Okay, I'm more or less convinced to return the Kingston drive. OCUK does accept returns and I didn't peel off the shrink wrap. OCUK has a 'this week only' deal on an OCZ Summit. OCZ Summit Basically it's a fiver off. Anyone know about these drives? This drive uses a Samsung controller with a ton of...

I wonder what could be accomplished with enough training and self-discipline. Kind of like the Mentat from Dune. Well, they did have drugs too, so not just training and self-discipline. I doubt it would be much, else it would be more wide spread. You can train to have high tolerance for pain but th...

Animals have evolved to automatically focus on the unknown, seek patterns where there are none etc as it aids in survival in the wild. Unfortunately all these data processing occurs automatically. In the future if we have engineered humans it would be nice to have conscience control over these func...

Well the hope was it wouldn't matter too much, since the <5mm clearance is only on one side of the (large) heatsink surface, covering <10mm of it. The rest of the heatsink (including all the part directly above the CPU) should have >50mm clearance (i think about 60mm). Since fans are circular, I'm ...

Might it be that the Kingston drive is okay to keep? I'd say no. Random writes, the cause of the stuttering problems that made JMicron infamous, are still very low. From some other reviews, it looks like this drive is just fast enough that it won't stutter, but I'd be concerned; knowing that perfor...

Most children could also tell you that they would have had to have worked 12 hours a day during the industrial revolution. It was the norm for domestic servants to work 14 hours a day with half a day a week off. Funny how you chose to ignore this sentence: Anyway, of course we can come up with exam...

Bear in mind that the E6300 is a Pentium Dual Core (not a Core 2 Duo as the 7xxx series. The differentiation is mainly marketing. The only missing feature from the E6300 is 2MB cache versus 3MB of the E7x00 series but it gains Virtualisation support which is arguably more useful. I’d rather have ...

Is dampening very useful in reducing PC noise?
No.

Is it useful at all in reducing PC noise?
Maybe.

Do people waste too much time thinking about it when they should probably just go ahead and suspend their HDD or break the bank on an SSD?
Yes.

Thanks very much, I can understand it now. Though in theory there is the so called sound masking effect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_masking), different sounds have different characters (e.g. different spectrum and tones). Unless it becomes somewhat "white" like noise (flat spectrum), our...

The margins are so thin I'd hate to be in the PC component industry at the moment - especially hard drives. It's difficult to differentiate your product and selling price is king. That's why manufacturing capability trumps design. If you do innovate, you can get it to market faster/cheaper; and if ...

Hmm... not sure about that SSD. No cache and JMicron controller. Doesn't sound promising. Way to rain on my parade! I didn't actually do any research on SSDs, other than to read the reviews on the manufacturer's site. It's was the cheapest 64 GB drive there was. Hopefully it'll be all right, but it...

I think <5mm of clearance for your fan is untenable. I think typically you want more like 20+ mm. Given that this is is a low profile fan, I think the situation is even worse (ie lower profile will work even worse in a low clearance situation).

Why not add a fan inside the closet. Nothing fancy, just a little floor/desk fan to better circulate the air. I'd think the kind that can be tilted to point straight up would work best. Good airflow right outside the case should make about a 5C temperature difference.

Currently, the average number of hours worked per week is 44 in the UK compared to 40 in the rest of the EU. France recently introduced a 35 hour working week. Yes, because we have labor laws that prevent companies to force people from working beyond ~40hrs/wk (varies country to country) without dr...

There is also a considerable difference between what we could call "decent values" and Puritanism. I don't know about that. There is certainly a commonality in terms of the ideas that there is something sacred about working for ones daily bread and that modern society has somehow fallen away from t...

Can anyone possibly give any specific dimensions for the size of CPU cooler tha would fit? This would be really appreciated. The Scythe big shuriken is only 58mm tall (but wide). Does anyone know if this does or does not fit? There is another thread [oops, it was the second post of this thread] abo...

I think the SPL in even a very quiet room is actually around 20dBA. The problem is that your ears can hear things that are well below the ambient noise floor. I'd say even 10dBA below the noise floor is hardly a problem (until you get ambients < 10dBA, as 0dBA is the limit for typical hearing). Scor...

I don't consider that the economic pros and cons are what is of greatest importance here. Peoples feelings are what matter because their feelings will inspire them to vote for one or other political party, to demonstrate or to riot, or even to bring down the government. You don't think moral object...

So to sum it up I'm all for socialism (helping the needy) and totally against communism (equal pay for the lazy) UBI has nothing to do with equal pay . . . It is more akin to a minimum wage than a salary cap. The idea is that you get a certain government subsidy, no matter what your job is, and any...

Yes, when I wrote "you want," I meant some generic person not micksh. I thought it was obvious that the "you" was not micksh, but we all know what happens when one assumes things. Perhaps what I should have written is the more formal, "one wants." In the US, at least, that sort of writing has fallen...

You need to qualify what you mean by "low" power and "decent" performance. The lowest draws for any current generation graphics card seem to be in the 10-15W range. Almost everything but with lowest-end of the current cards will play any game at a decent frame-rate at 1024X768 resolution and medium ...

The most extreme form of parasitic behaviour is theft, robbery, extortion etc. and people who practice these activities are effectively removed from society. This is exactly the type of behavior that welfare is designed to eliminate. Once you start providing some sort of social safety net, you take...

Finally, mini-ITX cases with crippled PSU like Antec ISK-300-65 will make sense when used with Zotac 9300 MB - this CPU would not have to push them to the limit. Just a little performance drop comparing to e5200, should be good for small HTPC. Considering paired with the said motheroard it will be ...

I'm sure Intel would rather you buy a Celeron, actually. We can only speculate. Last I checked, 1Ku pricing for the Atom 330 was $43 - exactly the same as the E1400. Rumor is the Celeron E3200 will also be clocking in at $43. So the question is which one costs less to manufacture for Intel? The Ato...

Previously SPCR's ambient noise level is 19dB when testing those fans, but recently they improves it to a much smaller value. Then the problem is, the previous data is no longer usable for reference, especially for low speed recording. My interest is: Is there an updated SPL for those best rated fa...

I run a small business that is privately funded. If my investors are taxed at a higher rate, then they have less money to give my company. If they give me less money, I have less money to operate on and I can't hire as many people. But could your business survive without government provided service...

Ross1 wrote:but it could be a while before you see an intel SSD killer. who knows how long it will be before something comes along and beats it.

I'd bet on 6 months or less. Might just be a newer Intel SSD, though

thejamppa wrote:

ilovejedd wrote:Remind me again why we still need the Atom on the desktop?

Basicly we don't, that is just what Intel wants us to think...

I'm sure Intel would rather you buy a Celeron, actually. I think it is the ASUS and MSI of the world that think you should buy there extreme-SFF Atom solutions.

If there was no high tax rate then my wife and I might decide that if I did a couple of weeks extra work then we could go on holiday for instance; but if the tax man is going to take almost half my earnings then our view is that it's not worth it. Ok, I'm with you now. Your real issue is not taxati...

. . . Is there some tipping point where too high a tax rate would disincentivize hard work? Quite possibly, but we are far from it in the countries that produce the bulk of the world's wealth. For me there is - I stop taking on work when my earnings reach the 40% tax threshold. I don't "need" the e...