reminds me of a movie...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20080208/tc_nf/58279


Looks like they've come up with a device that uses the energy you spend slowing down you leg while walking... like the brakes on those hybrid cars...


Interesting! I wonder what it looks like.

I was overclocking and I hit 92C... should be ok I guess but I slowed it down a little to be safe.


I just installed a new driver that says 102C is the "GPU slowdown temp". Interesting.

Is there a place that lists max temps... particularly the geforce go 7900GS (mobile gpu) ... nothing but random posts on sites like notebookreview.. nothing official enough for my liking. What I do know is the fan is set to turn on @ 78C, during gaming the card hits a peak of about 84 degrees. Is it...

Be sure to buy it from a place with a return policy (unless you get a chance to see it in action in a store). I made a grave error in buying blindly a 17" Samsung (710T) based on reviews only. It was supposed to be outstanding for it's time, and the picture quality was great - only that it was very ...

MikeC wrote: If you look at a table of heat conductivity for different materials, you'll see that copper rates nearly twice as high as aluminum.

I want a HSF made of diamond now .

EDIT: Is it that far fetched to have a small layer of diamond on the base?

How much superglue would you use? A dab in the corners or a line around the perimeter of the chip?

I'm wondering what all the methods are. I'm guessing the two obvious choices would be arctic silver adhesive and thermal tape. Are there any other options? Someone suggested putting a small dab of superglue on each corner of the ram chips and AS5 in the middle. Is this a smart thing to do (e.g. does...

I've been very lucky with my routers. My Linksys WRT54g v2 (modded with DD-WRT) is dead silent. All my networking hardware is totally 0db, even with your ear pressed against the unit (!) This includes: - the router mentioned above - a wired linksys router - cheap trendnet wireless router - netgear 5...

OMG. That is freaking cool. amazing. I love VMware folks. OMG. OMG.

I've ALWAYS wanted this.

edit... aw crap, linux only?

If you do decide to go for the CF card option, you should look into CF adapters that support DMA or CF to SATA adaptors. Not how much faster those two are, but certainly worth investigating.

Or you can get Gigabyte I-Ram. Too bad they don't make those with DDR2, it would be so cheap to run!

I don't know if this is appropriate to post here... here I go. My 300W Zen fanless will NOT run the following system stable: AMD 3500+ 95W Newcastle ATI X800XT DFI S939 Crossfire motherboard 1.5GB RAM 30GB Hard drive Liteon CDRW This system, if I recall correctly, has a peak power draw well under 20...

where's the picture?

nero drivespeed is a free utility that does it I think. works for me on my laptop (which doesn't have it's own utility).


Good for movie watching.

perhaps I missed something... what holds this thing other than the screw? I.E. what prevents it from bending downward on one side?

One thing I can't fogive Asus for is having the fan stay permananelty on once it's triggered past a certain temp. Mine stayed off for 30-35 minutes (silent heaven, no aduible whine beyond 2 inches away) but when it came on it stayed on. Had I kept it (I sold it for reasons of ergonimics on extended ...

Thanks for the info. Do you happen to have a Kill-O-Watt meter to measure its power draw? Idle, screen on, then off, then with CPUBurn with the screen on or off. I'm looking to setup a 24/7 ftp server. I don't require any CPU power or a big screen. Just some basic human interface capabilities. A ve...

Hey, I got the EEE, and I'll be returning it in a few days, since I simply can't justify 450$ Canadian for a device that is basically useless for long-winded computer tasks. There's no way I'm going to write essays on this thing. It's a great little device given that it runs a full OS and all, but i...

IdontexistM8 wrote:From what I've read the 1700/1720 have a single fan.

You're right.

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/s ... #wp1179841

Both heat pipes lead to fins that are cooled by a single fan.

I'm replying VERY late... you've probably already made the purchase by now.... anyway. If the Inspiron 1720 is anything like the E1705 (also known as the 9400) the cooling system is decent, as is the fan control. i8kfangui is very likely supported. It wont be quiet when gaming, but thats of near-zer...

Konnetikut wrote: If you have any image requests I'll try and get them for you as soon as I can.

I want a picture of a ripe red tomato inside the case.

let's hope it's for real this time, not like the sempron 2100+ 9W, which I don't see for sale anywhere.

Fourth quarter 2007 I assume?

What kind of microphone did you use to record that?

I also like the look & spec of the XPS M1330. I contacted Dell this morning to ask if it is actually fanless : after quite some time - nobody seemed to know - they replied that as far as they know it has at least one fan but will be "very quiet". I also see from the Dell forum that although you can...

Return it, see if it's the model or whatnot (by buying another identical unit), if it is, inform the company that their products whine and you don't like that.

Then buy another model.

I don't have an LCD TV, but I would imagine, like all components, this has a lot to do with sample variance.

I'm kind of considering it, but like you said, the release date keeps on going back and the MSRP keeps on going up. Plus, I have a 12" laptop right now, which is almost exactly the size of my notebooks, so the only difference in my backpack would be 1.5 pounds of weight. At $200 (Canadian) I'll be ...

do those wyse systems support anything but xp embedded? For instance, if I used larger CF cards (or even a notebook HD) could I put xp pro on them?

Das_Saunamies wrote:Sure looks good... but $200 just for novelty? No thanks, there's better performance to be had for that money.

It's good for seeing which computers are clogging up the bandwidth, and if people are stealing wifi.

this thing looks really slick! Imagine if it was moddable

http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductP ... _Id=377018#

or have your considered the possibility that windows stupidly put both threads on the same core when you had 2?