The SP1614N I bought last week (not from NewEgg) is literally almost as loud at idle as the 20GB 7200-rpm Western Digital it was supposed to replace. In fact, they sound almost identical. I am extremely disappointed! It's got a JVC motor. If you happen to get a Nidec, you'll probably be satisfied, b...

I think part of the problem we are having is that our machines do not crash under high power draw situations......which is just plain weird. Glad you found your fault and fixed it....I take it you have a nicer PSU now ?? :P :D Hoping it gets here tomorrow; thanks for asking :? At the moment, I have...

Is there maybe a BIOS update? It should not work the way you described. Perhaps you'd be best to get the motherboard and/or CPU replaced under warranty.

Just a few days ago, I also had the problem of my hard drive not starting up reliably (or even power cycling while the computer was on). Also, high power draw (games, stress test, etc.) would crash the computer. It was a bad Antec power supply.

Bump, because Half-Life 2 still isn't out

I've been waiting for so long to say it...

"I'm green! I'm green!"

It probably won't last, but at least it happened

trodas wrote:Im simply doomed to live with poor 200x12

In fact, 200x12 is better for folding than 225x10.5.

Idle Noise : WD2500JD 41.7 dB/A@0.7" ST3200822AS 0.0 dB/A@0.7" Surely there's a mistake here? They probably just didn't get accurate noise measurements on the Seagate for some reason (maybe too low), so they didn't include them. Don't trust the noise stats at SR anyway. It's a great place for perfo...

Yeah, trodas, I've been keeping my eye on you the last couple of days. You went from teal straight to green in one day!! As frustrating as it is to be stuck for so long at 99/100, I'm happy that you're contributing that kind of horsepower to the team. Fold on! And just hope that you don't have to go...

If you are upgrading an older computer without onboard SATA ports, you should also consider sticking with PATA drives for now. SATA will not give you extra performance. The Western Digital drive will only be marginally faster in games, so if that's the only performance that matters to you, you shoul...

Western Digital makes excellent high-performance 7200-rpm boot drives for desktops, and they tend to be very reasonably priced. I am a fan of WD. However, admittedly, they whine (and the seeks aren't terribly quiet either). While the whine may not be noticeable to you during a short listen to a mode...

It's the digital-versus-analogue factor that makes DVI win over D-Sub, not the parallel-versus-serial argument. SATA does not carry an analogue signal, so the comparison is not quite appropriate.

Or a strategically-placed piece of Saran Wrap...

Thanks, Copper :) Took me a long time (almost two days -- seemed like forever!) to get over the hump from 102 to 100. I'm happy to not have to switch to Page 2 in the EOC Stats anymore; it feels more like I've accomplished something now. I think I'll take a break from checking my stats for a while. ...

(#100; yay me!)

Leave me the F#$* alone. Trying to help out the team and all I get is this crap. Maybe Macrumors would appreciate the points... :evil: Now calm down... As long as you don't write a virus-like installer like a certain someone did not too long ago, and you don't generate any bad publicity, then nobod...

Well it looks like I got ya, Putz. It was exciting racing, thanks for the challenge. Had I not added the extra machine I don't think I would have stood a chance. It won't be long before you join the front page and I look forward to seeing you there. Good work! It was a close race until yesterday, a...

Copper wrote:You're kicking butt!

Dude, you're green!!

12V DC and AC, depending on the application works great in houses for quite a few items. Most electronics run on either 12V or 5V, including TVs, stereo and our computers. The first think you notice after the 110Volt wire is a power supply to reducre the voltage to 12 or 5 V. The issue as identifie...

Putz, I feel as though I was setup. :) You're kicking butt! I got lucky with some good Tinkers on my AMDs, that's all! Now it's your turn to start kicking some butt!! You've now passed me, and I think you'll hold on to your lead, especially with your new hardware. Nice race, and I look forward to f...

I am just barely holding on to my lead, as your EOC-reported PPD have been consistently higher than mine! And just as I dumped a bunch of points, so did you! Now that you have your third system up, you should be able to pass me within a day or two :( Oh well; fold on! (I've been resisting the urge t...

This is particularly easy, yet spectacularly superfluous when talking about ordinary data (documents, multimedia, etc.). Most of us (and I think mpteach said so as well) back up only our irreplaceable data , since a day or two of downtime on one of my machines is usually only a minor annoyance, but ...

Of course Task Manager won't run in Linux! But "top" will.

haysdb wrote:13 of my 14 clients have 237 to 249 point Tinkers. My PPW is way up

Probably because most of your folding muscle is made by AMD (as is mine).

I'm loving the Tinkers (PPW way up); if anybody wants to send me their work folders whenever they get Tinkers, I'd be happy to trade for some Gromacs!

I think any nasty virus that could wipe all my drives could probablly also wipe a newtwork drive also. In my proposed solution, the backed-up drive image wouldn't even need to be visible on the network. It's a true set-and-forget solution that should work as well as anything short of an off-site ba...

Assuming the devices to be powered require less than 48V, if the stepdown mechanism at the device end is of the self-regulating variety (think Zalman FanMate), a voltage drop from say 48 to say 45V in the line wouldn't matter. However, I was under the impression that a DC-DC voltage-fixer-upper* wou...

My reasons:

a) To feed my obsessive compulsive behaviour tendencies.

b) To be a proud member of this community.

Sounds good, Copper-slash-MilleniumLens. Now your challenge is to get those parts up-and-running before one of us hits #100!

(Damn... I might have to order some more parts of my own!)

Then what about 48V DC? The addition of a DC supply is the more-significant part of my idea, since it seems to me that a "simple" 48V-12V step-down would be much more efficient heat-, noise-, and space-wise than the typical AC-DC converters. Would voltage drop/current leakage still be a problem at 4...

MilleniumLens, care to race to #100? After a very disappointing showing versus burcakb, I hope this is a more appropriate match-up. We're neck-and-neck for a week running. I have a couple hundred points on you, but your consistent PPW seems to be more than a match for my wildly fluctuating point ret...