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- Fri May 14, 2010 12:34 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Triple display with Core i3's integrated graphics
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3796
On Intel boards putting a video card into the PCIe x16 slot disables the onboard video. However, putting the card into the x4 slot may work. With a 4350 it probably won't affect performance that much. As to drivers only Vista really has a problem with cards that use different drivers. 7 and XP don't...
- Thu May 13, 2010 6:05 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Non-optical USB mouse?
- Replies: 78
- Views: 147609
Ball mice don't have optical sensors... Yes they do, at least any that you would find from the past 25+ years on a PC. In fact the first ball mouse made back in 1972 used optical sensors. The two wheels are actually shafts with disks on the ends inside the mouse body. The disks are optical encoding...
- Thu May 13, 2010 5:26 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Home NAS recommendation
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3146
- Sat May 08, 2010 5:09 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Hard drive throwing SMART alarms. Can it be saved?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3012
I've seen similar things happen on other drives and often they've been fine. A single bad sector is cause for concern, but does not automatically mean the whole drive is doomed. I have a Seagate momentus that had one bad sector repaired about two years ago and it's still running strong. I would not ...
- Thu Apr 29, 2010 4:30 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Displayport, HDMI & audio
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3848
- Wed Apr 28, 2010 5:48 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Dell 2005fpw flicker
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3623
- Mon Apr 19, 2010 4:07 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: PCIe x16 video card in a PCIe x1 slot?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3393
It should work fine with that card at x1 speed. The only possible issue is that a x1 slot is only rated to provide 25W while a full x16 supplies 75W. Your mechanical x16 slot should still provide full power, but even if it doesn't 25W should be enough for a 5450. I used to run a 4350 in a x1 slot wi...
- Sun Apr 18, 2010 6:15 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: CPU/Mobo for home file server
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4906
- Sun Apr 18, 2010 5:18 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: CPU/Mobo for home file server
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4906
- Sun Apr 18, 2010 2:49 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: CPU/Mobo for home file server
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4906
So if you're copying a large (say 4gb) file from your server to another computer on the network, what is your actual write speed? Gigabit tops out at around 125mb/s I believe so is that what you're getting? 125 MB/s is the absolute max in theory. In reality you'll never get that when you factor in ...
- Sun Apr 18, 2010 11:18 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: CPU/Mobo for home file server
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4906
Aren't write speeds a lot slower with software Raid-5? I'm going to be transferring some large files back and forth (the source files for video editing) fairly often, so if I'm looking at a difference of 10mb/s vs. 100mb/s that's a big deal. Lots of software raid-5 implementations have slow writes,...
- Sun Apr 18, 2010 8:06 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: CPU/Mobo for home file server
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4906
Unless you are really going to pound on it, why not just get an Intel board with RAID 5 and save a ton of cash by not getting the Areca? Contrariety to popular belief, the on-board Intel raid is quite good and more than adequate for a high-end home server. This article shows that the Intel raid is m...
- Tue Mar 23, 2010 9:46 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Please advise on half-ready home-file-server
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2830
4 3.5 drives plus 1 (presumably) 2.5 OS drive would be pretty tight in that case, but probably doable. For more SATA ports a standard SIL 3114 card would probably do fine. That would give you 6 ports total. The ones I have seen are bootable, but you may need to flash it with the non-raid firmware. D...
- Sun Mar 14, 2010 12:48 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Using Sata HDD with partially dislodged connector
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2509
It's doubtful that any actual damage or even corrupt data has occurred on your drive from just a dislodged cable. SATA is fully check-summed so bad data on the cable should have been rejected by the drive and not written. It's however possible that something that Windows needed to write got rejected...
- Thu Mar 11, 2010 7:34 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Which storage media can best endure hot automobile interior?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3297
I've had several different types of flash (USB, CF & SD) of various brands used in my car for a few years now and never had a problem even on the hottest days. They also survived temps well below 0°C. I tried a USB HD but my stereo could not index it in a reasonable time so I never kept it in the c...
