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I never miss work. Some people think I am a machine.

I think we can rule out "insufficience" for the power supply. Sandy Bridge, at idle and at stock frequency, doesn't consume much electricity. The only thing I could see related to the power supply would be if the system wouldn't need enought juice on start-up. Some power supplies have issues...

I don't have much experience with Supermicro, but I thought they were stronger in the high-end segment. Now you tell me they are the new PC Chip? Yuk, I won't touch them.

There are a few other manufacturers who use Indilinx controllers, like Corsair for their Nova SSD.

You know many 80 years-old who are still able to work and being productive in an industrial environment where the work is mostly physical? Not me.

I sold one, but connected both drives (one optical, one HDD) to the SATA 6Gbps ports. It will be fine as the customer won't add another hard drive in the system. I informed the customer before selling the board. He didn't want to wait for a replacement.

I missed the part about the best movie of the year. It was between which and which line?

The French experts claim that the gravity of the event reaches 6 on a scale of 7 (Three Miles Island was 5, Tchernobyl was 7). The Japanese still say it's only a level 4. Now, before the usual stupid jokes about the French pop up, let me state that they are one of the most knowledgeable people...

The problem is supposed to take around 3 years to develop. 400GB of daily transfer certainly is more than your average Joe's usage patern, but I doubt it will kill the ports in something like two months. Either way, the board is still under warranty. Our thanks for having played the Guinea pig.

The 1TB and 2TB Hibachi drives have a firmware issue affecting some of their performances. I don't remember exactly, but there was a "C" somewhere in their model number. I've always avoided them for that reason. I saw that on reviews at xbitlabs. The 3TB models doesn't seem to be affected...

I sometimes use Opera, although I'm so familiar to Firefox 3 that it's the one I almost always use. I hate the pastel colors of Chrome and I'm not so fond of it's layout. I forced myself to use it some time ago and I still do on rare occasion. Chrome introduced some good things though, like...

Review It seems pretty fast for a mecanical drive. It's slightly above 200$ on my price lists. The two main drawbacks are the high idle power consumption (it's a five platters design) and noise, which is higher than most other modern mecanical drives. Also, I can get many other 2TB drives...

My average will take a hit very soon, as I sold one of my three computers. It is the slowest of the three. I might not be able to replace it, at least on short term. The customers are scarce at the shop these days...

Byt the end of the day, the order of things should be changed...

I said "according to my supplier's inventory list". I don't know if they sent a guy to look on the shelf just for me. It has happened in the past that I've had bad surprises. But since it's not a high volume product and that the list is updated weekly, I'm confident that there really are...

Oh and the reason why I'm suddenly interested in Linux is that apparently, since the Core A5 and client 6.34 are out (re-enabling bigWUs in Linux), the Linux flavor beats the Windows flavor by more than 10% (I read 12%).

In case any of you tries to setup a client on a Linux OS and plans to complete BigWUs on it, you have to say "No" to the "Use advanced methods" option in the configuration of the console client. If you say "yes", you won't receive BigWUs. You don't have to do this in Windows. I discovered...

69$ CDN for the KVR1333D3E9S/4G and 125$ CDN for the KVR1333D3E9SK2/8G. According to my supplier's inventory list, there are 16 sticks of the first and 12 of the second in stock. I have yet to verify the shipping cost.

Nevermind, it was a faulty RAM stick.

I currently don't have a 20V power brick to test the dead MSI Wind U123 netbook my customer brought me an hour ago, but I'm perplex with the contribution of the Toshiba 19V/3.42A power brick he used it with. The netbook is supposed to work with a 20V, 2A power brick. I don't think it must be...

See, the 58360 points unit I've completed at the 6pm update was a Project 2684. My i7 950 did it. It's the computer I uses the most (the one I use to browse e-mails, bill the customers and do general office work at the shop). It's still sitting idle almost all the time though. What's...

Thanks for the morale support.

What do you mean by "an excellent inventory"? I told my RAM supplier to look for the KVR1333D3E9S/4G and I'm waiting for a definitive answer. I cannot have a warehouse volume on this, but I'm sure I can ship to snakeland with my business mailing account. However, I don't know how much it...

I get bonus points, even on an un-overclocked i7 860 with DDR3 1333MHz (although the timings are agressive), for all the big units. This includes Project 6900, 2692, 2685 and also the :cursin: 2684:boom:. Either you use your computers a lot or you're simply doing it all wrong.

I think they would be even better if they were wearing thin foil suit to prevent cosmic rays from diminishing their performances.:rolleyes:

Cosmic rays travel trough planets. There's a project in Antarctica to try to observe those that cross Earth at the bottom of the kilometer-deep ice cap. If neutrinos can travel all that way through rock and ice, you really think a sheet of aluminum will block them?

