Recent content by hawler

Thanks, do you know if this suffers from the same problem as Drobo, being that if the device itself crashes the data on the hard drives is lost because they are using a proprietary tech. with drobo if you tried to insert them into a new drobo unit they would get erased as drobo always formats...

Hi everyone, I don't have much experience with servers or RAID (just the RAID 0 in my normal rig) and had a few question. I want to make a media server for all my files. One of the things I've been hoping to implement but can't really find information on is a RAID array that "grows" as i...

I would just go fro the 4850...the performance will be a lot better and like mactronix said you don't have to worry about crossfire...untill you put a second 4850 in that is lol.

The real question is why wouldn't this work for a double threaded-or even triple threaded application? If the app was running two threads could you turn the others ones off and give each of the 2 running cores a speed boost, though smaller then the boost one core would get? I can't see why this...

Yeah, i just did a quick look around...seems quadro cards really do help quite a bit with that program

Now I'm not sure about this, but many similar products, CAD, Maya, Photoshop etc. greatly benefit from a workstation graphics card and I can only assume 3ds MAX would as well. Take a look into the Nvidia Quadro cards and do a little research to see if 3ds MAX really benfits from...

I wish firewire would just die with the upcoming release of USB 3.0 which will be fast 4GB/s and more common. It really is annoying to have both of these on a computer when you could simply have just one of them. Id rather have 10 USB slots then 8 USB and two firewire on my computer. I knwo this...

georgy, even though the dollars are more or less equal now-a-days everything, and i mean everythign is still always about 10% more in Canada, I don't know why but thats the way it is, from video games to clothes to computer parts. Obviously there are exceptions to this rule, but for the most...

I don't know about the difference between canadian dollars and pounds too well, but I know those hard drives are only like $65 CAD which means they are like just over $50 USD which means you should be getting them for waaaay cheaper unless people in the UK get screwed over that badly on PC parts...

The biggest problem with this article is that it's comparing two very different notebooks, I mean sure, the specs are very similar but the only reason anyone would get specs that high on a windows notebook is to game, something that the Mac can't do besides a very few select games. Not many of...

GPU-Transcoding!? Sweet, I just hope it supports a lot of the useful formats and not just one or two. I have a HUUUUGE collection and some of my files won't stream properly to my 360, even with transcode 360 but I didn't want to spend tens of hours transcoding them..I may however spend hours...

you CAN, but it's not really officially supported by NVidia. I'm not sure exactly what needs to be done to do it and if you'll get acceleration out of the third card...I'm going to assume it still does

I've read many a place that 1.5 is fine for that chip....i've got mine at 1.45 at 3.750GHz and decided thats good enough for me....untill new chips come out and mine looks even weaker that is lol. Theres no real need to push it farther than that unless you are going for bragging rights, at that...

Yeah i thought so....just wanted to hear it from someone else to make myself feel better though