Looking at this thread, I can't help but wonder: how feasible would it be to run an E8400 system with a decent video card on a picopsu? I'd love to run a minimalist system (say, 3850?) with an E8400, one of those Western Digital green drives, and a good video card for my primary system...

is there really any justifiable reason to pay 380% more for pci-e architecture? ... is this just marketing BS ? It may not be marketing BS; I think the PCI bus can be a bottleneck. That said, you've covered the real argument: you'd have to be incredibly stupid to spend $120 for a gigabit network ca...

Most of the circuits in my house are 20A, so check your electrical panel for the rating of the breaker. If someone (the OP, in particular) is seriously considering running at or near the limits of the breaker, I'd also take the time to make sure you have appropriate gauge wire hooked up to that bre...

Whats the current memory limit in winxp, 3 or 4 gig?, i tried googling it but only finding a bunch of old posts Depends on the version of XP. For x86 variants of XP, it's 4 GB, although the operating system reserves some of the memory for hardware and other kernel related junk. Windows XP Professio...

The only good thing about this situation.....clinton was out of office on 9-11, and A Gore had been defeated. Consider what Gore would have done...." Let's see.....just how does the 9-11 incident relate to global warming, as I outline in my up-coming book?" I think Gore would have invaded Afghanist...

:arrow: Undermining the constitution: :arrow: Changing the balance of power: :arrow: Ignoring the rule of law: Bush's stretching of the executive is pretty obvious. For starters, his usage of executive privilege is unprecedented; never in the history of the United States has the executive branch so...

There is a mountain of evidence that points directly, plainly, clearly to a Vince Foster murder, rather than a Vince Foster suicide. To close your eyes to this evidence is to admit being a Clinton-democrat. After all, who stood to gain by Vince Foster's silence, by his death. Only one person I know...

Bush is not a good public speaker. He is a bad orator , but he is a magnificent speaker . The speeches he's delivered have acutely driven American intentions and global economies well beyond the realms of rationality. Not since the likes of Regan has so much ridiculous bullshit been woven into a ta...

From AP published in the NY Post, the pro-Republican propanganda machine of Rupert "I control almost all the US Press" Murdoch from Saturday, September 8, on page 2, upper right corner: Sydney: Bush addresses the crowd (the APEC Asian Pacific Economic Conference) by referring to it as OPEC. He then...

Poor Vince Foster.....the man who knew too much, an inconvenient murder in the dark, with the real truth never to be known or legitimately investigated..... Please, not this again. There is absolutely zero factual evidence for these weird murder conspiracy theories; you'd need to have a wide collec...

So that begs the question - how secure is wireless networking? I've read of various standards, such as WEP for home networks, but that WEP isn't even secure, and certainly a wide open wireless network should have no security at all, right? Doesn't that mean every coffee shop with wireless networkin...

After he died he criticized the current war. Your location may be undisclosed, but are you sure you are sober? ;) CREW is just another left-wing front group with a misleading title. If they care about "responsibility and ethics in Washington", why would they vehemently defend William Jefferson (D-L...

Eh, hell with it. Just build a pair of these. You didn't want a life anyways.

By utilizing the whole passthrough thing, I should have excellent sound on movies with AC-3 encoding. however, what about music files (ranging from mp3s :( to FLACs or CDs)? can I even play them over optical? and would they also sound better than with the AC97s analog audio? Or would they not gain ...

How bad is this? Will it cause my PSU / other stuff to go bad quicker? Or since it didn't explode right away am I pretty much ok? All advice is welcome. Or if you know any links that talk about this more in depth that would be great. He's probably talking about the third prong, which is a safety gr...

I know the official answer is NO. But something strange happened, that makes me wonder: I am in the process of adding multithreading support to the software I am in charge of, using OpenMP and running on dual-core E6600. Since the software may end up running on dual-processor quad-core machines, I ...

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Ah yeah. So the rub is that the Asus consumes an odd amount of power, rather than the Gigabyte consuming less power. Oh well, it looked promising.

I don't know if this has been posted yet, but Gigabyte's Ultra Durable 2 motherboards seem to have much lower power consumption. A savings of 20+ watts based on motherboard selection alone seems huge. I couldn't find any other reviews; it'd be nice to see some of the other gigabyte boards tested aga...

with max so happy about vista I figured I'd try it out. but before I dive in headfirst, I wanted to try it in a vm. so my questions are: 1. can I install vista in a virtual machine (with vmware?)? Yes. 2. vms dont usually support much in the way of 3d right, can I use aero in a vm? I'm about 90% su...

The Core 2 Duo - Should I upgrade to Q6600? (It's £170ish) At the moment, it wouldn't improve your gaming experience at all, so I'd say no. I think in a year or two, more games will be properly multi-threaded and you'll see a good improvement. For a gaming PC, the money would be better spent on a ...

Thanks, guys! You've been very helpful. I will have at least two computer, one a Windows machine and probably one a Linux machine. I have a Linksys WRT54G and a cable modem. I guess you only need a NIC card if you want to use wireless? Both current computers have built-in Ethernet (although most mo...

To wit: Word is NOT a text editor. Word is a word processor. Fine, Mr. Semantics: there hasn't been any substantial innovation in word processors in the last decade. You seem to have some beef with the spell-check feature in OO (which is fine--people are entitled to have their personal preferences)...

*If you think OpenOffice and Office 2007 are even in the same league...OS X's Spotlight doesn't hold a candle to Vista's searching and indexing, and Ubuntu just got Google Desktop... One other thing people seem to overlook is Open Office (and a whole glut of other free software) runs just fine on W...

That seems more than reasonable; the northwood P4 chips were pretty good for silent rigs. Does the 9800 card have a fan on it? If it does, I guess you have several options--get some sort of passive cooler (I'm not sure if this is possible or practical) or buy a newer passive AGP card. There are some...

Taking advantage of the ignorant like that is like going down to the senior center and playing poker with Alzheimer's patients. Good job! :evil: I'm not a big fan of pushing morals, but at least have some fucking ethics. I disagree. You have to take severity into account. Robbing people outright is...

Cool, I'll mess around with it tonight. I have a junky Toshiba laptop that my work gave me that I currently run NHC on, so it'll be an interesting test.

From that information, the 7600GS has almost the exact same power draw as the 7300GT (actually, slightly less at load), and it outperforms the 7300GT as well. Well, this crumbles if you take this url in account ;) Not exactly. The 7300GS is quite a bit different from the 7300GT . The 7300GS is base...

I'll conduct similar tests on my laptop when I get a chance. Out of curiosity, do you have the spreadsheets for doing the calculations? I'll just add my data to your sheet.

thx.

Considering this test , another vote for the Geforce 7200/7300. From that information, the 7600GS has almost the exact same power draw as the 7300GT (actually, slightly less at load), and it outperforms the 7300GT as well. On newegg, the cheapest passive 7300GT was about $68, while the cheapest pas...

I'm a big fan of NHC, although admittedly I've never done any testing with the kill-a-watt to see how much I can reduce my CPU usage by.

One question: how did you determine your laptop was stable at those voltages? I think you may have to do more than just boot into windows to determine stability.