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[DJGM]

[iJohnE]

BestBuy was out of the Flip camorders, so I'll post some soon.

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[Antony]

My latest Sony accessories received last week.


Sony Off-Camera Cable for Flash (FA-CC1AM) and Magnifying Eyepiece (FDA-ME1AM) for my Sony DSLR-A350.

A special thank you to Don for helping me getting those two items (one has been out of stock for quite a while, and the other item isn't available in Australia).

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[Don_HH2K]

And on the box I sent Antony were my thoughts on this:



Sorry I had to go over the photo with Photoshop, it didn't come out very well.

Nice camcorders DJGM and iJohnE. I'm personally fine with my VHS camcorder, but if I were to go HD, I would try and save up for an HDV camcorder like the Canon HV30, which goes on eBay for about $500.

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[Antony]

Well, we all know that Don has an issue with big brand names, especially Apple and Sony, except Microsoft.

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[Antony]

I bought Wii Sports Resort recently:





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[iJohnE]

[Antony]

If you like Wii Sports, it is a great improvement to it.

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[iJohnE]

I bought my Wii just for Wii Sports.
So I am going to pick one up.

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[Antony]

Only 21.5 inches.



Samsung P2250 21.5-inch LCD monitor.



Well, Don would be happy to know that it is not Apple or Sony. Also, it is not mine, but I bought it through my credit card (so I can get the Awards points).

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[Mandrake]

Full size versions available here:

http://mandrake.sillydog.com/4890s

Dual ASUS Radeon 4890s. Pictured is the old 6600 GT they replaced. I also replaced an old WD 250GB drive with a new WD 1TB drive.

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[iJohnE]

Nice card. I need a new one in my Dell Dimension 2850, I'm thinking about this one.

Oh, and what does Crossfire do?

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[Mandrake]

[Antony]

[Mandrake]

I borrowed a few images to help show how this works:







Notice the two gold connectors on the top of the video card. When you have two cards installed in a computer, you'll take two of the Crossfire bridges (one is included with each card) and connect each between the two cards, connecting to the gold connectors. This allows the cards to communicate with each other with each Crossfire connector providing a link between the two cards. The cards use these links for communicating with each other, working out which card will display what part of the image. As I understand it, the most common way is called 'Alternate Frame Rendering'. This means that the first card will render all the even numbered video frames, and the second card renders the odd numbered video frames. This can be scaled to three or even four cards, but the performance doesn't tend to justify the additional cost of more than two cards IMO.

I sold my old GTX 260s to buy these cards, so the overall cost of upgrading wasn't that high. 30" monitors are nice, but too damn expensive! It would be a real challenge to squeeze a second monitor of that size on my desk anyway.

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