I thought the Geforce 8500 GT supported video acceleration. Maybe I can try an newer video card. The 8500 GT does support hardware offloading for MPEG2 and H.264, but only has partial support for VC-1. The most likely cause is your video player not using the hardware properly. Make sure your player...

Is your board AGP or PCI express for graphics? Fitting a modern GPU will solve video playback issues (as well as take the load off for flash etc) But it you're not on PCI express it's going to be harder to find something. I thought the Geforce 8500 GT supported video acceleration. Maybe I can try a...

My parents have an old PC that's too slow to play 1080p .mov files from the cellphone. It's a Sempron, 1GB of memory, Win XP. I tried using a Geforce 8500 GT to accelerate the video but the video is still too choppy. What would be the most cost effective way to get this done? If it's a CPU+mobo+memo...

The following are some of the PSUs available to me locally. Which of these are known to be quiet and reliable? Thanks... Antec High Current Gamer HCG-620M Antec High Current Pro HCP-750 Antec High Current Pro HCP-850 850W Corsair CMPSU-650AX 650W Corsair CMPSU-650HX 650W Corsair CMPSU-750HX 750W Cor...

Well I know little about the tools of this trade (PHP, MySQL etc) but have ideas for algorithms that I wish to implement, which need to be protected and encrypted. How can you rely on commercial web hosts not to obtain your codes anyway? If anyone is an expert in this area, I'd appreciate any tips, ...

Cool thanks. Now to pick which brands has the best card for each...

Can I put say one Radeon HD 6850 and one Radeon HD 5450 in the same computer in order to drive more than three monitors?

I have the MSI card and at stock it is definitely audible, but you can tweak the fan to 25% and then it becomes inaudible in the case at idle. For a comparison everyone might be familiar with, I would say the MSI card at 25% sounds about the same as 1 nexus 120mm fan, perhaps slightly less. I went ...

AFAIK no Nvidia solutions should be right out of the box close to these levels, but the reference GTX 560Ti (15-16dB at idle, 17-18dB at load). Thank you for the feedback. The cost premium of the Asus 6950 is making me re-consider. In the case of MSI, being able to adjust the fan speed via software...

I think MSI's model should be sufficiently quiet and would be cheaper and easier than going with a separate cooler. I think you should be not fully right: IIRC that MSI at stock settings should be around 18-19dB at idle, and 31-33dB at load, quite far from being quiet (an AC AXP should go around 15...

HD6950 seems like a good performance point and can supposedly drive 4 monitors but I have read reports of some cards spinning the fan up in multi-monitor settings. A 6950 with an Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme cooler won't need to be loud to keep temps down. With manual fan control you can lock the...

- I've heard current NVidia cards don't downclock the GPU in idle when in multimonitor config. This can amount to major wattage. Hopefully, someone with this setup will chime in. I actually clock my nVidia GPU/graphics RAM with shell scripts depending on the application. I assume this could be done...

I'm a fan of this video card and of your build. Do you know if the 6950 can drive 4 monitors simultaneously and independently, including one via HDMI which will also be the output for games? Much appreciated. Again, nice system!

I'd like to be able to play games on the new setup. I'm used to high power consumption with my current PC, so any power saving would be optional. I'm reading that MSI has a version of HD 6950 that has quieter fans, though it costs 20% more for me. I think I'd just need the one card plus a DP-to-DVI ...

I'm looking for suggestions for my next build. I have some specific needs in terms of output. These are the considerations: 1) output to 4 monitors: 3 DVI and 1 HDMI, up to 1080p. 2) quiet (I use a 8800 GTS and it's very quiet) 3) performance and value I currently use a passive 8500 GT to supplement...

AFAIK it's a relatively common issue regardless of the PSU brands: the pursuit of the best combination of videocard and PSU will be a tricky task when dealing with high performance parts. Reading various user reviews indicates this to be true. One suggestion is to take a chance and keep RMA'ing or ...

I have one: the SATA power cables are upside down and I had to twist them around to connect to the hard drives which becomes quite awkward. Are there some tricks to this? edit: ...I discovered the way of starting the cable from the top instead of bottom *gasp*. Feeling retarded. Not ideal though. An...

Has anyone heard something like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4d23F2jehQ
http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=6393.0

Because of this I'm hesitant to go with Corsair.

IDvsEGO wrote:Most games have ways around playing from the disc..

Am I the only one who is very suspicious of no-CD cracks? I suspect many may have spyware. Even if it passes an antivirus scan I still don't trust it.

This would be for a new system build. General purpose computing. Just wondering what the popular options are around here.

What'd be a good cost-effective choice at the moment or in the near future?

I have a headset for my iPhone but it doesn't do music. Looking for one that will allow me to talk on the phone and listen to music as well. Any ideas?

Should have integrated graphics. I wish to install two AOC-SASLP-MV8 cards for hard drives.

Update:
found some boards:
Gigabyte GA-MA785G-UD3H
SUPERMICRO MBD-X7SLA-L-O

thanks I think that's a good idea. Do you know if that model comes with the SAS to SATA cables needed?

Please name some (and if you can a low power CPU that goes with it). Goal is to use a SUPERMICRO AOC-SAT2-MV8 controller for 8 SATA ports.

For those of you who like to add lots of hard drives to a server, say 7+, what controller do you use? One cost effective model I know of is SUPERMICRO AOC-SAT2-MV8 which supports 8 SATA ports but it's PCI-X, which works in PCI but slower that way. Anyone knows similar controllers with many ports for...

I liked the Gigabyte GA-MA74GM-S2/H but my local retailer no longer carries it. Perhaps it's been replaced by something. Any ideas?

The thing is that I will receive files with the same type of filenames incrementally, that's why I'm looking for a one-click solution where I click on a file and it will execute the renaming in the folder. This can be either a batch file or a trigger for a renaming utility. Can any of those utilitie...

can anyone write a script that does the following type of substitution: abc-123.txt --> xyzxyz-123.txt abc-456.txt --> xyzxyz-456.txt abc-789.txt --> xyzxyz-789.txt So I want to replace all instances of "abc" with "xyzxyz", and keep other things. ren abc*.txt xyzxyz*.txt doesn't work because it will...

RAID1's wasted space is 50%, which is practical mostly when you don't have a lot of files. If you have terabytes of data, the parity drives quickly add up. Higher RAID levels are desirable in that they lower wasted space to the order of 1/n drives, yet they are undesirable in the additional problems...