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That is what I read into Huang's "3 chips for $25" vs. $45 for Atom alone claim, though the article doesn't explicitly state what the 3 chips are. If true, this would mean Intel is effectively paying customers $20 to take a NB+SB along with their $45 Atom. So what does that do to fair...

That 12:4 = 3:1 aspect ratio would be difficult to get exact with 16:9 flatscreen panels. But if you used 6 widescreen TV's, arranged 3 wide by 2 high, that would give you an aspect ratio of 48:18 = 2.66 If each TV were 46" to 50", that should get you pretty close to the dimensions they want.

This is nothing new. The spooks have known about it for decades.

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Thanks guys. Disconnecting the 2nd drive helped. Windows started to install with 1 drive connected. At least until it reported a read error from the DVD :mad: Swapped out the DVD drive and trying again...

I am trying to install Vista 64 Ultimate onto a fresh system with a Rampage Formula motherboard. Nothing is overclocked yet and nearly everything in BIOS is still at defaults. I have 2 SATA drives. On port 1 is a 300GB Velociraptor for the OS and programs. On port 2 is a 1TB drive for data. In...

I saw a Visiontek 4850 on the shelves at Fry's today. Couldn't buy it though. Fry's discovered their error when the item wouldn't scan at the cashier.

My local Fry's store has the VisionTek 4850 on the shelves. I tried to buy one over my lunch hour today. But when the cashier tried to scan it, the system wasn't finding it. So she called for help and a manager discovered that the street date is next week. They are probably pulling them off the...

This was in reply to my statement "But with increased capacity comes increased useage and eventually you end up with a congested network again, and the same issue will resurface." Of course it is true. Maybe you just aren't old enough to remember when PC's and the Internet were in its...

Here's my take on this: Comcast was inspecting traffic packets. If they determined that a user was doing something such as a bit torrent or other P2P, then they would throttle back that user. But the government (or digital rights groups?) said "You can't do that. You have to treat all types of...

Yeah really. Remember this story about a girl who was arrested at gunpoint in a airport for wearing a LED art-shirt? http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/21/1849208

Thanks for the feedback guys. Sounds like a single card, 8800 or 9800, should work well for this game on a 30". Thats the info I was looking for. Re. Fraps, yeah my wife occasionally runs FRAPs to record WOW video to make movies. She has put together 5 machinima WOW music vids, posted on...

The game I mostly play these days is World of Warcraft. I have a single 8800GTX in my gaming/file server PC with two Opteron 285's. It plays WoW very well at 1920x1200. My wife also plays WoW. It is the only game she plays. But her machine is getting old in the tooth. Its a P4 2.4GHz with an...

I like the new rules for the most part. Though I think the seller should be allowed to give negative feedback in ONE case; when the buyer doesn't pay. And since most payment is via PayPal, EBAY will usually know if payment was made and could then disallow neg feedback. I have only sold one...

I had a similar issue after updating to 8.1 from some very old drivers. After I ran Windows Update and installed all the optional .NET updates, CCC worked again.

Your results are not surprising. Without good HW acceleration, H.264 decode is very CPU intensive. The 8800 has poor H.264 acceleration. Ironically the cheaper 8600 has much better H.264 acceleration. Google "8600 h.264" and you will find an entire review on this topic.

I've run WOW with 512MB of ram. It lagged bad upon entering Ironforge, but elsewhere it ran ok. Upgrading to 1GB made it much better in the big cities. I've run it with these CPUs; AMD Athlon 1900, 2500, 3000, AMD64 3000, and Intel 2.4GHz P4. and on a variety of graphics cards; ATI 8500 @...

100k after 5 months folding.

My last monthly utility bill (gas + electrcity) was $371 :eek: And that's without turning the heater on this winter. Before I started folding, it averaged about $120. Cali power charges are crazy. I had to scale back recently from 6 cpus to 4 cpus to use less power. It's not just the cost...

If rare items (like arcanite bars and items crafted from arcanite) were easy to get, they wouldn't be rare items would they? That being said, I have a 300 skill alchemist in WOW, and the 48 hour wait between transmuting arcanite bars seems a bit long. The other transmutions have a 24 hour...

QAM is a modulation scheme. It has nothing to do with encryption. I have a Dvico Fusion HDTV receiver card. It can demodulate HD from either OTA (8-VSB modulation) or Cable (usually 256-QAM modulation, sometimes 64-QAM). I can and do record HDTV from cable on the PC. Note that it only works...

Your math checks out correct. For a given diagonal size (which is how display size is spec'd), the more square a rectangle is, the more area it will contain. But who would want to view that? For a given height, obviously widescreen has more area. and is better for viewing DVD movies and HDTV.

