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- 29 Jul 2008, 18:05
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: e-sata Questions
- Replies: 4
- Views: 191
You can get internal SATA to eSATA PCI slot brackets for R30. Just be aware that they signal voltages are pure internal SATA, whereas eSATA has slightly higher voltages to combat the increasing attenuation of longer cables. If you keep your eSATA cable under or at the length of 1 meter, there's no p...
- 29 Jul 2008, 17:58
- Forum: Miscellaneous Tech
- Topic: H.264 Playback on old hardware
- Replies: 20
- Views: 989
If you want I can upload the beta 2 of the divx decoder. At the moment its still freeware but in beta. It seems to be the fastest decoder of the whole lot, even a notch faster than CoreAVC. And it has the option to switch off inloop-deblocking, one of H264's relative major CPU hoggers. MPC's integra...
- 29 Jul 2008, 01:02
- Forum: Miscellaneous Tech
- Topic: H.264 Playback on old hardware
- Replies: 20
- Views: 989
Try a better H264 decoder like CoreAVC or the new DivX H264 decoder. They're way better in performance than any libav offspring. Some people deem their quality worse, I personally havent noticed any bad quality. Alternatively, replace your graphics card with a cheap ATI HD3450 and let it decode the ...
- 26 Apr 2008, 22:22
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: ATI... erm, AMD vs nVidia!
- Replies: 3559
- Views: 153300
- 01 Mar 2008, 20:30
- Forum: Software
- Topic: DX10 - Why not for XP?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 984
- 01 Mar 2008, 14:49
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: Extending a VGA cable.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 328
- 27 Feb 2008, 21:00
- Forum: Cooling & Overclocking
- Topic: vCore question
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1005
- 27 Feb 2008, 20:57
- Forum: Networking
- Topic: OpenWeb is Bandwidth Sharing
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1307
- 01 Feb 2008, 12:12
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: network link speed
- Replies: 6
- Views: 323
The answer's quite simple: Because wireless is inherently crappy. Try using iperf to check your real throughput speeds, forget the windows utilisation graphs. On my WRT54GL I get around 2MB/s throughput with excellent signal, SNR of about 30 and close range, with 9dbi antennas. Wireless is a gimmick...
- 06 Jan 2008, 23:28
- Forum: Networking
- Topic: openweb special
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1558
- 06 Jan 2008, 23:20
- Forum: Windows
- Topic: Vista sp 1 details
- Replies: 114
- Views: 8206
I think that 'pseudo'-4GB display was a serious mistake - people will be thinking that they can indeed use the full 4GB, which they simply won't. When it displays 3.something GB the users would be at least somewhat suspicious as to why it doesn't display the right size, now they get misled into thin...
- 06 Jan 2008, 22:01
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: SATA vs IDE Optical drives
- Replies: 33
- Views: 1821
Again, because classic economics forces the manufacturers to develop a nice and cheap way to transition to newer technology, those SATA optical dries are just IDE counterparts with a IDE to SATA converter bolted on (much like the SATA hard drives from 2003 only until recently also used such converte...
- 06 Jan 2008, 02:34
- Forum: Miscellaneous Tech
- Topic: Facebooks First Major Security Breach
- Replies: 7
- Views: 838
- 02 Jul 2007, 23:15
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: Hitachi vs Seagate
- Replies: 9
- Views: 671
Hitachi took over the hard-drive division from IBM, which intelligently decided to spin it off, realising that their Deathsta..., err Deskstars were a load of garbage. Apple switched from using IBM because their hard drives were prone to heat deaths and god knows what. I've had numerous IBMs and had...
- 02 Jul 2007, 20:49
- Forum: Windows
- Topic: Vista is out - What do you think?
- Replies: 729
- Views: 29450
- 29 Jun 2007, 22:55
- Forum: Windows
- Topic: Vista is out - What do you think?
- Replies: 729
- Views: 29450
With all the gimicks and twice the number of services the system resource demand is horrid. On my old P4 3.0GHz with 512MB RAM and a FX5200 normal Xvid and MPEG2 videos lag a bit, not to speak of anything slower than 3.0GHz. I believe buying new hardware merely to suite an operating system is insane.
- 20 Apr 2007, 16:35
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: Who is still using the AthlonXP-1700
- Replies: 8
- Views: 390
- 16 Apr 2007, 18:51
- Forum: Other OS
- Topic: Bios flash cmos settings wrong
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3784
- 15 Apr 2007, 00:35
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: AMD Cuts Prices on High-end Processors
- Replies: 70
- Views: 2958
- 12 Apr 2007, 15:57
- Forum: Miscellaneous Tech
- Topic: ADSL Modem
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1005
I wouldn't honestly dare touch those Telkom modems again. In fact, they're rebranded Microcom AD2730's, which are nothing less than horrid. Sure, for the normal stuff they're cool, but the packet filter is near useless. It drops states, causing some connections to get lost. The interface is somewhat...
- 07 Apr 2007, 23:23
- Forum: Networking
- Topic: 2x ISP On One ADSL Line...?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1742
In fact, you can connect with multiple accounts over ONE line simultaneously, you'll just be sharing bandwidth with any other logged in accounts. Antibody has developed a software which separates international and local traffic and it seems to be working rather well. Try it at http://antibody.za.net...
- 06 Apr 2007, 20:15
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: Overclocking the Intel X6800 with Liquid Nitrogen (LN2)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 789
- 06 Apr 2007, 15:45
- Forum: Miscellaneous Tech
- Topic: who is happy with virgin mobile gprs?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 963
- 06 Apr 2007, 14:40
- Forum: Linux/Unix
- Topic: Which linux/unix do you use or like
- Replies: 48
- Views: 5134
- 06 Apr 2007, 14:37
- Forum: Linux/Unix
- Topic: Auto-login as root?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2030