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Besides, test patterns are pretty useful for calibrating a new monitor as well.

No - you plug a dvd player into the PVR-150, and you calibrate the adjustment on the CARD, having already adjusted the monitor (gamma/etc).

Yeah, just upgraded to a silverstone 550 which should hold for a while. edit: just is a relative term

Follow up: That power supply became unstable and died. ARGH power supplies why have you forsaken me

[H]ello folks, I have a Hauppage PVR-150 which is 100% delightful. I use dscaler with it, and works fantastically, but sometimes the channels can be a little dark or light. I'd love to be able to calibrate the device very quickly with standard test patterns, but no free DVD for test input...

My 5VSB has begun fluxuating between 4.4V and 5.2V, changing pretty rapidly. What's going on here? Is this anything to be concerned about? I've been running my 2200 MHz CPU on a 2400 OC for about 9 months now, and no other problems. EpoX's motherboard program detected the error.

My power strip has one. It's not grounded.

So, I've got a pretty high-spec computer (3500+, x1800xt, nf4 board) that I hoped to use for gaming this summer, until I started unpacking yesterday in my new 40's era apartment - 2 prong connectors galore :mad: ! I'm currently writing from my 2-prong-power-brick-having laptop, and am not sure...

That's pretty good, thanks. Any longer datasets would be helpful as well.

We all know that computer hardware in general depreciates pretty quickly, but video cards REALLY depreciate. I've been looking around and trying to find depreciation curves for major video cards, but nothing yet, so I'm here asking if anyone has seen any. Any pricing trend graphs that you could...

I liked tribes 2 when it came out, it is probably still a better game than BF2142 will be.

It's all atx, so you should be fine. OTOH, I'd recommend not buying a FSP power supply even if Fortron is the source because I've never heard of them. This one is better: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817163110

Hi! I'm moving my AMD 64 3500+ Venice to a new mobo, which means I need a new thermal composite. I'm thinking of replacing my AMD stock cooler with a new aftermarket cooler to be able to overclock a bit. Some preliminary work has turned up this...

And you clean that with rubbing alcolhol, right? Actually, now that I'm buying a new thermal compound, should I buy an aftermarket fan as well so I can overclock it? Also this fan looks nice, will it work well for this application? ...

Hi, I have a 3500+ . I don't think I can get at the chip without taking the heat sink off, which would break apart the thermal gel. Do I need to buy new thermal gel, clean, and reapply, or can I just put the processor in the new board, then the heatsink? Thanks. Edit: looks like I have to...

Alright, let's look at those games: 7900GT Wins: Quake 4 Lock On: Modern Air Combat Pacific Fighters X1800XT Wins: Half-Life 2 Battlefield 2 F.E.A.R. Call of Duty 2 Oblivion Draw: Far Cry Btw, I'm going with this one...

Actually, no, you don't see that. You have to compare the Green and Brown bars, and frankly, comparing them across mobos is just a little silly. On the highest-performing ATI mobos, the X1800XT wins. I guess it would, were the X1800XT not getting better AVERAGE (not peak) framerates on most of...

Yeah, but look at all the other benchmarks: For most FPS games (+ oblivion), the X1800XT does better. HL2 LC: http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/powercolor_radeon_x1800_gto/page4.asp Better at all resolutions. BF2 : http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/powercolor_radeon_x1800_gto/page5.asp...

I know if I try to voltmod the 7900GT I'll wind up with a $300 paperweight.

Horseshit. Let's go with some more modern benchmarks here, eh? 7900 GT http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/bfg_geforce_7900_gtx_oc_7900_gt_oc_review/page11.asp vs. X1800XT http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/msi_radeon_x1800xt_vt2d512e/page8.asp The XT gets an insignificant 1 extra...

As you saw in the title, I'm buying an X1800XT and have a 3500+ AMD 64 Processor. I'm currently looking at this mobo: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16813123258 but was wondering if anything was available for cheaper, and whether the nForce 4 Ultra is really worth it in this...

Holy shit, F'n A! Will buy! One last thing: Is this a quality mobo: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16813123258 ? Thanks!

Ha, I was afraid this would happen, the 512 X1800XT costs about exactly the same as the 7900GT and this seems to be a hot debate. Any comment about what mobo I should go with if I buy either card?

I've been having some trouble deciding between these two: I'm upgrading from an AGP system. Here's why I'm having a hard time deciding: I've noted that SLI is a great upgrade path, but the X1800XT does better in benchmarks right now. On the other hand, the 7900GT is overclockable easily...

64K is the default in a lot of controllers, it's okay.

If you don't mind a higher pricepoint, you can do 3x400 in raid5, yielding 800 GB of protected, if not backed up, space.

Well, if you're comfortable with it, Linux Software Raid has made great improvements in 2.6.15, and running raid5 off of a simple promise TX4 can work well. I've used and seen it for low-load websites in the past, and it may be appropriate for your needs. Then again, I usually work under an...

Well, anything with smart, if you install smartmonitortools or some similar package name ( I forget exactly what), you can do the internal health test using SMART - generally smartctl -H /dev/sd(whatever). Also you can get serial nums which are useful for finding and removing the right failed...

how about posting that pic?

Sorry to break it to you, but with 24 drives you for sure want raid 6. There is a chance, unfortunately, of 2 disk failure.

I'm looking for information on HDDs specifically, if you have anything.

If I have a data drive on the master channel of an IDE cable, and a system/boot drive that is rarely accessed on the slave channel, how significant would the speed slowdown be? How slow would the drives become?

I have a 550W power supply. Do I need, if I want a UPS, to buy a 600W rated UPS or so? Could I skimp by with a 300W rates UPS?

I'm upgrading from a power supply with a 3 pin fan speed monitor to one without, where the motherboard has the port. Does the fact that the new power supply doesn't have a 3 pin fan speed monitor matter?

Generally, what I do in such situations, is boot up a linux disk and write zeros across the drive. If any errors occur, I RMA it.

Lessons Learned: 1. RAID is not a backup. It's been said before, and it is now said again. 2. Read your RAID logs. Probably the rebuilding drive was rebuilding over and over again, thus in error, or your RAID rebuild triggered trouble on a disk. Rebuilds are, unfortunately, due to the number...

Frankly, I'm not sure what optimization of drive systems under windows means. If you're playing a movie off of a HDD, however, there will be drive activity :rolleyes: . I'd say you don't need to screw with it unless you're not getting something for which you look.

Well, eSATA is just shielded SATA, so just as fast as internal SATA and you will be able to do hard-drive-like things on it. USB 2 drives are fast and you shouldn't have a problem that way either. You're familiar with IDE drives, I assume. Basically any of the above will fulfill your needs.

I have had a controller failure and it sucked hardcore, causing the loss of more than 100 gigs of stuff. No money for backups :( . Luckily, it doesn't happen that often.