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- Tue Nov 15, 2005 5:38 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: "Stellar Realms" - online gaming, with a twist.
- Replies: 396
- Views: 439499
bah. logged in once yesterday, was getting like 6 turns every 20 mins, it died after a half hour. logged in just now to see my research and massive fleet both finished (two of the turns were 12 hours apart) and it broke again before I could start more research. :( at least I'm not still stuck at 3% ...
- Sun Oct 23, 2005 4:26 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: New metallic TIM from TherMax Korea: HiFlux TIM HF-60110BT
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9372
- Sun Oct 23, 2005 4:11 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: RAM Cooling
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6187
In my experience, ram either starts out faulty or works. I have hardly seen any occasions where a ram stick that worked went faulty. Right, but if you find the best oc and tightest timings you can run with stably, then make them warmer, they're not gonna work. heh. edit: on that note, PPGMD, relaxi...
- Sat Oct 22, 2005 7:14 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: New metallic TIM from TherMax Korea: HiFlux TIM HF-60110BT
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9372
I think my question has been missed in all of this: what happens if your CPU cannot reach 65° at all? Believe I already answered you, unless your CPU runs that cool without a heatsink. :shock: I read that review a few days ago so I don't remember clearly, but to be fair, I think he did mention that...
- Sat Oct 22, 2005 7:01 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Microsoft Ergonomic Natural Keyboard 4000
- Replies: 35
- Views: 30131
what other result did you expect - the subject and product both have "ergonomic" in the title, so most of the ensuing replies are relevant, and even here, most people don't care about quiet keyboards (not that I can fault you for that). :) edit: and a little more on topic, until someone makes a keyb...
- Sat Oct 22, 2005 6:51 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Olive oil ?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 25561
as others have said, mineral oil > vegetable oil also, HDDS ARE NOT SEALED HOLY CRAP BAD IDEA hope he has backups. You can get sealed/pressurized HDDs, but they cost more, not sure why (limited market, military/high altitude use only?), you'd think it'd actually be easier to make an airtight box tha...
- Sat Oct 22, 2005 6:38 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: RAM Cooling
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6187
- Sat Oct 22, 2005 11:27 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: "Stellar Realms" - online gaming, with a twist.
- Replies: 396
- Views: 439499
- Sat Oct 22, 2005 12:52 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Microsoft Ergonomic Natural Keyboard 4000
- Replies: 35
- Views: 30131
crap, I was too busy to make an OT post before it was too late. sorry. That "QWERTY is bad because it was made to not jam!" stuff is bullshit. not jam != not fast Yes, it was arranged like that to prevent jamming. No, having chars that are frequently used together on opposite sides of the keyboard i...
- Wed Oct 19, 2005 6:14 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: New metallic TIM from TherMax Korea: HiFlux TIM HF-60110BT
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9372
OP: How do you manage to get it above 65 degrees in the first place? Me: What's the point of buying special thermal compound if it doesn't go this high? ...if it hasn't melted in place yet, it probably won't work very well, and so your CPU should hit 65 degrees pretty quick. if it doesn't get that ...
- Wed Oct 19, 2005 6:02 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Which metal dissipate heat more quickly: copper or Al ?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3737
it's not so much that it's "better", because most heatsinks that are made in both Al/Cu and pure Cu models use the same design for both variants. if you do that, the pure Cu one will perform better. what aluminum does get you is a lot more surface area for the same mass, since it's so much less dens...
- Wed Oct 19, 2005 5:49 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: logitech mouse whine partial fix
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8312
logitech mouse whine partial fix
For 510s (and presumably all other mice using the same basic design): Leave the mouse plugged in. Open it up (three screws, two top one bottom, under the slits in the stickers) by taking off the top. Be careful with the wheel, since there are two springs (one to make it clicky when you rotate, one t...
- Sun Oct 16, 2005 9:38 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: TDP / power consumption: how does it relate to actual heat?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5486
Re: TDP / power consumption: how does it relate to actual he
And no, a car's engine running at 300 horse power is NOT generating 300HP of friction heat. The power output from the engine is also being used to power electrical systems, and if all of it is being used to overcome friction, you wouldn't be able to listen to your pimped up stereo system with 1000W...
- Sun Oct 16, 2005 9:21 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: "Stellar Realms" - online gaming, with a twist.
