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That's much more technical answer than I expected. Shows how complex is this technology really. So, all manufacturers have some methods of protecting data-at-rest, but the trade-offs are different depending on method used. Thank you Maxx for this comprehensive answer.

Thanks Maxx. I've got one MX500 because of it's power loss tech. I've seen Crucial/Micron advertise power loss protection for data at rest, but many other manufacturers provide little to none information regarding this issue for their SSD products. For 4TB and larger SSDs cheaper brands look...

Is data at rest at risk when ungraceful shutdown happens due to power loss with current consumer SSDs? I remember it was an issue in the early days of SSDs, when unexpected power loss could corrupt data at rest. Then some companies wrote firmwares that could handle this, but since there are...

Nice! I didn't know that. To be fair, MS should have something like this in implemented in Windows natively.

Meanwhile, you still can't stream games from your Windows PC to any device on the local network, where latency is significantly lower then for any over-the-internet streaming service.

Titan X

They should make an option to manually set DPI settings separately for each monitor. In Windows 8.1 you can only set general scaling for all monitors and then it tries to automatically scale DPI for each monitor depending on monitor resolution ... but this often produces poor results as it...

Logic behind Metro interface isn't actually that bad. Before average Joe and power users both used the same interface - the desktop. That meant limiting, cutting out advanced features from desktop so that average Joe could use it. But now separation has been made. Average Joe gets Metro (for...

In the past 3 years among other new games came out that: - run worse that Crysis and had inferior graphics or - had better graphics and run far worse than Crysis I am not aware of any game that has better or equal graphics complexity as Crysis and runs better.

I for one prefer good linear games that take you on a ride. Exploring in games is overrated. You're waste your time doing nothing but walking around and maybe, maybe if you are lucky, somethings happens. I had to force myself to play Oblivion, hopping to get to a point where the game gets...

No, it is copyright violation (in context discussed here). For example cable television came to be by distributing someone else's content.

Getting reliable and solid information on TV tuners is really hard :(

That Antec case sure does look good. Reviewer on silentpcreview said that PSU fan could be a little quieter, but I can replace fan or whole PSU afterwards, if I will find it too loud. I found something interesting here and here about TV tuners! Does this holds true for any product from any...

Thanks for that list!

Europe, Slovenia. Standard used here is (actually is going to be from 1st December) DVB, with AVC (h264) video and AAC audio. For the time being I will be using terrestrial TV only, since most of stuff is played on it eventually (most of good stuff anyway). But I will need good digital...

Another question: Depend on hardware acceleration hardware acceleration, yes or no? If I would depend on hardware acceleration I could go with Atom+ION which would result in much cheaper solution. I could for example build something like Shuttle XS35GT. Fanless system for $240 while ordinary...

Thanks for very detailed answer! Although I have already put together a few custom build PC, building HTPC feels largely different, because of entirely different requirements. Considering increased prices of fanless parts (also there isn't much choice) I might consider active cooling. But it...

Well I haven't completely decided about the budget, but $160 power supply is definitely too much :) I think that key thing is how is digital TV recorded. Is re-encoding necessary or not? If not I was thinking it would be possible to build really low powered system. If Corsair TX650 ($120 on...

I'm building my first HTPC and need some advice. I have made a wish-list of what I would like from HTPC, but know that I have no idea if it is realistic one. So here we go: - receive and play DVB-T. It must support AVC (h264) video and AAC audio as this is used where I live. (No need for...

Video game distracted him,.. cops did the rest :rolleyes: :p

Back on topic, it seems that this issue has nothing to do with caching, but only with how windows manages memory in general. Here's my hypothesis. When memory usage is low and there is plenty of available physical memory Windows keeps almost everything (even inactive pages) in RAM and rarely...

I am sorry that you think that. You know I could be easily offended by that, but I find your judgment somehow entertaining. Actually I'm just glad you don't do that when my process count gets over 55, because then you would be... well nevermind. :) Its interesting how it was generally popular to...

Thanks for that article. What I have found most interesting is that quote: This coincides with my findings in my first post. So there might be possibility that algorithms for memory management are behaving in such way that generally speaking: -if you have 4GB of ram you should be using only up...

That thing is a nice app that has many uses. But I think it could be better: -there is no documentation included -filtering options are poor -it only shows current state (no info about deltas and no options to analyze things over time) -it wound be nice if it showed memory usage of services...

Yes am running 64bit Windows 7 :) I have been looking at page faults before and I don't know how many are considered low/normal/high. Some more info on this would be appreciated. Currently I am not doing much and for the last 5 mins (on tablet pc) perfmon reported from 600 to 2000 average page...

That is the issue here. I am wondering why this isn't happening. To put it simple: in my last example applications are using more memory that I have physical ram available, but windows is still keeping cache in physical memory that should be freed for application use. Windows is writing 980...

As they did with Windows Vista, but still many users were not happy with experience that OS provided. All I did was post my user experience and some results of memory usage that I find interesting. Am sure people at Microsoft did a whole lot of more research on the subject than me, and they...

I have recently noticed that Windows 7 usually doesn't use all physical ram ("for applications") even if it should be using it. I have 4 GB of RAM installed and it rarely uses over 3 GB although much more has been committed. For example: See that 4+ GB has been committed. So currently...

EDIT: For example if you're browsing forums, have multiple tabs open and you have to always scroll back to the top just to see what thread is under that tab.

Yeah, it can be pretty annoying not able to see what site are you on.

In short, yes. At least in the long run. It's 2010 and increased screen resolution still affects font size, while this (at least in my humble opinion) shouldn't be the case. Resolution independence I think is long overdue and only when hardware is really going to start pushing high pixel...

Advent rising had some decent music too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D50oR8tBVKI&feature=related <-...just random clip

nice

Thanks for the information! I upped CPU & QPI/DRAM voltages a bit and prime has been running now for 4h without problems. Max temps are: 87°,86°,84°,81°C @4Ghz. Ambient temperature has gotten quite high too, because I closed a window and now the room isn't ventilated :)

He does a lot of 3D rendering so I have to take into consideration that all cores may be under full load for hours. I was running it @4095MHz with CPU voltage set to 1.275 Volts in BIOS (shows as 1.264 in CPU-Z), but one thread crashed in prime after 43 mins (soon after I posted the first...

I am overclocking an i7 system for someone else. I don't have any previous experience with i7 so I am interested what are "max temperatures" for this CPUs? With current OC max temps for each core are: 86°, 84°, 82° and 80° C after 30 mins of pirme95 small FFTs torture test.

Is this true just for CPU voltage or do other voltages change automatically too?

From what I have read FSB is very problematic with this chipsets and quads. This is my first intel in years and OCing experience is quite different from A64's. With FSB set to 450 MHz and multiplier lowered to 6x (from 8x) prime95 gave me errors within 5 minutes (usually within ~1 min). I had...

Blend mode run of prime95 over night was without errors. Furmark heated up GPU up to 86°C in 17mins. This seems very high to me, but fans on the card didn't even get to 100%. At 86°C fans rotated at 77% speed, so I guess this cards are meant to run this hot? Card model is Palit/XpertVision...

I will run prime95 blend test over nigh now (It's 0:47 AM here). Tomorrow I will then measure temps and report back.