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18. December 2010 @ 13:25 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
No, 14% more than the 1055.
LOL! Guess I should have read Russ's post :p
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Originally posted by theonejrs:
Originally posted by sammorris:
I don't think anyone here is rich enough to have tested an HSDL SSD yet!
The i7 hex-core CPUs are a bit much, the 970 is only $880, but that's still an enormous amount to pay for what is just half more of an i7 950 (albeit at 133mhz higher clock speed)
There's no such thing as a W1320EURS? Not sure what you're referring to here.
Sam,
What I don't get is how many people need all of this? I've said it before, and I'll continue to say it, "How fast is fast"? It would cost me about $610, just to but an Intel 17 950, 3GB of Cas 7 DDR3 1333 ram, and a decent GigaByte motherboard.
It would cost me $382 to buy a phenom II 955, GSkill DDR3 1333 ram, and a GIGABYTE GA-890XA-UD3 motherboard! That comes to $228 less for the AMD. I can also change the CPU to a Phenom IIx6 1090T BE, and it's still $137 less! These prices include Tax and Shipping!
What's it going to save me, time wise? So my DVD Rebuilder will take maybe 3-5 min less? Whoopee!! Probably no difference at all with the x6! Other than that there's not enough difference when running Apps to justify the purchase, unless you are a dedicated gamer. It's just a waste of money to me. For all the talk about how much faster the Intel's are, for the most part they aren't worth the money, unless you are a heavy Duty Gamer, or you have specific needs as far as computers go, speed has become redundant! For most people, the gain isn't worth the cost. IMHO!
Russ
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18. December 2010 @ 18:17 |
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Originally posted by eskoog:
Originally posted by theonejrs:
Originally posted by sammorris:
I don't think anyone here is rich enough to have tested an HSDL SSD yet!
The i7 hex-core CPUs are a bit much, the 970 is only $880, but that's still an enormous amount to pay for what is just half more of an i7 950 (albeit at 133mhz higher clock speed)
There's no such thing as a W1320EURS? Not sure what you're referring to here.
Sam,
What I don't get is how many people need all of this? I've said it before, and I'll continue to say it, "How fast is fast"? It would cost me about $610, just to but an Intel 17 950, 3GB of Cas 7 DDR3 1333 ram, and a decent GigaByte motherboard.
It would cost me $382 to buy a phenom II 955, GSkill DDR3 1333 ram, and a GIGABYTE GA-890XA-UD3 motherboard! That comes to $228 less for the AMD. I can also change the CPU to a Phenom IIx6 1090T BE, and it's still $137 less! These prices include Tax and Shipping!
What's it going to save me, time wise? So my DVD Rebuilder will take maybe 3-5 min less? Whoopee!! Probably no difference at all with the x6! Other than that there's not enough difference when running Apps to justify the purchase, unless you are a dedicated gamer. It's just a waste of money to me. For all the talk about how much faster the Intel's are, for the most part they aren't worth the money, unless you are a heavy Duty Gamer, or you have specific needs as far as computers go, speed has become redundant! For most people, the gain isn't worth the cost. IMHO!
Russ
Originally posted by eskoog:
Originally posted by theonejrs:
Originally posted by sammorris:
I don't think anyone here is rich enough to have tested an HSDL SSD yet!
The i7 hex-core CPUs are a bit much, the 970 is only $880, but that's still an enormous amount to pay for what is just half more of an i7 950 (albeit at 133mhz higher clock speed)
There's no such thing as a W1320EURS? Not sure what you're referring to here.
Sam,
What I don't get is how many people need all of this? I've said it before, and I'll continue to say it, "How fast is fast"? It would cost me about $610, just to but an Intel 17 950, 3GB of Cas 7 DDR3 1333 ram, and a decent GigaByte motherboard.
It would cost me $382 to buy a phenom II 955, GSkill DDR3 1333 ram, and a GIGABYTE GA-890XA-UD3 motherboard! That comes to $228 less for the AMD. I can also change the CPU to a Phenom IIx6 1090T BE, and it's still $137 less! These prices include Tax and Shipping!
