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That is the technology I was talking about. All the AMD S939 boards use it as well. AFAIK, there is no further advantage to using 4 slots versus just the one. Furthermore, if you use AMD, the efficience of it's memory controller makes even this overkill.

Something that slow isn't going to win over passenger transportation, but cargo is certainly a possibility. And I would very much be interested in a sight-seeing trip on one; a "cruise" around the world, showing all kinds of wonders in a week would be a nice trip.

2-512MB sticks, no question. I don't know of any benchmarks that say 4-way interleaving is any better than 2-way. Considering a price/performance ratio, 512MB sticks are on their way out these days; consider 2x1GB.

Still my favorite snow experience was in a Lexus SC430 with stock tires...quite a blast.

I actually really like this idea. Granted, it gives us less control and gives MS more money (both things that we are fundamentally against), but it does make a certain kind of sense.

That larger screen helped me a lot; 38 with my first try.

meh, 2 minutes got me a score of 21.

FOr the record, that would be the MPAA

I'm still really liking my current home fileserver. Coolermaster stacker case filled with Supermicro Hotswap SATA racks. After swapping the fans out with quieter ones and dynamating the inside, it runs quiet enough.

I've built quite a few custom chassis. There might even be some links here (or at SPCR). Mostly designed to be larger and really, really quiet. I've build all mine of wood, all based on an existing motherboard tray. Of course, for this you chould just slot-mount them. As a warning: my first...

An ancient fond memory of women rollerblading in bikinis during a warm rain in Philly....

Tannin, I feel much the same way, only I'm more particular. Anything below 50F and I hate to go outdoors. Anything above 80F and I'll find a reason to drive someplace cooler. Perhaps you should consider heading up here for vacation? We just remodeled the kitchen.

Garry's Mod is really too much fun. I think I've spent more time in there than actually playing the game. I've never managed anything that complex, but the possibilities are endless (if you have the RAM).

Yes, custom steel backplate attaching to a custom plastic frame on the MB. Basically it causes the AMD to look like a P4, so the 4-point clip can work for both. Really easy.

Neat stuff, I'd forgotten that Supermicro did Opteron stuff. Does anyone have a reccomended reseller for them?

Nexus it is, though the stock fans in a P180 set to "low" work incredibly well and are nearly as quiet. I currently have my A64 running at 2.76Ghz with a Ninja and the forementioned fans on "low" - no fans attached to the Ninja at all.

The VMWare forums say good things about running on dual-core Opterons and I've had good experiences with Tyan in the past, and the 1U chassis with 4 hot-swappable SATA drives looked really slick. I don't think it's overpriced at all considering the features: Motherboard with: Dual Dual-Core...

Low importance is a relative term I guess. In many of my companies, many of the departments run software that "requires" it's own server (in other words, they are whiny about sharing server space with other apps). In some cases this is for good reason (like not changing the name of your SQL...

I'm now very interested in this technology. I'm looking at building a server that I can test out in low-importance, production machines. Here's the spec I have so far: Tyan Transport GX28 Samsung 250GB Drive Dual-Core Opteron 265 2x Crucial 1GB PC3200 Total - $1,510 Which scales well into...

I'm now very interested in this technology. I'm looking at building a server that I can test out in low-importance, production machines. Here's the spec I have so far: Tyan Transport GX28$890 Samsung 250GB Drives 1 $100 $100 Dual-Core Opteron 265 1 $350 $350 Crucial 1GB PC3200 2 $85 $170...

The system I was using had no mail cliens installed, it was a server running 2003.

An interesting observation Tannin, this occured to me for the first time yesterday. Only one window open, and here is the history of the browser window: http://www.google.com http://msdn.microsoft.com MS Knowledgebase article opened into 3 tabs, (one each), and left open for about 6 minutes.

Here's a shot of Shanghai in the afternoon I took last year: This is in the afternoon! Notice how dark it is? And the buildings in the distance are less than a mile away, visibility is horrible.

I have their google extension installed, it works very well. Of course, the user has to be willing to read the information it provides. It makes you a more informed user, but you still make the choices.

I'm very particular about climate. Right now it's perfect; 67F and sunny with a 5mph breese. That would be 20C and 8kmh breese for you other guys...

A safety deposit box at a bank is a pretty trustworthy place. But burying it underground is an interesting option. You would need to go deep enough that the temperature stabalized, and do something to insure the humidity was stable as well, perhaps vacum-seal it in an anti-static bag with some...

