I think I'm gonna go with a 9600 pro; it does cost more, but only against the 64 mb 4200, and it should be more futureproof.

I don't care about cooler, I'll just be sticking on a waterblock anyways.

Okay, first, I'm not actually worried about the noise of the stock cooling. Stock cooling is way to unleet... Anyways, I killed my GeForce3 Ti200. I want to order a new card today or tomorrow. I do play games a lot (Wolfenstein ET, BF1942, UT2003, to name a few). I'm not too concerned about video qu...

I think this idea could be adjusted on a large scale to heat my driveway. I hate shovelling snow. How many folding PC's would it take to melt 6 inches of snow over 500 sq feet? Hmm, thats an interesting question. Considerably more interesting than my homework here... I'll get back to you on that as...

Theres a review of that heatsink at www.dansdata.com, you should probably look at at that. As for its value over a minimum speed Zalman, that depends on how sensitive you are to the noise. For the hard drive, I beleive the samsung spin point drives are quieter, there's a review in the storage sectio...

sbabb wrote: Does anybody know if crime really doesn't pay?

Does this sort of folding obsession happen often? Can I be cured? Should I be cured?

Try it and tell us. Depends on the forums... but I'd say yes. I hope not. Most definately not.

Most kits tend to do pretty poorly. A properly designed watercooler, such as my set up, can be nearly to completely silent, while being heavily overclocked. The problem of course is cost; I've spent at least $400 on my cooler set up, not even counting the case ($150) I'm fitting it in, and the dreme...

I'll second sbabb's suggestion- with long tubes, you could have the pump/radiator in a different room, and really dampen a watercooled drive.

Or, another route- put the whole computer in a different room, with good KVM cables running to your work room.

which games? Some games stress the CPU more than others, but most can get pretty high CPU usage.

My response is not entirely true. Because if I was in california, I would be voting for myself since I (seriously) would be in the election. I'm surprised they didn't get more people running.

Injuries: 0 cuts grrr. I'm getting a new case today, YY-0221. I'm going to have to buy a dremel tool for it tomorrow if I can find a bus that goes to a hardware store, or a 4 mile bike ride if absolutely neccessary, and I expect to lose at least one finger once I get started. As for the 5 blade pan...

not for quite a lot of time. There was an article posted in here earlier... in it, it said they've got 100,000 computers folding at any one time, but some proteins they'd like to fold will require ten times more power.

yeah, a laptop drive suspended with elastic should have no problem.

yeah, you've got the efficiency right there.

For DC efficiency, you have to know the DC load, either through a tester like MikeC has or the camp ammeter he mentioned.

We haven't been low enough yet, my room is still toasty warm without the heat on thanks to all the folding power

But on topic, it would be interesting to see if the fire helped or hurt.

Rusty- yup, I just wrote a paper about Socrates this week. And MGP- we did better than just top ten, we ranked number two. Number one? My second choice, CU- Boulder. And as for partying, there's definatly more than a little beer consumption, though I choose not to partake in it. Though thats purely ...

waterblock is too small, and not optimized for heat dissipation. Copper pipes across most of the side panel can be somewhat effective though.

CS student at University of Wisconsin Madison.

Base thickness in a heat sink is a compromise issue. For any given metal, a given thickness can only conduct so much heat per unit of time. If the base isn't thick enough, it can't carry enough heat from the source to the fins fast enough to cool the source effectively, and you end up with a hot so...

There was a post about it a while back...

The thing to note is that these processors are at the high end of the voltage options; once a 90nm process is released voltage and power consumption will drop considerably.

Still, I am surprised by how much they consume.

Actually the 8dra+ does not have the extra 12v ATX connector. Which means most of that CPU draw is probably on the 5 volt. Maybe if I have more spare money some time I'll buy a clamp on ammeter to figure out what the distribution is. Yeah, I'm using the Seasonic super silencer 400. What else would g...

My 19" has a pretty huge degauss spike (I think it broke 250) but it averages around 80 or 90 watts I think.

As for vcore.. I'm probably going to have to break at least 2 volts for 2.5 ghz.

I just got a kill-a-watt the other day, so today I decided to plug it in and get some numbers... I'm running an Epox 8rda+, t-bred b (clock speeds below) Maxtor DM9+, and a geforce 3 ti200 (overclocked a bit). I ran two tests; one full CPU load and one no load. I'll try more things later (like drive...

Basically, the only thing aluminum cases have is better design thanks to their target group.

Aluminum is a considerably better conductor than steel, but the only hot thing the aluminum actually touches is the hard drives; even then it doesn't do them much good.

I would have liked a comparison to an actual Panaflo L1A, but that really was a pretty good article overall. There were no glaring problems, or even any apparent minor ones, other than possible the sound ratings of the silenx fans. It probably wouldn't meet up to the standards of our more obsessive ...

yes, boot on lan is a boot option. First it requests for an IP address, then you have to use TFTP to get it the files you want to boot. I never did get it working right on my farm.

or maybe boot from a CD with swap and files on a network share?

I would be interested in more on this, as I've discoverd my lap top drives in my folding farm are flat out too loud for regular use.

OEMs will be cheaper if you pay for your software. If you don't care about having a legally licensed copy of windows though and you pick carefully, home built computers will usually be cheaper. The cheapest OEMs will probably be cheaper than anything you can build though. OEMs also skimp on things l...

yeah, one day that guy living two blocks down is gonna get sick of constantly feeling your bad music and shoot you. It actually takes quite a bit of magnet power to mess up your hard drive, I wouldn't worry about it unless you are placing the hard drive very close to the magnet, like less than 3 inc...

yeah, I think dans data reviewed that one... they still require case airflow over the heatsink so its not truly passive.