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That msg would be due to the drive itself. A friend of mine owns a Freeagent drive... it routinely spins itself down after so many minutes as a power saving measure, and Windows gives him that exact same error message. He discovered that it was a "feature" of these drives... the "Freeagent...

Wow... actually that is in Canadian dollars. US price is $206.96 http://www.ncixus.com/products/28910/BX80570E3110/Intel/ :eek:

Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought the 3008WFP replaced the 3007WFP-HC? Only checking because I'd like to keep at least a few of these straight incase I ever stumble across one... :D

MacMan, that is an older article... if you can find one comparing an Apple Cinema to the 3008WFP then I'd be impressed. :) Last I'd heard the 3008 had surpased the Apple 30" offering, not to mention was (marginally) more affordable.

Not to get off topic, but XFX does have the better graphics card warranty in my opinion... assuming you are lucky enough to reside in North America. Their policy still sucks elsewhere. As far as I knew XFX, BFG, eVGA all offered clones of the Nvidia reference board anyway. If ASUS also is...

The last console I got was the N64, and I have no plans to buy a current console. So instead of giving my opinions about which console is I think is "best", I'll go with saying which I think will come in last place... I do believe Sony pulled a gambit with their PS3, but it has managed to...

I think I may know what is wrong... please see: http://www.bjorn3d.com/forum/showthread.php?t=21648 Notice the foam pad is slightly burnt where it was covering a corner of the chipset. He reported the same 80c temps, although not sure of his exact Nvidia motherboard. :eek: What happened to...

Dunno about being a poser, so voice away. ;) The last AMD platform I owned was a Slot A 500Mhz Compaq, which got hard modded into a 948MHz Compaq by a techie. Darn thing still works even... AMD's K8 chips came out just after I built my first rig, so never did use a K8 system. Horrible...

As ya said it's just a early prototype board for QC testing, usually design isn't even considered they just need a stable, working platform. New chipset, new socket, only accepts Nehalem Xeons, they had to make it from scratch. :) They love to silkscreen little things like that "Smackover...

Welcome Relayer! That's a very sweet looking rig you've got going there. Not heard of that site before, but I've never heard of any sites ever doing something like that either! For stability checking I would suggest Prime95 http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft.htm It features a torture test...

Aye, Sbrehm is right on the money here. For all intents and purposes, Google did win and didn't have to fork over the winning bid to do so. ;)

*coughs politly* Be sure to wear a safety helmet and goggles... I was blown away simply upgrading from a 3.4GHz Pentium 4 (OCed) to a meager E6300. Now that I use a Quad, if a program errors and saps 100% of one core I can't even notice. :o

A little off topic, but what frame rate is about right for smooth gameplay with Crysis? I've benchmarked it but not actually played it because I thought I'd have a new D9E/G100/whatever next-gen GPU by now that could handle it. Stock 2.4GHz, 320mb 8800GTS, I get an average of 16FPS using...

God I hope Intel gets their act together before Nehalem's launch... At the rate things are going, they certainly won't have to worry about trying to clear out leftover Penryn stock before selling Nehalem chips. :rolleyes:

Dailytech said pretty much the same thing... AMD wasn't happy retailers were marking the 9600GT's prices around $150, which is below what NVIDIA's claimed market price.

Nice link Bio, I had missed that article! With that much bandwidth, my theory about Nehalem being more sensitive than Penryn to memory speeds might be wrong. It sounds almost like Nehalem will have so much bandwidth with its direct low latency triple pipe to the memory that faster memory...

I don't need the insane storage, but as I tend to poke and prod things I've managed to wipe out a drive or two's worth of data before! Plan to back up everything and also start using full drive images again... I just couldn't argue the 18 cents per gb price, although I've seen even cheaper that...

First Nehalem motherboard spotted... definitely an early prototype for testing purposes, but it has a few interesting additions... Fudzilla has the scoop here I can think of a few other reasons... Anyone else notice the "Jolly Roger"? :D

I don't think things are that bad... We've been using the same GPU core that was launched in November 2006, only thing Nvidia has done is launch die shrinks and overclocks of it. Soon to be going on two years and it still offers better performance than anything else... Nvidia launched the...

You should be more than able to adjust the memory voltages inside the BIOS, so the only thing to worry about is that the memory will boot with only 1.8v. I've had a few Gigabyte boards that just can't boot some RAM with only 1.8v, however with that particular RAM it should also not be a problem...