Hi folks,
I'm aware of recent threads concerning machine recommendations. I'm looking
for something a bit different, though, so this should be a sufficiently
fresh topic. Anyway, since everything changes every 5 minutes in this biz,
no such thread can remain relevant for long. :-)
I want to bu
Below is a link to some NVIDIA SLI gamer computers. You can select
various computers and look at the detail specs to see what components
are being used, (eg motherboards, CPUs, Video Cards, memory, etc).
http://www.slizone.com/object/slizone_buyprebuilt_us2.html
This system look interesting:
Here is a build that I am thinking about.
https://secure.newegg.com/NewVersion/Wishlist/PublicWishDetail.asp?WishListNumber=8939608&WishListTitle=New+PC+Build
http://www.tigerdirect.com/sectors/wishlist/wishlist.asp?WishId=48B28B1D-8088-4333-A312-501EE395BEBA&&SRCCODE=WEBWISH
For the case you ca
>http://www.tigerdirect.com/sectors/wishlist/wishlist.asp?WishId=48B28B1D-8088-4333-A312-501EE395BEBA&&SRCCODE=WEBWISH
Thanks Mike.
EVGA GeForce 9800 GX2
Interesting video card. However, the specs say "Microsoft Windows Vista
-or- Windows XP" as minimum requirements.
I need something that c
Sorry!!! This should have been [NF].
>Hi folks,
>
>I'm aware of recent threads concerning machine recommendations. I'm looking
>for something a bit different, though, so this should be a sufficiently
>fresh topic. Anyway, since everything changes every 5 minutes in this biz,
>no such thread can re
Well, it is a gaming video card, so it is designed for gamers, who are
running the "best" (left to interpretation) operating systems, which is xp /
vista. you may be able to get it to work with linux or older versions of
windows. I would start by searching the gamers forums or the forums for
video
I think it is just the standard disclaimer, as almost all motherboard
will run Linux or Windows 2000. Below is a link to a similar
motherboard on mwave.com. The following comments are from the reviews:
a) The only (minor) problem I have is that at boot time, I have to add
the noapic paramete
Below is a link to a page on the AMD quad core. Also, click on the
video link in the page for more information:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3740794&Sku=CP1-AM2-9850&SRCCODE=WEBGOOCPU1&CMP=KNC-GOOGL
or
http://tinyurl.com/5c4bez
Regards,
LelandJ
You can download the NVIDIA driver that supports SLI from the following
link:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-8174.html
Retards,
LelandJ
Ken Dibble wrote:
>> http://www.tigerdirect.com/sectors/wishlist/wishlist.asp?WishId=48B28B1D-8088-4333-A312-501EE395BEBA&&SRCCODE=WEBWIS
I don't understand the interest or need for dual boot at all when VM is
readily available and the cost of RAM is almost negligible (my brother
just bought a gig for $10). It's easy to imagine that near future OS's
will (by market demand) include VM built-in.
Bill
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Yes, that had occurred to me. A VM is not the best choice on which to
run games. Windows is still ahead of Linux at this point as a gaming
OS; although, I haven't seen any benchmark/comparison. It is my
understanding that the windows NVIDIA driver is more mature for SLI,
etc, than is the Lin
Hi Leland,
Gaming may be an exception because I understand some such programs
bypass the OS and API's and go directly to the hardware (I guess that's
what you're talking about), but as a Big General Rule, computer
performance 'degradation' is a function of physical I/O with devices,
usually manage
Gamers are a special breed, and to them the holy grail is the fastest
computer. Gamers don't mind spending big bucks for even small increases
in spread, even though it makes each additional small increment in
speed/power more and more expensive.
I think VMware will degrade performance on the g
Bill Arnold wrote:
> Hi Leland,
>
> Gaming may be an exception because I understand some such programs
> bypass the OS and API's and go directly to the hardware (I guess that's
> what you're talking about)
So fare as most motherboards, video card, network card, sound cards,
etc, are concerned, a
I once wrote a termcap file for an SCO unix OS, (eg a kind of device
driver) to interface with a Wyse 50+ monitor. After writing the termcap
file, I could use all of the Wyse 50+ monitor features with my wordstar
application, like highlighting searched text, for example. It was
simply a matte
Bill: Excuse me for not reading all of the previous posts as I have
been outdoors enjoying the weekend. I have two dual boot machines.
Ubuntu/XP and Ubuntu/Vista. I also use Virtual Box on my Ubuntu
machines for testing installs, etc. Virtualization in Ubuntu using
Virtual Box is awesome!
Leland,
I can't speak knowledgably about gaming because I have no experience in
that area, but these loosely related thoughts came to mind, so ...
When I heard of the $10/gb RAM purchase last week, I thought "that's
just amazing", and given the history of hardware trajectories, we may
well see t
Jeff,
My actual experience with VM was in the IBM world, and in that context
we could run any OS under VM, even VM (again). So, my expectation is
that VM in the PC world can do similarly and that you shouldn't have any
problem running any of the OS's you choose to in a VM environment - that
the on
Bill Arnold wrote:
> Leland,
>
> I can't speak knowledgably about gaming because I have no experience in
> that area, but these loosely related thoughts came to mind, so ...
>
> When I heard of the $10/gb RAM purchase last week, I thought "that's
> just amazing", and given the history of hardware
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Jeff,
My actual experience with VM was in the IBM world, and in that context
we could run any OS under VM, even VM (again). So, my expectati
>http://www.mwave.com/mwave/viewspec.hmx?scriteria=BA22828
>
>http://www.mwave.com/mwave/viewspec.hmx?scriteria=BA22828
>
>http://www.mwave.com/mwave/viewproduct.asp?PID=CPU-PHENOM&updepts=CPU&DNAME=Processors+%2D+CPU
Thanks very much Leland. This looks very promising!
Ken
www.stic-cil.org
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Mike,
> The thing with ram though is that you need to make sure that
> it is fast ram, or have a lot of it will not speed things up.
> Having 10 GB of DDR PC2700 won't be as fast as 3 GB of DDR3
> PC 6700.
RAM's power is in reducing or eliminating I/O, so the more there is of
it, the more eff
> Yes, this is definitely good to see computer memory so cheep. There is
> a down side to this I fear, though. The 32 bit software and Os(s)
would
> only address 4G memory max, because that is the biggest integer
possible
> in a 32 bit binary system. The 64 bit processor can address
> expone
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