Search found 921 matches
- Tue Feb 26, 2008 11:43 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: WD Green Power - a new quiet 3.5" hdd standard
- Replies: 76
- Views: 144404
I'm using Seagate 1TB drives because I get them from a friend at seagate. They are far from quiet and out of the 3 in my server, 1 died within a month. I'm still trying to get him to get me another. Oh well, I'm happy enough with 2.75TB for now. :) (2 1TB Seagate drives and one 750 that I actually b...
- Wed Feb 20, 2008 3:50 pm
- Forum: Green Computing
- Topic: madness of 1080p
- Replies: 71
- Views: 51885
Jesse, I imagine you are correct. The article was so well written that I assumed that it was correct. All the information I ever saw in it was accurate with what I had already learned, and it presents the information in a nice graphical manner. Regardless of the complexities of how the video was sho...
- Tue Feb 19, 2008 9:48 am
- Forum: Green Computing
- Topic: madness of 1080p
- Replies: 71
- Views: 51885
- Mon Feb 18, 2008 2:48 pm
- Forum: Green Computing
- Topic: madness of 1080p
- Replies: 71
- Views: 51885
Sorry, 1080i is two fields per frame making frames a full 1920 x 1080. On static scenes there is no loss of resolution because fields are simply added together. This gives you the full resolution of 2M pixels and the incredible detail that comes with 1080. When a scene is moving, there is a loss of ...
- Mon Feb 18, 2008 12:06 pm
- Forum: Green Computing
- Topic: madness of 1080p
- Replies: 71
- Views: 51885
yeah, $100 oil just happened by itself. also multi year high prices for copper, platinum, gold and other commodities. no, resources can never get scarce, it's impossible. Umm, I already addressed that in my prior post: As one resource gets more expensive to extract, another with take its place. the...
- Mon Feb 18, 2008 11:46 am
- Forum: Green Computing
- Topic: madness of 1080p
- Replies: 71
- Views: 51885
I hate these stupid hippie arguments about how resources are getting depleted, how the earth is warming, and how the consumerism economy is the enemy. Get a life people. As one resource gets more expensive to extract, another with take its place. Such is technology and free markets. Look what all th...
- Fri Feb 15, 2008 6:14 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: HTPC, power and vibration reduction from current build
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3933
- Fri Feb 15, 2008 10:23 am
- Forum: Green Computing
- Topic: madness of 1080p
- Replies: 71
- Views: 51885
- Mon Feb 04, 2008 2:41 pm
- Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
- Topic: Building a quiet system- Should I use a mobile cpu?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9693
Let's let MikeC and Jan explain it. Linky
- Sat Feb 02, 2008 10:02 am
- Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
- Topic: Building a quiet system- Should I use a mobile cpu?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9693
- Thu Jan 31, 2008 10:50 pm
- Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
- Topic: Building a quiet system- Should I use a mobile cpu?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9693
I highly recommend the Arctic Cooling Alpine 7 heatsink for low power HTPC builds. It is low profile, very cheap, and effective at low RPM. It cannot handle overclocked processors, but I use them in most of my rigs with great success. If you are looking at alternatives to the AC7, make sure that you...
- Thu Jan 31, 2008 11:45 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Arctic Cooling Alpine 7 Pro: The Alpine 7 Revisited
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9159
It seems like it performs pretty much the same as the AC 7. I use the AC 7 on all my new builds as a replacement for the stock AMD fan. I have 3 systems running in my house, and 2 family systems. As a replacement for the stock fan in budget builds, you really can't go wrong. In my house it cools a A...
- Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:06 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: 256MB or 512MB 8600GT for HTPC?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6837
The current generation of AMD boards do enough acceleration to allow a 2.1ghz dual core cpu to decode the HD discs. Is this any different from using a current NVidia or Intel board! Intel does no acceleration for VC-1 or h.264, requiring everything to be decoded by the CPU. If you are using the che...
- Tue Jan 29, 2008 1:42 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: 256MB or 512MB 8600GT for HTPC?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6837
The current generation of AMD boards do enough acceleration to allow a 2.1ghz dual core cpu to decode the HD discs. Because that is the bare minimum cpu sold these days, (save a few single core semprons and celerons) I do not think I was misleading in any way. Anyway, it is my opinion that you are f...
- Mon Jan 28, 2008 4:08 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: 256MB or 512MB 8600GT for HTPC?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6837
Since you won't be able to game at 1080p resolutions with a 8600GT, I see no reason to step up to the 512MB version. You will be pleased. The scaling and deinterlacing is also much better than Intel graphics. Looks like you should have gone with an AMD rig. The integrated graphics all have built in ...
