Nice system. A little too pricey for my needs. I don't really care about 3D graphics performance, and have a hard time paying $200 for a processor. Also, I don't see the need for a 64 bit processor. jerry thought you said time for a new system. :D why no A64? there's no price premium on them any mo...

well, if it's the client, what's the other stuff have to do with it? ignoring that, if azureus seemed to be using an unreasonable amount, i'd probably use bt++ or bittornado instead, as well as kill all that norton crap (and any useless services) :) could also try different VMs too i guess, see if i...

yeah. look how crappy ventilation is around most appliances and none ever seem to have problems because of it. i don't think i've ever seen a fridge with more than an inch of space around the sides/top.
of course TVs are different, but not like it's a huge CRT.

I think it really needs to be brought into comparison with qwerty speed. I know that personally, I still make a lot of mistakes. My backspace key is easily the most used key on the keyboard. And most of it are the same mistakes that I made before (e.g. just now I typed in 'keyborad'). Assuming you ...

ouch, 55wpm? 29wpm?

i'd love to try dvorak and have thought about it a few times, but the change would kill me, i already type 120wpm or so using qwerty.

dust in tvs will fuck them up? how many people do you know that have EVER cleaned the inside of their tv? heh. somehow, they don't collect very much dust anyways. had to open up one of mine that's about 9 years old and has had probably several pounds of dust removed from the outside of it, and there...

wyldwynd wrote:Should I be worried/RMAing it? -- it's big hassle if I do need to, since I imported it....

not that big a deal, aside from crappy shipping costs if you're really far away... just be sure to write something like "RETURNED DEFECTIVE MERCHANDISE ORIGINALLY FROM <country>" on the box

To combine the original topic and MikeC's potential project, I see the entire issue as the following: huge post yes, exactly - watercooling in and of itself isn't very effective because you have to get the heat to the water and then air-cool the water, whereas with air you basically have an infinit...

hmm neat, sort of what i was guessing. with compression ratios that crappy, though, that's another incentive to use the highest level possible.

off-topic, but i can't help but ask, how exactly do you have different levels of compression if it's lossless, when still using the same codec? go from stereo to mono?
or do increasing levels require huge increments in cpu power?

think the general consensus is that CPUs also have to obey the 10C difference = 50% difference in life approximation, but that it doesn't make much difference. i personally think a CPU will normally outlive just about everything else in a PC if you turn a computer on and let it sit there for 10 or 2...

i think the stock fan was just out of paranoia - i even had a P133 that had a fan on its heatsink. on the other hand, my ppro 200's stock cooler is just a passive heatsink, and the assumption with those is that they'll be on and doing stuff all the time, and on top of that they use like 2-3x as much...

hmm, that makes sense too, i was just figuring it'd (bad analogy alert) sort of work like a double-paned window. harder if the welds are necessary, i think with a flat panel you'd just end up with two pieces stuck together with practically no space between them, unless the process of welding itself ...

two different ideas, sheet metal with a gap between the layers would be pretty easy to do in a PC case though, actually... hmm. if this is all it takes, you wouldn't need to weld it even - just cut sheets to line your case two layers deep, and separate them with washers or so. only really easy way t...

you could just use a cooler with your existing water cooling, with the evaporator in your wc reservoir, i think that's a nice intermediate - don't have to go to as much effort, and you're not (basically) limited to only cooling your CPU.

i don't think overclocking is really anathema to silencing, aside from the obvious (it's hard to silence something that's eating more power than a space heater). i think anyone competent enough to open up their PC and make things quieter in a manner that won't break everything within a week is also ...

yeah, meant rusty, no i didn't get him confused with ralf, just didn't double check original post before i submitted. :P and not sure what you mean by 99% of the time - i'm just saying that if overclocking is silly because you can get another 25-40% out of your already-amazing CPU, it's just as sill...

cybergothic? oh god that is too hokey a label even for me to use :shock: i do listen to a lot of ebm/darkwave type stuff though... aside from that, mostly psytrance and freeform hardcore on that note, a few weeks ago i missed Infected Mushroom when they were here, because i had a midterm the morning...

there's no way it's 10% of 10% of 10% of 10% of 10% etc etc, look at the target audience for any high-end video card, they're all going to at least try OCing it. and you aren't stirring anything Ralf, you're more right than you think you are - most people don't need anything faster than anything Via...

a (variable speed) jigsaw, keyhole saw or even hacksaw would probably be better than either tin snips or a dremel... if you use a dremel, stay slow or the plastic will just melt

simply putting a PC in any sort of fridge is a terrible idea, they're made to insulate more than cool... if they're powerful enough you can rip the condensor/compressor etc out of the fridge and reuse them though.

assemblage 23 - house on fire

generally, faster (and disproportionately more expensive) CPUs made on the same process (any given one) won't overclock as well as the lower-end ones... not a big deal if one is intent on throwing their money down a hole, but sort of justifies simply spending less and still overclocking. not to ment...

if you don't have a ridiculously amazing PC, there's no point spending more money on RAM than you need to, you'll basically only be able to see the difference in benchmarks... even when it is able to make a difference you're still generally better off spending the money on upgrading something else. ...

mathias wrote:If you're gonna bother with resistors, why not just actually put them on the fan?

pain in the ass if one were trying to 7V say, 4 fans, all different models

Why do people overclock? Just for fun? well, if you buy a new CPU, you can basically get several hundred dollars of capacity for free, because of huge price premiums for the top of the line. ie, buy a $170 A64 3000+ and a relatively paltry 20-25% oc will effectively get you a CPU worth $650 more. t...

i'd say bigger, for the same reason a lot of cooling methods for overclocking are also good for being quiet (when they don't involve huge/fast fans), it just gives you extra overhead. a bigger case would normally let you organize cables/components better, give more leeway for suspending drives and m...

er who what? pretty much all new drives use FDBs, both 2.5" and 3.5".

in theory, it's er... sort of like towing a car backwards without using those little wheel dollies, while it's in drive. :P not really supposed to do that and noone will absolutely guarantee it won't be expensive. i don't think anyone here has ever lost a PSU specifically because of this though, and...

perfect seal sounds more likely, it's neat how strong ordinary atmospheric pressure is... but er, the tension should go away as soon as you take the clips off, unless it was mounted with so much force the heatsink and spreader deformed over time.