Seriously, AC's right - water cooling is where it's at. It might not be cheap (depending on what you go for), but it's damn quiet! My 8-core 4GHz rig runs unclocked with a watercooled 6970 and a way oversized 360x360 radiator. The rad has a 250mm fan on it and will be going outside in summer (2 x 2m of tubing and quick disconnects help) and the whole shebang holds nearly 2l of coolant. The downside was the cost - nearly £500 for the cooling setup alone, but I could run a pair of R295s in it, overclock the CPU to nearly 5GHz and, including the 3 internal fans and 2 HDDs, it would still make less noise than the electric clock on the wall. When I'm not gaming the current sound level is under 20dB less than 12" away from the case and my better half sometimes forgets it's switched on - and she sits about 6ft from it. The radiator fan is almost silent running at 50% speed.
As overspecced as it is, it's worth it, so very worth it, not to have a gas turbine sound effect next to me when I'm doing something quiet and better when I need to hear sounds in-game without cranking it up loud enough to upset the neighbours and I also have great expansion options. The temperatures are lower inside the case by a fair bit and the radiator makes a great room heater in winter:)
That you've had to explain things is bad enough but that some people think putting a sock over their cock is the only form of contraception...? Oh dear. I know it's Slashdot, but c'mon people, this is biology 101 here, not PHD stuff.
Flying inverted off the ceiling over some horizon-hugger while waiting for the best time to drop a couple of missiles was always fun. As were guideds through air vents in D2:)
It's an escalation thing. Due to the relative scarcity of guns in the UK, if criminals started to carry them as standard kit they'd be up against a lot of unfriendly cops who are generally better trained with better hardware. It would end badly in a country where the average unarmed robbery will get you a few years at worst and a kiss on the cheek and community service at least, if not acquittal on a technicality. Using a gun can up your sentence to something unpleasant, so most sane robbers don't carry them. Where nutjobs are concerned, anything goes and most of the rest of the criminal fraternity tend to avoid them. Killing a cop is just as bad here as in the US so you have to be *way* past desperate to go that route. And really stupid.
Well I thought that'd be obvious. If you're at the top of the food chain in that, uh, religion, you get to have buckets and buckets of other peoples' money and live like a king. Not so good if you're at the bottom end though.
It matters not if it is relevant, most if not all news services & sites of any worth will be posting something about Mandela. You could always just move on to the next tech story if you don't want to read this - you do have that power you know.
No offense taken. Although insulting Russia by comparing us to them is probably not such a good idea.
I think politicians forget why we vote them in. It's not because they look good. It's not because we want them to spend tax money on themselves or their 2nd homes. It's not because we want them to spy on us, or make wars on other countries, or make it a crime to do anything that they do but think we shouldn't, or even because they think we like them sucking corporate cock at our expense. We vote them in to run the country along broad guidelines for the good of the country. They obviously can't please everybody (that would be impossible), they can't even please most, but they can, it would appear, please a very few buddies who consider themselves the elite.
We are their employers. About time they started punching the fucking clock. They get paid enough for it.
I wish I had points to give. Nicely said and better than what I had in mind. Time some people realised that there's more to the sun than simply "ooh look shiny thing in sky, nice & warm, aaaah!" The sun might look nice & stable out there in the middle of the solar system, but what would it take to screw things up for it and, ultimately, us?
That'd be fun if they called it that - the prime BskyB channel name - and straight back to court. Hell, they could do that just for shits & giggles and I'd be there with my deckchair and popcorn:)
Well, I don't really like to explain as it would be seen to be so obvious that the explainee would commit suicide from realising their stupidity, but... okay.
The impossibility of the average human male having 2 dicks is meant to equate with the probability of a given thing happening (or not, it depends) or of something being true (or false, it depends), therefore mentioning the chance of growing a third cock would imply that not only is the thing I'm comparing against - for instance that chairchucking engineer (considered to be the worst CEO ever) seeing something written for him to read on/. - impossible, but something like heat death of the entire universe within the following 3 seconds and/or my being declared the new president of the United States of America is more likely to happen.
Or I could really have two cocks. Oh, did I mention something about sarcasm before?
Whoa, hang on... Ballmer has a strategy? I thought he was just throwing shit at the wall and seeing what stuck - then spraying gold paint on the shit and marketing it as bullion.
Wow, that's a lot of extrapolation from so little data. And quite erroneous. I'm also just shy of 50, have a daughter and am considered deadly in the art of the lowest form of wit.
Whilst there's more chance of me growing a third cock than there is of Steve "Chairmaster" Ballmer reading that, I can only say that I wish I had mod points to give. That was spot on.
So, after you've fired off your ElectroMagnetic Pulse Pulse and the projectionist is tearing his hair out looking at all his fried electronics, you'll be happy?
Are you sure you didn't mean to say that your manufacturers wanted us to believe we wanted to dress like Americans? I got so sick of fucking pushy advertising even as far back as that that I ignored it all. Personally I wouldn't pay UKP15 for jeans (and I haven't in over 30 years because I haven't had a pair of jeans in over 30 years), let alone $150.
