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Afraid not. I swore to never again use a fan smaller than 80mm in a computer. They are, by definition, loud, unreliable, and ineffective.

Sorry, thermal epoxy, the two-part stuff.

Found This one by the nifty guys at nCubed Looks useful. I've been wanting their fan controlers for quite a while now.

I'm tempted to see if I can get another Scythe SCNJ-1000 to fit in there. Does anyone think thermal paste would be enough to hold it in place? :eekers: Disable the onboard ethernet? There is an interesting idea. There is a second GbE on the motherboard, I might try disabling the NB-based one...

Gigabyte nForce 4 motherboard, passively cooled with one of these: But it's still running quite hot @ 260Mhz and +0.2v :o It isn't unstable in any way, but it's way too hot to touch, and that makes me nervous. I'm looking for a more effective passive cooling solution; there isn't that much...

I was really excited about this until I installed Vista for the first time...9.5GB! Even the I-Ram 2 @ 16GB means we're cutting it a bit close for a single-drive workstation.

yay!

...with 8001 posts! Holy cow! Congratulations, all worthy reads. Looking forward to the next few thousand...

Yep. It includes all the union-related wage contributions for every employee of a large construction company. Each employee has their own sheet, then the first sheet includes a series of summaries about them. An absolute mess.

This is a nifty idea, though I can't think of a way to make it work without doing the thing I hate most: Support laziness and sloth. And eventually, reverse evolution? Just thinking of the stereotypical fat woman living in the south having kid after kid while on unemployment/social...

I just put together an Excel pivot table that made my computer spit up all over itself. It's only 6.6MB with 14 columns and 1300 rows, on the first sheet...then it has a sheet for every row on the first. That entire first sheet is one giant pivot table collating all the following sheets. A 3800+...

I agree with Sol on this one. Fans small enough to fit in a single-drive enclosure will not work well, will be noisy and will fail quickly. One option is to get a multi-drive enclosure that is larger (and consequently has a larger fan). The other option is more of a home-brew; Use a Zalman...

Tannin, I appreciate your latest post. The second paragraph of which has me most interested. "Productive effort" determined how? Pure hours of labor? Hours of education required to perform the task? Shortage of workers available to perform the task? 'Cause, that sounds a whole lot like...

My parents lived in Eugene, OR when I was born. Earlier that year Mt. St. Helens had exploded, the car, the house, everything was covered in several feet of ash.

That would mean you know of another with similar specs for cheaper? Care to share?

I'll second mubs and howell here. I support the tax-deductible nature of charities, but not the tax-based mandatory spending imposed by welfare.

Same here, too bad it's in the low-50s (F). Mid-60s would be much better. Snowed on Saturday night in the hills and in Santa Cruz (!).

Not an anarchist, but certainly a financial conservative bordering on libertarian. Sure, I'll pay taxes to cover the fire/police/roads/schools, but what are they going to do with the rest of the money they take? (I could rant right here about the inefficacy/inefficiency of leaving the latter two...

That didn't take long at all, did it. :roll: Debates that I've taken part in can be quite informative. If you go into a debate believing that you and everyone else involved already know all there is to know about an issue, and that you still maintain your current stance, what's the friggin'...

I'm looking at this one. Maximum horizontal measurement is 29". Any comments?

I guess flame was the wrong word. I certainly didn't intend to flame anyone, but I certainly provided some unlit fuel ;) That's something I try to avoid most of the time.

And this is what I get for OC'ing beyond reason. I start a flame and than aren't here to watch it! Yes. Socialism, communism, welfare, and most charities are all things I dissaprove of. Charities, of course, I don't mind at all because they are optional. Taking my money from me and using it not...

What does any of that have to do with communism? Totalitarian big-brotherism perhaps, certainly police-state material, but nothing to do with the commies. I hate communism/socialism because it's stupid. I hate this crap because it's evil. That's a whole nother level of bad ;)

Congrats Coug, it's always nice to have a sweet job ;)

I'm currently playing BF2 on a 3700+ with an AGP X850XT and a Gig of RAM. Really, really beautiful running 1280x1024 maxed. Looks like I don't have to spend that much money after all....

