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So does Blue Planet, filmed in IMax, and by NASA from space, Seems the better you start with... the better the Bluray result.

Figured out the DVD and some Bluray problems with the ATI 4670, and PowerDVD 9 Ultra. With newer movies, hardware decoding works great. With older Bluray, some of them anyway, and regular DVD's, you have to use software decoding on this machine. Strange, but that single setting is what was...

For what? How do those factors affect the things I do? My functions seem internet speed limited, and, hard disk limited.

Who ever said anything about slow? The only thing it doesn't do really well is play games. Other then that, for what I do with it, it's perfect.

This phone through Costco, free: http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/phones/Cell-Phone-Detail.aspx?cell-phone=Samsung-Highlight-Fire&Wt.z_searchCategory=Site+Search+Summary&Wt.z_searchZone=Products&WT.z_searchTerm=Samsung+Highlight&WT.z_searchProduct=Highlight+-+Fire This plan...

I've got until Feb 3 to consider. The pluses are T-Mobile is worse then AT&T, at least in the areas I use it in, signal avaliability wise. In Napa, some of the schools have NO reception at all. However, their 10 dollar internet, and, Samsung Highlight phone make up for a bit of that. Would...

Hi I just got a note from Vonage for 25 bucks, and a service agreement, 60 countries, and free local and long distance. Anyone using this? Comments, hidden costs? I've got Astound unlimited for US and it's due to double in price this month. Thanks GS

Not for most of my useage. I may get spikes in the first couple cores to 60%, but, they go back down below 50% quickly. I was just testing a Bluray disk, and the processors spiked to about 80% briefly, then settled down to about 20-40% while the DVD was playing.

Except for that one program, even playing DVD's, or Bluray run at around 40%, and thats pretty much all of them. I'll do a bit more cpu watching, but, most of my tasks just don't stress the Xeons.

I know the system bus is about 1200 MB/sec, vs. David's which is around 3500 MB/SEC IIRC from the Ram disk tests. Still don't really get much over 50% of processor useage, maybe a 60% spike opening programs now. Only one program I run takes nearly all the processor power.

While they are always changing, when I buy a monitor, it does NOT fall under the 'special limited' policy, or hasn't in the past. Haven't checked on the website, but, the last Samsung monitor I returned just required cables and software, plus the monitor for a full store usable refund, and...

I guess I can justify the Samsung 21.5" monitors being 175.-270 dollars, only because they are a life warranty at Costco. When comparing the Samsung computer monitors to this Vizio 37", and the value, I feel used and abused when I look at how much I paid for the Samsungs, and, what I got for it...

Went back, did a clean install, used the downloads of 2 and 3 service packs. Installed latest drivers from HIS, up and running. Watching a BIG kitty, read lion, on her back. Super Seven is truly incredible, visually, and, the AnyDVD to Clone read off the hard disk is working great. Plus, I'm...

Sechs mentioned in one of his posts that coming from a fast scsi system the difference is not as much as people have been lead to believe. I sort of second that. Depending on your drive choice, and controller, you could get a system that was equal, or slower. I can do that. Just plug the two...

Power DVD 9 Ultra,Loading a 700MB CD off a hard drive, about 5 seconds to actually playing the movie. It's loaded off a 10K 147 gig cheetah I use for storage.

I don't know if the setup is worth the money, but, I think it may have put another 5 years useage on this machine. It's noticeably snappier, certain things happen MUCH faster, others not so much then SCSI, but, I'm not sending this setup back anytime soon... Two Vertex Turbos, 30 gig, raid 0...

Boot is 1:52, thanks to every slot having either SATA or SCSI, and, no way to disable the onboard SCSI boot, that has no drives connected. Firefox is between 2-4 seconds. My prior figure was perhaps due to operator not being as fast as computer. Opening another page on another screen is under...

Photoshop loads in 5 seconds. Microsoft Word 2000 in under one second. IE 8 in about 4 seconds. ESET took a LONG time to scan the C disk. I'll post that next time I run the thing. Slow opening would be Firefox, Vuze. About 8 seconds to open Power DVD 9 Ultra. Load add/remove control panel: 8.22...

It's kind of odd that programs that take a lot of time, NOD 32 for example, even at Realtime, use about 10% of the processors, and, the read on C drive was NOT fast. Overall it's faster, but, I just don't see that much speed increase, except in a few, very specific areas.

Appears I managed to get a NZH trojan, according t Nod32. Wonder if that had something to do with it? Still scanning... I've managed to play some of the Bluray Iso stuff, but only after ripping it from iso. Then it plays in Spanish, and, the Ultra setting that allowed changing audio steams is...

Turns out the 'upgrade' to 9 Ultra is screwed up, and FUBARS the program so it doesn't even start. Hope someone starts writing a bluray program to give them some competition...

Got the name wrong, I think. I think it was write caching, not write through. Came with a warning that without power backup, you can corrupt data. I think Cyberlink's installer is picking up the install on the other drives, so I reformatted my other Raid, cleaning it off, then deinstalled, and...

I'm waiting for a Bluray disk to arrive, so I can go back to square one, and figure this thing out. Should be in the mail today, I hope. Don't feel like renting one right now. Can't get the disk images to load... My speakers don't have any optical out. They just have a standard, plug into the...

Back to the topic: Now I have most of the stuff up and running on the Turbos, I can't get Power DVD 9 Ultra to open and play at all. I've tried a bunch of different installs, and, no joy. I've got a retail copy of 9, and, 8, and, they install. I can't get any of them to play off the Virtual...

