I've tasted the darkside (windoze xp2) and i like it

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  • Reply 41 of 83
    sunilramansunilraman Posts: 8,133member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Wingnut

    cool, looks like you got the hang of it, and it's OCing like all the other Venice cores out there! 8)



    pulled it back to 2.35+ghz and 390mhz ram

    it gets to 95degF in the afternoon (i'm talking about room temperature) here in malaysistan



    playing safe for now with my baby. 2.2+ ghz is good enough for now



    lovin' my 6600gt



    man, if only i could run Mac OS X on this. Steve is a GOD for having prepped for Intel these past five years. what a visionary.
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  • Reply 42 of 83
    Quote:

    Originally posted by sunilraman

    man, if only i could run Mac OS X on this. Steve is a GOD for having prepped for Intel these past five years. what a visionary.



    Don't forget about this
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  • Reply 43 of 83
    sunilramansunilraman Posts: 8,133member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by cybermonkey

    Don't forget about this



    heh.... i got a better idea, why dont i just stick my finger into my amd-cpu-heatsink fan thingy
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  • Reply 44 of 83
    wingnutwingnut Posts: 197member
    If it really gets that warm there all the time, you might look into water cooling. There are some good kits out there that let you take the heat and dump it outside the case. It might help your system last a lot longer. Of course, there's always AC.
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  • Reply 45 of 83
    relicrelic Posts: 4,735member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by sunilraman

    heh.... i got a better idea, why dont i just stick my finger into my amd-cpu-heatsink fan thingy



    I don?t recommend it because your finger contains oils, which attracts dirt. They?re nothing worse then spending a weekend with alcohol and swab de-dusting a CPU fan. I?d just go for the registry hacking. Hey, that brings up something is Vista or whatever it is going to use XML for its registry?
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  • Reply 46 of 83
    sunilramansunilraman Posts: 8,133member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Relic

    I don?t recommend it because your finger contains oils, which attracts dirt. They?re nothing worse then spending a weekend with alcohol and swab de-dusting a CPU fan. I?d just go for the registry hacking. Hey, that brings up something is Vista or whatever it is going to use XML for its registry?



    heh.. i meant putting my finger in WHILE the fan was running. that's how i feel about windoze registry hacking



    i seriously doubt that Vista will use XML if they are going to deploy it christmas 2006. but then again i've taken my evening xanax so i could be talking out my ass



    eg.............



    screw 8011.g !!

    may the lords of kobol bless all those who have invented tcp/ip mac/windows networking over FireWire400.



    FireWire -

    is there anything it can't do?

    can anything sound any cooler?

    oh how i love thee... let me

    count the ways...



    ..............

    heyy....

    i can play need for speed underground 2 at maxxed out settings 1280x1024 and it's all pretty damn fluid....



    aahhh... my nVidia 6600GT. thou 4000 3Dmark score doth help me sleepeth well at night and is coinage happily squandered.
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  • Reply 47 of 83
    splinemodelsplinemodel Posts: 7,311member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by sunilraman



    may the lords of kobol bless all those who have invented tcp/ip mac/windows networking over FireWire400.




    Now, I like Firewire too, but I think the Cylons are using GigE.



    More seriously, is there any benefit to using FW-IP over GigE (presuming you have both)? I'm curious and would like to know.
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  • Reply 48 of 83
    skatmanskatman Posts: 609member
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    More seriously, is there any benefit to using FW-IP over GigE (presuming you have both)? I'm curious and would like to know.



    No. Firewire is slower and harder to network over longer distances.
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  • Reply 49 of 83
    sunilramansunilraman Posts: 8,133member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Splinemodel

    Now, I like Firewire too, but I think the Cylons are using GigE.



