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Comcast regularly runs sales/adds that give free installation for new customers. You just have to time it right ...

I have never been given new keys with each renewal. I only get new keys when they send out something new.

I really must be missing something basic here because I don't see what the problem with just natively sharing the data over your network. Just plug your external drive into one of the machines and share the data. Both Mac's and Microsoft has that capability builtin. The underlying file system...

One thing of note. I don't know about MSDN, but the Action Pack is a subscription-based license. Meaning, if you let your subscription lapse, by not renewing, you are supposed to cease using all the software from the Action Pack. So, instead of licensing the software at a fixed price, the...

Share the data over a network.

I too think that cable is a good idea but only if you can fit a second PS in your case. Typically, a case that can fit two PS's is a speciallity item. You can always try drilling some holes, if you've got the space inside, but be careful with the metal shavings.

I can see your problem -- No one from such a snooty place as Harvard would ever even consider visiting LA being that anyone there is obviously trailer trash. So it must be a scam.

Who was the "major, legit retailer"?

Just as a side note, in my local power company charges 7.23 cents per KWH which for 460W 24x7 is $24/month. and 910W would cost $47 per month

Do note SLI is not currently supported, but four individual cards is. I don't think it would be nearly as bad as you'd think. It will be relatively high but folding tends to be significantly less stressfull than actual 3d Gaming. Also, it is now common for the system power usages to be given...

I thought that anyone interested in GPU folding might find this useful: Nvidia GPU2 folding PPD scores and configurations. ATI GPU2 folding PPD scores and configurations. Some important things to note: The very upper end cards still have some leg-room because the WU's aren't yet big enough...

After reading the above, I wanted to append the following, but the editing time limit had expired. When I was running Linux with Vista dual-core virtual machines, the Linux was still getting 3000PPD while Vista was only getting 2400PPD. If you PM'me with an Email address, I'll send you a...

There are several factors. The first is OC'ing. Next is Windows vs Linux. Third is processor scaling. I find that for a Q9450 I'm getting a very good OC. Most Q9450 chips are not stable beyond 3.2GHz in a non-folding enviornment and folding is very stressfull on the chip. My Q6600 was not...

You'll never get a date approaching women in that way.:jokecolor:

I have now switched to my summer folding setup. I specificly changed it because during the summer months it gets outright very uncomfortable inside with my previous setup of nine machines. So I have only two machines running, though I tried my best to keep my folding performance at or above my...

You should be getting much higher PPD than that: Try around 4000-4400 PPD, stock. There is something wrong, if you are only getting 1000. The main problem the the Nvidia GPU2 client, well two actually, is that the client isn't very stable and it slows down standard 2D graphics making your...

When Vista first came out, I installed it on a 3.2GHz P4 with 512MB and it was totally unacceptable: There were multi-second pauses between every action. Going to 1GB removed the pauses, and going to 2GB made it comparable to XP with 1GB. Getting extra ram is a big deal This was with a...

I actually haven't personally compared a stock Q6600 (@2.4 GHz) to a Stock 9450 (@2.66GHz). My Q6600 won't OC in the MB it is in and I have only run SMP on the Q9450 OC'ed. I was able to safely OC to 3.56GHz, but for stability purposes I deliberately dropped it significatly. I may fiddle some...

My ECS board wouldn't OC at all. Even going from Stock 2.4GHz to 2.5GHz, made Windows intermittantly unstable. However, at stock speeds, I really couldn't complain about its stability. One thing I did consider, with all these X2's that I'm de-commisioning is to buy a GPU2 capable video card...

P.S. The MIR didn't qualify by two days.

This really is a better place for this conversation than the for-sale forum. Interesting, and you are definately creating a folding farm. If and when Stanford improves the SMP client to better mix with the GPU2 client may make it worth your while to SMP fold again. You brought up a question...

At the moment, what I'm trying to do is replace 9 machines with 2 as an summer energy saving and a summer temperature comfort goal. So, I'm going with two quads that will run multiple VM's rather than having multiple machines dual booting to different OS's. The machine I'm currently setting up...

My Q6600 on the same MB - P4M900T-M Revision 1.0 Bus 266x9 = 2395MHz PC2-6400/DDR2-400 2@1GB Part#=OCZ2SOE8001G The RAM is running at the following settings currently and it produces the lowest latency, I could create. DRAM Freq.: 333 MHz FSB : DRAM 4:5 CAS# Latency (CL): 4.0 RAS# to CAS#...

You can check your system's RAM latency from within Windows by running latency. It can be had by DL'ing a recent CPU-Z (google "CPU-Z download").

