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I find it interesting that Nvidia is shooting themselves in their SLI feet, with CPU bound video cards.

Display Properties->Screen Saver Tab->Power button->Advanced Tab->uncheckmark "prompt for password when computer goes off standby"

The ATI team had the benefit of being in the "official instructions" in how to configure the GPU client with the ATI beta drivers. Part of the instructions was to put in the ATI team number. But the number of people that are actually using the GPU client is still very small (less than 500...

I agree with the validation step. Without it, someone could simply register and then post advertising or worse, as news. It just didn't work well in this instance, but then things happen. So, don't worry. If it had been a big deal I would have PM'ed you about the issue. It's not as if I...

Hardware virtualization has value, but not lots to me (Yet). For the most part I can deal with the non-HW virtual OS products just fine.

Well, almost a week ago, I posted in the news forum about the upcoming new Nvidia GPU and it never appeared. I just made the assumption, that since the news forum requires that the post be validated before appearing, that the validation gods decided it was not up to snuff.

If your issue is with replacement parts: Buy them now. A couple spare MB's, a CPU and you are still ahead.

939 AMD single/dual core; reuse RAM and upgrade any 512's to 1GB; Integrated 6100/6150 MB's -- About as cost effective as you are gonna get. No point in AM2 -- Same performance as 939 except costs more.

GPU status report The beta test is progressing and the kinks are being slowly ironed out. Bad WU's are now being properly reported back and are being pulled, so that they aren't going from person to person. OC'ing the GPU's seems to be the norm amoung partisipants with roughly a 30% PPD...

The Inquirer has lots of details regarding the upcoming release of Nvidia's G80: Nvidia's G80 innards exposed Some of the highlights: 8800GTX is Nvidia's flagship implementation. It features a fully fledged G80 chip clocked at 575MHz. Inside the GPU, there are 128 scalar Shader units clocked...

F@H is attracting new donators because of the recent marketing of their GPU client: No one else has one.

It is quite possible that your DVD player is starting to lose alignment, while your computer's DVD player isn't. There are also distinct differences between different players ability to deal with correctable errors . To determine it if is the disk vs the players, you really need to test more...

I can remember when Sony made great top-end monitors (along with lower-end products, at a premium price, to give a sense of completeness to their product line) Second to none. Then there was Samsung which made second-teir monitors with Sony Triniton screens that were just a hair lower in...

Oh, I can think of at least one sentimental reason to fixup an old PC: He was a computer virgin, and this was his first... I'd love to be able to get a PDP-8/l up and running (My first).

Yes, but they don't exist on the retail market yet.

Motherboard manufacturers have been using the same CMOS batteries since, well forever. They are all shiney, round about the size of a nickel (models CR2025/CR2032) and very easy to spot on the MB. However, if you go back early enough, there were variations before the standard became the...

The virtual HD, as a file will get defragged. But, that will not actually defrag the interior file structure of that file. So yes, there is a limited value of installing a defrag program into the virtual OS. That being said, unless the fragmentation is really bad, I've not found that...

Congrats, I was skeptical that you could get all the stuff needed and I was wrong. Matrox once again shows class in supplying the Bios and the flash program, where the vast majority of companies are not willing to: To the point that I wouldn't have even bothered looking for them.

That price for the 750GB drive was for the www.frys.com. I have no idea if it is applicable to their retail stores. www.frys.com is now listing the offer as "Unavailable" while, if you search their site, they still have 750GB drives still in-stock at $399. So I wouldn't bet the farm that they...

Fry's is currently offering the Seagate ST3750640AS-RK 750GB SATA for $159.00 + shipping.

I too have delt with multiple Antec Cases (Including full tower Antec cases with windows) and what you are describing has not been my experiance. Power supplies have all been easy to remove. By the way, all my Antec Cases invariably have the Word Antec stamped somewhere on the outside.

I don't know if the colors are standard, but their placement in the socket/plug will be (unless, you are using Dell power supplies).

FC controllers and FC storsge subsystems, tend to be on the expensive side: I'd just ebay them and get what you can.

The cheap solution is to install a second HD on one of the machines you already have at the office and use it as a multi purpose machine, one of which will be as a "file server". Then transfer the appropiate files from your home machine to the new office file server and share them. Finally...

