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...

@ theBob - you are talking about EA - Electronic Arts. I used to have a cute little .gif floating around of their logo morphing into a swastika (the reversed german one, not the temple marking one)... It fits well, EA is a horrible company. They treat their employees bad, buy up other small and...

Yes, it can. Your processor is overclocked via your BIOS, meaning that any options found there (or lack of options, many factory boards disable them) will be a determinant on just how far you can push the processor. Another big determinant of processor overclocking capability is your chip...

What is foobar's function for you? Knowing that might better assist me in looking for a linux replacement. You might also be able to run foobar in wine/cedega and use it as if it was still in windows.

It's not limited to ASUS, either... lots of companies are losing their sterling reputations... bad for us...

If anyone is ever interested, I have a recipe for a very decent pc running about 250ish... sans graphics card (built-in chip + audio on board as well) using off-the-shelf parts and case from newegg. It runs a gig of ddr 400, AMD 64 3200+, and a 250gb wd hdd. All in all a dang good machine not...

I hear you. That truely doesn't make sense. Believe it or not, i believe there is a system setting governing that (delay before caching to drive), regardless of how much sense it makes. Like i mentioned, I avoid the problem by simply turning swap off, I only enable it if I intend to play...

Quote: Originally Posted by error401 Also note that Windows has some stupid behaviour in that it seems to swap out real allocated program memory to disk for no apparent reason - presumably it prefers using memory as cache than for running programs. Damned annoying. What are you...

Clutz - My linux install on the same machine uses no more than 512mb at any time (it's worth noting that neither my linux or my xp machine has a swap file enabled)... I agree with your statement that unix likes keeping programs resident (indeed, you can practically reinstall gentoo out from...

This is LONG. There is a summary at the bottom, but all the information is useful for anyone deciding. between them, as in my wide experience i've tried to make this as fair as possible, and attack the three equally. Note.. they are all PC's - personal computers.. OSX, Linux, and Windows are...

I like Asus stuff because generally, they come up with good ideas... such as a USB videocard for a laptop, whatnot. I assumed that their soundcard would be a serious contender because reports from CES indicated such (not that you can objectively give a sound test from an experience like that)...