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I'm a little puzzled by the results, but the Noctua 140mm PWM controlled fan seemed slightly less effective if we're judging the system by the RPM of the fans on the GPU. I tried a 120mm Notuca PWM also and it was slightly worse than the 140mm Noctua. Both were spun to the threshold of...

It doesn't seem like the new case helped things out all that much. The GPU still sits at 83C under load. The GPU fans spin about 200 RPM slower than it did in the old case. The CPU runs much cooler though. I'm uncertain of the performance of the TY-147A 140mm fans. My 120mm Noctua seems to...

Uh, sure you can. You can absolutely reproduce a perfectly smooth sine 20kHz wave with a 44.1kHz sampling rate. The low pass filter in the DAC ensures that. Square waves effectively have high frequency content out to infinity Hz and when you low pass them you end up with rounded edges, which...

I'd love to see ABX results. Highish bitrate VBR MP3's sound quite good. For example, things encoded by LAME at V1 are very hard to discern from the FLAC. It's nothing personal, but if they're properly level matched, the inherent playback clipping of MP3s is eliminated, and you're listening...

Iran has a ballistic missile program and they are continuing to conduct test launches. As far as making a viable nuclear weapon, they're not terribly hard to make. Making one with very high yields for a given amount of fissile material requires expertise, but making a working several kiloton...

I'm not ignoring anything. We still have troops in Japan, Germany, Korea and other places. Iraq wanted us to leave some troops behind, several times more than Obama offered to leave. Ultimately, Obama wanted to bring them all home to score points on his campaign promise so his administration...

Obama got the US involved in more conflicts in the middle east than Bush. He also squandered the victory in Iraq by pulling all the troops out and letting the country go to crap with some nonsense jibber jabber about a status of forces agreement. The cognitive dissonance here is near...

Libya anyone? Kadhafi was scared straight by Bush and minding his own business when Hillary and Obama thought it would be a good idea to overthrow him and help put ISIS in charge of the country. It sounds like you just described Obamacare, the TPP, and countless other legislation. They have...

Haven't you guys seen Idiocracy?

I had a former coworker who had all sorts of problems with companies borrowing significant amounts of money from his account for short periods of time causing other payments to bounce due to insufficient funds. He couldn't get satisfactory answers from them as to what they were doing. After...

She's off the account. The address on the account is my address. Apparently it wasn't for some amount of time, and no one can tell me how that happened.

It's a Christmas in August Miracle. I was finally able to obtain a PDF of my statement today. It turns out I didn't actually need it to setup online bill pay since the payment address wasn't needed, but whatever... They'll get their payment tomorrow before the bill is due.

Well, she's the one who moved out and I kept the house. I'm guessing she doesn't want me to know where she's really living and since the statements have her actual address on them, not the address she told me, she's shredding them. Of course I already have that address, but whatever...

So I wasted more time on the phone with Citi today. The PDF statement isn't available in my online account because I didn't have an online account when the statement was generated. There's a way to request it, which I did, but it may take 24-48 hours before it becomes available.

Except it's not in this case. They apparently are tied into the Postal Service's mail forwarding database somehow. So when my ex-wife had her mail forwarded it updated the address on the account because Citi thought I had moved. Of course I can't substantiate this, it's just speculation on my...

Well, Citibank is officially on my crap list. I'm so very, very, very close to cancelling my Costco Visa that is through these clowns. They are apparently incapable of providing me a statement for my card. I called them over 2 weeks ago in an attempt to find out where my statement was...

It really doesn't bother me. I could do with less traffic on the road.

First, why is the Suburban automatically at fault? Maybe the Miata driver is out street racing and ran into a parked Suburban. Even if the Suburban driver is at fault in the accident, unless you can show the person who bought the Suburban intentionally bought it because it was more deadly to...

I'm pretty sure you have a typo in there. You meant insane gas tax right? ;) There's nothing quite like a regressive tax on the poor. Which reminds me. There are too many fat people too. We should raise the price of groceries until people weigh less and obesity rates go down.

