It's worth taking a look at unRaid , which offers these features: - Storage = N drives + 1 parity - Drives can be of different sizes (subject to parity drive being at least equal in size to the biggest drive) - If one drive fails, you can rebuild - If two drives fail, data on the other drives is sti...

NEC (now owners of Packard-Bell?) have this on their Singapore website . The blurb states "NEC's water-cooled PC represents the next generation of revolutionary PCs that incorporates advanced water-cooling technology from Japan." It has a Pentium D 830 inside, and claims the noise level is under 30 ...

Does anyone know what temp the Pentium M runs at inside a laptop? I'm just wondering because on laptops there isn't a lot of space for cooling (although there is certainly heat dissipation through the casing) and apart from the occasional fan whine I don't hear much either.

Unfortunately because of a change in personal circumstances (nothing serious or bad), my folding efforts will be severely curtailed for the forseeable future. It's been a fun ride, and while I never overtook unregistered (how I wish I'd thought of that name!), I did at least just beat WoodsBoy's cav...

Macaholic wrote: Siemper Fold!

Where does this come from? I could understand Semper Fold, from "semper" = "always" in Latin. And I believe "siempre"="always" in Spanish. But Siemper?

Thanks, sgtpokey. I'm more in waiting mode than looking mode at the moment, as we wait to hear when we will move. But from my recent research Dell and Compaq in Asia don't seem to offer Celeron M's and Gateway just doesn't operate in Asia any more. I suspect that part of the problem is that the CPU ...

Clearly trodas was just getting in some practice for Euro 2004. (For those in North America, this is a "real" football tournament.) But trodas, I'm not sure the Czechs will get past the Dutch and Germans. [/troll mode off]

Why folding? It seems that is a lot cash worth of hardware, electricity, and time. Whats the point? No offense meant, I'm just curious. Nate, no offence taken. My viewpoint is I have this powerful CPU sitting around not doing anything most of the time. If it can do something useful, why not? Yes, t...

If you're running Win XP, you might want to try SpeedSwitchXP. I have no personal experience of it, but it's mentioned in one of the posts by Pate in this thread. Coincidentally, he's also in Finland.

My goal is to break into the top 100... Other than that I can't see breaking the top 25 or 50. Having finally made it to the top 100 myself recently, you'll find that it's unfortunately (for the team) not all that difficult. The number of active folders seems to be declining, and in the past couple...

I think one key aspect to CPU power needs is the number of PCs you have. If you have only(!) one, then it has to handle everything right up to video encoding and those latest games. If you're fortunate enough to be able to get more than one, then it can make sense to match the CPU power to specific ...

sonofdbn could you please keep us updated on your descision, I am also interested in getting a small 'silent' pc Thanks for the interest. Perhaps a little more information would help, since my circumstances might be different. Firstly, I have the slight luxury of some time - about a month, because ...

Thanks, David - that was exactly it: "simulation instability".

Sounds like I should take another look at the Mini-ITX's, but then what about the Shuttle Zen? I think it would be easier to assemble although it's a bit bigger, and a 2.5" drive might remove some of the concerns in the review. Is it possible to suspend/hibernate a non-laptop? Regarding the Scythe, ...

How would one abort a WU and then turn it in? Actually I don't really want to know the specifics, but was more wondering if there was some hiccough in my system which might have led to this. I don't believe I ever intentionally aborted a WU, much less submitted it, so it's a mystery, albeit a minor ...

Dirge, I've looked at the VIA systems and mini-itx but costwise it becomes quite expensive once you add in an LCD monitor, DC-DC converter and other parts. The cases aren't very cheap, either - and I don't have a spare humidor/toaster/Commodore lying around! I've also heard that leaving laptops on 2...

Thanks for the comments. I'm surprised there aren't more models which are aimed at this sort of requirement. We're really talking about only an e-mail and browsing appliance, maybe a bit of letter writing and some spreadsheets. A Centrino sounds like the best bet, but I feel like I'm paying for more...

My wife currently use an old Dell PII 266MHz for e-mailing and browsing, but for space reasons I'd like to get a laptop to do this. It might end up in the bedroom, so it has to be quiet - I expect we'll leave it on 24x7 - don't want to boot up just to check e-mail. And it will share a broadband conn...

I just noticed on the EOC stats that one of my (few) machines uploaded a WU which was worth only 6 points! Are there such work units? Or is there a penalty for late WUs (I thought there were just no points given)? I suspect it might be from a PC I had to switch off for a week.

Another software option is VNC - it's similar to PCAnywhere and lets you run (and see) one PC from another PC. It works fine for me, and it's free.

Ive used DTemp, MBM and SpeedFan and all give the same temp reading. I'm not too familiar with MBM, but DTemp and SpeedFan both read the SMART data from the HDD, so it's not surprising they would show the same thing. I do believe that SMART readings are more consistent; my concern is more around te...

My Seagates always seem to run hotter than my old IBM Deskstar or WD drives. Typical temp is 49C or 50C, with no air conditioning running - ambient is around 30C. On the other hand, they do seem to survive. These temps are from reading the SMART data. Slightly OT: I do wonder about how temps get mea...

what CPU should I get for an iDEQ 200N, that can both run HL2 and be underclocked to produce low heat/noise? Doesn't look like anyone has addressed the graphics issue. I have a 200N, and I could NEVER get it to run Halo using the onboard graphics without the game crashing within seconds. (From othe...

unregistered wrote:I will be folding faster than ever soon, so you better catch up fast!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Enjoy your lead while you can. I think my wife's e-mail PC needs an urgent upgrade..... Fortunately for you, I will be away on a business trip next week, so most of my folding will be suspended temporarily.

sonofdbn is #101. One more day for #100. I'm looking forward to getting onto the first page, but my production is very patchy. I have to "manually" monitor on of my main folding boxes and transfer completed WUs to another PC for uploading. My only regret is that much of the progress is from overtak...

After all, EOC seems to be increasing their lead over us day-by-day now (they are now outproducing us by over 1,500 PPD) Somewhere else someone had a theory about how many folding machines would go offline once the summer holidays (in North America) came around and all those students went home. I w...

Tried again with transferring another "stuck" WU to the uploading PC. Uploaded it at 7:01 UCT and when I checked on the Stanford userstats an additional WU AND points were credited by 7:15. Of course it's possible that this was another WU from earlier which was only being credited then, but my next ...

Congratulations, Hortalonus! I think I might make it to the team top 100 in about another month. If I'm kept out by newer, faster folders, so much the better! As long we overtake those Slacintosh users.....

David, I did check with the Stanford stats, and the WUs were credited fairly promptly - I think it was something like within 30 minutes. I think I wasn't clear enough with my question. Here's the situation: on checking with Stanford stats, I saw that I had 2 WUs and 44 points credited after the uplo...

David, thanks for that. One more problem (of course!): I uploaded a unit transferred from the folding PC to the uploading PC, but unfortunately the FAH client on the uploading PC chose that time to upload a unit as well. Now I should be able to check whether I have been credited with the work units,...