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I do. Half of the units I receive these days are A5. It's been like this for the past week or so. The three weeks before that, all I received were regular A3 units.

I watch NFL football. I don't care about when the Thanksgiving is. I care about when the football games are. Also, CFL : "canadian Football League" I don't feel concerned about what happens in their league.

It can't. Nothing can run 12 simultaneous threads on an i7 940 because it's an 8-threads processor. An A3 core can use up to 8 threads on your CPU.

Saw "The Immortals" this eveving between two dump. Much better than the latest Conan, but bof... About as good as "Clash of the Titans", or a little bit better. Far from "300".

It wasn't such a good idea to put them in the front left pocket. Should have put the wallet there instead, like Max told you.

Meh, no one watches Dexter here? I miss "Lie to Me". My neighbor (the same who calls me "Dexter") told me that Terra Nova was good, but I've yet to watch an episode.

I've only watched the Packers vs. Lions game with a friend in a sport-theme restaurant. I don't have cable TV at home so I could not see the other two games. There's something in the food there that I did not digest well. Last time I went to the bathroom, my ass exploded so strongly that if...

It's alright, we're not jealous. We know a tornado will destroy a few buildings and take the grid down there when Spring arrives :p

Also, trips to Thailand must be pretty cheap this season...

Maybe the AOC i2353Fh 23" IPS monitor, if it's available. First IPS monitor available for less than 200$. Otherwise, RAM is still cheap, if you haven't maxed your computers already.

I lost all respect for that man when I saw he used flat-head screws. At this size, it's Torx or nothing. Even Robertson screws don't last at this tiny size. With the upcoming tougher CAFE standards, it might one day be the common motor size we find in our vehicles ;-)

I sold the puny Core 2 Duo E6300 that was part of my FAH farm and replaced it with a canceled customer order : a Core i3 2120. The FAH beta v.7.1.38 client is a breeze to install, even on Linux (Lubuntu). You download the Debian package, double-clic on it and then enter your name, team number...

Piratebay's owners might be interested.

Nope, I think it's because they now often use gel ink instead of the former more liquid kind. Oh, you mean the hard drive? Sorry, it was too obvious what you were talking about.

No, it's not about language. I don't remember what's forbidden in online gift contest, but I know it's not allowed in Québec. I don't mind. I would simply like that some of you win something. That way I would feel a little bit helpful. Especially if it's JTR and his third-world computer (or...

If Mark has been able to win something there, surely you guys can too. Here's where to participate. JTR should try at the very least. I cannot participate due to my country's laws. I would post the answers, but doing so might invalidate the entries of our members. A quick read of any X79...

525$ used on eBay

I completely forgot about the one FP per two cores of Interlagos. Having a real 16-core chip for ~550$ was too good to be true, I guess.

Project 6903 (bigbeta) takes more or less twice as much time as project 6901 (regular bigunit) to compute. Project 6904 units are even heavier than project 6903 units (by ~20%-30%).

Don't forget than you must run on Linux in order to get bigbeta units.

There's a guy on Stanford's forum that benched a system with 4 Opteron 6176SE (Magny-Cours 12 cores/CPU) and he gets ~6:12 minutes per frame on Project 6901 units, resulting in almost 400K ppd. The bigbeta units are even more rewarding than the regular big units. And an Opteron 6176 is slower...

I can give you my address if you want to send them to me. I'll post pictures of what I'll make with them.

No. Putting Linux in a VM will add too much overhead and you won't complete the superbig units in time. That is a certainty.

Je ne savais pas que Dell distribuaient des ordinateurs jusqu'en Afrique. Êtes vous de la République du Congo ou bien de la République Démocratique du Congo? Dans un cas comme dans l'autre, la langue officielle de ces pays est le Français, alors vous devriez être en mesure de comprendre ceci...

At 4.4GHz, if you add the -bigbeta flag and if you run Linux, you should be able to receive and complete in time the super big FAH units like project 6903 and 6904. Those are worth more than 200K points each and take 4 or 5 days to complete. It should work untill January 12th. After that...

Why stupid Cutler? It was his most brilliant performance in ages. I can't blame him for being hurt this time. Inguries happen. While I certainly don't believe he's a bright quarterback if you look at his career as a whole, but for once he looked quite good last Sunday.

