Don't kill your other poll. It's starting to get the kind of discussion that you'd expect for the topic. Sorry if I kicked it off on a tangent for awhile there.

Scott

I had to vote "other" because you didn't include "both" as a choice. For creating music, I like tubes. All the fuzz boxes and processors in the world still don't quite match the tube grunge on Jon Lord's B3 work with Deep Purple. There's also got to be a higher reason that Jimi Hendrix' middle name ...

David? He's just some snot-nosed kid who showed up on the folding team a few weeks ago and built himself a rocket-powered rig (that blew by me in short order :oops: ) just to show off. It was luck, I tell you, all luck! It had absolutely nothing to do with him working his butt off to learn everythin...

'00 Mercury Mountaineer, AWD, 5.0 V8, Sunroof, 0% Financing, 11 mpg Dang, mas, that must hurt with current gas prices! Speaking of energy (Captain Segue, here) has anyone ever tried setting up a solar cell, battery, inverter rig to power their folding system? The electric bill is already raising a ...

You guys are a class act. While we have our own little races and competitions, the big one is SPCR -vs- the rest of the folding teams, and you are making a big contribution to that. The EOC stats say that we have no threats and we were a big threat to several teams ahead of us. Your folding juggerna...

Stevo@ARM wrote: I may have missed a few, but here is a quick snapshot of our current Folding Muscle for team SPCR:

A Quad XEON 4x1.80 HT 2MB Cache...

HOLY MOTHER OF COWS!

Does that give you eight F@H cores running in a single box?

I dunno. The water in a 3cm diameter bathtub drain spins the opposite direction, right? Only under certain conditions. When very near the equator, the direction of the water spin will change depending on barometric pressure and the gravitational pull of the moon and other planets. I did once see wa...

Toadies Possum Kingdom

My current folding farm fantasy is based on the popular "blade" configuration, eventually having 8 blades in the farm. Each blade would consist of: Biostar M7NCG 400 nForce2 uATX mobo Barton XP2500 CPU (OCed to 3200 by raising FSB to 400) 128-256Mb PC3200 RAM You'll notice that there's no HSF listed...

Right this minute? Nightline on TV. It's too late for the stuff I've been listening to lately: Canadian punk rock. I threw the whole age curve off at the mosh pit last Saturday night in Boston. My daughter, her friend from Poland, and I saw Jersey, Sugarcult, Simple Plan, and MXPX. We had a great ti...

Stick around here long enough and you'll catch the quiet bug. It's more like a coke addiction, pretty soon you'll be robbing old ladies to afford it. My home PC has 11 fans in it :shock: . It came that way :roll: . I kind of doubt I'll ever catch the quiet bug :oops: . Sounds like we need to hit th...

Fired a very quiet one off at them, Wrah!

Rather than using the duct to get the HSF air out of the case, why not duct cool outside air directly to the HSF and let the PSU and any other exhaust fans worry about getting the warm air out? Cool air directly to the CPU is usually a big win. Check out all three parts of bluefront's article on his...

Welcome cebailey! Search around the forums for "duct" (possibly in combination with "cpu" and/or "fan") and you'll find quite a few entries. Here are a few to start you off: http://www.silentpcreview.com/goto.php?t=s&id=105&a=1 http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=9892 http://forums.sile...

Ahhh, the folly of benchmarks! You're right about there being too many variables in the single/dual/P4/Xeon/PPC equation. Better to test a single Xeon -vs- single PPC -vs- dual Xeon -vs- dual PPC with the same benchmark. The CPU is only a part of the equation when it comes to multiprocessing. The in...

and when it comes to cars: i think most guys WANT to hear it! i mean, imagine sitting at the lights in your silent, hybrid toyota prius next to someone with some beefed up v8 gt car. regardless of what happens when the lights go green, your manhood is stated very loud and clearly :) I've always bee...

I'm not sure about the 4.0 client, but I remember somewhere reading that people were running 3.x F@H Windows client under WINE on Linux and getting better performance than the straight Linux client.

wgragg: How about the library "team" actually just being a library user that folds for the SPCR team? That way they get to see a bigger result from their folding efforts and SPCR still gets the points.

Does your BIOS automatically set vcore based on the speed of the CPU? That could be where the extra power draw came in.

Although I think macs are overpriced (*way* overpriced) and underpowered, I do like the styling and OSX. I wish they'd make a port of OSX to an x86 architecture, to be honest, although the odds of that happening are about a kajillion to one. Sure would be nice to have another "refined" OS to compet...

Glad to see you Mac guys are still paying attention over here. 8) It might warm your hearts to hear that I sent that kid who gutted a new dual-G5 to put an Athlon (and a fairly lightweight one at that) in the Mac case an e-mail explaining what an idiot he is. $2000+ was a lot for his parents to pay ...

haysdb wrote: Boy oh boy, are NoahJ and "the Mac guys" going to have fun with this one.

Ahhh, they're just miffed that no companies/colleges actually use Macs, so they don't really have much of an opportunity to borg.

I'm not sure that I'd say OCing increases power consumption. If, as has happened in the past, CPU yield is so good that AMD is basically just making 3200s and then locking the multipliers on them to create lower-rated CPUs, then I'd say power consumption on an OC is not an issue, since you shouldn't...

I was hesitant to use the word "stupidity" above, but now I'm pretty sure I went way too soft on the guy. The second page of the article wouldn't load for me until a couple of minutes ago. Now I see that he is happy because he can now use Windows XP to surf the internet and burn DVDs on an Athlon 22...

I think "bigotry" may be the word you were looking for, David. This is definitely a fine example of that type of stupidity. I'm not sure how the Mac was configured, but a quick look through Ebay shows me that he probably could have sold it for a couple of thousand dollars. Instead he winds up with a...

Yeah, but it occupies the same intrinsic space, David.

Ok, I give up. Where are you getting these benchmark scores? From the queue.dat file. If you're using Electron Microscope, put your mouse over the green PC icon and a tooltip should pop up telling you that your core (ARRRGH! 1st Tinker in months on this PC!) is good. If you see a number below that ...

investor waiting for the market to recover I don't know about that...do you really have much confidence in securities such as stocks anymore ever since the financial reporting scandals that have seemingly flooded the marketplace? I've lost 90% of my trust in stocks today as I now firmly believe tha...

I've seen F@H give benchmark scores that vary by several percent on the same machine. Do other people get varying scores?

Not a problem, David. It's not like I had a chance against the farm, anyway.

I'll just be happy when the PPW on our sigs updates to show that I'm finally ORANGE!