I'm seeing your point, Sam. I guess for a while, the commodity end was not important, since most of what I did was not real fancy. I do wonder what the limit is on the 133MHZ/64 bit slot, speed wise at this point.

Walked into Costco today, and, they have an 80 dollar Rebate on the 32" XVT Vivio, that means about 450 dollars. It was 529 or so.

Sam: we have been on the net for what, 13 years now? Please remember, I have done exactly what you are talking about, and, I'm the one that is an access time advocate. Remember all those battles I had with Eugene??? Anyway, here's my take. The 9000 was so slow in data transfer, that it...

I bought 3 commodity boxes, two macs, one Dell, 3 mac laptops, and, the reason was every time I wanted to do something, the hardware, usually a key component, requiring entire unit replacement, wasn't up to the task. I haven't had that problem with any of the three computers built with custom...

That's the same logic I use for buying enterprise motherboards....

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"Even 10 years ago, you could have purchased a $200 SCSI contoller and moved it from $100 motherboard to $100 motherboard and had a series of systems that were cheaper and faster than what you bought. Over time that 10 year old board has brought about a high opportunity cost, since you've been...

theSwede. OK. My SATA card does about 150 mb/sec. The Vertex Turbo is supposed to do 255 mb/sec. So, that is a huge loss in speed. The problem with PCI-X is finding a controller card that will handle 255 MB/sec, at least, per channel. None that work on PCI-X slots I can find will do that, yet...

It's the big five, add Cheetah and hyena for the stories sake.

Time: I found for the money, a 120 MHZ 1080p with a 10 bit screen makes a big difference. This is pretty much the VXT series from Vizio, or, the Sony's use 10 bit on their 120 MHZ or more models. I just watched Super Seven, about the africian animals that that phrase describes, and, it was...

NOT IF YOU'VE GOT A BRAIN, A COMPUTER, AND YOU SHOP.

I'm so sorry. The issue on the table is raid 0, 2 Vertex turbos, and what card can handle that, or 3 or 4 drives. Seems the best one right now is the 9550SXU. I'll let you know in a bit if I just bought a card for ebay, or, if it really is 200% faster then the 9000.

Please, I'm all ears....what the F...does that mean????

Enterprise is subject to careful shopping, as is commodity. I paid 500 for a Supermicro motherboard. 300 dollar board, plus SCSI onboard, same as a commodity mobo, with a SCSI raid card? No, the commodity was 300 plus 300 for the SCSI card. Advantage enterprise. Xeon 2.8 GHZ about 250 dollars...

I'm kind of curious about this comment. If you take a home office deduction, which I do, isn't the more money you spend on your home office computer money that will reduce your tax burden, yet give you something to work on you really enjoy? IIRC, my system was depreciated over 5 years. I'm not...

NEVER plan on getting my money back from those scams. NEVER buy unless I'm happy with the price at purchase.

30 gigs is just a bit small for my OS, and programs. That was my main interest in getting two, and, finding a SATA 3 card that gets close to 300 mb/sec seems to be more difficult then one would think, in PCI-X.

To go a bit further, the onboard chipsets and raid controllers need to be up to the task as well. One of the issues I have noticed is with the same drives on the two other machines I have, the user experience just isn't as fast on the Gigabyte 120 dollar or so motherboards, vs. the Supermicro...

Why? No sata 6 currently for onboard raid. SSD's need that. When I can max out the PCI-X 133 MHZ/64 bit slot, with a RAID 0, using a 9550USX, and 2-4 Vertex Turbos, I'll get back to you on if I really need a new system for anything I do...

David: Thank you for the input. My life kind of seems weird, but, sometimes I have a bunch of money, most of the time very little. The first upgrade was done in a good time, and, it worked well. System has worked fine, lasted nearly 10 years, and, seems to be just fine for what I do with it...

It's real clear with mine that the processors are capable of handling pretty much everything I throw at them, but, despite the SCSI, I still have a huge amount of room to transfer data more quickly. The 4 port card, if it is 200% faster, should give me at least 300 MB/sec, and, hopefully...

I decided to go with a 9550SXU, and wait for SATA 6 motherboards, before I do the full monty. The two to 4 vertex turbos should come in around 300-500 mb/sec, on that controller, I hope. That should be enough to hold me over until SATA 6 is pretty common. My goal is to have a boot array with...

OK. My perception is based on using the Raid 0 Vertex Turbo setup, on the 9500S. The writes are SO slow, and reads aren't that great, that in the functions that I have done with that setup, they just don't seem THAT much faster then the scsi setup. The writes are 20 MB/sec, that's about 1/5th...

Hi David I tried that, didn't work. It may have a bit to do with the bios settings limiting agp memory to 256 mb, with the default setting at 32 mb, when the card has one gig... More after testing...

I talked to a guy at Supermicro, and, they had a couple boards with advanced features and PCI-X, but, none with SATA 6 yet. Despite the current thought, leaving totally behind stuff that isn't really that bad, like SAS/SCSI 320, doesn't seem like a wise thing to do, since much of that hardware...

Real problem is finding a PCI-X raid card that has channels fast enough to even make it worth raiding the SSDs. Apparentlty the 9550SXU is 200% faster or more, then my 9500. Since the 9500 does 62 mb/sec, that should mean around 190 mb/sec per channel. Problem is, they are 300 dollars, and...