Hmm... Which one of the two had it's passenger space intruded on?

That's an interesting SFF PC. I don't really see why he bothered to use the 22 core Xeon processor though. A top end i5 or i7 would have worked just as well for games.

Instead you should trust flash cells that are guaranteed to slowly leak charge and eventually be unreadable instead of a mechanical component that might go bad. I'd trust a mechanical HDD that sat for 20 year to have the data recovered more than a SSD that say 20 years.

So you're effectively taking both sides of this argument? They're simultaneously not safer while being safer? FWIW, heavier cars are generally safer for the occupants. Study after study shows this. A basic understanding of physics confirms this.

But, you don't add a fan to your system when you use them.

They were available for sale a lot earlier than that. People (not reviewers) got their cards earlier in the week already.

Brings it up, but doesn't know anything about it. I was confused as well. :scratch:

I think you mean LDS.

Yes, I'm aware of those sorts of products. Many of the HDMI over CAT5e/6 products compress the video signal. They're an option, but not one I was really too interested in.

I thought about it, but it would have to go into the basement. That makes using it somewhat impractical. Specifically loading discs into the optical drives... Turning it on would have to be done via WoL. I'd have to run HDMI and USB through the floor for video to the receiver and for the...

Well, it's time again to make more changes to the HTPC. It seems the Antec P180's day has ended. I can't keep my GTX 1080 adequately cooled while running my new madVR settings while simultaneously keeping the acoustic profile of the system quieter than my plasma TV when sitting in my seat...

They're not inefficient. What's considered the minimum acceptable performance level has increased. Why don't you just use the Intel IGP?

I guess that all depends on what you mean by decent or decent at what, but I would suggest that's probably not possible. High end graphics cards use more power than the CPU. Do you also want a CPU without any fans too? I'm struggling a bit with thermals at the moment. While running Furmark...

It has 2 fans, no blowers. I should also point out that the numbers I posted earlier may be a little low because the GTX1080 doesn't necessarily run at max clocks with the madVR load I presented it.

So my Zotac GTX 1080 arrived today. From my testing it is 80% faster than my R9 380 in the 5 madVR scenarios I benchmarked.

I got this in my inbox this morning from Newegg:

Well, I never posted anything about it so it's not like you could have known. Correct. Don't go congratulating me too quickly. I put in just over 11 years.

I must be the only person who doesn't see the need for a waterproof phone.

I found this story to be fairly interesting: http://fusion.net/story/287592/internet-mapping-glitch-kansas-farm/

Well, I'm going to politely bow out of this specific topic even though I started shifting the conversation in this way. Merc didn't ask for comments from the peanut gallery and I shouldn't have started. I can't undo that, but I can stop fueling the fire since he didn't ask for my or anyone...

Anyone tried the 4' linear LED shop light style fixtures? Costco has these in store for $29.99 each. http://www.costco.com/4%e2%80%99-Linkable-LED-Shop-Light-with-Pull-Chain-2-pack.product.100284402.html They used to have a more efficient 38W version. I'm not entirely sure why they've moved...

Was something about my post unclear? I'm no longer married.

Not anymore... :sunny:

It sounds like you're her doormat... Let me guess she's not paying rent either. How often are you babysitting?

This sort of tech could lead to some interesting changes in movies.

Unless she's paying rent and Merc really needs the money and cant find another who will pay the same amount I'm not certain why he still has this particular roommate. :scratch:

Except I'm absolutely certain it's very clearly marked on the box that 10TB is using base 10 math, not base 2 math (in so many words).

I received this e-mail today from Newegg:

What sort of pauses and stutters are you referring to?

Mine updated to Marshmallow months ago. It had some big nearly 400MB update this morning though I'm not what for. But, yes... Very little seems different comparing before and after Marshmallow.

So I actually downloaded the settlement PDF and skimmed it but don't see any reference to any cards but the GTX 970. :scratch: