Cheers to Yourself [Archive]

AladdinSane

02-12-2007, 05:13 AM

I wanted everyone to know how much Dave has helped me the last few days in distilling information and providing tech support to me-- I am getting my computer set up to do larger format graphics; so I asked for Dave's help by reading a lengthy article about PhotoShop and it's requirements. He asked for a few specs from my system and for very little money, I now have a screaming machine. I knew a couple things were lacking on my system, ie- RAM and hard drive space. Dave not only confirmed that for me, he actually put me in the right direction for incredible deals on the 2 items... he helped me get them installed properly... and we even had a few laughs in there as well! The man knows his stuff and I wanted to say publicly how much I appreciate his support, respect his knowledge and value his friendship.

Thanks Dave!
Chad

Canoedude

02-12-2007, 08:09 AM

Three cheers for David!!Hip Hip HOORAY, Hip Hip HOORAY. Hip Hip HOORAY

It's nice we have people here who are willing to do such things out of the goodness of their hearts.

Nice Job David and Chad, take it easy on those of us who don't have NASA machines running.

raydoger

02-12-2007, 04:13 PM

way to go dave,you bring a new meaning to the word family,you know the meaning of family and friendship,thank you

JETDOC

02-12-2007, 08:22 PM

Word Up G!

Yourself

02-12-2007, 09:00 PM

*blush*

Thanks, Chad and everyone!

I'm glad to be able to help and to have some positive impact.

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to help Lt_Lisa with her Vista and Call of Duty 2 issue.

But again, thanks!

I'm so happy to be a part of this family.

Yourself (Dave)

JVS (BE)

02-13-2007, 02:07 AM

Dave keeps the family from making a global crash, thanks for the efforts.

Bur it worries me with my slow PC that a lot of people are starting to run Vista I have seen the system requirements for that ouch. They must be able to see me move before I even start.

Or perhaps I am just crap :icon_biggrin:

AladdinSane

02-13-2007, 04:40 AM

Although it is quite alluring, (insert defenition, Mike)... I will NOT be making the plunge to Vista for a while. I am thinking of upping to XP 64... any advantages there guys?

Yourself

02-13-2007, 08:14 AM

Jens, in my opinion, I don't think you should run Vista on an existing machine unless you have a compelling reason for it.

I am probably going to hold off on Vista until I get a new machine.

Nothing against Vista - it has some really good features, but with Microsoft's record on new software, I would wait until futher updates and service packs come out. That also allows all other companies to come out with Vista patches and updates.

For the most part, Vista is going to run just about everything a little slower than a corresponding XP machine. That probably won't change until Vista-specific applications and games are the norm.

Chad - do you have a specific need for Windows XP 64-bit?

I just ask that because I've heard of people having driver (and other issues) with XP 64. I don't have any experience on it, so I'm just offering what I've read.

The 64-bit (native) operating systems (Windows XP 64, Vista 64) run 64-bit applications faster, but can (and usually do) run 32-bit applications slower.

I know that running a 16-bit app in a 32-bit environment is called Thunking, and that conversion process (interface) slows things down.

I imagine the same thing would happen running a 32-bit app in a 64-bit OS.

I can't remember offhand if the PC is a big-endian or little-endian machine - if it's little-endian, the conversion process will definately suffer.

I think it's a little-endian machine, which means that it stores words with the low order first. For example, representing the value 15 in hex is "000F" as we would read it, but a little-endian machine stores it as "0F00".

That's a little off subject, but there is a processing cost with running applications and operating systems in different modes (bit levels).

Yourself (Dave)

Crazy Ivan

02-15-2007, 11:12 AM

XP64 won't buy you any advantages, Nor would Vista64.

Depending on the age your existing machine, Vista may actually be an inprovement for you. If your rig is less than a year old and you have decent hardware (dual-core 2.0gHz or more, 2 gig DDR or DDR2 ram, SATA1 or SATA2 hardrives, PCIe graphics with 512MEG or more).

