Recent content by Lothar

I have to agree with the review conclusions. I would have rather seen dual 120mm fans, non-pop out rear slot covers, and a better way to mount 3.5" drives (or atleast conversion hardware for mounting in 5.25" bays)... With the components used, I would have made the decisions four mounting...

You should add a website link to the LCDC software in your review. Looks like a nice bit of hardware. If I could get it to run under Linux, I might add it to my HTPC.

I've been using this card fairly heavily for about a year now so I thought I should jump in with a couple of my own observations. 1) While WinTv in an OK program and utilizes the functions of the card, I find you get a much better all around experience by using a real PVR application such as...

My G7 experiences so far... Well, I can finally give a little more info about using this mouse, but I still need to do some more testing. I gave it a good workout over the weekend because I held a LAN party. :D It was lots of fun. Ok, on to the mouse... So far, it's been a mixed bag...

On my way into work this morning, I saw $2.80 in Bloomington, MN. It was at $2.95 mid last week after a sharp spike, but has slowly dropped. I expect another spike in a couple of days. Seems to shoot up about $0.30 and then slowly drop about $0.20 before spiking again... :mad:

Couple questions for you: 1) Were the temps you measured with the fan at high speed or low speed? 2) What are the temps at the other speed? 3) Do you have any sort of noise data at the two fan speeds? You said it was louder than the stock cooler, but I have no idea how loud that is...

Werty, I look forward to your testing results. I'll be building a new system pretty soon, so I like to hear what people get out of theirs. I still haven't had time to really sit down with the mouse yet. Felt great for the 10 minutes I had with it, but my wife and I hare spending a bunch of...

From all the benchmarks I've seen to date, there hasn't been an advantage of using 2 16x slots over 2 8x slots. Current GPUs just don't use all the bandwidth. That's not to say that it won't happen, and when it does dual 16x slots will definately have the advantage, but it's not there today.

I find it comes in useful for dealing with viruses. When you know you picked up something, but the virus scanner can't take care of it, I use a bootdisk I made in college so that I can get to the files and remove the suspects (can't delete them if windows is using them after all...) Haven't...

I got my mouse on Friday! :D After a bit of work getting in synced with the receiver again it seems to work great. I've only had it going for about 5 min now, so I can't do a full review of it or anything, but it's really nice so far. I like the feel of it.

There was a comment earlier (I don't remember by who) that said the ATI 3200 chipset used 16x PCIe for both graphics slots. I just wanted to point out that the Nforce4 SLI32 (SLI16?) chipset has the same capability. It seems like if you want to run dual Nvidia GPUs you need an Nvidia mobo...

That is one of my favorite episodes and I've got 100+ recorded on my HTPC. :D

I won the Logitech G7. :cool: Unfortunately it hasn't come yet :eek: but hopefully today. I'll let you know what I think when I've had a chance to play with it. I'm sure it'll be a nice step up from my current mouse.

Nice review. I like head to head comparisons. I'd be interested to see how the Zalman does against an Acrtic Cooler since it exhausts the heat directly out the back.

I'm planning on dual core all the way, but I'm not sure if it'll be AMD or Intel yet. My initial feeling is to go with AMD, especially if I'm going with current tech. If I do AMD, it'll be an Opteron setup (Socket 939). But on the other hand, the new Intel Cedar Mills sound nice...