg.
  39. soydios

    Choosing an LCD: how about this one?

    Here's the brand (17" or 19", 1280x1024, DVI): http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductLi...Value=0&Submit=Property&SubCategory=20 Here's the specific one I was thinking of: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16824138022 Here's a comment from AnandTech last year...
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    Aftermarkt Cooling for AM2?

    I will be building a computer in about 2 weeks, and I have some general questions about how AM2 is coming along. Original thread: http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=27&threadid=1857459&enterthread=y DISCLAIMER: I AM BUILDING THE SYSTEM ON SOCKET AM2 IN 3 WEEKS, NO CONROE (unless...