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Perfect platform to put in a Mac Mini for my computer-illiterate friend. Too bad it's not out yet.

Someone I care about let herself convinced that she needs an Apple junk. She's an artist and like most artists, she is technologically stupid. And gullible too. Which of course makes her the perfect Apple customer. She wants an Apple laptop that her equally technologically stupid and...

Nope, it could not. It's been quite a challenge to find something better than the retail heatsink that fits on this setup. I cannot even use memory with ramsink. The system has been running the FAH client for 23 hours without issue so far.

It is smaller than I thought, but it still is a nice improvement over Intel's retail heatsink. Here are the pictures : Top Side Bottom Flush to the PCI-E slot... ...and the RAM Other side, on the motherboard Now before posting how bad a photograph I am in the DSLR thread, please realized that...

I usually win home users to OpenOffice's cause by saying : this one is free and the other one cost 150$. Can you live with a few formatting differences? The answer is most of the time "yes".

They are not of similar pricing because the In Win BK623 includes a power supply while the Silverstone SG02-F doesn't. I agree that it is preferable to get a standard ATX power supply though.

Logitech LX6. Simple, standard size.

I almost ordered the Zalman CNPS-8000A. I was pretty sure it would fit in my setup, but I had concerns about its efficiency. So I kept looking for something else. There was a new low profile cooler from SilentX (EFZ-100HA1) that looked good, but SilentX doesn't have a very good reputation...

Hilarious. Just click to play.

Ok, so you have money for a completely useless interior elevator, but not for a decent kitchen? I know very few people who could afford an elevator in their house, but most people can replace their kitchen when they need to. Besides, the idea that YOU CAN'T AFFORD IT is utterly ridiculous...

Take it like a challenge. You can train before. Buy a six pack of beers and take it uptairs a few times to start. When you'll do it with ease, do it with a twelve packs and then with a twenty four packs. You can put up to three 24 packs of beers on top of each others before the cartoon...

OMG, maybe he's Stephen Hawking!

It's Evolution at work and she's the part of the species that shouldn't succeed. Helping her is cheating Evolution. 70 hours of work without a backup ; in my opinion, she's already failed your class.

All I listened to in the 70s was a pair of JBL speakers connected to a fairly good Harman Kardon stereo amplifier. I never listened to a CD4 system. Much too expensive. I would have like to listen to Black Sabbath quad mix albums, but I never did.

Are you handicaped? Most computers don't weight more than fourty pounds. Unless you have a significant physical disability, you should be able to lift that. Even if your enclosure weights more, let say like 60-70 pounds (like a big Supermicro enclosure), a middle-aged man should be able to...

Any developments with this? Any of your pay checks bounced? In the thread celebrating your prolific contribution, you mentioned that you don't spend as much time at your desk as you used too. Is it related to your precary job situation?

She even moved to my city a few years ago. Now, I neither know or care where she is. And since she has a new identity and a new face, she could be one of my customers and I wouldn't know.

Like everything else in the Unix/Linux world.

Are you doing this to capture teenagers and torture them without the neighboors earing their screams?

Well, at 250$ each, I won't try to prove or refute your point with my processors. I'm sure long term damages can occur at lower temperatures. I've seen hundreds of PCs overheat and shut down by themselves, but they all had quite a bit more dust than the scant amount my heatsink had. Granted...

I'm probably not learning anything to anyone, but the difference between a dusty heatsink and a clean one can be huge. And the amount of dust doesn't have to be that high to make a significant temperature difference. I had a thin coating of dust between the fan and the heatsink tower of my...

New english word learn of the day : Dolt "A mental retard who is clueless not only about current events, but also has the IQ level of a rock."

I leave indexing enabled, but I tweak it to only index the folders where my useful data is. Otherwise, it will index everything in the \users folders, including temporary files.

The sucker rebooted my computer after installing updates, even though I told it not to. Sacrament.

In theory, a "stereo dude" should only need two speakers to be happy. Imposter!

Fushigi should know, he lives there.

I'm six feet tall and 195lbs, that hardly qualifies as a giant. And people usually look for the opposite direction, except when they want to ask for directions. It's really puzzling to me.

I don't know why, but I have the face of "the guy who knows". I've been asked for directions yet again today. There were dozen of other people around, but somehow, like many, many times, the lost guy chose me for help. It's been like that for as long as I can remember. First time I visited...

