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by Kaleid
Wed Sep 26, 2007 7:30 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: At least Clinton knew his left from his right.
Replies: 105
Views: 45849

Today, like yesterday the media helps selling wars. See the documentary "War made easy"...
by Kaleid
Sat Sep 01, 2007 7:29 pm
Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
Topic: Zalman VF1000 when
Replies: 19
Views: 12106

Zalman VF1000 LED & RHS88 review up:

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Zalman/ZM-VF1000LED
by Kaleid
Mon Aug 20, 2007 4:11 pm
Forum: Silent Storage
Topic: Samsung F1 series hard drives w/1TB model
Replies: 394
Views: 405724

Well, I have now placed my 320GB .10 inside my sisters computer and use two t166 500GB drives, and I can't really notice any difference in performance. There's certainly a difference in the soundvolume, as I've already said the Samsungs are much more quiet. According to fudzilla, the new Seagates wi...
by Kaleid
Fri Aug 17, 2007 10:41 am
Forum: Silent Storage
Topic: Samsung F1 series hard drives w/1TB model
Replies: 394
Views: 405724

I already have two 500GB t166, but would like a third HDD that is faster for windows and games (my Seagate .10 is only temporary and will be sold very cheaply to my sister). Numbers I've seen seems to indicate that the 7200.11 series is quieter than than 7200.10, and while this may not be true then ...
by Kaleid
Fri Aug 17, 2007 6:11 am
Forum: Silent Storage
Topic: Samsung F1 series hard drives w/1TB model
Replies: 394
Views: 405724

alfred wrote:http://www.hartware.de/news_42808.html

All 320, 500, 750 GB & 1 TB Samsung F1 models first announced for July/August are now planned for October.
That's too bad. Might have to pick up a 7200.11 500GB instead...if those will ever come out too...
by Kaleid
Mon Aug 13, 2007 4:07 pm
Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
Topic: Samsung SyncMaster 931BW
Replies: 32
Views: 35424

I bought this monitor a couple of weeks ago but had to return it since I wasn't really aware that TN screens have so bad viewing angles and on top of it all it made a rather high pitchy noise. So I read a bit about different panels and went with a far superior S-IPS Philips 200WP7ES instead. Far bet...
by Kaleid
Mon Jul 30, 2007 4:55 am
Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
Topic: 8800 buzzing coil sound
Replies: 39
Views: 47854

A friend recently bought a 7900GS and that card too had the problems with buzzing coil sound... :(
Guess I'm going to have to wait for a 65nm or smaller Ati before I upgrade from my x1900xt...unfortunaly R600 is extremely disappointing.
by Kaleid
Thu Jul 26, 2007 6:45 pm
Forum: Silent Storage
Topic: New design for the Samsung HD501LJ?
Replies: 3
Views: 3220

Try benchmarking the new drive and see if there's any performance increase...
by Kaleid
Sun Jul 22, 2007 3:43 pm
Forum: Silent Storage
Topic: Different Seagate Baracuda 7200.?
Replies: 5
Views: 3049

a small tip

I discovered that my 7200.10 320GB drive was running in SATA1 mode instead of SATA2. To run in mode 2 remove the jumper that is used in the harddrives.

No real performance increases except for burst speed which jumped from 133mB/s to 214mB/s.
by Kaleid
Fri Jul 20, 2007 8:17 pm
Forum: Site Feedback
Topic: Over a month since last SPCR review?
Replies: 16
Views: 12638

I hope there are plans to review many of the newest harddrives...F1 seems most interesting..
by Kaleid
Thu Jul 19, 2007 11:07 am
Forum: Silent Storage
Topic: Samsung F1 series hard drives w/1TB model
Replies: 394
Views: 405724

Let's hope for a release soon. I'm ready to take my chances with a bit noisier drive if that happens to become the truth just to get some extra performance.
by Kaleid
Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:32 pm
Forum: Silent Storage
Topic: wd3200aaks: Trippy HDtach and HDTune benchmarks. SUSPENDED.
Replies: 14
Views: 10246

Benchmark with Hdtune as well and let's see what it says...
by Kaleid
Sat Jul 07, 2007 5:14 am
Forum: CPU Cooling
Topic: Scythe Mini Ninja spotted
Replies: 106
Views: 96102

Well, I probably won't, just musing out loudly.
by Kaleid
Sat Jul 07, 2007 3:52 am
Forum: CPU Cooling
Topic: Scythe Mini Ninja spotted
Replies: 106
Views: 96102

