Recent content by alex.angel

Bumping & update: Upgraded to Vista. Same issue with driver / catalyst simply not finding the display over hdmi or dvi. At this point I have to assume the Diamond card and its driver set is simply defective. What's bogus is the video out on hdmi and dvi both work _before_ windows loads...

Smoking hot deal. I picked up my Panny 42" for $1499 3 months ago and it was a good deal then. THIS is amazing. A word about image retention and burn-in: Image retention can be called "temporary burn-in". It's ugly, it's distracting unless you're watching moving images, and I dislike...

Requirements: -rackmountable or AV cabinet mountable -8+ drive capacity -fast enough to stream say 40mbit/s over network (1080p a/v editing) -hotswappable, or if not hotswap, I'd atleast like to be able to swap out HDs without opening up the case. -CHEAP -quiet Any suggestions...

Ok so this one's a little bit of a mystery. I bought a Diamond 2600XT at a Frys. What's funny is Diamond's website doesn't list any 2600XT products (weird, huh?). The card itself has 4 outputs: DVI, hdmi, VGA, + a 2nd pci slot daughterboard with svideo/component out (attached via cable to...

Some rebuttal and other thoughts: -going with a significantly slower cpu: I've only seen testing benchmarks of cyberlink's hardware assist with recent CPUs playing HD-DVDs and/or Blu-ray discs. I've seen the compatibility list on cyberlink's website, but I'd like some headroom for future...

Good advice all-round. slightly lower cpu makes sense, but E6600s are more expensive than 6750's, due to their OC popularity. External server makes sense, but I don't have the space for one (small apartment, no desire to run lan cable). Passive vidcard makes sense as well, but lack of space...

I'm looking for comments & money-saving advice on my proposed HTPC build. Once I finalize the hardware selection I'll be ordering it at the end of the month. Silverstone SST-LC16B-M $269 Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L $99 POWERCOLOR 26XT512M/D3HDMI Radeon HD 2600XT 512MB $129 Xion Supernova 600W...

The Dell 2005FPW monitor has been sitting at 450-550 USD for the last 3 weeks on dell.com, but at dell.ca, it hit the $600CDN price just *once* about 3 weeks ago and we've only had a 10% coupon once since then. Please post Canadian deals here? I'm sure there are other canucks here who lust...

Oops yeah it's an adaptec card sorry. Yeah I wouldn't have put the windows install on the array either but I was told to so no dice. I just found it kind of funny, xbit labs did a writeup on the card and it seemed to just scream speed. Oh and booting from software RAID1 shouldn't be too...

Build following system at work (I'm a junior SA on co-op placement): Dell Precision 410 -Pentium 2, 256MB RAM, 10/100 onboard NIC -4x Maxtor Maxline 250GB SATA 7200RPM drives -Promise 2410SA sata-raid controller Built the array as RAID5, 64kb cluster size, using all 4 disks. Made a...