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It is definitely rough on cars. I've had to replace the oil pan due to it rusting through (and dripping) and an oil cooler line that was rusted through (and seeping).

It has ~134750 miles on it. My buddy has a 2003 with almost 2x the miles and he hasn't had any wheel bearing problems. I've got another wonderful problem that needs to be fixed too. The butterfly valve in the throttle body was all gunked up from 8.5 years or driving and that gunk gradually...

The devil is always in the details. :bstd:

So I noticed some vibration in my Maxima at certain speeds lately, and when I changed to my winter wheels/tires yesterday I noticed a ton of slop in the front passenger side. So this morning I dropped it off at a local shop. They called and told me it was a bad wheel bearing and would $440 to...

You would need 100 PCIe 2.0 lanes to move data that fast, so what exactly and how are they measuring?

Perhaps a better question is why? If the old TV still works, why replace it?

So I bought two used Intel 2.5" 80GB G2 drives to put in my primary server in RAID-1 as the OS drives from the FS section of another forum. We'll see how prudent of a decision this turns out to be. :idea: Now to buy 16 gig of RAM (4 x 4GB DDR-800) for the server. :cyclopsani:

My wife and I sleep on a King size memory foam mattress we got from Costco. We like it.

Mine doesn't have a divider up top. :scratch: The freezer is just worthless due to its layout and design. His may be even worse.

I love their blind listening test. ;) Talk about a totally flawed experiment. They needed to have their panel pass an ABX (a true blind listening test) first. If someone can't consistently tell whether "X" is "A" or "B" to a meaningful statistical confidence level paying any attention to what...

Well, don't say you weren't warned. I've posted this before and I'll post it again. French Door refrigerators suck. We have one and hate it.

Take a look at today's woot?

I'm not sure about smaller sets and wide viewing angle panels. It may be a crap shoot...

Be sure to read up at http://www.consumersearch.com/

I doubt you'd perceive much differences between most SSD's and a series of RAID'd SSDs like the Revo2 or this LSI running as an OS drive.

Maybe look at the Samsung LCD monitors that have HDTV tuners in them? They have 'em in 22, 23, & 24" sizes and they're a lot cheaper (and 1920x1080). link

I don't think you can expect appliances to last 30 years like they used to. Further complicating matters the higher end appliances may be less reliable due to touch screens, fancier electronics, and the like. All that said, three years ago when we bought our house we ended up buying fairly...

NoScript to the rescue.

You need to read up on Kmangler then.

Where was this at?

Now that's not very nice. :o

There's bound to be a decent Black Friday / Cyber Monday online deal on something you're interested in.

No, but that still doesn't mean I want to pay more for memory than I have to.

Well, that's the million dollar question. If I knew the answer to that I would be wealthy playing in commodity markets.

So this kit looks like the cheapest 2x4GB DDR2-800 kit out there right now at $167.49. This kit seems to be the cheapest 1.8V 2x4GB DDR2-800 5-5-5-18 kit at $182.99 (and one of the only). Still, I don't think now is the right time to buy since prices will probably keep falling. :bomb:

I sure hope not with comments like Coug's, but who still uses analog outputs from a PC?

Version 3.01 exists too. link

Depends on how you want to test them. You could IOmeter the crap out of them then do the quick test and a full format.

Microcenter has been selling a 64GB SandForce for $99 for a while now. The 128GB SandForce is $159.

Typically build decent machines from 'em and give 'em away to friends or family.

You've already got 24GB of RAM in your PC? :eek: All of mine (including laptops) have 4GB except for my oldest Pentium-M laptop that has only 2GB.

So, I've noticed that DDR2 and DDR3 has finally starting to drop in price in the past few weeks. It's still not quite as cheap as it was 18-24 months ago, but it's getting close. And it's about time! I've got a PC just waiting to get another 4GB of DDR2-800 (my server), but the matching...

Not necessarily. There's a variety of things at play here. 1) It is impossible to use a MBR to address more than 2^32 512 byte blocks. This works out to a limitation of 2TB (not 2TiB). This is because the MBR can only support a 32bit LBA. 2) All SATA drives, even the advanced format ones...

Looks like a nice incremental performance increase, but I have to say I just don't seem myself running out to replace any of my SSDs (Intel 80GB G1, Intel 80GB G2, OCZ Vertex 30GB). Sure the new ones are faster, but they're not likely to be much faster in my real world use, at least not to a...

Oh, I didn't attempt to patch my GGC-H20L. The 10x CH10LS20 seems like a ripping monster once you remove the lock. I missed out on the $49.99 sale Newegg had on it, but Microcenter has 'em for $59.99.

Mine is definitely faster on Blu-Rays though I've only ripped one disc so far after patching it and it got up to 7.4x and was climbing before my server decided it needed to slow down the data transfer for some reason. I haven't tried ripping a DVD in it yet.

Hardware doesn't have to support GPT or not unless you want to boot from it. That's an OS requirement.

Please explain why else the police ticket people? We all know they make arbitrary rules and restrictions and then ticket the people who break those. The purpose is revenue generation not safety. If the purpose of giving people speeding ticket was actually safety there would far more effective...

Sorry, but I'm still not seeing it. First, the legal system isn't overrun with rich people. It's overrun with criminals who tend to be not rich. And to your last point, rich people pay dearly on their property taxes for their large lots in their low-density neighborhoods.

Lets not forget about educations costs... Wealthy people seem to have less kids than those who are poorer and frequently send their kids to private school while still paying for the public schooling their kids aren't getting via their taxes. Poorer people often have more kids and send them to...

Apparently the drive is riplocked. I just picked up a 10x LG CH10LS20 tonight. It didn't rip any faster than my LG GGC-H20L. Did a little research and found out the drive is riplocked. Ripped the firmware from the drive, patched it to remove the riplock, and flash the patched firmware back...

People still buy sound cards? Between on board audio and HDMI audio on the graphics cards, is there any point?

No I don't. If anything I'd argue it's reversed. The low income earner makes more use of public services via assistance programs like welfare, food stamps, etc.

So, using that logic I guess the whole point of the US tax code is to serve as a deterrent to making income, not revenue generation. Since after all, the more you make, the more you're punished for doing so. :rofl:

1) Well, that would be a truly "fair tax" and I'd support it. Everyone gets the basically same benefit from the gov't so why should some people pay vastly more money for those benefits than others? 2) Please... Points are a joke. Most states will wave the points if you simply ask them to...

Is that how you lost your license and why your Maserati collects dust?

Duct tape or velcro would probably do the job. ;)

Well, two reasons: 1) Unless we magically change all aspects of life so everything is a percentage of income it's utter nonsense. If I want to buy a Ferrari, I don't get to pay a percentage of my income and get one, I have to pay the price. The same price anyone else who walks into the dealer...

He's partially wrong on two accounts. 1) It's Switzerland & Finland. link 2) It doesn't make a lot of sense.

I hope you have deep pockets to afford an enterprise grade SSD that uses SLC.