Re: [H] New Video Card survey

2010-01-15 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
] On Behalf Of Bobby Heid Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 8:44 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] New Video Card survey I just installed Win 7 on my machine. I have an Nvidia GeForce GTX 285 graphics card that I have had for about 9 months now. This card gives me 7.4 for both

Re: [H] New Video Card survey

2010-01-15 Thread Stan Zaske
dreams of SSDs. LOL. Bobby -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Stan Zaske Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 4:52 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] New Video Card survey Graphics and gaming

Re: [H] New Video Card survey

2010-01-15 Thread Bobby Heid
14, 2010 3:01 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] New Video Card survey I'm curious Bobby, since you don't game what do you need a GTX 285 for. Are you fold...@home or doing some Cuda stuff? My hard drive score is 4.8 and memory is 7.4 by the way. On 1/13/2010 8:44 PM, Bobby Heid

Re: [H] New Video Card survey

2010-01-15 Thread Stan Zaske
...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Stan Zaske Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 3:01 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] New Video Card survey I'm curious Bobby, since you don't game what do you need a GTX 285 for. Are you fold...@home or doing some Cuda stuff? My hard drive score is 4.8

Re: [H] New Video Card survey

2010-01-14 Thread Greg Sevart
. That was the biggest reason behind it. Greg -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Anthony Q. Martin Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 1:30 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] New Video Card survey Wow

Re: [H] New Video Card survey

2010-01-14 Thread Eli Allen
One major disadvantage, you can't use TRIM on the drives and I'm guessing the raid will increase latency a bit. Eli On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Greg Sevart ad...@xfury.net wrote: Yes. When I was weighing getting one 160GB G2 vs two 80GBs and stripe them, I opted for the later since the

Re: [H] New Video Card survey

2010-01-14 Thread Stan Zaske
...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Stan Zaske Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 4:52 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] New Video Card survey Graphics and gaming graphics are both 7.1 which is not bad. Unfortunately, I don't remember what the old 4850

Re: [H] New Video Card survey

2010-01-14 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] New Video Card survey Graphics and gaming graphics are both 7.1 which is not bad. Unfortunately, I don't remember what the old 4850 was so can't compare the two. If you're looking for a 7.7 you'll need to step up to the 5850 or 5870 but what's

Re: [H] New Video Card survey

2010-01-14 Thread Stan Zaske
-score is 7.9 with two Intel G2 SSDs. :) -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Bobby Heid Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 8:44 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] New Video Card survey I just

Re: [H] New Video Card survey

2010-01-14 Thread Stan Zaske
PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] New Video Card survey Graphics and gaming graphics are both 7.1 which is not bad. Unfortunately, I don't remember what the old 4850 was so can't compare the two. If you're looking for a 7.7 you'll need to step up to the 5850 or 5870 but what's

Re: [H] New Video Card survey

2010-01-14 Thread Joe User
Hello Stan, Thursday, January 14, 2010, 2:29:22 PM, you wrote: If I might make a suggestion, why not try out a first person online shooter called Left4Dead II. It's a lot of fun playing with people especially with a mic so you can talk with each other. Seconded. -- Regards, joeuser -

Re: [H] New Video Card survey

2010-01-14 Thread Joe User
Hello Stan, Thursday, January 14, 2010, 2:07:22 PM, you wrote: I'm really enjoying my 5770. Acording to my Kill A Watt the idle power went from 150 to 115 and loaded 235 to 205. Pretty good drop and a lot faster to boot. Well done. -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key...

Re: [H] New Video Card survey

2010-01-14 Thread Joe User
Hello Anthony, Thursday, January 14, 2010, 2:15:22 PM, you wrote: I think I'm going to install a gameso I can say I'm not going for bragging rights trying to get my WEI graphic scores above 7. :) Ok seriously... what's up with WEI. I see all this talk about it, it cannot be that good of

Re: [H] New Video Card survey

2010-01-14 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
It's called obsession, my friend! On 1/14/2010 5:42 PM, Joe User wrote: Hello Anthony, Thursday, January 14, 2010, 2:15:22 PM, you wrote: I think I'm going to install a gameso I can say I'm not going for bragging rights trying to get my WEI graphic scores above 7. :) Ok

Re: [H] New Video Card survey

2010-01-14 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Bobby Heid Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 8:44 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] New Video Card survey I just installed Win 7 on my machine. I have an Nvidia GeForce GTX 285 graphics card that I

Re: [H] New Video Card survey

2010-01-14 Thread Greg Sevart
] On Behalf Of Eli Allen Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 10:25 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] New Video Card survey One major disadvantage, you can't use TRIM on the drives and I'm guessing the raid will increase latency a bit. Eli On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Greg

Re: [H] New Video Card survey

2010-01-14 Thread Joe User
Hello Anthony, Thursday, January 14, 2010, 5:09:07 PM, you wrote: It's called obsession, my friend! That answers that! -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... ...now these points of data make a beautiful line...

Re: [H] New Video Card survey

2010-01-14 Thread Stan Zaske
LOL On 1/14/2010 5:09 PM, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: It's called obsession, my friend! On 1/14/2010 5:42 PM, Joe User wrote: Hello Anthony, Thursday, January 14, 2010, 2:15:22 PM, you wrote: I think I'm going to install a gameso I can say I'm not going for bragging rights trying to get

Re: [H] New Video Card survey

2010-01-14 Thread Stan Zaske
...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Bobby Heid Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 8:44 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] New Video Card survey I just installed Win 7 on my machine. I have an Nvidia GeForce GTX 285 graphics card that I have had for about 9 months now. This card gives

Re: [H] New Video Card survey

2010-01-13 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
Cooler with less power is good. What kind of WEI do you get under Windows 7? I've been thinking of upgrading my Geforce 8800 GTS to something, as this inexpensive Radeon HD 4670 is just a few clicks under it on WEI (6.4 vs 6.9). I'd like to get above 7.0 on my home system. Of course, going

Re: [H] New Video Card survey

2010-01-13 Thread Stan Zaske
Graphics and gaming graphics are both 7.1 which is not bad. Unfortunately, I don't remember what the old 4850 was so can't compare the two. If you're looking for a 7.7 you'll need to step up to the 5850 or 5870 but what's the point if you never game. Might as well stay with what you have.

Re: [H] New Video Card survey

2010-01-13 Thread Bobby Heid
of SSDs. LOL. Bobby -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Stan Zaske Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 4:52 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] New Video Card survey Graphics and gaming graphics

Re: [H] New Video Card survey

2010-01-13 Thread Greg Sevart
13, 2010 8:44 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] New Video Card survey I just installed Win 7 on my machine. I have an Nvidia GeForce GTX 285 graphics card that I have had for about 9 months now. This card gives me 7.4 for both graphics scored. My HD score is a lowly 5.9

Re: [H] New Video Card survey

2010-01-13 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Bobby Heid Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 8:44 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] New Video Card survey I just installed Win 7 on my machine. I have an Nvidia GeForce GTX 285 graphics card that I have had

[H] New Video Card survey

2010-01-12 Thread Stan Zaske
Well, I used some cash in my PayPal account and bought a VisionTech HD5770. It arrived today and it's a sweet video card. My old (VisionTech coincidently) HD4850 is noticeably less powerful and burned many more electrons at idle and load. The card also runs much cooler (reported by Catlalyst