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    Gigabyte GA-X99-Gaming G1 WIFI - Issue Tracker

    Thanks for checking up on the Recon 3Di issue with DTS Connect/DDL. Been going around in circles trying to figure out how to do it. Seems a bit nuts that I have to rush out and buy, well, the same sound card with the same chips on it to get this feature!
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    ARECA Owner's Thread (SAS/SATA RAID Cards)

    Loving my 1883ix-24 :) Only big complaint is that as I use this in a workstation environment, the vacuum cleaner noise of the cooling fan is about five different kinds of irritating. Any suggestions on what I can do to mod or replace the fan on this thing?
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    ARECA Owner's Thread (SAS/SATA RAID Cards)

    Since the 1883ix-24 isn't shipping yet, looking at a lower end card (eg, 1880ix) to tide me over. Can I import the disks between an 1880ix to an 1882/1883ix?
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    ARECA Owner's Thread (SAS/SATA RAID Cards)

    How many disks? As I plan on running this controller for 5-6 years plus, the 12Gbit/sec link rate might be useful with port multipliers down the road if I run them out of the external port on the back, plus the additional cache capacity. The cables are being ordered with the card and there...
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    ARECA Owner's Thread (SAS/SATA RAID Cards)

    I'm looking at replacing my 3ware 9650SE-24M8 card (getting 300-350MB/sec across my arrays) with an Areca 1882ix-24 or 1883ix-24. Price difference isn't much between these models judging by the difference between the 1883i and 1882i on the Areca website. Does anyone know anything about a...
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    Largest sata laptop hard drive

    I've seen the 2TB drives in their revised Backup Plus series from Seagate. I believe they were 9.5mm drives inside the external case - but I may be wrong.
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    Which 4TB HDD for RAID 5?

    Heya, I'm trying to decide which HDD to relace my aging 12x1.5GB (16.5TB usable space) RAID 5 array with. I've got two drives with SMART errors and a third one failing - and I'm down to one spare. Drives are Seagate 7200.11. I'd like to replace these with 4TB drives. My options seem to...
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    About Areca ARC-1680ix

    As it so happens, the 3are 9650SE works a treat with my Seagate 1.5TB drives. Performance was rubbish until I applied the latest firmware update to the controller - but I'm still only seeing 400MByte/sec reads off a 13 disk RAID 5 array. I'm starting to consider the Areca again - will the 1280...
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    About Areca ARC-1680ix

    Cock! That's really really annoying. What are my options if I want to get a 16-24 port PCI-E controller to run with my existing Seagate 1TB and 1.5TB drives? I was looking at the 3ware 9650SE but I'm not sure whether that uses the same IOP.
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    Drive Timeouts with 3ware 9650SE-16ML

    Hi, I remember hearing that these cards don't support 1.5TB drives - or is this just a limitation with the 9590? Would be interested to know since I plan on buying one of these controllers ASAP. Will be using them with 1TB and 1.5TB Seagates, CC1H based Barracuda 7200.11 series. I can't...
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    Which 30" display?

    Hi, I have the 3007WFP-HC and have used the 3007WFP and the Apple Cinema Displays (20, 23, 30). Long story short, the HC seems to have a yellowing backlight and the colours are very strong. The colours are a side-effect of it being a wide-gamut display however the backlight is not; I've...
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    17" with 1920x1200 display, battery life?

    Unfortunately I'm a bit tainted by the Dell (I think it's still in my sig) I still use. Six years later and it's still a great system with its 15" 1600x1200 panel with <14ms response.. in its day, it beat the pants off most desktop displays out on the market! Sure, it cost me a packet but I...
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    17" with 1920x1200 display, battery life?

    Hi, Looking at the MBP spec'd with the 1920x1200 display... few questions... Firstly, how is the screen? Blacklight, viewing angle, colour representation? I do a lot of photography so this is very important. Secondly, how well does the battery life fare with the screen brightness down...
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    Seagate 7200.11 640GB is out.

