well, the PC is in my room, which can get quite warm itself, and I usually like to leave it on overnight as it compresses videos. which only takes a couple hours at most, and for the rest of the night it'll usually sit idle. so to me if its the difference between 41, to 38 degrees, i'll take it. Ho...

Do what other people who managed to make that much did. If you can create the next google, facebook, etc... then that money and more will be yours.

Its pretty clear that the Psu just can't deliver sufficient power. Maybe it was near the limit already earlier but its Max power has decreased due to age and makes other components fail. I'd say forget DC/DC and just get a regular Psu unless you actually prefer fixing problems to actually using the ...

The OP said that he won't be able to upgrade yet, but after 2 years, so why is he asking this already? The available products change massively in 2 years.

bonestonne wrote: I think my D-Link router has a firewall built into it, but I've never used it, and I'm sure viruses have gotten past it onto my other sister's computers, not sure how though.

She shouldn't click OK to shady popups on the web.

I only have the built-in firewall enabled in my Windows XP. And that is actually pretty much enough, as long as you know what you are doing. But for the general majority of users, this would not be the case.

Diminishing returns. Assume that upgrading from a hard drive to an Intel SSD will make some previously slow things awesomely fast. Now upgrading to the fastest available SSD will make these things even a bit faster. But is that little bit more anymore worth the loss in trust?

Im, I assumed that two outputs was generally the limit on graphics cards because that's what you mostly see, so I didn't even look! The good folk at google say there's a few options out there so I think that would be the way to go if I can find one to suit. Thanks for prompting me to start looking!...

SwiftSilent wrote: I work from home. I'm not doing processor-intensive tasks, but having a snappy system makes my work more efficient and pleasurable.

Get a SSD. Do the programs you need to run for work become more and more bloated every two years btw?

How about replacing your current gpu with one that has two digital outputs and one analog?

I'm on my second warranty replacement. The first 2 sucked out of the box. This third one makes annoying loud noises every once in a while EVEN WHEN IT'S NOT MOUNTED BY THE OS but at least seems to work.

I've never been disappointed by any of my several drives before these ones.

EMFs? Optical mice have a led and a camera, essentially. The old kind of mice that had rubber balls, still had leds and light sensors, but they just were inside the mouse, tracking hole patterns in disks that were spun by the ball. I don't see how any kind of mouse should be any better in this regar...

The bullfighter has no practical purpose as a human or animal. First of all, I am just as much against cruelty to animals in general and bullfighting in particular as you guys. However, that statement is a bit harsh. Who are we to judge the practical purpose of certain professions? You could just a...

Games? Hmm, at least they should run at full resolution with good fps nowadays: Best PCIe Card For ~$125: Radeon HD 5770 512MB Great 1920x1200 performance in most games I haven't ever felt a need to scale fonts larger in any game, usually they are huge as is and hardly any games even have that much ...

I'm puzzled - with $200 you could just buy a Titan fenrir yourself, try it out, and if not happy then still have money for yet another cooler or even two. May I ask what's the point of donating that much by yourself???

Umm, I'd rather take my 2560x1600 resolution and large fonts, than a small resolution with lego fonts. Why can't you just scale the fonts on what ever you are reading?

At least my performance drop was very obvious: During a disk operation, the disk would start to click like "chaa-tsirp, chaa-tsirp, ..." during which no IO progress. So for example trying to play back video from the said drive, the video would simply stop for the duration of the clicking and then co...

Now that I would love to see :twisted: An entire cinema of people physically trying to dodge "shit" being thrown at them from a character on the screen, I would pay to go to the cinema for that :shock: Andy I guess the time was not right for the group Jumalan Teatteri (Theatre of God) back in 1987....

he is going for personal insults. Not quite correct to say so, silly boy. More properly I've answered to "out of the blue" offending phrases (not to mention your silly off topic, or the use of unpolite words such "shit" it is). So, please, do a favor to your gentle thread owner (me): make my day, g...

Sorry for maybe appearing hostile. In any case, nobody else could answer the original question anyway and I'm far too used to see increasingly cunning ways to spam.

ces: Car analogy - you are getting a shopping bag for an 1km grocery store trip twice a week and you are analyzing horse power, torque, and even timings of the cylinder valves.

Shouldn't you contact the site owner directly? Is the front page that messy that the contact info can't be found? I'd call this message advertising, and it isn't really even in the correct subforum.

Lately I took my last crt, a 19" model, to our local recycling center. They told me that nobody will want it, so it was discarded. And they are right, there just is no point to get a crt nowadays (apart the occasional exception, like always). Remember crts even had their size reported wrong - my so ...

Neil: Curiously my S-IPS LCD display draws more power when displaying a white screen than black. I've never understood why.

I do a lot of freelance quick fixes, so I usually just download the whole site, make a copy, then do the fixes on the copy, then upload any changed files. So I'll have a copy of the original site, and a copy of the changed site. Yeah, it's kind of crude but for that type of work it's easier. You mi...

What is the $ target for a GPU? Specifically I'm interested in a combo with both Sapphire Vapor-X 5850 and 5870 - there would be so much in common between the two that I guess it wouldn't be 2x as much as a single GPU review?

Couldn't you at least mention what Titan Fenrir is? I'm guessing a cpu cooler without browsing the link. Also I'd prefer to know the exact amount that is missing before blindly donating for one specific review.

Other than that, the idea seems sound.

If you want it to work for 5 years, get one that has a 5 year warranty. That's how I buy all my PC parts.

I assume you use a version control system, so you would commit your work to a version control server regularly, and thus the reliability wouldn't really be a problem?

I'm running 2560x1600 pixels and 60 Hz on my display. I have one dvi cable. The cable obviously has to support dual link. But if you get a monitor that supports more pixels than 1920x1200, then you will get such a cable bundled anyway. Mine came with two - and that means I could use them to connect ...

I thought there was a good discussion going on in the other thread... Did you just cave in or what?