Another??? It's not just your customers who are made of money ; you're too. I knew I wouldn't be able to keep up with you, this is only confirming it. All the best for the team. But even with all your new stuff, I don't think you'll get to me within a year.

The best way to be sure is to use the drive in RAID. You're then sure TRIM won't work.

The best is the GeForce GTX 580, but it ain't cheap. The best values (performance versus price) are the 450GTS and 460GTX 768MB. Mark had problems with squealing 460GTX though. The squealing issue seems to have dissapeared with the GTX 560Ti, but it's not a cheap card.

Oh yeah, congratulations to Handruin for the 8K posts, but even more so for maintaining the forum long enough to reach that number. I would really like to help, but I don't have the knowledge to maintain a complex web site or the means to harbor it.

It's 3h40am Monday morning and I can't sleep. For the same reason as usual : money. I've had money problems in my life for the past ten years. I've never been bankrupt and I've often been close to succeed to dig myself out of the hole, but never managed to do it for good. This week is also...

Then just create a backup image of your booting drive and save it on another. Or on a USB key. Don't care. The reliability of a single storage device is irrelevant as long as you have a way to restore it. And no matter how reliable a single storage device is, if the data stored on it is...

If you have a free PCI-E slot, why don't you go with an OCZ RevoDrive? They are faster than those connected with a SATA cable and not much more expensive. I don't remember how much faster the RevoDrive X2 are versus the first generation RevoDrive, but it should be easy to find a comparison on...

Of course not. The highest efficiency power supplies that are reasonably affordable are 80Plus Bronze. There's been OCZ Z550 and Z650 that were 80Plus Silver and were selling for 60$-80$ last summer, but I haven't heard of such a good deal in a while. Besides efficiency, the reason why I...

After completely ignoring the first rule when buying something new (RTFM), I've been able to make a call, setup a contact list, take a photo (that I won't keep) and configure it to communicate via my secured Wifi network. The GPS is absolutely off, pointing my current position at ~2Km of where...

Are you trying to hijack your own thread?

Of course there is a manual, but there are so many features on this toy that I don't think it covers them all. My service call as been canceled this evening, so I'll have some spare time to swear at it while learning how to make a simple phone call. It's supposed to be a phone after all.

I'm now the owner of an HTC phone. Is that evil? I have no idea how it works.

When they are more expensive to maintain than my car, I say "no thanks".

And putting six of the above computers in a closet would give me a more expensive closet than any woman I've ever met :mrgrn:

Well, you don't have the choice if you want a 6-Core i7 on a µATX motherboard with USB 3.0 (there's the MSI X58M if you don't mind about USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gbps). And I made a mistake regarding the price. I forgot to increase the price of the CPU (I was trying with an i7 960 previously). It...

You'll see it by the name of the file in the directory in which you're running the client. The A3 is named FahCore_a3. I assume the A5 will be named FahCore_a5, but I still haven't upgraded.

It's not the height that I'm worried of, but the depth. The Mugen is not that wide, but it's deep. I don't know if it will knock on the 120mm above the PSU chamber because the 120mm is inclined. After verification, the FT03 cost 150$ here. For what it offers, it's reasonable. So ...

Ah! Now I know why! They switched from A3 to A5 core and the client needs an upgrade to v.6.34. I'll be computing big units soon again. So David, bring that GTX560. You'll need it :D.

I was planning to use a Scythe Mugen-2 with two fans (one Scythe SY1225SL12LM-P, plus the one that comes with the heatsink) for my next build. I'm not sure the Mugen-2 would fit in the FT03. It might knock on the oblique 120mm above the PSU chamber. The only µATX LGA1366 motherboards I can...

From the review you linked : 3D Mark06 to load a graphic in 2011??? Are you serious? Other than that, it's obvious that the FT03 performs well. An Antec Mini P180 cost me around 110$ here. I hope the FT03 won't be much more expensive. I've used the Silverstone GD04B in a HTPC build in the...

This will be the first week I lose since August, mainly because I no longer receive big units on my three systems. Congratulations to SSDrueding. Now I'll go crying in a dark corner and hope my face won't rust.

http://www.osnews.com/story/24483/Upgrading_from_Windows_1_0_to_7 I planned on trying to do this for real (not in a VM) but I've never had the time. One fact you'll learn in this video is that the author is blind. A pink background? Come on.

Yes, it is. But I don't find him annoying. He's just Santilli. And unless it comes from Mark, he doesn't mind when someone is poking at him. I feel that with Greg, laughing of Santilli is just like laughing with Santilli. Bored this evening? Just make fun of Santilli. He won't be pissed...