Without a soundcard that can be easily arranged...
by Kaleid
Fri Jul 06, 2007 7:06 pm
Forum: CPU Cooling
Topic: Scythe Mini Ninja spotted
Replies: 106
Views: 96102

I wonder if it works with a VGA card.. cooling should be great. :P
by Kaleid
Sat Jun 23, 2007 4:36 pm
Forum: Silent Storage
Topic: Samsung F1 series hard drives w/1TB model
Replies: 394
Views: 405724

Release date sometime during July according to what I read on another board, no idea if that's true.
by Kaleid
Tue Jun 19, 2007 5:02 pm
Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
Topic: zalman hp-80d
Replies: 11
Views: 5244

Worked with my x1900xt and Nexus 120mm fan, unfortunaly temps were too high so I had to switch to VF900CU...which was too loud so the fan had the be replaced.
by Kaleid
Fri Jun 15, 2007 3:40 am
Forum: Silent Storage
Topic: Samsung F1 series hard drives w/1TB model
Replies: 394
Views: 405724

Are there any words about a release date?
by Kaleid
Fri Jun 15, 2007 3:32 am
Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
Topic: AMD 2600XT prices here.
Replies: 4
Views: 3704

Unfortunaly the low prices seems to indicate one thing - poor performance.
Hardly surprising with that 128-bit bus.
by Kaleid
Fri Jun 15, 2007 3:16 am
Forum: CPU Cooling
Topic: Thermalright 120 Extreme Fan question
Replies: 6
Views: 3566

Most usually mention Scythe's Ninja...
by Kaleid
Thu Jun 14, 2007 6:05 pm
Forum: CPU Cooling
Topic: Thermalright 120 Extreme Fan question
Replies: 6
Views: 3566

Seems "open screw mounting flanges" means that you have to have the right type of fan so that it can be attached to the heatsink.
by Kaleid
Thu Jun 14, 2007 3:54 am
Forum: CPU Cooling
Topic: Help me safely lap a scuffed Scythe Ninja hsf
Replies: 9
Views: 5893

by Kaleid
Mon Jun 11, 2007 3:47 pm
Forum: Silent Storage
Topic: Samsung F1 series hard drives w/1TB model
Replies: 394
Views: 405724

I wonder what size the platters will have for the 500 and 750GB model...
by Kaleid
Mon Jun 11, 2007 2:52 pm
Forum: Silent Storage
Topic: Samsung F1 series hard drives w/1TB model
Replies: 394
Views: 405724

Wow, so 333(+1)GB / platter rumour was true.

http://ec.ingrammicro.de/pdf/8864948.pdf

Edit: Missing word
by Kaleid
Sun Jun 10, 2007 3:04 pm
Forum: Silent Storage
Topic: quietest config for 3TB?
Replies: 17
Views: 12092

I hope the Samsung rumours are true, I want two 666GB drives. :)
by Kaleid
Wed Jun 06, 2007 4:11 pm
Forum: CPU Cooling
Topic: Ninja Copper Version
Replies: 16
Views: 10317

According to: http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Computex2007/Scythe/ It won't be released. "The Ninja is one few passive heatsinks out there and Scythe also has the all copper variant at the booth. This one will not be sold, as the material is simply to expensive to justify the slight increase in p...
by Kaleid
Wed Jun 06, 2007 3:40 am
Forum: CPU Cooling
Topic: New Scythe heatsink
Replies: 11
Views: 5225

Holy *beep* :shock:
by Kaleid
Mon May 14, 2007 9:16 am
Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
Topic: ATI's answer to NVidia 8800: R600
Replies: 87
Views: 54096

I think it's certain that the G80 core is better than R600, which seems to lack in the texture department but is stronger than G80 when it comes to games with plenty of shaders. Atleast Ati has a 512-bit memory controller for the next core ready. I think I'll skip this generation alltogether and sti...
by Kaleid
Sat Apr 28, 2007 2:26 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: K10 at 2.5 GHz beats QX6800 in multimedia
Replies: 5
Views: 3764

I hope those numbers are correct. AMD needs a real winner ASAP.
by Kaleid
Fri Apr 27, 2007 4:40 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Audigy LS vs. X-fi
Replies: 14
Views: 7739

I did notice the audio difference going from Audigy 2 to the extrememusic (not not all X-fi cards have the x-fi chip), but that's because I have above average headphones and way above average hifi-system. No, it's because the SB 128 through Audigy 2 have had a crappy hardware resampler. Many cheape...