ADC/DAC dynamic range is not directly related to absolute voltages, it's rather ADC/DAC relative resolution. 16bit digital signal has dynamic range about 96dB, 20bit about 120dB (every bit is factor of 2 what equals 6dB). 100dB could mean about 17 bit of conversion accuracy. About $10 PC mic I think...

More generally, what is the difference between a "mic input" and a "line input"? Or a headphone output vs a line output? Mic input is usally more sensitive and may have somewhat different input impedance. You may connect your usual audio cable (not speaker signal though!) into mic input instead of ...

PC-1 Write - ~31MB/s largeish files (20MB - 700MB, sample set 10+GB). I can't believe that - 10MB/s would be more plausible. Well, try just one big file (1.42GB) and I think performance degrades; it is possible that W2K3 system caching behaves differently with small files (file size is less than av...

We have lately built two PCs (similar to your spec - C2D CPU and 8800GTS or HD3870 video), using next cases (because I don't know, which country you're from, I linked from .de) : Coolermaster Cavalier CAV-T03 , 60 EUR Compucase midi server case 6920BS-UG , 55 EUR Both cases are sold without PSU and ...

Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R has support for both DDR2 and DDR3. It doesn't use electrolytic capacitories (better durability and somewhat less power consumption). It supports all current Core2 CPUs (and should support 45nm ones too). Most probabaly it supports ATA133 (not written on Gigabyte site), ATA100...

offtopic, but I switched from ZoneAlarm (which has become bloatware and so on) to Comodo firewall some months ago. It is free and offers better outbound protection - it tracks both the program, which accesses network (eg Opera or IE) and the program, which launches second one (eg IE launched from ta...

I wonder where most people are getting their cards from? We [our tiny mostly software company] have good relationship with one major hardware importer and reseller here. Some personal talks with their beautiful saleswoman and after one week HD3870 was on table ;) But I've heard that some (few) peop...

Maybe the mobo fried the RAM in the first place or one of the sticks just happens to be more robust to undervolting/overvolting while both would work just fine with the correct voltage... Very unlikely, although not impossible. I've seen statical electricity killing RAM (nice blue spark occured whi...

offtopic I have been a spoiled ASUS customer for years - from good experiences with them I just assumed mainboards by now would simply work and that stability was a non-issue. I'll never buy a GigaByte board again. Even if it turns out to be a memory problem, GigaByte's tech support is the worst ima...

Looking at google, you're not alone - and actually one guy has got faulty RAM more than once... http://www.asktheramguy.com/forums/showthread.php?t=64684 There are lot of more problems (and RMAs) with these RAMs. But generally seems that they should work on your motherboard - well, some people do ru...

Can you borrow some sticks of "normal" RAM (I mean cheapest ones, AData 1GB DDR2-800 for example) and try these? OC RAMs are sometimes hard (if not impossible) to setup properly, esp if BIOS doesn't support them.

Can you change memory timings in BIOS? Ctrl+F1 on some screen, if not othervise

And I cannot see them here in Estonia. Well, using non-adblocked browser (Firefox in my case), I can notice nasty lag while processing ad script - maybe ad providers should optimize and redesign their scripts to include/fill ad content after page is loaded. My main browser (Opera) just ignores most ...

~El~Jefe~ wrote:pci card is hot

Yeah, and you get additional VGA connector as free bonus, good to connect your old dead monitor or something

And I'm not sure that I understand this article but, http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/03/12/cheap_raid_ravages_wd_raptor/page7.html seems to indicate that two raptors on RAID 0 seem to work faster read and write than one alone no? :) This article is a bit misleading, or more precisely, there's some...

RAID0 has so simple structure (just interleaved stripes) that IMHO you should be able recover data easily, at least when your new motherboard has similar chipset. I mean here RAID, provided by NVidia or Intel RAID capable chipsets, not by 3rd party chips or controllers. And most probably your disk(s...

A bit offtopic, but... Four hard drives. You'll do well to make a *silent* machine with four drives. Why four drives in RAID5, why not two drives in RAID1? Because of the performace difference (about 190% faster read transfer and about 100 % better write transfer performance with RAID 5 over RAID 1)...

Unfortunately, it takes a long time to confirm with memtest86. Maybe it will be faster w/ 1 lone stick. Just for testing - try with Prime95, torture test, 2 instances (or how many cores your CPU has) - for RAM unstability issues this test usually fails within 15 minutes. I've seen numerous cases, w...

Maybe you got some Symantec componets (like file system or network hooking drivers) not removed from system?
After you'll disable automatic restarts like described above, you should see blue screen instead of restart - write down error codes and module name from there and post here.

I've twice seen problems with Corsair RAM - caused by BIOS having no support for specific RAM module. In one case helped copying all RAM timing settings from another PC (where same modules worked flawlessy); in another case BIOS upgrade helped. DRAM modules have SPD function (tables), where's writte...

Just one question: Why 975X and not X38 (or even P35) based board with solid-state capacitors? Less heat, C2D optimized memory controller, higher FSB and RAM frequencies - IMHO worth considering.

I'd suggest one of these:
GIGABYTE GA-X38-DQ6
GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS4

Are you sure that it is 5400rpm? Different sources claim it being 7200rpm; looking at Samsungs site, all other S250 (and S166) series HDDs are 7200rpm ones too. And one thing from their site, what I can't understand (my english is poor, I know, but anyway) : Seek (typical) 4.8 W Read/Write (typical)...

Thanks for pointing that review out! Looking at different fans rated and actual run current, I'd not make any assumptions about these numbers relations at all. Some fans have rated current even less than actual run current (like this one ), some fans (like your example) much more. What of course ack...

I'm graduated physicist :) Well, not working by speciality. Buy some resistors - one by calculated value, others somewhat different - R/2 and 2R. Just play with these - what resistor gives you best results. BTW, I personally think that declared current on fan sticker is run current, not start-up cu...

One thing what you probably need to do is undervolt/underclock your CPU substantially. I've used Athlon XP 2800+ Barton for some time. Reducing it's core voltage by 0.25V (from 1.65V to 1.4V) and lowering FSB at same time could decrease power consumption about 15-20W... I had Abit NF7 motherboard wi...

I'd suggest selling it either, otherwise you probably need to swap most of comonents out (3U case itself is nice). Intel Pentium D820 is one of most power inefficient desktop CPUs out there, so is its performance not so good - many of current Core 2 Duo CPUs are faster (and cooler). Looking at Intel...

Somehow I didn't notice connector for this cable, maybe it's located on other side of PSU?



And remember, what did Mr. Gates say: "2000W ought to be enough for everyone!"

Offtopic question to ATI 690G users - can you use VGA and TVout simultaneuosly? This appears unanswered question so far...

About Gigabyte and Noctua NH-U12F compatibility: http://www.noctua.at/main.php?show=compatibility_nh_u12f&lng=en - seems that all GA-P35-DS3 boards are supported. RAM is OK. Video: NVidia 8600GTS is faster than ATI Radeon HD2600XT, thereby I can't recommend ATI over NVidia. But if you're interested ...

If you're into video editing (and maybe not only mpeg2/4, but some less compressed format), then I'd recommend at least two hard drives. Yes, it makes noise go somewhat up, but you can distribute HDD activity across two drives and this makes your work smoother. I'd buy 2x320GB drives (just my opinio...

Considering motherboard selection (Gigabyte GA-G33M-DS2R) and SFF it's highly unlikely that any separate graphics card will be used at all