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I just wish my 9700Pro didnt have that extra piggy back power drain. It doesn't work too well if your building a HTPC for low noise and low power.

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At least your card uses the 5v rail, which is generally less stressed than the 12v rail, which my card (and the nV30 and nV35 use, the 58 and 5900's).

OO - I just went to the link in your profile - you shuttle user . How are those cases? I'm thinking of buying either one of those or a full on home theater component case for my HTPC (which I will build sometime soon).

PS. That is a very beautiful setup you have there- but, if I may ask, what is that stuffed animal in here???

A picture appears on this site:

http://www.nb.cbc.ca/moncton/

Yeah, um, what a beauty, um, yeah right - lol.

The fuzzy warm lizard loves Axioms.

Most of the shuttles still are too loud. You would need a silint power supply but they are standard size and do not fit shuttles.

If you want a silent but expensive case this is da bomb.

D.VINE
http://www.ahanix.com/dvine5.html

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If you want a silent but expensive case this is da bomb.

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Hahaha - I havn't heard that in a while.

And Oh My God!!! That is so freaking beautiful. That will be my next purchase. Forget that Adire Tumult that I was going to buy to replace my Eminence 15 LF Magnum. I'm getting that baby.

[EDIT]BAH!! They are like $350, and probably more for the one with the remote control. I will just get one of those for my next computer then (when I eventually do HTPC; its so hard to wait though...), and I'll resist the urge at the moment.[/EDIT]

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Do you know what a RISC based 64 bit Power4 power PC chip?

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The PowerPC 970 and the Power 4 are two different chips. Comparing the Power 4 to the Pentium 4 is pointless.

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The PowerPC G5 can pump through more than 200 in-flight instructions at a time, a whopping 71% more than the 32-bit Pentium 4.

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Which is irrelevent if each of those instructions takes less time in a Pentium 4.

To be more precise, Athlon 64 doesn't have a front side bus at all. Onboard memory controller really isn't the same thing.

Yes I was kinda interchanging RISC based AIX systems which runs PowerPC chip to Mac G5 PowerPC chips. That was my intention because both does run unix to a certain degree.
But what I was refering to as a 64bit Power4 or Power4+ are these.
http://www-132.ibm.com/content/home/store_IBMPublicUSA/en_US/eServer/pSeries/mid_range/pSeries_midrange.html
And yes the PowerPC970 is 64bit but that is not what I am talking about.
Both the IBM Pseries 6xx server and the G4 or G5 do run Unix ..yes of different flavors one AIX..the other I think BSD.

http://www.apple.com/g5processor/
Scroll down to the area that talks about the the G5 and IBM 64bit Power4 processor. Apple worked with IBM to leverage the Power4 technlogy to create the G5.

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Comparing the Power 4 to the Pentium 4 is pointless.

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I was comparing this...

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The PowerPC G5 can pump through more than 200 in-flight instructions at a time, a whopping 71% more than the 32-bit Pentium 4

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... I was comparing G5 to P4

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Which is irrelevent if each of those instructions takes less time in a Pentium 4.

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Wheres proof? How many instructions per cycle can the P4 do? How fast is a P4 cycle in comparison to the G5.

My exact blurb was taken out of the Mac site.
http://www.apple.com/powermac/performance/

I have gotten information from a Mac user from my company that he has rendered a 300meg+ 3D object in realtime on Photoshop with a G5 vs and a fast CPU P4 with somewhat the same GPU and found that the MAC did create it much faster almost realtime.

Iam a PC guy. And I had bias views on the Mac. But there are a lot of Unix gurus out there creating stuff for the G5 because the OS is opensource. They are trying out their scripts and thinking this can be used for fileservers which may cost under $15,000 in comparison to some of the $50,000+ IBM Pseries servers. It may not do all the functions they need but for something 1/3 the price its one hell of a machine.

Oh, there's a bunch of US around here...