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- Thu Jul 13, 2006 11:24 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Asus or MSI Geforce 6150 Based Motherboard?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 9663
having just bought and installed a jetway 754gt3-ptd , i can say that i'm extremely impressed. tv-out, dvi-out, 430 southbridge, excellent voltage controls (can undervolt semprons that don't support it, i.e. multipliers of <= 8), excellent bios in general.. i really have nothing bad to say about it....
- Mon Jun 06, 2005 7:57 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Problem with new PSU (Seasonic S12 330w)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2942
those external devices won't be drawing as much power as the hard drives spinning up, but unplugging them might give enough headroom to get the computer up and running. a higher-wattage psu may fix the problem if that's what it ends up being, the best way to find out would be to monitor your voltage...
- Mon Jun 06, 2005 7:04 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Problem with new PSU (Seasonic S12 330w)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2942
- Wed May 25, 2005 7:16 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Audiophilia: hobby or disease? (CONTINUED)
- Replies: 226
- Views: 162725
don't forget, pccooler isn't a manufacturer either, the zalman-"inspired" parts they sell come from primecooler.
- Sat May 21, 2005 9:10 pm
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Yate Loon PCI Slot Fan?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2129
- Sat May 21, 2005 8:59 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Audiophilia: hobby or disease? (CONTINUED)
- Replies: 226
- Views: 162725
So I'm guessing you're not really a videophile, and perhaps you might even prefer worse equipment if it makes the artifacts harder to see? Are the artifacts of brightness or of color, if of color, does turning the colourness of the image down help? vhs just looks uniformly bad compared to dvd, and ...
- Sat May 21, 2005 8:25 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Audiophilia: hobby or disease? (CONTINUED)
- Replies: 226
- Views: 162725
I agree that the (one) trick is indeed to be able to test electronically, in an objective reproducible way, the results that we hear with our ears. Thus far, this has not been the case and I agree with yeha that good test ought to be our goal. Where we differ is in two places. First, in that I beli...
- Fri May 20, 2005 11:46 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: RAM suggestions for underclocking and overclocking?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8788
well along those lines, we should be looking for ram that gets you the most mhz per unit voltage as it'll maximize our performance per watt :) to be honest i've never even seen a post here where someone got a single-memory-stick system, wrote down some watt-meter measurements, added a second stick o...
- Fri May 20, 2005 11:20 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Audiophilia: hobby or disease? (CONTINUED)
- Replies: 226
- Views: 162725
Truly terrible compression schemes would be correctly identified by all and very good compression (say true lossless) would be correctly identified by none--telling us much about the quality of the compression, though little about the listeners. what else, if anything, would be changed about the te...
- Fri May 20, 2005 7:46 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Audiophilia: hobby or disease? (CONTINUED)
- Replies: 226
- Views: 162725
Then you must be watching the equipment and not the show, that seems even worse than audiophilia - like getting an expensive stereo for listening to audiobooks. They can't please everyone. Some people would be really pissed if they pulled some of the periphery channels to give more bandwith to the ...
- Fri May 20, 2005 7:26 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: serious undervolting
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5512
- Thu May 19, 2005 11:03 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Audiophilia: hobby or disease? (CONTINUED)
- Replies: 226
- Views: 162725
DV is a lossy codec that strives (and almost succeeds) to achieve transparency. Many broadcast signals are also compressed, although these typically use bitrates beyond the threshold of transparency. done right, dv does what was asked of it - a cbr, simple-to-implement-in-hardware good-enough-for-m...
- Thu May 19, 2005 7:36 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: serious undervolting
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5512
- Thu May 19, 2005 5:13 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Audiophilia: hobby or disease? (CONTINUED)
- Replies: 226
- Views: 162725
yes rgb is a waste - if you're going to spend 24 bits on a pixel, you can get much more perceived accuracy or equal rgb's perceived accuracy with fewer bits. digital audio is similar - those 16 bits would have been better spent on logarithmically quantized amplitudes instead of linearly. now this ca...
- Thu May 19, 2005 2:25 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: serious undervolting
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5512
serious undervolting
what's the most extreme example you've been able to find? i just found this gem today:
http://www.coolaler.com/ipb/index.php?showtopic=52406
yikes! that's consuming less power than stock speeds!
http://www.coolaler.com/ipb/index.php?showtopic=52406
yikes! that's consuming less power than stock speeds!
