All of the new opportunities shown by Neil are from people with educations, who adapted new environments, and didn't constant complain and blame others. They saw a need and they stepped up to the plate. The nay-sayers are still at it and continue to be useless members of society. Liberals don't con...

Any Americans commenting about freedom, tell me the last time you saw nudity on TV. I personally would rather have my son seeing titties, than shooting himself with my 45. Pornography = freedom? You can see plenty of "titties" on cable TV, if thats what you really want. What does nudity have to do ...

thejamppa wrote: But the finnish winter I am affraid is this year much more like British isle's winter. No real frosts now. Due with global warming, I guess we can kiss arctic warfare soon goodbye.

Seriously? You actually believe that?

I think a lot of people believe that the brisbanes are just as efficient as the Sempron LE. I'm not sure if it's worth the extra money, is what I'm saying.

The CPU at 4ghz can boot into Windows at anything over 1.3 vcore. Less than 1.344 vcore isn't stable when stress testing with Prime95 or Orthos though. :( 1.344 is your Vdroop. Your Vcore is actually higher in the bios. 1.365 maybe? I'm running 3.8Ghz at 1.30Vdroop. Your CPU actually runs at a lowe...

mcoleg wrote:seems mine is doing something similar...

i am keeping it though - it does 4ghz at stock vcore - so i'm good.

No way. It wouldn't run a stress test like Prime95 and pass for 24 hours on stock Vcore. Just booting into windoze is not enough. Is this an E8500 or E8400?

Hello comrades, the minute you start mandating how to live, and what they should be doing, you start on a trecherous path. If you want the gov't to control every aspect of your life, I'm sure europe would be glad to have you. Here in america, if you want to drive a ford explorer, that's your choice....

You can get a 120W pico PSU. Maybe if you had one of the new 36xx radeon cards coming out soon, this CPU, and a WD green hard drive, you could do it. Anyway, interesting to see your results so close to mine! I just crashed after 15 min of prime95... testing my 3.8GHz numbers. I may have to mount a f...

After you hit CTL-F1 you can overclock to your hearts desire. I think with mine, I can change the Vcore in .00625 increments, or something stupid small like that.

OP: you will be very happy w/ the DS3P, I guarentee it. That one is a step up from the one I have!

For example the perception is that they aren’t designed to go round corners with the finesse of a European car and why are so many people driving gas guzzling trucks or whatever you call them. It feels almost like a throwback to being a cowboy! Jeep Wrangler anyone. :lol: Good discussion here all...

Those power figures from legion are crap, unless they turned EIST off. The difference in idle power consumption between 3.0 GHz and 3.8GHz was only 2W for me. Although, they are also severely overvolting the CPU, even at stock clocks, which makes no sense to me. Stock voltage is 1.225, why do they h...

A CPU that is just as fast as a Sempron LE, but more expensive and the same power demand, won't sell for crap. I don't see any advantage to it.

Depends on your definition of passive. See pic on page 1. I call that semi-passive, others would call it just PASSIVE. There are fans close by that have a large influence on it, lets just say THAT.

Do you think a 2.0GHz 65nm CPU with a 25W TDP is much different than some of the offerings from AMD. Some of the Athlon 64s or Sempron LEs could probably match this performance, with a lower cost and more flexability. Not to rain on your parade, or anything.

It probably won't happen. They dont' even have an 45nm wolfdale dual cores for $150. Right now, the E8200 is going for about $190. We might see that go down to oh... $160 or $170 by the summer time. The E8500 is supposedly a beast, because it is the creme de la creme of their wolfdale lots. Someone ...

Card Deluxe is $400 and still has electrolytic capacitors.

I used to use an Audigy 2 ZS.. never had any problems w/ it. Some of the newer onboard audio codecs are so good, I decided to toss it and save 5W... I have the AC889 and it sounds great. My HTPC uses the onboard also.

It shouldn't be the power supply. Your system isn't using close to 380W, I guarantee. Sometimes, with overclocks, you are just trying a little bit too hard. Try stepping it down to 3.0GHz. You wont' lose that much speed, but it just might be the sweet spot. You can also crank down your voltage a lit...

Hi. The P35 DS3L is very hightly rated. It costs $90 and runs very well. I chose to get the DS3R, which is the next step up. It has better power regulation circuitry components, which results in more efficiency and stability. I really like mine. It was $127. I'm running an E8400 in mine. I've gotten...

Okay, I tested some power settings, it doesn't QUITE make sense yet. CPU load was stressed with Prime 95 25.5 small FFTs. 3.60 GHz, 1.25625V, 75W idle / 121W load 3.0 GHz, 1.2250V, 74W idle / 105W load 3.0GHz, 1.150V, 73W idle / 107W load 3.0GHz, 1.10V, 73W idle / 95W load (-0.1V on RAM) On that las...

I'll do some testing pretty quick here for the undervolting crowd. Right now I'm running 3.6GHz with a modest bump in voltage. To get faster I had to use quite a bit more voltage, which... makes more heat and power. Oh yeah, temps are good at 38C while folding via SMP client, 100% load on 2 cores. I...

Actually, it was -30F at the game after the windchill. The coldest it has ever been where I'm at in colorado is -20F(-29C). At that temperature... it's really brutal. Usually when it gets that cold there is no wind. And the crazy thing is, since there is no water nearby, it can also get up to 110F d...

Well on the plus side, the dad brought a lawyer, and the school superintendant ordered the VP to reverse the decision. Still, the student lost 2 full days of school for this idiocy. It actually makes me want to get some gun T-shirts to wear around the neighborhood. Kind of off topic, but Colorado is...

The checkpoints for the console client are when you have 1% done. So each 1% you complete is 1 checkpoint. It varies based on workunit.

I decided to try SMP again w/ this new fast beast and I've still got 70 minute checkpoints. Stupid SMP client. Maybe I need to turn advmethods or the time limit thing off?

In the US we use the same type of thing w/ different plugs. Mine is a P3 Kill-A-Watt.

You got a point there. Liberal on some things, not on others, I suppose.

$189.99 at a "local" store called Micro Center. I had to drive 70 miles each way to get it. Total trip took about 3 hours. Stock voltage is 1.225V .. which shows up as 1.15V at the motherboard. I think I've seen people running like... 1.4V with these already.. seems like a lot. Unfortunately at 3.8G...

Helium is great. Only problem is, you only get to run it 15 times before you have to buy it.

Yeah, the rabbit is like $14k about, it's kind of an entry-level golf type car. The golf is more expensive... I think a Golf GTI fahrenheit is like $30,000 which is ridiculous for what you get.. it's only a couple $$ less than an STI. Anywho, I'm getting sidetracked. If only you could still get VW d...

I got in huge trouble for bringing firecrackers to school one time. "Friend" ratted me out. As if, you know, some black cats could blow up the school or something. I wasn't even lighting them or anything. (didn't have matches or a lighter). As far as school administrators, I don't believe they can m...