See the near 50% failure rate for the Patriot Torqx drives or the vast complaints about OCZ drives 50% of reviews on Newegg mentioning a drive failing does not equal a 50% failure rate. People are far more likely to write a review if a product dies early than if everything goes smoothly. I'm sure t...

I was just taking a look at Premiere Pro CS5's system requirements , and noticed that their "Adobe-certified GPU card for GPU-accelerated performance" list includes the GeForce GTX 285 and some other Quadros, but not the Quadro FX 1800. Supported NVIDIA graphics cards for GPU acceleration Quadro CX ...

That still ignores the fact that the 4870 TechPowerUp tested was only a 512MB model though. It's not just at 2560x1600 that the additional memory will make a difference. Games that utilize a lot of video memory can see better performance with a 1GB card, even at more moderate resolutions. My point i...

According to the benchmarks at Tom's According to the benchmarks at http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Powercolor/HD_5750_Go_Green/28.html the 5770 is faster than the 4870 at higher resolutions and slower than the 4870 at lower resolutions. On average out of all their tests it was even. Maybe it's ...

According to the benchmarks at Tom's, the stock 5770 is often up to 10% slower than a 4870, and is probably meant more as an upgrade to the 4770 or lower. The Vapor-X version might fare slightly better, but probably not enough to match the 4870's performance. I think you'd have to move up to at leas...

I'm going to put it into a Q07 , which has space underneath the slot, but only one slot. I'll probably desolder it rather than hacking it off, but I'll give removing the port and trying to keep the pins spaced apart with an eraser or something so it resembles a blocked off port before doing that. W...

I think that is unlikely. That is the kind of thing you can't hide for long. Once it gets out, the self inflicted damage would be immeasurable. The person who did it would have to be sacrificed. The greater source of inaccuracy is that more of the people who buy them don't report anything. And I co...

You can mine sites like newegg for reliability data and you can mine the support forums but in both cases the manufacturer can get a message deleted or edited. Assuming newegg data means anything to you we have (sorted by most reviews and only picking drives worth buying performance wise) ... You d...

I checked the product information at Gigabyte's site, and I see what you mean. There are rev. 1.0 and 3.0 versions of the card found there, and while the 3.0 manual lists support for Dual-Link DVI, the 1.0 manual makes no mention of it. The product page does show a Dual-Link icon on it though. It mi...

Two of these would draw less power than a 5850, but offer comparable performance. I'm not sure if it's possible to connect two in Crossfire though, you'd need a long and flexible ribbon connector and it doesn't come with one. They might draw less power, but their passive coolers will be dumping all...

Is it just me or does this represent a pattern in Windows branded products? If we ignore NT, CE, etc. releases: 3.1 :) 95 :( 98 :) ME :( (2000 was NT based, skipping, but :S ) XP :) Vista :( 7 :) ... Ubuntu! :D Except Windows 95 was generally well received and quite popular, so your pattern doesn't...

I agree with Audiojar. Multiple disk-based drives are probably not worthwhile from a performance standpoint for the vast majority of home users. It might potentially reduce access times a little, but any performance benefits would be minimal unless you're performing very disk-intensive tasks on a co...

So the only thing left that would be hard to read are the desktop icon labels? Maybe not. There are settings for adjusting the font sizes of icons in Windows. In XP, you can right click on your desktop, choose 'Properties', and click the 'Appearance' tab followed by the 'advanced' button. From here...

I encountered this same issue when installing a 6400AAKS in my system last year. The drive should be directly compatible with many SATA 1.5 motherboards without requiring jumpers, but earlier SATA interfaces do require the jumper to be set. There are no jumper labels on the drive itself, and my OEM ...

Did you just make like 5 massive posts in a row? : ) This isnt exactly news... I partitioned the system drive in my P182 (Samsung F1 640GB) for speed myself, using this setup: C: - boot/system - 60 GB F: - games - 100GB G: - backups/images - 426GB This works great for me, as I seldom access the imag...

It does not matter, whether you have unallocated space or partitions on rest of the HDD. If you dont access it, performance will be the same. You can use the rest of the HDD for data, for example for backups. It does not have a sense to leave the rest of stroked drive totally unused. :!: I agree. F...

The rubber bumpers between the internal drive and its case may be insulating it, preventing effective heat transfer to cool the drive. Checking the PDF data sheet at their site, it looks as though the drive is rated for use in environments up to 35° C. While you may be in an air conditioned buildin...

I'm looking for a low power, fanless HDMI+DVI PCIe video card...one that will give me the lowest idle wattage possible. I don't do any 3D, so 3D performance is a non-factor. I'm currently running a Powercolor HD3450 and it chews up 15W at idle (probably partially due to them not bothering to enable...

Of course, having fewer platters doesn't always make for a quieter drive. Since single platter drives are typically aimed at the budget end of the market, they are more prone to fall victim to cost-cutting measures that reduce build quality, potentially making them noisier than a higher capacity dri...

So yes, I would expect WD to disclose if there are problems using GP drives with Linux. My guess is that they did not know at first, but instead of fessing up and finding a solution, they are in complete denial. Having personally purchased 3 GP drives, I am not amused. They did release a statement ...

I wouldn't say Samsung optical drives are "Horribly noisy" as my current drives are certainly not the worst I've ever heard. I'd rate them more as 'typical' when running at full speed. They slow down when watching DVDs and performing small reads, though not quite as much as some other brands. As hal...

While I think whiic went a little overboard, I do agree that it shouldn't be up to a hard drive manufacturer to let potential customers know if a power-saving feature that's been common in other drives for years might not be fully compatible with an OS that's used on roughly 1% of desktops. While it...

To be honest if it wasn't for the drivers (Linux) I would probably look into Radeon products. In this situation I force myself to buy NVIDIA even if I know there is at least the possibility of a complete NVIDIA GPU series being defective. Isn't that just a remnant from years past? As far as I know,...

Look in the sticky threads after "WARNING: WD Green Power drives may kill themselves" ... I find Samsung drives safer then WD's :!: That's why I said that thread really needs to be retitled. It's incredibly deceptive, especially considering that no one has ever verified that the excessive head park...

Having no screen saver is boring. Don't listen to the boring people. : P It's probably best to use a screen saver that's light on system resources though, so that your processor and video card remain in their idle state while it's running. Having the monitor power down after a half hour or so is a g...

Apparently the CPU is soldered in place too, so you can't replace it.

You can upgrade the hard drive and ram though, as described in this disassembly guide.

Imagine the applications these could be used for with a quad core :) Hardly any desktop software makes use full of multiple cores, so it would be a waste. Most programs are still designed to run on a single core, so a quad core processor is useless for the vast majority of people. For less than the...

Does the power consumption vary significantly when running a 3D app compared to when at idle? It seems possible that Ubuntu is not dropping the core speed of either the processor or video card.

I've been using one for over 8 months now, and it's been working great. It's quieter than my 160GB Samsung drive, and noticeably faster. I bought one once I finally got tired of waiting for Samsung's lower capacity 333GB-per-platter drives, which were long overdue at the time. I wouldn't say it vibr...

From what I've heard of the recent Seagates, they tend to be notably louder than WD's offerings. WD's current lineup tends to receive more favorable user reviews as well, and I've heard less instances of them randomly failing. You didn't really specify which 640GB WD Caviar though, so the amount of ...