The miracle of grading

by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/8/2003 8:42 PM EST
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  • dvinnen - Saturday, December 13, 2003 - link

    Where'd you get the million dollar figure from? I dought even for a site this big, the ad revenue is that high
  • Anonymous - Wednesday, December 10, 2003 - link

    Hey Jack,
    What have you accomplished in your life? Anand has been nicknamed as "Boy Wonder" by many magazines and world wide famous sites. He makes over million dollars a year. Are you just jealous of his success??? Why don't you just stay in your little room and cry...

    He took the time to register just so he can bash AT. What a mental case?
  • Anonymous - Wednesday, December 10, 2003 - link

    Did someone feed the troll?
  • jack - Wednesday, December 10, 2003 - link

    God anandtech sucks ass
  • ravedave - Tuesday, December 9, 2003 - link

    Please please include an old crappy HD like a bigfoot 4200RPM. It would be so nice to really see the difference with these new drives.

    Also it would be interesting to see the difference in drives on XP with only 64MB of ram and these HD's. I bet that would really seperate them out.

    A good question to ask the readers is: When does your HD grind?
    For me the worst HD grind times are:
    Windows startup
    Winamp loading files
    Compiling a VS project.
    Starting Games.

    I started a thread here: http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=...

    Windows boot time would be really interesting to see.

    Also, I feel you on the coding thing. It seems CS profs are the same everywhere (I'm at St.Cloud state in MN) Only 11 days till I'm done.
  • Matt Bhame - Tuesday, December 9, 2003 - link

    Load times have only become important to me in the past 3 months. Games like Max Payne 2 take a long time to load on my computer. But, I use compression (WinRAR) tremendously and consider it part of Content Creation, personally.

    I cannot wait for the test results on the new Raptors!!!!

    Real-world RAID performance benchmarks are few and far between. In fact, conclusive side-by-side comparisons of such are few and far between. StorageReview.com is great but NOT easy to get the specific info I want FAST. Whereas, I know I've got a dropdown menu to put me immediately to quickly-read bar-graphs on your site. Ahhhh...the speed and ease of it.
  • Anonymous - Tuesday, December 9, 2003 - link

    And in regards to DE2, did you try it with a FX 5950 or faster CPU? If so, and new conclusions?
  • GTaudiophile - Tuesday, December 9, 2003 - link

    Anand: game load times are quite important to me. In fact, I am upgrading from a 2MB cache to a 8MB cache drive for that purpose (same rotation speed). Grab a stopwatch and compare the drives loading Desert Combat, a mod for BF1942!
  • James Geurts - Monday, December 8, 2003 - link

    I would personally like to see a benchmark or two, for hard drives, using compression/decompression.
  • Anonymous - Monday, December 8, 2003 - link

    What do you mean you get graded on programs? Elaborate please.
  • vailr - Monday, December 8, 2003 - link

    Any chance of an updated "standalone" TV tuner card comparison review? Including the "Media Center Edition" approved tuner cards, such as the Hauppauge 250 MCE. Also including the ATI TV Wonder Pro, ASUS, Leadtek Expert, and other 10-bit tuner cards.

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