I'm waiting on a set of these, I'll most definitely do a lot of tweaking. I have both 650's and 800s to compare to, as well as the PC-166s, which are a fine pair of headphones. Being stuck in a loud barracks (full of idiotic AIT students), I am looking forward to the sound isolation. I intend to...

Risking life and limb (the speaker's, not mine) I carefully edged out the front cover. The veneer has oozed some glue onto it, which added a measure of difficulty. I was, however, able to peer behind it enough to ascertain that there is in fact three drivers in the cabinet. a large woofer...

Well, LW, you can cut it.... Whether it is still usable or not, well, that is your problem! ^.^ Great post!

Ah, well, It is not all that important to me to know for certain what the speakers are, I just was putting it out there in case someone else recognized them. I'll throw a pic up on AudioKarma, thanks for the tip. Oh, and gratz on the 1600 posts, Malldian!

Thank you! This one is virtually unused. I really love it, was happy to rescue it from sitting for years. Any ideas on who made the speakers?

First of all, I apologize for not frequenting the forums more, well, frequently. Life intervenes, my Jamis Diablo bike calls to me, the ladyperson requests my attention, I am sure many of you can commiserate! Just thought I would stop by and post up my current (diverse) selection of sources...

@Lowfreak - if only they were. These Fluid Dynamic Bearings best feature is the fact that they are rated 5mil hours mtbf - server quality stuff. I doubt they will break anytime soon. But if i ever have the need for a better fan (i think i will be replacing the one on my hdd cage sooners, it's a...

@lowfreak - i paid 0$ for it and got massive performance increase... what's not to love! :P Nice setup, i've heard of noctua fans, i'd have purchased them had they been out when i built my case. The 2900 HD XT is a wonderful and extensible card showing ATi's love of finesse in graphics...

@lowfreak - i agree with your article, raid 0 doesn't make a noticable difference from a singular drive. However, that article (from tomshardware... just a guess, i seem to have read those exact words before) doesn't apply to raids other than 0. there is a huge difference, operationally and...

@error401 - on the same 5 drives, two different controllers, i saw much better read speeds using three different hdd measuring utilities on the raid 5. Maybe I have two bad controllers? I can't really test further. It's worth noting that the write speed on the raid 0 is faster. @Dark Archon...

@Thread - OSX has X11, you can find many opensource projects (gimp, bitpim, openoffice) that have mac .dmg packages for us with OSX and X11. It runs fast, as you might imagine - as OSX is a posix system. @DarkArchon - If gentoo's portage is taking a long time to calculate dependencies (except...

I apologize for my late replies. @wanderman - yes, i agree, the 7950 will be staying until the next generation cards. I own a white macbook, and suggest you purchase and enjoy your black macbook. Apple builds a good system aside from certain irks i have with the OS. The hardware itself is top...

Quote: Originally Posted by wanderman actually the card is more like an 8800gts 640 or 320 oc; the gtx is in a but ymmv. I respectfully disagree. In everything I play on my computer, and the ways in which i play it, the 640 and 320 would both be downgrades. Even the 2900 XT HD...

If you need an explanation for anything, list it and I'll be happy to provide.

Here's my "honest schtick" about AMD vs INTEL. Currently, you will find better Performance/Cost in the low end with AMD. You can pick up an AMD 754 Athlon 64 3200+ for around half a benjamin, and the motherboard to match it for as little as 40$ (a decent one at that.. it had onboard video...