The board was a P4M900T-M Currently, The GPU2 client has affinity problems with the SMP client when running Vista (not XP/W2003/W2000). Specificly, under Vista the GPU2 uses one core, leaving 3 cores which theoretically should do fine with the SMP client but doesn't. What happens is that 3...

Just as a side note, I got an earlier Frys Q6600 w/ECS motherboard special. The MB sucks big ones. Specificly, RAM latency, by default, was tested in the 500ns rather than the 50-60ns for a p35 chipset. After fiddling with RAM settings the best I could do was get it down to the 210ns. It...

Breathing and heart beat measurements are mostly diagnostic in nature and do not necessarily prove a human is alive, but it sure does correlate well.

At some point, the X2 may work with both GPU's but at the moment only one runs folding. So currently, there is no need to spend the extra money and a simple 3870 is the best GPU folder. Just as a side note, currently the Q9450 is significantly better than the q9300 which is significatly better...

Oh, I'm not disagreeing. I feel the same pain and am I'm quite annoyed. On the other hand, now that the GPU2 client is out, Stanford does want to transition to it since it is more flexible in the type of work that can be done: One can't fight progress. Unfortunately it does not support the...

Also, the original ATI Radeon 1xxx GPU clients have been pulled and Stanford will no longer be sending out WU for those clients in a months time time frame.

18 seconds, and subjectively, it feels much quicker.

I've been noticing that this past week, the site seems to be extremely slow.

I must be missing something, because I look at this and say something is seriously wrong with the system. I start out with the concept that the standard for a drug, to be released, is that it be better than a placebo. To me it means that it is better than nothing at all. The studies being...

Bitter Pill: A Portland doc flips on big pharma and reveals its “dirty little secret.” A pharmacy rep insider speaks out on a dirty little known secret about the manipulation of the studies used to support the efficacy of depression medications. The point he is making probably applies to all...

Anandtech rant One of the things I most want to know about, in a tech review, are the gotcha's of which the above rant gives a plenty. I rarely see them in print, because of the number of reviews that are there simply to sell the product and not give a good critical review. It's all too...

I did receive a class action settlement from Creative several years ago relating to false advertising: Supposedly, they were advertising a frequency rate in all cases, where it was only being delivered under specific circumstances. Since it was credit for more Creative merchandise, I did not...

I have to admit, that I detest Creative's handling of their drivers. I was hired to reinstall an OS and the customer didn't have the original Creative disks. So I went onto their website to get drivers. Then only ones they listed were drivers that destroyed the install. I contacted creative...

np, hosting is a commodity business so go for the best deal that supplies the service you need.

Fushigi, You definitely have a valid point. I agree, that it would have been better to include the power usage of the array. The missing data, distorts the performance/power results. However, it isn't something I can't deal with. If you recognize it, the you can insert your own rough...

Just as a side note: It appears that Intel will be releasing a XEON 5100 MCH chipset that will support DDR2 with the LGA771 socket for the l5400 series CPU's. When you see XEON motherboards with that chipset then you will not be forced into FB-RAM making my whole argument moot and Udaman...

I disagree, because the array is common to both they don't need to contrast between the two systems. The point of the array, is to help judge performance differences between the two servers and using the same array removes one major variable. I will agree, that it would have been a good idea...

I believe the 12 raided HD's are external, since the specification includes a SAS chassis common to both. Thereby the hard drive power numbers only include the single internal HD for each system.

Here is a system review comparing two low power systems: a Xeon vs. an Opteron system which breaks down the power usage of different components. What they were trying to do was compare the low-power offerings of the two companies. Specificly, for my purposes the two machines have 8 GB of...

Here is a system review comparing two low power systems: a Xeon vs. an Opteron system which breaks down the power usage of different components. What they were trying to do was compare the low-power offerings of the two companies. Specificly, for my purposes the two machines have 8 GB of...

I will universally agree, that the Q9300 is better than the Q6600. The issue brought up by Udaman was that he thought the Xeon L5420 was better than the Q9300 and with that I disagree. The Xeon has a bigger cache and a lower power envelope. However, it costs more, and will require a costly...

Yes, the L5420 requires FB-RAM. It has a LGA771 pin out (which is Xeon requiring FB-RAM). The LGA775 pin out is the one that allows standard DDR2/DDR3 RAM.

The problem with Xeon processors are FB-RAM (very hot, slow, and costly) combined with Xeon server motherboards ($$$) and thusly, the system cost will be far higher. Then there is that the energy cost for FB-RAM will be far higher than the energy savings of the low wattage processor. FB-RAM...

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