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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBhdqrdN4zg&NR=1 And another, because I just can't help myself.

<Tosses grenade into growing crowd of vegans> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9SuABGeeb8 Don't worry, it's not graphic, just mildly amusing.

Yes, thought of that. I only considered motherboards with the x1 socket to the right of the x16 socket. And of course there's a sacrificial PCI socket on the other side (the last PCI socket will probably have to hold a wireless card). But if you look at the chassis picture above, I'm not sure...

I was originally very anti-ATI, but I've been agnostic for quite a few years now. I came across an old post from 4 or 5 years ago where I was explaining to Tannin that ATI cards and drivers really did work these days. I've been happy with mid to high-end offerings from both, but often seriously...

Ah yes, but can you buy a 4770 now? :grin: Re the GTX series: the obvious application is 2560x1600, which I seem to recall you talking about some time back. Did you deploy the GTX295 in your racing simulators?

No, the PS does not have a 6-pin plug. I'm planning on using an adaptor to a Molex connector. And the CPU cooler will be whatever's currently stock with Intel E6300/7400. This case has a baffle arrangement that ensures the CPU air intake is not contaminated with exhaust heat or heat from any...

A thread with a title like this could be populated exclusively by ddrueding. Most of us don't have his budget, so I'm going to try coming at it from a lower angle. I propose to shoehorn one of these: into one of these: To give you an idea of scale, the case is less than a foot square...

Thanks, Udaman. You're right, I hadn't seen that - my eyes would have glazed over about two pages in. I still think this thread may turn out to be useful to someone, especially if other members add their observations. Every time I come back to looking at graphics cards, it's a complete...

For a brief moment in time, there was also AMD's orphan, little HD4770. Very nearly the same performance as the 4850 but nearly 30% less power consumption, thanks to the 40nm process. A mere 80W TDP. Unfortunately, 40nm yields are poor, so it's become an orphan and effectively replaced with...

Can't find any useful graphics cards threads from the last year, so here's a new one. My take on the status as at July 2009 is that AMD/ATI has the low-end/mid-range range sewn up, but nVidia is still a force to be reckoned with in the high-end. The solitary exception to that would be nVidia's...

Hmmm, suppliers seem to be discontinuing 1GB DDR2 modules, or pricing them to achieve the same effect. So it looks like it isn't worth buying less than 4GB (2x2GB modules) now, assuming you want dual-channel operation. That helps me see CougTek's view even more clearly. You may as well fully...

How do you know it still works? ;)

I don't see the point in chasing after ICH10 when the older southbridge works just fine (AFAIK?). There seem to be theoretical advantages rather than any improvements meaningful to end users. Thanks for pointing out the availability of dirt-cheap motherboard solutions - I guess I'm still...

XbitLabs used DDR2 for the Intel chips but DDR3 for the two new AMD CPUs. Not sure that's an apples-to-apples comparison ... I see the Athlon 250 as between the Intel 6300 and 7400, on balance a little closer to the 6300. There's not enough difference between them to worry about most of the...

I realize that most people here have already given up on AMD CPUs, but up to now I was still prepared to consider them - specifically, the lower-power models. 'Cause when it comes to the CPU speed religion, I'm no longer a believer (I don't fold etc). It follows that I don't believe in...

Hmmm, I'm not convinced that CULV will offer that much better performance than Atom when you're trying to keep power usage in the same ballpark. Frankly, Atom offers (far) more performance per watt than just about anything else out there. Castrating a Core 2 to bring it down to the same level...

The standard Dell 10" screen is in fact only 576 lines, not even the 600 that's standard on other netbooks. The "HD" screen is an option, but frankly, with pixels only 3/4 the size, you'd need a magnifying glass to use one. It would be lke shrinking a 10" screen down to 7.5". I agree that the...

I'm with Stereodude. You should stick to beer. :beer:

(-) AFAIK, all current netbooks have LCD backlit screens. (+) AFAIK, all current netbooks have LED backlit screens. :oops:

I understand where you're coming from, but you're comparing apples with pineapples. I'm going to deliberately ignore the 10" Asus, because it's oversized, overweight and overpriced. Comparing the HP DV2z with the MSI Wind, the Wind is nearly 2.5" (25%) shallower - which means you can actually...

I stand by my original review last year. As promised, I bought an MSI Wind this year (back in February). I don't get to see it much because my daughters fight over it, but it seems to run Visual Studio okay, and as I said, it's a much better design than most other netbooks. Having lived with...

I was deploying PDFCreator more than 4 years ago. It seemed pretty good back then, so given its improvements since, I have no reason to doubt its efficacy now. I still have utilities to print to TIF etc, so I haven't needed a standalone PDF printer driver for quite some time.

You do realize that the Pontiac G8 GXP is an Australian-designed and built car?

General Motors bankrupt. It's hardly a surprise, but seeing this bald headline about an hour ago brought home the enormity of it. I tried to imagine how people would have viewed such a headline in previous decades. The famous quote is: "for years I thought what was good for the country was...

That explains why Optiarc (NEC-Sony) drives don't support Lightscribe - their equivalent is LabelFlash. Not that either is anything other than a failed technology anyway ...

At least it manages 3 hours. S*ny claims "up to 2 hours" for most of their lineup. :( I notice that some manufacturers no longer state expected battery runtime, which is incredibly cynical. Only one I've found so far is a Panasonic Business-rugged Toughbook. Weighs about 1.4kg, 12.1" screen...

