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Why the Zotac and not the Asus 430GT or 440GT, both also passively cooled and cheaper? You need the DisplayPort connector?

I ordered an Asus ENGT440 DC SL/DI/1GD3 for my main PC. I'm sleeping next to it and although I've replaced all the case fans and the CPU fan by quiet models (one Antec Quiet120, one Antec Quiet140 and a Scythe SY1225SL12H-P for the CPU), it still emits an annoying amount of noise. The tiny fan...

I increased my hard drives stocks yesterday and this morning because I expect prices to rise thanks to the flooding. I'll try to get a sample of the new 1-platter 1TB Hibachi drive, the 7K1000.D. I'll know in a few minutes if I'll be able to grab one or not.

Intel HD 3000 vs Radeon HD 5450, 5570, GeForce 240GT and Llano integrated Radeon HD 6550. Intel's integrated graphic also has poorer 3D visual quality than all the others.

If any of you ever tries to run the client on a Linux box, be sure to disable the screen saver. On Lubuntu 11.10 (Ubuntu with LXDE), enabling the screen saver (which is enabled by default) increases the time-per-frame by 43%. That's with an i7 2600 CPU. With a slower processor, expect even...

Good. We'll need to compensate for LiamC's forecoming departure. Maybe SSDdrueding will also be able to add another computer or two since it must be getting cooler on the Pacific coast too. I helped Greg to configure his client, but he's not getting the output he should, considering the...

I'll add a powerful Celeron 420 1.6GHz with a Radeon HD 6870 to my folding farm. The purpose is mainly to test the reliability of the graphic card because it caused problems in certain games in another system. I don't expect spectacular results from this setup. Probably around 2000ppd.

Isn't the definition of "almost" to be near of?

So Bulldozer is AMD's Windows Vista : bloated, late and underwhelming

A possible explanation of the Bulldozer debacle.

1800rpm? Must be disturbingly noisy? None of the fans in my computers rotate faster than 1200rpm, except the stock fan on the retail heatsink in my secondary FAH box.

I just have a machiavelic thought that I unfortunately won't be able to achieve because Newegg.com doesn't accept international credit card orders. I would have bought half the parts JTR needs to replace his museum computer and send them to him. I'm sure that even if he would have been able to...

I would go with an Intel platform too, but given his low finances, I would opt for an ASRock H61M/U3S3 instead. There's even 2 SATA 6Gbps connectors (probably through a Marvell controller since the H61 chipset doesn't support SATA 6Gbps ports by itself). It's 69.99$ shipped from Newegg...

Is it an invitation to be pedant or what? The higher the power rating of the processor, the harder it will be to cool it passively. While a i3 2100, a 65W CPU, could probably be cooled passively by a 25$ Cooler Master 212+ without its fan, a CPU dissipating 125W would need a much bigger (and...

It depends what the processor is and what is its power rating. I don't know what processor you have.

I don't really know what to say except that I hope you'll be well and that the hole thing won't affect too negatively your life's quality. I have a friend who had heart surgery last year and he's fine now. He's the one who drove the ATV when we dive into the moat. If his heart lets him have...

Santilli told me he got the passkey and configured the client with it. In about ten units, we should see if he gets the bonus or not. Cross your fingers.

Congratulations Chewy and I hope you'll be nicely rewarded in the notation of your work. Regarding the optical medias, I only really trust Verbatim's products. Some others are ok, but if you want to be sure, I've only found Verbatim (Taiyo Yuden are not as widely available here and they tend...

If true, Asetek stroke quite a deal. Shipping the retail cooler with Intel CPUs insures quite a volume. I don't believe it will be a very quiet cooling solution under load though, but their current LGA1155 and LGA1366 aren't either so...

From now on, I'm interested in Windows 8.

All hard drive brands have been spotty lately. At least for the 1TB and up models. From my own personal experience, the Hibachi were above average, reliability wise. Seagate's were the worst. I did not buy enough Samsung's to formulate a judgement. As the other two wrote, it looks good, but...

Do you have a lot of money on the side? If not, forget about a retail store. To run a store, you need to keep a lot of inventory. Inventory = frozen money. You buy a lot of stuff that you pay upfront, hoping you'll make money on it sometime in the future. In the meanwhile, the invoices keep...

