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  1. MaxBurn

    PAX East

    Thinking about it. Looks like saturday is sold out now.
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    SSDs - State of the Product?

    Think that's right. Also that's one of the general things I don't like about OCZ, they have a long solid history of running devices out of spec.
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    HDD SMART temps reliable?

    I am sure I don't have a real temperature problem, I just think that one seagate 2tb drive is 15° or more out of wack from reality. Stranger even when it is one of four same model number drives in use. The samsung likely reads a good 5° lower than actual IMO too. Seems like such a simple thing...
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    Something Random

    Glad they came clean, I didn't believe they were demo units for a second.
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    HDD SMART temps reliable?

    The 109°F was chosen for a "warm" message and I think that seems about right where you may want to think about poking around looking for dust or failed fans, this is set in home server SMART monitor and you can't change the threshold that I know of. The room is about 72°F now. Simply feeling the...
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    Blu-ray Disc Hardware

    Yeah there were people all over complaining about Star Trek in BD with anydvdhd, think it is fixed now though. I avoided it and went DVD for that one.
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    HDD SMART temps reliable?

    Are temperatures reported by SMART generally reliable? My server is reporting one warm disk at 109°F so I shuffled things around and unless I am crazy and lost track of something that one hot temperature moved to another drive, I thought I grabbed the hot disk and moved it to the front in a...
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    WHS+AnyDVDHD+MyMovies+WMC+PowerDVD9

    Complaint 1: We discussed in the other thread how anydvdhd straight to ISO has some sort of speed limit to it, I think you are seeing that only much worse. Should be just minutes for DVD and about an hour or less with that drive I am guessing for bluray. Change it over to file mode and see if...
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    Much stuff for sale.

    One more. FREE HP Color Laserjet 5 printer, 52MB memory total, postscript SIMM, Letter tray (8.5x11), Tabloid tray (11x17), rear paper tray (8.5x11), 100b/t network card. Could use a new drum, has some dings and a blank spot down one edge. Also currently loaded with some bad black toner...
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    Eneloop Alternatives (or Cracking The Battery Lingo Codewords)

    Consumerist mention: http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/sanyo-eneloop-lite-ni-mh-rechargeable-batteries-are-cheap-less/
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    Slow system - disk related?

    Shouldn't need the matrix storage manager, think you only need it if you have RAID in use I believe. Do need the intel chipset inf, update that?
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    Much stuff for sale.

    This first section are prices including SHIPPING via UPS GROUND. Rosewill drive dock USB and eSATA “toaster” $25 –original box cables everything. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182197 1.3b HDCP compliant HDMI splitter. $28 – just splitter and power supply...
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    PSYCHO CLIENT

    What brought on the whole psycho thing?
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    Swapping Laptops

    Right, not to mention if there is TPM on it.
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    Swapping Laptops

    Well I think there are a bunch of things like NIC MAC addresses etc that tie it down to specific hardware. Maybe being OEM that might not apply but I think it is risky.
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    Something Random

    OK I thought my fake Sopranos set was pretty good but this tops it, FAKE i7 920 CPU from newegg!! http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1500534
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    Blu-ray Disc Hardware

    Mine is disabled, I think it is the default.
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    Blu-ray Disc Hardware

    On those slower rip speeds, that's why I mentioned that AACS rip speed limitation I see mentioned here and there and you really have to dig to find it. I don't know why that is. I'm just happy to gain the speed I did using the external ISO program to do the ripping. I don't know why on the...
  19. MaxBurn

    Mini Wireless keyboard

    I like it, where was that last year when I needed it?
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    Windows Home Server / Home Server OS

    Anyone know how to schedule the drive extender migrator service so it only runs say midnight to 6AM? Man when that thing fires up you can't watch movies at all.
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    drive in eSATA enclosure not recognized

    I remember something with a specific model of Raptor too, like it wouldn't ever detect them. Eh, I have only had to deal with one nvidia chipset and that one couldn't even get the USB part right.
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    drive in eSATA enclosure not recognized

    Speaking in broad hostile terms doesn't nforce have problems with SATA just in general? Part of your problem looks to be lack of support for eSATA? I also encountered some strangeness in my foray into eSATA but this was on motherboards that didn't list it as a feature either (Supermicro C2SBA)...
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    SATA cables

    This was last annoyance on this front. http://www.wiredzone.com/itemdesc.asp/ic/32019992/model/CBL-SAS8087OCF-06M On a side note I could really use some 3.5" to 5.25" drive rails, anyone have say six sets of those around?
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    Technet Plus is $250 right now

    That is how the license is written. From what I gather that is how it is working in practice, but they CAN shut off those keys any time they want to.
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    ASUS Unveils Exclusive Technology to Unlock Latent AMD CPU Cores

    Another reason I can not trust ASUS. They are assuming there was no good reason that particular core was turned off in the first place, how misleading for people that won't know better. http://www.asus.com/News.aspx?N_ID=nUl4pbbLEB9nQu9m
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    Something Random

