peteamer wrote:Def no fireworks then...

Now you tell me! I've been glued to my PC for a fortnight in anticip

I think everything is fine. Certainly the way I understand it. SDA3100BXBOX is the part number of the whole package (including literally the box). Inside you should find a SDA3100AIO3BX processor, a hsf, some thermal paste, uncle Tom Cobley and all (each with their own part number). It's revision E6...

It's been folding for MONTHS and I would hate to think that SPCR is not getting any of my points. And I was getting so close to page 2 of the stats as well... If you check your name at Stanford themselves they say how many boxen they think you have. In your case it is 1 in the last 50 days which me...

SixToes wrote:are there different types of 2.5" drive form factor with different heights?

As above yes. Today's version is 9.5mm, a few years ago there was 12.5mm about, and the caddy in my old Toshiba Satelite could handle 16mm so I presume that existed at some stage!

I voted NO. Purely because I don't see the point. Or to be more accurate I don't think I could hear the difference. My ears can barely hear my bungee mounted 3.5" Samsung (normally only when in sequential seek mode with past-midnight ambient noise). And certainly can't hear my 2.5" Hitachi 4200rpm w...

I have upgraded the kernel on 1 of my boxen today and decided to give fahlog.txt its annual service. A bit disconcerted to find (2/3rds of way down) [14:35:10] Folding@Home Gromacs 3.3 Core [14:35:10] Version 1.70 (February 3, 2006) [14:35:10] [14:35:10] Preparing to commence simulation [14:35:10] -...

I'd be willing to buy any uATX mobo that will provide video, SATA (not just SATARAID but stand-alone SATA, no RAID) and support Win98SE. Is there such a mobo? Not uATX, but the Biostar 200V SFF ticks most of the boxes. (And by coincidence I have tonight reformatted the Win98SE partition on my daugh...

I run a 27% overclock (254 HTT), but most of the time CnQ is engaged so cooling is a doddle and near silence is hardly a challenge. Obviously folding @ 1270MHz is a compromise, but I know 2286MHz is available "on tap" (and 24 hour Prime stable) if I need it for real work!

My load on one of my boxen is p1487 1161 pts and (depending how much CnQ I have - usually 99% of the time) will be a dash over 2 weeks to complete (@ 3.2 pts/hour) But yeah, as per Tibors check your log that all is OK. Another of my boxen had 1 bad shutdown that caused SSE disabled for about 2 weeks...

With a little help from some Xandros users ... I've tried decompressing it in KDE. It should be embedded in your kernel and selected by default. (At least with SuSE it is.) If you are running KDE then try Menu, System, Desktop Applet, kpowersave. (Or at least that is how it is in SuSE). KPowersave ...

If you are drawing say 300W DC and the psu is 75% efficient at that load, the psu will be dissipating 100W of its own heat. A Nexus @ 6V is shifting 18.4cfm (in free air, with any static pressure it is shifting much less) which results in an overall 'system' temp rise of 10 degrees C. What are the ...

As long as you are competant with a screwdriver and soldering iron you should be OK. But of course take care and as soon as you remove the first screw the manufacturer's warranty evaporates. How about grounding ? Do have to connect the PSU to some bigger metalplate in order for it to work? No - as s...

My opinion is based on the purpose & function of the laptop and how/why/when it will be in the bag. Do you need to carry more than just the laptop - daytrips without the charger? Weekly/monthly trips and you need a printer? Will it go on airplanes? How much other stuff (papers, books) do you carry? ...

Could someone please recommend me the largest available dc fan that undervolts well - any 360mm fans out there? Well Papst do a rather nice line of 300mm DC fans that are certified to start from say 28V all the way down to 16V - check out their 1G 300 with M1G074-CF motor. Beware it does weigh 2.2K...

I ran my main PC for a while with the fan removed from the psu. In short I set up my case ventilation with 'positive pressure' - a nice slow 120mm fan on the lower front as an intake, and the psu as the main exit (i.e. most others taped up). I was using a cheapo psu (OEM Allied/Deer) that cost about...

dragmor wrote:Does anyone know where you can get a 220v version.

220V is easy. As before it will take a bit of work to find one for your socket format.

so, what is the best, most inexpensive and accurate way to measure power at the wall socket? I'm happy with the Seasonic PowerAngel: http://www.seasonicusa.com/products.php?lineId=8 Brennenstuhl do something similar with European pinouts - I have the UK version. The cheapest approach (assuming you ...

Welcome to SPCR! The basic (paper based) stats of 80mm fans says you drop below 20dB(A) at round 25cfm. Except as a paper based exercise it is pretty futile hence efforts here to describe what the sound is really like. (Some fans that are genuinely good on paper are horrific in reality due to the na...

Are you looking to fix the Turion in your Sig? Not an expert on Turion/Gigabyte mobos but I would expect CnQ should run without much effort. In default shape it lowers both VCore and HTT but I believe (but never tried) that a quick zap to the table could fix that. ( Tibors and others' votes rule her...

I'm not up for hacking the kernel. Me neither. But I would guess you can set VCore directly anyway in Linux - hopefully one of the gurus will be along shortly to tell you how. In the meantime what CPU do you have? On Athlons I suspect the solution is a quick zap to part of the CnQ module, other AMD...

Buzzing could also be correlated to PSU quality ... true I don't see how this could be related specifically to PFC. In all 3 of my experience it was precisely the vibration of that nasty passive PFC choke that was causing the problem. Are you saying that PFC supplies are not available in USA? I bel...

So a PSU with active PFC is less likely to have electrical humming and buzzing? If this is true then the case for active PFC becomes all the more compelling. In my experience it is 100% correlation. 3 psu I have had with passive PFC have been a PITA - including one of which that was FSP. 2 (or 3) a...

so in regards to what you were describing about efficiency what your thoughts would be reading those two reviews results : http://www.extremeoverclocking.com/reviews/cases/HEC_ACE_Power_480UB_7.html http://www.extremeoverclocking.com/reviews/cases/Hiper_TypeR_480W_6.html. Didn't read right through ...

mid (why not low) budget PSU The reason to pay more for 1 psu compared to another, IMHO, is for improved efficiency. Thus if you are comparing 2 psus that are the same efficiency I would buy the cheaper one. However: you are in a hot climate and have a high power system. Based on that I would recom...

The board has ... no 4-pin 12 V connector. 99.99% likely +5V for VCore then. There were one or 2 mobos that used the single +12V wire in the 20 pin connector to regulate from +12V but they were running beyond the spec of the connector for the thirstier Thunderbirds. At you discovered in your last p...

im333 wrote:It's my first post

Welcome to SPCR!

im333 wrote:... what do you guys recommend

Read the Recommended fans article and check my sig for options that are pretty readily available in the UK (the others may be as well).

The defaults in (SuSE) Linux do this just fine. Folding runs using 'nice' priority, and the CPU load by 'nice' priority tasks does not affect the CnQ calculation. So most of the time my CPU is running with 5* multi, 1.1VCore (and 254MHz HTT).

jewk wrote:... through hdd power adapter used in usb-ide adapter...

USB only provides +5V - many 12V fans will not start at that level.

GamingGod wrote:... how high could i go with it and leave it safely at that speed without worrying about frying it?

My 3000+ runs 2.4 GHz (267HTT) rock solid at stock VCore. I never really tried higher VCore but as per mb2 would expect to get a bit further if I lifted the volts.

I dont game so cant add personal experience, but X-bit labs have done a number of articles with Semprons included in the round-up, including this one specifically aimed at gaming benchmarks. In short a Sempie doesn't have too much to apologise for considering how much cheaper it (& S754) is.