    That HDTACH benchmark looks a bit sus and I am seeing a similar problem with up to eight of the 1TB drives in RAID0. SD15 firmware. I'm about to hand some of my drives to a friend who will test it out on a higher performance Areca card to see whether this will make a difference.
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    Enable eSATA hotswap on P5E-WS-PRO (Marvell SATA?)

    Hi, Are you after the pro version of the board for the PCI-X? I have bad news.... After tracking down some RAID performance issues, it turns out that damn PCI-X slot is bridged to only an x1 PCI-E lane on the ICH9... The Marvell chip simply doesn't support AHCI since it does the IDE as...
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    Seagate 7200.11 in RAID 0/5 - SLOW performance!!

    Hi, I'm using a Broadcom RAIDcore BC4852. This controller can do 200MB/sec+ and has done so on the older array which was originally made up of 6x250GB Maxtor MaxLine IIs (until four of them failed, got replaced, then failed again and were replaced with a mix of Seagate 7200.9 and .10 drives...
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    Seagate 7200.11 in RAID 0/5 - SLOW performance!!

    Hi, Just got a RAID going with some 7200.11 drives on my RAIDcore. Both ATTO and HD tach reflect the same issues and would explain why an array expansion from 3 to 4 drives is going to take 91 hours...: Using a small data/block size in ATTO yields a 500MB(!)/sec read however as soon...
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    another university laptop thread!

    Hi, The X61 is nice and light but will be underpowered and a 12" LCD 4:3 will be a bit useless for watching movies. Consider a 12" widescreen in this form factor although power will be an issue and if you go for the ASUS 2KG 13" bricks, you might as well go for a high res 15". Not sure what...
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    Old Dell C840 in a dock. What PCI video card to get? FX5500?

    Hi, A wonderful system - I'm running a similar system now - except this system cost me well over AU$7k when I got it.. and that was with only 512MB RAM and the older 60GB drive... since upgraded a few bits... you can get a Ti4200 in the form of a Quadro4 700 which runs at slightly lower...
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    Enable eSATA hotswap on P5E-WS-PRO (Marvell SATA?)

    This isn't an external enclosure drawback - I had these things hotswappable just fine on the ASUS P5B and on my old Tyan K8WE (nForce4 Pro based)
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    Enable eSATA hotswap on P5E-WS-PRO (Marvell SATA?)

    Hi, I have the above motherboard - the ASUS P5E WS Professional which uses the Marvell SATA controller for the two additional motherboard ports and two external eSATA ports. The problem lies where I can't safely remove anything on the eSATA as it doesn't come up in Windows as hot...
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    New Dell 3007-HC: Not Impressed.

    Hi, I made the SAME observations about my HC panel - shoulda checked the forum before posting. Heh. The non-HC was absolutely fantastic but the HC panel seems to be too warm and on the reddish side and yes, I notice a reduced dynamic range in shadow details (read: 'compressed' range of...
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    Dell 3007WFP-HC colour accuracy

    Hi, I finally received my 3007WFP-HC (secondhand) however I am questioning the colour accuracy of the panel. The backlight seems a bit reddish to me and the colurs all seem a bit 'strong', I remember reading something abotu this being common on wide gamut displays. I remember using a...
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    Received my 3008WFP today.

    Can someone confirm the following: 1. Input lag is present on the 3008WFP 2. That Dell have no ability to resolve this input lag (just like they told me with the 2405 which is why they gave me a full refund inclusive of shipping costs) 3. Whether the NEC or other panels that use this same...
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    Received my 3008WFP today.

    Hi, Please excuse my ignorance if I've missed something earlier in the thread relating to this - but has anybody directly compared the 3007WFP-HC (of the HP LP3065) and the 3008? Is the 3008 based on Samsung's technology or is it another iteration of LG's S-IPS? I've long been a fan of...
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    DVI dual-link in a mobile system?

