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What's the bitrate on lossless multi-channel? 8Mbps? I realize DTS-MA supports something like 24Mbps, but I really don't think they're using bitrates that high for the majority of movies. I haven't checked, but I'd guess about 2-3Mbps for every two channels or so. Probably a pretty good guess...

Never really thought about it, because why would anyone convert DTS-MA or TrueHD into 5.1 FLAC if they couldn't play it? I'd guess that Media Player Classic and VLC can probably do it. The other option, you could probably just output to straight LPCM instead of saving a little space with FLAC...

What about using eac3to to convert the TrueHD or DTS-MA audio into FLAC files? Then you can use them in a MKV. That's what I'm looking at doing for both my HD-DVDs and Blu-Ray Discs. There is a good post on AVS about doing just this.

Oh come on, someone should be able to offer something on this...

I have a single HP LP2475w, since they apparently don't make the monitor anymore that makes getting a second one to go with it rather difficult. The Dell U2420 seems to be a very similar display, so I'm wonder how much difference there would be between the two? Does anyone know if they have...

I'm needing a backup motherboard and CPU. I'd like a P35 or P45 motherboard from a major vendor (ASUS, DFI, Gigabyte, MSI are fine) and a solid intel Core 2 Duo. An original Conroe or Wolfdale would be what I'm looking for. Thanks, -Nate

Rumor, but pretty likely. I doubt Global Foundries would be building so much 32/28nm bulk CMOS capacity unless they were expecting a GPU manufacturer to be a customer, chipsets can only account for so much capacity. That leaves AMD and nVidia. I don't think I need to say which is more likely...

It's impossible to be sure, ie an OEM drive getting dropped upon removal from their 20-drive pack, but it's still nice to see a drive packed well. I know that hard drives are supposed to be able to take some really nasty g-loading when they're turned off and the read/write heads are...

Bump. Have one, would still like another.

We really need a sticky with a list of those etailers that pack their hard drives well and those that don't. It would really make purchasing hard drives online a lot easier. I usually don't buy hard drives from Newegg because they don't pack them right, but I just picked up a WD15EADS from...

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Hey, you read it right. I want a dead VelociRaptor, or more specifically they 3.5" heatsink they're mounted in. I'm going to use them with a pair of SSDs. I know it's completely unecessary, but I think that they look cool. Will pay $20 for an early VR (non-hot swap) or $25 for a later one...

I'm going to check it out more thoroughly tonight, but I'm definitely fast tracking getting the X25-Ms. I suppose I could get a 300GB VelociRaptor, but I really don't see the point of it with SSDs being the price that they are.

I did this test with nothing else running from a reboot. I waited a good amount of time before running the test to make sure Windows had loaded all services and all programs that launch on start up were running. But I notice from time to time something is hitting the disk when I'm not at the...

Something is definitely wrong here. During those low spots the drive is thrashing about like crazy, making horrible noises while doing so. I've checked it and it doesn't appear to have any bad sectors. Anyone have any ideas? I've been planning on buying a pair of X25-Ms, but sadly no one has...

So you use an plug multiple HBAs into a single expander to create one large RAID volume?

Can anyone give me a rundown on SAS expanders? Where to get them, how they work, drive chassis that use them, ect

Yeah, it seems very cool. It even looks good. I'm going to check around online to see if I can find it for sale. Newegg doesn't seem to have it. EDIT. Good lord, it's $3,400. EDIT. Some sites have the 2U version for about $1,400. Need to look around some more.

mAGE316U40-PCI-E-Exp. From the looks of it, you install a PCIe RAID controller into this box, but then what do you connect that to? Another RAID controller in the server? Some help here would be greatly appreciated. I'm buying a NAS to buy some time, but in another year or so I'm going...

I would guess that any pricing depends on when and how good AMD's stuff is. If I had to wager, I'd say about $500 for the top-end 'GTX 380' and $400 for the 'GTX 360'. I'd think that they'll launch with two parts and probably have two more, lower-end ones rather quickly. Considering how...

One of my crappy Samsung TN panels died and it's time to get at least one new monitor. I'll more than likely get a matching set, but just one to start. I've narrowed the list down to this: Dell 2209WA - Has been unavailable for the past few months, doesn't seem like it will change. NEC...

Damn, that's a hell of a price on the X5550s.

/9S1212l401 The fan is more quiet than my Yate Loon lows (from Petras). It's also quieter than the very quiet EBM-Papst fan whos model number I forget at the moment. Subjectively of course, I don't have a sound pressure meter. Sanyo-Denki always comes on top when anyone compares fans on...

The best one I've yet used for low noise and decent airflow is the Sanyo Denki 9S1212L40. Ball bearing construction, 55cfm, 17dBA. Sanyo Denki also is very accurate at rating their fans, if anything the ratings are conservative. My picks for fan manufacturers are: Sanyo Denki ebm-Papst...

I think the 800 sequence i7s are going to be where it's at. There is absolutely no reason at all that they'll be any slower when it comes to FAH (or anything else really) than the 900 sequence chips.

Eh, I'll be using this system a lot and I don't think it has the juice to get these done fast enough. Eight 2.8GHz Hapertown cores is pretty much 'entry level' for those huge work units., if it was a dedicated folder I'd run them. If I were getting a Nehalem-EP Mac Pro, I'd probably run them...

With the A1 or A2 core? I'm guessing A2, from what I've heard the Linux and OSX clients hardly use A1 at all anymore.

I *MIGHT* be getting a Mac Pro, a used one, two 2.8GHz quads. I know that the Linux and OSX SMP clients are very nearly identical in performance, so I would guess that the points production would be quite good. Any ideas as to how much? I haven't run an intel quad under Linux in quite...

Except a 920 is $280 at least, unless you're buying it used. The platform adds quite a bit of cost too. The most interesting chips are the lGA1156 i7s, their performance is just as good as their 1366 cousins (probably slightly better stock because of more aggressive turbo modes). My Q6600...

About 8100ppd on my GTX 275 Superclocked. I'm going to have to RMA this GPU as it's slowly going bad, which means my PPD will take a nosedive for a couple weeks. Definitely better than those godaweful 511 point jobs, I'd be happy if they never show up again. I doubt that will happen though.

I'd also be concerned about how well the adapters work. Going from Display Port to HDMI isn't the same as going from DVI to HDMI. I'm seriously hoping that Display Port goes away, and soon. Despite the fact that it is free it's come several years too late to be of any real value. The license...

I'm not just talking about synthetic benchmarks, I'm also talking about actual application performance that involves heavy disk use (Photoshop, Premier Pro, ect). I've never seen any benchmarks that shot any difference at all for RAID 0. That, and can you back up your second claim? RAID 0 is...

That one really isn't going to fit a PA120.2 anywhere easily. I think I'm just going to go with the PC-A20 when I get around to doing this. That or buy a Mac Pro.