- Wed May 18, 2005 8:55 pm
- Forum: Quiet Prebuilt, SFF and Barebones Systems
- Topic: Quiet Gaming PC - What's New ??
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8592
yup - the s12 380w can be found almost $20 cheaper! newegg just doesn't give me that same good feeling that it once did - prices have steadily risen to middle-of-the-pack, and the last 2 times i've ordered from them the goods came in multiple shipments/days (different origins) anyway. if i was makin...
- Wed May 18, 2005 5:50 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: My Phantom is going to die in 3 weeks.
- Replies: 24
- Views: 13677
- Wed May 18, 2005 4:46 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: My Phantom is going to die in 3 weeks.
- Replies: 24
- Views: 13677
- Wed May 18, 2005 9:24 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Suspend entire cage, or just the drive?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3527
i just suspended a 3-drive cage (generic case) containing just an sp1614n with bungee cords under the 5.25" bays. there are no vibration issues caused by the cage and temps are 4 degrees better than suspending just the drive alone. the cage acts like a pretty lacklustre heatsink, but it's better tha...
- Wed May 18, 2005 2:31 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Audiophilia: hobby or disease? (CONTINUED)
- Replies: 226
- Views: 162725
alright.. Anyone who wants to answer this post, please answer this point clearly: if my preference for SACD was a figment of my imagination, why did certain SACDs sound so clearly bad to ordinary --such as Norah Jones' Fly Away--or whatever it was called?) eh? the tests you just listed are completel...
- Wed May 18, 2005 2:04 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Audiophilia: hobby or disease? (CONTINUED)
- Replies: 226
- Views: 162725
you did reply to most everything i said (definitely not everything), unfortunately your responses folded into this little word "nuance" which you are unable to define, and unless language is defined it's meaningless (i.e. your replies may as well not have existed at all). well here's your chance - e...
- Tue May 17, 2005 11:38 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: My complete silent rig (more pix coming)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8186
- Tue May 17, 2005 11:15 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: RAM suggestions for underclocking and overclocking?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8788
lower bounds is a tough one, very few overclockers will ever test for that. tccd would be your best bet - it can often span 200 to 290 or so mhz at cas 2.5 with extremely low voltage, 2.6 volts is common. very few other chips can compare, most require excessive voltage to reach even 250 mhz (bh5, ch...
- Tue May 17, 2005 11:03 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: next gen nVidia to pull 200+ W
- Replies: 65
- Views: 28982
the best part of all this is that the limited space card manufacturers actually have to exhaust all this heat, especially for sli configurations, puts an upper limit on the realistic amount of power they can ever draw. you just can't have two cards in sli positions putting out 120+ watts of heat eac...
- Tue May 17, 2005 10:51 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: My complete silent rig (more pix coming)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8186
i remember you asked about quiet fans on ocforums of all places :) i'm glad you've found a system that'll keep your parents happy. looks to be a very good system too. unfortunately looking up australian retailers got me a bit homesick - it's been 3 years since i headed to the usa, haven't been back ...
- Tue May 17, 2005 10:45 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Audiophilia: hobby or disease? (CONTINUED)
- Replies: 226
- Views: 162725
not all ripping methods are created equal, it's good that you've heard of eac :) this thread and included links would be a good introduction to why eac (or plextools, should it support your drive) is a better choice, and why just limiting drive reading speed can potentially make no difference at all...
- Tue May 17, 2005 9:38 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: My complete silent rig (more pix coming)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8186
- Tue May 17, 2005 5:59 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Audiophilia: hobby or disease? (CONTINUED)
- Replies: 226
- Views: 162725
- Tue May 17, 2005 12:16 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Audiophilia: hobby or disease? (CONTINUED)
- Replies: 226
- Views: 162725
sigh. i'm a better listener than probably 99% of the population, yourself included - years of testing audio compression, many many years of piano/saxophone/clarinet training, even longer transposing songs from recordings into sheet music and experience hearing many things that bystanders miss. if yo...
- Tue May 17, 2005 9:43 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Audiophilia: hobby or disease? (CONTINUED)
- Replies: 226
- Views: 162725