ATi --- Crossfire "Mark II" will finally abandon the Master-Slave implementation.

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 02:00:17 GMT, "McGrandpa"
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"John Lewis" wrote in message
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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

"John Lewis" wrote in message
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On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 02:00:17 GMT, "McGrandpa"
wrote:


"John Lewis" wrote in message
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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.

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 19:35:48 GMT, "McGrandpa"
wrote:


"John Lewis" wrote in message
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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

"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.

"McGrandpa" wrote in message
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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.