Right now there are some decent deals out there for what I am looking at ($900-1000 or so athlon laptop)
Should I buy now or wait till mid september and hope for some post school deals?
I guess another way to ask this is:
Does the "back to school" blitz drive prices up due to demand or down...
I dont want it for home use. I want our IT dept to get it for our insanely huge/slow DB.
EDIT:
Also that AMD link says that the CPUS are for 4 and 8 way servers. It doesn't say that the 8-way actually EXIST...
EDIT: man my spelling sucks...
I thouhgt 8 way opterons were coming and that they were going to be insane. I can't seem to find any info on them.
AMD's site makes no mention of them.
AMD's benchmarks
Also I can't find any good, current benchmarks using MS SQL.
Sigh, so much for convincing IT that opterons are the way to...
I can't find any benchmarks they want. They want windows 2000 with SQL 2000 benchmarks. I cant find any with google. Anands benchmarks were dismissed because "its only doing 256 transactions a second we are doing over 2500...". Are there any good opteron reviews out there that are on windows 2000??
hardware moves swiftly? wwhhhaaat? It will be 1-2 years before PCI-E is standard. and probably 5 years beofre it is off Mobo's. NVidia doesn't even have a card lined up till almost a year from now. Look at SATA, 80%+ of drives are still PATA. Hardware moooveess sllloowwwlllyyy....
BTX is no...
I'd go pirate a copy, since you already own it then you don't have to deal with the freakin activation.
Is that legal or moral? I don't know, but its an easy route. I mean MS is trying to block people who DONT own XP from getting a copy.
Dave
If you have win XP go for 512. Though 384 should be okay, though.
Heres a cool trick. open task manager go to Perfromance. look at Commit Charge. The "peak" in that box is the most that your PC has used in this session (divide by 1024 to get MB). don't logoff for a week, see what your high is...
I think that ATX is serving us fine, just need new powersupplies with difft power conectors.
I bet Intel will push BTX end next year, but not many will take up thier offer.
Temp internet definatly hits the HD. Lots of small, widely scattered files.
I'd love to have 1GB of ram so 512 could be a ram drive for IE temp.
One way to work around that is to have a batch file that runs every night.
run cleanmgr /sageset:99 then set up a nightly batch file to do this...
Anands Blog
When does your HD grind the most? Thats where a new fast shiny HD should help the most right?
For me:
Windows startup
Winamp loading files
Compiling a VS project.
Starting Games.
When it hits the swapfile
What do you guys think?
Dave
You guys are totally missing HD's. They are VERY important. Get a raid controller and throw in a 2nd HD. Higher HD speed will noticibly effect your computer.
I'm sorta bummed that you can't buy a good card for $150 anymore. I mean is the 9600SE much better than a GF 440 MX? They both will be useless when Doom 3 + HL2 come out.
Dave
I really enjoy my NEC -FE990. It has a good price/features ratio. I like the black too. I got mine at the dell home store. Use google to find one of thoe comparison shopper things... Otherwise Samsung makes great monitors as well.
Dave
This sucks, that means I have to spend at least $150 to get a videocard that wont be useless come june (ie when HL2 + Doom 3 are out)
Edit: I noticed that the SE and XT arent revivied many places. tomshardware used to have great super video card reviews where you could compare performance of...
What the heck is up with all these different versions? I cant even find reviews on anandtech of the origional 9600, or the SE. The prices seem to wildly differ as well. Does anyone know which of these cards is the best deal? I'm looking for a video cards in the $100 range
Dave
I'm going to go with accord, its because the difference in rotation speed from the center to the outside.
Heh I had a bigfoot 8GB 4500RPm.. damn it was slow.. I coulda gotten a 4GB 5700, shoulda gone that route.
I think what they really need to do is introdce 2 readwrite heads, located...
Thanks!
I 'm going to go with the FE990, seems like a good buy at dell. $225 with free shipping...
I like that has good reviews everywhere, and they all say its good price/performace at $250 and I'm getting it for $25 less.
Does dot pitch really matter anymore?
I mean the 955df has .20 dot pitch that seems to be better than most cheaper 19"ers, but It didn't get that great of reviews.
Know of any Monitor reviews other than cnet?
edit found this:
http://anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1612
I'm looking for an inexpensive 19" but nothign too cheap. like the $200 range. I like samsungs Dynaflat but the 955df got bad reviews on cNet. I haven't heard many good things about NEC monitors though.
Anyone have any monitor advice? Best buy sucks now, they only have like 2 cheap crts, and...
Worth the wait. Execellent article. Can't wait for parts 3&4
Out classes what's out there by far! (sorry Johan!)
Would have been cool to set up the Opteron as an actual webserver so you could say that the article was getting served from what you reviewed :)
I'm confused as to when it pauses.
is it before it displayes the first bios screen,
before it does the memory check,
before it lists the drives,
or before it starts booting the OS?
try setting the bios to defaults.
if not that then
then try unplugging all drives, just to see if how quick it...
one partition, there really isnt a befiti to splitting it up much.. just a waste of time, and a PITA
At most 2.
1 for OS+ programs + games
2) data (maybe ps scratch and cache)
If you have data you need to recover and you are SURE that the drive is the probo (I suggest trying it in a friends PC)
Try the freezer trick... there are a vouple of old threads discussing it on here.. I'll leave it up to you to find them.
basically if you get the click of death you freeze...
Okay.. well it has somethign to do with obtaining an IP address. wierd.
I reinstalled all the drivers and protocols for netowroking.
the only thing that seems to work is booting in safemode, then restarting.
if you shut down again everythign is messed up again...
DAve
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