Yeah - 690 seeds at the time speaking. If only all torrents were this fast! {Looking at the next row in Torrenstorm which is a 1.4gb file with a 2.00kB transfer speed}/
I've had the 9800 since May 2003, and my Powercolor Radeon 9800 PRO still runs like a charm and there's absolutely nothing wrong with it.
It is being coupled with a 2.4ghz 512kb AMD64 CPU (3200 Newcastle; liquid cooling 240x10; 1GB ram, SATA drives). Stability, performance is top notch and I can't see myself buying another video card for at least half a year. I should thus be able to get at least a 2 year service life from the 9800 which is pretty good considering the fact that I'm not into anything sub par.
I got the AMD64 CPU a couple of months ago and it was like adding nitrous to my system; it was previously on a AMD-XP running at 2.2ghz, this is now powering my partner's computer, and my partner's ex computer is now being my Mandrake Linux 10.1 box.:)
If you stagger your upgrades so that you do GPU and CPU/MB independent of each other you'll tend to get a better overall satisfaction by staying ahead of the curve; let the CPU pull the GPU, then let the GPU pull the CPU.
Mind you this doesn't really work if you buy budget stuff, and you've got to time your purchases to coincide with major new releases. The current crop of high end cards are still not completely slaughtering my 9800 but I expect this to change in about half a year when I'll look at upgrading it next.
So a 6 month life span is a bull statement; I reckon you should be able to get at least 1.5 to 2 years out of quality equipment if timed right, and this includes the ability to run the latest titles.
FWIW: My gaming applications include Richard Burns Rally, Nascar 2003, Doom 3 and Eve-online.
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Many thanks - I will read this now! Was this exclusive to the games section, i.e. not front page news? Or did I just manage to miss it somehow?
where was /. when Christopher Reeve passed away?
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Don't know about you guys, but to me Reeve was a very big man not only being the best Superman there could ever be but also for the strength and incredible courage he showed when almost everything was taken away from him in that accident.
I checked in then and several times of the next few days, over and over again, to see any mention of it and a thread regarding his life and his fight for pushing technologies and research in the spinal areas, but alas no mention at all. It would not be an understatement to say that I did get quite emotional thinking about how he would not live to witness the fruits of all that will be discovered in the next 10 years.
So I guess I've finally found the thread to oust my disappointment with the editors.... Just to think that only the _new superman_ warrants mention when a _great one_ passed away. Bloody good one, mates.
That should solve your problems; fwiw, my Audigy2 platinum has no problem playing back audio from a DAT audio recorder coming in via SPDIF. This is with the black front drive, it works great.
Be aware that Soundstorm is NOT featured on ANY of the nforce3 chipsets. You must use nforce2.
For my 2nd computer, my sound art student partner is using nforce2 soundstorm with DD encoding to hook up to a Dolby Digital amp that only has the coax in, i.e. no 5 analogue inputs. With this amp, the nforce2 soundstorm is presently the only thing available on the market today that can let her edit sound in 5 channel surround in Sony Vegas Video.
I bought a nforce3 250 for myself and updated the audio straight away. However for all its greatness even the audigy2 platinum cannot encode Dolby Digital on the fly. Lucky I have a Create mini amp for my surround gaming [Doom3 is totally wicked sound wise], otherwise I'd be stuffed.
I'm pissed off myself that soundstorm was dropped after nforce2.
It's convenient to have a bunch of things like that in one semi-easy-to-use device.
Yep my Nokia 5140 has a flashlight and compass, not to mention DB meter.
Latter is very useful for evaluating the success of your latest attempt to reduce the noise level of your overclocked case - or even to figure out if the bar you are in really is as loud as you think, whilst cursing yourself for having forgotten earlplugs, the former can get quite handy when navigating the big world. Who carries a compass these days anyway.
It's even got a GPS shell as an upgrade on its way. Yay!
Since no-one has mentioned it yet: The new, übercool racing sim GTR will have native support for the TrackIR. The demo shows hint of one wicked racing sim and playing this online with the TrackIR will only heighten the sense of immersion. You'd basically use it to look into the turns and also to glance left/right to check for traffic. I really can't wait for GTR to be released; I'll order the TrackIR at the same time.