    More seriously, is there any benefit to using FW-IP over GigE (presuming you have both)? I'm curious and would like to know.




    heh...

    fine... bring in gigabit ethernet, will you...



    here are the disadvantages to gigabit ethernet for home users transferring between an iBook g4 and a windoze PC with a FW400 and gigabit ethernet port



    1.

    ibook g4 has no gigabit ethernet port



    2.

    firewire cables are thinner and sexier (particularly the one that comes with iSight)



    3.

    a lot of people are confused by cat5, cat5 crossover, gigabit cat5 well, okay, i am confused by this



    4.

    firewire target disk mode is so last century but gigabit ethernet has this same advantage, that is, file transfer over tcp/ip can deal with all sorts of different hard disk formats much better (given mac os X's excellent SMB support)





    but okay, bloody cylons *shakes fist*, in a wired office environment gigabit ethernet is da bomb. for transferring between 2 windoze xp machines next to each other or between mac and pcs next to each other, tcp/ip over fw400 fun and easy, no?
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  • Reply 50 of 83
    sunilramansunilraman Posts: 8,133member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by skatman

    No. Firewire is slower and harder to network over longer distances.



    fair enough. i think i was mainly speaking of a 2 computer network, ie, computer-to-computer transfer



    running long fw400 cables all over the place would be insane, either go gigabit ethernet, yes, or otherwise then wireless 802.11g +++ would be more practical.



    i think for home networking and the like, wireless tech would be most practical and spouse-pleasing, but they need to get some tech like that wireless broad-spectrum thingy to be able to deal with the level of bandwidth required for HDTV, and possibly 2-or-3 HDTV streams going at once to different rooms in the house.
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  • Reply 51 of 83
    Quote:

    Originally posted by sunilraman

    )

    3.

    a lot of people are confused by cat5, cat5 crossover, gigabit cat5 well, okay, i am confused by this




    Do PCs still require crossover cables when connected directed to each other? That's so old skool..
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  • Reply 52 of 83
    sunilramansunilraman Posts: 8,133member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by ThinkingDifferent

    Do PCs still require crossover cables when connected directed to each other? That's so old skool..



    i just learnt recently that macs don't... hmmm AFAIK most PCs still do. heh. old skool huh, reminds me of 'null modem cable' back in 1992 to hook up two 486's via serial port to play Doom2 head to head



    in other news, winXP's cuddly gloss is waning fast, with alot of annoying stuff that you just turn off the more you encounter it



    pretty much as apple's new switch campaign emphasises

    http://www.apple.com/switch/

    that unlike windows asking you every few minutes and annoying the crap out of you, mac os x just does it



    the winXP wireless 'wizard' or whatever thingo is just stupid. the dlink wireless utility is quiet, works, shows you traffic and the stats you need, rather than sending you through numerous menus and dialog boxes and stuff



    its cool for now, i think i can work on pc during the day, mac in afternoon and evening.



    i'm not letting my parents anywhere near it, to protect them (and yess to make sure they don't stumble onto any pr0n i've donloaded as well )



    but yeah they'll be sticking to mac only while i brave the wilds of windowsXP.



    somehow i expect Vista to be the same, bright and shiny with the lure of everything better, but after a while, it fades fast. heh



    i am still loving the hardware though, and firefox is still snapfabulous on this



    edit i am also loving Foxit Free PDF reader, other than that bloatware adobe stuff.



    .......................
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  • Reply 53 of 83
    sunilramansunilraman Posts: 8,133member
    hmm... apparently windows xp doesn't have native raid support. you have to load drivers from a floppy(!) disk if you want to install windows xp onto a raid set



    http://www.hardwarezone.com/guides/a...dex.php?&pg=29
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  • Reply 54 of 83
    splinemodelsplinemodel Posts: 7,311member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by ThinkingDifferent

    Do PCs still require crossover cables when connected directed to each other? That's so old skool..



    If has to do with the network adapter. Some of the better ones are autosensing, and Apple is willing to splurge the extra few dollars here since they're not dead-locked into an over-competitive market. Some PCs have autosensing ports.



