Re: [H] Windows 7 ?

2009-01-10 Thread Rick Glazier
The Partner Connect D/L said it was good for three installs. I figured I'd go (below) and read up on it more. I had some trouble with FF (as expected I guess, I forgot about this before too) but FF gave me a install key anyway. I went back with IE and it gave me two more keys and THEN the D/L link

Re: [H] GTX 280 or wait for GTX 295?

2009-01-10 Thread maccrawj
Well when you close off a valid choice so flippantly, someone will speak up! Unless you're on X58, Nvidia artificially prevents SLI for anything but their chipsets. Say what you want today about not EVER doing SLI/CF, but it may be a consideration later and I did not want to lock myself out nor

Re: [H] GTX 280 or wait for GTX 295?

2009-01-10 Thread Bobby Heid
LOL. I was waiting on one of these. Bobby -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of maccrawj Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2009 9:48 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] GTX 280 or wait for GTX 295? Y

Re: [H] GTX 280 or wait for GTX 295?

2009-01-10 Thread maccrawj
Your loss, the ATI thing that is... Bobby Heid wrote: Hey, I am in the process of building a new machine. I have decided on a limit of about $300 to spend on the video card. I am an NVidia guy so I have no plans on an ATI card. Guru3d.com has a review of the ye

Re: [H] Thoughts on a new system?

2009-01-10 Thread maccrawj
Video card should give big boost over the 800, heck the 850 was a boost over 800. Personally I recommend ATI's X2 cards others will likely mention Nvidia Personal advice: AVOID Sapphire because they had major cooling system issues, weren't fixing them, continued to sell products with the bu

Re: [H] USB 2.0 2.5" HD enclosures?

2009-01-10 Thread maccrawj
WB Bino! I'm partial to Icydock these days but have not tried any of their 2.5" stuff.

Re: [H] P45 vs X48

2009-01-10 Thread maccrawj
Hmm, for a second I thought that was a joke at my expense but I guess I've never used the T3 alias in here! LOL Isn't more the number of lanes than slots with X48 supporting two 16x lane slots vs single 16x slot or two 8x lane slots? http://compare.intel.com/pcc/showchart.aspx?mmID=54987,3447

Re: [H] P45 vs X48

2009-01-10 Thread Al
Sorry, just some silly humor. The difference between: X48 and P48 = F3 al On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:43:35 -0500 Bryan Seitz wrote: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MzxZUYO-2Q > > On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 07:30:10PM -0500, Al wrote: > > No. Wait. X - P = F. F3 > > :-) > > > > On Sat, 10 Jan

Re: [H] P45 vs X48

2009-01-10 Thread Bryan Seitz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MzxZUYO-2Q On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 07:30:10PM -0500, Al wrote: > No. Wait. X - P = F. F3 > :-) > > On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:20:00 -0500 > Al <128customi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Bryan Seitz wrote: > > > 3 > > > > > > On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 02:15:26PM -060

Re: [H] P45 vs X48

2009-01-10 Thread tmservo
Brian is right. 3. Pci-e 16 slots vs 2. Sent via BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Al <128customi...@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:20:00 To: Subject: Re: [H] P45 vs X48 Bryan Seitz wrote: > 3 > > On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 02:15:26PM -0600, Gary wrote: > > Can someone te

Re: [H] WCPUID by H.Oda

2009-01-10 Thread FORC5
sounds like the same kind of tech. of course rc5 forces 100% when idle :-D fp At 04:15 PM 1/10/2009, DHSinclair Poked the stick with: >fp, >I just do not know ATM. I can wait for Greg to chime in on this one. >It could well be the EPM-6 engine thingy of the m/b. I did sit and watch the >new too

Re: [H] P45 vs X48

2009-01-10 Thread Al
No. Wait. X - P = F. F3 :-) On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:20:00 -0500 Al <128customi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Bryan Seitz wrote: > > 3 > > > > On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 02:15:26PM -0600, Gary wrote: > > > Can someone tell me the differences between these two? > > No. T3 > > al

Re: [H] P45 vs X48

2009-01-10 Thread Al
Bryan Seitz wrote: > 3 > > On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 02:15:26PM -0600, Gary wrote: > > Can someone tell me the differences between these two? No. T3 al

Re: [H] P45 vs X48

2009-01-10 Thread Bryan Seitz
3 On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 02:15:26PM -0600, Gary wrote: > Can someone tell me the differences between these two? -- Bryan G. Seitz

Re: [H] WCPUID by H.Oda

2009-01-10 Thread DHSinclair
Raul, Thanks. But, for now I believe I will just leave well enough alone. After I complete my normal 6mo. Infant Mortality period, I may do some moderate tweaks. For now, all is very, very well. Best, Duncan At 07:44 01/11/2009 +0800, you wrote: On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 7:26 AM, Greg Sevart

