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:frusty::smack: The Radeon HD 5450 and the GeForce 210 have equal idle consumption, but the GeForce 210 needs some 9W less when calculating 3D objects. Both are very low power. In fact, anything up to a GeForce 240GT or a Radeon HD 5670 will have fairly low idle power needs. Source

I've finally got my hands on a Thermaltake CLP0556 and it is nothing to write home about. I use it to cool an i5 760 (2.8GHz, not overclocked) and it is struggling, even though the motherboard is on open air. It is definetly not silent. I'll have to compare with the retail heatsink, but I'm...

If you use XP Pro, you won't be able to use all your 4GB memory. Only about 3.25GB because of adressing limit by the operating system. And the Antec Micro Fusion's remote sucks BTW. Save on something else and buy a Logitech Harmony One if you really want a remote control. An Adesso wireless...

I have no idea.

The only place in the U.S.A. where it is no longer October 10th 2010 is Guam. Otherwise, it is still 10-10-10.

Now it's Mark turn to stop contributing. At first I thought he switched to another team, but there are no others on his profile. It is strange because he contributed a lot in the Folding forum (Stanford's). Fortunately, David and Tea resumed their efforts. Thanks to both. I need to sell my...

At this point, I recommend you wait for SandyBridge. The integrated controller will be so much better, you'll regret to miss it because you couldn't wait a few months (rumored to be released in January IIRC).

The site is sluggish righ now. There's definetly something happening at this time of the day.

Well, by the time version 20011 is released, I'm sure they'll figure out how to resolve most issues.

"Oh, I like to buy shirts there..." "Oh, no, I don't like them and prefer that much, much finer place..." "Oh, but I like to buy my pants at that other place..." Pfff, what is this, the ladies' room? I don't like to buy clothes at all and I wear whatever people give me when they're sick of...

Sandy Bridge is coming soon, but it won't be the very high-end. Not much news otherwise, except for the huge decrease in price of DDR3 memory and the arrival of the GeForce 460GTX which shuffled the maintream video cards segment. There's a new X58 moterboard from Asus with a lot of features...

167lbs, are you transparent? And I can't believe I'm close to being the same weight as much as Mercutio. I used to be an ectomorph and now I'm almost as heavy as the former andromorph-mascott of the forum. How things change.

I already replaces bad capacitors on some old motherboards, but only if the boards aren't already dead, which is often the case. And soldering capacitors on a motherboard is a risky business. The ground is so large that you have to heat up the donut a lot if you don't want to make a cold...

Bozo, have you taken the time to get a passkey? You don't have to, but the point reward on certain units is a lot greater if you configure your client with a passkey than without. What machine are you running the client on?

I added up the components' cost and I end up with 1130$ without the Revo PCI-E drive (which I don't know the cost). I don't think that system will draw 200W even at full load. Are you sure it needed a 185$ enclosure? Shouldn't you reserve such an impressive enclosure for a system which...

I saw this while browsing Newegg : Xigmatek NRP-PC402. It's 35$ plus 2$ for the shipping. I have bought some of their 600W model from the same serie and they are solid power supplies. The noise level is very reasonable and the efficiency at that price point is impressive. I trust Xigmatek's...

Why didn't you buy 2x4GB RAM? It's basicly the same price.

From the page you linked : It is worth it for a end-user, but not for a reseller like me.

Exact Audio Copy.

Modern computer parts are quite sensible to static electricity. You cannot ground yourself on cartoon. While I admire the environmental side of the idea, I don't like to RMA components enough to try a cartoon enclosure. Sorry.

Every computer shop in the world has a stack of unused s478 Pentium 4 and a bunch of homeless socket A processors. We all have zillion of used 256MB DDR sticks too that we cannot use because no one ever buys 256MB DDR anymore. The reason why we have this is the motherboards from 5 to 9 years...

I saw the video. S.L.I? I've always said SLI, never spelled the individual letters. Is the girl narrating the case description talking with the wrong pair of lips or is it the real way to say it?

http://samy.pl/evercookie/ Apparently, only the private browsing from Safari prevents this p.o.s. from installing itself into your computer. I wonder what makes Safari's private browsing better than Firefox's or Google's private browsing. Something good coming from Apple is always a surprise...