What's it going to save me, time wise? So my DVD Rebuilder will take maybe 3-5 min less? Whoopee!! Probably no difference at all with the x6! Other than that there's not enough difference when running Apps to justify the purchase, unless you are a dedicated gamer. It's just a waste of money to me. For all the talk about how much faster the Intel's are, for the most part they aren't worth the money, unless you are a heavy Duty Gamer, or you have specific needs as far as computers go, speed has become redundant! For most people, the gain isn't worth the cost. IMHO!
Russ
Thanks for your interest and comments. Russ I can't appreciate your thought yet the world doesn't work that way. If it did all we would need is chocolate & vanilla ice cream.
Pardon my delay in responding but 3 week old MS ergo 4000 keyboard decided to fail last night. That's the 4th one which has failed. I'm addicted to using them so I'll give another go. Just wish MS would redesign the flaky PCB.
Initially I was considering an I7 875K and GA-P55A-UD3 for my next system. Doing some research on ANANDTECH their article on upcoming Sandy Bridge processors recommended a new build at this time would be ill advised.
"Intel confirmed that Sandy Bridge has dedicated video transcode hardware that it demoed during the keynote. The demo used Cyberlink?s Media Espresso to convert a ~1 minute long 30Mbps 1080p HD video clip to an iPhone compatible format. On Sandy Bridge the conversion finished in a matter of a few seconds (< 10 seconds by my watch)."
Also in ANANDTECH 2010 System Builder's Guide:
"All that said, we do need to take a moment to name drop: Sandy Bridge. Our early testing shows it to be around 25% faster than the currently shipping parts, especially Lynnfield and Clarkdale. It will have better multi-threaded and single-threaded performance, and while idle power may not change much the load power consumption should drop quite a bit. Anand measured 121W for the entire system under load with an i5 2400 (3.1GHz), and that's 8% less power while being 23% faster than the i5-760 it replaces. If that pattern holds up, we're looking at overall performance per watt going up by almost 35%. To make matters worse, Sandy Bridge will also usher in a new socket, chipset, and motherboards: goodbye 1156, hello 1155! If you're looking to get the best performance from the most efficient architecture and you don't want your motherboard outdated next month, it will likely be worth waiting for."
"Evaluating the video transcode graphs it appears you may expect performance gains below I7-980 yet about current I7 series. Additionally the memory bandwidth is doubled to 5 GTS."
Given this memory bandwidth it seems logical to use a HSDL SSD to support increased system throughput and a fast mechanical RAID-0 to offload HSDL data. Essentially the WD black drive RAID would be a high speed buffer before transfer to the WD green drives for permanent storage. Recall that we are discussing multiple GB size files.
Since gaming is not an issue an ATI 5 or Nvidia 4 series single card GPU out to suffice at HDTV 1080 resolution. Also a 27-30" monitor should help my hi-mileage eyes. Wading through ALD's, tabular logic, and schematics over the years definitively didn't improve my vision.
In no way I'm knocking AMD, it's just they seem to have allowed Intel to completely dominate the hi-end PC market. Whether this is good or bad is not in discussion. I drive a Hyundai Azera whereas my son an Aston Martin DBS. Both will tote me around but there is a huge speed difference and 'extreme' price too.
My goal is to minimize CPU bottlenecks by sufficient RAM and drive I/O. It's my understanding that HSDL is the fastest way to accomplish that. If anyone knows otherwise speak up, please.
Looking at Intel's processor roadmap, it appears that the 980 CPU will be superseded by a 990 at the same price. Whether Intel will restructure prices is questionable since the I7 975 is still at a $1000 price. Once a CPU is labeled 'extreme' it seems Intel feels price is whatever the market will bear(ly). Ed
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18. December 2010 @ 18:36 |
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Originally posted by theonejrs:
Originally posted by sammorris:
I don't think anyone here is rich enough to have tested an HSDL SSD yet!