Nice pictures. Yesterday was brutal for me; I went for a hike in the morning with the dog at Garland Ranch regional park (about 30 minutes from my home), and the temps got too high for my taste (mid-70s). After climbing the hill I was ready to pass out. After recovering from that, we went to the...

Just for the record, the motherboard I linked to is fanless. IIRC, the ultra edition includes another 4 SATA ports, more firewire, and dual GbE. I bought them before, but can't find them now.

I tend to stip the ends, solder them together, then put a crimp-tube over it to crimp on wither side of the joint (stress relief) and then shrink-tube over that. Of course, this is a lot of work, and I only do it for my own systems. Others are luck if I use some tie straps to keep the wires out...

On a sidenote, this board and some spiffy RAM just got my A64 to 2.7Ghz stable, with no fan on the cooler.

This is my favorite 939 board: Gigabyte GA-K8N Pro-SLI Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard - $104

Yep, but while I was looking for that, I found this: Yep, those are 4 16x PCIe slots. Shame it's an Intel board, likely the same one Dell used in it's quad-SLI setup.

I'm agreeing with Lunar and Coug on this one, your power draw is much less than that. Considering you can get an AntecNEO HE power supply (80%+ efficiency) and a power meter to get a better idea of your consumption for less than one of the drives.

The concern about this tool, like any tool, is in how it is used. Trusting Google to hold my files isn't a big deal for me. Trusting my govornment not to be scum sucking bottom dwellers isn't bloody likely.

I actually had the internet in my car 2 different ways today. I have a PCMCIA card from Sprint that is slow as molasses, but works just about anywhere. The other toy is an Alvarion WiMaxx modem that ties in with a local supplier of broadband. He has antennas on the 3 tallest mountains bracketing...

Funny you should mention them. I actually have a pair of DCS-2100+ at the game center. They even carry really nice outdoor enclosures for them! Thanks for the tip!

Sweet! I just had a large, to go with my large Coke and 2 Big Macs...I can feel my heart slowing as we speak...

Name your price ;)

Actually, I have done the same thing. It seems I can never find a stud with a nail or screw, but my fist is 100% sure to catch one between the middle and index fingers of my writing hand. Look on the bright side, you could have found a drywall screw (eww).

I know it's hindsight, but that door would have been a great target for your anger ;) Here's the software I'm looking into: http://www.visiongs.de/

I'll have a camera outputting composite video connected to a dedicated computer, via a capture card of some kind. Here's what the customer wants: 1. Live webcasting of video 2. Saved images at a (much) lower framerate 3. Storage for ~1 week of video 3. Storage for 1 year of images Does anyone...

The nearest excuse for a commuter rail line is CalTrain, running from Gilroy (40 minutes north by car) to San Francisco (1:20 by car) takes 2:10; a 40-minute drive!. Even the commuter run from San Jose to SF takes an hour, where the drive is 35 minutes. Efficient? I think not.

The 7800GT is tempting, especially with an Arctic Cooling solution on it. Even though Newegg says otherwise, the package itself only says it's compatible with 6800-series cards (see below), any comments?

Yeah, that's what I'm afraid of. I may have to go for a more expensive card then. The X800 isn't quite fast enough for me in my latest home addiction (Need for Speed: Most Wanted: Black Edition). I like to play games at the native res of my monitor (1280x1024) and I like some eye-candy...

I'm in the market, my stock X800 from gigabyte is nice and fanless, but it can't keep itself cool enough. I'd really like one of the video cards that exhausts outside the case. I currently have my eye on the HIS Hightech X1600XT IceQ, but I certainly don't want to go backwards in terms of...

PCI-based graphics cards are slow, but should work fine as a 3rd monitor. It's not tricky at all, I've even run more monitors using both ATI and nVidia cards simultaneously. Not fun, but possible. Cheap and Easy.

Mine actually sits still for about 18 hours a day, but most of it in different places that I got to using my car. Terrible utilization? Let's not talk about my HTPC or laptop.

Those people obviously won't be buying a $62,000 Porsche. I'll get back to this point. Considering that transportation to distant and remote areas are a vital part of my business, it's worth it. Quite a large percantage of the world isn't subway-accessible ;) Combining point #1 with universal...

Gas needs to be MUCH more expensive before it will play a real role in car decisions (therefore eventually design and market direction). I drive about 40k miles a year (my 2003 has over 130k miles on it). I get about 30mpg (360mi on 12gal, consistently, regardless on City/Hwy). Assuming...

When I try to follow that link (in firefox 1.5.1), it asks me what do I want to do with a ram.php file?