Seems like Evilseed did indeed create his new alias "Mousecloner" ? wonder what kind of trojan is in there...
Seems like Evilseed did indeed create his new alias "Mousecloner" ? wonder what kind of trojan is in there...
Evilseed does indeed have a website mousecloner.com and it seems a lot of work just for a trojan (his legal disclaimer would cost $1000 for an attorney to draw up), and the fact that the very name of the web site "mousecloner" would be hard to aqquire at this point (almost any combination of good words is taken).
He also says he is Tim Sullivan previous owner of wowhead (which I use every day). If in fact that is the case I would see little reason to doubt his claims as to anything.
I mean outside of the fact it took him longer then expected to release his software is there any particular reason to doubt his word at this point?
Also read his initial post, the simple fact he knows all this information well, why would someone aquire such knowledge just to post a trojan or whatever?
That observation does not appear incorrect on its face, and thats some advanced thinking actually.Quote:
I did some digging into why these intel SSDs provide such a massive performance gain and it is all about the IOPS and seek times. The real strain on a PC is that running multiple wows, symlinked or not, requires a ton of random reads from random files. The more reads that exist, the lower your throughput will be. For example, while 1 read constant may yield you 100mbs, 10 reads will NOT yield you 10mbps per read. Rather, it'll do maybe 1.5mbps per read. The reason for the througput cut is the seek time latency. With my raid0/1 array using 4x x25e SSDs, I'm able to hit over 1000mb/s read *and* write, and can have 10,000 open file handlers reading/writing and still obtain over 400mbs. My wow multiboxing is now insane.
I'm glad things are coming to light. I feel bad for people that get accused of being something other than what they claim. Then you come to find out they are just what they said they were, and more ( previous owner of wowhead? wowzers! ) I love wowhead! I think we should loosen up just enough to let individuals judge for themselves and less bashing on public forums.
I understand the desire to "protect" the forum population for the "evil sheep in wolves' clothing, but there are more respectful, tactful ways of going about it 8) IMO
Oh please. Look at the state of that site. It's an absolute mess. www.mousecloner.com - I own al kinds of cool two-word domains that cost me about 7 bucks. It's not hard.Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Lyonheart',index.php?page=Thread&postID=171145#po st171145
Guys, he said (in actual human English) that he was healing ZF on his phone, with full sound and graphics............................... :|
Sam, please stop encouraging people to invest interest in this chimp. If it's his product, why does he show his own customer feedback on his site?
Real User Quote:
5 Druids instantly summoning 15 trees at one time? `Nuff said!
-Tim (aka Evilseed)
You never know, he may jut be dense but it smells so fishy that I thought my Grandma was coming to visit.
He is in fact the previous owner of wowhead:
http://www.wowhead.com/?aboutus
Go to the 2nd paragraph from the bottem of the above link, then click on evilseed:
http://www.wowhead.com/?user=Evilseed
Hey I recomend me all the time.
It'll always be the crux and the benefit of any public communication method that there are those who always like to cry in distress when an otherwise calm situation exists. The intelligent and educated people are the ones who will do their own research and substantiate their own opinions and those are truly the ones to be heard. To the people who say my project is "vaporware" or has "malware" or is some devious scheme because I created a new username to better represent and focalize questions/feedback, as much as the spread of misinformation frustrates me, I will always have the belief that anybody and everybody has the right to say what they want to say, be it an agreeable statement or not.Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Lyonheart',index.php?page=Thread&postID=171145#po st171145
I will always respond the same way, by being honest and maintaining to myself that people always deserve some measure of respect.
Have you seen this? Up to 64 GB of DDR2:Quote:
Originally Posted by '-silencer-',index.php?page=Thread&postID=170267#post170267
http://techreport.com/articles.x/16255
First glance: Holy crap!Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Freddie',index.php?page=Thread&postID=171320#post 171320
I just read the HD Tach (this is what I use) and it doesn't list it as being faster as the Intel X25's? How would this make sense? Doesn't DDR2 bus architecture support something like 800mb/s up to 5.3gb/s? I'm so confused why it is equal to intel's SSD x25.
A side note, does anybody know if eSATA2 has additional latencies over normal SATA2? I'm considering getting a eSATA drive encloser and putting the x25's I have in there for the ability to "plug and play" the drives between multiple machines of mine. I wouldn't want to do it if eSATA has speed latencies far in excess of normal SATA2. For example, USB drives have huuge speed cruxes due to USB file handlers and unsustained speeds.