The i7 hex-core CPUs are a bit much, the 970 is only $880, but that's still an enormous amount to pay for what is just half more of an i7 950 (albeit at 133mhz higher clock speed)
There's no such thing as a W1320EURS? Not sure what you're referring to here.
Sam,
What I don't get is how many people need all of this? I've said it before, and I'll continue to say it, "How fast is fast"? It would cost me about $610, just to but an Intel 17 950, 3GB of Cas 7 DDR3 1333 ram, and a decent GigaByte motherboard.
It would cost me $382 to buy a phenom II 955, GSkill DDR3 1333 ram, and a GIGABYTE GA-890XA-UD3 motherboard! That comes to $228 less for the AMD. I can also change the CPU to a Phenom IIx6 1090T BE, and it's still $137 less! These prices include Tax and Shipping!
What's it going to save me, time wise? So my DVD Rebuilder will take maybe 3-5 min less? Whoopee!! Probably no difference at all with the x6! Other than that there's not enough difference when running Apps to justify the purchase, unless you are a dedicated gamer. It's just a waste of money to me. For all the talk about how much faster the Intel's are, for the most part they aren't worth the money, unless you are a heavy Duty Gamer, or you have specific needs as far as computers go, speed has become redundant! For most people, the gain isn't worth the cost. IMHO!
Russ
Originally posted by theonejrs:
Originally posted by sammorris:
I don't think anyone here is rich enough to have tested an HSDL SSD yet!
The i7 hex-core CPUs are a bit much, the 970 is only $880, but that's still an enormous amount to pay for what is just half more of an i7 950 (albeit at 133mhz higher clock speed)
There's no such thing as a W1320EURS? Not sure what you're referring to here.
Sam,
What I don't get is how many people need all of this? I've said it before, and I'll continue to say it, "How fast is fast"? It would cost me about $610, just to but an Intel 17 950, 3GB of Cas 7 DDR3 1333 ram, and a decent GigaByte motherboard.
It would cost me $382 to buy a phenom II 955, GSkill DDR3 1333 ram, and a GIGABYTE GA-890XA-UD3 motherboard! That comes to $228 less for the AMD. I can also change the CPU to a Phenom IIx6 1090T BE, and it's still $137 less! These prices include Tax and Shipping!
What's it going to save me, time wise? So my DVD Rebuilder will take maybe 3-5 min less? Whoopee!! Probably no difference at all with the x6! Other than that there's not enough difference when running Apps to justify the purchase, unless you are a dedicated gamer. It's just a waste of money to me. For all the talk about how much faster the Intel's are, for the most part they aren't worth the money, unless you are a heavy Duty Gamer, or you have specific needs as far as computers go, speed has become redundant! For most people, the gain isn't worth the cost. IMHO!
Russ
Thanks for your interest and comments.
Pardon my delay in responding but 3 week old MS ergo 4000 keyboard decided to fail last night. That's the 4th one which has failed. I'm addicted to using them so I'll give another go. Just wish MS would redesign the flaky PCB.
Initially I was considering an I7 875K and GA-P55A-UD3 for my next system. Doing some research on ANANDTECH their article on upcoming Sandy Bridge processors recommended a new build at this time would be ill advised.
"Intel confirmed that Sandy Bridge has dedicated video transcode hardware that it demoed during the keynote. The demo used Cyberlink?s Media Espresso to convert a ~1 minute long 30Mbps 1080p HD video clip to an iPhone compatible format. On Sandy Bridge the conversion finished in a matter of a few seconds (< 10 seconds by my watch)."
Also in ANANDTECH 2010 System Builder's Guide:
"All that said, we do need to take a moment to name drop: Sandy Bridge. Our early testing shows it to be around 25% faster than the currently shipping parts, especially Lynnfield and Clarkdale. It will have better multi-threaded and single-threaded performance, and while idle power may not change much the load power consumption should drop quite a bit. Anand measured 121W for the entire system under load with an i5 2400 (3.1GHz), and that's 8% less power while being 23% faster than the i5-760 it replaces. If that pattern holds up, we're looking at overall performance per watt going up by almost 35%. To make matters worse, Sandy Bridge will also usher in a new socket, chipset, and motherboards: goodbye 1156, hello 1155! If you're looking to get the best performance from the most efficient architecture and you don't want your motherboard outdated next month, it will likely be worth waiting for."
