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You better not miss the bowl while pissing.

Well, 920 hours at 65$ would give you close to 60K$. It should be enough to pay for your kitchen and your fancy heated floor.

Told you that you should have gotten that dual-socket EVGA board.

Ok, I've spotted other offerings from MSI and GigaByte, but the cheaper boards are 255$. Still too much.

The only x79 motherboard on my price list this morning (Asus Sabertooth X79) is 325$. This is ~130$ more than the older X58 of the same lineage. It is completely ridiculous. For the small % increase SandyBridge-E offers over the old LGA1366 6-cores, the investment asked is simply insane.

The law Time quoted is abusive and written by fucktards. Max should be darn sure he's talking to official cencus morons and not criminals before answering further questions.

Four in a row! I knew they could beat the Lions at home. I think they'll lose their next two games though (although the Chargers are playing so badly, it's unsure they'll be able to defeat the Bears). After that, the only other game they'll lose is the one against the Packers. That will make...

If your system is louder at 55C than it was at 87C with the stock fan, then there's something horribly wrong with the fan you use.

It's sad for the lack of overclocking improvement, but the systems must be significantly quieter. That's worth something.

There's not much things except Passmark for which a desktop i7 940 overclocked at 3.11GHz won't be faster than a mobile i7 2670QM operating at stock frequency. Sandybridge CPUs are ~30% faster than the older Core isomething at similar frequency. 2.2GHz*1.3=2.86GHz (less than the 3.11GHz you...

I know they don't share the same OS, but in term of functionnality, is the Samsung 8.9" comparable to the iPad 2? What about the touch screen sensitivity and display quality?

6MB/sec is exactly the same as 6MBps. 6Mbps would be much slower tough. When the "B" is capitalized, then it means "byte". When it is a mini-minus "b", then it's a "bit". Santilli makes a lot of mistakes, but this one wasn't.

The review has been done in early 2010.

BTW, we don't share the same notion of being productive at work. At least after that you knew you were qualified to work for the government. :thumbleft:

I bet the folks at Packard Bell never woke you up. Yep, that's how long it took them to answer phone calls. No wonder they are no longer here.

Just in case... Remember that this is without the -bigbeta flag. It would be much higher with it.

Just in case David goes crazy : EVGA dual socket 1366 board at 450$ instead of 600$.

Thanks for the feedback and the suggestions. I'll look into it.

Oh I have no problem getting everything that comes to my mind, thanks. I simply don't know what to search because I can't think of something that might interest me that I haven't seen yet.

Here's a perfect chair for you. No chance to lose your pink ball under the cushion : there is none.

You smoked too much green.

I'm bored to death this evening. I've finished all my repair jobs, haven't found a way to sell my current computers to build better ones, don't want to waste money going out, have played 20 Freecell games (won 19) and finished reading all my news site on the Net. Like I wrote, really bored to...

Yes I am sadly adddicted to FAH. It's a costly addiction too, but probably less than cocain. I think I'm better than Mark in that regard because he never admitted to be addicted to FAH and his effort has been even more insane than mine so far. If I succeed to replace my SandyBridge by a 6...

I RECEIVED A PROJECT 6900 UNIT! WOOHOO!!! I RECEIVED A PROJECT 6900 UNIT! WOOHOOO!! WOOHOOHOOO!!! It was about damn time.

That's in The Green Hornet, not the Green Lantern.

...or maybe not. SandyBridge-E doesn't appear to be much faster than the 6-cores i7 9x0. It might make more sense to just get two 6-cores i7 980 for the two spare x58 motherboards I have.

I need to sell all my gears in order to get a decent LGA2011 system to run this. LGA2011 processors are out on Friday. We should see motherboards next week.

You won't make the prefered deadline on a 2x 6 cores/12 threads system if you only crunch the unit in after-hours time. A 4.2GHz i7 9x0 needs five continuous days to complete the unit in time for the bonus to apply. Don't forget it has to run on Linux 64 bits.

I've found it. So, in summary, you need a 12 cores system running 64bits Linux and you need to add the -bigbeta flag. On an i7 9x0 systems, you need to massively overclock the rig in order to complete the WU in time. Some user complained that his 4.0GHz i7 980X would miss the prefered...

I hate you. I don't remember the coffee machine from Green Lantern. Now I'll have to re-watch the movie just to spot the coffee machine. You'll make me waste my precious time.

That's the first thing to look at when recommending a UPS unit IMO. If it can't hold a charge for long, then it's not worth shit. That's the primary job of a UPS afterall.

HP/Compaq NC business laptops are not bad either.

Ah, it could be an explanation. Then maybe that user isn't an ass hole. I will investigate how to get a mega big unit and what hard ware it takes to finish it on time.

I read that Grandpa (from Asus Republic of Gamers) received project 6903 and 6904 units. The guy only has i7 970 and 980 systems. He average 340K ppd. There's something we do wrong. My two i7 2600, one overclocked to 4.3GHz, are almost as powerful as his setup and yet I barely average 50K...

I wasn't awared that units as big as the Project 6904 existed. It must need a massive amount of processing power to complete it within the prefered deadline.

You can't crunch a big unit with the GPU client and I don't see how you can shave the TPF of a regular GPU unit to the point of having over 600K points for it. It has to be a big unit.

Then it has to be something designed by Cray or similar.

He could, but he doesn't need to. There are several other companies that own mainframes or large amount of blade servers. There are other ways to do it than blade servers, but it's probably the highest density way. There are 4 sockets 1U designs, so in theory you could fit 4x 10 cores = 400...

That should have been 160 instead of 320. I forgot to correct it when reviewing my post. The 30 blade servers is still good however.

An unoverclocked i7 2600 has a TPF of ~31 minutes for a big unit (other than the 2684). An i7 2600 is a 4 cores/8 thread 3.4GHz CPU. So assuming the FAH client scales perfectly, then what's needed to shave the TPF from 31 minutes to 18 seconds is roughly 103 Core i7 2600 CPUs. Or 412...

This is insane. One of the teams behind us (Megware) has a user (fswork) that completed a single unit worth 616248 points. In order to do that, according to the bonus point calculator, you have to complete a big unit with a "time per frame" of 18 seconds and don't take more than one minute to...

Did you test how long it powers your stuff when a power outage occurs?

Some good news for us. I didn't think the production would resume that quickly. Hopefully, it also means that the situation is getting better for Bangkok's residents.

I say wait another month and then sell them. You'll be able to put SSDs in your desktops with the money you'll make.

I bought a 500GB 3.5" SATA drive today for a build I sold. Last time I've been happy to pay 90$ for a 500GB drive was in 2006. Now, my main supplier sells them between 100$ and 110$, so finding one elsewhere at 90$ was nice. From what I read now, the situation will only go worse in Q1...

Sometimes yes, sometime no. I'm never better than a 3-days beard. I shave with a Dremel. It feels more manly that way. I used to use a hunting knife, but the Dremel is faster and I save on the foam.

The nicest deal I see in those graphs is the Radeon HD 6850. It cost ~150$ around here and it's pretty much the minimal card to get acceptable frame rate on 23" screens (the most common these days). And AMD's cards often are better values than their NVidia's counterparts (except for FAH)...

At iXBT Labs. Now you have no excuse to ask wether that card is better or worse than that other one. Unless it's a card from a previous generation not included in that article.

I did not notice I crossed the 6000 milestone before you post about it. Actually, I think my 6000th is the 700th post of the PC Gaming = World of Suck thread. Thanks.

:eek: :nono: Seagate drives are notoriously unreliable. You cannot save all your backups on a single drive, especailly one of theirs and not expect a disaster someway along the road.