Recent content by Craigmandu

Woops, my math was wrong...I mean an extra 225K, not 2.25M.

While an interesting article, this really doesn't say to me "I need to upgrade my users to SSDs instead of HDDs". Why? Because alot of what is in the article doesn't apply firstly: We don't allow torrents of any kind (don't know of anyone in my type of business that does), people aren't...

Promise 20378 controller on 1 * Maxtor 300gb hdd This is the hard drive you are moving.......approximately how much information is on it? The reason I ask is the simple way to do this would be to back the data up to your primary Raid 0 (two 120GB drives) array and then move the drive to your...

Only do a single 7800GT right now for a couple of reasons: 1. You don't know if what you want to play can even make real use of SLI. 2. You don't know how fast the x1900 series will drop in price. 3. It's less expensive, which means you can ensure that you have good Ram, HDD, Mobo etc...

Answer this question for me... In your device manager in Windows XP professional. Open the ide ata/atapi controllers Is there a "Serial ATA controller" listed there? Sometimes you need to load actual SATA controller drivers for your motherboard before it will show up correctly. For instance...

The resolution won't be great. You may be able to find a third party video converter for your PC that will give more resolution on an older TV. However televisions in general lack the ability to go to a high resolution. Newer televisions however have SVGA support usually built into the TV...

I'm simply amazed at the lengths you are going to, to defend Intel as if they had absolutely no responsibility for any of this. I am completely amazed by it. I'm not defending the M$ enterprise, they do stuff like this all the time. I'm not blaming Intel either. But I'm not absolving them of...

Mjuric, There is a reason that top notch raid cards with their own XOR and XNOR engines cost real money. Because they offload the CPU need to determine the parity information for the arrays they manage. This means that the CPU is free to do whatever it wants, and it performs much more closely...

No reason why we went with intel chips really, just seemed like the thing to do at the time. Never really gave a dual opteron platform much thought. We had thought about going to 8GB of RAM, howeve this will primarily be for storage, and secondarily to use the SQL server software on. And...

There are only 2 parties involved here. Intel and M$. You think M$ is the only people with lawyers? You think Intel didn't have the capability to enter into an agreement that wouldn't give them the leeway to save face in case M$ didn't "make good" on whatever the agreement stipulates? Come...

Slvr_Phoenix, Ok, M$ definitely is the bad guy here, but that doesn't deter from the fact that the items were sent to production with the "known" flaw and that the public wasn't made aware of it. If my boss were to want a duo-core notebook, I get it for him, it dies like that because he wants...

This isn't going to get anything but cheaper....which is sweet. By summer, hehe, we should see what's left of the Opteron 165 & 170's in the sub 200 - 250 range. Provided AM2 debuts and Intel makes the cuts they plan to. In that case, hell I just might OC a 170 on both my teenage boys...

I have to disagree Zoron. The extra expense involved is usually not that high, and continues to diminish every day. Add to that the sheer amount of storage requirements of todays games on a PC and you won't be able but to gain benefit from it. I have single games that if loaded to the PC...

I don't know how many posts have been made about things like this (I'm new to this board). But we had a vendor quote us an enormous amount of money for a storage medium for a specific task we wanted done. Our requirements were 15TB of storage space and Microsoft SQL server with 20 licences...

I happen to agree wth Dekkard. I also appreciate it when an information resource, especially one as large as TG points out flaws or issues with recently released products. Why? Because it shows the community just how much or how little QA actually plays a part in the business practices of...