Re: [H] WCPUID by H.Oda

2009-01-10 Thread DHSinclair
Greg, Thanks. I figured it was normal and nothing to worry about. BTW, thanks for the push to C2D and the newer Intel chipset(s). All 3 sets are running completely solid! Best, Duncan At 17:26 01/10/2009 -0600, you wrote: Yep, that's Intel's Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST) technology at work. >

Re: [H] WCPUID by H.Oda

2009-01-10 Thread Greg Sevart
I wouldn't recommend doing that though. You don't gain any speed, but do consume more power and emit more heat. > -Original Message- > From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- > boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Raul Limos > Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2009 5:45 PM

Re: [H] WCPUID by H.Oda

2009-01-10 Thread Raul Limos
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 7:26 AM, Greg Sevart wrote: > Yep, that's Intel's Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST) technology at work. > Disable it at the BIOS if you want it constant @ 3.0GHz.

Re: [H] WCPUID by H.Oda

2009-01-10 Thread Greg Sevart
Yep, that's Intel's Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST) technology at work. > -Original Message- > From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- > boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of DHSinclair > Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2009 5:16 PM > To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com > Subject: Re

Re: [H] WCPUID by H.Oda

2009-01-10 Thread DHSinclair
fp, I just do not know ATM. I can wait for Greg to chime in on this one. It could well be the EPM-6 engine thingy of the m/b. I did sit and watch the new tool for several minutes, and, there were several times the CPU speed jumped to 3.0GHz for a short spike and then back to ~2.0GHZ. As I said

Re: [H] Thoughts on a new system?

2009-01-10 Thread Bobby Heid
Bino, I currently have a p4 3GHz (OC'ed to 3.15GHz) system with an AGP 7800GS video card in it and 2GB RAM. In the performance rating in Vista, my lowest rating is for my CPU. With this setup, Call of Duty - World at War is pretty much unplayable at the installed settings at 800x600. I am able

Re: [H] Re-introduction for Bino Gopal...

2009-01-10 Thread Bino Gopal
Sabre! Hehe, good to hear from you man! Yeah, so does anyone have the history of the HWG/THG somewhere? I guess it would be Jim since he runs the listserve? Maybe he can pull it out for us one of these day for us old-timers being all nostalgic and whatnot... :P

Re: [H] Re-introduction for Bino Gopal...

2009-01-10 Thread Bino Gopal
Lopaka! Err, Robert! Good to hear you're still around man! So I take is Hayes is no longer a member of the group then? Yeah, you and Hayes were at E3 (do you remember which year it was exactly?), then I met up with you afterwards (since I live in LA) and we hit the God Games parking lot event (

[H] P45 vs X48

2009-01-10 Thread Gary
Can someone tell me the differences between these two?

Re: [H] WCPUID by H.Oda

2009-01-10 Thread FP
do the new intel cpu's throttle up and down like the amd chips do ? fp Now, I get to research why my new E8400's seem to loaf along at only 2.0GHz instead of 3.0GHz. Not really a problem because otherwise these machines "feel like" they are visually quicker that the previous AMD Barton 2500+ cp

[H] Thoughts on a new system?

2009-01-10 Thread Bino Gopal
Hey guys, I've got this old Dell XPS P4 3.4Ghz system I got in Dec '04 which was a top of the line gaming system back then. What I'm wondering is that I don't do much gaming now (if at all); as I mentioned in my re-intro I spend too much time working nowadays and the GF has taken up all the other

Re: [H] WCPUID by H.Oda

2009-01-10 Thread DHSinclair
JRS and Greg, Thank you, thank you, thank you for this link! What a great tool! Much better info also. I've washed my lan of all my old H.Oda apps and installed this to all my machines. Completely accepted by new and old. Superb tool. Now, I get to research why my new E8400's seem to loaf

Re: [H] GTX 280 or wait for GTX 295?

2009-01-10 Thread Bobby Heid
Me again, Looking back over my original questions, I really meant to ask should I wait for the GTX 295 to be released to get a 280 or 285. Well, the release has happened. From what I can tell, the SRP of the 285s appears to be about $400. I found one somewhere and IIRC, it was about $375. Look

Re: [H] Re-introduction for Bino Gopal...

2009-01-10 Thread Julian Zottl
Still around too... since like 96/97, lol.Sabre (Julian) On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 7:53 PM, Robert Martin Jr. wrote: > I'm still around ;) I think that Hayes was hanging with me that year at > E3. Those were fun times. I wish E3 was still like that! > > lopaka > > --- On Wed, 1/7/09, Keltraine w

Re: [H] Used scsi HD's?

2009-01-10 Thread FORC5
No respect ! As Rodney would say :-) fp At 03:38 PM 1/9/2009, Harvey Best Poked the stick with: >Have all our wives been conspiring together? I used to have a "Technology" >closet, but I have now lost that, and I also am limited to what can fit in 2 >boxes! > >Its an outrage! :) -- Tallyho !