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I've watched a TV report on the state of the big three car manufacturers in North America. Their situation is trully ugly. Two years ago, many thought Mitsubishi motors wouldn't survive, but now it looks like Ford will need nothing short of a miracle in order to avoid closing doors by this...

Is there a way to get an Antec NSK3300 without a PSU? There's the Antec Solo, which is only an NSK6500 stripped from its power supply unit, but what about the NSK3300?

One good news and one bad news for you. Good news is that your link was indeed quite useful. Bad news for you is that I'm the one you helped. Thanks

I ordered an SFX power supply (the high quality Seasonic 300W model, 80-Plus certified) as a replacement for a defective POS in a vomit box, but the customer did it in his pants and finally cancelled the repair, opting for a new system instead. So I'm sitting here with a nice but unusable...

Yes, only this low-end mickey mouse 3D wannabee card. Still, it adds ~220 points to my daily production, which is more than any other processor I have.

You put a car with W-rated tires in the hands of a woman? What a waste.

Did you disabled your antivirus when you installed the drivers? I've had a few frustrating experiences (and ruined enclosures) because of this.

Total points during the last week : F. Bostrom : 6623 Bill C. : 6608 CougTek : 6537 We three are really toe to toe. Unfortunately, I'm the last one of the trio. For February, Bostrom is ahead by a little more than a thousand points and I'm (currently) less than two hundred points in front of...

Did it and yes, it works. Thanks.

I know (in fact, I did it a few times) it's possible to control three displays with a PCI-E Nvidia card combined to the integrated graphics that come with either the GeForce 6100 or GeForce 6150-based motherboards. What I haven't tried yet is to use an AGP or PCI-E graphic card with dual...

Nope. I wanted to see the performance hit of Folding on Vista compared to XP. Also, although the GPU FAH client is supposed to support Vista, the only Catalyst driver I've seen for Vista (other than beta releases) is version 7.1, which doesn't work with the GPU FAH client. Avast Antivirus...

First Vista annoyance : the scroll wheel on my utterly standard Logitech SBF-96 optical mouse doesn't work. It works by default on WinXP. It even works by default on W2K. What's so special about one of, if not the most common mouse model worldwide preventing the immensily advanced Windows...

The grille is very opened. See the picture below :

Found the culprit : rear 120mm ARX FD1212-S3133E case fan. That POS turned at 1900rpm by default. ARX should be reserved for isolated servers. They are supposed to be quite reliable, but there's no way to make them quiet if you want to have decent airflow. SPCR rightfully bashed ARX fans ; I...

I moved my Core 2 Duo system into that case. That system is in my bedroom and there's no way I'mo going to be able to sleep next to it. I don't know if it's the rear 120mm fan or the power supply or both, but this thing is easily three times louder than my previous enclosure+PSU (Thermaltake...

No but for those able to handle them, throwing away (litterally) big and bulky things is a lot of fun!

NEC Multisync LCD2490WUXi.

You'll die in 11 years, 106 days, 5 hours, 54 minutes and 42 seconds at the moment this message is posted. Now you know, happy now?

Actually, IEEE 1394b is a lot rarer than eSATA ports, that now come with several mid-range motherboards.

How much?

The hardware requirements to host a small web site like StorageForum.net should be quite low. What's the monthly(or annual) charge to have a fixed IP and the domain name? Not that the outages really bother me these days. I ask mostly out of curiosity.

SR's MBF happened on December 28 2001 IIRC and you created SF two weeks later. Up to six months ago, I had all the e-mails sent to me while the "twelves" were discussing the future of the community.

Two X1950XTX in Crossfire on a 430W PSU might be a problem, but not two X1950 Pro. An X1950 Pro under load consumes almost 50W less than an X1950XTX. Not only because its memory operates at lower frequency and the GPU has less pipelines, but also because the RV570 is made on an 80nm process...

Go to www.antec.com. This is shameful. How could a big company like Antec, one of the biggest computer case distributor, let its website go down like this? Someone, somewhere, isn't doing the job he's paid for.