I've never used eSATA so I've no idea and my google research so far seems very limited in results.
the 9010B is only $249 but with just one Sata port you can't raid it.
esata apparently is the same as regular sata. 3G.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA
Look the very best is a Tyan Server Motherboard with like 32G on it. Thats like way more then enough lol. And all your ram is system ram, not Sata ram so you do get the full DDR2 spec.
http://www.tyan.com/product_board_detail.aspx?pid=566
Thats like $840 without even trying to find it on the cheap. Take your board, add $400 for the ram drive and this has it beat I am sure.
Antoher possibilty is the i7 stuff, they are running at some insane 14g/sec with DDR3 which blows away all other memory bandwidth solutions. This board is only $250 but 12G max, still you might be ablt to get away with 8 gig for wow folders and 4 gigs for playing 5 instances of wow easy.
http://www.motherboardpro.com/Asus-R...il-p-1040.html
LoL 24G and 3-6 video cards:
http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.ph...1&limitstart=5
On a purely cost per subjective performance increase I'd have to recommend against getting the Acard 9010 for just WoW.
The access times are lightening fast across the board, but the recovery from the CCF card is uselessly slow. I did it once with my 32Gig Ram from a standard 32Gig Camera-type CCF and it took about 2 hours to fully recover.
It will, however, boot from the unit while passing through from the CCF until it comes into sync, but it means you can't really play for the first 2 hours after a power on.
All things confidered, the average wow-er would likely be happier with the flash SSD route.
I have mine set up as a data drive and use a boot time scheduled restore in windows to load an uncompressed image from my hard drive back onto it, which only takes about 10 minutes and is set to happen even before i log in as an admin level service.
I have some tests and such I will post eventually, but I'm in FL and my computer with the images is in CA and turned off right now.
I am starting to notice something really wierd on my Intel x25 (both e and ms). I'll be playing WoW on them (I broke my raid, doing singles now) and sometimes the drive will actually dissapear from my OS. For example, I have my main WoW window on my G drive. Well, suddenly windows will give me a wierd error and the G: drive dissapears completely. If I check Vista's device manager, it no longer lists it as a HDD. It is completely gone until I reboot.
I'm thinking about buying a new SATA2 controller, one that supports eSATA, and hopefully it'll end up being the issue with this system's mobo. This PC has a Striker Xtreme.
Deleted, double post.
Is the slow time to reload the thing the only reason you say that? If so, what if you leave your PC on most of the time and reboot only occasionally?Quote:
Originally Posted by 'aboron',index.php?page=Thread&postID=171338#post1 71338
Actually when I'm not on the road my desktop doesn't get turned off, so the reload speed would not be the clincher for me (and the reload is really only that slow when using the unit as a boot drive) - it's mainly the price increase from say $250 for a quality samsung 32 Gig flash SSD compared to $1200 for 32Gig on this thing is not reflected in an equivalent performance increase of even double, let alone 5x.Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Freddie',index.php?page=Thread&postID=171342#post 171342
Edit -
That being said, if i had an infinite supply of money: I would get 4 of these, an Areca 1680 raid controller (in raid 0) and a liquid cooling solution - because they run rather hot.
I don't spose anybody here knows how to troubleshoot a drive randomly dissapearing in windows (as in, it suddenly doesn't show up in device manager) when it was there just moments ago?
run "eventvwr" it'll tell you why windows removed the device usually, look in system or application.
I wouldn't bother with cheap SSD drives (OCZ, ADATA, etc) the performance gain is extremely minor over hard drives for wow. I run mine off a OCZ 64GB and it has barely made any difference in FPS.
Yea I checked out eventvwr and holy crap, it is horrible in Vista. I can't seem to find anything useful. Is there a particular section this should be at in the event viewer? Thanks in advance!
BTW, the Intel x25m/e is the own for mboxing in WoW (see my OP).
