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Let's add up all the power those HTPCs have used over those 10 years and compare it to the 4 watts a Roku 3 uses. Then, let's add up the costs of all the computers and compare it to the $99 a Roku 3 costs. Now who is laughing?

You do realize that there are many people in 3rd world countries that look to even the poorest of Americans and think the same way as some of you here. We have roofs over our heads, food to eat, etc. Anything else can be considered "excess". It's all relative. Also, at the end of the day...

I would gladly pay extra if it actually meant my Internet would improve. What we really need is more competition. If classifying it as a utility increases the chances of new providers moving in, I'm all for it. If it does nothing to promote competition, I'm against it. If there are only a few...

According to this thread: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.solaris.opensolaris.zfs/39237 You can replace all at once as long as you have all old and new disks hooked up (which you do).

Interesting. Your pool shows as online (and not degraded, which is what it would say if you had one or more disks missing from the pool). I don't know if I've ever heard of anyone trying to do a replace on all disks at once. The only use case I've done it is to replace a failed disk. I...

You could take a snapshot, send everything up to the point of that snapshot. Then, take another snapshot, and send that to get all the changes since the initial send. http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E18752_01/html/819-5461/gbchx.html

If are able to have ALL disks hooked up at the same time, you could just do a ZFS send/receive to get your data on the new disks. That'd be the best way. Since you are using raidz2, I wouldn't be too concerned about doing a disk at a time. It'll take an extremely long time tough. I'm not sure...

I'm getting this chip this week. It's going to be used in a plex server. I hear the CPU can do 2 1080p transcodes simultaneously, but just barely. I'm looking to bump up the speed, but not by much (just to give a bit of breathing room). I was wondering what a realistic expectation would be on...

There are WAY more games released on PC than consoles. Perhaps you meant AAA titles?

You do not have to RMA. Only 3 the Gb sata ports are affected. The 6 Gb ports are not. Also, Intel states only about 15% of boards will experience the problem within 3 years. You could also purchase a sata add-in card as well. If no-downtime is a priority, then I'd go that route rather than...

OMG Post for card!

W T F??? To stream the songs YOU ALREADY OWN, that you have ALREADY PAID FOR, using YOUR INTERNET CONNECTION, to YOUR PHONE, the company that provides this service has to PAY a fee of .1 cents per song streamed to the RIAA? THIS IS THE BIGGEST PILE OF BS I HAVE EVER HEARD. It'd be like...

I should clarify. The video was posted in response to this claim by Piako: It's to show that yes, indeed, people do this.

Did you even watch the video? I don't see how it is "fake". Perhaps you are one of those people that constantly criticize things without even seeing or thinking about them? The point is, Enthusiasts are different kinds of computer users than the average Joe. The Average Joe would never...

Well, I can't link to something on HardForum, but I can show an example of what I'm talking about: http://youtube.com/watch?v=qnegha16j7s People like to tinker and do stuff like this. The amount of hardware freedom on the PC is much more appealing to these types. There are other people...

You can run Windows on a Mac. People that say there is more software for PCs are liars. You get the Mac library PLUS the Windows software library if you want it. Many people don’t factor in time, or additional costs in. The average Joe goes out, buys Symantec AV and pays a monthly fee. The...

What the heck is this article? I was trying to find "Page 2" and finally realized there wasn't one. This has to be the most pointless thing I have ever read ever.

The site is now allowing for people to sign up saying that they will boycott.

Whoo Hooo! I personally can't wait for the 64-bit edition. That'd probably knock off another 20 bucks.

What if you bought "Pepsi" for about 10% less than normal pepsi and you opened the can and drank it and it was the store brand labeled as pepsi. You then look at the fine print and it says it's an imitation of Pepsi. Well, it's your fault for not reading the fine print I guess (yeah right)...

Here is a PERFECT example as to the confusion this causes. It said it was a 9800pro, so bigstusexy assumed it was like all other 9800pros. In past experiances when Sapphire labeled a product it followed ATI's advertised specs. Sure, an OEM card may have lower clock speeds, but that would have...

No, it's not the same thing. I mean, back in the 9700/9500pro days, a 9500pro was the SAME as a 9700 except the memory interface was 128-bit. What would you have done if you bought a 9700 and received a 9500pro? I bet you'd be a little mad. Again, I stress, this is not going to fool most of...

If anyone is curious on how exactly these cards look, here is a link of the product at newegg. It is marked 128-bit so Newegg has done its part. It's the people that don't know the difference that will be shafted. For only around 20-30 more you can get a REAL 9800 pro.

Blackwind, even if on ATI's own website it states all Radoen 9800's are 256-bit? I think it's misleading the un-informed consumer. If they do research and find out they want a 9800pro, but do not know the difference between 128 and 256 bits, they get burned. Different product, different...

Blackwind, This has been discussed a little before. The problem is not for you or me. It's for the people that aren't into the industry. They probably research and determine they want a 9800 pro. They go to their local shop and see the sapphire for a little bit cheaper than the others and buy...

I know RivaTuner at Guru3d will tell you. Simply double click on the icon it installs in your tray, then on the main tab a little over halfway up it'll say how much RAM the card has, the Core revision, and the memory bus width. As an example, mine says: "256-bit R300 (8x1) with 128MB DDR...

This post got me thinking on how this could be related to other areas of the hardware industry. For instance, Intel has different 3.0 GHz chips based on different manufacturing processes. Intel gives them a name like Pentium 4 3.0C or something to that matter. The fact remains that the chips...

The problem arises when a person who does not know a lot about computer hardware buys the card expecting the same performance as Johnny down the street who has a real 9800pro. Granted, this person probably won't even realize his card is crippled, but it's still wrong for sapphire to take...

I am not entirely sure, this is an educated guess. I'm guessing that the 86 means that there are 86 instructions the processor could use. For instance, add, sub, mult, etc etc (assembly level instructions). In order to maintain compatibility, a processor must support these 86...

Man, Soundcards are so EXPENSIVE. My Abit NF7-S Could almost be considered a soundcard with an integrated motherboard! Anyways, I'd go with the Fort III. That's just me. And if you ask why I'll say because i HATE Creative. But that's just me.

Lol... Well, YEAH, but... Uhh... Well, this one will do this right out of the box. No modding etc. ;-) Plus it's specs for NON-GAMING are better than the X-box. Edit: And it supports Progessive Scan DVD Playback. Xbox doesn't do that, unless there is some hack I don't know about.

Cards today have over 100 MILLION transistors in the core! That's about 2 times the amount of transistors in a Pentium 4 (non extreme edition). It's very complicated to make a GPU with that many transistors and not have it be flawed. It all boils down to supply and demand. I confess, I...

The amazing thing about this thing is there doesn't seem to be anything from stopping you from installing whatever you want on it. And who cares about adding more storage. It's NETWORKED, so you can just pull stuff off from other computers in your house. For $300 bucks, this thing...