"Evaluating the video transcode graphs it appears you may expect performance gains below I7-980 yet about current I7 series. Additionally the memory bandwidth is doubled to 5 GTS."
Given this memory bandwidth it seems logical to use a HSDL SSD to support increased system throughput and a fast mechanical RAID-0 to offload HSDL data. Essentially the WD black drive RAID would be a high speed buffer before transfer to the WD green drives for permanent storage. Recall that we are discussing multiple GB size files.
Since gaming is not an issue an ATI 5 or Nvidia 4 series single card GPU out to suffice at HDTV 1080 resolution. Also a 27-30" monitor should help my hi-mileage eyes. Wading through ALD's, tabular logic, and schematics over the years definitively didn't improve my vision.
In no way I'm knocking AMD, it's just they seem to have allowed Intel to completely dominate the hi-end PC market. Whether this is good or bad is not in discussion. I drive a Hyundai Azera whereas my son an Aston Martin DBS. Both will tote me around but there is a huge speed difference and 'extreme' price too.
My goal is to minimize CPU bottlenecks by sufficient RAM and drive I/O. It's my understanding that HSDL is the fastest way to accomplish that. If anyone knows otherwise speak up, please.
Looking at Intel's processor roadmap, it appears that the 980 CPU will be superseded by a 990 at the same price. Whether Intel will restructure prices is questionable since the I7 975 is still at a $1000 price. Once a CPU is labeled 'extreme' it seems Intel feels price is whatever the market will bear(ly). Ed
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18. December 2010 @ 21:09 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
I don't think anyone here is rich enough to have tested an HSDL SSD yet!
The i7 hex-core CPUs are a bit much, the 970 is only $880, but that's still an enormous amount to pay for what is just half more of an i7 950 (albeit at 133mhz higher clock speed)
There's no such thing as a W1320EURS? Not sure what you're referring to here.
Sorry WD20EURS green drive.
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19. December 2010 @ 20:43 |
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Well, it's the Holiday season again, with a new Decade fast approaching. This will be my 8th Decade on this Planet. Frankly I'm tired of not being able to express what I feel in my heart because it's Politically Incorrect. I'm not trying to foster my views or beliefs on anyone, nor am I criticizing other people's beliefs, I simply want to wish everyone here a very Merry Christmas and a Very Happy New Year. Please accept it in the Spirit that is intended.
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And a very Merry Christmas to you as well from one old man to another, didn't even have to click on little Jackie, already have all her cd's. Have a goodie Russie Ronnie.
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19. December 2010 @ 21:59 |
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Also Russ Have a Merry Christmas & Happy New Year...
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19. December 2010 @ 23:14 |
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Merry Christmas to you Russ. But, do you really mean "9 decades on this planet"? Would that not make you about 90 years old, or am I missing something?
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19. December 2010 @ 23:24 |
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sytyguy, russ is in his 80's or will be soon.
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19. December 2010 @ 23:42 |
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have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to russ
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Originally posted by sytyguy:
Merry Christmas to you Russ. But, do you really mean "9 decades on this planet"? Would that not make you about 90 years old, or am I missing something?
Typo, it's my 8th Decade coming up! 40s,50s,60s,70s,80s,90,00,10! Yup 8th Decade coming up!
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year,
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If you turn 80, technically you're starting your 9th decade :p
A new born baby is beginning their first decade. 10yrs old marks the ending of the first decade, and the start of the second. Another example is our current calendar year. It's 2010, and yet we are living in the 21st century ;)
Hope all is well with everyone. I wish everyone a merry christmas and a happy new year.