Erm, I shouldn't have used the word "failing'! I meant, she can't deal with small text. Sorry ...

Looking for a laptop for someone. Must be able to display text for fading eyes, have decent battery runtime and be not too heavy. The task seems to be incredibly difficult. She currently has a 13" 1024x768 Asus with claimed battery life of up to 5 hours from a 6-cell battery. Weighs about...

Yaris has too short a wheelbase for the sort of stability I'd like in a 145 mile per day commute. Also, the engine lacks flexibility and I hate the central speedo. And here at least, resale is better on the 5-door variant. Honda Fit (called Jazz in Australia) is far and away the best...

Even the much cheaper S7500 gives a pretty decent result at 640x480, once you tweak the white balance, saturation and contrast (the auto settings aren't much good). I know this because I've been playing with one tonight. RightLight works pretty well: I was able to use the webcam in a dark room...

After all these years of relative uncertainty, it must be a huge relief. Congratulations, you've arrived!

I'm trying to auto-mount Windows shares on this Fedora-based (Linpus) laptop, but the info on the web is a bit inconsistent. It's highly desirable because the laptop can't see the shares at boot time - it has to wait until the WiFi is up and running. I've installed AutoFS, added a /SMB entry to...

The Gigabyte is a much higher-end board, so personally I'd be inclined to keep it and flog the SuperMicro. I like high-end boards with lots of features - they seem to cut fewer corners.

Great minds think alike, Adcadet. I just did exactly the same thing. I was able to try out Acer Aspire One, Asus Eee PC, Dell Mini-9, Lenovo S-10, MSI Wind and Toshiba NB100. I took an immediate dislike to the Toshiba 9" and subsequent looks didn't change my opinion: overpriced rubbish with a...

WTF? Their "next hardware upgrade" will certainly include an OS upgrade, as well as just about every piece of installed software. What does the VM buy them? I'm hoping someone can educate me here - rather than a cost saving, I've only experienced poor performance and unnecessary complexity.

You haven't mentioned HijackThis, ProcessExplorer or SecurityTaskManager. What do any of these programs show running? I'm guessing you've already checked the user run entries in your registry? Not to mention the obvious (auto) Startup menu?

You're getting old, Dave. The memory's going. :mrgrn: ICO format definitely supports transparency. However, I wasn't sure about PNG, so I looked it up. Turns out, it ain't supported in IE6 (now there's a surprise :roll:). But I also still get the white corners in FF303 (not in Opera - it...

According to Xbit, the newer Atom 330 is a huge improvement, but there aren't any netbooks using that yet either.

Which means that the Eee PC is more than 50% slower than your old Dell - see previous post.

The options are really straightforward. For all intents and purposes, the 9" display models all have 1GB RAM and have either a 1.6GHz Atom or a 900MHz Celeron-M. I immediately suspected that the Celeron-M option (a precursor to the Core 2) might even outclass the higher-clocked Atom, but...

That's really handy to know Dave. Thanks for that. It implies that Intel's 1.6GHz Atom is a particularly weak CPU and easily outclassed by Via's Nano! Clock for clock, it's supposed to be comparable with the original P5 Pentium, but it doesn't sound like it manages even that. The nifty EEE Box...

Anyone used Google Talk? I'm finding huge delays in messages being sent (at least between Australia and India), sometimes up to 5 minutes or so.

Good stuff, although I wonder if even 10% corporate adoption isn't a flight of fancy ... :rotfl:

This is my current interpretation: AMD Athlon X2 5200 2.7GHz Socket AM2 65W Dual-Core - $66 GIGABYTE GA-MA78GPM-DS2H AM2+ AMD 780G HDMI Micro ATX - $95 Geil 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) - $44.50 Samsung 3.5" 500GB SATA - $70 Antec NSK3480 Black/Silver 380W Power Supply -...

Co-processing laser printers first came out in the early 90's; at that stage they were dubbed "GDI". I've seen WinPrinters for sale as recently as 3 years ago - only bottom-end models, obviously. Merc may be right - I don't recall a co-processing printer that supported Postscript. The most...

Are you kidding? What a giant load of claptrap. Speaking from the perspective of someone who wouldn't know the difference between a republican and a democrat, the sole purpose of that article was to try to twist something into political advantage. Spare us, the media dumps enough shit on us already.

Reuters: The yield on 3-month U.S. Treasury bills fell to 0.02 percent early afternoon on Wednesday. The yield "may have traded negative earlier today". The last time the 3-month U.S. T-bill yield was at or below zero was in January 1940.

See, there's the thing, it's not a Production database, it's a Development and Testing database(s) for a fairly complex (and expensive) product. There are upwards of 20 people using it every day, at least some of whom (eg. the testers) are trying to put it under stress, while also running...

Unfortunately, there's a specific corporate division that provides these facilities, and it doesn't look like we're going to be given a chance to test the config. So we're worried that the results (there will be two or three such servers) will affect productivity and worse, may be difficult to...

We're concerned about the affect on performance. The DBMS is Oracle and there will be more than one instance (at least one each for 9i & 10g). There are multiple schemas in each database instance, collectively totalling 100 to 200GB of disk space per instance. So there'll definitely be...