We also have sata express coming soon, some say broadwell other say skylake... but this should give the full bandwidth of pcie lanes to SSDs via sata express. Which is fine if you're building a new system, I have no plans to upgrade mine, but I might just want a nice super fast PCI-E SSD at some po...

http://hexus.net/tech/news/storage/56857-samsung-making-pcie-based-ssds-ultrabook-designs/ This fits the 80mm version of the mini-PCI-E connector and boasts incredible speeds that blow SATA-3 devices out of the water. I expect that this will have TRIM support and hope that this is a Samsung native d...

I've been using a similar technology for over a decade. It's called...[drum roll]...opening the window. Which is fine, if you don't have screaming children outside, or foxes attempting reproduction, or live next to a motorway, or its -10c outside. For the rest of the time a quite computer may be th...

Most of the people who would buy this wont have the same priorities as the average SPCR reader, they will be interested in performance first and noise second. Those people also tend to spend a lot more on their computer equipment than Silent PC fanatics do (overall), so this product is certainly aim...

Here is some very useful info. http://hexus.net/tech/news/cooling/56849-noctua-demo-cpu-cooler-active-noise-cancellation/ There are NO speakers, read to find out how the technology works. This is directly from Noctua (courtesy of Hexus). http://www.noctua.at/main.php?show=rotosub_anc_project Andy

I was going to post this, but I got beaten to it :) I found this, which is simply a re-distribution of information from the above source - so sadly adds nothing new to the mix. http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Noctua-Active-Noise-Cancelling-Cooler,news-44450.html Although I have absolutely no interest ...

And if this was correct the risk would be zero, not some small percentage. Please either cite evidence or a personal example that proves that my example is inferior, otherwise your statement is as worthless as it seems compared to my example of scanning PC's for viruses in such a manner for 10-year...

I wouldn't remove your hard disk (or SSD) and connect it to another PC because of the risk of infection. The risk of infection is to tiny its barely worth mentioning. Having personally used this approach on several thousand drives I had the machine I was virus scanning with infected once, so by my ...

The only truly effective way to virus scan a machine is to pull the drive out of it and scan it on another machine. That is where i would suggest you start as there is a good chance that there is a virus as well as malware on your machine. With some anti-malware programs (e.g. MBAM Free) yopu can al...

Stalin was an atheist... check Stalin was a Communist .. check An explicit and important doctrine in communism is atheism and the eradication of religion over time.. check Stalin, like Lenin before him, and Krushchev after him, began a campaign against religious institutions...check I would say the...

Great. Now you can correct all your other mistakes as well as your sources. If you point out my "mistakes", I will either edit them if I have made a mistake, or give reasons why I have not edited them if I disagree with your opinion. Simply stating that someone has made "mistakes" that the author i...

You call me ignorant. I call you ignorant. An impasse? No, because it's not only a matter of opinion. It's testable. What a concept! Anyone can look up this stuff. Take "haram" for instance. You have to be seriously ignorant not to know what it means. I say it means something very different from wh...

I'd say (as an atheist myself) that Richard Dawkins is a pretty good example of a both fundamentalist and militant atheist. Fundamentalist Atheist "yes", militant "no". How anyone could describe Dawkins as "Militant" is to either not understand the meaning of the word itself, or themselves be so de...

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Cougar-Fan-Cooling-Dual-X,news-43089.html I have no idea whether the manufacturing is good, or the product itself is good, or even if the concept is a good idea (in real-terms). The concept looks good, but I am not a mechanical engineer so I don't know whether there are...

Curse you, Pythagoras! Curse you, Euclid! So why buy a large TV? Get a Kindle with 1600 * 1200 resolution and hold it up against your eyeballs. We would if not for Emmert's Law. Curse you, Emmert! My point exactly. For my needs right now a bigger screen would bring no benefits at all unless it also...

I like this thread because it brings up a question I have been trying to answer for some time. At some (unknown) point in the future I might want to get myself a 42" LED TV to replace my 24" Monitor. My thinking is as follows, I don't actually own a TV (and have not done for 6-years), my housemate h...

Great to see another fanless PSU and the fanless options increase to 600W. 600W is too big for virtually all systems so I hope they also produce some lower power units. 650W, and yes, its total overkill for most people, but at least its now possible. Fingers crossed on lower power CHEAPER platinum ...

Sounds impressive, but can Enermax deliver this spectacular sounding product with no coil whine and that doesn't cost as much as a kidney. http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Enermax-Silent-PSU-Platinum-650W,news-42997.html The coil whine should not be an issue at all due to Enermax being a quality manufa...

Have a Merry Atheist Christmas like me and my family if you don't believe in the Christian definition of Christmas.

Whatever you do though, enjoy yourself, have fun and don't do too many stupid things.


Andy

A Google search brings up ~100000 schools. Add in not just the wages for this person but also all of the other costs associated and you're looking at a number that's big, really big. You can't be specific but it's in the order of 10^9 big per annum. It would not surprise me if it was actually much ...

Not all religions preach violence, but all religions preach a respect for faith. I have no respect for someone who believes something magical with no evidence, therefore I have no respect for "faith" itself and even less for those who preach it. I also find the whole concept of "Blasphemy" immoral ...

http://www.hardocp.com/news/2012/12/21/ ... kage_steal

Delivery-Thief.


Andy

Over 25% of the UK population is now "openly Atheist", I say "over 25%" because all of the information that we have at hand suggests that parents are more likely to be Religious than their children and as we know parents will fill in the Census often not even giving their children the choice. Also p...

I also knows its flawed on a number of levels and the superimposed red lines are a joke, but there is still one very important point there. There is no correlation at all between computer games sales and gun murder rate, but there is a much better correlation between gun availability and gun murder ...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wor ... n-murders/


Andy

I watched both Obama speeches--I didn't notice any call for "drastic solutions," just "meaningful" action. In the Newtown speech, though, he indicated that Americans had reached a crossroads, and he seemed pretty fed up with the gun lobby. More power to him, but let's see what action will result. "...

"We also accept as a normal state of affairs that children stare into little stupid screens 24/7 playing violent video games that greedy nihilistic a-hole game designers churn out." Tens of millions of people all over the world play graphically violent computer games very day, just a few hours ago ...

I will repeat something that I have said before. Why does this happen in America so frequently relative to the population.? Canada, has a similar quantity of gun ownership to America and yet there is considerably less gun crime overall (per capita) and a lack of frequent school massacres (per capita...

Something strange has happened with speedfan or my motherboard. I was testing the fan that came with the Hyper 212 Evo via speedfan, I had logged fan speed percentages in 5% increments and the fan speeds in rpm, I swapped over to the AC F12 and speedfan no-longer showed a fan speed. I tried all 12 c...

Yet again another tragic waste of human life that could have been prevented. She is a really tough, manipulative old bat, who is blind to any argument except her own. I have no idea who this woman is but your description reminds me of a Winston Churchill quote. "A fanatic is one who can't change his...