And what's so special about overseas sweatshop labour made US clothing that makes anybody else's overseas sweatshop labour made clothing of lesser value?
True, but this is just one thing of many that people have griped over with W8. If something as simple as turning your PC off causes so many complaints, WTF is going on inside the rest of the OS? A friend of mine was showing off a little a few weeks back - "I'm running Windows 8 now". 2 days ago - no longer. His comment was that as he's so used to his Xbox for playing games it was nothing more than that to him. Hell, I said that from the first screenie I saw of the Metro front end; Win8 is Windows 7 with it's guts removed and a great way to turn an (sometimes) expensive investment into a games console.
If you use Windows in business and you change over to 8, you're pretty much getting a "fuck you" from Microsoft. Like the filofax was for the ME! generation of the 80's, 8 is nothing more than a plastic titted botox faced front end for the "social" generation of the 2010s. It has no place in business, little place in a home office but is gonna be just dandy in the living room. Just wait until they tell you the next PC you buy MUST come with a Kinect.
Funnily enough, I can change between typing and clicking without difficulty, but in a GUI you honestly expect to have to start typing to do something that's at most 2 clicks? I came from pre-DOS systems where typing was the norm, I enjoy getting stuff done by mouse - for me it's faster. I type when I'm coding or banging out an email/letter/story or when it's required.
Why is there so much sudden love for having a dog and doing the barking yourself? What are you going to do when you have different clickables for a particular program/game with varied parameters - you gonna sit there and remember what to type every time you run one of them? You can remember the name of what it was you wanted to run? Are you sure? It's hard enough keeping people off of dodgy websites when they mis-type names, what's gonna happen when scumbags start writing malware that takes advantage of the need to type to run stuff on your own system and you mis-type.
Even controlling your PC by waving your hands about (new Kinect based stuff I believe) or talking to it in more than dead simple terms is going to be a dead starter compared to a point & click interface. (I could go on, but I feel I'm talking to the intentionally deaf when it comes to recent Windows versions.)
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Seriously, AC's right - water cooling is where it's at. It might not be cheap (depending on what you go for), but it's damn quiet! My 8-core 4GHz rig runs unclocked with a watercooled 6970 and a way oversized 360x360 radiator. The rad has a 250mm fan on it and will be going outside in summer (2 x 2m of tubing and quick disconnects help) and the whole shebang holds nearly 2l of coolant. The downside was the cost - nearly £500 for the cooling setup alone, but I could run a pair of R295s in it, overclock the CPU to nearly 5GHz and, including the 3 internal fans and 2 HDDs, it would still make less noise than the electric clock on the wall. When I'm not gaming the current sound level is under 20dB less than 12" away from the case and my better half sometimes forgets it's switched on - and she sits about 6ft from it. The radiator fan is almost silent running at 50% speed.
As overspecced as it is, it's worth it, so very worth it, not to have a gas turbine sound effect next to me when I'm doing something quiet and better when I need to hear sounds in-game without cranking it up loud enough to upset the neighbours and I also have great expansion options. The temperatures are lower inside the case by a fair bit and the radiator makes a great room heater in winter :)
That you've had to explain things is bad enough but that some people think putting a sock over their cock is the only form of contraception...? Oh dear. I know it's Slashdot, but c'mon people, this is biology 101 here, not PHD stuff.
Flying inverted off the ceiling over some horizon-hugger while waiting for the best time to drop a couple of missiles was always fun. As were guideds through air vents in D2 :)
Don't worry, you ain't alone :)
It's an escalation thing. Due to the relative scarcity of guns in the UK, if criminals started to carry them as standard kit they'd be up against a lot of unfriendly cops who are generally better trained with better hardware. It would end badly in a country where the average unarmed robbery will get you a few years at worst and a kiss on the cheek and community service at least, if not acquittal on a technicality. Using a gun can up your sentence to something unpleasant, so most sane robbers don't carry them. Where nutjobs are concerned, anything goes and most of the rest of the criminal fraternity tend to avoid them. Killing a cop is just as bad here as in the US so you have to be *way* past desperate to go that route. And really stupid.
Well I thought that'd be obvious. If you're at the top of the food chain in that, uh, religion, you get to have buckets and buckets of other peoples' money and live like a king. Not so good if you're at the bottom end though.
It matters not if it is relevant, most if not all news services & sites of any worth will be posting something about Mandela. You could always just move on to the next tech story if you don't want to read this - you do have that power you know.
No offense taken. Although insulting Russia by comparing us to them is probably not such a good idea.
I think politicians forget why we vote them in. It's not because they look good. It's not because we want them to spend tax money on themselves or their 2nd homes. It's not because we want them to spy on us, or make wars on other countries, or make it a crime to do anything that they do but think we shouldn't, or even because they think we like them sucking corporate cock at our expense. We vote them in to run the country along broad guidelines for the good of the country. They obviously can't please everybody (that would be impossible), they can't even please most, but they can, it would appear, please a very few buddies who consider themselves the elite.