- Fri Mar 05, 2010 10:36 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: 865 chip...win7 or vista?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1932
- Tue Feb 16, 2010 12:27 pm
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: 120mm 12v connect 7v then to motherboard?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4220
- Thu Feb 11, 2010 11:59 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Beware of "Internet Security 2010" -- worst Trojan
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8205
- Mon Feb 01, 2010 12:21 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: RAID Question
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2969
If you are most concerned about portability / easy recovery then Windows RAID is what you want. Assuming at least one of your drives is still good then you can recover with any modern Windows PC. It doesn't have to have the same chipset or even CPU, a complete AMD system would work. Just plug in the...
- Tue Jan 26, 2010 6:25 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: What tool to fix bad sectors/full scan on larger SATA drive?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9471
If there is only a few bad sectors you should try running the manufacturer's diagnostic tool. Do a full scan and see if it lets you "repair" the bad sectors. Usually this is just remapping them to spare sectors. Some drives do this automatically and some need the diagnostic tool. Most drives have ab...
- Mon Jan 25, 2010 8:24 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: 2 Kama PWMs connected to one mobo header?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1756
I have two Kama PWMs hooked up this way and they work fine. It's really simple to split PWM fans so that adapter should work fine. I hacked my own adapter with a wire joining the two PWM pins and the second fan powered from a 3pin to molex adapter. The first fan runs about 75 RPM higher than the sec...
- Sun Jan 17, 2010 12:03 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: s775 chipset with lowest consumption?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 16561
- Sun Jan 17, 2010 9:22 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: s775 chipset with lowest consumption?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 16561
I just ran DXVA checker on both a G45 and a G41 board. Both running the latest Intel drivers on Windows 7 x64. The only differences were that the G45 had these two decoders that the G41 did not: One mode listed as a GUID, googling indicates it is the VC-1 decoder The other is "ModeH264_VLD_NoFGT-Cle...
- Fri Jan 15, 2010 8:42 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: s775 chipset with lowest consumption?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 16561
I kind of doubt G41's VC1/H264 offloading from my experience, but G31 wouldn't be better in this regard, either. But G41's 8GB RAM support is a moot point given only 2 DIMM slots on almost every budget mATX motherboard. Unless 4GB stick price drops by a great margin, 4GB is the realistic value for ...
- Fri Jan 15, 2010 7:00 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: PSU Requirement for large number of hard drives?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1860
I don't think you need to worry much about the 5V line. 3.5 HDs run the spindle motor on 12V. If you are worried you can look at the specs of your drives and add up the 5V draw. I'd say a good 350W would probably be more than enough if you drop the gaming GPU. Onboard or really basic is all you need...
- Fri Jan 15, 2010 6:31 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: s775 chipset with lowest consumption?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 16561
As far as I'm aware, G41 and G43 don't do hardware acceleration of H.264 or VC-1. That's what differentiates the G41 and G43 chipsets from the G45. The G41 and G43 do partial H.264 and VC-1 acceleration, just not full decode like the G45. It still helps reduce CPU use a fair bit over the G31 if you...
- Thu Dec 10, 2009 9:19 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Help me find a very specific video card, or a support group
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1770
- Wed Nov 25, 2009 6:32 am
- Forum: Consumer Advocacy
- Topic: where to buy hi efficiency power supplies in CANADA?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 11778
- Tue Nov 24, 2009 8:09 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Help me with a Athlon 64 x2 3800+
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3864
- Thu Nov 19, 2009 10:31 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: how to tell if my video card is doing its job?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7551
Both your 9600xt and GMA950 have about the same level of video playback acceleration, which is to say not much. They both have motion compensation but that's about it. The big difference is your CPU. The Core Duo has SSE3 which will help with video decoding. The XP-M only has SSE1. The Core Duo also...