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try Vapochill.

If your CPU runs at -40C, you have something very special. I, for one, would be worried about condensation from water becoming ice on contact with the CPU at that temperature!
It happens.

application availablility along with essentially non-existant tier-1 vendor support.

Let me put it this way: you are living under a rock.

what's the point of upgrading your hardware if you only want to run 32bit x86 binaries?
The performance on legacy code alone is enough to warrant the upgrade.

Show me such scalability with an opteron!
Cray will be doing so soon, I believe with 10,000+ Opterons in one machine, and I'm sure you'll be pleasantly surprised.

no *good* AMD64 compilers
Ah, so you haven't heard of Pathscale then?

This year promises to be very interesting indeed.

You'll find that in the UK both CCL and Overclockers stock a selection of the current shuttle machines. I suspect they'll be getting this one soon.

"Akasa 60mm to 80mm Fan adaptor (FG-000-AK) If you need more performance from your CPU cooler and you can't afford to upgrade to an amazing 80mm cooler such as the Alpha PAL8045 then here is a way to boost performance on your existing heatsink without deafening yourself with a high speed delta fan. The Alaska 60mm to 80mm fan adaptor allows you to use high output 80mm fans on your 60mm cooler, supplied with an 80mm fan grill to protect delicate fingers and wires. Note: Picture shows a metal adaptor, the version currently shipping is constructed from plastic. Price: £4.00 (£4.70 Including VAT at 17.5%) "

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I reckon that between my own orders and those from companies I've worked and ordered for, I've placed about £13,000 of orders, of various sizes. Out of all that, everything has been perfect apart from one dead power supply which was replaced next day without returning the defective one, and they've even been happy to take back stuff that we ordered and then didn't want. I can really recommend them.

Another good place that's worth a look is overclockers.co.uk, though the bias is very much on what's en vogue in the gaming market. But they often have good prices on things, although you need quite a large order to offset post and packaging.

But often, I think you'll find that you'll end up spending more in the long run building a PC yourself, as you won't get a cheap OEM deal on Windows (assuming you don't want Linux), and when you realise how crap most of the components are in a pre-build "cheap" box, you'll want to buy higher quality bits for your own box.

Good luck!
Ralf

The gripes I have with it are: No AGP graphics, It uses the S3 Savage chipset with shared video memory (a bad thing). I don't think it supports 512MB DIMMS, and there are only 2 slots for memory. The overclocking options are not what they could be. Apart from that it's great, and pretty damn cheap too. Overclockers.co.uk sell them in the UK, as do Kustom PCs

What I would like to know is where I can get a Neon light and case mod for this thing...

I've heard rumours of a successor motherboard to the fv24 which will have AGP, and a more overclocker-friendly BIOS (but the power supply and cooling will always be an issue with this form-factor. As it is, the SV24 comes with its own heatsink and fan because a conventional sized one will not fit in the case.

"How or would you slashdotters who work on GPL'd code like to be compensated for your time and effort?"

I use a modified BSD license, does this mean I can't get free beer/money/hardware? Gee, and all this time I thought it was because my code wasn't good enough...

But seriously, contributions are unlikely to offend anyone, provided you don't automatically assume you'll get preferential treatment for it. You'll probably have to ask anyway, since most coders don't provide postage addresses with their software :)

Personally I wouldn't mind an Athlon to replace the duff one OcUK sold me and refused to replace, *sob*.

Dave

Dave

I had an old Athlon 550 one of the first from october last year. I just picked up an old Slot A Athlon 750 overclocked to 1GHz, it was a special offer from Overclockers.co.uk. I fitted it and its runs rock solid even for unreal tournament and overnight downloads.