I don't like in-game advertising, but for the most part I can tolerate it. I agree, that if it made the games cheaper, maybe there's value there, but I have observed absolutely no decreased pricing in games with advertising in them. My complaint has nothing to do with ingame advertising...

Ugg Battlefield 2142 is spyware. According to the article EA (Electronic Arts) has inked a contract with advertisers to allow them to monitor their buyers computer usage so as to incorporate better in-game advertising. I'm not sure that I could feel more raped. At least when involving a...

First, it depends on why the bios has failed as to whether simply flashing it will work. Well, first you would need a copy of the cards BIOS. Do you have that? Then you would need a flashing program made to flash the video cards BIOS. Do you have that? Another alternative would be if the...

It comes down to the video card's BIOS has failed. Once, the computer gets to Windows, it no longer uses BIOS calls to operate the video card (instead, it is using drivers) and it then works.

Yes, of course I remember the old optical mice with their specialized mouse pads, though I can't say I remmeber Sun's version. Still the Original intellimouse was released much before the optical mice were common. Microsoft gives a 1996 date for the release of the intellimouse and the year 2000...

If it is the original MS intellimouse then it wouldn't be optical: It existed well before optical mice ever did. It would have to be a mechanical mouse.

F@H client tflops Right now there 439 Active GPU's (have returned at least one WU in the past 5 days). Those 439 GPU's are producing 28 Tflops of processing power. That's more that all the linux (17,311 Cpu's) and Mac (7847 CPU's) combined. According to my calculations those 439 GPU's are...

Using this method, I was able to signifigently better OC my video card as compared to ATI's drivers. For my His X1900GT Stock: 500/600 ATI OC driver: 600/700 This method of OC'ing: 690/850 These OC'ed values are lowered at least 50pts below first artifact detection, just to ensure...

Source: How to: Set 3D clocks on X1k series cards

Currently the GPU WU's are applicable only to the GPU. It is my understanding, that there will be no crossover between conventional WU's and the GPU WU's. The P1495 is just plain a spectacular point producer. But specificly it does extremely well with core 2 duo processors. With my X2...

p1495 is more like a QMD than anything else. It produces spectatular PPD's especially with the new Intel processors. The problem is that they are currently only sporaticly being given. At the moment, all my machines are being given slow gromacs with only a very occasional p1495.

I have no idea if a fist is a "Dual-use item". However, under the right circumstances a brain is: It can be used for both hate and love...

It does seem strange to have 100 people online as ghosts, when there are only 57 "active" members. I'd be nice if more of these people actually partisipated rather than simply being passive viewers. But that is an entirely different problem However, SF is now regularly scanned by the...

Stanford has replaced the ATI drivers to be used. They are now requiring v. 6.5 Because 6.10 was creating EUE's for every WU. This is a beta test. Things like tis happen.

I contacted the forums and they know the problem and are in the process of fixing it. It appears that, for some unknown reason, the forums are not issuing new sessions, so that no one that isn't already logged in can access the forums.

All the thread is is a collection of people reporting times for a variety of different cards. The table is the condenced summery of PPD (Points per day) and for most would be what is useful. The real point of this is to show what GPU's produce what level of folding production so that those...

I logged out, for testing purposes, and now I can't go to that web site either. I get a pure white blank page. So, something strange is going on.

Still works fine for me. I suppose it could be that I have cookie: It autologs me on to the site.

The link works for me. So the question is what did you do wrong -- click on the wrong button or simply use a non-M$ browser?

GPU FAH Performance

Power usage vs benefit with GPU client

I'd go for this, but you live on the left coast and I don't. That means shipping and customs will be a bear....

Required downloads and installs. Download clients ATI 6.10 Windows XP beta graphics drivers Windows Directx 9.0C GPU FAQ and installation instructions Some of the more noteworthy things included in the FAQ: One needs to install 6.10 or later Catalysist drivers (currently only in beta)...

I sympathize; I just went through the same experiance when my IIyama Pro510 died. Everything you are describing is dead on. There are no choices in the 24" 4:3 arena. You are stuck with either 20", or going 24" Wide screen, or 30" Wide screen. Yes, increased resolution does play havok with...

Other things I've gleened, from reading posts at F@H. The GPU client will be running in 2D mode and has a relatively low power and cooling requirements However, it is unknown, if the fans commonly used on video cards are really designed for 24x7 use: The result,of that is that they really...

GPU launch Monday Oct 2nd This is useful info for those interested in GPU folding.