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Eh, just bought this from the local Fry's for $20 more. Impulse buys are so much fun.

;)

Depending on your LCD, it may have a VGA and a DVI port on the back. If it does, you can switch between the sources with a button on the front. If you won't be switching much, this plus your USB switch would be the easiest/cheapest way to do it.

Well, now that my priorities have been reassigned, I've just ordered one of these. I hope all will be well. Any comments on how the quality of the sound will compare to my dear Klipsch 2.1?

I've had good luck with the Seagate external drives.

If you don't need NAS support, they also have a 2x750GB model that supports RAID-1 and JBOD internally.

I'm waiting for the next capacity of Buffalo Terastation. Right now they have 2TB (4x 500GB), and 3TB would be enough for a (very portable) backup of my main array.

I don't see much point, the price difference just isn't big enough to justify another product.

It happened to hotmail.com at least once, and one of the apple domains as well. I must admit, it has happened to me (well, my clients) a few times. It's unfortunate and annoying, but hardly shameful.

A 300W good power supply is good enough for most users. I'm sure it's more than I need. I'm running a 380W in my current system, and that is more than enough. Unless you are putting more than one video card or more than 4 hard drives, I can't imagine needing more than a 300W PS.

Definatly sounds like bad cards Merc. I have that same motherboard in the same case with a larger gaming card installed (X1800 IceQ). I switched to SATA cables with right-angle ends on them.

Merc, I think with the combination of DVI and make/model profiles you can get pretty close. But sample variance in the backlight itself probably is responsible for a "significant" amount of shift. Not that I notice or particularly care.

The pessimistic suggestion would be to assure that their util finds something before returning the drive.

Yay, my projector ceiling mount has arrived! Now I get to violate larger parts of my rental agreement. And it looks like I need a 15-20' VGA cable (my projector doesn't do DVI). Considering it runs at 1024x768, is image bluryness going to be an issue?

Don't forget the water cooled RAM!

I was actually just looking at the PQI DOM last night. The 16GB version of course.

...no BIOS updates?

Nope. The only people who do advanced replacement are the people that have lots of practice doing replacements: WD. Having never had a Samsung die; I am not familiar with their replacement process. WD, however, does have the best RMA process out there (except that they ship you WD drives).

c'mon, it's a RAID-0 array of WD drives...that should be enough for spontaneous combustion...

Merc, Can you specify what program you use to do the deployment from USB and what you had to do to make he USB drive bootable?

No super system is complete without at least a 1TB array AND a RAID-0 set, so include 4x500GB in a RAID-10, and 2x Raptor 150 in RAID-0. Plus a pair of DVD-RW (assuming no HD-DVD/Blu-Ray).

Sounds like you already found a use for a P190. I'm quite envious of that build; I like doing the tricky stuff.

Booting DOS (or Linux) from a CD (or USB thumbdrive) is nearly as easy and more tools can fit. And I certainly bet I can complete the aforementioned tasks faster than you if you first have to install the floppy drive ;)

My HDDs were around 40C for a while, and I changed from a SFF case to a P180 primarily to get their temps down.

I've been building systems for money for about 10 years now (less than you guys, I know), and I can't remember EVER installing a floppy as standard. The last time I needed a floppy to install or run a piece of software was 1994! Of course, I do have a USB one sitting around.

This is what I used in my older models. However, it is larger, more complicated, and more expensive. That's why I was thinking about USB.

Good to hear it ;)

I've built about 10 systems using P180s. I haven't needed a cable extension yet. I've used Antec and Seasonic power supplies and all Gigabyte motherboards.

It's really not important, don't worry about it. I was just bored and curious.

Nope. You can even make it read-only. And there isn't much disk access at all after start-up. My only concerns were on mounting a USB disk as a hard drive in Linux. Or is this all BIOS controlled?

I'm building some more of these things; they were so successful and so popular. What do people here think of just using a USB stick as a HDD instead of a CF card in an IDE adapter? Think Smoothwall will have an issue? Anyone know if the BIOS will have a problem?

Thanks. I was having major audio sync issues when using ripit4me and AutoGK. Just DVDDecryptor was working fine, but something in the change broke it. Nero Recode knocked out a file that works just fine.

...but for us, last night was an "early" night; going to bed around 1AM and falling asleep around 3AM.

That is the cheapest soltion to the immediate problem, but not the coolest or most flexible. Based on the existing system spec (looks great, BTW) the cost is not particularly relevant. Let me know what you end up getting, looks very cool. What HDDs are you using in that array?

Does "Nero Digital" = DivX? I'm playing with Recode

Getting up this early is like having a hangover with no good times attached.

WAY too early. My GF works 3 days a week (M,W,F) and gets up at 7AM on those days. I'm practicing getting up with her. Of course, on Su,T,TH,S we sleep in till noon.

...damn, forgot about the whole AM2/939 thing. I'm embarrased to admit how long I stared at the pins on both chips before I figured it out.

Very pleased with myself. I happen to be in posession of a spare Opteron 185 that I'll be dropping in my primary home rig. No reason to upgrade from my existing 4200+, but it's there...tempting me ;)

My thoughts exactly; but this does allows for quick and dirty prototypes that can then be sent out for casting/milling of the final.

Very neat. I've been looking for such things for some time now. The best I could find 6-months ago was $6k, used.

If you are doing casual video editing, any monitor will do. If you are doing professional video editing, and want to be able to see every pixel perfectly, and all at once, then you need one of those monitors.

Looks right to me. The product key is all I had to change.

seconded. sorry :(

I would assume that the partucular VLK he has won't pass genuine BS. When you buy a licence through the genuine advantage link, all they do is send you a program that changes the key and a new key. I don't know how else to get this program, but it worked fine with another retail key I had lying...

Your network stack is hosed or something else is blocking network traffic. If your ping command doesn't work, I would reccomend re-installing your TCP/IP stack.

Thanks for the suggestions, I've passed them along.

Yes, that is a good idea, but I don't happen to have any of those lying around. I'm getting close to ordering another "restore CD" from Gateway (mine is lost).

I'll wait for the Seagate 4-platter design, TYVM. But yes, 1TB drives should be bought on principle. They are way cooler than even 950GB drives ;) Although my estimation of Hitachi is going up substantially, their model HV-250R is particularly nice.

Looks brilliant to me, and a professional looking installation as well. Considering how much energy we put into heating some things and cooling others, it's a nice thought to just be moving around the same heat instead.