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:rofl: Dave, I dare you to use that as your sig.

The second and third biggest regional cities in Queensland have so far escaped significant flooding. So you can guess where this cyclone is headed, right? Satellite Image For anyone who doesn't know, Australia is about the same size as the US without Alaska. That's a seriously big Category 3...

The scale is 1.0 to 7.9. You can't get any higher than that.

I think LiamC with his cheaper but RELIABLE Phenom X6 is entitled to a pretty major gloat at this point.

Scratch that, I checked more reliable sources such as Anandtech and it afflicts all Cougar Point chipsets. The only saving grace is that the 6Gbps ports should be unaffected, so as long as you only need one hard drive and one optical drive, you're sweet. :cursin:

Probably a coincidence, but I notice that 10 out of 18 Asus s1155 boards use the P67 chipset, but only 2 out of 9 Gigabyte boards. Luckily for me, I went with the 78% majority. Unless the advisory changes, of course ...

Mubs, if you look at the second and third images at the top of the page (power cables), or the large image gallery, you will see what I mean. The design of the clips means that even the large one holds the innermost cable loop about 20mm apart, with a total length of less than 200mm in their...

Hi Kami You've been meticulous and your further diagnostic proposals are good. But your power calculations are wrong. Firstly, you can't just add all the current for each 12V line together. See where it says 960W? The total draw on all 12V lines can't exceed that number, which works out to...

I don't follow what you two are on about. What's surplus RAM got to do with performance? It must be nearly ten years ago that Tech Report or someone similar demonstrated that minor difference in RAM timings were of academic interest only. The i7 950, on the other hand, has 20% more bandwidth...

Zing ... ouch! :rr: I also enjoyed Stereodude's dry witticism. Will there be a third round?

I don't know much about inductance, but it's proportional to the square of the number of turns. With only 3 to 4 turns, I doubt you have too much to worry about. I'd be more concerned about minimum bend radius. The absolute minimum for Cat 5/6 is 4 times the cable diameter, which is about 25mm...

Depends on the model probably. The last XFX I saw came with the usual DVI-VGA adapters etc. Sapphire has been hassle-free for me as long as I can remember. In recent times at least, their coolers seem more sensible and therefore quieter than what the fanboy reviews tend to go for. XFX is nice...

1. The Sandy Bridge Gigabyte board I used - GA-H67MA-UD2H - has been rock solid so far. I've been running every version of 3DMark, a few other benchmarks, automated backups and surfing the web. 2. I used the stock cooler, which mostly just ticks over and only speeds up slightly when the CPU is...

In the spirit of the OP, I must say that when my Canon photo (dye sub) printer died, I was pleasantly surprised to be able to speak to a Canon support rep. They were friendly, tried their best and didn't raise my blood pressure at all. Of course, the fact that it died after very limited use...

I said it was O/T. :roll: Actually, reviews seemed to think it was pretty good. :tounge:

Sandforce :smack: Sandforce :smack: Sandforce :smack:

Never mind, it's corrected itself to 7.8.

Unfortunately, I'd have to pour cold water on this love-in based on my last two Canon P & S cameras. The first one just died, the current one has the dreaded 'low-battery' disease, where regardless of cells and condition, it complains that the battery is low before it actually is. Pictures are...

Dunno, any ideas? Msinfo32 seems to indicate it's aligned; should the block size be bigger or something?

3 1/2 months on, I'm getting 7.4/7.6 for CPU/Memory with an i5 2400 at default settings. AMD 6850 graphics is hitting 7.7/7.7. Only a 120GB Sandforce is letting down the side with a meager 5.9.

I doubt that, by all accounts (including Tannin's) the TP Link stuff is pretty good, certainly more reliable than Netgear.

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I'm sorry to hear that. Is it notifiable?

1. Drop 3 times 2. Pour water into it 3. Stand on it Well, the second and third drops aren't very high, but they are at an angle rather than flat, and the laptop is open, not closed. And running. So I guess maybe it isn't very durable after all - when compared with the forest product that...

Assuming it's Windows 7, why not just disable the page file altogether?

