Didn't know they were available yet. Nice.Originally Posted by clocker
Time to start looking into some new toys.
Pneuberator.
Didn't know they were available yet. Nice.
Time to start looking into some new toys.
I am just a worthless liar. I am just an imbecile.
I will only complicate you. Trust in me and fall as well.
I will find a center in you. I will chew it up and leave.
I will work to elevate you just enough to bring you down.
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About the Gigabyte I-ram...
It might be a good idea to wait a bit to see if they make them with support for 300MB/s transfer rates.
Shovel Ready
Indeed.
Fun as it may be to play with, it'd cost $400 for me to get just a 2 GB setup...a bit pricey.
My next big acquisition is gonna be a Dell 2405 anyway.
"I am the one who knocks."- Heisenberg
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Nice Dell. I'm looking into 42" Plasma or maybe DLP.
Pneuberator.
Which would bring it up to ludicrous speed. (Spaceballs, anyone?)
It already blows 4-drive Raid 0s away in nearly all of the benches I read at techreport.com.
Wins all but one bench I think, but literally destroys Raid 0 in most.
That with being held at the 150MB/s SATA I spec.
On the other hand....
The RAM controller is limited to 1GB DIMMs, so 4GB per card.
You can stripe the cards, but then it's just getting too damned expensive.
i.e. (2) I-rams @ ~$130 USD, (8) 1 GB sticks of RAM.....
Hell, (1) I-ram + (4) gigasticks is bad enough.
I am just a worthless liar. I am just an imbecile.
I will only complicate you. Trust in me and fall as well.
I will find a center in you. I will chew it up and leave.
I will work to elevate you just enough to bring you down.
That HSPC version is an evolution of the original Senfu. I had an opportunity to buy one of those Senfus a while back for $30. Should have done it just for grins. I could have put my PSU on it, as that is about all that would fit on the tiny thing.
http://www.modthebox.com/review51_1.shtml
"Another scary case of parallel thinking"
clocker,
You are just so punny...it is actually another non-case example of parallel thinking.
I noticed that HSPC has a patent pending...there went one more money making venture out the door...
Shovel Ready
That will be quite enough of that, young man.clocker,
You are just so punny...it is actually another non-case example of parallel thinking.
Double punnage is explicitly prohibited in the EULA you agreed to.
"I am the one who knocks."- Heisenberg
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A "Search for Synergy" is required, it seems...That will be quite enough of that, young man.clocker,
You are just so punny...it is actually another non-case example of parallel thinking.
Double punnage is explicitly prohibited in the EULA you agreed to.
"Researchers have already cast much darkness on the subject, and if they continue their investigations, we shall soon know nothing at all about it."
-Mark Twain
Shovel Ready
Re: Gigabyte I-RAM...
Just for grins (and because my regular XP Pro requires phone activation) I reinstalled 64bit XP Pro today.
It's the 180 day "trial version" and it activates with no problem.
Had a bit of trouble finding working SATA/RAID drivers but finally found a viable floppy image and the install proceeded without a hitch.
Haven't done any benching yet and don't expect any miraculous improvements.
Compared to my last foray into 64bit computing I must say that driver support has improved significantly...was able to obtain all Sprocket's needs in about 15 minutes of light Google work.
Anyways....
My C: drive, with minimal programs installed, comes to 3.57GB.
Just barely squeezable into a four gig I-RAM setup.
Nice as it may be, I think that I'll wait for a larger solid state storage solution to arrive...the I-RAM works out to about $150 per GB which is still a bit rich for me.
Sprocket disagrees, of course.
"I am the one who knocks."- Heisenberg
Shovel Ready
Recieved a new toy yesterday...it's a real cutie.
The soon to be famous Jing-Ting ChipForce northbridge heatpipe cooler.
The Zippo lighter gives you some idea of how diminuitive this thing is.
Just trying to keep my options open here...putting a waterblock on the northbridge really eats up my open slots- the vid card has to default to the upper (max 8x) PCI-e slot and I have but one PCI slot free.
With any luck, this unit will work well enough ("well enough" defined as 30 to 35C NB temps)to allow the vid card to move back down to PCI-e #1, which means I could go SLI or even add the I-RAM card (assuming I hit the Powerball).
At any rate, it's worth a shot.
On a side note, I cracked 3K on the PC Pitstop test.
I've noticed that...
a). there are never any Intel chips anywhere near the top scores- perhaps the test discriminates?
b). dual core AMDs kill me in CPU score (I've seen as high as 16,000 for an x2 4200) but their memory scores are way lower.
c). the RAID array kicks ass in the disk scoring, which only confirms the seat-of-the-pants impression when using the PC.
Still waiting on the arrival of my replacement GPU block (yes, this is getting ridiculous)...when it comes I can try out the Jing-Ting thing and see how it works...
Last edited by clocker; 03-24-2006 at 01:15 PM.
"I am the one who knocks."- Heisenberg
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