We are their employers. About time they started punching the fucking clock. They get paid enough for it.
I hope one is not being a tit by thinking I'm a Yank, hmm? I was talking about the hard-as-nails people of Finland.
If it's good enough for the RIAA & MPAA to use the term, then it's good enough for the rest of the world.
Didn't stop them from scaring seven shades of shit out of the Russians before, during and after WWII though.
Regardless of current development status, all I can say is this Anonymous Coward BEST Anonymous Coward! Take that!! all you false Anonymous Coward.
Hey, don't have a cow, man!
A question... Is it global power consumption that raises the temperature or the methods of production of that power?
I wish I had points to give. Nicely said and better than what I had in mind. Time some people realised that there's more to the sun than simply "ooh look shiny thing in sky, nice & warm, aaaah!" The sun might look nice & stable out there in the middle of the solar system, but what would it take to screw things up for it and, ultimately, us?
That'd be fun if they called it that - the prime BskyB channel name - and straight back to court. Hell, they could do that just for shits & giggles and I'd be there with my deckchair and popcorn :)
Screw that - go Maliwan and watch the bastard BURN!
Well, I don't really like to explain as it would be seen to be so obvious that the explainee would commit suicide from realising their stupidity, but... okay.
The impossibility of the average human male having 2 dicks is meant to equate with the probability of a given thing happening (or not, it depends) or of something being true (or false, it depends), therefore mentioning the chance of growing a third cock would imply that not only is the thing I'm comparing against - for instance that chairchucking engineer (considered to be the worst CEO ever) seeing something written for him to read on /. - impossible, but something like heat death of the entire universe within the following 3 seconds and/or my being declared the new president of the United States of America is more likely to happen.
Or I could really have two cocks. Oh, did I mention something about sarcasm before?
Whoa, hang on... Ballmer has a strategy? I thought he was just throwing shit at the wall and seeing what stuck - then spraying gold paint on the shit and marketing it as bullion.
Wow, that's a lot of extrapolation from so little data. And quite erroneous. I'm also just shy of 50, have a daughter and am considered deadly in the art of the lowest form of wit.
Whilst there's more chance of me growing a third cock than there is of Steve "Chairmaster" Ballmer reading that, I can only say that I wish I had mod points to give. That was spot on.
So, after you've fired off your ElectroMagnetic Pulse Pulse and the projectionist is tearing his hair out looking at all his fried electronics, you'll be happy?
Are you sure you didn't mean to say that your manufacturers wanted us to believe we wanted to dress like Americans? I got so sick of fucking pushy advertising even as far back as that that I ignored it all. Personally I wouldn't pay UKP15 for jeans (and I haven't in over 30 years because I haven't had a pair of jeans in over 30 years), let alone $150.
And what's so special about overseas sweatshop labour made US clothing that makes anybody else's overseas sweatshop labour made clothing of lesser value?
True, but this is just one thing of many that people have griped over with W8. If something as simple as turning your PC off causes so many complaints, WTF is going on inside the rest of the OS? A friend of mine was showing off a little a few weeks back - "I'm running Windows 8 now". 2 days ago - no longer. His comment was that as he's so used to his Xbox for playing games it was nothing more than that to him. Hell, I said that from the first screenie I saw of the Metro front end; Win8 is Windows 7 with it's guts removed and a great way to turn an (sometimes) expensive investment into a games console.
If you use Windows in business and you change over to 8, you're pretty much getting a "fuck you" from Microsoft. Like the filofax was for the ME! generation of the 80's, 8 is nothing more than a plastic titted botox faced front end for the "social" generation of the 2010s. It has no place in business, little place in a home office but is gonna be just dandy in the living room. Just wait until they tell you the next PC you buy MUST come with a Kinect.
(okay, it's 06:20, I need sleep as I'm rambling)
Funnily enough, I can change between typing and clicking without difficulty, but in a GUI you honestly expect to have to start typing to do something that's at most 2 clicks? I came from pre-DOS systems where typing was the norm, I enjoy getting stuff done by mouse - for me it's faster. I type when I'm coding or banging out an email/letter/story or when it's required.
Why is there so much sudden love for having a dog and doing the barking yourself? What are you going to do when you have different clickables for a particular program/game with varied parameters - you gonna sit there and remember what to type every time you run one of them? You can remember the name of what it was you wanted to run? Are you sure? It's hard enough keeping people off of dodgy websites when they mis-type names, what's gonna happen when scumbags start writing malware that takes advantage of the need to type to run stuff on your own system and you mis-type.
Even controlling your PC by waving your hands about (new Kinect based stuff I believe) or talking to it in more than dead simple terms is going to be a dead starter compared to a point & click interface. (I could go on, but I feel I'm talking to the intentionally deaf when it comes to recent Windows versions.)