Interesting. The knee-jerk answer is "all mobos have a jumper to switch whether the USB ports get power from +5V or +5VSB, switch yours from +5VSB to +5V!" Except having had quick peek at the manual it appears the GA-MA78G-DS3H has no such jumper(s), which is a surprise to me but ...! Things to try ...

I am sure this has been discussed before, but can anyone explain why things are always much more expensive in the EU/UK than in the US? OK, I'll bite. VAT. Plain and simple. As long as my fellow citizens keep abdicating personal responsibility to a nanny state we will have to live with higher taxes...

All right then, does anyone know some Linux -alternatives to Speedfan, Motherboard Monitor, and CoreTemp? Dont know about BSD, but have no problems in (SuSE) Linux - most of the low level stuff needed (like sensors) is there by default. I add hddtemp, gkfreq, and then view it all through GKrellM. H...

juamez - nice analysis and insight. I too am pondering upgrading my kit as it approaches its 3rd birthday and so trying to gain some insight into the current 'state of the nation'. The 740G has caught my eye and I am pondering the CPUs in this thread or perhaps seeing where dual-core Semprons slot ...

(Domestic house) Gas has just gone up to 2.69p/m3 (approx €0.034) That's stupidly cheap. 1m^3 is about 0.26€ here. Are you sure you weren't off by an order of magnitude? Well spotted - it is actually charged at 2.69p/kWh. My calorific value means I get about 10.8 kWh/m^3, so yes, should have sa...

1) (Domestic house) Gas has just gone up to 2.69p/m3 (approx €0.034)
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Diesel - national average £1.26/l (€1.59, US$2.49/l, US$9.42/US gallon)
Petrol - £1.14/l = €1.43 = US$2.26/l

this is for Folding, so max freq all the time. in any case undervolting saves more power than downclocking. the reduced clocks are usually just done to enable lower Vcore. One thing I haven't seen in a quick scan of this thread is what I do. Enable CnQ, set powernow to ignore nice time. Which means...

I still use GKrellM with lm-sensors. Gives me temperatures, voltages, fans & alarms/actions, CPU load, memory/swap status, folding progress, mail flags, disk, LAN & DSL traffic load etc. Can probably fly the space shuttle but I haven't tried that plugin

All looks fine to me: hdparm -I /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: ATA device, with non-removable media Model Number: WDC WD5000AAVS-00ZTB0 Serial Number: WD-WCASU0621311 Firmware Revision: 01.01B01 Transport: Serial, SATA 1.0a, SATA II Extensions, SATA Rev 2.5 Standards: Supported: 8 7 6 5 Likely used: 8 Configura...

Welcome. My question is, what happens if you are folding in the background (with the GUI console) and someone shuts down the PC? Next time folding starts on that PC it resumes from the previous checkpoint. It checkpoints every 30 mins (IIRC) by default but it is a configurable parameter. oh and will...

Plekto wrote:They apparently have three series of the same drive.

They also have a 'stealth' version - WD5000AAVS. It doesn't appear anywhere on their website but is widely available in retailers and I have one (complete with GP label).

tehfire wrote:Sorry to everybody since I know this is just a duplicate thread...

The 2006 thread starts here.

Electricity - 214 kWh /month (average last 12 months) Gas - 428 kWh /month (average last 12 months) 500 sq ft mostly single occupant. Much of the electricity is 'luxury' - PC folding 24/7 is circa 70kWh/month, tropical fish tanks are about 100kWh/month. Gas for central & water heating and most cook...

theycallmebruce wrote:This is a brilliant idea..

I also like the idea: the better plan is Do-It-Yourself when your get more choice about capacity/performance/bootability etc.

I got a WD5000AAVS on the weekend - very impressed both with noise (the Nexus @ 8V is still my noisiest component) as well as performance. Heard a bit of a whine (the normal disk drive motor start sound) when it first started but not a peep since. Even though it is strapped to SATA 150 (my Via 8237 ...

I use GKrellM with lm-sensors.

What is the point of email verification???? To ensure that only people you want are entitled to join the forums. I run a forum that has limited membership and that cannot be read by non-members. Having an email exchange with folks who try to register is the only logical way to validate the credenti...

More a bump than a solution. I am on SuSE and still pretty much a novice. Heaps of stuff is logged during boot (/var/log/boot.msg) etc and is also available in KDE (e.g. KInfoCentre) which are probably identical in Ubuntu. But I am not sure I can can find a report of my actual FSB. I seem to remembe...

First - if you let on which country you are in makes it easier for folks here to offer advice. Second if you have an idea of what signal (cable, satellite, terrestrial, ...) you plan to use would also be handy. My Avermedia AverTV DVB-T is great and cost peanuts. Full support is now built in to 2.6....

I agree with smc - there seems to be some incompatibility issue. But there is a 0.1% chance of a defective stick. You dont seem to have any reasy way to prove of disprove either of these options which omplicates things! I wouldn't blindly trust their 'memory configurator'. Me neither, but it does ha...

Are you flashed to the latest BIOS? If so then use the Crucial warranty.

And/or did you use Crucial's Memory Advisor (it does seem to go to that part number)?

Can I recommend this old sticky in the Storage Forum - Max safe temp for hard drives?

Fairly meaningless question without the context of case type and airflow, system thermals and ambient temps (as suggested by Devonavar ). In my current config a fanless PSU is insanity as my psu fan provides the only case airflow I have. In a previous life I used an el-cheapo psu (actually a Deer ba...

Sorry cant help on the 4 pin fan connector.

fitzhugh wrote:Any suggestions on good speedfan-like app for linux?

Check this thread.

A month or 2 back I couldn't find any potentially quiet (i.e. Samsung, WD, Seagate) single platter drives bigger than 80Gb. Will be really interested if 160Gb single platters are hitting the streets.

Hard to quantify, but my subjective feel is pretty much the same. (Based on simultaneously opening several favourite Tabs in Firefox, SPCR Forums always was about last to load, and still is.) However it may be better in that I have yet to have any extremely slow moments which were pretty frequent in...

Is that all it is, ... More or less, yes. The standby circuit is probably spec'd at 5A on the 5VSB circuit, 25W total. In addition to the mobo itself you may have a few other components (plugged into the mobo, even via USB depending on jumpers, and/or keyboard, mouse etc) actually 'alive' while the...

So, I'm hoping that maybe someone can tell me whether this is bad for my PSU. IMHO probably not. Most off-the-shelf components (your psu in this case) are engineered for extreme conditions that may not be what you are providing. The bottom line is temperatures: your psu probably has an ambient spec...

Radio Le Mans Sadly couldn't get there this year. The Astons are doing good, and Audi are showing off again.

90% likely the mobo, 9.99% likely the psu otherwise definately the switch/case. Or to be fair on the mobo may be a particular mobo/psu combination that is just like that. But the mobo should hold a signal down for long enough (when the power switch is pushed) to get the psu to start. My suspicion is...