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Recovering from a major case of food poisoning. The Jamba Juice on North Main, been losing weight for 20 hours. My wife thinks we should go in for a saline drip due to dehydration. Blah.

I've also seen it happen where someone gets a virus and it is able to steal their Outlook address book. It then picks one of the addresses on there as the sender and sends SPAM to the rest of the list. Your account may never have been compromised.

I've been considering those for a while, but I don't think I need anything so complex. Just a waterblock mounted to the top of the DIMMs, pulling away heat eventually, would suffice. I've been told that Danger Den will be coming out with something simpler.

I agree, B3. Of course, swapping around cards is particularly difficult when running a watercooling rig. But changing slots is certainly the right place to start.

Great to see you back, Flagreen! I wish I knew someone who was competent at the controls. As it is, every mistake is a crash, and that becomes very time consuming in repairs. Very frustrating as well, which slows the rebuild, which slows the learning curve.

That would be it. Specifically the controller on the LSI RAID card; it was around 80C without direct airflow. It never crashed, but I like to treat my data better than that. At the moment, the only thing in the 80C range is the RAM, with the portion of the chipset furthest from the waterblock...

I had hesitated about the active adapters before, as I had issues with the first one I got. The new one seems to be working well, though (one day and counting, fingers crossed). That is a heck of a deal Coug, perhaps it is almost time to pull the trigger on that.

They shipped crossfire cables with the cards, and the cards still have the "fingers" on top for the connection, so I do have them cabled together. Even if they weren't, I would expect to see both cards in device manager (I'm not). That is what makes me think that this slot combination is...

Just tried out Eyefinity. Pretty cool, though the fact that all my monitors are different sizes hurts the effect. Even without the CrossFireX working, 5760x1080 is perfectly playable in Dirt2 and Portal with everything maxed.

Due to the Eyefinity Displayport limitation, I'm looking for ~40" LCDs that support Displayport in. Bonus points if it supports 120Hz, is LED, and costs around $1k. Thanks for any help!

The loop now includes 5 waterblocks, and the outgoing temp is still nearly the same as the incoming. 1/2"ID tubing with this flowrate is ridiculous overkill ;) CPU->NB->5870#1->5870#2->SSD->Pump->Radiator

Issues: 1. Even on the 6-monitor Eyefinity cards, ATI were cheap bastards and only included 2 timing chips. That means that the rest of your monitors need to have active adapters or support Displayport directly. 2. The system won't detect my second 5870 at all. Due to the complexities of...

That guy was crazy!

You'll have a whole bunch of broken bones and failed organs after that.

XP64 I've tested with up to 36GB of RAM.

Looks interesting.

Should be, but I haven't tried. Going past 12GB gets very expensive.

Yup. Take a look at this one. The chipset heatsink covers the two 1x PCIe at the end, but all the full-size slots are still available.

Yes. All consumer-grade internet service is asymmetric; significantly more download than up. The two main reasons are that normal end-user stuff fits that profile and that download is much cheaper; the ISP can cache most of it locally.

On this one you don't lose a slot to the heatsink, it is next to slot one. This is the best board, but it is huge. You will have very few choices when it comes to cases, which is why I decided to go without.

Read about that on Slashdot about a week ago. They are trying to compete with AMD "Black" series processors (which are also unlocked). Of course, no guarantees what you can do with them (depending on yields), and 1156 doesn't support triple-channel RAM.

In that way you are correct about chipsets being inefficient; they don't have all the on idle power saving capabilities that CPUs do. If the system is idle most of the time, it is possible the chipset will produce more heat than the CPU.

Yup. Once I stick in the two 5870s, the OCZ Z-Drive, The X-Fi Forte 7.1, and the Intel Pro/1000PT dual-port, I'm out of slots ;) That was actually the deciding factor in not putting the system in a case, but mounting it to the wall instead.