Sorry, DVD Decrypter combined with AutoGK to make Xvid-encoded .avi files. They are ~2GB a piece, I have ~2TB, it really isn't a problem. HD content might make them ~6GB a piece, I'm still not worried.

HDCP is not something that interests me, but thanks for putting a reminder into the conversation. I currently use DVD-Decrypter to convert all my movies into .avi format for storage. I figure I'll use some similar software to do a similar thing to HD-DVDs. Greg, What I'm looking for is the...

I'm currently running a 2.8Ghz single-core A64 with 1GB of RAM @ 511Mhz. Really my X1600Pro is the limiting factor in a big way. If I can get an X1900XT-class card (what is nVidia's equivalent?) for about $500, I figure that's what I'll do.

This seems to be a great deal

CougTek always impresses with his ridiculous degree of knowledge on gaming video cards, so here's another question. My experience with the X1900XTXs the other day was really phenominal. Never before had I seen BF2 played at 1600x1200 with EVERYTHING turned way up, and it was amazing...

I have had good luck with the MSI 6200TC 128MB card It actually does amazingly well in BF2, in addition to having good 2D performance.

Got it working, thanks for the help.

Great link, thanks Will. I'm heading out to the client now, we'll see how it goes.

Sweet, I was able to remember 3 of those...I forgot about the DIsplay Acceleration. Quake 4 still looked quite good.

Thanks for the tip, I've been playing with it, and it seems really cool. Right along the same lines as MoodLogic and Predixis MusicMagic. Perfect ;)

ugh...

And it seems MS Paint in Vista can't save compatible PNG files...

Posting from Firefox on Vista x64 Beta 2 (Build 5308). When doing my research into performance tweaking, I ran into this which made me laugh out loud. While poking about in the control panel called "performance", a tooltip popped up saying I had programs starting with windows that were slowing...

It's just the Web Edition ;) and you're quite welcome.

Installing the latest CTP into a VMWare machine. If anyone is interested in trying it, you need to jump through some hoops to make it work. Let's see how it goes...

This is inside a VPN, so theoretically every port should be open. Everything else I've tried (RDC, file access, exchange traffic) works absolutely fine. I'm connecting directly from a 192.168.5.4 to a 192.168.0.14, either via IP address or name (a ping by name shows its resolving correctly). Is...

Well after running 10 hours last night (calling it at 7AM) we got it to the point where all the hardware was detected, the display worked, and inside the catalyst control panel we could go to the "Crossfire" option at the bottom (only visible if you have the right hardware), but the checkbox was...

I can connect to an instance of MSDE using SQL authentication just fine locally, but when I move the server to the other end of a VPN connection, I can't see the server. Any ideas? Google gives me a bunch of junk.

Yep, v2.0 ;) I have the user on the phone with ATI, I'll let him deal with it.

Nope, the customer isn't satisfied with the performance of BF2 with just the one X1900XTX card in there. Even at only 1600x1200 ann everything else maxed, it lags when you get AF to only 4x :roll:

'Fraid not. The x1300 and x1600 models can do it via the PCIe bus, but the X1800 and X1900 models do require a cable. As you can see from the link I used above, information is damn sparse...

I was so excited at the opportunity to work on this machine; the video cards alone cost more than my whole rig. 1900XTX (x2 - master/slave) AMD FX57 Sapphire Crossfire Advantage PC-A9RD480Adv etc, etc... So, I have the Crossfire Edition 1900XTX (master) card in the master PCIe slot, and the...

I picked up a dark grey oriental at one point, it was fabulous. Think Dr. No

I'd definatly say stripping the HD out is a good first step. After that, I have no idea.

Even a hint of efficiency is not only not needed but is often unwelcome in matters of fun. I drive a VW that gets nearly 40mpg because I do 30,000+ miles a year. If I had a 10-mile commute to the office, you bet I'd have a 4+ Liter V-8 in a stomping beast, and would be most upset if they traded...