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Originally posted by omegaman7:
If you turn 80, technically you're starting your 9th decade :p
A new born baby is beginning their first decade. 10yrs old marks the ending of the first decade, and the start of the second. Another example is our current calendar year. It's 2010, and yet we are living in the 21st century ;)
Hope all is well with everyone. I wish everyone a merry christmas and a happy new year.
Oman7,
I was born in 44, so I'll be starting my 8th Decade. Hope you liked the music, it's her best performance to date! The girl keeps getting better and better! Simply amazing talent! It's still hard to believe that such beautiful voice is coming out of a tiny 62 Lb, 10 year old girl!
Best Wishes,
Russ
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A merry christmas and a happy new decade to you too Russ, here's to another decade! :P
eskoog: To be honest, I'm not really that impressed with the idea of the Caviar Green AV drives, I think you may as well just get a normal WD20EARS.
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Originally posted by theonejrs:
Typo, it's my 8th Decade coming up! 40s,50s,60s,70s,80s,90,00,10! Yup 8th Decade coming up!
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year,
I knew you were in your 60's from previous emails you and I had. Anyway, have a great Xmas and a very Happy New Year.
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Originally posted by sammorris:
A merry christmas and a happy new decade to you too Russ, here's to another decade! :P
eskoog: To be honest, I'm not really that impressed with the idea of the Caviar Green AV drives, I think you may as well just get a normal WD20EARS.
Thank you Sam, and a Happy Christmas and Happy New Year to You and Yours as well. I hope you enjoyed "O Holy Night!"
Russ
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Gentleman,
Thank you guys! You made me $50! There were two errors in my 9 decades posts. Both were deliberate! I bet a friend of mine that you would pick out the major error (the 9th Decade) and completely missed the fact that my 8th Decade started Jan 1 2010, almost a year ago, even after I gave an explanation! Don't feel bad though, as my Psychology Professor pulled that one on the entire class about 25-26 years ago, and the whole class missed it too! All in good fun.
The Christmas carol I posted does not work. I can't believe that NBC had it removed for Copyright violation, so I had to resort to a different way around it! I had a friend make this video for me. Enjoy!
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUOv6FVv11A
Russ
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Embarassed to say I completely forgot about that. MInd you, it depends where you set the starting point. You could be perverse and say that a new decade starts at year 1, not year 0.
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Originally posted by sammorris:
Embarassed to say I completely forgot about that. MInd you, it depends where you set the starting point. You could be perverse and say that a new decade starts at year 1, not year 0.
Sam,
Just having a little fun! LOL!! Sorry about the mess up on the video!
Warmest Regards,
Russ
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21. December 2010 @ 17:02 |
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Just witnessed something strange with windows 7. I had nearly 300 Jpg's on my 4gb kingston flash. I told it to permanently delete the files. It told me 7.5minutes remain, and it was going very slow. Went into "disk management" and told it to reformat the drive to fat32(no change). It took it all of 10 seconds.
Windows code should be updated, so when deleting all files, it automatically reformats the drive(Same settings). Unless there's some reason this would be bad LOL!
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Several reasons :P
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21. December 2010 @ 18:18 |
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I have a red car. It goes fast. Therefore all red cars go fast?
delete and reformat are different enough from each other to be considered the cliche comparing apples to oranges
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Originally posted by sammorris:
Several reasons :P
What reasons? Eh...don't answer that. This really isn't the right thread for this. I apologize. I really should ask the windows 7 forum this question :p
Deadrum, I did say if it was deleting 'ALL' files, that it should simply reformat. It would be like a super fast delete :p
Well...not really delete, it simply tells the flash drive that that area can be overwritten...
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Happy Holidays everyone.
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Normally when I delete everything on a drive I usually end up just reformatting it since I've noticed windows 7 has issues with deleting many files at once.
Also in case anyone's interested, my WD FASS drives are at fault for the issues I've been having with them. Tested both of them across 4 sata cables and 4 sata ports (2 on each MB/system I own) and encountered the same problems with every setup.
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