Hah! Good point. You talked me into it. RMA in process.

Hey, I was just curious if everyone has received their prizes? I have a feeling someone else may have received a free power supply if my Paypal home address was used; versus the one provided. Ah well. Heh. That's what I get for moving!

Heh. Well.. -$25 mail in rebate that I'd lose for the 9600GT, -$22.50 for restocking fee, -$? for shipping fees. Yeah.. it's not worth it on my end; that's a full tank of gas! *grin* It still sucks though. Enjoy the card!

Heh. Of course I want the faster card but for what I'm going to be using it for, computer modeling and some simulation stuff with Crysis maybe, I'm not sure if it'd change things much. I don't game much beyond my 360. Add in shipping costs and I'm looking at a $50+ loss if I switch cards.

Argh. And I just bought the silent ECS 9600GT for $150. Is it worth the 15% restocking fee though?

Oh wait. I still have to send in the stupid rebate form in to knock it down to $125.

I was curious how much this would really alter my MPG and decided to follow some of the hypermiling advice over the course of my last fill up. I drive a 2005 Scion tc with an EPA MPG rating of 22/30. I drive a combo of highway and local roads and managed to get close to 33MPG. Hah. I think the drive...

Basically what my interests entail and the stuff in between.

You can also have your current optical drive converted to either silver or black using a vinyl dye service. Performance-PCs offers such a service for $20.

Interesting product. Wish the webpage had more info; FAQ is missing.

Heh. Too bad the Corvette isn't known for it's great commuter vehicle properties.

Me too. I'd be curious to hear more about their hybrid diesel plans..

I'd be curious to see that TV spot as well.

*chuckle* Have you seen the concept sketches of a convertible version?

Loremo article

After its 2009 release in Europe, the Loremo will be redesigned to reach the North American market the following year.

Hrm... could we move this thread to Off Topic?

Bummer. I would hope that such an initiative would at least make it easier to recycle, or at least bring it to peoples attention. There's very little attention given to recycling electronic devices where I live in the States; let alone batteries, fluorescent bulbs, etc.

Save and reuse what ever you can, fix what you can, donate or sell what you don't need and recycle what's beyond redemption. My 4 year old laptop is starting to slowly fall apart, but there's a bevy of parts on ebay. My TV's about 9 years old, and yes I'll probably upgrade and sell the old unit. The...

With effect from July 2007, the UK's Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Regulations require that all producers of electrical equipment are now obliged to pay for recycling of household electrical goods, where previously this bill was met by councils or items were not recycled at all. T...

This is all a very circuitous and rambling argument; not very well thought out, and backed up with a statement like, " I don't need to buy into the Blueray hype either because I can trust to good ol' pirates to provide me with another distribution channel " doesn't help. I'm sure everyone here reali...

Well.. there are plenty of places that offer a variety of heat sinks. You could probably even get a free sample or two out of a few places.

A quick search on Goolge for "custom heatsink" brought up a bevy of links.

Just a few:

Alpha Novatech

Aavid Thermalloy

Cooliance

In Russia, heatsink mounts you.

Hrmm.. do you think one of these might work with the existing D201GLY2 mounting mechanism? Hard to tell what the fin spacing is on the first/

Heatsink1

Heatsink2

Hrm. Hopefully they'll eventually expand outside of CA for the Aptera, and outside of the EU for the Loremo.

Interesting.

Does it support HDCP or not? Somewhat conflicting info on the product page. Probably more power efficient than a 6200.

Sweet. Well after the move to a house next month and starting/finishing another ITX system, I'll have to get back to my D201GLY box. I'll have to get a flexible PCI riser and cut an opening for the PCI bracket.

*grin* True. But for what this system would cost now, I'd be much happier adding multiple OCed quad-core systems to my render farm.

Cool. Mark me down as being corrected. Bathman, have you really stressed that system? I've been thinking of tossing in a PCI 6200 for my D201GLY using a Pico120; simply because Linux graphics support is lacking running the SIS chipset.

I could easily be happy using this at work for 3D rendering. Although with the 8-core Nehalems coming out towards the end of the year what would be the point?

If you want to use anything beyond the onboard graphics, I doubt a PicoPSU will be able to provide the required amps. Your might be able to use something like a Sparkle SPI220LE?

Do a search for hdparm, Linux or Windows, or revosleep; Windows only. Only useful for secondary drives though and not a system drive.

Well. Like I said, they go quickly and you're best bet is to look up the user name from time to time. However, it looks like he has another system up for bid similar to the one I purchased.

Used Aaeon mini-itx sytstems on ebay

Hey. I just picked up a decent deal on this system on ebay that I thought other people might be interested in. Aaeon EMB-852T motherboard; with onboard CF option 1.6Ghz Pentium M w heatsink and 60mm fan 512MB RAM Toshiba MK4032GAX 2.5 hard drive Enhance ENP-2322B Flex ATX 220w PSU Sharp 15" 1024x768...