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- Fri Jan 28, 2011 12:17 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Is it possible to get POWER and silence?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 10215
Re: Is it possible to get POWER and silence?
Why do you mention # of drives instead of total capacity? 6 HDDs: If they were all 3TB WD Greens, that would be 18TB. Just a note; For a work station/server application this is not entirely true. More HDD's can equal more bandwidth in a RAID0 setting. My homeserver has 5x 500 GB WD Blue 3.5" HDD's ...
- Wed Jan 19, 2011 2:02 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Which "quiet" case for 9 HDD home server?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4373
Which "quiet" case for 9 HDD home server?
Hi, I have a home server, which I use for two purposes; as compute node for nummerical calculations and as NAS. So I have a 6x500GB RAID0 array (for scratch disks) and 2x2TB RAID1 (for NAS) and also an old WD Raptor150 as system drive. Cooling is supplied by a couple of Nexus 120mm fans and a Scythe...
- Sat Sep 04, 2010 9:15 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: The World's Most Dangerous Person
- Replies: 20
- Views: 9954
- Thu Sep 02, 2010 1:32 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Longest UPTIME on your destop PC?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 28346
- Wed Sep 01, 2010 11:49 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Longest UPTIME on your destop PC?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 28346
Longest UPTIME on your destop PC?
Just wondering, how long time have YOU gone without rebooting your home/desktop PC? One guy I know has more than 450 days and counting on his, running CentOS. I started my quest for something similar, now with a staggering 8+ days and counting. :lol: How about YOU? 8) Best off-topic regards, Strid
- Sun Aug 29, 2010 11:15 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Experimental: the Unsuspecting Nettop
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3670
- Mon Aug 23, 2010 2:13 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Looking for a TRULY silent drive for an 'open' pc case.
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4816
- Wed Aug 18, 2010 12:57 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: Is Running Folding@Home Worthwhile?
- Replies: 77
- Views: 52108
I'm not sure you guys are aware of how much protein structure determination is a bottle neck in modern bio-chemistry. Ask anyone within the field if they'd like to be able to have a computer predict the protein structure, rather than having a Ph.D. student employed for three years, trying to figure ...
- Mon Aug 16, 2010 1:39 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Antec 300 + 140 MM Fan recommendation
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2038
- Thu Aug 12, 2010 7:36 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: PC-Q07 Gaming System + PICOPSU?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7491
- Tue Aug 10, 2010 12:25 am
- Forum: Quiet Prebuilt, SFF and Barebones Systems
- Topic: 8W idle! (2010 Mac Mini)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6405
8W idle! (2010 Mac Mini)
As much as I personally hate Apple and what not, this is a pretty awesome product, as for the idle power consumption. http://www.anandtech.com/show/3843/apple-mac-mini-review-mid-2010/7 But the cooler is clearly rubbish, and it's got a hard mounted 2.5" HDD to boot.... http://www.anandtech.com/show/...
- Sat Aug 07, 2010 3:15 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: 150 XT + Dell DA-2
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8598
First off, if you have a virus, it should have nothing to do with the power supply! :D Anyway, I use a PicoPSU-160-XT with my Dell DA-2 right now, and I have no problems. But anyway, the PSU should not cause your CPU to heat up to 80 C. I sent you a picture of the Dell DA-2 connection. If you're fol...
- Fri Aug 06, 2010 11:45 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Antec launches new range of CPU coolers
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5223
- Wed Aug 04, 2010 12:56 pm
- Forum: Deals, Vendors and Classifieds
- Topic: Free: PW-200-V (possibly broken)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2861
- Wed Aug 04, 2010 7:34 am
- Forum: Deals, Vendors and Classifieds
- Topic: Free: PW-200-V (possibly broken)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2861
Free: PW-200-V (possibly broken)
Hi! I have a PW-200-V PicoPSU, which I bought off of AuraAllan of this forum. After having used it for ~1½ years or so, I can't get my new motherboard to boot up with the PW-200-V and my Dell DA-2. I checked the voltages of the 20 pins on the motherboard connector and they seemed within spec. So I ...
