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Don't bother installing F@H on the P2. You'll just waste electricity. I'm not even sure it could complete a single 241 point unit in less than a week. An Athlon 1600+ is good enough to have a real impact on your stats though.

It looks like a nice drive. A little bit behind for its I/O in games, but overall it's very good. The low noise and power consumption/dissipation makes it perfect for HTPC. SR's conclusion for reliability is made from a too small sample pool to determine anything. A single unlucky buyer that...

Currently, the P4 2.8E would top the Athlon 64 3200+ because of the reasons Mark explained above. My poor little P4 505J (2.66GHz/533MHz FSB) is giving me the edge over Doug and his dual-core X2 3800+, so a 2.8E will certainly defeat a single core Athlon 64 3200+.

We are now doing about 10700 points a day and we will still lose positions in the next six months. We'll just lose positions at a slower pace. Overall, there are 16 teams behind us that are out-producing us and 17 teams in front of us that we are out-producing. But most of the teams behind us...

When I was folding on Linux, I always chmod +x the FAH.exe file before executing it. Then I ./FAH.exe and the sky went sunny.

I thought about the Antec Overture II enclosure, but this guy said that the PSU fan is quite loud. Too bad, it would have allow you to fit a full-size ATX mainboard. No go. I guess the only way to have a really silent box is to buy a mammoth-size Antec P180 and use a Seasonic PSU, but that's...

Since the F@h client is apparently a lot faster on Intel processors, the Pentium 4 seems like the way to go, unfortunately. Processor : Intel Pentium D 820 (2.8GHz dual-core) Motherboard : Asus P5LD2-VM Memory : Corsair DDR2-667 1GB kit (2 x 512MB) Graphics : Integrated Sound ...

You won't have to. Whatever you did, it seems that it worked at least to some extend. Your name has appear in the stats. Je te félicite. You're damn right that it's important to us. I wouldn't have lost an hour of my life to compose my previous post here if it wasn't. Oh c'mon. If you set...

:frusty: You stubborn old piece of... Ok, we try again. First Step : On your desktop, right-click on "My Computer" and click on "Explore". This is the Window Explorer, ok. Left-click on the "+" sign next to the drive on which your Windows operating system is installed (generally, that's...

I've just found my new sig :)

Beware of HDTach. Using it regularly will cause you terrible wrongs. You'll start to wear a cap with the pallet on your back. You'll insert the word "dude" in all your sentences. You'll find correlations between its graphs and your little friend...and you'll try to find ways to enlarge...

Yes but with Microsoft, it's true. That's why they call it The Vole.

You must install the console client in two different directories. Open the command prompt and go to one of the two directories where you copied the FAH504-Console.exe file. Type FAH504-console.exe -config Username : Santilli Team number : 10047 Launch automatically.... : YES Ask before... ...

Greg, Is your 2.8GHz dual a Pentium D 820 or a dual Xeon? Oh wait, since it's you it has to be expensive, so it's probably a dual Xeon ;-) With two Xeon 2.8GHz correctly setted up, you should be out-producing me by a 2X factor. But I don't even see you in the stats of the team. Something...

I have a hamster memory. Miksmi is a member of our forum. It's just that he doesn't post very often. I thought he was a sock puppet or just a friend of some other forum member. Sorry.

:clown: , you like it? Are you kidding? Oh wait, you're a clown. :lol:

BTW, miksmi passed the 10,000 points milestone two days ago. :beer:

I still don't know who miksmi and Andy are. There are a few members of our F@h team who work in the shadow but still deserve congratulations for their constant support. Mr. Bostrom and Zx both don't post very often in the forum, but they give an important contribution to our team (both are in...

One of the problems of the LGA775 for Intel CPUs is that the most common type, the one made by Foxcon IIRC, doesn't press on the processor equally and therefore, one side ends up being very slightly higher than the other. The result is less than perfect contact with the bottom of the heatsink...

Oh no! This non-sense is spreading to AMD. After having messed with a few motherboards featuring this insertion mecanism, I'm not too happy to learn this : [list:447f71e10b] [/list:u:447f71e10b] Like we say here : Ah bin Tabarnack! News source

Tea has restarted to help the team! We are saved. Pradeep, How many of those 8 P4 3.8GHz have you fired up so far? I saw that you've produced more than 4000 points in a single day recently. That was impressive.

