I have the following potentially useful PSUs that I don't want to just throw out. I'm guessing these aren't quiet compared to more recent models, but perhaps they can be modified. If anyone thinks they're not worth the effort, let me know and I'll try to find a place to recycle them. If they are use...

I bought these years ago for a silent PC project, but never built it. This motherboard model is known for it's under-volting capability. This could make a low-power file server or light-duty PC. The motherboard is complete with cables and manual. The CPU is a retail box with stock HSF. I opened the ...

While the WD1200JB would have been a little noisy to begin with, it's likely that it's much louder now than when you purchased it. I've had a lot of WDs and IBMs here at work get very noisy bearings after a couple of years. I've never been turned down for an RMA for this reason, so you might want to...

I'm looking to get this case for my project as well. Does anyone know of any retailers that might have them with different options than Newegg? Ideally, I'm looking for a black and silver one with Firewire ports on the front panel, two drive cages and without a power supply. If I have to pay the ext...

I presume you were attmepting raid 0 there, cos i now raid 1 doesnt help performance in the slightest. griff Actually, if the RAID controller supports split reads, as the Promise products do, there is a significant performance boost. I've noticed boot and application launch times decrease by about ...

My page file is not completely contiguous on disk, whereas before it was fragmented into 11,800 pieces. That will really kill performance. Swapping is bad enough, but when you add in extreme fragmentation, forget it. To prevent this from happening in the future without having to defrag all the time...

No can do broadband. Not in range of DSL and we rent an apartment in a house and the landlord won't let me put a router on his cable broadband and share it. :evil: He says his contract with the cable company won't let him (even though he shares the cable TV with us for free). :roll: The cable compa...

Does anyone have any suggestions, preferably under US$1,000? Part of the time it would be used for basic audio editing, adding voice over a background of light music. Recording studio levels of background noise aren't needed, but a constant whining or whooshing easily noticed in the end product obvi...

Hey everyone, I haven't been involved since the beginning, but it has still been amazing to watch how much our team has grown. We've recently reached or will soon reach three milestones. The first milestone is that we recently reached 100 active members, although the current count at Extremeovercloc...

All I know is, I was completely unsuccessful in doing a graphical install of RedHat 9, so I did the text install. I then tried to get the onboard video to work with my monitor and I just could not get it to work, period. Where I am now is that the machine hangs during the "firstboot" step, so I'm a...

Hey Platter, what happened to your daily production? I know about the NEW machines not scoring any points, but what happened to your existing machines? At today's rate even *I* will overtake you in two months! David For reasons too complicated to explain, I had to shut down all of my machines for a...

Well, I screwed up when I set these up. I was in a hurry before the long weekend and didn't read the instructions. So, I neglected to put in the -local switch, just the different machine IDs. It looks like all the units from the second CPUs were sent successfully, but I didn't get credit for them. T...

That sound, my friendly competitors, is four dual-Xeon servers getting burned-in running F@H. So cover your ears and get out of my way, because WarpedPlatter is coming through. Oh, and there are six more where those came from. I don't know how many I'll end up running at once and how long they can f...

Thanks everyone for the info. It sounds like (no pun intended) one of these should meet the needs of the person who would be using it.

Has anyone been able to spend some time using any model of IBM notebook computer with a Pentium M CPU? If so, I would appreciate any info about how much noise the cooling fan makes, how easily it comes on, how much noise the hard drive makes and if there are any other annoying sounds from any of the...

I was going to borg a ton of computers are schoool but they're 1ghz celerons and i decided the consequences for getting caught were just not worth 1 wu a month. My 1.2GHz Celeron machine completes about 5 units a week, generating roughly 200 points. So, a bunch of 1GHz Celerons can really help out,...

Arrrrrrrghhhhhh, it looks like Team MacOS X is going to barely beat us to 1,000,000 points. Oh well, they could only do it with 100 more CPUs. We closed in a lot this afternoon and at 6pm PDT they were only about 40 points ahead. Now at 7pm PDT they're about 70 points ahead and only 35 points away. ...

We're going to reach the mark within the next 15 hours or so. Unfortunately, Team MacOS X will beat us there by about 500 points unless we have a lot of machines turning in big units today. If it wasn't for all those Tinkers, we probably would have beat them. Oh well, we will fly on by them regardle...

One possibly important thing missing is the "Soft-Mounting Rubber Cushion Fan", so it might produce more vibration noise. If you paid for the FB as the invoice states, I'd ask to get it exchanged or for a partial refund.

It looks like we're going to reach 1,000,000 points in about 9 days. The big question is whether we're going to beat Team MacOS X to that mark. It's going to be very close. Come on, we can't get beat by a bunch of Macheads. So, it's time to turn the Panaflos up to 12V and push the FSB pedal to the m...

That Verbatim product might be more suitable than the other one I saw, since I'm mainly interested in a two-drive RAID 1 configuration. Unfortunately it doesn't look like they sell them in the US. FYI, I'm considering this for some compact file servers for our branch offices. They don't have to be s...

Sometime in the past week, I saw a picture of a RAID array that fit into a 5.25" drive bay and accepted up to 6 2.5" hard drives. Unfortunately, I forgot to write down the name of the company that made it and cannot remember where I saw it. I think it might have been introduced at Computex. If anyon...

According to the THG article, it's filled with butane. I wonder how long it will be before one of these leaks and someone's computer explodes.

PS One last Q.. if I copy the "work" directory from the PCs which cannot return the results to a computer at home, which repeatedly has successfully returned results then will it work? Or do the files in "work" have something specific to the machine the were computed on? On a few occasions I've suc...

A quick check shows one place selling a 25 lb bag of lead shot for $13.89, so that's 56 cents per pound. The scuba weight pouch works out to $2.37 per pound (I'm assuming the price was in British pounds since it was a UK domain EDIT - oops, that might have been in euros ), but it already comes insid...

With high-end audio equipment, many people fill speaker stands and equipment racks with a mixture of sand and lead shot to damp vibrations. Some people use mostly sand with some shot, while others use just enough sand to fill in the gaps you would get with shot alone. While the thermal conductivity ...

One of the machines I'm using to fold will be getting deployed soon, so I'll need to stop it at some point. It has the console version installed. If I set it up using -config to ask before communicating, then use -send x to transmit the unit, will it automatically download another or just stop? I kn...

:oops: Arrrrggghhh, I feel stupid. Somehow I read into that one paragraph that commercial entity status was determined by whether or not there was a gain made from the FireDaemon software. Looking at it again now, it's just as herosforumula and aphonos say. Excuse me while I go thump my head on my d...

Yeah, I went into the yellow today! Unfortunately, I'll probably slip back down tomorrow when a 300+ point day becomes 8 days old.

Here are the relevant sections of the license. "For the purposes of this license a commercial entity is defined as any corporation registered or otherwise that derives or attempts to derive substantial commercial and monetary gain and benefit from its efforts and endeavours. This includes all Govern...