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I need to assemble a computer that will run windows NT4, probably with the last service pack for it (SP6 IIRC). It's really been a while since I've worked on NT4 (9 or 10 years), so I don't remember much about it. I'm pretty sure I can find a socket 478 system with drivers for NT4 from my pile...

IBM's Power 7 processor operates at 4.14GHz. Is that close enough?

Like this for the T40 : http://www.getlaptopparts.com/images/P/jack-ibm-01.jpg

Merc means that internally, the DC connector isn't directly soldered on the motherboard, but on a detachable cable that connects to the motherboard. I've seen this and while you have to disassemble most of the unit anyway, it still is quite a bit easier to replace when the user will inevitable...

Are milk and toothpaste that expensive in California?

How the hell could it happen? I joined Facebook a few months ago to see the pictures of my nieces and nephew. I almost never login, unless someone in my family calls me and tell me they've posted new photos. When I viited the site this evening, one of the suggested "friends" they advertise...

Did you tell the sheriff it was the first positive experience you've had with law enforcement? I would (well, I think, since it never happened to me).

In the past, I prefered Xubuntu when I had to use Linux, but I've had so many problems with it with the last two releases (9.4 and 9.10) that I've given up. I read others here using CentOS, so I tried it. I simply need to run the FAH client on it and CentOS 5.4 has done the job. The mouse...

That's what I've always thought too. Since I'm quite far from a catholic (I'm the only god ruling my life), I never could have known.

So moving to KDE would fix the issue? I assume it's a known bug to Linux users. Or was your comment only a sarcastic punch at a windows environment you simply don't like (I prefer KDE and Xfce myself)?

I would be curious to know how it fares against the 12 virtual cores of the upcoming Core i7 980X, at least for running the FAH smp client.

My Linux box is back online after a complete reinstallation. I won't lose the password this time. I managed to install the ATI graphic driver (I didn't bother the first time), so I can use a higher resolution than 800x600. However, the mouse cursor is gone, which is awfully annoying...

I had to reboot all my systems for maintenance. Now I forgot what username/password I put in my Linux box (by far my most productive one). Of course, I haven't written it anywhere. Expect a major point drop from me in the upcoming hours/days.

Were you the storage consultant Davin employed around Christmas 2001?

I can sell the OCZ Z850M power supply to interested forum members. I don't know how long my supplier will allow me to maintain that price, but I imagine it should last at least a week. Newegg sells it for 209.99U$ last time I checked. I usually sell it for 30$ more, but I make a discount for...

When you'll get to know him better, you'll see it's not for "diplomat" either.

We often mention our good signal-to-noise ratio. In oder to have a S/N ratio, we actually need noise. Therefore, I'm against banning Udaman. Besides, the "ignore" fonction would become useless if he wasn't here.

Yes, I'll be doing retail and have a store front. In fact, I've been doing jobs for the business I'm buying for the past three years and a half. It's going ok, but it could be better. I plan to have one local technician (one I know well) and work myself on expending the business. Once the...

The Seasonic SS-300FD doesn't fit?

I want to attack the business market with a serious offering in a not too distant future. I've had vey good luck with In win enclosures and the reliability of their power supplies. Unfortunately, their reliable power supply is also only ATX 1.3 : it doesn't have a 6 pins graphic card 12V...

All Apple products belong to the same family in my book : the iDontCare group.

I use it, but my e-mail needs are very basic. I never search my e-mails. I classify them so I don't need to. I only use T_bird for the three e-mail accounts I have with my ISP. I don't use it for my hotmail account, my Gmail account, my operamail account, my yahoo! mail account or my...

You could unlock the unused cores with many motherboards that had the SB710 or SB750 south bridges. AMD supposedly disabled the core unlocking with their latest southbridge (the one that ships together with the 890GX northbridge). Asus only hacks the southbridge to re-create the same old...

Well, forget the VM with Linux. In order to get big units, you need to have eight recognized cores in your OS. This means a dedicated Linux box (as I do). You won't process big units.

http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=58&t=13648

You're missing Linux. That's why I told you to install it in a VM. AFAIK, the big units are only available for the Linux client.

Handruin's favorite tree, I suppose.

That one is easy. When drives with the SandForce controllers start filling the market. They beat even the latest Crucial C300 SSD for random writes. These things are perfect. No real weakness.