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I didn't even have a cassette player for the first 6 months of my Vic20. Every time I cycled the computer it was a fresh slate:) Sorry about that "above 40" quip..
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Hey, make that over 40 or something? I'm 31 and although I only got my first computer at age 10 I feel like my childhood began then. (Prior to that, Lego construction projects never lost its appeal.) So I can truthfully say that I grew up on a Vic20, C64 and finally the Amiga. I'm half feeling today's kids will have it too easy...
Yeah I'd do that if I wasn't hooked on Microsoft's natural keyboards. At A$120 (~US$80), they're slightly more than those $20 a pop. And what with the new high end bluetooth one, they make mine look cheap! Maybe I should get one of those keyboard condoms for when browsing news during lunch etc; I remember having one of them for my old Amiga 2000 keyboard. Now that's a very long time ago! Till then, your shark analogy is quite apt.
dunno about plastics etc but if you ever tried popping off a key or two in one of your few-year-old keyboards - particularly if you regularly eat at your computer desk, well chances are you've located a primary source of smell just there.
The cool thing about Soundstorm is how it encodes multi channel sound into Dolby Digital on the fly. This enables the use of any DD receiver to be hooked up via a coaxial digital cable. Even an Audigy2 platinum cannot do the same thing; you've either got to have one of their own sound systems, or use 6 cables to hook up your receiver. Tough luck if it only has coax/optical. My sound art partner is using one such DD receiver to compose surround sound pieces with Sony Vegas 5.
How are those fun? I don't want anything to do with a motorcycle
Try doing a Phillip Island track day on a perfectly sunny 35c day on say a CBR250RR and find yourself outcornering and overtaking guys on many times more expensive and refined 600s, 750s and even liter Gixxie bikes.
They beat you down the straight but then you find the confidence to keep higher cornering speed that lets you overtake them again and build up enough of a gap that they're no longer able to overtake you again.
Observe that the corners of the footpegs have been shaved off - and more importantly that it no longer scared the $hit out of you when they touched the ground - and that GPR70 tyres [the only really good thing about your bike, comparatively] are so thoroughly scrubbed in that they sweating funny rubber pearls. Furthermore reflect on being able to 'knee-scrape' for the first time in your riding life, which could consist of two superbikeschool training days, and one previous Phillip Island track day.
Remember the decidedly more hardcore guys and even biker chicks from the more advanced groups who watched when it was their break and came up to you and commented on how you were riding the tits of your little zipper, saying you must have done a 2:05 on that completely stock thing with out of whack suspension
"nitroglycerine through the front door" of a spam company's offices? Well, unlike with what happens in Israel --- I wouldn't shed too many tears if someone actually did that.
Actually, just giving them some sort of other abuse short of killing everyone would probably be better in the long run...
These are guys whose _business_ is annoying normal people like ourselves. That they are allowed to operate on any soil is just incredible.
Very interesting! Now where's my mod points... That would have been a +1 insightful if I had one; they'd rather pay for the license than reveal when - or if ? hehe - they had the technology.
Yep, my Nokia Multigraph 445XPro is still proudly serving me today. And it's a 1998 model.
Nokian tyres are awesome, they make the best studded pushbike ones ever. Of course I don't need them anymore now that I've moved from Norway to Australia...
I'm not by any means loaded, but in this case I'd be willing to donate US$10 as well. If only 199 others would do it too (plus some for whatever overhead), it'd be a good fun & help the poor girls too...
What's wrong with wishing them pain and suffering? Seriously?!
They're consistently wasting my time and making me pay hard earned cash on anti spam programs that are only partly successful in removing stuff I never asked for. If one of those guys had the nerve to show up at my place, I'd seriously be wanting to smack his head in.
The turn the other cheek thing doesn't quite work with these guys. So fuggit.
We can now 'fight the cancer' AND leave our ties at home, thanks to recent research. As for speculation on going blind in the process, no fear - simply take that tie off and there's balance in the world!
Brilliant. Love it when old prejudices are, ahum, beaten off.
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Yeah - 690 seeds at the time speaking. If only all torrents were this fast! {Looking at the next row in Torrenstorm which is a 1.4gb file with a 2.00kB transfer speed}/
I've had the 9800 since May 2003, and my Powercolor Radeon 9800 PRO still runs like a charm and there's absolutely nothing wrong with it.
