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Totally agreed. It eludes me why bloggers continue to think they're so clever when they write headlines like "Is Google Evil?"

Just testing. Sorry!

So you guys view RAID 5 as more of a performance/availability solution and not a way to protect data?

The efficiency of RAID 5 is really appealing. But now I'm thinking that for the money it would cost me to get a solid RAID card, I could just buy more drives and keep an identical set of drives on my two machines and sync them every night. Anybody have any experience just syncing machines...

I have around 3TB of multimedia scattered across 8 drives on 2 different machines. Last night one of my 500GB drives ate itself and I'm once again thinking about RAID/backup solutions to prevent this from happening again. I've been reading forums and window shopping at newegg for a couple of...

He definitely has a point here. nVidia still has the better technology. nVidia will have a 55nm GT200 later this year and they'll probably make a GX2 version of the GTX 280...and that'll be it, ATi will have absolutely no way to catch up. They have no new chip coming this year, they're already...

That's not a bad generalization, but it's not entirely true either. There have been quadro cards that were clocked faster than their consumer-level siblings. The memory is typically slower and there's typically more of it because that's optimal for professional applications. A bunch of slow...

Take a look at the driver download...the Quadro version is about 10MB bigger. Also, note the changelog, they're optimizing for professional applications, not games. All that work on optimizing for professional apps costs money, and there are way less professional types than there are gamers so...

They're expensive for two reasons: 1. The drivers are much more complex and are "certified" to properly run a whole bunch of professional applications. 2. The people who really need them, can afford it.

Here's what I think about the 9800 GTX:

So they go to the 9 series with 8 series technology...then they do a refresh of the 9 series with a whole new chip? Color me confused. If it's just another refresh of G92, AMD better get in there and kick their ass...

If you look at the timeline for the 7000 series, there was almost exactly a year between the launch of the 7800 GTX and the launch of the 7950GX2. When the 9800GX2 comes out, it will have been nearly 16 months. 01/27/2003 GeForce FX 5800 Ultra Launch NV30 05/12/2003 GeForce FX 5900 Ultra...

You absolutely cannot judge a video card based on the amount of memory it has. There are *tons* of crappy cards out there with a whole bunch of memory strapped to them. In fact, the only reason they have so much memory is to trick people into buying them. What you ultimately want to go by is...

The symptoms scream overheating. I would make sure your fan is still running and verify that the temps you're seeing are accurate.

What are you replacing? Don't you think overpaying for an AGP card is a bad decision? Why not just switch to PCI-E? Cheap Core2 processors and motherboards are all over, and it would be a much better upgrade than paying $150 for an AGP card that's only worth $50.

You want to get to a stable temp and then run for at least a couple of hours to verify that it's stable...

Should be a touch faster than a GTX except for memory bandwidth limited situations. Overall a nice boost in performance for an extra $50 over the GT. Seems like this will be the top model based on G92. I wonder why this isn't called the 8900GTS.

Memory Clock Memory Bus Width Memory Bandwidth

I meant SM3.0, whoops.

haha, nice! you're one of the only people I've ever heard publicly admit to buying a 5800 Ultra...:)

ATi publicly stated that they had no intention of rewriting their OpenGL drivers back when they were looking like chumps in Doom3...they switched to a new architecture since then and have done a good job optimizing for the ever-decreasing number of OpenGL games...but if you want evidence of...

SM3.0 had nothing to do with HDR. Support for both happened to appear simultaneously on the 6800 series, but you can support 16-bit FP HDR without supporting SM3.0.

Wow, where to begin. I like nVidia cards because I like their drivers, I like their board partners, I like that they work well in linux and have for a long time, and I like that they are typically the faster card. When I bought the TNT1 it was the best card on the market, same for the GeForce...

I call BS. http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=3151&p=10 8800 GT scales better than 3850, since it's driver dependent, no way I'd expect the 3870 to magically scale better. http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=3151&p=11 8800 GT has effectively equal (if not slightly lower) power...

I think you're reading a little too much into it. The only point was, in retrospect, I have owned a lot of nVidia cards...

I can beat that: Riva 128 Riva TNT1 GeForce 1 DDR GeForce 3 Ti 500 GeForce FX 5900 Ultra (yeah, that's how much of an nVidia fan I was back then) GeForce 6800 GT GeForce 7950 GT GeForce 8800 GT I've never owned a video card that wasn't nVidia.

Umm, right. More like nVidia heard what RV670 was going to be, and they purposefully created a card to beat it...and they did it with a single slot cooler, a modest core clock, and a chip with 16 shader processors disabled. They went out of stock because they're selling like hotcakes. If the...

Hell, don't take my word for it. Look what they just did to RV670. Do you think they can't do the exact same thing with the X2?

It's just obviously what's going to happen. nVidia has the architectural advantage, they can beat ATi at will.

I think it would definitely be the new performance leader...but you know nVidia has something ready to go at the push of a button should that happen. In general nVidia has the superior technology right now, their shader core is just a better design. I don't foresee ATi surpassing them in a...

Why would you compare the MSRP of the 3870 to the "average" cost of an 8800gt? What the hell does average cost have to do with anything? The reference clocked version sells for $269 at newegg...that's a $40 price difference at maximum...the use of an "average" figure is just plain misleading...

http://www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php?card1=514&card2=313 The 8500GT has a newer core, but the 7800gt just has way more memory bandwidth... This is a classic case of "is the old fast card faster than the new slow card"...and the answer is always about the same: older higher-end cards are...

Looks good to me with the exception of the hard drive. I'd go with the 500GB Western Digital: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136073 For 23% more money you get 56% more space = worth the extra $20.

My 680i is squealing like a stuck pig so I'm sending it back to newegg. Any recommendations for a solid intel motherboard for around $250 that would handle a modest overclock on a Q6600? I'm looking at the ASUS Maximus Formula, mostly because I've had good experiences with ASUS in the past...

Ok, so. I had an idea that maybe I was imagining the instability. Before I updated the bios, I was getting bsod's. After, I was just getting game crashes...or so I thought. As it turns out, the Crysis time demo crashes in windows vista after the 4th loop and it has nothing to do with my system...

Beep codes typically mean the system won't post, which means no bios to go into. Usually it's something really, really wrong. Like no memory installed, no video card installed, or no cpu installed. Something probably needs to be reseated. Also, if you have any additional pci cards plugged...

Beeping noises typically means one of 3 things: video card, ram, or cpu. Re-seat everything. If that doesn't work, start removing/replacing components till it comes up again.

Interesting. I didn't really notice the amp ratings were conspicuously low. I've turned off all the extra hard drives and I'm running prime95 to see what happens. Also, I've had the most problems when I run the memory intensive torture test on prime95. When I do that, even with only one...

According to here: http://www.extreme.outervision.com/PSUEngine I should only need around 420W at 100% load on everything. The power supply should be relatively high quality so I really don't think that's the source of the problem. Especially given how many other people are having the same...

Full System Specs: Q6600 1 x Western Digital 320GB 5 x Western Digital 500GB Evga 8800GT Evga 680i SLi Corsair XMS2 DDR2 800MHz Nexus NX-5000 Real Silent PSU 500W Nexus PHT-7750 HSF 3 x Nexus 120mm Real Silent case fan Antec P180 Black