    As per title, I'm looking for a system that can drive a Dell 30" at its native resolution. I'd go a MacBook Pro for this one but the person who'll be using it is unfortunately anti-Mac. Is there anything else out there that'll do it? I was under the impression that all nVidia 7000 series...
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    Dell Inspiron 600m only running at 600Mhz

    Hi, Some BIOS's don't always support speedstep disable - in fact, when speedstep is disabled, the CPU will always run in its lowest power state on some systems. Try a command called 'powercfg' on the command line. This will tell you what settings your power profile is using for your CPU...
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    Cisco 2924M XL Fiber Uplink?

    Hi, what does a 'show interface' tell you after the port shuts itself down? It should theoretically tell you the reason as to why the link has dropped (eg, errdisable etc) - it could be a network loop or similar that is shutting the port down and not necessarily a cabling fault.
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    DELL 3007WFP - Buzzing

    I've used two of these screens in the same room once. One had the buzzing which increased with brightness - the other had no buzzing at all. Not sure on revisions, though, but the non-buzzing one was a newer delivery.
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    Got my HP LP3065 up and running...

    Has anybody used both this HP and the Dell 30" panel and can comment? I do a lot of photo editing so it's down to either the HP or the Dell 3007WFP-HC, however, I have limited vertical desk space with shelving above, so the attractive feature of the Dell is I could lower the screen so that...
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    cisco lab is ready

    In the pic, the 24 port PoE 3750 looks just like the non-G version. Only gig switch I see in that pic is the 3750G-12S which hasn't got PoE support... (hence, no P). SB5200 eh? How do these perform? My ISP is using the 5100s now but I've got a six year old Nortel CM100 (only non Cisco...
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    8 cores - 3600 bucks?

    The Antec Trio series are not EPS12V PSUs from what I can tell. This is a pain, because I'[d love to move my dual Oppy to the 650 as the 550 seems to be barely enough. Can't work out whether the Gigabyte board is EPS12V - but it makes reference to an 8 pin 12V connector in the manual which...
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    HP LP3065 30" monitor

    Has anyone compared these to the Apple 30" or the Dell 3007? Currently considering the Dell but the HP appears to use the second gen panel. How well do these work from a single-link input? Will they scale? I have another system I'd like to run via the second input however it's a notebook...
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    What displays 23-24" are lag-less?

    As per title. How's the lag thing treating us these days? I got burned with a 2405 and had to send it back due to lag. Bugs the hell out of me. I have a thing for the S-IPS panels and find them nice on the eyes but the tech is way too old right now (and the current gen 23" S-IPS tend to go...
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    23" AS-IPS?

    Exactly what I want, too. I had the Dell 2405FPW and didn't like the lag - sent it back and went back to the CRT. I've used the new 20" LG-Philips based panels and I love them. If they were 23", I'd buy two. In fact, the moment somebody releases a current-gen S-IPS or AS-IPS 23" panel...
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    3007WFP vs. Sony G400 (CRT) shots

    Thanks. I know the 2405 has lag - I sent mine back for that problem! But other people seem to think it's all in my head... I documented it myself using a DV camera and stepping through the frames.
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    Which 23/24" panel?

    As per title. I currently use a Sony G520. I had a Dell 2405FPW for a short while - I noticed the lag straight out of the box, so it went back to Dell for a full refund. I liked the size, but found the screen a bit bright for me, plus I could feel the heat it was belting out in my face...
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    3007WFP vs. Sony G400 (CRT) shots

    Hi, What did you use to run that clock/timer thing? This will be useful in proving to mates that the 2405 has lag!
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    Having bad luck with maxtor drives

    I started buying Maxtor about 15 months ago. Since then, I've lost: * 2x Maxline II Plus 250GB SATA disks (another is spitting out errors but I will replace the SATA cable soon to verify): One drive was clicking when turned on (think deathstar) and the other had bad sectors on it. * 1x...
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    Apple Cinema 23" - Confirmed no input lag?

    Dell are currently shipping the 2405FPW A06 revision - these use a slightly different revision (but same spec) panel -the -L02 vs. the -L01. Unsure as to whether the input lag is there - there's a great deal going on for us Aussies (AU$1020 shipped) and I don't want to buy a lemon again (I...
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