:)
It is being coupled with a 2.4ghz 512kb AMD64 CPU (3200 Newcastle; liquid cooling 240x10; 1GB ram, SATA drives). Stability, performance is top notch and I can't see myself buying another video card for at least half a year. I should thus be able to get at least a 2 year service life from the 9800 which is pretty good considering the fact that I'm not into anything sub par.
I got the AMD64 CPU a couple of months ago and it was like adding nitrous to my system; it was previously on a AMD-XP running at 2.2ghz, this is now powering my partner's computer, and my partner's ex computer is now being my Mandrake Linux 10.1 box.
If you stagger your upgrades so that you do GPU and CPU/MB independent of each other you'll tend to get a better overall satisfaction by staying ahead of the curve; let the CPU pull the GPU, then let the GPU pull the CPU.
Mind you this doesn't really work if you buy budget stuff, and you've got to time your purchases to coincide with major new releases. The current crop of high end cards are still not completely slaughtering my 9800 but I expect this to change in about half a year when I'll look at upgrading it next.
So a 6 month life span is a bull statement; I reckon you should be able to get at least 1.5 to 2 years out of quality equipment if timed right, and this includes the ability to run the latest titles.
FWIW: My gaming applications include Richard Burns Rally, Nascar 2003, Doom 3 and Eve-online.
Many thanks - I will read this now! Was this exclusive to the games section, i.e. not front page news? Or did I just manage to miss it somehow?
Don't know about you guys, but to me Reeve was a very big man not only being the best Superman there could ever be but also for the strength and incredible courage he showed when almost everything was taken away from him in that accident.
I checked in then and several times of the next few days, over and over again, to see any mention of it and a thread regarding his life and his fight for pushing technologies and research in the spinal areas, but alas no mention at all. It would not be an understatement to say that I did get quite emotional thinking about how he would not live to witness the fruits of all that will be discovered in the next 10 years.
So I guess I've finally found the thread to oust my disappointment with the editors.... Just to think that only the _new superman_ warrants mention when a _great one_ passed away. Bloody good one, mates.
the above really should be modded up as insightful.
I thought it was the Wife 2.0 upgrade that was the expensive one...
That should solve your problems; fwiw, my Audigy2 platinum has no problem playing back audio from a DAT audio recorder coming in via SPDIF. This is with the black front drive, it works great.
Be aware that Soundstorm is NOT featured on ANY of the nforce3 chipsets. You must use nforce2.
For my 2nd computer, my sound art student partner is using nforce2 soundstorm with DD encoding to hook up to a Dolby Digital amp that only has the coax in, i.e. no 5 analogue inputs. With this amp, the nforce2 soundstorm is presently the only thing available on the market today that can let her edit sound in 5 channel surround in Sony Vegas Video.
I bought a nforce3 250 for myself and updated the audio straight away. However for all its greatness even the audigy2 platinum cannot encode Dolby Digital on the fly. Lucky I have a Create mini amp for my surround gaming [Doom3 is totally wicked sound wise], otherwise I'd be stuffed.
I'm pissed off myself that soundstorm was dropped after nforce2.
It's convenient to have a bunch of things like that in one semi-easy-to-use device.
Yep my Nokia 5140 has a flashlight and compass, not to mention DB meter.
Latter is very useful for evaluating the success of your latest attempt to reduce the noise level of your overclocked case - or even to figure out if the bar you are in really is as loud as you think, whilst cursing yourself for having forgotten earlplugs, the former can get quite handy when navigating the big world. Who carries a compass these days anyway.
It's even got a GPS shell as an upgrade on its way. Yay!
Since no-one has mentioned it yet: The new, übercool racing sim GTR will have native support for the TrackIR.
The demo shows hint of one wicked racing sim and playing this online with the TrackIR will only heighten the sense of immersion. You'd basically use it to look into the turns and also to glance left/right to check for traffic. I really can't wait for GTR to be released; I'll order the TrackIR at the same time.
I didn't even have a cassette player for the first 6 months of my Vic20. Every time I cycled the computer it was a fresh slate :)
Sorry about that "above 40" quip..
