Recent content by Trogdor2012

It may default to that, but I thought that you could override it and force it to use the cache normally even without the battery backup. IT would explain why the backup units are do gosh darn expensive for what they are if you are FORCED to use the slower speed stuff without it. They kinda...

I have a GTX 480 card. I didn't think the HDMI on it actually carried audio...

Which analog connectors from the sound card would you recommend I hook up to the receiver? I've been looking at the high end offerings at the egg fo sound cards. I am pretty much deciding between the ASUS Xonar and the Creative offerings. The creative has the TOSLINK, which is optical...

My current motherboard has onboard sound with digital optical out (XFX 780i), and I am getting a 7.1 surround sound receiver that accepts digital optical input. Would a dedicated sound card be able to do a better job? I realize that going analog from the sound card itself would be better...

Having some shader processors on the CPU die would go a long way towards implementing Physics in more games.

Neither can I, which is what I was afraid of. I really don't want to have to buy and SR2 just to get some ECC in a system I can game and overclock with....

I've been looking into this arena as well for a solid OS drive. Sadly, it does not appear that what you are looking for exists. I thought it would somewhere in the server world, seeing as how they'd need the capabilities, but the volatility of these devices tends to drive server admins away...

Hey, I have an xfx 780i motherboard, and I plan on donig some serious data backup and archiving. I've heard that using the standard non-ecc desktop ram in my system can possibly introduce erros in the archive data, possibly rendering it useless. I haven't found any DDR2 ECC ram on the egg...

NO! That wont work. The difference between and i7 and a Xeon is that the Xeon has 2 working QPI, one connects to the RAM and the other connects to the second processor. the i7 only has one QPI link. Unfortunately, and i7 cannot be used in a server board because its QPI is on the wrong...

Stream proessors on the CPU die will likely open up Physics processing in general once those processors become popular. However...even if all the new generation of processors in 2011 have support for it, don't count on games really utilizing it until EVERY processor out there is one of these...

I hope these 3TB drives push the prices for the 2TB units down a bit. OF course, by that point, I'll be waiting for the 4TB drives to push the prices of the 3TB down...

As I understand it, a hot spare ist just a drive that is plugged in and ready to take over for a failed drive in a array at a moments notice without any user intervention to initiate the rebuild process. The hot spare is not actively used to store parity data. I do not know the name of the...

If you want PhysX processing that will last you a good number of years, look into the 460gtx 768MB version. You can get one with a pretty high factory OC, and it has more shaders than a 285gtx card. The shaders are what matter the most in PhysX processing. You can down clock the memory and...

You're probalbly right, if not, I am sure you're very close. The one caveat I'd like to add is that coders also cheat. If they find that the amount of processing power needed for cloth/smoke/water/whatever effects is too much they will come up with a pre-made animation that may be enhanced...

For my Raid 6 array, I intend to have 1 hot spare. I rarely turn my desktop off, and if a drive goes bad, I'd like for the Raid card to take care of the problem immediatly. When I come back to my computer the next day, it'd be nice to see that even though a drive failed during the night, the...