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Actually that's pretty impressive at the 800 rpm setting. 26 over ambient with 125W load at 34db, basically silent.

Yup that wouldn't be the first time a company has claimed "water cooling" when it's just using a bloody heatpipe heatsink. Would be a complete waste on such an entry level machine

Water cooling is certainly a better option when dealing with cards in the power range of the 5970. Let's you take that heat plus the CPU(s) and disperse it into a radiator cooled with slow running 120mm or larger fans. Benefits are far lower noise levels and higher overclocking headroom...

An interesting article on the future of AMD GPUs in the next 6-12 months. http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/display/20100401171410_Forthcoming_ATI_GPUs_Different_Processes_Different_Suppliers_Hybrid_Architecture.html

My favorite dream car when growing up was the Celica GT-Four: http://www.noeman.org/gsm/cars-autos/51481-world-rally-championships-now-back-then.html http://jalopnik.com/5457962/forzalopnik-round-two-group-iii-cars I curse myself that I was too young to drive at that time, and therefore...

If you need something now, then the Droid is a great option. However, at a price of $600+ this truly is an investment rather than a free after rebate or 2 for $99 special. In your case I would wait it out for a few months. Strong competition is doing wonders to the marketplace.

This kind of idiocy is usually reserved for "Games for Windows" games that are dependent on an email address/registration.

Yeah I was just going to shove in some paper towels but it gets very hot in there, need something non flammable. A little L bracket to wedge in should be fine. I guess other users have the right tools for the job. It's just that whatever robot applies these screws in the factory puts a crapload...

So it is formatted as FAT32 or NTFS? The drive itself is backwards compatible, in a transparent manner. Of course you can check this when you verify that you can in fact restore successfully. Always best to check out how things work in practice before they are needed in times of crisis.

Closest I've come to it is The Dallas Theological Seminary (no I wasn't attending!). Worked in their library for a week or so with a couple of their student workforce.

Yeah I don't know if I would go with 5 projectors. If you had room for a rear projection setup perhaps. I was thinking for the day trader if he can pony up for a 4K projector just the one 4096*2048 expanse might be enough. I was designing a control room for a datacenter, went with ten 52" Sharp...

http://www.sonyinsider.com/2008/11/19/gran-turismo-in-4-times-the-resolution-of-full-hd/ Can't beat a projector if you have light control IMHO.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=20520282&postcount=1809 "The XFX Radeon HD 5970 4GB Black Edition video card will be a limited edition card with an estimated hundreds of graphics cards being made. XFX expects to begin selling the cards in about a month for roughly $100 more than a...

How does the install fail? Blue screen of death? It's not a driver issue for the hard drive controller?

Hold off for few Dave. 4GB 5970s are just around the corner.

I'll keep the Free Agent intact and use it as a backup for when, not if, the Seagate 7200.4 poops the bed. In fact I've got it setup rather ghetto, I had to get a #0 philips with a decent handle to exert enough force to unscrew the one screw holding the drive cage in the PS3. Unfortunately I...

Apparently Iridium was brought out of bankruptcy and they have committed to building and launching more spares.

Actually the Power 7 uses optical interconnects for certain pathways: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/27/ibm_power7_hpc_server/print.html

http://jalopnik.com/5497042/how-a-500-craigslist-car-beat-400k-rally-racers

I say Mag-nee Coors.

If one is really out in the middle of whoop whoop looks like a GlobalStar phone (more for land based or near shore) or Iridium (truly global with I'm assuming polar coverage) would be the way to go.

Ended up going with two Seagate 500s. 750 is hardly much of a step up from 640 in the 9.5mm form factor. Next upgrade will be at 1 TB.

Well Merc did say "economically" ;) Power 7 at 4.14GHz is limited to 4 cores: ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/common/ssi/pm/sp/n/pod03032usen/POD03032USEN.PDF Less than 7 figures, more than 5. Still, like they say. If you have to have your business stay up 24*7, treat it to an IBM.

Intel X25-V in RAID-0: Faster than X25-M G2 for $250? http://www.anandtech.com/show/3618/intel-x25v-in-raid0-faster-than-x25m-g2-for-250

http://it.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.aspx?i=3784 "AMD's 12-core "Magny-Cours" Opteron 6174 vs. Intel's 6-core Xeon"

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/29/amd_opteron_6100_launch/page2.html Both at $744, 80W.