Hey, make that over 40 or something? I'm 31 and although I only got my first computer at age 10 I feel like my childhood began then. (Prior to that, Lego construction projects never lost its appeal.) So I can truthfully say that I grew up on a Vic20, C64 and finally the Amiga. I'm half feeling today's kids will have it too easy...
Yeah I'd do that if I wasn't hooked on Microsoft's natural keyboards. At A$120 (~US$80), they're slightly more than those $20 a pop. And what with the new high end bluetooth one, they make mine look cheap!
Maybe I should get one of those keyboard condoms for when browsing news during lunch etc; I remember having one of them for my old Amiga 2000 keyboard. Now that's a very long time ago!
Till then, your shark analogy is quite apt.
dunno about plastics etc but if you ever tried popping off a key or two in one of your few-year-old keyboards - particularly if you regularly eat at your computer desk, well chances are you've located a primary source of smell just there.
The cool thing about Soundstorm is how it encodes multi channel sound into Dolby Digital on the fly. This enables the use of any DD receiver to be hooked up via a coaxial digital cable. Even an Audigy2 platinum cannot do the same thing; you've either got to have one of their own sound systems, or use 6 cables to hook up your receiver. Tough luck if it only has coax/optical. My sound art partner is using one such DD receiver to compose surround sound pieces with Sony Vegas 5.
How are those fun? I don't want anything to do with a motorcycle
Try doing a Phillip Island track day on a perfectly sunny 35c day on say a CBR250RR and find yourself outcornering and overtaking guys on many times more expensive and refined 600s, 750s and even liter Gixxie bikes.
They beat you down the straight but then you find the confidence to keep higher cornering speed that lets you overtake them again and build up enough of a gap that they're no longer able to overtake you again.
Observe that the corners of the footpegs have been shaved off - and more importantly that it no longer scared the $hit out of you when they touched the ground - and that GPR70 tyres [the only really good thing about your bike, comparatively] are so thoroughly scrubbed in that they sweating funny rubber pearls. Furthermore reflect on being able to 'knee-scrape' for the first time in your riding life, which could consist of two superbikeschool training days, and one previous Phillip Island track day.
Remember the decidedly more hardcore guys and even biker chicks from the more advanced groups who watched when it was their break and came up to you and commented on how you were riding the tits of your little zipper, saying you must have done a 2:05 on that completely stock thing with out of whack suspension
Then repeat the above statement.
video is cool, but now try doing it in a real world situation where you've got 60% of that space...
:)
I was surprised to be able to download the vid at full speed, though.
Your "normal" 35mm wouldn't be anywhere near the resolution required.
I think pirates should be required to buy their own firewalls.
That would stop 90% of all this shit propagating anyway.
I've got a leg license but my firewalls seem to put an end to even letting the worms be exposed to my winupdated machines.
"nitroglycerine through the front door" of a spam company's offices? Well, unlike with what happens in Israel --- I wouldn't shed too many tears if someone actually did that.
Actually, just giving them some sort of other abuse short of killing everyone would probably be better in the long run...
These are guys whose _business_ is annoying normal people like ourselves. That they are allowed to operate on any soil is just incredible.
Very interesting! Now where's my mod points... That would have been a +1 insightful if I had one; they'd rather pay for the license than reveal when - or if ? hehe - they had the technology.
Yep, my Nokia Multigraph 445XPro is still proudly serving me today. And it's a 1998 model.
Nokian tyres are awesome, they make the best studded pushbike ones ever. Of course I don't need them anymore now that I've moved from Norway to Australia...
http://www.nokian.com/history_en.html
I'm not by any means loaded, but in this case I'd be willing to donate US$10 as well. If only 199 others would do it too (plus some for whatever overhead), it'd be a good fun & help the poor girls too...
What's wrong with wishing them pain and suffering? Seriously?!
They're consistently wasting my time and making me pay hard earned cash on anti spam programs that are only partly successful in removing stuff I never asked for. If one of those guys had the nerve to show up at my place, I'd seriously be wanting to smack his head in.
The turn the other cheek thing doesn't quite work with these guys. So fuggit.
I say: One down, a thousand more to go.
We can now 'fight the cancer' AND leave our ties at home, thanks to recent research. As for speculation on going blind in the process, no fear - simply take that tie off and there's balance in the world!
Brilliant. Love it when old prejudices are, ahum, beaten off.