The 15k will be a better choice for running a database. The drive is more optimized for situations like that and has faster seek times which is very important in database applications.
The PCIE NIC is the best suggestion here and I would highly recommend you do it. You can pick up quality PCIE nics (Broadcom Xtreme Gigabit) for around $50 from HP.
Actually I had heard it will support 8gb using 2gb modules (expensive!) and I really can't see how the SATA-II interface will provide any major performance increases over the existing SATA-I connection. Technically SATA-II is capable of more speed but SATA-I did not seem to be holding the...
Maybe 7 seconds from Windows Splash screen to desktop, but not from power on. Running a Seagate 15k Cheetah drive would mean runnnig through a SCSI bios first which take 5-7 seconds by itself.
Forgot to talk about jumbo frames... There are very few inexpensive gigabit switches that actually support jumbo frames. As far as I know, the SMC products were the only ones under $500 that actually did. Regardless, jumbo frames will not always provide you with an increase in speed. Their main...
Whoever told you they were getting speeds of around 800-900mbs were either a) lying b) copying files from memory c) copying files between some fast SCSI Raid Arrays. When you move to gigabit ethernet the hard drive becomes the bottleneck so unless you own a hard drive capable writing at...
I don't think any particular case size is better for cooling than others. The cooling of a case is dependant on it's case fan arrangement, not total size. A full tower will little cooling will have higher temperatures than a middle-tower with a good fan setup.
Check this for me...
Control Panel->System->Advanced Tab->Performance Options: Make sure that you are set to Application and not system cache. I was on a Win2k box at the time of posting so some of my wording may be a little different.
While this information may be new to some, I thought most of it was pretty common knowledge by now. Soundstorm audio users do face a problem as far as upgrading goes but as mentioned in this post there are some options for them. I actually think that discrete 5.1 analog inputs are not as...
We had something like this happen on some laptops at my work and the problem was with the actual RJ-45 connection built into the unit. Since you have already swapped out all that other stuff I would suspect a faulty onboard connection. You could verfiy this by putting a PCI network card in that...
Well windows is always fastest right after a reboot. Even with XP's superior memory management some resources are lost along the way and are not regained until restart. I don't know all the technical details but this just seems to be the default behaviour of windows operating systems. Older...
I have used both S-Video and Component video output on my set-top DVD player to my SDTV and found the component to have better colors. So I imagine that difference would apply to computer ouput as well. I can't say which brand is best for sure, but I know that the ATI 9600 NP is a favored video...
Probably. Soundstorm will take any Direct Sound signal, which is just about every sound output on your PC and will encode it into an AC3 5.1 stream. It uses some algorithms to decipher the sound signal and put it into 5.1 channels of audio. It does not just duplicate the sound across all...
Fix the first link and we can tell you if the drive is better than the Raptor. That SCSI card is a good one and will work in both 32-bit and 64-bit PCI slots so you need not worry there. If you are only going to use 1 or 2 SCSI drives in the system then you don't need a dual channel SCSI card...
I picked up one of these 2800+ Mobiles and threw it on my MSI K8T800 MB. It won't post with voltage on auto,had to specifiy 1.4v. This is with the latest bios so I guess MSI doesn't officially support these yet. The other thing I noticed is that without the heatspreader some heatsinks don't sit...
My Revo 7.1 has been simply outstanding for music and gaming. I have never had and lag issues and such and in some games I found the surround sound more convincing than the Audigy 2 ZS, which I tried for a month or so. My CPU was quite a bit more powerful than your Barton 2500+ stock though so I...
When all else fails going in via safe mode and removing those entries from the registry as well as deleting the exe's seem to do the trick. Have you tried this already?
I have not actually tried any of those 5.1 headphones but from what I have read about them they don't seem to be that great. I would take the advice of midori and consider buying a nice pair of normal headphones and use the Dolby Headphone format instead.
First off, you need to fix your link to point to here: https://secure.newegg.com/app/WishR.asp?ID=741801. I too would recommend an AMD64 processor and motherboard because they really are great performers and the price should be about the same, maybe even lower. I would actually look at the...
If you are using the digital output on both sound cards then stick with the Soundstorm. For analog output the the Audigy would be a better choice. I'm sure the firewire card would be a better performer but not enough to justify it's use unless you are living and breathing firewire. Even then I...
In the price range you are looking at most gigabit switches will perform about the same. The only real feature that you can look for would be support for Jumbo Frames. I believe the SMC 5 and 8 port gigabit switches do support jumbo frames and shouldn't cost too much more than this one. I would...
So far the new version of HD Tach seems to be giving very inconsistent results when used to benchmark Raid arrays of any kind, SCSI, IDE, or SATA. Have you tried any other benchmarks with them yet?
A multimeter would be a better way to check and would ensure more accurate results. If your 3.3 rail is in fact that low I would worry. That power supply actually quite nice and should not be running that low for any reason.
They should be able to just fine. Just like older DVD players can often read DVD-R disks even though they were made long before DVD-burners became mainstream.
If you don't want to wait for the Nforce3 250 boards then pick up a AOpen AK89 as mentioned above. This board was a killer overclocker and performance was simply outstanding, even at stock speeds.
Check out a review: http://storagereview.com/articles/200210/20021003MAP3147_1.html
It's not going to be even close to as quiet as a 7200rpm IDE drive and it would appear that some of the more expensive and faster 15krpm drives are even quieter than this one. From a performance standpoint it...
No kidding! Nvidia has released some but ATI is keeping there 64-bit drivers to the beta testers only for now. As soon as they are released I'll probably give XP 64-bit edition a shot, maybe dual boot or something. To answer the original question, the only hardware that needs to be 64-bit would...
Short
Burst - 129.2mbps
Avg - 74.7mbps
RA - 5.5ms
CPU - 5%
Long
Burst - 129.2mbps
Avg - 74.5mbps
RA - 5.5ms
CPU - 5%
Seemed to give pretty accurate results for my Fujitsu 15k SCSI drives.
Any idea what kind of drives they are? As in model/brand. My recommendation for a SCSI card would depend on the potential combined speed of all 6 drives.
If some speakers have THX certification you can assume that they are pretty good. However, THX certification does not make them automatically better than another pair of speakers without the certification. You can't lump speakers into THX and non-THX. Why don't you post some of the speaker sets...
'm not even sure if I would call them the king of SCSI anymore. The last SCSI drive they have made was a 12/10/32S, which I own. The problem is that it's still only a 12x burner and does not support burning of any of these new copy protections. I think that Yamaha and maybe some other companies...
Dual PS will work fine. I have two 250W ones running in my server. It saved me from having to buy a larger 300-350W and gave me more power leads. There are a few different ways you can hook these up. The thread below over at HardOCP's forums has multuiple ways to do it...
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