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What are they using the computers for? The new i5's use about half the power of the i7's and as stated are generally faster. As a person who lives in a state where power consumption is expensive I might be bothered if my energy bill went up considerably when the new processors are so green.

I do have to say that the Kentucky keyboard is growing on me. For the money it is a fantastic value. The condoms are breaking in and I hardly notice them. They do catch a bunch of stuff you would otherwise never notice was getting into your keyboard until it's too late.

http://grandsierraresort.com/ Reno is small compared to Vegas.

PowerDVD 10 ultra died. I uninstalled it, reinstalled 8, then it died. My two copies of 9 won't install due to various issues. I'm pretty much sick of it. I'm trying the Arcsoft Media Home Theatre five on trial. It's been OK, except it doesn't like shutting down. Anyone used it much...

Chyna? Will be worth a look. Steroids create some weird beauties.

Hi Car died. Needed a car to get to work. Rented a mini car, didn't like the color, black, so they upgraded me to a 2012 Mustang, 3.7L v-6 for the same price. Automatic, 6 speed, with a Sirus sound system that allows me to Bluetooth the phone for music and calls. VERY cool. Performance gas...

Ended up with a comp room at the Grand Sierra. The tourney I'm doing sold it out. Nice place.

29 degrees on Donner Pass today, snow all over the place.

Seems to have fixed itself. Hasn't been bad in weeks. Famous last words. Bought a couple APC voltage regulators. Figure I'll plug the APC's into them?

It's rained so hard that a sand trap on the golf course is full to the brim and looks like a children's swimming pool.

You should see her out of the wetsuit. Phyllis was a stripper. She saved pretty much every dime. I spent 10 years surfing with her at Sunset Beach. At the time she was pretty much the ONLY woman at Sunset Beach surfing. When it was flat we would play tennis. A LOT of fun watching that incredible...

You'll be fine. My experience with strippers is they are after decent but cheap and don't have expensive tastes. Stripping is at best a small window job. A short period to make a lot of money then you are too old and you are out. Every stripper I've known was very aware of this. Strippers tend...

My ex-wife took me to Japan three times to visit her family in Osaka. Panasonic had stuff we could only dream of at the time. The distribution system made it cheaper to buy the stuff in Oahu then in Osaka. Perhaps that corrupt distribution system is why the Panasonic stuff is expensive in Oz. M...

I can't say which is the best. I have had a Panasonic 32" LED from Costco. I could not tell much difference between the LED 27" Samsung monitors and the 32" panel. Be careful if power is an issue. The 32" TV drew nearly 60W of power. The 27" 20 W. I find the 37" sort of a price/value sweet spot.

They can be good for the general market or they can be bad. When you have a duopoly like the HD makers we don't have a lot of choices for forcing market change. What are you going to do? Use somethiing else?

http://www.eppsteiner.com/logitech-defect/?gclid=CKqhg4Wro68CFQJdhwodhwK_Xg Looks like a class action suit for selling a known defective product. Now if we can get someone to go after Seagate and WD.

http://maps.google.com/maps?oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&q=Ygnacio+Valley+Road+and+North+Main+Street&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x80856196f097b379:0x6207850f0de1d248,Ygnacio+Valley+Rd+%26+N+Main+St,+Walnut+Creek,+CA+94596&gl=us&ei=fViAT6bKNLTYiQKj9OmDAw&sa=X&oi=geocode_re...

I've got 4 BIG birds, turkeys making lots of noise and some geese on the golf course. They think it's a beautiful day for breakfast. We recently had two geese walk slowly across one of the main intersections in Walnut Creek, tails in the air like they just don't care. Honking et cetera did...

Ocean Beach, San Francisco, is beautiful and offshore. It's 37 degrees and sunny. I'm going to do two baseball games, and won't be done till about 3:30, by which time the wind will have switched. There are about 5 guys out from what I can see with the webcams at www.surfline.com I've got the...

Thanks. I have a relatively new one in the dead server. I can swap it in no problem. Later this afternoon. That's the only component, other then a video card that I have to test this system with.

I'll have a look. This was the same board that the other processor died in, exhibiting the same symptoms. Eventually the memory controller on the chip went. Something on the board is causing this or it's the chips time to die. No more trying to fix it. I am about ready to go for a new setup.

I tried keeping these little green puffers. Food was torn to shreds, mainly blood worms. http://freshnmarine.com.sg/blog/puffer-fish-freshwater-fish-fact/ Sensitive to conditions and didn't live long. Hyperactive. Video above is worth watching. Puffers feeding are fascinating, since it's so...

