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Why I don't buy macs, now. First G3, powerbook, about 6000 dollars. One year later, street value, 1500 dollars. The only thing that depreciated any faster then that were some of the tech stocks I lost on, like MSFT. s I guess what I'm trying to say is resale does not equal tech products...

Why I don't buy macs, now. First G3, powerbook, about 6000 dollars. One year later, street value, 1500 dollars. The only thing that depreciated any faster then that were some of the tech stocks I lost on, like MSFT. s

Currently I have a non-digital Canon Eos Rebel. Nice zoom, and lens, and inexpensive. I keep seeing Canon hitting lower price marks with SLR's, but they seem to hold back on the features, to encourage you up to the next level. I'm waiting, as Olympus, and Nikon enter the lower priced waters...

One counter point: G5's are 64 bit processors, and, if Apple gets the OS right, finally 64 bit instead of a 32 bit os on a 64 bit chip, I suspect the g5's might give the Athlon's a run. On the otherhand, G3's and P3's used to be at the top of the heap at the same time, as well. s

"Viable" depends. I have a couple that I use for OS 9, and, my 7 year old, little used, Powerbook runs OS Jaguar reasonably enough to do email on, and most other computing tasks. At a point, you just realize you can't afford Apple, or you can afford apple. If you don't mind paying premium...

Problem is getting the flash to recharge fast enough so you can take the next picture. The goal is FPS, limited by the recharge time of the flash unit. I suspect an external flash unit will help, as well. Thanks s

What's the fastest flash shooting solution for a reasonable price, for an SLR? I'd like to be able to take rapid fire flash shots, of my cat, with as much depth of field as possible... Thanks S PS Nice to see Splash back. By far my favorite in the family :wink: :mrgrn:

a useful cpu comparision link: http://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/ s

*Forgot to mention USB 2.0 is used on this computer.... Likewise in the scanner... s

My Sony Burner experience is similar. 8x burner with 4 time firmware, finally upgraded months after I bought the burner. Also has a serious preference for Sony DVD blanks. Looking at a Plextor... s

Likewise intrested. Also include, if you would, any changes you would make to motherboard selection, etc. :?: :?: s

http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/consumer/consDetail.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes&oid=35836301 Bought one of these, new, for around 200. Found the Firewire requirement wasn't important, since using usb 1 this scans fast enough for my use, and transfers the data fast enough. s

Wow! :cry: s

Thanks CityK. that helps a bunch. Not up on the current Athlon offerings... s

I'm still stuck on Quake 3, but we do some other stuff as well. No On Lives Forever, Myst Exile 3,etc. Try and stay a generation behind the best and newest... S

Hmm: Athlon 64 2800 is about 100-120 from newegg. Athlon 64 3200+ is 189.00 up. is the extra .2 ghz worth nearly double the cost? What value motherboard could you use with it? I've got enough spare components to build another box... Looking for a video card in the 6600Gt range and up. s...

At about 130, it would be perfect... s

Wow. That chart is really helpful. I was looking at 9500 ATI cards last night, and they are half the price of the 9800 cards, but give 1/3 the preformance. :cry: GREAT CHART. Thank you :mrgrn: s

I think we are on the same page. I've been giving thought to the external plextor, firewire/usb 2 burner. Expensive, but it may work better then my current Sony DRU 530A that only seems to like Sony media... s

Has Compaq got better, since merging with HP, or worse? s

I got stuck in that time, as well, but with Apple, Lombard, and a Panasonic CF-37. I can't get either to work reliably with an external burner, using a firewire adapter card. Seems they will recognize external hard drives, but not burners. I do wonder if it's worth upgrading to the new 7200...

