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Grandma gamers...sweet.

Every modern mobo that I know of has a 16x PCIe port. (excluding VIA EPIA) My problem is usually as follows: Build a system for a guy doing quickbooks. One weekend, his family visits, and his grandson brings his favorite computer game. If it doesn't work, you will hear about it.

My thought is that I don't want a computer to fail to run anything older than it is. It doesn't have to run well, or quickly; just successfully install and start at the lowest settings.

For quite some time now, none of my users get on-board video. Dedicated video memory is always a good thing, and having an upgrade path is useful.

A little cold here, actually. 9:30AM and 57F. Supposed to hit 70F, though.

That is safe enough. I hate that cars today have to weigh 3000+ lbs just for all the safety gear. So many stupid laws have been passed requiring specific design elements, it makes truly efficient cars near impossible. Bumpers that don't take damage below 5mph 20+ Airbags Sensors to prevent...

NOD32. Still the best IMHO. I haven't used Avira, so if you are feeling adventurous...

That was kind of my question. If there are reasons to take less shots besides difficulty or CPU consumption ;) I've been playing with shooting like crazy (17 shots, 1/3 stop apart) and then picking the ones that properly expose specific details, letting the rest over/underexpose into the...

Still playing. I was of the impression that you would want as much range in your exposure levels as there is in the scene to be captured. If that includes a tree in shadow with a sunlit cloud in the background, that will be much more than +/- 2EV. I don't know what the DR is of the 20D, but I've...

;) My worst was putting my laptop in hibernate one night while playing a, erm, video. The next day, hooked it up to the projector at a clients for a presentation...and got a talking to from HR.

I don't have a problem with drives sitting on my desk, or in a drawer. Don't drop them, don't touch them without grounding yourself first, and don't heat them. They aren't magical, common sense is all that is required.

Yep. But quite a few things in Photoshop include significant processing time as well.

Registered RAM is a bummer and the low clock-speed is pretty bad; but none of the boards seem to have any OC capabilities whatsoever. Therefore I find it likely that a heavily OC'd Q6600 (3.2? 3.4?) would likely smoke one of these anyway. 4*3.4=13.6 8*1.8=14.4 Ignoring IPC variations and...

The difference is in the first digit. The 8347 supports 8-way (32 core) systems, where the 2346HE supports 2-way (8 core) systems. That is how they squeeze the money out of the supercomputer market with otherwise standard hardware ;)

OT: Hardware can no longer be an argument for going to the dark side; they use the same hardware as everyone else.

Actually, no. If you follow the link you will see the 1.8Ghz CPUs are $299 each, so 2 x $299 = $600.

How did I not notice the quad-core Opterons were out, and cheap? 2x AMD Opteron 2346HE Barcelona 1.8GHz Socket F Quad Core Processor Model OS2346PAL4BGE - OEM - $600 GIGABYTE GA-3CCWL Dual 1207 NVIDIA nForce Professional 3600 CEB Form Factor Server Motherboard - $260 8 Cores for...

My lifestyle is definatly a choice, my income is perhaps 25% of what it could be were I to "apply myself" as I used to. Many people may feel forced to work insane hours, but I suspect that most of it is self-imposed. These vacations I speak of are not granted; they are either endured by my...

This is what I was thinking, then I realized I already have a thumb drive for that. Problem looking for a solution, IMHO.

How far apart can/should I space them? 2 stops?

The viewfinder is a new experience for me, all my cameras have had LCD displays (young'un alert!). The diopter adjustment does help, but I also find myself looking at the image review and re-framing sometimes. Not a big deal, IMHO.

I'm definatly not waiting until I'm older to "retire"; counting on a big payoff later sounds like a good way to get ripped off. I already take a 3-6 month vacation every 3-5 years, and try to take 4-10 day vacations every couple months. Seeing the world one bit at a time, and not being worried...

Based on my attempts to take pictures of bronze statues in sunlight, someone mentioned "HDR", which I hadn't heard of before. I looked it up, and liked the concept and some of the images posted around. So today I went back to the statues and tried fooling around. I ended up with 16 pictures...