Intel adds TRIM support in RAID 0.

I hope they'll refine it because Crysis's engine is very demanding and often for no good reason. For instance, several of their New York maps still render the sea water below the ground even though you are quite far away from the ocean. That's very demanding for the system.

That was their best game this season. Jay Cutler looked like Drew Brees in that game...but he broke his right thumb! No matter how erractic he can be, he's almost certainly better than their second quarterback. With Cutler in good shape, they were almost certain to make the playoffs, but with...

So where are you from? Aussie?

I can't believe people come and polute my glorious football thread with soccer talk. Come one guys, create your own thread.

Wow, that's straight from the 70's. The old guy's face tells me something, but I don't remember where I saw him. It has been too long ago.

All of a sudden, I'm in the market for an E-ATX enclosure. Not that easy to find when you're on a budget. I stumbled on that Rosewill case and noticed that it also supports XL-ATX boards. I immediately thought about SSDDrueding and his insane motherboard.

Who's Joey?

Thanks.

I, of course, have to sell my other two Core i7 2600 prior to building that thing. One of my ancien collegues contacted me at the beginning of the week to ask me if I'd be interested to take care of all his customers. He's retiring from computer technologies and was looking for someone to...

Hmmm...Sure looks comfortable for a light person, but I'm ~200lbs and I wouldn't feel safe sitting on that chair. How much weight is it rated for?

AMD to the rescue. I've found a way...Opteron 6272. 16 real cores at 2.1GHz. 2x Opteron 6272 = 1100$ 1x Supermicro H8DGU = 400$ 32 cores system for 1500$. Supercomputing on the cheap. Intel can't come anywhere near the level of performance that system offers for that amount of money.

In any large baseball stadium ;-)

Well, it's a good thing I haven't spent almost 600$ for a Core i7 980 yet. What a waste it would have been. Since the price of 16-core systems is prohibitively high, it means it's the end of the road for big advanced units for me and almost everyone else here as well. It also means I no...

Maybe because it's made for American-size asses (which, IIRC, you have not). I'm sure they would be very soft if you'd put a 350lbs bag of saturated fat on them. You may have bought the wrong chair for your physique.

You mean the sport where a bunch of wussies throw themselves on the ground, screaming like they're about to die and crying to their moms every time a member of the opposite team passes close enough of them so they feel the air moving? That's called "soccer" (pronounced "sucker" not without...

I tried to watch the latest Conan The Barbarian untill the end but wasn't able to. There's a limit to the amount of cinematographic suffering I can sustain. It was not even a "b" grade movie. Maybe a ""w" or a "x" grade. It was one of the worst movies I've seen in a while. Compared to it...

The only difference between the Source 220 and the Source 210 Elite I've mentionned months ago in the USB 3.0 cases thread seems to be the front panel. The specifications give 10mm more height for the 220 versus the 210, but I believe it's an error because they both share the same chassis. I...

I'd like to see pictures of how the flooded zones are today. While the HDD prices hike is a small issue for us, the flood was a disaster for them. I'd like to know how the people there fare.

I've used several SuperTalent Pico USB keys. While they are fast, they have a few important issues. They are so thin that they often don't fit well in USB ports and sometimes they are not recognised because of that. Also, the bottom plate has ended up detaching itself from the key on all the...

That one should do.

I'll change my rotors Sunday. Both sides (front). The 55ftlb nuts Max wrote about...do you even need a wrench to tight nuts at 55ftlb? Now I use a kind of ratchet wrench that clicks when I'm over 90ftlb and that's not much more than what I do just screwing the nuts with my fingers.

I didn't know that. I used to screw them as much as I could in the first few years I got that car. I got it in 2004. The strongest I've ever been was between 2004 and late 2006. I made deadlift between 500lbs and 550lbs. Since the movement is similar to what I do with the screw arm when I...

I lost a wheel in a curve Friday afternoon. I managed to keep the car on the road and took the curve all the way despite the fact that it was the front wheel on the opposite side of the car and that the top of the car was drifting on the road. I never found the wheel (it happened on the...