Anyone have infor on the new X800 cards? Appears they double the 9800 Pro specs... s

The cards have only one connector, internal, and one external. They don't match the card discriptions on ATTO's website, but come closest to the PCI Express Ul2s. g

Don't know. Pulled the cards, and replaced them with 29160n and UL3D that I had laying around, and everything is working fine. The cards look like Apple nuetered versions, probably from my two G3's, but I can't really remember. s

Hi I have two ATTO cards, and I flashed them with the PC 1.66 flash. When I try and use the cards, they don't want to save information to the card, giving a message like, "The changes will not be saved, because there is not enough vram." Anyone have any ideas what is going on? Thanks Greg

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Hi Anyone know what kind of motherboards Dell is using in it's workstation Xeon machines, and it's P4 based systems? Thanks Greg

Thanks. Not yet, I guess... s

Hi Anyone gone over and tried the above? Worth the money, etc? Thanks Greg

So, to get 3 GB a sec solid state harddrives are just over the horizon? Thanks Gary

1.01 snaps. Feels like it's in ram the entire time... s

Could well be...more research. Neck! s

If I have an 8X AGP slot, am I going to really benefit from a card for the PCI-x slot listed above? In other words, are the cards really outstripping the 8X AGP slot, enough to use a PCI-X slot? How much data are the cards using? What's the limit for data transfer on a 8X agp slot, vs. a...

anyone know if the Radeon X850 Pro will run in a PCI-X • 1x 64-bit 133/100/66MHz PCI-X (3.3V) slot? Thanks gs

Way to play the movies off the computer, to either a Monitor, or HDTV, or both? s

Hi guys: I've been thinking about upgrading the Home Theater and I've been kicking around trying to figure out a way to go HDTV, along with using a computer, maybe with backplane setup, to store movies, etc. that I record off the HDTV. Any suggestions on this? Computer stats, cards to use...

UCSF is one of the top surgical centers, brain surgery in particular. Charles Wilson heads one team, and saved my mother's life. Sort of a nice area, but very expensive to stay. However, it is easy weekend driving to Monterey. David: If you nees someone to house sit, I might be willing to...

Looks like someone with a private message was pulling my leg. :mrgrn:

Supermicro X5DA8. http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/E7505/X5DA8.cfm Is that left to right? s

I accept the nomination, and, I'm honored. Greg

Well, my bios doesn't seem to be that detailed. Anyway, I did change the settings, but, I think it's an id conflict. Does anyone have handy the Gem 318 Manual, or where on Supermicros site it might be? I've been looking all over, and can't find it. Thanks Greg

That should have been: "How do you set the SCA box to the higher scsi ids?" s

Hi guys: The school district has given me that wonderful teaching machine, the Imac. I can't stand it. David, anyone, how would you configure, or buy, a cheap, gaming machine, for my kids at school? If anyone wants to dump one, cheap in The People's Republic of Kalifornia, northern area, let...

Could also be SCSI ID conflicts. My raid is on the same controllers, and they are drives 1-4. How do you set the range to the higher range? Thanks s

Thanks Gary: Formating questions: Should I assign a drive letter to the drive, prior to putting it in the SCA Box? I still can't seem to get the machine too boot with the formatted drive in place. Doing a dynamic disk with one of the drives, to see if that helps. Part of the problem is not...

Hi this is RRonald777, im using my teachers name to post for this subject. I was wondering how I can get a webpage I designed on frontpage 2003 to a website/address for free or little cost? I already have a .tk address and a freewebs page but, how can I make my site appear on the .tk site? Thanks.

Thanks. It's assigning range 1-6. I'll pull the jumpers. I can't get the machine up with the drives installed, to format(suspect the machine is assigning C drive, and trying to boot from that:same thing happens when I try and boot with my flash memory card installed). If I format the drives...

MEOW!!! S :mrgrn:

Keep in mind, that the original install was a FUBAR, and the raid is assigned I drive, so, everytime a drive is installed, on boot, it's assigned c, and fails to boot. This includes a removeable drive, like a Flashdrive... s

Hi How do you do this? I have 2 drives I'm trying to install, and, I think they need to be formatted. They pretty much freeze the computer. The SCSI id range is 1, 6. I assigned them, 4 and 5. Still no joy. On boot, nothing. I thought the SCA box assigned the scsi id numbers in the...