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Don't worry kids, this year we'll make contact!

I guess, as blakerwry, it's not a concern....

Kind of like that accident that collapsed a portion of the MacArthur maze. Only faster.

Except for the fact that the fueling stations made hydrogen on the spot, that'd make a lot of sense. Something about the danger of hydrogen pipelines all over the place versus just taping into the existing water and power infrastructure....

I've been looking at parts for a build, and found exactly one company making JEDEC standard 4GB DDR3 1333 sticks; they're non-existent at speeds above that, and the 2GB sticks are still hard to find. Everybody else guarantees the speed if you manually set the timings and over-volt, but the SPD...

The Intel chips do, so I presume that the laptop does, as well. Then again, going with one stick of the slower memory seems to cost the same as one stick of the faster. We're just paying for the higher density.

This was my theory, but, since I usually go with one DIMM so as to be able upgrade easier, I actually wanted to be sure that was the case.

Maybe you should be more incredulous that it was set nine years ago.

Is it really a good idea to keep moving towards the next station if the train catches on fire? And, by, "on fire," I mean "is quickly consuming the precious breathable air inside the train."

I recall that a few years ago, Iceland sunk a lot of time and money building hydrogen fueling stations all over the place. They use water and the abundant power from geothermal to split the hydrogen off and release oxygen. This begs the question, why didn't they just go with electric vehicles?

I'm spec'ing out a laptop for a customer. It's being expensed, and he has a nice budget; but it'll only be used for about three years, and there's little chance of an upgrade during that time period. So, whatever he gets now, he's stuck with for the duration. After spending time trying to...

Apparently, I haven't. I'll get in contact with Dave Bowman and see if he knows anything about them.

And people bitch about high-speed rail not stopping at their station. What are people going to say when the slow-speed bus doesn't either? How does this thing take curves?

Said same people also already have a computer....

I think that my solution is more elegant. Certainly, it includes the monitor, keyboard, and a pointing device, at least twice.

No Internet reversi. How could they?

Like EPA gas mileage estimates for hybrids, I'm starting to get the feeling that we don't know how to measure the performance of SSDs. In the real world, I don't think that there's going to be a lot of perceived performance difference in any of the current generation drives.

Wasn't the C300 the one with firmware problems?

Netbook+monitor, keyboard, and mouse?

Maybe your low-end isn't as low as I thought....

Upgradeable NAND modules!

I was reading the other day that there are problems using benchmarking software on SandForce-based SSDs because: (1) they have no cache and therefore react different than cached controllers; and (2) they compress the data before write, so compressibility affects performance. From that, one...

And that's a RAID 6 of what make of SSD?

Now, why would I pay more for 80% of the performance?

Never had a problem; in fact, they seem to come back quite quick. Maybe they've caught on to your politics? I'm not really a fan, but I generally like OCZ products and support. Unfortunately, their memory offering has swung back from "tech geek" to "I heart RAID 0 boot drives."

The problem there is their enclosure. Then again, I wonder how designers manage to pack all of this crap onto the boards without resorting to E-ATX.

I'm hoping that this is a server... and then wondering why you'd then need SSDs in RAID 0.

I'm pretty sure that you didn't have to pay $700 for that. It looks like all Gigabyte boards are like that. Most others that I've looked at recently do, as well.

I'm curious as to why that is. The low-end seems like their sweet spot.

Even with the impending price drop, it seems like AMD has the price/performance crown. Is anyone here building AMD desktop systems, and, if so, what are you using?

I question why one would want to use the angled side on the motherboard. Beyond blocking stuff, it seems it would make routing awkward.

Maybe the Revo would be a good choice. Basically two SSDs and a RAID controller slapped together on a single PCI-E card. Not as slick as the Z-Drive... but cheaper.

Dunno, but Newegg appears to have just put it on sale with a slightly lower price.

You're confusing bank interleaving with node interleaving. You can bank interleave with NUMA (and that's a good thing), but node interleaving and NUMA *are* mutually exclusive.

Mwave has the 60G Vertex 2 on sale, if you join their silly club: http://www.mwave.com/mwave/skusearch_v3.asp?scriteria=BA38990&pageTitle=OCZ%20OCZSSD2-2VTXE60G%20Vertex%202%20Extended%2060GB%202.5IN%20SATA2

Coming from you, I guess that says something. It seems like prices are so close together, it's not strictly necessary to distinctly differentiate.

Uh, no. Being "uniform" has to do with access. If all memory has the same latency and bandwidth to all processors, then it is "uniform." At least until recently, most Intel systems had uniform memory because they only had one node (controller). Since AMD integrated the memory controller...

I'd actually be more interested in how it operates in every day use, especially in comparison to something like the original Vertex.

If you have non-uniform memory, then NUMA is usually (but not always) the better choice. I'm not familiar with the the machine, but given that it's Intel, I'm sure that your memory is uniform.

Well, to be more exact, they do come out the top, but there's a perforated cover that seems to do a pretty good job hiding that fact. There's a "hole" to allow you to route cables to the back of the case. One reviewer complained that there wasn't enough space under the cover for a video cable...

Reading some reviews, it seems that one of the complaints is that long (i.e., old) optical drives tend to block the motherboard; particularly, when using the top bay, the last slot of a board may get covered. The general solution is to use one of the lower bays and work around any connectors...

I think that it does, at least technically. Although reviewers have given me the impression that the design and firmware for the Vertex 2 is more mature and, therefore, tends to perform better than one would expect, relative to the LE. Any comments on performance?

Seems popular at SPCR. Thoughts? http://www.silverstonetek.com/products/p_photo.php?pno=FT02&area=usa

I was looking at the Vertex 2 and wondering if anyone had used either of the their controllers out there.

Remember when harddrives cost thousands?

How about an app that screws up your reception when you hold the phone a certain way? The new iPhone has this built-in.

Corrected.

When did $5K become "limited?"

I think that's the point where you've rotated the screen and it blinks for a second. If you turn your head ninety degrees to the left, it doesn't take you any longer to see the image....