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fredvon4
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Last Activity: 11-04-2008, 05:40 AM
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  • fredvon4
    replied to Building a pc...
    Re: Building a pc...

    Slab
    The MSI K9 Platinum MB comes in two flavors

    K9N2 using Nvidia North bridge nforce 750a for SLI in the two PCIexpress slots

    K9A2 using AMD 790FX North bridge for CrossFire in 2 of the 4 PCI express slots
    Yes virginia...
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  • fredvon4
    started a topic What router to get

    What router to get

    Need to get a new router and compatible wireless card

    I have a D-Link DI 514 right now that is unreliable. RF link to wifes computer is weak. Router drops connection too often and requires endless tinkering to get back on line ( 50% of the time I have to do a hard reset) Yes I have the...
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  • fredvon4
    replied to lcd vs. projector
    Some Projectors look real good and all but don't forget the lamp life and costs

    Projector bulbs can range from $79 USD to over $600 :shock:
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  • fredvon4
    replied to NTFS vs FAT32
    I built two identical systems EXCEPT one minor diff... my wifes I added one of them 7 in 1 card readers w/USB and IEE1394 ports. Mine boot in under 30 seconds hers take almost one minute.

    I assume that her boot is delayed while the BIOS (IRQ in auto), checks for free IRQs for the reader,...
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  • you may not want to hear this but I had similar problem...

    I built new board from the A7N8X-E Delux... basically same BIOS and Sili 3112a SATA controller chipset

    Used two WD Raptors in SATA and a new WD800JB as IDE Master on channel one. I wanted the boot to be SATA and...
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  • fredvon4
    replied to amd athlon mobo
    Abit has very good MBs but I am very happy with Asus AMD MBs

    The new Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe was only $122.00 US$ and is a extreemly well done board.

    It will handle all the 266/333/400 AMD CPUs

    It has 5.1 audio on board
    One Ethernet 10/100 KLan port...
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  • fredvon4
    replied to WD SATA Drives
    Excellent points, one thing I forgot to add was that when you do a raid setup you can optimize it for the environment. SATA Raid 0 will ask you to describe the stripe or chunk size. There are as many opinions on this as there are folks doing the implementation. For Large file (video editing) throughput...
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  • fredvon4
    replied to WD SATA Drives
    Well Beefy

    If a tweaker had a MoBo with SATA +raid built in and copped two Raptors for $105.00 each he would be almost $400 ahead of the cheapest SCSI drive/controller combo that will catch it.

    On a site where most of the folks are pushing the low cost CPUs and Memory...
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  • Storage review has two databases exactly what you described in your original post

    under "performance database" and "reliability survey" on the home page at the top.
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  • http://www.storagereview.com/

    Has a lot of good advice on formating, partitions, stripe size, cluster size, file system choices and why (FAT 16, 32, NTFS)

    Read any of the reviews of modern drives here on this site or any of half a dozen more and you can get a good idea...
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