7600gs load is right around 50w. cant remember exactly how much, but i believe its between 40-50w. I think xbitlabs has a power consumption listing of it if you want the exact number. It's actually much less than this. 14W idle, 27W load was what xbitlabs measured, although worth noting is that the...

I'd get any router listed here . You might want to consider running DD-WRT firmware; I've been running it for the past couple months, and it's a huge improvement over the junk firmware most router manufacturers supply. At the very least, I'd buy a device that at least supports open source firmware. ...

It is fundamentally a newer OS, with virtualized hardware control, SUSE-Linux networking code, metatagging-support for the upcoming WinFS, hardware-level crypto, a completely different driver model, paging, caching, and swapping built in, not to mention incremental shadow-backups. . .it's a complet...

I've been using FireFox lately, and it's a really great product. The new spell checking feature is really, really sweet. I've tried to find some add-on for IE7 that's comparable, but I have yet to find any free, comparable products.

I like my coffee thick and black. Gritty sludge at the bottom is icing on the cake. Sugar is for sissies.

My question if I were to switch to Vista 64 bit Ultimate edition would I notice any performance increase? In theory, yes. In practice, no. There were a lot of performance tweaks that were made for Vista, but it's offset by a lot of pork that's been added. Aero, the disk indexing and security featur...

Hi! I'd like to get a new PC to act as a firewall. The current one is too loud for the missus, and probably eats too much power. The desired specs: * quiet! * dual network (ethernet) * low power! * capable of running 24x7 No need for big CPU, lots of RAM, audio, etc, as it will run Linux, headless....

It's way too early to make any performance judgment calls based on what I've seen thus far. It seems like Anandtech was testing with what I'd consider a pre-alpha setup at best.

His feeling is that this connection is inherently electrically noisy and some nastyness could somehow get into the post D-A audio. If a hard drive was delivering corrupted data due to electrical interference, the least of your worries would be corrupted audio. Such a computer wouldn't even be stabl...

jessekopelm: I'm not striping for throughput or redundancy. I'm striping to avoid using generic Windows drivers. Any RAID would do this but RAID 0 makes full use of my storage capacity. For more on this or for anyone who wants to get up to date on PC audio check out http://www.imageevent.com/cics I...

I still have to wonder if the security model is strong enough. Without any knowledge of the matter it sounds like this traffic encryption is created by the vendor and is thus vendor specific and not generally peer-reviewed. In the case of Homeplug, it uses triple DES encryption. There are more rece...

I just have to say this once and for all; I hate routers. Has man ever made something with such a low rate of success? Admittedly, they can be finicky. That said, I've had great success with my WRT54G. My router has been running steady for the last twelve days with DD-WRT, running a number of servi...

Your power consumption calculations demonstrate how energy conservation and economic rationalism are in competition with each other. Its hard to recover the cost of energy efficient components though reduced electricity bills. It shows that electricity is too cheap - and that's not going to change ...

The machine I'm building is going to be for Media Center development, so web hosting isn't an option for me. Mostly, my biggest interest is whether or not I'm going to get lower idle power consumption with the Brisbane 3600+ or an L2 stepping C2D. Idle seems particularly important, because I think t...

I tried to find the information where Palindroman elaborated on the details of that power consumption (I'd be very interested), but I couldn't.

I have yet to see anyone who's had that much success with undervolting/underclocking. Most people seem to report better results with CNQ.

I've been looking at similar configurations. Based on numbers I've seen floating about the web, < 40 watts probably isn't going to happen. I think a minimal C2D or A64 system is going to draw 60-90 watts at idle, although admittedly the information is a bit lacking. The 690 chipset seems to be the m...

Devolo's FAQ confirms my fear: the dLAN adapter shouldn't be plugged into a surge suppressor, because the noise filters attenuate the data signal. The technology may be convenient, but don't forget this serious drawback. Not being the electrician expert, what does that mean exactly? That the signal...

I've got a Linksys WAP54G. I don't know any other info about it offhand. Are there any good, free , 3rd party firmwares out there? Everything I've heard of was made for the router versions. I've heard alot about 3rd party firmwares and the extra features they have and am interested in trying one ou...

I've been using Tomato on my WRT54GL. Less configurable than DD-WRT, but the interface is better (simpler). I haven't tried Tomato, but I personally think the interface for DD-WRT is really intuitive, simple, and effective. And the help files are truly amazing (so much better than linksys, one has ...

I've been running DD-WRT on my Linksys WRT54G V4 router, and it's ridiculously awesome. Features I've been using this far: 1. Static DHCP leases are really nice for setting up server internally 2. UPnP reporting page is awesome. Much better management/reporting 3. DDNS features--it supports a bunch ...

I would prefer to see cars banned, actually - imagine the outcry! Believe it or not, there are bigger problems than light bulbs. Logistically, that's probably not feasible. Assuming it were, the plan would probably entail decades of migration away from automotive transportation. People aren't going...

550w model looks interesting. From what I can gather, the GT variants have these additional features:

* Software control PSU, for maximum performance
* Adjustable alarm settings for system health

...whatever those are. Hopefully SPCR review will follow shortly.

Well somebody had mentioned power factor, so I decided to do a little lightbulb shootout to get to the bottom of things. I'll start with the data table. Wow. Very nice info. :) Quick suggestion: could you mark in the table which bulbs are CFL and which are incandescent? I'm guessing you have one 60...

I wonder why they don't make LCD displays with 2048x1536 resolution. 2048x1536 is a rather common maximum resolution for graphics cards. I would have thought it would make for a logical size between 1600x1200 and 2560x1600. Probably because the trend for monitor resolutions has been moving away fro...

Also, if you get a WRT54G, you might want to make sure you get a version that can run third-party firmware. I believe the WRT54GS and WRT54GL (?) are both capable as well.

The first computer my family had was a 386 something-or-other with a cyrix math co-processor, or some junk like that. My dad bought a 125 MB disk drive, and most of his friends were scratching their heads wondering what he was going to do with all that space. :lol: The first computer I actually boug...

Someone told me the other day that the downside to hybrids is that they don't last past 100K miles. Is this true as well for electric cars despite their having (I guess) no moving parts? This is false. The batteries in Prius (and most hybrids, I believe) are warrantied to 100,000 miles. It doesn't ...

You're free to believe whatever you want to, here is the study. http://cnwmr.com/nss-folder/automotiveenergy/ It was conducted by CNW Research. It states that it's 450 pages, so it might take you a while to go through it all. I believe that it became press-worthy (which is different than "people ca...

While I agree with the overall tone of the Original Poster, this: personally, i think this is one of those things that...is really just a PR move to capitalize on this whole climate change craze. ...I don't buy. A Public Relations campaign implies that someone is trying to change the public's opinio...

Could someone help me understand how the GHz of the processors of today that are rated as 1.8, 1.7, etc., compare with the processor that I purchased with my notebook 3 years ago. If you're asking how a computer clocked a gigahertz slower could outperform your current PC (I'm not sure if this is wh...