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I no longer train or teach. It isn't that I don't like helping people, but I hate stupid people.

What can I say, Merc. You are gifted with words... That you spoke to the kid in a way that they will understand should be commended.

Yes, and the resolution is pathetic either way. But my target user (older construction workers) like the large icons anyway.

Those are interesting. This is the one that has me thinking.

Playing driving simulators with three large-ish screens is both highly enjoyable and nauseating. The side monitors filling your peripheral vision completes the mental trick, and carsickness ensues within about 10 minutes of racing. ;)

Hey, my productivity is unacceptably high...you guys need to help me down...;)

Really quiet day...

Tiletabs for Firefox helps massively.

I saw this small and fast system and thought of Coug...

A T410 spec'd to double that cost (without added RAM or SSD) is a very impressive machine. Sitting in my cart now next to another SL510, which I have been happy with so far.

Interesting. I'll stick with PCIe for now.

That is an impressive board, but I don't know if I trust EVGA enough to pull it off well. That fan on the northbridge would have to go as well.

I thought it was also that the i3/i5 did the GPU on-die, so that power consumption is in there as well.

Good to see you back paugie! Hope your absence wasn't due to illness.

Sorry, I need to clarify. If I set all three displays into non-"grouped" (eyefinity) mode, they behave as they should. But ATI have managed to make the process of changing from "three monitors behaving as they should" mode to "oh, you want to game on all your screens?" mode so complex, that I...

I've become quite addicted to this in Windows & with widescreens. Now that I'm doing the 3 monitor eyefinity thing, it isn't working so well. I would love to change the number of vertical spaces to 6, to recreate the effect of having 3 separate screens again. I've googled without luck. Thoughts?

Wow. 95% of that is over my head, but jumping to table 3 does give some good info. Thanks!

That is more the thermal cycling than the high temps on their own, no?

No such option here. If you can't make it to them on your own, they'll send an ambulance to get you. Congratulations, your bill just went into the thousands. One of the many shortcomings of a purely commercially driven medical system is that it is driven by money, not by health.

We didn't end up going, but we would have gone to a local "urgent care" (eg. "doc in a box") and paid cash. Probably a hundred bucks or so. They are the equivalent of Fry's; so long as you go in knowing exactly what you want, you're in good shape. Just don't ask them to make a judgement call...

This one is fantastic as well, though it can get awful lonely if you are "it": Betrayal at House on the Hill

Still have all my MtG cards, quite old now. The group that played regularly is now scattered all over California. I do own Settlers of Catan as well, and Ticket to Ride. Good fun, but my wife doesn't like to lose, and I tend not to ;)

Avoid which?

I suppose you are right, Time. The only thing it would really get me is removing that heat from the room (once I relocate the radiator).

She's as sick as I am, I hadn't thought that ordering the same thing would be a liability. No access to meds anymore, she's just teaching.

Recovering from a major case of food poisoning. The Jamba Juice on North Main, been losing weight for 20 hours. My wife thinks we should go in for a saline drip due to dehydration. Blah.

I've also seen it happen where someone gets a virus and it is able to steal their Outlook address book. It then picks one of the addresses on there as the sender and sends SPAM to the rest of the list. Your account may never have been compromised.

I've been considering those for a while, but I don't think I need anything so complex. Just a waterblock mounted to the top of the DIMMs, pulling away heat eventually, would suffice. I've been told that Danger Den will be coming out with something simpler.

I agree, B3. Of course, swapping around cards is particularly difficult when running a watercooling rig. But changing slots is certainly the right place to start.

Great to see you back, Flagreen! I wish I knew someone who was competent at the controls. As it is, every mistake is a crash, and that becomes very time consuming in repairs. Very frustrating as well, which slows the rebuild, which slows the learning curve.

That would be it. Specifically the controller on the LSI RAID card; it was around 80C without direct airflow. It never crashed, but I like to treat my data better than that. At the moment, the only thing in the 80C range is the RAM, with the portion of the chipset furthest from the waterblock...

I had hesitated about the active adapters before, as I had issues with the first one I got. The new one seems to be working well, though (one day and counting, fingers crossed). That is a heck of a deal Coug, perhaps it is almost time to pull the trigger on that.

They shipped crossfire cables with the cards, and the cards still have the "fingers" on top for the connection, so I do have them cabled together. Even if they weren't, I would expect to see both cards in device manager (I'm not). That is what makes me think that this slot combination is...

Just tried out Eyefinity. Pretty cool, though the fact that all my monitors are different sizes hurts the effect. Even without the CrossFireX working, 5760x1080 is perfectly playable in Dirt2 and Portal with everything maxed.

Due to the Eyefinity Displayport limitation, I'm looking for ~40" LCDs that support Displayport in. Bonus points if it supports 120Hz, is LED, and costs around $1k. Thanks for any help!

The loop now includes 5 waterblocks, and the outgoing temp is still nearly the same as the incoming. 1/2"ID tubing with this flowrate is ridiculous overkill ;) CPU->NB->5870#1->5870#2->SSD->Pump->Radiator

Issues: 1. Even on the 6-monitor Eyefinity cards, ATI were cheap bastards and only included 2 timing chips. That means that the rest of your monitors need to have active adapters or support Displayport directly. 2. The system won't detect my second 5870 at all. Due to the complexities of...

That guy was crazy!

You'll have a whole bunch of broken bones and failed organs after that.

XP64 I've tested with up to 36GB of RAM.

Looks interesting.

Should be, but I haven't tried. Going past 12GB gets very expensive.

Yup. Take a look at this one. The chipset heatsink covers the two 1x PCIe at the end, but all the full-size slots are still available.

Yes. All consumer-grade internet service is asymmetric; significantly more download than up. The two main reasons are that normal end-user stuff fits that profile and that download is much cheaper; the ISP can cache most of it locally.

On this one you don't lose a slot to the heatsink, it is next to slot one. This is the best board, but it is huge. You will have very few choices when it comes to cases, which is why I decided to go without.

Read about that on Slashdot about a week ago. They are trying to compete with AMD "Black" series processors (which are also unlocked). Of course, no guarantees what you can do with them (depending on yields), and 1156 doesn't support triple-channel RAM.

In that way you are correct about chipsets being inefficient; they don't have all the on idle power saving capabilities that CPUs do. If the system is idle most of the time, it is possible the chipset will produce more heat than the CPU.

Yup. Once I stick in the two 5870s, the OCZ Z-Drive, The X-Fi Forte 7.1, and the Intel Pro/1000PT dual-port, I'm out of slots ;) That was actually the deciding factor in not putting the system in a case, but mounting it to the wall instead.

I had a Sapphire 5870 Standard, and now I have a Sapphire 5870 Eyefinity 6 to go with it. I'm hoping to pair them up in crossfire, and drive three monitors in eyefinity. For the moment I'm waiting for the second waterblock and my custom wiring harness to arrive, but has anyone else here read of...

Not really inefficient, but the cooling on most chipsets is inadequate IMHO. A modern CPU draws ~100W and has a giant heatsink with a large fan on it. The chipset has to disperse 20-40W and all it gets is a little heatsink that hopes to get some spare airflow from somewhere else? Some chipsets...