First off I wasn't sure where to post this, here or silent front. Mods feel free to move. I found a very simple fan controller that can control 4 devices per voltage at Maplin (UK equivalent of Radio Shack). Pictures and ordering info are available here . It's very basic, no speed monitoring, no dyn...

I thought that the difference between esata and sata was a deeper and more robust connecter on esata - and that's all.

Getting back to the OPs question... I'm not an audiophile, I'm not even particularly into the tech side of hifi/home theatre other than knowing what bi-wiring is (slightly exaggerated but close enough) My father who was once a radio sound engineer said to me: start cheap and work up the price list u...

Now consider drives, like the Momentus 5400.3, that are only rated for 600,000 load cycles The travelstar quoted in the white paper was rated for 300K head load/unloads and managed 1million+. OTOH it may well have been the best drive of the batch. I agree with you - people should look after their 2...

so what is it exactly about a head load/unload that is harmful to the disk? I thought that with the "ramp" load/unload system that hitachi developed in the '90s that the wear you would see (compared with CSS type drives) was drastically reduced - a 2005 Hitachi white paper details that a travelstar ...

I'd recommend a *nix box with natively formatted disks and running samba. It won't prevent data corruption due to virii, but it will effectively stop malware affecting your fileserver. Having said that there is the possibility to run AV on your linux box to scan files as they appear on the server - ...

let me guess, existing drive(s) with data on it(them) and you want to plug it(them) into a linux box? my suggestion is don't. In my experience NTFS support is buggy, prone to crashing the system (unless the NTFS volume is mounted read-only) and generally not a good idea. OTOH that was with the NTFS ...

I have a set of the 85Mbit versions between my adsl router ("upto 8MBit" connection to the internet) and my "office" and while I haven't done any speed tests I am doing all the things you shouldn't do* and still get a "fast enough" signal - meaning that my access to the internet isn't restricted by ...

Having worked for a small scale ISP before (in 2000), if I wanted to read your email I'd just start a text editor on the mail server and start reading. I've not yet come across an email server (either POP3 or SMTP) that encrypted it's message store. Although I am looking at a mail server currently (...

AFAIK the only difference between passphrase recovery on WEP/WPA is the time involved to recover the passphrase - 2 minutes versus 2 days.
And that's due to AES having to be bruteforced.

I usually configure the wireless card driver with the passphrase and I get granted access... oh wait, you want to crack it? google it, if you can't be bothered to show that you've tried to learn, I can't be bothered to teach you or even show you how to use a search engine. Yes, I do have a problem w...

Another vote for AVG (free in my case) and another vote for Comodo for the software firewall. I also use Opera and FF (some extensions I just can't do without...). I can recommend some form of anti-spyware utility (I recommend at least two different tools) I use a combination of MS Defender, SpyBot ...

I was going to say "have you updated the bios recently?" but then I realised that CPUID would be using the "CPUID" instruction that a lot of processors newer than 5 years old have and therefore would not be reliant on the BIOS (AFAIK) to identify the CPU.

I've used the universal retention kit to replace my "missing" retention frame on my s939 board and Ninja. I ended up using the s478 clips rather than rely on 2 notches (the S939 clip).

DD-WRT (mini) user here on my wrt54g v2.2 - I tweaked the power output of the radio down to reduce interference with other wifi routers - plus you can't "borrow" that which you can't see. - tweaked the ip stack to improve BitTorrent performance and reduce the load on the router - although later vers...

If you need a TV keep it. They have insurance for this kind of stuff. It does them no harm. There is almost no chance they will be able to trace the shipment error so they will not contact you (especially since they put the wrong tag on it). If you feel really guilty, than send it back, otherwise, ...

after suspension the seek noise during a game level load of my wd2500ks is drastically reduced to audible-only-when-concentrating-on-hdd-noise (without fiddling with AAM).

Which is a completely moot point since there are no retail PSU's with 99% efficiency, or even 90% (at all loads). No, my point is you say IMPOSSIBLE while you don't have all the facts. Unrealistic? Perhaps, but impossible? Probably not. Just the same, you focus too much on the rated power or "Rated...

I'd worry about warranty being honored if you had problems once you brought it back. that's almost guaranteed - if there are problems with the screen you will have major problems/arguments getting support or returning it. If you take the risk and it all works out then great, otherwise get ready for...

I got a decent price on my seasonic s12-430 from www.scan.co.uk (if you haven't already bought it).

sounds somewhat similar to the project at http://www.keiang.de (posted on here somewhere...).

i'd say that crystalclock and wine will not work as the necessary hooks in the linux kernel will not exist until the right kernel module is loaded or statically compiled into the kernel.

kernel hackery or bios flash (assuming a newer bios actually allows vcore adjustments)

memtestx86 - extensive testing of your memory
prime95 - testing of cpu and memory

run both (separately) for a minimum of 4-12 hour period each (peferably 24 hours) and if there are any errors post back

the voltage sensors are usually not that accurate, so personally I wouldn't worry too much. If you are bothered by it measure the voltage with a multimeter, but don't make the same mistake I made - make sure to measure across a device rather than use a spare power connector

wifi signals from consumer devices is around 80-250mW (depending on the device and the firmware you use), the max that a mobile phone (cell phone) will transmit at is 2W. To put it another way cell phones are a minimum of 40x more powerful and definitely outnumber the wifi devices by at least 200:1 ...

just setting it to one processor or the other means that the game code isn't swapping around the cpus which I think is what it causing the problems I had.

Personally I set it to the second cpu just umm "because", no technical reason behind it at all

"Old" games (1st half of 2005 and earlier) usually don't get no new loving from their makers, unless they are hugely successful online games. true that. OTOH I have no problems playing Max Payne 2, Half Life 2, Call of Duty, F.E.A.R. or Solider of Fortune 2. BF2 runs without any problems other than...

Quick addition: Many people (myself included) have serious issues with several games (due to dual core). I fixed a stutter problem with Serious Sam 2 that was seriously (pun intended, sorry) annoying. Call of Duty 2 also stuttered but not quite as badly. I used ChangeProcessAffinity, which I've upl...

By the way, Intel had a 64bit x86 processor architecture with an integrated memory controller in development long before AMD even thought of it. It was called the P7 architecture. Intel canned it when they started developing the Itanium. If anyone invented 64bit x86 instructions, it was Intel; they...

From a more complex perspective, a game or other application will not take up 100% of the CPU unless it is specifically designed to do so like Prime95. really? if a program wants cpu time and the OS isn't busy doing something else with that cpu resource then that program will take up 100% of the cp...