Also could anybody recommend the best eSATA 2.5" drive enclosure? I've been googling and for some reason I can't find anybody doing specs on eSATA drive enclosures. It is as if they are all the same! Maybe they are? :p
Heh, I think I got one of those cheap SSD drives today :( However, I'm hoping that it's as good as Velociraptors for playing WoW and one 64 GB was cheaper than putting a couple raptors in a raid format. Hopefully increased reliability, too.Quote:
Originally Posted by 'puppychow',index.php?page=Thread&postID=171361#po st171361
The culprit:
Single Hard Drive (64 GB Ritek RiDATA 2.5 inch SATA Gaming MLC Solid State Disk (Nearly Instant Data Access Technology)[+126])
If you are going for SSD speed, get the intel x25e/m They are insanely fast. However, they dissapear from windows for no reasons:)
Owltoid post yur results with that drive, I might try the $83 adata mcl 32g drives if yours works out.
Look nothing is close to the I7 solutions:
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/824/4/
All these other items are junk by comparison.
Look ASSUMING that the X25 compleatly saturates its Sata 3G buss thats absolute MAX of 3G/S, and they don't even claim their drive can come close to saturating its buss. If it did the X25 would be the lowest thing on that graph at 3000.
The I7 motherboard memory is 28G/S
Do you see the 900 percent increase in speed between the two? NINE HUNDRED PERCENT FASTER! And cost for a I7 (920) with 24G onboard isnt a ton more then all these other solutions for a system that has NINE times the memory bandwidth speed. And again if you are only running 5 wow's you should be able to get by with 12G (barely).
And if you have a 64 bit operating system you won't "lose" yur system memory lol ...
Download sandra (FREE version) from
http://www.sisoftware.net/
Run the memory bandwidth test and you can see what your results are. (I'm between 10 and 11 G on my m2n32 vista with amd 6000 x2, which is better then anything on their graph cept the I7).
Where is the iphone wow application from Feb 08 ?
Lol at "mousecloner" if it actually even works (anyone dare to try?) - the description is you enter X,Y coordinates (that the tool itself can't capture!) and it clicks those coordinates... woot; such advanced UI it's revolutionary... sounds like sending mousedown events... and you need to put coords yourself... awesome usability...
Real user quote: Moorea rocks -- Moorea
Sam, my new rig won't arrive for about 3 weeks, unfortunately, but when it does if you tell me how to run the diagnostics I will.Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Sam DeathWalker',index.php?page=Thread&postID=171426#p ost171426
Also, what did you mean by 5 WoW's barely able to get by?
Well the wow folder is up to about 8G now isnt it? It might be even more then that. Then the OS will be like 1G or so, then you need like 1/2G or so for each instance.
The 5 files in the Data folder are 7G themselves, but I bet 95 percent of the reading is those 5 files.
16G would really cover it well but thats not divisible by 3 I guess 18G is the sweet spot.
I think 18 is an impossible number since it would involve finding 3 or 6 Gig ram modules, which will not likely ever be made.
Ya what a problem ...
Well like I say you MIGHT get by with 12G, otherwise well go for 24G.
Ill bet you could just Put the Data Folder only (7G) in the Ram and cover 98percent plus of your reads. 3G for 5 wows is also good enough. I think 12 should cover it, not with much left but should do 99 percent of the job. I bet w7 probably has a smaller footprint then vista also.
Or just go for 24 then ...
If you decide on 12G then get the rampage board.
If only running 5 wows the difference between 12G and 24G will be hardly noticable, if you want 20 wows well then 24G is the way to go. And even with 20 wows this set up and 24G is going to have no problems I would bet. Except how to display them.
Again with 24G and 5 wows I doubt you will get more then a 1percent (if that) benifit over 12G. And the cost of that last 1percent is going to be a ton.
Ill be moving to this kind of set up at some point (probably after prices are about 1/2 of what they are now), unless AMD comes up with some similar memory buss.
If you add the Wrath files to your data folder the size comes up to around 12.3Gb.
(Just thought I'd add that)
Ahh I don't have wotlk ...
Well in that case its 24G or nothing ....
Guys there is a fantastic article here on TH: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...lash,2127.html
I've now encountered 3 failures on my Intel x25 drives. I'm returning the lot of them to New Egg and am going to be reconsidering everything as a whole. I'm sick and tired of a loud and complicated PC setup and am considering building something more user friend from the ground-up, and these ram drives are looking really nice. I saw the link to that MOBO with 24/32 gigs of ram, but I can't seem to find a place to sell 6G chips? Maybe I'm missing something here...