this might lead to repetitive strain injury for heavy users, so be careful SPCRers. quiet yes, but at what cost? Aside: I highly recommend Workrave. FOSS software that reminds you to take regular breaks. To the contrary, audible clicks are not needed at all. If audible clicks are necessary, how do ...

The audible click is necessary for knowing when the mouse button has been actuated. The original design for the mouse included this sound because it was otherwise difficult to tell when the button press had registered. This review feels more like an advertisement than a meaningful benchmark, showing...

They make more money per platter on the 1TB's, so they probably aren't in much of a hurry to release the lower-margin stuff.

(See for yourself, go on newegg and start calculating capacity/cost, you'll find that the sweet spot is around 500gb)

They're measuring at 1 foot, whereas spcr measures at 1 meter(?) Sound levels are measured with a Reliability Direct AR824 sound meter from a distance of one foot away. On top of the video card being outside of a case, being so close will again give us a worst case scenario here. With everything tur...

Tzupy has a point, I read somewhere that poles move, and occasionaly a lot in a relativley small timescale, some people claim proof that the earth has actually rotated through 90 or more degrees from where it is right now. I had a bit of a nose around the web regarding this subject and found nothin...

I have a P182, and I've found the fans to be reasonably quiet when Low. I recommend waiting until you've received the case, so that you can see for yourself if you really need to swap fans.

Hey hey hey, not so fast now, we're still missing the 640 and 320 gb variants, and those are the good ones (using 333tb platters like on the 1TB model).

Just wanted to chime in and say that this looks like a great board. I've been shopping around and had narrowed it down to 2-3 boards that looked pretty good, but weren't quite what I was looking for. Lots of boards had quirks like MSI P35 Platinum's heatsinks being placed poorly/too large for some c...

Another good reason for an SPCR update to the hard drive recs?

While it sounds scary, 90C is not an unusual temperature for a GPU these days.

X38-based motherboards can also support DDR2. I'm still unsure between X38 and P35 due to X38's support of pcie 2.0. Probably going to replace the video card before anything else on the system. But I'll probably go P35 anyway, as that one feature isn't worth the current price premium and relative in...

8800gt might get better once someone puts a full slot cooler on it.

As a quick example, ETQW has these bits in their minimum requirements: Intel Pentium 4 2.8 Ghz or Athlon XP 2800 processor (3Ghz or higher for Windows Vista) 512MB RAM (768MB for Windows Vista) Just going by that, I find it doubtful that an OS that requires additional system resources would be the b...

If you want control, run Linux.

Though usually the filesystem just defrags itself on the fly so you dont deal with that sort of thing in the first place.

Do 8800GT's all have the same physical configuration? Will a cooler that fits on a MSI card also fit on a XFX card?

Last time I really looked at this sort of thing was when I got a GF4 4200, and I don't remember different cards necessarily being interchangeable when it came to this sort of thing.

Your upgrade cycle may vary from mine, but I've found that by the time I'm looking at getting additional RAM or a CPU upgrade, the standards have all changed. I am also looking at building a Q9450 system when that comes out, but I'm upgrading from a 2100+ (Socket A) with AGP 8x, PATA, and DDR1. You ...

Yeah, saw that, purchased! Looks like the rebate just expired, but they also have a rebate on a bunch of corsair powersupplies (I got a vx450, rebate takes off $10)

Also, I discovered that you can get free shipping if you order via paypal (though it requires that your address be "verified")

I guess they imported another feature from the mac crowd?

Nick Geraedts wrote:It'll be interesting to see how the various "next gen" drives stack up.

Will SPCR be doing this stacking in a review/update anytime soon?

If you do software raid within Linux, the format should be readable on most any Linux machine. Utilities are the same everywhere too.

If you're not paying hundreds of dollars for a proper raid controller, you're practically in software raid anyway.

Mariner wrote:If I remember correctly, the model numbers AMD used were "equivalent to Athlon" at the given speeds, not equivalent to Intel chip speeds.

Yeah. Whoops.

Have you tried a ram test? Could be the ram rather than the motherboard.

Boots off a CD: http://www.memtest86.com/download.html

I guess this means AMD dropped the old "model numbers are equivalent to Intel clock rates" system that they had back with Athlon XPs? Ex: Athlon XP 2100+ is 1.7ghz, but theoretically benchmarks similar to a P4 2.1 ghz. In any case, neat news. Planning on a new machine next year (havent upgraded sinc...

There is a creative commons-licensed documentary called "Good Copy Bad Copy" which you may enjoy. Trailer . Watch the full video online. Download a copy (legally) via bittorrent The online full video has a weird framerate.. One of the comments in the bittorrent link has the full credits, including i...

I was thinking about getting four 500gb Spinpoint T's, but then noticed the high number of people on Newegg who report failures with their drives. I'm now looking into getting some equivalent 7200.11's instead, pending some more reviews. My experience with everybody *but* Samsung so far: Back in 200...

In this case it'll be GigE, which, haha, is also a PCI card. Oh well, I'm not all that worried about throughput on this thing, as long as transfers and streams are reasonable. And if it doesn't work out, I'd only be out $25 for the cheap SATA card. I'm replacing my current gaming machine (built in 2...

I'm looking into converting an existing desktop into a fileserver/TV box, and have been looking into getting a SATA PCI expander card since the motherboard lacks SATA plugs. What kind of throughput can you get through a single card? Would the PCI bus become a bottleneck in a 4-drive software RAID 5 ...

Lets see if they make 2007! I'm semi-planning a case for early next year and am split between a 182-mini (if reviews end up liking it) and a solo.

Plissken wrote:

beoba wrote:we'd just like to have the ability to live our lives like anyone else

So would smokers, dog owners, and garlic lovers. Yet the renters don't like 'em, go figure.

Yes, but those are practical concerns. Smokers and dog lovers can damage the apartment, especially if it's carpeted.