I wasn't sure if this should be posted in the Computers or in the Pub & Brewery section. Here you go : Source I hope it lit up your day like it did to mine.

What are you doing online at this hour. Sleep, SLEEP!

In what way? If he is allowed to do what he wants with the systems, it isn't against FAH's EULA. And as for my suggestion, well the thread title was "What would you do?" I simply told him what I would do.

I did it here and I have absolutely no regret about it. Don't look at me like that, he asked for it. That's what happen when you start threads with generic titles.

I rULe! :mrgrn: You clinched me last week btw. I produced 2250 points while you did over 2500. This week will be another story. I'm gonna trounce you. :diablo:

Don't worry about the P4, the X2 3800+ will more than compensate for it. Thanks for your involvement. I've just checked and according to EOC stats, I will overtake The Jojo in only 10 years. I'm all smile :mrgrn:

Speaking of Ars, my account still exist there, I can't believe it. I haven't logged in maybe four years and they haven't deleted my account! Let's just hope they won't borrow Davin's doomed backup tapes ;-)

Looks like HMTK is looking for a new shinny castle to protect his crown : http://forums.storagereview.net/index.php?showtopic=20986 Continuum's post in that thread is particularly hilarious (he has several, several times 5000 posts at Ars Technica's forum). Personally, I have deserted SR's...

HMTK is a long-time poster at SR. Not as long as the the dinosaurs who participated to create SF's community, but I've seen him for at least 3 years at SR. I think he arrived at SR around the same time as the MBF happened.

The 2005FPW is now at 599.20$ until thursday. The 2405FPW will cost 1039.20$ for the same period.

Just thought about it but, if Merc let himself die...who will plan things next time Doug needs a new system in about three years? I sure don't want to organize this Hell myself. Merc, we still need you.

You've illustrated the advantages and cons of those three format. I tend to use RAR because I put space efficiency over speed ofcompression, but someone who has little time to waste is better with zip. Mercutio will probably pop up to tell you that RAR is the root of all evil.

Nevermind what I wrote above. Here's a list of Silicon Image add-on cards. The 3132 is a two-port only chip design for embedded solutions.

Info. In theory, it should be quite secure, but I'm worried about the performance of such an OS. If each program isn't allowed to share memory, multitasking on this system must suck. OpenBSD already exists for those for whom reliability is paramount.

I've just checked and it would cost me 488$CDN, without the taxes, just for the tickets from here to Chicago (and back). I don't have the cash for this right now. And I'm not sure I could do something for your mood when there. Too bad. I would like to help you. I simply can't right now...

I don't know if there are standalone cards that use it, but SI's best performing chip seems to be the 3132, not the older 3114. You should be looking for something with that chipset instead.

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You're in the bush. It's Sony.

Great. I can already hear Mercutio laugh. I'm happy not to have bought a motherboard based on this chipset. I hope previous nForce chipsets aren't affected as I own and sold quite a few nForce 2-based systems.

To fill this form, Doug would have to remove the heatsink and clean the paste. It would be a hassle.

That's not what I meant. I'm just saying that driving responsibly should, in itself, provide well enough stimuli that your brain shouldn't have "free cycles" for other tasks that require a moderate to high level of concentration. When I drive with passengers, they always receive the advice...

I wish they had skipped DDR2 completly, but I know it wasn't possible due to the lack of DDR3 modules on the market. If AMD would have had some 30% of the market, then maybe they would have been able to push it all by themselves, but not with only 17% of marketshare. Good thing the new memory...

My post was in reply to Tannin's. I was composing mine when Mark posted his.

I disagree. People who need to be distracted when they drive are people who are either carefree or overconfident. In urban areas at least. I'm a damn good driver, but I'm also one of the few who drive without listeing to the radio. I sometimes listen to CDs, but I notice that it does affect...

I hope they'll be sued and that they'll have a HUGE penalty for this. I think there are laws in the states against malware. Send those @$$ holes "in" for a while.

Now you can extend that a little... Source

People used to say they could drive even when they were drunk too. It takes time to change mentalities.