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28. November 2009 @ 01:32 |
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The iHAS424/7241S sure don't do as well as the 7200S/7200A do. Such a pity. I have seen worse though that played...
iHAS424 16X TYG03.
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28. November 2009 @ 01:42 |
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Originally posted by omegaman7:
Interesting comparison Garmoon. I don't believe i'll ever have a need for one though :P My brother will have a PS3, I'll have a BD-Rom at least here soon. I'd like to see movies the way they SHOULD be seen on my monitor :D
Here's a 12X TYG02. Boy that Pi E has me a bit nervous. And from the looks of things, 8X would have been better. The majority of the failures are in the 12X burn speed zone... Jitter looks interesting too.
I may just have to make this board a backup board. I'm not used to seeing TY's look this rough. And I wonder yet again, could having an obscene amount of devices ran through the Southbridge, cause some kind of problem. Or do I have an even larger problem. I've been noticing benches, and hearing the way russ talks about both his quad and dual cores, makes me wonder if my CPU is holding back somehow. I noticed today how it Jumped to a radical speed during encode, and then seemed to slow back like it couldn't quite do it. Makes me curious. Perhaps I should have stuck with a brand that works for me. I've noticed how brands kind of Choose their owner if you get me ;) Sony is dreaded by some, and favored by others. Asus is favored by thousands, and dreaded by others, etc.
I like what you're thinking but I wouldn't get stuck in a rut. ;) There are so many good brands out there but they all have their lemons. :P I can't remember what you have but ASUS, DFI, GIGABYTE, MSI, and Intel offer good mobos.... I'm sure someone else will kick in with some other off the wall brand but hey... ya gotta have your standards. :D
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28. November 2009 @ 02:47 |
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My first was an HP/Asus. My second was an MSI barebone, my third and fourth have been Gigabyte boards. The MSI is still as smooth as a babies bottom. In fact, If I didn't know any better, I'd say it were trying to keep up with the gigabyte and her quad core phenomII :)
My current Gigabyte board, is the one im wondering about. Its had a fairly rocky life...
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28. November 2009 @ 11:47 |
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Originally posted by omegaman7:
My current Gigabyte board, is the one im wondering about. Its had a fairly rocky life...
welcome to my world of gigabyte boards...lmao
no im not wishing any bad luck on you... hopefully i have taken it all so others wont have to deal with it..lol
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28. November 2009 @ 15:27 |
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I'd like to say that my next board would be an MSI, but the last one I bought for my brother went nearly tits up. I say nearly because it would decide when it would power up. It was NOT the PSU! But then, it was one of their cheaper models. Perhaps like i've heard about asus, one should buy their more expensive models to get a good board. Perhaps manufacturers take more pride in their top dog products...
I suppose it is possible that im somehow overlooking the obvious, and its something simple. It wouldn't be the first time :P
I've had two Gigabyte boards, two MSI's, and one asus. Perhaps I should give Asus another shot. People do use their boards for benchmarking quite a bit. Or perhaps a biostar. My sisters computer has a biostar. Nothing wrong with it.
Sorry about the rambling. This sort of conversation should probably be in the building thread...
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28. November 2009 @ 17:44 |
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Hell, McDonalds could have made the motherboard for this Dell XPS but so far I haven't had any hardware problems- what would those problems be? LOL Everything seems to work that I have plugged into it without issues. How would I identify the MB maker?
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28. November 2009 @ 17:57 |
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i'm not exactly sure how to explain my problems. Its as though the cpu MAY have bandwidth limitations, due to a board issue. That may be a stretch. There could be multiple reasons why I see what I do sometimes. I find it most distressing that I can't raise my NB/HT frequency a measly 200Mhz without problems.
Originally posted by garmoon:
How would I identify the MB maker?
This little appy, tells you all sorts of goodies :D
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28. November 2009 @ 18:53 |
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Here's a 7200S 12X burn. This media just plain sucks compared to previous batches, and previous revisions. The 003's were substantially better. I hope their batches get better, or i'll have to go TY full time. While I realize that all of these discs are playable (thanks to Optiarcs unparalleled burning capabilities) the burn quality dropping on verbatims is not a question, but a fact :P Certainly in BOTH my rigs. I wonder how well Optiarcs do with Ridata/Ritek discs...
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28. November 2009 @ 18:55 |
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i'm not exactly sure how to explain my problems. Its as though the cpu MAY have bandwidth limitations, due to a board issue. That may be a stretch. There could be multiple reasons why I see what I do sometimes. I find it most distressing that I can't raise my NB/HT frequency a measly 200Mhz without problems.
Oman7,
I can't adjust mine by multiplier as my CPU frequency is locked. I can lower it so I have the CPU host frequency set to 260MHz, using a 13.5 multiplier for 3.510GHz. I have the NB/HT frequency set to 2080MHz, using the 8x multiplier. Seems to work extremely well!
Russ
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28. November 2009 @ 19:03 |
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I have to leave my HT at 1800. For whatever reason, having it up disassociated one of my optical drives. Very weird. I've not had one problem since leaving it at 1800. I guess she'll become my backup around Tax return time...
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28. November 2009 @ 21:05 |
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Originally posted by omegaman7:
Here's a 7200S 12X burn. This media just plain sucks compared to previous batches, and previous revisions. The 003's were substantially better. I hope their batches get better, or i'll have to go TY full time. While I realize that all of these discs are playable (thanks to Optiarcs unparalleled burning capabilities) the burn quality dropping on verbatims is not a question, but a fact :P Certainly in BOTH my rigs. I wonder how well Optiarcs do with Ridata/Ritek discs...
