Recent content by ^eMpTy^

Totally agreed. It eludes me why bloggers continue to think they're so clever when they write headlines like "Is Google Evil?"

Just testing. Sorry!

So you guys view RAID 5 as more of a performance/availability solution and not a way to protect data?

The efficiency of RAID 5 is really appealing. But now I'm thinking that for the money it would cost me to get a solid RAID card, I could just buy more drives and keep an identical set of drives on my two machines and sync them every night. Anybody have any experience just syncing machines...

I have around 3TB of multimedia scattered across 8 drives on 2 different machines. Last night one of my 500GB drives ate itself and I'm once again thinking about RAID/backup solutions to prevent this from happening again. I've been reading forums and window shopping at newegg for a couple of...

He definitely has a point here. nVidia still has the better technology. nVidia will have a 55nm GT200 later this year and they'll probably make a GX2 version of the GTX 280...and that'll be it, ATi will have absolutely no way to catch up. They have no new chip coming this year, they're already...

That's not a bad generalization, but it's not entirely true either. There have been quadro cards that were clocked faster than their consumer-level siblings. The memory is typically slower and there's typically more of it because that's optimal for professional applications. A bunch of slow...

Take a look at the driver download...the Quadro version is about 10MB bigger. Also, note the changelog, they're optimizing for professional applications, not games. All that work on optimizing for professional apps costs money, and there are way less professional types than there are gamers so...

They're expensive for two reasons: 1. The drivers are much more complex and are "certified" to properly run a whole bunch of professional applications. 2. The people who really need them, can afford it.

Here's what I think about the 9800 GTX:

So they go to the 9 series with 8 series technology...then they do a refresh of the 9 series with a whole new chip? Color me confused. If it's just another refresh of G92, AMD better get in there and kick their ass...

If you look at the timeline for the 7000 series, there was almost exactly a year between the launch of the 7800 GTX and the launch of the 7950GX2. When the 9800GX2 comes out, it will have been nearly 16 months. 01/27/2003 GeForce FX 5800 Ultra Launch NV30 05/12/2003 GeForce FX 5900 Ultra...

You absolutely cannot judge a video card based on the amount of memory it has. There are *tons* of crappy cards out there with a whole bunch of memory strapped to them. In fact, the only reason they have so much memory is to trick people into buying them. What you ultimately want to go by is...

The symptoms scream overheating. I would make sure your fan is still running and verify that the temps you're seeing are accurate.

What are you replacing? Don't you think overpaying for an AGP card is a bad decision? Why not just switch to PCI-E? Cheap Core2 processors and motherboards are all over, and it would be a much better upgrade than paying $150 for an AGP card that's only worth $50.