Opera 5 for android has very sloppy touch response, back to default browser

Honestly Tony it sounds like it's time for you to let Opera go. Nothing is worth stressing over, certainly not this. Doesn't Firefox fulfill your needs?

That sounds very Dr Kevorkian :)

Wow. 27 in 26, root canal and all that crap is just a temp fix. With the price of insurance it really does make more financial sense to get them out.

I believe he's using it in a context such as "Microsoft jumped the shark with the 360 launch", when they knowingly shipped out defective consoles in a desperate attempt to beat Sony to market. Tony: interesting about the shipping before ready thing, if a browser ballot user does choose Opera...

Looks like the drives will deal with it OK (for XP users with plans for a single volume the jumper can be set to allow XP to start the format at sector 64 (63+1 - indeed a hack as they call it). For Vista and 7 users they can run WD Align. "This information already tells us something...

Have the forums seen a swelling of trolling from say the MS viral marketing brigade? Your complaint may have been lost in a sea of noise?

Potentially related to this Tony: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUS369913609820100304 ""Opera Software today said that it has seen a three-fold increase in downloads of its browser since Microsoft started pushing a ballot screen to European who run Windows. "It varies from country to...

Looks like 4k is here to stay. Does it affect external drives formatted with fat32?

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3779 The resolution to his problem with the C300, looks like a problem after Trimming, firmware tweak should fix it.

Gigabit Ethernet includes in the spec functionality that does the crossover for you, in the event that you direct connect two NICs. With 10/100 ethernet, you do need crossover cables. For gig speeds Cat5E would be the minimum you would want, and cat 6 for a longer run to be safe.

Indeed. Especially with the next gen of E series drives likely going to 256GB, you could be looking at up to 4TB of "fast cache".

If you are carrying concealed you need to maintain situational awareness. Wearing headphones or being drunk would be two things where you would be being reckless to carry. Just leave it in the safe at home if you are out for drinks. That's the law. Just like you can't carry into an establishment...

Ironically at 3.4GB (sorry typo there) sustained per sec their RAID 0 array of 1TB of space would run out of room in less than 5 minutes.

This way you can use your external drives as backup devices as opposed to data shuttlers.

http://www.newegg.com/product/ProductReview.aspx?item=N82E16833106121 Looks like Windows 7 supports it out of the box, however you may not have support from the latest Intel ProSet driver (used for things you wouldn't be doing like adapter teaming etc).

Yes, of course with a single C300 he wasn't going to exceed say 320MB/sec. Personally I would have liked to have seen him get 2, 4 and more to test them out. Here's 16 X-25-Es delivering over 3.4 TB/sec over PCIe 2.0, way back in 2009, I'd never seen it before...

So your concern is for the tens of millions of CCW permit holders that live in almost every State? Don't you think it's odd that there is so very few stories of a permit holder going berserk with a pistol? The facts are that the permit holders are exceptionally law abiding as compared to the...

Do you think the criminals (say felons who are already prohibited by law from possessing any firearm) will follow any new laws regarding gun laws? The point is it is already illegal, and they do it anyway. Further restrictive laws only truly effect those that the law is meant to protect, the...

These threads never go well when it gets down to pro/anti-gun, but let me address a few points nonetheless: Clearly if you have issues with projectiles potentially entering your house thru the walls no firearm on earth is going to protect you. I would suggest a deep underground bunker, or at...

Stolen from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/APC-Back-UPS-Watts-Output-System/dp/B000NDA5E0 "The difference: 1. RS model has additional phone/fax/model/10/100base-T ethernet protection. The XS only has phone/fax/modem protection. 2. Auto Voltage Regulation is capable of BOOST (due from low...

So after some time with the Droids here's my mini review: Pros: Great display (tho in full sunlight it could be better) Fast and responsive (I can scroll on a pretty large web page, and it will continue to scroll for several seconds. This is with 2.0, 2.1 should improve things even further...

They showed one of these in operation on 60 minutes or somesuch. They showed the graph of usage, interesting thing was that whilst the majority of sales was Diet and normal Coke, almost every one of the flavors was used at least once. I welcome the day when a mini version could be deployed in...

I found some Mountain Dew with just sucrose sugar (no high fructose corn syrup). Tastes better, I don't seem to need to drink as much of it.