But a bike doesn't weight 2000lbs and you don't need to carry a flying instructor on it either, so if it had been possible to average 148MPH on a bike for an hour, you would not had needed nearly as much energy to do so as you needed onboard an airplane.

His CoolerMaster Hyper 212+ won't be sufficient to cool off his processor without a fan. He'd need something like a Thermalright HR02 for that (~80$).

What about burning 5500+ calories. From what I recall when I co-piloted a small airplane, it wasn't an exhausting activity.

Flight? I thought you had a bicycle, not a chopper.

Is that a Canon MP490? Also, do you have a bad eyesight? A 32" TV at two feet of your face, you certainly like big text. Overall, it's neat though. It must be nice to work next to a big patio door, makes you feel outside.

He already wrote that he would disconnect the XP drive when he'll install Win7. XP Mode can only be installed if Windows 7 Pro or Ultimate is installed. It won't be possible to install the XP Mode on the Home Premium version.

Well, next time you (SSDdrueding) have a few hours to kill, you could hit the 101 and then the 280 to visit uncle Santilli and correctly setup his FAH client and then make the trip back from San Francisco to Monterey. He still hasn't gotten a passkey. I'm happy about his contribution, but not...

The Noctua NH-C14 is a bit superior (1-2C) to the tower-style NH-D14 and cost the same. Noctua, though, doesn't make the quietest 140mm fans. A few Scythe models as well as the Thermalright TY-140 and the Prolimatech Blue/Red Vortex generate less noise at equal CFM.

Liquid cooling not worth it IMO. What SPCR thinks about it You're better off spending your money on quieter fans, like the Thermalright TY-140 (with holes positioned like 120mm fans). Or swap your Hyper 212+ with a Thermalright HR02 Macho that comes with a TY-140 and cost ~40$. Cheaper and...

With your apparently appaling health condition, are you sure it will still be legal for you to drive in three years, assuming you'll still be alive? I would see you in a Taurus.

Indeed. I have no problem with speaking english with tourists. Those who decide to stick though have to learn french. It's very nice from Doug to try to speak french when he visits here, but it's very understandable that tourists don't learn the native language of the foreign country they...

Nope. When a customer introduces himself in english and it's obvious he's not a tourist, I tend to not make him feel comfortable and I make a point to be unpleasant. There's all the rest of North America to go for those who want to live their lives in english. Here it's french, period. You...

You're not asking the right guy about english names pronounciation. I cannot discern between "tree" and "three", "dog", "Doug" and "dug", etc. Remember that I very rarely speak in your language.

Very much so. Firing a machine gun non-stop for fifteen minutes, killing some 800 enemies in the meanwhile is very much my style.

Probably? Certainly! Do you know how many people die each year because of stupid drivers texting on their dumb phones? The iPhone didn't created that market (Blackberry probably did), but they've popularised it to the uncanny masses.

Apple should honor him by renaming their kill process command to "kill jobs".

MAC OS X was carved on top of Darwin, which is related to BSD, not Linux.

They corrected their date mistake once I registered and posted about it on the comment section of their news.

Me too. I even posted a thread in the News section before realizing that it had already been mentioned twice before. That's what I get for sleeping in the early evening...

It's still Wednesday on the Pacific coast, morons.

I've only read this at one place so I'm not completly sure it's not a prank, but I wouldn't be surprised since he was suffering from cancer. Source

Let's just hope that the upcoming Serious Sam won't be as much of a disapointment as Duke Nukem Forever and Rage were.

Thanks for the feedback. I'll look for the Thinkpad tablet. I mentioned the K1 because I had a deal on it.

It would be nice if the rpm worked for Fedora because my secondary FAH-dedicated box has Fedora installed on it (with LXDE). It won't break my heart if it doesn't, because the only real purpose of that box is running the FAH client, but just for the sake of being up to date and fully...

I need to recommend a tablet PC to a business customer and I hesitate between the two models mentioned in this thread's title. Lenovo generally makes above-average products, but the Samsung Galaxy series receive good reviews on many websites. The tablet will be used to fill excel templates and...

I think both of them are OEM bare drives, no cable included.

It's still weird that one of them doesn't show on Hibachi's product list pdf. Thanks for your research.

Greater than ever...or not. Head on to Adobe to infect...errr, I mean, to upgrade your PC.