Chewy, it's the other way around. The expensive K-suffix chips are the one with the HD 3000. Oddly enough, these seem to be the ones sent to reviewers. ;) Most Sandy Bridge chips only have HD 2000. :???:

Blakerwry, I'm interested. How do you compare with Fastmail?

Yes and no. I admit it's a little hard to find much sympathy for those who thought it would be cool to live on the banks of a large river with a history of major flooding. A guy who had a floating restaurant (now sunk) moaned that 35 insurance companies refused cover; you'd think that might have...

Congratulations Santilli, Newegg/Intel has successfully scammed you. The blurb on that page refers to the 2500K, which comes with the new and very much faster HD 3000 graphics. The actual chip for sale, similarly to the i3 variants, comes with HD 2000 graphics, which isn't much different from...

That's nonsense, it depends entirely on the monitor. Most will start to wash out lighter colors when the contrast is set too high - better ones probably try to align this to 100% for a preset color profile. I never said it didn't. However, if you display a black picture in a dark room, how low...

AFAIK, backlight level is what they're using to achieve "dynamic" contrast, so you hand over control if you enable that. That is, I'm saying the manufacturer may not expose that functionality directly. Which model monitor do you have?

Samsung F2380 might be a bit small for Ddrueding, but it's noteworthy for having a phenomenal 3000:1 static contrast ratio. Not that bright, but really good at doing blacks. Good for office use, just okay for games, so-so for graphics (but at least it's not a TN panel). I'm about to specify it...

Disease is a problem if you go into floodwaters with an open wound. Apart from anything else, you have to realize that sewage pumping stations are on bypass ... After wading through water to help people move their stuff to safety, our former prime minister had to go to hospital after...

Blake brings technical gravitas to the forums. Definitely on any MVP shortlist. ;) Cheers!

Timwhit, you didn't delete the follow up posts - they don't make a lot of sense any more ...

Agreed.

The water's going down. Maybe 20,000 houses and 5,000 businesses were damaged (no-one knows yet) in the greater Brisbane area (including the satellite city of Ipswich). Roads are still cut, but should be re-opened in the next day or two. One notable exception is one of the main arterials into...

Unlike Brazil, where the devastation was relatively concentrated, most of the bodies from this latest round of Queensland flooding will never be found. One body was found 80km (50 miles) from where the victim disappeared.

Many Australian plants are toxic to eat, but some are nasty to even approach. Stinging Trees "cause a painful stinging sensation which can last for days or even months, and the injured area becomes covered with small red spots joining together to form a red, swollen mass." Read the linked...

Which motherboard?

Does your differential backup need to compare original data with a full backup on your removable media? Any reason you can't rely on incremental? If so, can you write the (temporary) backup back to the data array rather than the OS array? There are generally two types of files, documents and...

Merc's crack about fauna isn't all that outrageous. I've even been attacked by a young possum. Eastern Brown Snakes are known locally as Common Brown Snakes - the name says it all, unfortunately. They're excellent swimmers and like hanging around waterways. I wouldn't want to be sharing a...

I thought the shark sighting was implausible, but apparently bull sharks hang around in upstream backwaters to give birth, so it's by no means impossible. According to Wikipedia, "There are more than 500 bull sharks in the Brisbane River" (normally).

Back up to the local drive array first (optionally using compression). You should easily be able to complete that in your time window, then it doesn't matter how long the transfer to external media takes.

Yes, easily. It comes with a car power adapter, but I've only used that twice.

Fascinating YouTube video of some of the action in Toowoomba.

My Garmin-Asus Android phone would have to be the direct opposite of that. It comes with an optional mounting bracket/external speaker so you can use it exactly like a normal Garmin sat nav (I obsessively try not to call it a GPS, that's the technology it uses), but that functionality is...

Belated thanks to everyone who noticed the time. ;)

I'm really sorry to hear that. You might have to dig in for a while.

I don't know how many here realize, but a fair percentage of my State (Queensland) is/was/will be under water. More than 20 people have died - not many compared to an earthquake, but a surprising number to drown in rising water. We have had the worst weather I can remember in my lifetime, even...