- Replies: 396
- Views: 439499
Wasn't going to play this round, but after last round I saw how awesome a lot of the race-specific agents can be; at one point I had 50 reinforced cells, though I didn't do much with them (really!). I'm going to try focusing almost entirely on intelligence this entire round, so I can't really post m...
- Sun Oct 16, 2005 7:20 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: Checksums don't match
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5884
assuming you have enough space, and aren't doing anything silly like constantly background defragging, try searching F@H forums other places? might be worth running scandisk etc too. I've never had problems with overclocking nor RAM (my old PC had 2x256mb and 1x512mb DIMMs, and at least one mismatch...
- Sun Oct 16, 2005 7:11 pm
- Forum: Notebook Systems
- Topic: Harddrives: Wattage and Effect on Heat Dissipation
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6347
- Sun Oct 16, 2005 7:02 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Seagate 7200.9
- Replies: 25
- Views: 15667
Otherwise quite a few people will think you can translate decibels into bels and back. Blame whoever originally thought it was a good idea to refer to sound power in terms of bels instead of watts when dealing with electronics. Obviously the author screwed up pretty bad, but in most cases when peop...
- Sun Oct 16, 2005 6:12 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Unusually quiet Seagate 7200.7 made-in-China 80G HDD
- Replies: 45
- Views: 49568
er. isn't that the surface scan that these Seagates automatically do after a minute or two of idle? there's other threads on it here, I recall some people saying it went away after a couple months, don't remember if you can simply turn it off somehow. anyways, not what I'm here for. Just wanted to a...
- Sun Oct 16, 2005 5:15 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Shelf Life of Arctic Silver
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8161
- Sun Oct 16, 2005 5:01 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Modding & Cutting with Tin Snips
- Replies: 93
- Views: 192444
so this tool can cut perfect 120mm holes for the side...of the slk3700? with experience , sure, same as trying to cut fan holes with a Dremel, but at least if you screw up with a Dremel you won't have accidentally bent anything. this may well be mentioned in this thread but I'm already replying so ...
- Sun Oct 16, 2005 4:28 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Using TEC as a condensation-attractor in a sealed system???
- Replies: 18
- Views: 9617
- Sun Oct 16, 2005 3:48 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: TDP / power consumption: how does it relate to actual heat?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5486
Think of it this way - most drives use 20-30W when spinning up, and almost all of that power goes into getting the drive up to 7200rpm (or whatever). Now, the drive's spinning at 7200rpm, you're still putting energy into it but it's not speeding up, so almost all of the 5-8W a drive uses at that poi...
- Sat Aug 13, 2005 5:43 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: What's the problem with RAID 0?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 21183
noone has stated the obvious yet - unless you're only using onboard IDE/SATA ports, any solution will also very quickly be bottlenecked by PCI. hardware vs software on speed alone is pretty much a non-issue unless you're only using a few drives or are using PCI-X controllers. PCIe works too but good...
- Sat Aug 13, 2005 5:31 pm
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Aluminum fans?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5492
- Sat Aug 13, 2005 4:58 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Advice sought - home NAS configuration
- Replies: 25
- Views: 15578
just another voice in favor of software RAID. if you're doing this for a separate cheapo server, there's really no reason to drop $400+ on a decent card. only reasons I can think of for buying a hardware controller are for either a badass workstation (not that the checksumming is particularly taxing...
- Sat Aug 13, 2005 4:40 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Cooling X2 on a Neo2
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3446
- Thu Aug 04, 2005 5:42 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: Anyone Folding With One Of These
- Replies: 17
- Views: 11537
i got the X2 4600+ a few days ago and it's folding right now .. although still one one core so far. Markus not sure exactly what you're saying - were you expecting it to use both by itself or something, and it's only using one? try running two copies. would be prudent to duplicate the folder first,...
- Thu Aug 04, 2005 5:27 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: The long, long arm of US Law Enforcement
- Replies: 36
- Views: 28132
It is not legal to sell marijuana in Canada (unless for medical purposes, and then it is regulated). Since when do the British and the Swiss not abide by international copyright infringement laws? These claims are mostly urban legend and have no basis in fact. whoa. read again? maybe "these" claims...
- Wed Jul 27, 2005 12:14 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: "Stellar Realms" - online gaming, with a twist.
- Replies: 396
- Views: 439499
- Wed Jul 20, 2005 7:11 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: "Stellar Realms" - online gaming, with a twist.
- Replies: 396
- Views: 439499