You'll never notice the difference between a 3GHz core and a 3.6GHz core doing the above described tasks. But you'll notice the difference between 4 virtual cores and 8 virtual cores if you really push the machine though.

Also, why three 550W power supplies since every computer (at least yours and your wife's) doesn't even draw 100W? Wouldn't have been more effective to use 300W power supplies, like Seasonic 300W SFX units or something similar? Power supplies tend to be more effective at 50% their maximal...

Is low power the reason why you opted for i5 670 instead of something with more cores, more powerful, costing the same or less?

I've just noticed that you already have the bonus assosciated with registering a passkey. My bad.

What kind of processor do you have? If you have an i7, you're not optimizing your production right now. Unless you need a lot of processing power for the other tasks you do with your computer, you should install Linux in a VM and assign at least six (virtual) cores for it, then run the 6.29...

There's only 13.7% more pixels on two 1280x1024 displays than there is on one 1920x1200 monitor. Since there are more vertical pixels on the 24", I could in fact see more text on the single 24" than on two large but shorter 19".

Browsing price lists, coding on one screen and seeing the result on the other. Watching a video on one screen, reading news on the other. Checking stock prices. Comparing two different products. Reading an article and checking references on the other screen. The list goes on.

Because my monitor died a few days ago and I can't stand the blurry CRT I now use to replace it, I'm in the market for a new monitor. Browsing my price lists, I have narrowed my reseach down to two or three options. 2x Gateway FPD1985 : 19" monitor with a PVA panel, 1280x1024 or 1x HP...

No, an IBM power bar. I don't think it was the bar that was in fault because all my other equipment is ok (three computers, speakers, cable modem). It just didn't like the brutal shutdown.

Sorry for my abysmal contribution during the last two days. There was an electrical black out during a wind storm and my faithful Dell FPW2005 didn't like it. I'm now using a Mitsubishi Diamond Scan 20H with a blurry screen that I dig in my old stuff. It was quite hard to restart the folding...

Except for Norton, aren't all other virus programs distributed free? People usually pay for anti-virus programs, but paying for a virus program? This is masochism.

I did remove the heatsink, clean the thermal interface, reapply thermal compound and reinstall the heatsink. No improvement. Then, I chose the bus solution.

The media used for the second installation certainly wasn't the same as the one used in the original installation. I can try another OS, but ultimately I'll have to find a way to make Windows XP Home work because that's what's on the sticker glued on the box. IMO, trying another OS won't...

There are not even any driver installed yet and the "System" process already takes 100% of the CPU time. There were unknown versions of the chipset drivers installed on the original installation.

I have a problem I've so far been unable to resolve. A crappy Gateway box in which is nesting an Intel D101GGC motherboard (ATI Xpress 200 chipset). The computer is slow as a snail. One process, only dubbed "System", is using 100% of the processor. I cannot shut down the process. I tried to...

Asus Z8PE-D12X There you go, two LGA1156 and two PCI-X slots. Go help the economy.

I knew all the above, except that I'm impressed with the bonus. I thought it would add maybe 10%-20%, but not 3x-6x the reward. This is huge. With my relatively modest setup and only one computer able to compute big units (-bigadv), I'm beating the otherwise unreachable P5-133XL. And I'm...

Because it's in combo deal with a 160-170$ graphic card.

I often used the CoolerMaster RC335 and while it's not a bad case and it's looking good, the metal used in the panels is very tin and it's quite a notch below the other CoolerMaster you where planning to use.

Using both the analog and DVI output turned out to work great. My only problem now is that the DualHead2Go creates one large desktop with the two monitors plug to it instead of considering them like different displays. Otherwise, I succeeded to control three independant monitor with one little...

As Handruin linked in another thread, with only 20$ more, you could get 1.5TB of space to store your files instead of only 1TB. I haven't used it yet, but the Antec Two Hundred has the same internal configuration as the Cooler Master 690, but it cost less (at least around here). Also, I would...

On the 9pm update, I was awarded one 2565 points unit. I completed one project 6014 (484 points) about six hours ago and one project 6012 (470 points) some three hours ago. My other computer is computing a huge unit that isn't due before very late tomorrow or early the day after, so the unit...