    Quote:

    Originally posted by sunilraman

    hmm... apparently windows xp doesn't have native raid support. you have to load drivers from a floppy(!) disk if you want to install windows xp onto a raid set



    http://www.hardwarezone.com/guides/a...dex.php?&pg=29




    RAID on Windows, or pretty much any PC with a BIOS, is a pain in the ass. For some reason, the OF implementation on the mac makes RAID pretty transparent. With the ATTO Double-Barrel RAID I used to have (SCSI RAID is SO 90's), OS X made it almost too simple.
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  • Reply 55 of 83
    sunilramansunilraman Posts: 8,133member
    well, its the big things, like raid, and the little things, like autosensing cat5etc AND like reverse-polish-notation (WTF) which i just learnt is in 10.4 calculator, and probably 10.3 calculator too.



    had a bit of a scare today when the mouse cursor started being a bit "laggy". i think it was just the stupid wireless router which has been reset now and all "seems" uninfected at the moment \



    edit: i was never into RPG but star wars knights of old republic 2 has a good blend of 'good'/'bad' player choices, character building, plot, adventure(albeit somewhat linear) different 'quests', use of force, swords, and blasters, decent graphics, and way way way way way easier than crazy old-skool classics like Ultima where you got to like fly the balloon to a hidden island to get something and then give to this person to get that thing and open this gate and go to that realm... although i was watching techtv the other day and final fantasy has all this super hardcore RPG stuff.
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  • Reply 56 of 83
    skatmanskatman Posts: 609member
    Quote:

    Do PCs still require crossover cables when connected directed to each other? That's so old skool..



    It has nothing to do with MAC vs. PC. Just whether the network car in your system supports x-over autosensing. Most of the newer chipsets from Intel, Broadcom, Nvidia, Ati, VIA do support autosensing.



    Quote:

    hmm... apparently windows xp doesn't have native raid support. you have to load drivers from a floppy(!) disk if you want to install windows xp onto a raid set



    Don't believe everything you read on the internet. Whether RAID support is provided or not depends on whether Windows has the RAID drivers in its database. Remember that unlike Apple, there is quite a bit of choice of hardware for Windows OS. My Silicon Image 3112 chip was supported by XP during start up. However, the newer ICH6R RAID set built into the latest Intel southbridge is only supported if you're loading XP with SP2.

    Otherwise either breakout the floppy or install without RAID, then install the driver and then switch to RAID mode.



    There is no magic here.
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  • Reply 57 of 83
    aquamacaquamac Posts: 585member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by skatman

    It has nothing to do with MAC vs. PC. Just whether the network car in your system supports x-over autosensing. Most of the newer chipsets from Intel, Broadcom, Nvidia, Ati, VIA do support autosensing.

    Don't believe everything you read on the internet. Whether RAID support is provided or not depends on whether Windows has the RAID drivers in its database. Remember that unlike Apple, there is quite a bit of choice of hardware for Windows OS. My Silicon Image 3112 chip was supported by XP during start up. However, the newer ICH6R RAID set built into the latest Intel southbridge is only supported if you're loading XP with SP2.

    Otherwise either breakout the floppy or install without RAID, then install the driver and then switch to RAID mode.

    There is no magic here.




    No magic at all. Thats one of the reasons I own a Mac.
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  • Reply 58 of 83
    skatmanskatman Posts: 609member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by AquaMac

    No magic at all. Thats one of the reasons I own a Mac.



    Let's hope so.
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  • Reply 59 of 83
    sunilramansunilraman Posts: 8,133member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by skatman

    Let's hope so.



    hmm?? your comments are highly veiled, skatman

    PC land is arcane voodoo to me, i just hack my way through to get things to work. linux? hmm... novell/suse is having some open source conference next week in my town i'll go check it out.



    i must say for mac users you guys are damn leet. its like you use mac because you DO know windows and linux and you have made a choice based on (painful?) experience?



    some days i fear the IQ level on appleinsider is too high and i reduce it's average when i'm on the boardz



    heh. 'tis been a good year on appleinsider though. love y'all.
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  • Reply 60 of 83
    gene cleangene clean Posts: 3,481member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by sunilraman

    [B] hmm?? your comments are highly veiled, skatman

    PC land is arcane voodoo to me, i just hack my way through to get things to work.



    What things? I thought you were pretty happy with the performance? Surely RAID is a much more complicated issue that requires drivers and takes less than 5 minutes to set up?
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