My HTPC has a Athlon 3200 with 1GB ram and an ATI AIW Radeon 9700 Pro with component video out to the HDTV. I record and playback HDTV with a Dvico Fusion card. This is a SW card though it gets some decode acceleration from the graphics card. I usually record programs with the Fusion app...

Thanks SmokeRngs, I will give that a shot :)

I use EMIII to monitor my boxes. For one of my boxes, the magenta Frames Completed bar has been stuck at 2 of 100 for days now. Yet when I check that box's log, it appears to be progressing normally. The green current frame progress bar in EMIII looks fine, and the time per frame matches the...

1080i over-the-air broadcasts have a data rate around 15 Mbps. I'd expect 1080p to require double that. USB2.0 has a theoretical max speed of 480 Mbps. Granted one never achieves the theortical max rate, but 30 Mbps shouldn't be a problem.

To exceed 2TB, you generally need to use a OS that supports 64bit LBA. Linux, FreeBSD, and Win2003 supports this. Win 2000 and XP do not. I don't think 64bit WinXP supports 64bit LBA but I am not 100% sure. My Areca raid controller offers a 2nd way to exceed the 2TB barrier; by changing the...

I have 6 Seagate 400GB Sata drives (7200.8) in Raid 5 for 2.0TB It is on an Areca ARC-1130 controller. This is a 12 port raid card so I have 6 free ports for future growth. The OS is on a pair of mirrored 250GB WD2500KS sata-2 drives connected to the mobo (Tyan K8WE with two Opteron 248's)...

I bought 2 Opty 248's and a mobo from Monarch about 2 months ago and they were packed very sloppily. The motherboard box was inside the shipping box with air bags above and below it... nice so far; but at the bottom of the box were the 2 OEM CPUs in the original plastic containers without any...

64bit@133 is 2x as wide and 4x the clock compared to 32bit@33, so it has a max transfer speed 8 times what you'd get in a 32bit/33MHz PCI (that's 1064 MBytes/sec vs. 133 MBytes/sec). The real speed loss would be likely be less than eight fold, as I doubt the PCI-X interface would be maxxed out...

I have 6 Seagate 400GB Sata drives (7200.8) in Raid 5 for 2.0TB It is on an Areca ARC-1130 controller. This is a 12 port raid card so I have 6 free ports for future growth. The OS is on a pair of mirrored 250GB WD KS sata-2 drives connected to the mobo (Tyan K8WE). This is in a CM Stacker case.

I had the exact same experience with one machine and FDD. When the cable was plugged into the drive as keyed, it refused to work. I looked at the FDD cabling in a working machine and deduced the cable had to plug in backwards. So I removed the tab, plugged the cable in backwards and it worked...

Yeah you need to read what the BSOD screen says to learn what the cause is. My latest system would BSOD; reporting a problem with nvtcp.sys. So I googled "nvtcp.sys bsod" and learned that it was a common problem when running the nVidia Network Access Management firewall. So I uninstalled that...

461 - 2 = 459 I finally got my dual Opteron file server operational (Opty 248 cores @2.2 GHz) It would have been up 2-3 weeks sooner, but I had to RMA a crushed CPU due to poor packing by Monarch's shipping department.

Tyan has a board with 2 x16 PCIe slots. It is the K8WE (S2895). But it is an expensive board meant for servers or workstations. It is a dual socket 940 Opteron board and both sockets have to be populated to get the 2nd PCIe x16 slot active. I bought one only because I wanted PCI-X slots for a...

I just built a system with a Tyan K8WE last weekend and I have some confusion over which nForce drivers I should run. Here is my Hardware: Tyan Thunder K8WE (S2895) motherboard without SCSI 2 Opteron 248 8 sticks of 512MB DDR-400 Registered ECC “Patriot extreme performance” ram nvidia...

You could put a HDTV receiver card in your PC and display HDTV directly to your monitor without needing a component input. Cards with software decoders output the HDTV video from the graphics cards. Avoid hardware decoder cards that output video directly through onboard connectors. I use a...

I am currently building a dual Opteron system with a Tyan Thunder K8WE. I received the board 2 weeks ago and it DID come with a SLI bridge.

I don't know if this is the cause of the AMD-Intel issue with QMDs, but it sure sounds like it might be... Page 40 of AMD's complaint vs. Intel states the following:. According to AMD, the Intel compiler builds code that looks at the CPUID at runtime. If it sees "Genuine Intel", then an...

If you want the exact size, lookup at the number of sectors, then multiply by 512 bytes/sector. for example Seagate 400GB drive: 781,422,768 sectors @512 bytes/sector = 400.088 GB