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    Older Travelstar Drives

    Thanks Dan, just what i wanted to know. Cheers
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    Older Travelstar Drives

    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...
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    DVI Splitter

    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...
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    Western Digital Enterprise Edition?

    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...
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    Western Digital Enterprise Edition?

    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...
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    Odd Request

    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...
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    Make an argument against Abortion/Same Sex Marriage w/o using Religion as the Core of your argument.

    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...
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    Make an argument against Abortion/Same Sex Marriage w/o using Religion as the Core of your argument.

    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...
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    Make an argument against Abortion/Same Sex Marriage w/o using Religion as the Core of your argument.

    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...
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    Setting up a photo server.

    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...
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    Best brand of 6800 ultra PCI-X GPU?

    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...
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    Difficult to compare these 3 video cards

    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...
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    What's the practical difference between PCI-X and PCI SATA RAID Controllers?

    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...
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    Thinking of building this system, tell me if I am doing the right thing!

    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...
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    New file server needed / RAID questions

    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...
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    New file server needed / RAID questions

    that's what i meant, if you'd be sitting there watching it, or just leaving it and coming back. since you're just leaving it, the choice of platform doesn't make a heck of a lot of difference, since AMD's been making great strides into that area as of late, so i'd say go for an opteron/A64...
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    New file server needed / RAID questions

    just a couple of questions, do you currently, or are you planning to do live encoding on this machine? or just set it up and let it run while you go do something else? are you accessing files from multiple computers in your house at once? i'd think you'd be better off starting from scratch...
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    trying to get some hands-on with SCSI devices

    He doesn't need a U320 card for a single drive, this LSI at newegg should be more than sufficient and pretty cheap too. cable is extra though, since it is an OEM card. i can't view the e-bay link since i'm at work and our firewall block e-bay, but is it a 68-pin drive and not an SCA drive...
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    what are these?

    well, it's a single board computer, which is just what it sounds like it is, a whole computer on a single board. i haven't seen one like that before, on the pci-x bus, but at my workplace we have a couple of those on an ISA backplane for a proprietary system we bought a few years back. i'm...
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    Hard drive choice

    the Raid edition drives from WD are actually a different drive line from the regular caviars. they are subjected to the same rigorous burn-in testing that the raptors undergo before they are sold to ensure their reliability. WD started this series of drives because they apparently were getting...
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    PCI-X question

    it's not really for servers, more for workstations, they have a lot of older ones with proprietary programs for what they do and they're trying to migrate some older 4 & 8 port serial cards and some older video capture cards. so basically from what's been said, if it's a 3.3v PCI card it...
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    PCI-X question

    not sure if this should have been troubleshooting or GH, so i'll just put it here. i'm assisting on a migration upgrade from some older equipment for a company, and they want to keep some of their legacy PCI cards and put them into new mobo's, unfortuantley the only real choices we have to...
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    Dummy Monitor

    no problem, slow day at the shop. if you get it working let me know, i'm sure others might be out there looking for something similar. here's a couple sites where we found pinouts too, not sure if you need them or not, anyway, here, and slightly easier to see again, let us all know how it...
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    Dummy Monitor

    hey David, after a bit of searching by me and a couple other guys in my shop we found this website scroll down a bit to terminators for enhanced video cards. looks like you'll need a D-sub 15 plug, 3 75 Ohm resistors, and a jumper, (or just a piece of wire) you can google a search on...
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    SCSI Hard Drives.

    speaking as someone that does have a SCSI drive as my main boot drive, it's probably not worth it for your situation. i'm running a Maxtor Atlas 10K V 36 GB drive, running win2K and i boot maybe 10 seconds faster than on my WD caviar 80 GB drive. games do load a bit faster, but not too...
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    Canadian website to buy vid cards

    I know i'm new here, but i've been around a while. i wouldn't trust canada computers. i used to live in Kingtson Ont. and they were the absolute worst place to buy anything. they may have some good prices, but service was virtually none existant. i had to take back a DOA soundblaster audigy...
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    Very slow modem connection speeds

    Hmm.. sorry for the long previous post then, lol. i have a tendancy of putting too much info down on paper once i get started. i'd say that your new modem doesn't like your lines as much as your old one then. i would still doubt it's a driver issue though, but possible. is the modem in your...
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    Very slow modem connection speeds

    I doubt it's anything to do with your drivers. a 56K modem is only it's THEORETICAL maximum transfer rate, the reality is, sadly, often much less than this. the actual speed you connect at depends on a number of factors, including the quality of phone lines used (as you said you only have dial...
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    Future of Gaming and PC's

    Just a general comment on everything everyone has said here, the majoy concensus being that the major drawbacks of consoles being the limited resolution, lack of up to date hardware as they age, and generally not as fun for RTS/FPS due to lack of keyboard/mouse? having played games on both for...