A few notes about my previous post : GPU Folding requires Crossfire to be disabled. Asus EAX1950 Pro PCI-E, both the regular and the Crossfire edition are available at ZipZoomFly for 189.99U$ (bunch of lucky bastards!). The Crossfire Edition of the Asus card is currently also available for...

In practice, my X1600Pro 256MB AGP (in an Athlon XP 1800+ based system) produces 200ppd. The Radeon X1950 Pro 256MB PCI-E coupled to an X2 3800+ AM2 system produces ~580ppd (I calculated 594ppd if I don't use the system at all). None are overclocked, as previously mentionned. Too bad those...

You should put it in a 2 inches-thick lead pipe just to be sure.

Note : An X1950 Pro is 3 times faster than an X1600 Pro. 8 minutes per step versus 24. No overclocking involved. The Catalyst 7.1 released yesterday apparently doesn't work and caused two failed WUs in less than a minute before I stopped it and replaced the Catalyst 7.1 by the 6.11 (last good...

Nope, there's at least the Viewsonic VP2330WB too. No idea how much it cost in your nic of the wood though. Here it is approx. 1180$CAN, which is 175$ more than the Samsung 244T. Not sure the three parakeets are worth 175$.

One should send that video to some GM staff ; maybe they would learn something... [/poking]

SanDisk just introduced a 32GB capacity, 62MBps transfer rate, 1.8 inches SSD. http://www.sandisk.com/Corporate/PressRoom/PressReleases/PressRelease.aspx?ID=3654 600U$ though.

This time it seems to be P5-133XL, unless the 30 points units have returned. There's no way to get 11 WUs from 430 points (last update before this post) other than having instability issues.

You mean the 16GB version.

Clocker has an overclocked system that continuesly ships invalid units. Around 390 failed units per 3 hours periods. It is screwing our stats an preventing him from getting valuable points from that system. Lower the clock of that CPU please.

The Smart Power 2 PSU that comes into the SLK1650 has a higher efficiency than the PSU included in 35$ Foxcon cases like the TS-01. But the best bargain in enclosures these days is the Antec NSK4400. The case is sturdier and better soundproofed than the more aging SLK1650 and the included PSU...

You're kidding right? This is Linux were're talking about. In my experience, Linux works fine as long as you don't try to modify/add drivers and fancy programs. IMO, a system swap : forget it. Re-install from scratch and move your data with a USB memory stick or via network between both...

One computer, one hard drive. Daddy wants to have his own Windows installation that his kids can't access. Daddy wants to have a Windows installation just for his kids so they can screw it up with their kazaa/lamewire P.O.S. and not affect daddy's own Windows installation. Both installations...

Beware of the Antec HE series : there has been reports of incompatibilities between them and Asus motherboards. I'm not sure if it was only the early generations or if the issue remains. Given the choice, I would buy a Seasonic. And no, I don't think it will have a noticeable impact on your...

IIRC what I read about the 7950GX2, it consumes significantly less wattage than two whatever else nVidia cards in SLI. So given the choice, I would buy a single 7950GX2 rather than bothering with a dual-card SLI setup.

Anyone knows which currently shipping Intel chipset will support Conroe? The 955X, 945G or 975X perhaps?

Heh! Where's my face!

I admit it's quite a shock. All those pastel tones... But I think I'll live.

Unfair. He posted when I was composing my reply. Now I look like an idiot. Should I throw myself on the ground, crying like a little girl with a broken leg and ask for a yellow card like sucker players do? I mean soccer players...

You can get Firefox from the same place where you updated everything. I'm not in front of a Kubuntu installation right now and I don't remember the path. Just use their apt-get system to install every software you want. There's already a mail client included with the default Kubuntu...

Bunch of weaklings and whiners. When I shave (rare), I use a sharp heated hunting knife. Never needed anything more fancy.

I still don't have access to most AM2 CPUs. The only one I can have that isn't a Sempron is the X2 3800+ and it costs me the same price as the s939 variety. As I wrote, my distributors are retards.

I don't even have it in my price lists yet. Neither the Seagate. My distros are retards.

Ah, yes, it could be. In fact, at work, it already is.

You're gaming with an X1600? How does 1024x768 look on a 24" monitor?

Could you write that again, but in slow motion, so I could understand it?