Nasty little buggers. Some not so little. I thought they were cute as well. Problem is they don't get along well with others. The others have to be huge, and armour plated themselves. Plecostomus do well with them: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/Plecostomus_700.jpg

Thank you! :scratch: Today, when I wanted to use the HTPC it wouldn't start. Tonight, when I didn't care and was just checking it booted right up. :scratch: Wonder if the memory controller is going on the chip like it did on the 3200.

M. Thank you for all your help.

There are not many LED's available. I have sampled two. I was specific to those two. I am not making any generalizations. You are drawing conclusions unsupported by my comments.

Now the HTPC, which didn't start for awhile, is starting up everytime. :scratchinghead: icon needed. So, until I'm sure it's dead I'll let the parts prices go down and the bios fixes come out. In other words let the rest of the market do the beta work for the companies.

"My final point is to say thank you for your input. My responses sometimes may not appear that I value the information that you post, but I do." I guess that's not clear enough for S. You're welcome for whatever help you have, and can offer.

Hi I've been working in Public schools since 1999. In that time I have worked closely with the tech guys, IT, pretty much all the time. My requests seem to be a bit different then the normal teacher. They fall into a few categories: Excellent-VERY good, with no budget, and reporting to people...

I'm currently owed over 2000 dollars. 1325 just came in yesterday, and that isn't part of the 2000. California school districts are incredibly slow to pay, and that lack of cash flow makes me very reluctant to pull the trigger on certain options, and computer stuff. When I do, I want to make...

I think David explained the idea behind that cooler. He uses it to move air in the case and turns off the case fans to bring down noise. Thank you for the suggestions. I'll have a look at those as an alternative. Unlike DD, sometimes I do NOT want to spend a lot of money when maybe the stock...

I don't know. I looked up the ratings on their website. I was thinking that with LED's I would use less energy then an LCD. I was wrong. I suspect you are correct. The LED screen is edge lit. I guess that is more even and takes more power. It might also be some of the other components that go...

Thank you all for the suggestions. It's time to move forward on replacing components. I can't seem to find a full sized motherboard for a decent price from Gigabyte for this socket. Looks like I'm going with the mini: GIGABYTE GA-Z68MA-D2H-B3...

The above link goes to a video where a person uses a light meter to compare two lights. One is an LED. He finds that the light meter shows a higher rating then the lumen rating on the bulb(LED). This is what I have observed. My sample is valid for only the 4 watt LED's I posted to. My...

37" monitor 70W. LCD Vizio uses less energy then the LCD (94W), plus 20W for second monitor.

Go TEA!!!

I guess it's always easier to revert to ad homs and name calling THAN actually deal with the reality of community mores. So it's really easier for YOU to say I'm a homophobe then deal with the issues. I have had a number of serious discussions with San Francisco judges, in chambers, about...

I'm not being sarcastic. Considering Sechs' past posting style an honest statement that he has a shoulder problem and he's taking drugs for is a great step forward and a breath of fresh air. I also have had a right shoulder problem. Turned out to be a rib out of place that my chiropractor put...

Time: grade for creativity for ad hom: F+

I'm not and I'm not casting aspersions. Thank you for the apology. Nice that you admitted you were taking prescription drugs. I'm not.

Ahh, no. The difference is I really was feeling old and dated and 'then'. Go metaphoric on if an 940 is dated then...

ROFL! At least subtle isn't lost on everyone;-). I guess I should do grammar police on your post. It's too funny the way it is. Am I missing something about how you spelled "eveolutionary " or is it supposed to be "evolutionary"?

Metaphor. Figure it out.

Power wise running at 100%: Video Card 289 Watts i7 940: idle 158 watts, peak 258 processor runs at 100% when doing FAH. System tests have idle range for around 250 watts, with peak draw around 450 watts. With the PG&E staggered billing system going over freezing can be expensive. It does...

Thank you for posting that. "treathen" Something you type when you have indulged in the "wine". "Wine" something you drink. "Whine" what you are doing in the above post. I know you are trying to help. However F@H software has a history of working on some configurations and not others. FAH...

Trashed. Thank you for the suggestions.

Sam, I'm disappointed in your lack of imagination. Given those premise you should be able to draw a reasonable conclusion from them. Walnut Creek is light years from San Francisco.

It's a west coast thing. Don't expect you to get it.

Immortals was ok. I'm not sure what Theseus had to do with any of this. Made little sense to me. Hyperion was a Titan, not a king. How two Greek writers could so screw up Greek mythology is somewhat beyond me. It has a distinct Indian influence. "The director Tarsem Singh Dhandwar and Freida...

Sechs lives pretty much in drug central, San Francisco. The laws and juries are so liberal drug dealers from other cities bart and drive in to sell drugs, knowing they won't be convicted, and the markets' strong. Plus homosexuals tend to have problems with drugs, alcohol, domestic violence...