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ATi --- Crossfire "Mark II" will finally abandon the Master-Slave implementation.
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 02:00:17 GMT, "McGrandpa"
wrote: "John Lewis" wrote in message ... On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 21:44:43 GMT, "McGrandpa" wrote: Then, I had a hd crap out on me last night. Please elaborate with all details. A curious mind wants to know. 160gb's worth of data, just flushed. John Lewis Now that in itself has ME curious. Why? This drive had a SMART error, is 3 years old, has been run quite hot at times until I realized that it like all the stuff inside the case, needs cooling. It 'lost' all partition data. I shouldn't have been using it for anything critical. Now it has a different SMART error. Something about RAW data rate. It took over 6 hrs to reformat, full drive, single partition, NTFS. And, it was only half full. Most of my stuff was backed up. Lost a few days worth of emails. Well? McG. The most interesting pieces of info were left out... manufacturer, model number, manufacturing date. I have an interest in collecting such information, as I build and repair PCs quite frequently. Thanks in advance. John Lewis |
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ATi --- Crossfire "Mark II" will finally abandon the Master-Slave implementation.
"John Lewis" wrote in message ... On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 02:00:17 GMT, "McGrandpa" wrote: "John Lewis" wrote in message ... On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 21:44:43 GMT, "McGrandpa" wrote: Then, I had a hd crap out on me last night. Please elaborate with all details. A curious mind wants to know. 160gb's worth of data, just flushed. John Lewis Now that in itself has ME curious. Why? This drive had a SMART error, is 3 years old, has been run quite hot at times until I realized that it like all the stuff inside the case, needs cooling. It 'lost' all partition data. I shouldn't have been using it for anything critical. Now it has a different SMART error. Something about RAW data rate. It took over 6 hrs to reformat, full drive, single partition, NTFS. And, it was only half full. Most of my stuff was backed up. Lost a few days worth of emails. Well? McG. The most interesting pieces of info were left out... manufacturer, model number, manufacturing date. I have an interest in collecting such information, as I build and repair PCs quite frequently. Thanks in advance. John Lewis Western Digital WD1600JB-00DUA0, IDE 100, 160gb Manufactured 04JAN2003. Hm. WD site says it's still under warranty. Through March. Seems I registered it almost 3 years ago when I bought it. Thing is, it is still running although it's *slow* and has that SMART raw read rate error. And it forgot all about my partition. HTH McG. |
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ATi --- Crossfire "Mark II" will finally abandon the Master-Slave implementation.
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 19:35:48 GMT, "McGrandpa"
wrote: "John Lewis" wrote in message ... On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 02:00:17 GMT, "McGrandpa" wrote: "John Lewis" wrote in message ... On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 21:44:43 GMT, "McGrandpa" wrote: Then, I had a hd crap out on me last night. Please elaborate with all details. A curious mind wants to know. 160gb's worth of data, just flushed. John Lewis Now that in itself has ME curious. Why? This drive had a SMART error, is 3 years old, has been run quite hot at times until I realized that it like all the stuff inside the case, needs cooling. It 'lost' all partition data. I shouldn't have been using it for anything critical. Now it has a different SMART error. Something about RAW data rate. It took over 6 hrs to reformat, full drive, single partition, NTFS. And, it was only half full. Most of my stuff was backed up. Lost a few days worth of emails. Well? McG. The most interesting pieces of info were left out... manufacturer, model number, manufacturing date. I have an interest in collecting such information, as I build and repair PCs quite frequently. Thanks in advance. John Lewis Western Digital WD1600JB-00DUA0, IDE 100, 160gb Manufactured 04JAN2003. Hm. WD site says it's still under warranty. Through March. Seems I registered it almost 3 years ago when I bought it. Thing is, it is still running although it's *slow* and has that SMART raw read rate error. And it forgot all about my partition. HTH McG. Thanks for the info. Seems like a warranty return to me. Just Do It. John Lewis |
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ATi --- Crossfire "Mark II" will finally abandon the Master-Slave implementation.
"John Lewis" Western Digital WD1600JB-00DUA0, IDE 100, 160gb Manufactured 04JAN2003. Hm. WD site says it's still under warranty. Through March. Seems I registered it almost 3 years ago when I bought it. Thing is, it is still running although it's *slow* and has that SMART raw read rate error. And it forgot all about my partition. HTH McG. Thanks for the info. Seems like a warranty return to me. Just Do It. John Lewis Right... got a box ready to go... McG. |
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ATi --- Crossfire "Mark II" will finally abandon the Master-Slave implementation.
"McGrandpa" wrote in message ... HL2 running Lost Coast video stress test in 1280x1024 with everything on and highest, with highest image quality, 8x aa 16x af comes back consistently with 70.84 fps. I was playing the training level in Deus Ex with 8XS antialiasing at 1280x1024 with the supersampling transparent antialiasing (what a mouthful) and it didn't slow down at all. Of course, I just have a "lowly" 7800 GT card. he one game that's surprised me the most so far is FEAR. It does *NOT* 'give as much as it gets'.... meaning I think the engine code is not well optimised for either 32 bits mode or 64 bit mode. This doesn't surprise me; Monolith engines have never been particularly good. Generally though there's no point in having SLI, not unless you have big HDTV's or widescreen monitors. And especially because the industry I see moving in two directions; a few tech demoes that push technology hard, and the rest will be more indie game oriented. The PC gaming industry just cannot sustain huge budgets like that forever; the cost of art assets in games is getting higher and higher, and won't change until we have some faster/easier way to do 3D modelling. |
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