You want me to send you some Ritek discs?? lol. If you get good results you can trade me the MCC 004's you have for the Riteks that I have. ;)
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28. November 2009 @ 21:15 |
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LOL! It was simply a stray thought. Something tells me, ritek is not worth the added headaches there would be. Their printables are not that much cheaper than TY discs. Not worth it too me. However, Dual layer discs could be an interesting experiment. Im considering giving those Falcon discs a shot.
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28. November 2009 @ 21:42 |
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Originally posted by omegaman7:
LOL! It was simply a stray thought. Something tells me, ritek is not worth the added headaches there would be. Their printables are not that much cheaper than TY discs. Not worth it too me. However, Dual layer discs could be an interesting experiment. Im considering giving those Falcon discs a shot.
You should try them... one thing about hobbit if you don't know is he's kinda like me... if there's a chance of a media doing well and it's cheaper then it's worth the try. ;) I've tried a couple and they work just fine. :)
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28. November 2009 @ 22:55 |
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Thanks GM. I think I will :)
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30. November 2009 @ 02:33 |
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GM, I can't thank you enough. This LH20A1S is obviously awesome! This is the best MCC 004 burn i've seen in quite some time! Using smart tools, with every wonderful tool enabled we have an excellent burn score :D Yes garmoon, another 95 LOL!
LH20A1S 12X
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30. November 2009 @ 07:57 |
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@ O-man
I no longer even expect to do better than a 95 any more. I did do a scan of a Ritek F16 disc burned on a 7240S opti @12X. It resembles the above scan in the pie failures and errors numbers. It got a 93 for two 3 spikes.
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30. November 2009 @ 13:18 |
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Well...I bought the Falcon media. Unfortunately I was so $h!tfaced drunk, I bought the Shiny Silver variety LOL! I tried contacting Customer service, but too late. Aw well. It was only 17$...
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30. November 2009 @ 13:45 |
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Originally posted by omegaman7:
Well...I bought the Falcon media. Unfortunately I was so $h!tfaced drunk, I bought the Shiny Silver variety LOL! I tried contacting Customer service, but too late. Aw well. It was only 17$...
Been there,
done that......
hic.
How big was your order? Mine was 200. Hence the Hobbit Claus gift to gm.
Actually, these Falcons go against the grain in my book for burn quality. I get a better and more consistant scan with the inkjet printables than with the shiny silvers.
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30. November 2009 @ 14:16 |
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I just bought 20. Sorta try them out you know ;) Gotta buy at least 50 to get the printables... At least through SMS...
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30. November 2009 @ 14:59 |
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I just checked and it seems I got a better deal with the inkjet printables than I did with the shiny silvers; $73.99/hundred with free shipping vs. $89.00.
I need to watch the sales at SMS more closely!
With the Falcons, start out burning slow, @4x, for the first ½ to 1 dozen discs to teach your drive to burn them, then try the higher speeds.
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30. November 2009 @ 15:15 |
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LOL! Yah, their sales come and go pretty quickly sometimes ;)
I plan on only allowing the LH20A1S and a few optiarcs touch those discs. The lite-on can learn, and the optiarcs just plain rock! :) I planned to start at only 4X I'll only burn verbs any quicker than that...
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30. November 2009 @ 15:58 |
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Here's an excellent burn N scan! Damn Gm, Now I want another one of these drives LOL! I think its safe to say the drive has been properly broke! *Knocking on wood*
12X TYG03 LH-20A1S
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30. November 2009 @ 16:11 |
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Originally posted by omegaman7:
Here's an excellent burn N scan! Damn Gm, Now I want another one of these drives LOL! I think its safe to say the drive has been properly broke! *Knocking on wood*
12X TYG03 LH-20A1S
Hey NOW.. wait a minute.. don't blame the GM for anything.. he just sent the link and suggested it.... you hit the BUY button. :p
I've had ok luck with the Falcon discs.. NO coasters.. of course only burned a few to check 'em out so far. :D
OH... that scan does look good Oman7... :) DANG 95's!!! ;)
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30. November 2009 @ 21:11 |
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Originally posted by omegaman7:
I plan on only allowing the LH20A1S and a few optiarcs touch those discs. The lite-on can learn, and the optiarcs just plain rock! :) I planned to start at only 4X I'll only burn verbs any quicker than that...
My Lite-ons, namely a couple of LH20A1Hs and my iHAP322 aren't worth didley with the RICOHJPN D01 midcode. The LH20A1Hs firmware was never updated for the IS DLs and the iHAP322 tries but isn't the greatest. My Optiarc 7200S' like them real well and I am looking to get a new Samsung which might try these babies @ 12x.
As I've posted earlier, I'm not experiencing any difference in scans, PIE or PIF on speeds of 4x, 6x or 8x.
And with that it looks like my iHAP322 is starting to go, it's getting 'selective' on which discs it will run jitter on. Will have to scope out another Lite-on IDE drive to go into my Lite-on external case.
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30. November 2009 @ 21:40 |
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Time for some scans!
First one is a MBI burned @ 4x:
Falcons @ 8x:
This is a Falcon burned @ 4x on my iHAP322:
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