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I bought a Dell server some time ago and put 3 15k SAS drives in it for the root drive. I wanted to switch the root to use SSD's. The T610 has 8 front slots (only 3 are used now -- for the boot/OS drive). So I though to put the SSD's into 4 of the other 8 slots. First thing that happened was...

Moron said: "Tayor said that Nvidia's CUDA is doomed, and PhysX is an utter failure. Why? Because the industry doesn't like proprietary standards. " So, let me get this str8, you are saying Xbox, Playstation, and all the game platforms are doomed? That Windows is doomed? Wow.... nice...

FWIW, I have a an Nvidia 590 and I get the same symptom. Just now, searching the web, I find several people referring to the same symptom and have contacted EA. No one has come up with a solution.

I had a life time paid account on Mega upload, and was using to download /exchange game mods in Oblivion that were too large to be hosted on the game mod site tes.nexus.com. There's nothing illegal or shady about it. Yet some game mods held on that site are available no where else -- looks...

Well, it's still an ongoing problem .. I'm getting it too -- soon as the OBGM shaders click in... instant whiteout... menus are fine, but environment is white (for a undercastle maze, not good). I'm surprised people mentioned video card as the cause for this. I have a GTX 590. I don't think...

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I was looking to speed up my workstation -- I had 4 15K Fujitsu 147 (MBA314RC) configed w/RAID 0 under my "Dell 7500's" builtin LSI-based SAS 6/iR" (BIOS RAID) controller). I got expected performance of about 4x a single drive. I short-strokeded them 10 .5 capacity to lower the seek time...

I was looking to speed up my workstation -- I had 4 15K Fujitsu 147 (MBA314RC) configed w/RAID 0 under my "Dell 7500's" builtin LSI-based SAS 6/iR" (BIOS RAID) controller). I got expected performance of about 4x a single drive. I short-strokeded them 10 .5 capacity to lower the seek time...

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CleeveAs a writer I don't really have any contact with the advertising side. I chose scanners that data indicated have a widespread user base. AVG has a free version, by the way.I'm not sure why some people assume that a free AV scanner might perform wildly different than a paid-for AV scanner...

How does a single 480 or 580 outperform a 295 when the specs on the 295 are clearly superior by a large margin?

I'm disappointed in the applications that you tested and your knowledge of how virus and malware scanners work. I'm also disappointed that you didn't check the Free product "Windows Security Essentials" -- perhaps you are are dissuaded from testing and comparing 'free' alternatives to those...

I currently have a dual Nvidia GTX 295 setup with 1 cards that is failing. So I need to replace it and possibly by another new card so I can get an SLI config to match my old setup with two GTX295 cards. They don't have any more GTX295's in stock and want to give me a 480 or 580, but looking...