You know, there's a volume level wheel on most speakers for that purpose. And for basic sound, I sell the Logitech S120 and I haven't heard customers complain about it. At that price, it's hard to complain anyway.

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=19268 For all those years when he smashed our ears with this concept, it will finally materialize somewhere. Will it be enough to make you leave New York for China?

The "K"'s platters rotate at 5200rpm versus 5400rpm for the "B"'s. That's not a typo on Newegg's web site as it is confirmed on Western Digital's web site. Apart from that, I don't see any difference. Maybe the "K" has a different platter number and areal density per platter, but I don't see...

I've often sold the Asus VH242H and no one ever complained about it. It received pretty good reviews on the Net, has plenty of connecting options and better-than-average integrated speakers. The picture quality is also fairly good for a TN panel. Of course, it's not comparable to an IPS, but...

It took my computer almost 4 days to complete a Project 2684, just within the prefered deadline and I cannot communicate with their f**king server! I'll missed the dealine AND the bonus point assosciated with it because there's a problem with their f**king server and it's not showing on the...

Please refrain from posting your masochist fantasies on the forum.

Silverstone SG05B with the 300W power supply. The motherboard is a GigaByte H55N-USB3 and the graphic card is a Power Color Radeon HD 5670 with a dual slot heatsink. Replacing the 3.5" hard drive by a 2.5" model would help the airflow inside the case, but it would not drop the temperature...

According to Speedfan 4.41, the idle temperatures of my cores were between 37C and 42C. I fired up the Folding@home client and the temperatures climbed between 83C and 86C. It's making way too much noise for me to sleep next to it, but it has not sutdown by itself yet (~20 minutes...

I've reconsidered my purchasing decision regarding the little Xigmatek. I measure the space between the LGA and the PCI-E slot and it won't fit (4mm too large). Neither would Scythe's Big Shuriken or even the Shuriken Rev.B for that matter. Still looking for a solution...

I've found this small cooler at a local supplier. I plan to order one and compare it to the retail LGA1156 heatsink. I don't expect it to be very good as this heatsink design never gave miraculous results, but the efficiency of the retail Intel heatsink is so low that maybe even that can outdo...

Oh yeah and congratulations to Dan Shearer for overtaking our aging clown for the seventh place.

I've only been folding on one computer for the last two weeks. This computer has a two-years-old Xeon X3350 and it produces 35500 points per week. I upgraded the client to the newer 6.30 version half-an-hour ago. I stopped my most productive system (core i7 860) two weeks ago and did not...

Thanks. I'll try it next week when I go see the customer.

It depends on your temper. I once crushed the wall above a door after I bumped my head on it. I lost my temper and pushed the top for a second. I didn't plan to, but the header above the door broke. I suspect it was made like the one you did, because I don't think I would have crushed two...

One customer has a machine I try to put in network with another without having Internet access (just sharing a printer). The problematic system had ZoneAlarm firewall installed on it. While configuring the network, issues occured so one of my first move was to remove ZoneAlarm as it is a known...

Yes, I Tony! You Tony too? And he Tony for sure so we could all Tony altogether. Tony Tony!!

Reference. Contrarily to laptops, which several tests have shown to last longer on battery under WinXP than Vista or even Win7, it is apparently the reverse for desktops. That surprised me a little, given that there are more process running in the background on the newer Microsoft OS than its...

You'll do when you'll have to remove the locked cable. Why don't you think about another board. There are plenty, I assure you. And they don't all cost 700$ like the one Ddrueding proudly brag he bought ;-p

Most of my budget computers are AMD-based these days. I use either the Athlon II X3 440 or Athlon II X4 635 on GigaByte 760G-based motherboard. I also use Asus' 760G motherboards, but less often. I tend to use OCZ memory sticks, but they are far more problematic than the Kingston (especially...

At least you'll no longer have to provide service for the dick who's the relative of your current employer.

Regarding SSDs, Corsair's Nova drives seem like a particularly good value. They are cheaper than most other performance-oriented SSDs and since they have the Indilinx controller, their performance is quite good. They are comparable to the Intel Gen 2, a little lesser than the SandForce, but...

Is the size of the Munchkin measured in Timbits?