    The quality of the box is not matched by the quality of the disks which was straight up crap and is what really clued me in. I might not have even noticed if all the disks worked in the first place. I am glad I got the real things, the image quality is much better on these as they aren't...
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    Something Random

    Yes, including shipping both ways from the seller, never had to work with amex. Actually I think the seller was as surprised as I was, or possibly if you wanted to read something into it just cooperating so I don't do anything. I figured I would log a FTC complaint now that I have searched...
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    Something Random

    FYI I got my legit box set of Sopranos and I am about certain I did have a fake set there. http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=18176943#post18176943
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    When to Build New System

    I'm wondering if it is worth upgrading from my Q9650, still thinking no but that six core might be enough of a jump to do it.
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    When to Build New System

    Maybe even lower than that: http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1499779 http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1499034
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    Blu-ray Disc Hardware

    EAC Secure mode? Is that like verify or something? I don't think I used that and I know I didn't do a test. A couple rips did have problems, does that help glitches or not very much as you still wound up with problems too? I just remember this drive sounding like a turbine and the disks coming...
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    Blu-ray Disc Hardware

    I was cleaning recently and realized I literally have a stack of optical drives sitting here from upgrades from doing things like this. Notable ones include a TOP G 52x CDROM which I am really thinking of using again to re-rip my CD's from 192k MP3 into some lossless format, I think this is...
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    Blu-ray Disc Hardware

    Never tried it, as long as the destination is the same drive that is a recipe for fragmentation. I think it will work, I can open up multiple windows from anydvdhd or imgburn.
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    Blu-ray Disc Hardware

    Thanks again, faster but not the blazing speed I wanted. I 18:50:37 ImgBurn Version 2.5.0.0 started! I 18:50:37 Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium x64 Edition (6.1, Build 7600) I 18:50:37 Total Physical Memory: 4,192,300 KB - Available: 2,149,852 KB W 18:50:37 AnyDVD can interfere with...
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    Presenting "The Coffin"

    I don't think this is crazy, looks good and puts the computers up and out of the way. I was moving my desk this past weekend and thinking with all these cables under here this thing is fugly. I spent a little extra time and mounted the power strip and KVM etc up inside the desk on the back and...
  36. MaxBurn

    Sanity check needed

    My advice is move on, yes your right but arguing on the internet isn't going to do anything. This link is for you. http://xkcd.com/386/
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    Presenting "The Coffin"

    You guys have pictured layouts with the tall chimney before and I am now again thinking it is a really interesting idea for noise and looks. Are the fans etc mounted with rubber feet? I know boards that have no vibration damping can act like a soundboard and amplify noise like an acoustic guitar.
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    When to Build New System

    I think I will be more interested in what the i9 does to the i7 pricing. Those motherboards and CPU's are still fairly high IMO.
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    Audio Equipment

    I thought so, this is how I got mine so see if this deal is any good still: http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?t=1789604 http://www.6ave.com/shop/product.aspx?sku=ONKHTRC180 I can answer questions on the 180 as I have it here.
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    Audio Equipment

    On the receiver can you stretch a bit and get the 180 for the Faroudja DCDi CINEMA with 1080p upscaling and THX Select2 Plus?
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    Windows Home Server / Home Server OS

    Of the 37 bluray disks I have here they total 1135GB for an average of 30.7GB a disk. Not uncommon at all for bluray movies to not use all the space available. So 400 would only be a little under 13TB using that number. Not unrealistic at all, the home server I have now is 6TB with plans to...
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    Windows Home Server / Home Server OS

    I guess home server isn't so much about what it alone does for you but what you can do to add things on to it. A firmware update (to the Dune player) and some tweaks made the menus look way better. I just realized that my movies has a file copy option built in, even has anydvd hd support built...
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    SSDs - State of the Product?

    Ah well I have been out of town/touch for that long. 4 disk RAID 0?
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    SSDs - State of the Product?

    Competition is good. The Intel X25-M G2 80GB is back down to $219.99 on egg now.
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    USB flash drive recovery

    Partition table problem?
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    OCZ's Vertex Limited Edition SSD: $399 for best-in-class write speeds, only 5,000 ava

    That's about my experience with OCZ, they sell more than a bit of remarked ram that was "tested" to work at higher frequencies. I had a couple of bad experiences with them and that never really left me so I rather shun their products though I have some memory sticks from them. Actually they are...
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    Blu-ray Disc Hardware

    Do you still get the features like "remove annoying adverts" and the "remove user user prohibited" when ripping that way?
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    Bass ackwards case design

    This is a full length PCI with the back slot and everything? Actually some of the video cards now are huge too, my plain old GTX260 just barely misses the drive rack in the P180 but means that you can't put drives in the rack without modifications to slide the drive back further than intended...
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    Blu-ray Disc Hardware

    Thanks, I will give it a try.
  50. MaxBurn

    NEW SYSTEM EXPERIENCE

    Very nice.
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