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The situation probably isn't that dire with power sharing in that receiver. You're not going to get 100W x 7 all channels driven, but it's 200W/x per channel either. Still, your idea to get a receiver with preouts is a good idea. Then if you want an amplifier down the road you can add one...

RUN AWAY!!! Their amps are a good value. I wouldn't wish one of their pre-processors on my worst enemy.

DDR3 might get that cheap this time around, but probably not DDR2. Further, who cares about 2x1GB sticks of memory anymore. :p

I'm not sure what that HSF is all about. Anand's article indicated they used this setup for 4.4gHz.

You'll probably see the introduction of the new models at CES with availability to be a few days later once the sales pipeline gets full. There have been reports on Engadget of them being available for sale here and there around the world already though.

So, the secrecy is over. I have to say I'm pretty impressed. Desktop Mobile Needless to say I'm very interested to see a dual core Sandy Bridge in a Lenovo T410 notebook. :twistd:

I had a very nice Sony ES receiver that worked just fine too, but I got over it and bought a HDMI equipped Pioneer Elite anyhow, which in turn got replaced by another HDMI equipped Pioneer Elite.

What's stopping you? Receivers with HDMI switching have been around for years.

FYI: Never buy a product that has the word "magic" in the name if it costs more than ~$5. :cheers:

I've got 'em and they work fine for me. I'd suggest you get cables a few feet longer than you need. Then if you move things around you don't suddenly find yourself with cables too short. Also, if you're measuring with a tape measure you'll have a tendency to underestimate the amount of cable...

Yeah, that is what's needed to safely drive 4 ohm speakers with a modern receiver. Actually, the trick is to leave the switch to 8 ohms and use the speakers. If the receiver shuts down due to excessive current or thermal shutdown, you flip the switch and that problem should go away but it'll...

Unless you have really long runs (like >50'), you don't need 10ga wire. This + this should cover you. You don't have to solder them either. The wire will go through the back, and fold it over the screw end slightly and tighten it down. Instructions (PDF)

I think you'll be fine just leaving the CCTL settings alone. There isn't anything you can do about the 4k sectors, so no point worrying about it.

That setting reduces the rail voltage of the amplifiers which in turn reduces the power (and current) the speaker can get which taxes the amplifier less.

Probably is aside from perhaps trying to boot from a USB flash drive.

Well, the amplifiers generally get better (more robust) as you move up the line. Specifically that they can output more power at the same time due to a larger power supply. But, if you're not listening loudly or not a demanding listener, spending more to go higher end may not be money well spent.

The Samsung drives should be fine. I've been using their 5400RPM EcoGreen consumer drives (1.5TB) in RAID-6 arrays on SAS RAID cards for ever 1 year without any issue. I don't see why the Intel ICHxR would be any different. I've used Seagate drives in RAID-1 on an ICH9R with no issues. Heck...

FauxMAX suck! Real IMAX all the way!

Odd, I wouldn't think any SATA controller in AHCI or RAID mode could be seen in a native DOS mode. :scratch: FWIW, I just did the update on both of my HD204UI drives. I left the BIOS in RAID mode (did not change it to IDE), booted from a USB drive with Windows XP's DOS files on it. It found...

Look at the reseller ratings of each vendor before you buy, and on the electronics don't necessarily buy the cheapest unit that has the minimum feature set you want.

I took the position that if the jump from 2TB to 3TB has caught them with their pants down (for no good reason) we shouldn't expect the jump from 3TB to 4TB to be any different. This isn't the old 128GB limit (LBA-28bit) where there was something that had to be overcome with a standards revision.

Uh... 3TB does not exceed the capacity of LBA. 48bit LBA was adopted in 2003 and supports up to 128PiB. So what? GPT has been around for a while as have drive larger than 2TB (via RAID arrays). XP x64 supports GPT just fine, though it can't boot from a GPT drive assuming the system had EFI...

Got me, why was 3TB any different from 2TB?

You're in a hurry to get 4TB drives given the growing pains of 3TB drives?

That sucks. :( Hopefully 2011 will bring improved fortunes your way.

Happy New Year everyone! Hopefully your 2011 will be better than your 2010. :cheers: I'm glad December 2010 is coming to an end. I've spend over $3k repairing our 3 cars this month. :cursin:

The best place is under one of the tires, as in to be driven over. :owneddnce:

I didn't really notice any affect on the colors with the 3D glasses at the IMAX. :scratch: The colors were very vibrant.

That was who I guessed it probably was. It's probably just them doing a little something for the holidays.

I don't think you can use a SAS drive on a SATA controller.

I saw Tron: Legacy last night in 3D at the IMAX (a real IMAX, not a faux-MAX). It was the first 3D movie I've seen. The visuals and 3D effects were very impressive.

Who did you order it from?

Well, I jumped in and bought this 4x4GB DDR2-800 kit for $254.99 shipped free after the 15% off all desktop memory promotion Newegg is running now. I had been planning to get two of the 2x4GB 5-5-5-18 DDR2-800 kits from Mushkin, but based on what I read it was most likely that I'd have to drop...

Mine were both XP x86.

Back on topic, has anyone tried this yet? I personally have not. I do a verify on everything written to the one I have in use (as an external backup drive) so I know I haven't had any problem with data loss, though I will probably apply the fix soon if I don't read any horror stories.

I tried it yesterday on two different laptops and found the Windows version uncooperative. In both systems it incorrectly identified the flash drive that was plugged in. For example, the flash drive was a 256MB Sandisk Cruzer Mini (old school). It was assigned D:. However, the HP program...

I don't know. I found a lot of typos in some of my older posts. I guess old age snuck up on me or something... :silent: Btw, Thanks!

Thanks!

This is very good advice. You want to know the difference between what you know and what you don't know. You don't want to equate things or experience that aren't even close to equivalent or similar.

This is your trademark. Turning the simple excessive for 20+ years.

Aside from paying way too much for the DDR3 memory :( so far I've been happy with this system. With the final hardware configuration in it (8 x 5400RPM Samsung 1.5TB HDs / 2 x 7200RPM Seagate 500GB HDs / Dell PERC 6i / Samsung SATA DVD+/-RW / Corsair 650TX / 2 x 2GB DDR3-1333) it consumes 123W...

I just noticed the typo in the thread title. :oops: Really, I was using 1.5TB drives. ;)

So I finally deployed this 8 x 2.0TB RAID-6 array in my primary server over the weekend. The older 8 x 1.5TB / PERC 6i RAID-6 array I had been using is now in my new nightly backup server. Copying multiple TB of data over gigabit ethernet at ~68MB/sec (between two Windows XP Pro x64 systems)...

Well, I threw in the towel and fell back to my Tomato packin' Linksys WRT-54G. The other day the DNS in the DIR-655 quit working after my Windows 7 x64 powered Acer 1810T pulled an IP via DHCP from the system. I had to reboot the router before the DNS would work again after that. I'm not sure...

Well, I threw in the towel and fell back to my Tomato packin' Linksys WRT-54G. The other day the DNS in the DIR-655 quit working after my Windows 7 x64 powered Acer 1810T pulled an IP via DHCP from the system. I had to reboot the router before the DNS would work again after that. I'm not sure...

The trick there is to simply buy your drives from someone other than Newegg if you're that paranoid over their shipping methods.

Is it ever a 5 minute fix?

Yeah, there was a thread about it on the Maxima Forum.

I still have a working Dell 2000FP. It has an IPS panel. It's also put to shame by newer inferior technology panels. ;)

That must have been some Mexican food. :mrgrn: