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    Realtek netcard help

    I'll give the wireshark a try. One of the other machines is server 2003, the rest are all XP SP2
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    Realtek netcard help

    There's no firewall or anti spyware software of any kind. Windows firewall service is disabled. I did go directly to realtek for the latest drivers, I got the same results unfortunately...
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    Realtek netcard help

    The machine is a clean XP install, Not much running on it. Here's something strange... I installed vmware server on it yesterday and then made a windows vista virtual machine. Used bridged networking. The vista machine runs at full speed too, lol. Next I think I'll make a XP virtual...
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    Realtek netcard help

    I have an Abit AW9D mobo with the realtek 8168 gigabit net card built in. My machine (and the others in the house) are plugged into a netgear gigabit switch, The switch plugs into a Watchguard firewall. The firewall plugs into a cable modem (motorola surfboard 4220). My cable service is 16mbs...
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    Disable NCQ?

    I just went thru that same nonsense when moving my HD from the IDE setting in the Bios to the RAID setting. Why can't the F8 windows boot menu include an option to add drivers via a floppy/cdrom/flash? I had to reformat and start over. silliness :)
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    Disable NCQ?

    I'll double check that when I get home, but I'm pretty sure I went combing thru device manager before and didn't see anything...
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    Disable NCQ?

    http://www.storagereview.com/php/benchmark/bench_sort.php I looked at the gaming benchmarks there and saw that my drive did have higher scores without ncq, I figured it was free to disable ncq and I would rerun my local HD benchmark with it off to see if I got any gain. Even if I get 1%...
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    Disable NCQ?

    For performance, im not in a multi user environment, I want maximum read speed.
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    Disable NCQ?

    OK, sounds good, I'll look thru the device manager drivers and see what i got.
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    Disable NCQ?

    It does support ncq, when i open up the intel matrix storage manager it shows the drive and ncq being enabled. Not that I can change it however.. Or at least I can't change it in Intel's storage manager software.
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    Disable NCQ?

    Have an abit aw9d mobo (intel 975x chipset) and I'm using the HD controller in Raid mode in the bios. I can't see any way to disable the NCQ? The HD has no ncq disable jumber, and as far as I can tell some folks can disable it in the driver if they are using an nvidia chipset on the mobo...
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    Adding sata/raid drivers to an existing XP installation?

    That Nlite product dosen't appear to be able to edit an existing windows installation? Or am i missing something?
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    Adding sata/raid drivers to an existing XP installation?

    I have a functioning windows xp installation and I am getting a new motherboard that has a new hard drive controller chipset. Normally when you swap motherboards the existing windows installation will blue screen on startup because the hard drive contoller has changed and it does not have...
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    Dual boot using F11 Boot menu.

    I have 2 physical HD's in my system, one sata, and another a standard IDE drive set as master. Windows XP is installed on the sata drive, I had linux installed on the ide drive. I was not using any boot manager on my main drive (sata - windows xp). At boot, I hit F11 and choose a boot device...
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    Does SATA II = 300mb/s or 3gb/s?

    Why does it matter when no HD can transfer data off the platter any faster than around 80mb/s? Even the newest perpendicular drive from seagate thats 15k rpms hits just over 100mb/s transfer... The interface is not the bottleneck, the platter and heads are...
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    Defrag Software Without a Service?

    I actually found one, System Mechanic 6, I downloaded the trial, It installs no services, It does have a memory resident program that runs on start up but I went into msconfig and turned it off and the program still runs fine, so It was probably a scheduler of sorts... The defrag does a...
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    Defrag Software Without a Service?

    Contig seems pretty good, thank you! The issue with the Windows built in one is that it does not rearrange files to the top of the disk. EDIT Hmmm, it seems contig only defrags and does not move files to the top of the disk...
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    Defrag Software Without a Service?

    I was wondering if anyone has heard of or uses a Disk Defragmentation software package that does not require a windows service to be installed. I dont want anything running in the background, I dont want it to monitor disk usage, I don't want a scheduler. I just want a Defrag program I can...
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    is Raid 0 Faster than a single drive?

    Ok, thank you. I guess one of the new 150gb raptors then... Or scsi? Whats everyone using for a super fast scsi drive/controller?
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    is Raid 0 Faster than a single drive?

    I care not about write performance, I know a Raid 0 is faster in wirtes. I care about online gaming specifically where you load protions of data while playing (and causing studders), not like quake/doom style where the entire level is loaded before hand. I have a Maxtor 300gb 16mb cache...
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    Video card repair?

