For what you are doing, I think an additional 256 MB would be perfect. 512 MB (total) seems to be the sweet spot for runining office applications under WIndows XP.
Cheers,
Warden
On one side we have reputable hardware sites doing multiple benchmarks on multiple setups showing little to no performance gains with RAID 0. On the other side we have people (not just you, Ka0t1x) saying "RAID feels faster." Personally I'm inclined to believe the benchmarks. But Maximum PC...
Read the links I posted and you'll know exactly what we're talking about.
Do you have some benchmarks to back this up? Because I have looked at a lot of benchmarks for RAID 0 arrays, and none of them show anything like everything being almost twice as fast. In fact, all of them showed that...
RAID 0 is NOT "much faster" than a single drive:
Anandtech - "If you haven't gotten the hint by now, we'll spell it out for you: there is no place, and no need for a RAID-0 array on a desktop computer. The real world performance increases are negligible at best and the reduction in...
SPDIF output is digital, and your Z640s only accept an analog signal. As far as I know, the only way to use your Z640s in 5.1 mode is to have some kind of receiver between them and the motherboard that would decode the digital signal.
-Warden
I would bet on a dying monitor. However, here is something else you can check. A friend of mine was having a flicker problem, so he bought a new 19" CRT, and it flickered even worse. Turned out to be the transformer for his printer causing interference. The transformer was built into the...
I'm not a guru on electrical code, but as I understand it...
First, the difference between hot and neutral. In household wiring, you only have one wire incoming from the power company, which is called the hot. The other half of the circuit is formed by the ground, and the neutral wire is tied...
You got the same results as StorageReview.com did in their review, so I would say you are on target. Hard drive manufacturers list the seek time, and like mechBgon said, the seek time is lower than the access time which you are measuring (in this case by about 3 ms.)
Cheers,
Warden
This is not so true anymore, especially with SATA. Hit this link and choose the CPU Utilization benchmark (a direct link won't work; you have to choose the benchmark yourself once you get there.) You will see that the lowest drive on the list is the Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 SATA, beating out...
The WD drive is the exact model you listed (WD800JB). It's an 80 GB drive using two 40 GB platters. Things get complicated with the Maxtor drive, though. From the model number you gave, it looks like your Maxtor drive is from the DiamondMax Plus 9 series. Is this correct? If so, then it...
StorageReview.com: WD800JB vs. DiamondMax Plus 9
Here is most everything you should need to know comparing the two drives. Looks like the Maxtor is faster in most desktop situations, though not by a large margin, and it's quieter but warmer. According to the actual reviews (click on the...
Why did you use Google? All your answers are here at Anandtech! ;)
http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1312&p=2
http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1174&p=3
Cheers,
Warden
I have a set of Z-680s that I run off an nForce motherboard. Let's see, to attempt to answer your questions...
1. Yes, they only come with analog cables. I am hooked up to both the analog and digital inputs right now, so I can switch between them at will, and I personally can't tell the...
It will fit. AGP cards have that "extra" slit in them (don't ask me why) but that is as designed, and it doesn't prevent them from plugging into AGP slots. Basically, the first two "sections" of the card edge fit into the same section of the slot. In that picture of the motherboard you...
I received two of these today, one as a .pif and the other as a .exe. Of course I deleted both without opening the attachment. It's worth noting that this virus just spawned TODAY (01-26-2004) so your virus scanner won't catch it unless you have updated your virus definitions in the last few...
Almost any modern soundcard will support surround sound. I wouldn't be surprised if your current soundcard does, even if you are using integrated sound. The main problem you will likely have is that your rear speakers probably don't have a built-in amp like your regular computer speakers do...
I gathered from another post that ouzo made that he was wanting to network his 3 home computers together and share an internet connection between them, which I presumed was either cable or DSL, so my remarks were aimed in that direction. I wanted to warn him away from plugging his cable or DSL...
In layman's terms...
If you had three computers that you wanted to network together, you would plug them into a switch, so that any computer could talk to any other computer.
If you also wanted to share an internet connection between all three computers, then you would plug them into a router...
Yeah, been a long time since I used a modem as well. I think, however, that most any voice modem will work if you have the right software. Check here for some ideas. :light:
Cheers,
Warden
Well, there's probably a better way, but I can't think of it, so here is what I know works:
Get the cheapest phone you can find. Tear apart the handset and find the wires running to the speaker. Clip the wires and attach a mono mini jack plug in place of the speaker. Plug this mini jack into...
I am a long-time reader of StorageReview.com, and that quote from Eugene is from two years ago. I was at StorageReview.com just yesterday and everything was normal. I don't see any reason to panic or to think their current problem is anything more than a technical difficulty. To quote the...
Check the year on that post - it's two years old. :)
They did indeed almost go under two years ago, but with some last minute donations and reorganization, they managed to stay afloat.
Cheers,
Warden
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