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If they have them planned, doesn't that kind of imply that they already know they'll be able to shrink the dies? Why not shrink them all the way down to 11nm or less NOW, and promptly blow all of their competition right out of the water? A child prodigy at say age 10 might state that they will do x...

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How many Spybot! Search & Destroy definitions are there for Windows? Over 750,000 -- and there are 1 or 2 malwares for Mac? I have owned a Mac for a long time and I have never had any malware. I have also run Linux machines for many years, also with zero malware. Windows on the other hand has had m...

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I don’t blame Christ for Christianity’s failings as he wasn’t around to guide the ship I probably should not get into this, but Jesus Christ was a Jew, not a Christian..... I didn’t notice anyone suggesting that Jesus was a Christian as that would be a strange label to attach to him. At the end of ...

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So I think you are taking Hubbard's comments a little too simplistically (or what I termed as "out of context"). If you reread my posts you will see that for me it is all about intention and I have no idea what L. Ron Hoover’s (Frank Zappa joke) intention was so it’s not possible for me to know the...

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I don't want to sound like I am endorsing Hubbard or Scientology, but I am pretty sure you are taking his statement out of context. What he meant was that if an organization is classified as a religion (as opposed to just self-help therapy of some sort) it is tax-exempt and you get lots of tax dedu...

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When you hear some of the wacky ideas that come from Scientology just remember that L Ron was a science fiction author and all it all makes sense. I dislike the way they reportedly use private detectives and lawyers to intimidate people that oppose them which is not a good thing for an organisation ...

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I don't know about the masses, but I give L Ron the crazy title over Jobs. Crazy is such a subjective term though. :) There’s a famous quote which may or not be true but is attributed to L. Ron in which he supposedly said and I paraphrase, “If you really want to make serious money then start your o...

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In around 1991 I was invited to attend a focus group that a marketing company was organising around a new advertising campaign. I was invited purely because I had listed some computer hardware (non Apple) in a periodical that ran free ads (Loot) which is where they got my phone number. Before the en...

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While It's strictly off topic, I've always been amazed by the war on drugs that goes on in so many countries. Obviously I think they're futile, but what interests me is that so many governments rarely, if ever, choose to examine the root causes of why people do drugs in the first place. For a littl...

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dhanson865 wrote:Please put a country in your profile if you haven't already.
This site is international but I'll assume you are in the US if you don't tell me otherwise.

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Just built myself a desktop system after not having one for six months. I wanted an SSD and eventually went for a C300 128GB as I got a good deal direct from Crucial (£145). 60/64GB felt too tight for space as I’m not intending to upgrade to an even faster SSD in the next few years. Didn’t want to p...

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I’m hardly surprised by Asus’s poor customer service. I had an Asus Sandy Bridge board with the faulty chipset and trying to get them to give me details on how they would handle the RMA was like pulling teeth. They were good at spouting vagaries and pointing me to a web page that had a recursive lin...

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The Dell Mini 1012 is fanless and the noise level is down to the choice of HDD installed; fairly easy to swap out as well.
It might be an old model now so not sure if the replacement is also fanless.
I have one and my one complaint is that the trackpad is dire which is a serious failing.

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That will likely refer to the fact that you can adjust the multiplier DOWNWARDS in the BIOS. That doesn't make sense since the manual states the multiplier depends on CPU used. Traditionally you can lower the multiplier in the BIOS hence my reference to adjusting it downwards. Just because you can’...

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Well, as I mentioned, according to the manuals they DO offer it as an option. That will likely refer to the fact that you can adjust the multiplier DOWNWARDS in the BIOS. There is a lot of cut and past and ambiguity in manuals at times so better to rely on the hands on reports. This is all very con...

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I'm still wondering about the overclocking. On another forum I read that the "No Overclocking For H67" is only about the option to adjust the CPU multiplier by a few steps, which P67 offers for ALL Sandy Bridge CPU's. Adjusting it by many steps for K-type processor should be available on H67 as wel...

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This article suggests that it should be able to power down the GPU completely. Although an article at TechReport suggests that it doesn't and that the GPU will still be eating it's idle wattage. If it can't shut down the GPU, then there seems little use for this. It seems unlikely on the surface th...

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pcunite wrote:Now if I could get my work down from 15 mintues to say 5 mintues or less, well, I would consider the $ then.

Probably have to wait for 1.5 to 2 years at stock speeds unless you want to go high end which sounds unlikely.

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I thought only the i3 chipsets were locked? Oh, I see, you mean OC'ing the graphics chipsets. The H67 supports over-clocking the graphics but the memory ratios limit it to a max of 1,333MHz DDR3. But I was raising the question about over-clocking the CPU which seems to have been completely removed ...

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It really disappoints me that you can’t over-clock at all with the H67 boards. It seems idiotic although they are addressing that with another chipset that is a hybrid of the P67 & H67 but it won’t be released for months. Question: What is the max display resolution of that uATX H67 board graphics? ...

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Did you have the chance to remove and reseat the cooler? Not yet but I will. The situation has changed since I first posted in that I’m no longer using the room that the Zino is located in so the noise issue is no longer pressing. I do want to resolve it though as circumstances will change and if I...

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Cool n Quiet isn’t working which won’t help temps and I couldn’t find a fix. According to a post on Dell’s forums AMD have confirmed that CnQ isn’t supported on the Athlon X2 3250e which seems remarkable given its target application. Quote: “The Cool'n'Quiet feature is available for other energy eff...

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It turns out that it’s a 50mm fan and the connector is seemingly of the type that VGA card fans use so not so easy to replace it. I remember there was a quality control issue with the Zino HD build (when I was tracking it on AVS Forum in late 2009/early 2010). In many cases, the combined cooler just...

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JamieG wrote:I think Fractal Design does a 60mm fan. Not sure how easy they are to find or how quiet they are though.

Worth a punt as they aren't that expensive if they turn out to be crap - http://www.scan.co.uk/products/60mm-fra ... fan-mounts

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Can anyone recommend a quiet 60mm fan?
I have a Dell Zino 400 HD and the fan is too loud so would like to replace it.
If anyone has any other tips for silencing a Zino I’d love to hear them.

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I find it useful to climb out of my underground bunker occasionally to buy new supplies etc but also when I go for a walk in the surroundings hills I find that my mind is much less focussed on looking for data that is easy to interpret from a paranoid perspective. Must dash as my tin hat is only 6 l...

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I’ve seen plenty of inexpensive passive DP to HDMI adapters around but are passive adapters that work the other way available?

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croddie wrote:The Dell Studio XPS 16 offers a wide gamut RGB LED display. Qualitative reviews from tech sites say it's good but it is a TN panel apparently.

It does look gorgeous; by comparison most other laptop screens look almost black and white.

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Some do not list as doing AM 3 though they list fitting AM2...the well known Ninja being one case. MIGHT work....but I like it when the maker says it works...otherwise...it's on me if it does not. I wonder if thatâ€™s due to some heatsinks being older models that were released before AM3 and they h...

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ces wrote:
Redzo wrote:What on Earth are you trying to say ?
its about old school discipline

Do you mean Old Skool?

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