I had a Sapphire 5870 Standard, and now I have a Sapphire 5870 Eyefinity 6 to go with it. I'm hoping to pair them up in crossfire, and drive three monitors in eyefinity. For the moment I'm waiting for the second waterblock and my custom wiring harness to arrive, but has anyone else here read of...

Not really inefficient, but the cooling on most chipsets is inadequate IMHO. A modern CPU draws ~100W and has a giant heatsink with a large fan on it. The chipset has to disperse 20-40W and all it gets is a little heatsink that hopes to get some spare airflow from somewhere else? Some chipsets...

The CPU wasn't really the culprit; the motherboard chipset was running much hotter. My new motherboard (X58A-UD9) has even more chips to support the extra PCIe lanes, so there is more heat.

I actually did point that out. My point being that most videos don't have 1080P versions yet, and most users don't even know about the quality drop-down yet.

Unfortunately, I've had this number a long time, and many people have it. When I first started consulting, it was on my business card.

Depends on the airflow in your case. If you have significant airflow, no. If you have really low airflow and are overclocking/overvolting, yes. If you have no airflow at all and are overclocking/overvolting (like me) then you also need to use the built-in waterblock.

Full back story: Back when I was consulting full time, I had several accountants offices. One of which did all my books, in exchange for basic computer services. I like them, they like me, all is well. Another, different accounting company is a royal PITA. They are constantly complaining and...

Just sent this letter to my accountant:

Most users shouldn't have to, really. Once it is fast enough to stream your video in real time, that is all you need at home. That is why broadband in this country isn't getting much faster; normal users wouldn't notice if it was. Now that Youtube has started offering 1080P, users might notice...

It makes sense that the price chasm between dSLR and medium format is spanned just as the image quality/resolution gap is being cut down. Just a shame that we don't get cheaper MF cameras instead.

Merc has a point Greg, you don't need to burn it, just point VMWare to the ISO.

The CS4 suite consumes an amazing amount. A couple of my programs also copy countless hours of help videos to the hard drive.

Not in my mind. California from around Napa to about Santa Barbara, and from the ocean to a little before Interstate 5. Even if you don't go outside, nice weather is better to look at, and at the very least is cheaper to heat. Even if you don't interact with them, the people here are (on...

X58A-UD9 - It's big, and looks awesome. Even the box is massive, with a cool window in it and everything.

While lying to it may not work, there has always been an "other" option that will allow you to do whatever you want.

I don't understand what you mean when you say unsupported. VMWare will install ANY OS, even ones it has never heard of. It doesn't need to know anything about the OS for the fundamentals to work just fine. What steps are you taking when you get this error?

Home can run the remote desktop client, you just can't connect to a Home install.

I'd suggest a place without snow and with a tech industry. With a few high-level colleges helps the average IQ as well.

Unsupported? I am unfamiliar with that error. Just build a generic VM if it doesn't let you specifically select Fedora. Be sure and give it enough free space ;)

Indeed. How much is that US?

Were I to build a system at the moment, it would look like this: Intel Core i7-980X Extreme Edition Gulftown 3.33GHz Noctua NH-U12DX 1366 120mm SSO CPU Cooler GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD7 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Motherboard CORSAIR XMS3 12GB (6 x 2GB) DDR3 1600 OCZ Z-Drive R2 M84 PCI-E 512GB PCI Express...

From the Wikipedia article:

Office 2003 can handle it OK, and there are a number of firefox plugins that will put your tabs along the side (very useful).

Seems fine to me. Socket 1366 still has quite some life to it, you can have 6 cores if you like, and SSDs are quite happy at the moment with SATA6 and USB3 readily available.

No, it doesn't. That for you?

Um, no. There is no hard limit on the amount of oil required at any time. It is relatively inelastic, but market forces are still plenty effective, especially over the long term. Just because we are unable to produce X barrels of oil a day does not cause the world to end. Stating that we had to...

Yup. *nix is ready for server-side stuff, but they have a long way to go for the desktop.