cordis wrote:I use it for folding at home

Isn't it a better to go the multi-GPU route for things like this?

If there ever was such a thing as case porn, this is it.

On a more serious note, excellent job. I especially love the attention to detail on the corners.

Well, now, I can't run the GPU client either--if I accidentally leave it running while playing games, chances are I'll get a BSoD with DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE. So frustrating...right when I finally get my system otherwise stable, F@H starts causing instability. Maybe the GPU3 client will be bette...

Well, it looks like you've done a good job convincing yourself that you are the white knight. However, you've made the same tired arguments with no solid evidence to support it, and I will no longer argue with you, as it is about as fruitful as yelling at a brick wall. Enjoy your global warming.

Do you have any evidence supporting their claims about folding@home possibly helping cure Alzheimer's? I sure do . Of course, this is all pending peer review. That does not constitute proof, even in the most remote sense of the word. I never said it did. You simply asked for evidence supporting my ...

Do you have any evidence supporting their claims about folding@home possibly helping cure Alzheimer's? I sure do . Of course, this is all pending peer review. It is not my responsibility to prove a negative. If you're going to make the broad claim of "Folding@Home is a completely worthless project"...

I think you are missing the point. Very, very few scientists believe that folding@home is worthwhile, regardless of the energy cost. Do you have any hard evidence supporting this claim? F@H is in the process of getting a paper published that might lead to cures or at least drugs to lesson the effec...

I tried HFM.net for monitoring, but it had its own problems. For instance, if I increased the frequency at which it would check the logs, it would think the SMP client had stalled because the logs hadn't changed, w/o taking the average time between percentages into consideration. If I decreased the ...

Still, seems like a moot point for several reasons: 1) If you're concerned about the energy cost, simply set something up to offset the cost of your folding--solar panels, wind turbines, whatever is feasible. If nothing physical is, buy green credits from your local power company (as most offer thes...

Thanks! I have the Lynnfield 860...it's in my sig, but the font is a little small, I'll go fix that after I finish this post. The bigger problem is running x264 at the same time just cripples the SMP client. Also, FahSpy can't seem to figure out what the credit for the WU is--this one WU was at ~110...

Well, good news. After several years of being idle, I'm back (and folding under a new name for numerous reasons). My last machine, an X2, was barely fast enough for my encoding load, and that has since gotten even bigger. So big, in fact, that the SMP client isn't even worth running on my i7--I am p...

For someone so concerned about efficient use of energy, he's sure wasting a lot of it in this thread (literally, and figuratively).

All tests I have read show minimal if any memory performance improvement in triple vs. dual channel. not true, but i told you it was better largely because tri-channel memory is a better solution for addressing large amounts of ram... and then there is this thing called "bandwidth"... oh, never min...

as i told you earlier: " you do realize that the 1156 platform is crippled " you bought into the wrong platform, regardless of who manufactured the motherboard. No, it's possible to use both the 16 lanes for a graphics card AND the 4 lanes on the north bridge. What part of this don't you realize? "...

There are lots of limitations to many of these motherboards. If you take a look at that motherboard at newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131599 You will see that of all the issues you bring up, they are all covered in either the reviews or in the specifications of the...

you should have known that the smaller pcie slot was unusable by looking at a photo of the motherboard... i doubt that asus is the only mb manufacturer that puts the two slots right next to each other, so your criticism there is not valid. you must have used 2-gig ram sticks? because the 1-gig stic...

This is as much a work of art as it is a functional computer...

P.S. - I bet Sony's consoles are jealous

you do realize that the 1156 platform is crippled, it can't run full bandwidth in both slots at the same time? so i wonder if all 1156 motherboards would have the same issue with limited bandwidth in the second slot. for the amount of ram that you wanted, i7 920 probably would have been a better wa...

protellect wrote:- 5850 seems really expensive. Thought about two 5770's in xfire?

OTOH a 5850 lets him upgrade later, and is probably quieter than 2x 5770

Am I the only one who would welcome some socket design change from Intel?

I normally don't like to rant, but quite frankly I am so upset with the quality of this particular motherboard, I want to save everyone else the trouble. What motherboard, you ask? It is none other than the Maximus III Gene , a uATX board made by Asus. But first, let me get a few things strait. - I ...

If you want better control of your timings, you can try disabling C'n'Q and running CrystalCUPID (if your mobo supports it), which might let you clock it lower than C'n'Q does. Be careful with it though, as if you set your multiplier too low it can lock up your system (no permanent damage, at least ...

It's for a wired NIC, actually. PCI won't provide enough throughput for a gigabit NIC, which is what I need. I had made a stupid assumption that both slots were x16, and only when you use them both together they had to be limited to x8. I agree, the slot placement is stupid. I double check when I ge...

I ordered a new machine today, and was going to order a PCIe NIC for it as well, until I took a closer read through the manual. "In single VGA card mode, use first the PCIe 2.0 x16_1 slot for a PCI Express x16 graphics card to get better performance." But the PCIe 2 x4 slot directly below the x16_1 ...

100Mbit, yes. Gigabit is much harder (to the tune of several hundred pounds). And if you want to mix MTUs in a simple manner, you can tack another 50% on that for a layer-3 switch. Yes, but very very few home networks need a gigabit switch. Also, the OP was running a Linux router so L3 switch isn't...

This is quite the thread! Allow me weigh in on a few things... @jessekopelman/Monkeh16 Managed switches, especially 100mbit, are very easy to come by. I'm in the business so I get some (HP 2424M) from contacts I know, but some I pick up as the local college/businesses upgrade their network and hand ...

While that fan isn't silent, it's certainly possible to make one that has no moving parts. Look into ionization fans. However, these have a few disadvantages as well, such as generating ozone, running at high voltage, not generating a lot of CFM for their size, and likely being impossible to find in...

Figured out the problem. When I updated my Gigabyte BIOS, immediately after installing I rebooted into the setup and set the BIOS protection. Unfortunately, this prevents the BIOS from updating the DMI pool, which it needs to do every time it's updated. (Note: Gigabyte doesn't mention anything about...

@Trav1s: Yeah, that's the new one that has issues. I wish Gigabyte would leave the old, or even just the previous version of the driver up for download, but it's not even on their FTP. :( @bonestonne: Sure, if you have them handy, just upload it to rapidshare, megaupload, or wherever. I'm not sure i...

Option 3 looks nice. Just be careful you aren't blocking any heatsink airflow with your hard drive, or worse, sucking the hot air right off the hard disk onto the CPU's heatsink. I know my VIA Mini-ITX boards have massive heatsinks for a good reason. If you get good airflow between the components it...