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Sellers to properly represent their products. :owneddnce:

Hardware and I'm REALLY, REALLY, REALLY PISSED right now! I bought two HD203WI's from a vendor on ebay and they sent me two HD204UI's. :bibber:

I'm aware of that and didn't mean to give the impression that it could boot. I was simply speculating that the 3TB WD drive could be used under Win XP x64 without any issues despite it being unsupported by WD.

I had a hard enough time finding 8 of them to buy let alone any deals. I guess I waited too long. I ended up buying 2 each from 2 different vendors and 4 from a third vendor. The 2 orders of 2 have shipped, the 3rd order of 4 hasn't. I really hope it does since I'm not sure I can find...

Whatever you do, make sure you set the new mobo to "RAID" in the BIOS before connecting the drives and powering up the system with them connected. If you boot with them connected and the BIOS set to AHCI or IDE the controller may overwrite the metadata on the drives and then when you change it...

Yes on the newer controller. However any OS that supports GPT should work. With a new RAID controller (that allows for proper alignment of advanced format drives) you wouldn't need to align anything with the OS since the controller will take care of that. However, it's hard to say if there...

That and you can't align a drive on a HW RAID controller so it's got the same problem as every other advanced format drives there.

It looks like you can use diskpart to align a GPT partition, but you'll need the utility from Server 2003 SP1 if you're running XP x64. Alignment looks to make a huge difference in the performance of the drive in SR's review. Specifically the IOmeter random transfers and 4k write latency. It...

FWIW, the 3TB WD seems like a dog. You also got to love how they're leaving the XP x64 users blowing in the wind. XP x64 supports GPT and should have no problem with the drive (aside from the 4k alignment issues). Of course I have no idea if you can align GPT partitions under XP x64, so maybe...

So much for the can of whoop-ass AMD was going to bring on nVidia with the Radeon 6xxx.

So, I've been told by a vendor that Samsung has discontinued the HD203WI and it seems the supply is fast drying up. :(

No loss there... Who still uses PATA drives?

So do I though I've given some away.

Uh... Typhoon Megi...

Yeah, what Mooner said...

You don't have any words to say?

Keep in mind a parallel port cable isn't supposed to work beyond about 15 feet before the crosstalk just get stupid.

You can't use a parallel to Ethernet print server?

So did PATA drives larger than 137GB for a while, and the first generation or two of 66Mbit/sec PATA drives.

You need a system with EFI "BIOS" to boot as well.

Be thankful your monitor isn't like the Dell 1908FP I have a work. It's a complete piece of crap. The color is so inconsistent from corner to corner. Sitting an arm's length away the colors shift quite noticeably over the small angle variation edge to edge and top to bottom. I don't think...

Well what do you know... You learn something new every day.

Isn't that what IEtab 2 is for?

I want to know how he knows they're lesbian video cards.

That's my running theory. However, I won't be tasting them to check.

I noticed that too, but didn't want to say anything. ;)

Perhaps he meant Microsoft Office 2007?

Having said that, I don't see how it could be that since it's a laptop there were no signs of dead insects in it or any sort of nest or hive. Further the quantity and locations of the particles were such that I just can't see it being insect crap. For a PC used daily and carried around in a...

That is a lot what it looks like (though the 10th picture I saw was something different).

So, I completely disassembled my "new" 4.5 year old work notebook today and broke out the soldering iron on it. The VGA output was intermittent depending on the angle of the cable. I touched up all the leads from the connector to the PCB with a soldering iron and now it's working fine again...

I was referring to the monitor, not the video cards, but more detail there would be good too.

PS: Thanks for letting all of us know what exactly you bought so we can avoid buying one ourselves. ;)

Most people do, but in the fiscal department instead. :cheese:

How much does one of those cost? :???:

Why would he be riding a bike in the winter? I've done it a few times for fun in deep snow (not to get somewhere), but it's not something I'd want to do regularly.

There was no financial cost. I started a spreadsheet back on 3/8/2002 to keep track. What I do is write the mileage on the receipt after I get gas and then stick the receipt in the center console. When I get motivated every few years I take all the receipts from the console and get the...

Today's random post: Since I took bought it new on 2/28/2002 through it's last fill up on 10/9/2010 my Nissan Maxima: Has consumed 5508.66 gallons of premium unleaded gasoline Driven 132114.6 miles Average fuel economy of 23.98MPG Best mileage for a tank of gas was 29.3MPG (in July 2002)...

They took ~700,000 sub $5k cars off the market that "poor" people would have bought leading to a scarcity of sub $5k cars which in turn drove up prices. I'm not saying C4C was the only factor that drove up used car prices, but it clearly was a prime participant. Granted I wouldn't likely be in...

So, now that we've got another year of data under our belt would you care to revise your claims since the data clearly shows Cash for Clunkers drove up used car prices? link

Both can accelerate H.264 video if that's what you're asking.

What were wrong with all the cheaper 5450's that brought you to consider that one?

Probably an AMD Radeon HD5450 or a nVidia GeForce 210.

I'm not sure how you came to that conclusion. The headline says: Unless of course you have a time machine and have been holding back from the rest of us.

Sounds to me like the monitor is bad.

You might want to make sure there's nothing in the TOS that prevents you from running a server from your house.

Considering there are adjustable multipliers to keep the RAM and other peripherals at a given speed as you increase the FSB I'm not sure what he's actually talking about.

I'm pretty sure he didn't overclock his HD. :cheese:

I would have figured them more for this sort of Canon.

Heh, Thanks. I hadn't noticed, but I guess I've been busy posting away.

Which? There's a big push for TV / Projectors among videophiles that display video in an even multiple of the format's frame rate. This is one of the reasons why 120Hz and 240Hz TV's & Projectors are good. They can display ____p60 or ____p24 content without judder. A 60Hz TV or projector can...