    I have a x800pro, Sold it to a buddy. he put it in an acrylic case, and well I guess acrylic cases have more potential for static. he fried the mobo and vid card when he moved it from a regular case to an acrylic case. So long story short. Can you even have a video card repaired? I bought it...
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    7800gtx at 500/1300?

    hmmm, yeah. mines slow for some reason... might have to go look thru the bios or something...
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    7800gtx at 500/1300?

    Ok, so maybe I got a decent card, just my 3dmark05 scores seem somewhat slow. overclocked to 500/1300 I get 8300. (athlon 4000+ san diego)
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    7800gtx at 500/1300?

    I see alot of 7800gtx overclockers running lower than mine? just wondering if I got a freak card or if you guys are using something other to show true frequencies? My card runs games all day long at 500/1300 with the stock cooler. (430/1200 stock) Im using the nvidia drivers with the...
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    some advice needed

    I was in the same boat as you not too long ago, (amd x64 3000+/ati x800 pro) I upgraded my mobo/cpu. It did nothing for games, your video system is the bottleneck... I started by upgrading my mobo to the asrock dual939 board, that way i could keep my x800 pro agp, then later got a pciE vid...
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    Does refresh rate effect FPS?

    Which I believe is off by default?
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    Does refresh rate effect FPS?

    Something I always wondered. Does changing the refresh rate in a game (but not resolution) effect frame per second in any way? I know the refresh rate is the rate at which stuff draws on the screen, not sure if the GPU has to do more work as the resfresh rate goes up, or if that not even...
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    Displaying FPS with Nvidia

    I was just wondering if there is any driver that had that function built in, i'm anal about having things run in the background, i like my system lean and mean :) Here's a shot of my task manager right on boot up.. http://home.comcast.net/~omniphil/tasks.jpg And that is with the old ati...
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    7800GT 3DMARK05 Scores

    78.01 drivers. hmmm, proabably my sucky mobo (asrock dual939) . Hmmm, maybe not tho... Cause if I overclock the cpu/ram, 3dmark05 dosent change at all, but if I overclock the vid card it changes significantly. So i would assume my system is limited my the video card at this point...
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    Video vs CPU limitations...

    Ok, I usually play games at 1600x1200 or higher if the game allows, so its fairly safe to say im GPU limited... So if I turn on AA i'll take a performance hit with my FPS. Dont want that :)
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    7800GT 3DMARK05 Scores

    Wow, those are really good scores... I have a 7800gtx and stock it was 7400, overclocked to 500/1300 its 8300. Those 7800gt's are pretty damn close. Damn, something must be up with my system? amd 4000+ two 512mb sticks 7800gtx
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    Video vs CPU limitations...

    Just trying to gauge at what point gaming becomes cpu limited and the same with video limited. Lets assume were using the latests games. Doom3, Everquest2, Battlefield 2, etc... And lets also leave AA and AF out of the picture. As the video resolution increases does the video card take...
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    Displaying FPS with Nvidia

    Is using fraps for just FPS display overkill? Is Riva turner the prefered app for overclocking? currently I'm using the NVtweak from the standard drivers using the registry hack. What if anything will another program offer? On a side note, going from ati to nvidia, I have more free...
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    From my experience it's the move from 2x Anti-Aliasing to 4x Anti-Aliasing that really kills the GTX! < Very interesting

    99.9 fps? Yikes.... I have a 7800gtx (500/1300) and amd x64 4000+. running at 1600x1200@85hz and NO AA I see about 60-70 fps.. What am I doing wrong?
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    Displaying FPS with Nvidia

    I had a x800 Pro and using the Ati Tray tools, I got a nice FPS monitor and gpu/mem temps that displayed up in the corner of the screen while in games. Is there something like that for nvidia owners? The built in NVtweak seems to have the auto overclocking that I used in ati tray tools which...
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    Compact Flash vs HD Speed

    Right, but the drives dont sustain data at that rate. Thats just the theoretical limit of the controller.
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    Compact Flash vs HD Speed

    Wanting a 4gb ram drive for gaming. Most motherboards only support 4gb total. Solid state 4gb drives are pricey. What about using a 4gb compact flash card with a compact flash to IDE adaptor? Is the flash ram going to be slower than the hd speeds? Compact flash speeds are 10mb/s or so, dont...
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    Swapfile on a different drive, but slower?

    I still remember Windows (1.0) and then Windows 286, lol
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    Swapfile on a different drive, but slower?

    Very interesting.. when I had windows managing it, and running defrag eventually i would end up with swap file pieces that were all over the place, this may be due to some other factor tho, maybe at some point I had made the swap size bigger and it extended it and at that point it was...