Regarding your HD 5770, this review might be of interest to you. Be sure to read the next page of the review too. Still, 3200ppd would certainly help us.

I read in a thread on their forum that a GTX460 should yield ~9000ppd. So I need two of those to equal an i7. I'm pretty sure I can make an overclocked i7 more silent than a pair of GTX460, while it won't consume as much power. GPU3 won't be a solution for me in the short term.

I don't know the answer but Mark should. He's the one folding on graphic cards around here. Too bad he's no longer around here. According to what's written on Stanford's FAH download page, the client 6.32 is only for Nvidia. ATI owners should use the 6.23. In the FAH forum, I read this...

Thanks. Any additional contribution will help. Oh and Liam, does it has to be an all-or-nothing decision? Instead of leaving 5 computers folding 24x7, why don't you simply keep one or two of the most energy-efficient on the project. You would still help the team, not as much, but it would...

Ok so now with you out, I have to find a way to produce almost 60K points per day if I don't want our team to be trampled by every other folding teams in our neighborhood. Great.

So Optera Metro is the current standard and Pegasus is only arriving? Shit, I worked on Pegasus' development line TEN YEARS ago (nine and half, to be precise). Broadband hasn't moved on that fast if it took ten years to finally see OC192 penetrate the market.

For what it's worth, the forum restarted to be slow at times for the last three days. It is intermittent.

Seems like it finally became cooler in Fushigi's neck of the wood : he started folding again :) And I don't know why Stanford keeps sending 2684 units to my least powerful i7 system. That machine cannot completes them in the prefered deadline, while my other overclocked system could. And...

Why? You're curious to see if you'll kill yourself in 5 or 6 seconds?

No amount of money would make me do that. Even if Bill Gates would tell me one of his billion would be mine if I would reach the top, I would not even try.

Bah, you're still able to type so it's only a superficial wound. You'll live. Break that breaker. Show that f**ker who the boss is.

http://www.gold-downloads.com/ The prices are too good to be true. What's the catch? I know I would be very worried to buy something there.

BTW, Mark is still very active in Stanford's Folding@home forums if anyone wishes to underline his birthday.

You don't remember the battle of the Pappies?

I almost forgot, but Santilli's best pal is one year older today.

Access to the forum is currently very slow. I don't know if someone else experiences the slowdown too, but it is annoying.

I thought it was a thread about Santilli's computers for running ATTO and Age of Empire II.

MacGruber is by far the worst movie I've seen this year. And I don't know why I'm writing "seen", because I'm only always thru and I don't know how I'm gonna force myself to watch it untill the end. It's so bad that washing the dishes seems to be a more pleasant alternative right now. Forget...

I almost never buy computer games, but when (if) this one is trully released next year, I'll make an exception.

IIRC, the MX700 made its maiden and only flight when I looked at my stocks on a particularly bad day on stock markets and the MX1000 followed the steps of its ancestor after a customer pissed me off on the phone. The phone is on the same desk as my computer and the mouse was the first thing I...

My favorite mice are Logitech's MX series. I had a MX700 several years ago and a MX1000 not too long ago. They are the best mice I've tried so far. Nothing I've tried from Microsoft is comparable. I think the MX1100 also has a scroll wheel on the side, but I don't use that. I greatly...

That's the three decades you've lived kicking in. Get used to it.

You mean that you virtualize all your servers.

Sounds like a gift for my birthday.

It's bad for repairs, the area where I make most of my money. Ususally, when a repair cost above 150$, people don't do it and they change the computer. I make a lot less money that way (almost no labor). Changing sockets for one single f**king pin is outrageous. It's ripping off the customers.

David's youth ended today. Fun is over, now you're supposed to be responsible and mature.

Merc, I've seen a professional music mixer, one who won two national trophies, create albums on a ten years old computer running Windows 98. The changes he made to the songs were almost real-time. Apple's OS isn't any better. Musicians just don't know better. There are applications doing the...