You can download Microsoft's Vista Upgrade Advisor here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=42B5AC83-C24F-4863-A389-3FFC194924F8&displaylang=en

Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor is designed to help Windows XP users identify whether their PCs are ready for an upgrade to Windows Vista, which edition of Windows Vista meets their needs, and which features of Windows Vista will be able to run on their PCs

I was a beta tester for Vista and ran Beta 2 and RC1 editions of Vista. I now have full retail version of Vista Ultimate running on my home machine an ECS KN1 motherboard with Athlon 64 dual-core 3800, 3 gig DDR ram, 600gig SATA2 Raid array, and an ATI X1600 PCIe with 512Meg DDR2.

I am quite pleased with the performance.

Vista boots faster, shuts down faster, is more secure, better UI, and at least for me, runs COD2 a little bit better than XPpro did on the same machine. I get faster load time and about 10% better Framerates.

Vista TCP/IP stack has been completly re-written so network apps like Multi-player games have less latency issues as well.

Anyway thats my $0.02

IVAN aka Dan

Higgins

02-15-2007, 01:03 PM

Just for grins Dan, what do you think about ECS boards? Eventually I'm looking to build my 1st machine and any info you think would be great.

Crazy Ivan

02-15-2007, 02:12 PM

I like both ECS and ASUS MBs they are pretty reliable and allow a lot of tweaks to the BIOS that other MBs don't.

Both brands seem to be preferred by Gamers and OverClockers.

I have used both in the past and usually my choice depends on which of the 2 is cheaper at the time based on similar options like onboard firewire, number of usb headers, chipset, onboard ethernet, etc...

Either would be good.

IVAN aka Dan

Yourself

02-15-2007, 10:27 PM

LOL....I second Dan on that....

I've had great success with ECS boards in the past....they give some really great options for the price, and they just plain work.

Dan, that's an awesome machine.....I wish I had that kind of horsepower.....

I don't think BOTH of my machines together can come close....

IIRC, I think you saw the link (http://www.theoldbreed.com/showthread.php?t=1233) that I posted that talked about some of Vista's features. Some really great info there.

I will eventually run Vista, but that'll happen when I finally get a new machine.

I've heard lots of great stories from people switching to Vista, and lots of horror stories also.

Both sides from people I respect (including you and David) - I'm looking forward to Vista, just been bitten too many times by switching to a first version of a Microsoft product (and that's not limited to Microsoft).

Also, almost all of the reviews I read that compare Vista and XP ON THE SAME HARDWARE run games and many applications a little slower under Vista.

Again, I don't have Vista, so I can't speak from experience.

I am starting to notice that (seemingly) most of the people that tout Vista (having very good experiences) are running Vista Ultimate...I'll have to start paying more attention to that.

The updated TCI/IP stack really interests me (for the reason you stated).

Specifically, two parts of it interest me....the stack in its own thread (and rewritten for performance....the four advanced TCP/IP technologies combined, called Compound TCP), and the variable sized MTU (receive) window - it can be different for each connection which helps to optimize ALL network traffic.

That's one of the premises of the KillerNic (http://www.killernic.com/KillerNic/), which is a separate Ethernet controller that is designed for gaming. They off-loaded the TCI/IP stack onto a dedicated Linux machine located on the Network Interface Card (NIC) itself, and it helps mitigate latency in many instances. The KillerNic works with XP (and 2000, I believe), but is very pricy in my opinion (of course, I'm not Fatal1ty (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal1ty)), and is not a good investment for me.

Yourself (Dave)

Lt_Lisa

02-17-2007, 05:49 PM

well if i dont get it up and running soon im gonna just say da heck with the dang computers anyway cause i might not be around much longer (not death either so dont think like that yall)

boss

02-18-2007, 08:27 PM

well if i dont get it up and running soon im gonna just say da heck with the dang computers anyway cause i might not be around much longer (not death either so dont think like that yall)

might not be around much longer , what do you mean ???

Ol'digger

03-14-2007, 08:23 AM

Dave,

I rarely understand all of what you tell us.......truth be known I understand very little of it.

However I just want to add my thanks and gratitude for your assistance whenever I have needed it.

You have always been able to explain it for me in terms I can understand.

It is very much appreciated.

Brett

Einz3

03-14-2007, 09:49 AM

What you talkin about Lisa?

boss

03-14-2007, 07:54 PM