Actually, folding calculations would be done a lot faster if all the people contributing their $$$ of higher electricity bill because of that to a fund for dedicated cluster systems with highly efficient hardware parts instead of let the power suppliers making a fortune out of it. The whole thing be...

From my perspective the threat of me dying from Alzheimer’s is a lot higher than the threat of my dying from climate change phenomena so I fold year round…. but I do it with a bit of a guilty conscience in the summer. Very short sighted. VERY very short sighted. Puts the rest of your post in qu...

Does the mainboard check for fan speeds? If possible turn that off, because I suspect the fan is running too slow and the BIOS might want to shut the computer down to prevent overheating which wouldn't be the case.

Wouldn't it be easier and also show some effect if you get loose of every 2nd of those plastic pieces and leave half of them untouched?

That's why I mentioned it. With all these modes it's still not where I may want it. Perhaps I do want a 8800 GTX for gaming that idles at around 70W on my desktop, where a Radeon 9600 with less than 10W in idle mode would fit just fine (oh and, the 9600 would peak at around 30W if I really drag and ...

Scary... serious or sarcastic?

[some other things have been here before on the more serious side, anyway, won't feed the topic more I guess]

Wouldn't it be nice if we could have two or more different BIOS settings for our hardware at a fingertip? Like having one setup being undervolted for our desktop work, and one for heavy gaming or such like? And not having to enter each and every setting one time after another each time we want to al...

...so that you buy a dell and think you saved X over Y How much were the competitors?

I was about to ask the same... and I thought there might be an answer out there already, just not knowing it. But it seems none of the hardware guys has thought of this much yet, and power saving is not really an issue to them yet. So even with dual boot (like two Windows installations or Linux/Wind...

...and besides the E4600 is 200MHz FSB with 2MB shared Cache and the E6600 is 266MHz FSB with 4MB shared Cache.

About VT: http://www.intel.com/technology/platfor ... /index.htm

So my recommendation would be to go with the Brizzy and a good CPU cooler (the 120UEx is probably overkill, try the Ultima 90 with a 120mm fan) as long as you won't have it under extensive, continuous load while you try and sleep. On a sidenote, I planned on a Scythe Ninja Rev.B for both C2D or X2,...

Long story short: I was looking for a new computer and I often read that C2D rocks. The best bang for the back seemed to be the 6750 model to me. But then I also saw that there may be more energy efficient and better to cool CPUs which is why I looked at AMD 45W rated models. I calculated I might sa...

Wow, thanks for all your fast replies to this topic! Well, which would be the proper board to do both underclocking and overclocking with small steps? I'm currently leaning towards an Asus M2N as recommended in the sticky. Actually I'm not really that into all the OCing, but a tad can't be that bad ...

Hi, currently looking into building an energy efficient and easy to cool, yet powerful system. I saw the 45W X2 "Brisbane" BE-2400 and am wondering now, if maybe an undervolted Core2Duo or 65W versions may be a better choice or what else in the same price range would fit here? Actually, while you're...