Everyone in my family have already put on record a list of 10 things, where if we are unableto do half of them, we want to be put down. Mine includes recognizing family members, getting outside, using the bathroom unassisted, etc.

Ugh...I thought I could handle the RAW conversion times on my CPU without having to go quad core. But now I'm doing HDR merges...I need more power!

It looks like they have some neat modes for conditioning and "forming" batteries...I have no idea what that means. I just want a charger that will charge the battery and then stop when they are full, without me having to watch and remove them.

I've never considered age a good metric for having a good life. When my grandfather was in his late fifties, he had a heart attack. The doctor told him to stop having his steak, eggs, and bacon for breakfast. He thanked the doctor for the advice and continued to do what he wanted. He wasn't fat...

69 is young? That beats anyone in my family's history (both sides!). A friend's mother died list week at 58. My condolences to you and your family, but what exactly were you hoping for?

Thanks for the tip, mubs...I'll see if I can get some today.

That is nuts.

At least. I find the the AC is significantly more than the CPU consumption due to efficiency issues. A while back I had a client with a tiny server room (the size of a walk-in closet). As the company grew, 2 full racks of servers went in there. If the AC failed, you were instantly screwed. So...

I'm still imagining all the neat stuff I can do with tiny $200 computers. Granted, they are snail-slow (AMD Geode 500Mhz, 256MB RAM), but cheap and really low-power. I'm temped to replace my VMWare linux test environment with a bunch of these; imagine an entire server room in a lunch box ;)

IIRC, Corsair are made by Seasonic? No, I haven't tried one myself.

Had to work at one of my old clients. They run the oldest hardware that I currently support. Pentium-S 120Mhz systems running a DOS version of Great Plains on Win95 networked with IPX/SPX. I just used my last ISA network card to replace a faulty one. Looks like I'll be installing Via EPIA boxes...

Do you know how many of the video options it can drive simultaneously? DVI, VGA, and HDMI? It would be sweet to drive all three from the onboard video...

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Thanks Will, I had forgotten about the breathing hole. I need to be sure not to block that. Anyone here have a suggestion for thermally conductive foam?

Been there. Posted that. Their solution? Put the drives in a NAS somewhere else. Not really an option for me because a) there is nowhere else I want the noise and b) I like having my array local to my machine, it is faster.

I seem to recall from the old SR days mention that drives were designed to release their heat through conduction of the two long sides to the chassis. Is this correct? If so, if a drive was thoroughly insulated on all sides except the two long sides, where significant cooling was available...

I have one layer of redundancy. Besides the RAID-5/hotspare at home, I have a friend who keeps an exact copy of my array at his place. I paid for the gear, he pays the power and keeps an eye on it. Sync is via the internet, and he has read-only access to the movies and pron.

20 500GB drives is more storage than my 8 750GB drives. Of course, mine are all in one array :p

My first computer was a laptop ;) It was an Epson HX-20(dual procs!), with the optional tape drive! It was mine from 1985 until 1988, when I dropped it. I cried. I was 8.

Yeah, I've been watching. It's been so hard to stay out of the game for this long. I've ordered a Q6600 for myself twice, selling it before it even arrives.

This is my impression as well, thence the recommendation of nVidia. But I suspect the performance difference is small enough to not make much difference if you have a preference/bias. ;) PUI

~50% OC? I haven't seen that since a Celeron 300A

I think the most obvious answer is an 8800GTS 320MB. Unless you still want ATI, in which case an X1950Pro is probably your best bet.

If you go back far enough, there should be the progress of the browser elections. Whether there were too many or too few, which computer had it last, etc.

That was me. At the time, I called 3Ware and bought them. They were put on the site not long after. The prices are still insane. Thanks ;) My current dream is that they will release internal hot-swap racks that hold 4 drives and sport an ML connector.

It does require a permit, but it can be legal. And I wouldn't say "poor bear" until I knew more about the circumstances. There are a number of situations where the cub cannot be released back into the wild.

The event logs should be your friends on this; there should be records of master browser elections in there somewhere.