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Hoping someone can answer this.

I posted previously on this one but only had one reply that was somewhat over top of what I wanted to do. I need a QUIET card that will drive two 4K monitors via display port and also has a DVI connection. It has to be small enough to eventually go into a Mini ITX case. I DO NOT play games as...
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- Sep 19, 2014
- Replies: 3
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Graphics card with 2 display port and 1 DVI

I don't play games but will shortly be purchasing a new 4K monitor, AOC probably, as I do have spreadsheets wider than my 2 x Dell 1920 * 1200 24" monitors; some will be wider than the the 4K plus one of the Dells. I also use AutoCad but not in 3D. I am looking for a graphics card that has...
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- Jul 12, 2014
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Is RAID 1 underrated?

fpbear, I have to admit I am not sure if a mirror can look for bits of the data on the two drives at the same time. It is some time since I last had a look at the various aspects of raid arrays as basic as a mirror. Phrontis.
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- Post #6
- Sep 2, 2007
- Forum: Computer Building
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What should I upgrade to????

Sorry I forgot to put that in my original submission. Video, CAD and when I'm not on the machine a couple of distributed computing programs, depending who I feel like supporting at the time when there is no load, night basicaly. Phrontis
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- Post #3
- Sep 2, 2007
- Forum: Computer Building
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Is RAID 1 underrated?

Raid 1 is a disk mirror. The data is written or read to both disks at the same time, so in theory the raid array sould perform the same as a single disk. Both disks have the same data on them, if one goes down then you you can remove that disk, put in another and copy or rebuild the array onto...
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- Post #4
- Aug 29, 2007
- Forum: Computer Building
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What should I upgrade to????

I am thinking of an upgrade, as you do! My current system is an Athlon 949 4400 X2 with 1 gig of OCZ memory 2*70MB Raptors in a mirror and 5*300MB Maxtors in a raid 6 array on a 3ware card + a 250GB Seagate for additonal backup of very important files. Graphics is an Nvidia Quadro 3500 and...
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- Aug 29, 2007
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Computer Building
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Booting from IDE with a SATA drive fitted

Hi my sons PC is a bit limited by its 40GB HD so we have bought a SATA II drive (250GB) to put programs, files etc on. I wanted to leave the IDE drive with the OS in position and boot from it but it comes up with the screen you get if you do an F8 Windows boot with the various options, none of...
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- Jul 21, 2006
- Replies: 3
- Forum: Computer Building
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Memory identification

I am going to EBay a load of old bits and have some loose memory that I cannot identify. Basically its so old I have forgotten what it is. Does anyone know of a site where I can download information to help identify what various memory is. Some is EDO and SDRAM but I have no idea what...
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- Apr 9, 2006
- Replies: 0
- Forum: Computer Building
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"Official" DFI nF4 Ultra-D / SLI-DR Thread

Off the above topic a bit but can anyone answer this question at all? I have 1 Gig of OCZ VX in my DFI Lanparty SLI DR at the moment but now the 2Gig kits are becoming more available I thought I might upgrade. Anyone tried this and if so does it work? Looking at OCZ, Corsair and others...
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- Nov 29, 2005
- Forum: Motherboards
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2G for DFI SLI DR???

I have 1 Gig of OCZ VX in my DFI Lanparty SLI DR at the moment but now the 2Gig kits are becoming more available I thought I might upgrade. Anyone tried this and if so does it work? Looking at OCZ, Corsair and others. Phrontis
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- Nov 28, 2005
- Replies: 0
- Forum: Motherboards
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Best mid range card for games?

Thanks guys. I guess it will be the 6800GT looking at prices here in the UK and the comments you have made. Any suggestion as to brand??? Phrontis
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- Post #12
- Oct 24, 2005
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Best mid range card for games?
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- Post #11
- Oct 24, 2005
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Best mid range card for games?

Hi, One of my sons wants his PC upgrading for christmas, I have a spare Asus A8N-SLI Premium, memory and chip but no PCIe graphics card. What would be the best mid-range card for games? I am leaning towards nVidia at the moment due to using a Quadro 3400 in my PC, however if ATI do a chip...
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- Oct 21, 2005
- Replies: 15
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Memory settings for DFi Lanparty

Hi, I have seen somewhere a listing of what memory settings to try on a DFi Lanparty. I cannot remember where it was though, I thought it was on Anandtech but it may have been a special DFi forum anyone any ideas? The memory is 1 Gb of OCZ VX with an AMD 4400 X2, I want to try and get a...
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- Aug 20, 2005
- Replies: 4
- Forum: Computer Building
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Will the Nvida Raid Utility Work With Server 2003?

I have just set up 2 raid arrays on a DFi Lanparty NForce4 DR motherboard. I have 2 x 70Gb Raptors in a mirror on the nForce controller and 4 X 300GB Maxtor maxline IIs in a raid 5 array on the Silicon Image contoller and they seem to work OK. A right pain to get everything to work with Server...
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- Post #11
- Jul 10, 2005
- Forum: Operating Systems

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