- Tue Aug 03, 2010 9:28 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: picoPSU-160-XT sufficient for i5-750 MiniITX system?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 14360
- Tue Aug 03, 2010 8:38 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Seagate 7200.12 clicking ... now fine?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2924
I don't know windows, but I'd try to at least check it for bad blocks. If you can find any, it's a sure RMA! In Ubuntu do this: sudo badblocks -nvs /dev/sdX where "/dev/sdX" is the harddive and "-nvs" is the non-destructive read/write test of badblocks. It'll probably take a full day or so to scan a...
- Thu Jul 29, 2010 11:29 am
- Forum: Green Computing
- Topic: Best energy efficient monitor?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 47673
- Thu Jul 29, 2010 8:05 am
- Forum: Green Computing
- Topic: Best energy efficient monitor?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 47673
Actually, LED screens use much lower power than regular cold cathode screens. A typical 24" LED screen draws 25-35 W. So in a sense, you're right it's a marketing term! But it is still true. :) But I doubt that anyone actually did anything to further reduce the power consumption, other that replace ...
- Tue Jul 27, 2010 9:27 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: picoPSU-160-XT sufficient for i5-750 MiniITX system?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 14360
- Sun Jul 25, 2010 1:36 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: OCZ StealthStream 400W
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2677
- Sat Jul 24, 2010 8:47 am
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: Is Running Folding@Home Worthwhile?
- Replies: 77
- Views: 52108
I don't know how complicated this calculation you did was, but from the time frames you describe, I'm sure a complicated calculation makes sense in the context of the folding@home project ! Basically the computational expense lies in the speed of generating sample structures and and the speed of ev...
- Fri Jul 23, 2010 11:51 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: Is Running Folding@Home Worthwhile?
- Replies: 77
- Views: 52108
Next was Wiki where I came upon something known as the Levinthal Paradox, which if I understand it correctly, states that there are 3 to the power of 98 permutations of fold. Given the current 5 petaflops of computation working on folding, I worked out that it would take roughly one thousand millio...
- Fri Jul 23, 2010 11:37 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: Is Running Folding@Home Worthwhile?
- Replies: 77
- Views: 52108
[...] Since each gallon of gasoline (just in the gas itself, not counting all the embedded energy to find, extract,transport, refine, etc.) is worth 33.4kWh of electricity; brings the total savings to the equivalent of 21,042kWh -- that is more electricity than our household uses in about 2.5 years...
- Thu Jul 22, 2010 10:51 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Vanity and motherboards; LPT and COM ports
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6807
- Thu Jul 22, 2010 9:36 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Bozar & Thrash's Hidden HTPC
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8919
- Wed Jul 21, 2010 11:21 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Vanity and motherboards; LPT and COM ports
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6807
Vanity and motherboards; LPT and COM ports
Hi, let me share my personal feelings! When I buy motherboards, I completely avoid anything that has parallel and serial ports on the back, only because it is sooooo last century. I recently bought a G41 ASUS µATX P5QPL-VM EPU motherboard for ~$100 - it was the cheapest of the small µATX motherboa...
- Wed Jul 21, 2010 4:54 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Scythe Ninja Mini Rev B.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 20693
You're lucky! There are still some selling on eBay right now. Unused, I think. http://cgi.ebay.com/Scythe-SCMNJ-1100-Ninja-Mini-Rev-B-1366-Socket-CPU-Cool-/330451773955?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4cf075ea03 EDIT: I have no connections to the seller, other than my Internet connection.
- Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:25 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: dell da-1 getting hot
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3453
Re: dell da-1 getting hot
It keeps getting pretty hot, it's still ok to touch etc, but it could run a bit cooler. So what's the problem?? :D Seriously, though, these things are designed to be a bit hot. Also, usually, they have some thermal interfacing to the brick-casing, so even if you open it/cut parts of the casing off,...
- Mon Jul 19, 2010 11:16 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Need help with components for new computer
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8306
My suggestion would be roughly the following: AMD quad core CPU 760G motherboard (onboard graphics/sound/network) 4gig DDR3 RAM (whatever brand is cheapest) Small SSD for system drive + notebook or 5400rpm data drive Case is more flexible, you could go full ATX tower or micro-ATX with the above set...