- Mon Jan 28, 2008 12:23 pm
- Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
- Topic: Building a quiet system- Should I use a mobile cpu?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9693
Oops. I mean the 4000+. It is $53 on Newegg. Not sure how much it is there? Get whichever chip you feel gives you more performance for your $, but stick to the 65nm chips. As for heat? it is not a problem with these chips. They are 65W processors, but they probably use more like 40W at full load and...
- Mon Jan 28, 2008 10:44 am
- Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
- Topic: Building a quiet system- Should I use a mobile cpu?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9693
MoDT (mobile on Desktop) was popular around here during the Pentium D and 85W AthlonX2 era. It has pretty much gone away IMO since the new desktop processors use very little power. I would consider either a cheap AMD system (they have the same stepdown as their mobile counterparts) or an Intel syste...
- Fri Jan 25, 2008 12:14 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Via [Isaiah]: low-power 64 bit CPU
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8006
The system that was playing the BluRay disk had an AMD 3850 doing all the decoding of the disc. Since h.264 BluRay discs use 10% of my S754 3400+, I would hope the new chip could handle that. In fact, I bet a 500Mhz P3 could handle that. As for 720p video, if the chipset has DxVA acceleration, which...
- Thu Jan 24, 2008 9:06 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Via [Isaiah]: low-power 64 bit CPU
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8006
Well, if it is indeed between 2 to 4 times as fast as the old one at the same clock, then it actually might have a reason to exist and will finally be able to compete with the celerons embeded on the intel boards. That would make the chip competitive clock for clock with Athlon64s. For most tasks in...
- Mon Jan 14, 2008 3:59 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Single fan mATX HTPC. Custom Aluminum case.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 15615
- Sat Jan 12, 2008 9:11 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Where the ... is that global [climate change] warming?
- Replies: 223
- Views: 91048
Right, management had nothing to do with it. Always someone else to blame. Sure is convenient. Meanwhile I still see new American cars with huge pieces of paint falling off them. I suppose that's the unions fault too. Management had everything to do with it. Management makes all the decisions based...
- Fri Jan 11, 2008 5:32 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Where the ... is that global [climate change] warming?
- Replies: 223
- Views: 91048
laserred, You have a long way to go before you can ever understand the way a business works. Unions are killing themselves and pricing themselves out of jobs, there is no stopping outsourcing, if you do, the entire economy would collapse and cheaper labor would still win. The economy is moving from ...
- Fri Jan 11, 2008 2:08 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Where the ... is that global [climate change] warming?
- Replies: 223
- Views: 91048
But unfortunately it's the least intelligent people that are having the most babies. Actually, it is the least educated that are having the most babies. I'm not about to make judgments on the intelligence of people until I meet them or see them driving or acting like morons. Global warming lost all...
- Thu Jan 10, 2008 2:09 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: P182 using 3 fans only! including PSU, VGA, and CPU!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6293
- Tue Jan 08, 2008 11:58 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Where the ... is that global [climate change] warming?
- Replies: 223
- Views: 91048
I hate these arguments on this forum. Everyone claims to know what they are talking about but in reality, nobody knows crap. Anyone that claims to know, is full of crap. It is a theory only 10-15 years old and nobody can claim that it is fact. Anyone who does is full of crap. SFTU everyone and leave...
- Fri Jan 04, 2008 10:57 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: Questions from a Folder out of the loop for a few years
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5179
- Fri Jan 04, 2008 9:19 am
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: Questions from a Folder out of the loop for a few years
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5179
Questions from a Folder out of the loop for a few years
I've been folding for awhile now, but I haven't kept up on the latest trends in folding. I recently got a 40GB PS3 (almost exclusively for movies) and I'm letting it fold for me when it is idle. I checked out my scores and I'm getting 1400 PPD on the PS3, which I am very happy with. My 2 single core...
- Mon Dec 24, 2007 9:52 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Building a quiet HTPC
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1774
- Fri Dec 21, 2007 12:45 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: What to get AMD 690G or Nvidia 7050?
- Replies: 71
- Views: 44625
In terms of overall PC performance, dual core is king. Only people with specialized needs should ever buy a single core now. Cache and memory speed are so insignificant that it is almost not worth mentioning. Only when you get down to 128K cache and DDR2 533 speeds does it begin to make a significan...
- Fri Dec 21, 2007 12:10 pm
- Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
- Topic: Newbie Here - Where to Post?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6282
You have to rethink your assumptions here. You stated that you wanted small because you think that results in quiet. That is simply untrue. The smaller you get, typically, the louder it gets to cool that equipment. With two equivalent systems, the one with the larger heatsink will generally be quiet...