If you really think hacking a computer and a car are that much different, go to www.aempower.com and download their ECU demo. It is a completely configurable ECU system you could potentially drop into any computer controlled, fuel injection car up to 10 cylinders.
http://www.aempower.com/product_ems.asp Click the demo download, install, and open one of the included base maps for an Eclipse.
Their forums where people share their hacking experiences: http://forum.aempower.com/bbs/index. php
This is a step above the "piggy back" (signal interceptor/retransmittor) or firmware re-flashes (resolder flash chip that stores the lookup tables the company researched, using the stock processor, close to what the article talks about). This completely replaces your entire engine management. But it is incredibly configurable. People generally use this product for high boost Supras and Eclipses, but you get the point.
I guess this begs the question, who cares? Counter-strike doesn't exactly take a $2000 server to run. I think something along the lines of a single AMD 1.4GHz with 256MB SDR SDRAM can run a 20-24 player server without much issue. Dual CPU DDR systems with 512MB shouldn't have any trouble running two 20 player servers. And I think I'm even being generously on the safe side.
Who in their right mind is going to run Counter-strike servers on expensive 64bit chips when a $40 CPU and pre-DDR architecture has no trouble at all?
We're still using SDRAM after almost a decade. The only real big change has been doubling the data rate. Everything else has been incremental, such as timings and clock speed. I consider bus width an outside factor.
Even the promise of RDRAM hasn't been able to topple SDRAM. It knocked a dent in it at best.
Oh, and of course not like this article doesn't imply that listening to just one set of speakers all day could cause you issues. Speakers are lossy, and in very consistant ways depending on know issues (crossovers, damping, non-linearities in materials, shitty construction, etc).
Just as I don't listen to just one set of speakers all day, I don't listen to stuff with the same codec, bitrate, and quality setting all day long. And yes, I even occasionally turn to talk to a real person. Amazing!
I agree the love story was distracting, but the movie was still good. I have no idea how the reviewer thought there were such long quiet pauses when 2001 had at least four times more lack of sound. I've seen both movies (and even 2010) within the past 3 days. Hey, HBO free preview weekend.
Even with the distracting love story, the end really resolves well and doesn't play too hard on the leads' relationship. I guess it should have been used more as a device.
Overall, it was a good "theme" movie (as opposed to 99.5% of movies, which fall into the "plot/action" category) along the lines of Magnolia or American Beauty. I walked away with a few interesting questions and mixed feelings.
The heatpipe works VERY well. It works as well as an aftermarket copper cooler at least.
I have a 1.8A in mine at 1.7v and 2.3GHz in my SS51G (SiS chipset). It runs at less than 54C at all times. And that's with a Geforce 3, two 256MB DDR266, two 7200rpm IDE drives, a CDRW, and an Adaptec 29160 (and I'll soon replace the primary IDE with a 10k RPM SCSI drive). I will however be adding one extra 60mm fan for the SCSI drive.
It runs within a few percent of a full desktop board. It weighs about 1/4 of a steel midtower, too. I couldn't be happier with it.
Sounds like a remarkable waste of wireless bandwidth.
Are they going to compress it? Common. 1280x960 at 32bpp and 60hz is a LOT of bandwidth. Even 1024x768x16@60hz is a lot, relatively. I'm guessing they'll at least skip sending static data, which means it may not be able to handle realtime fullscreen displays (i.e. games, flybys, or just scrolling with your web browser or word processor fullscreen).
Just what the world needs. A local display that is as slow as a VPN or term services window over a marginal T1 connection. And it will cost an arm and a leg. And don't forget batteries.
I believe MSI makes a DVI AGP dummy card for their Nforce boards. It takes up the AGP slot and gives you DVI and S-Video. It's probably $20 or so if you can find it.
I would assume others make the same thing, or that the MSI card would work with any other Nforce board.
I seem to remember many people looking forward in the past 3-4 years saying hardwares will become commodities while software will become everything. Even the software the drives the hardware is often more important than the hardware itself.
Hardware is the male of the relationship. It just has to be there. (I had to fit an allusion to Clerks in there somewhere)
Pretty reasonable outlook when you think about it. Hardware isn't really that important any more, relatively speaking compared to the past.
Actually its cheaper than that. An Inspiron with the Ultrasharp UXGA screen and a Geforce4Go 440 64MB DDR can be had for less than $1900 now. Go with the normal UXGA (still 1600x1200, just lower brightness/contrast and viewing angle) screen and a Geforce2Go SDR and its closer to $1500. That's not counting the 10-20% off sales Dell has every few weeks.
I know several people with the normal cheaper UXGA screen, one with the Geforce2Go. It's an awesome screen, and the video is fast enough to play most games in lower detail settings if you're not super picky about framerate. I imagine the Geforce4 440 with 64MB of DDR would fair quite well even in games like RTCW with a decent detail setting and 32bit color.
Personally, I'll take a *pair* of Dells before I'd look at this dual product. Although the fullsize keyboard is nice.
Ok, who wants to share their 'ZC3' files with me?:)
Or better yet, hack the client to do it all automatically, of course. I'm not fudging all my filenames on MY disk. I suppose I could get really good at reading ROT13 native, though.
I rounded some ATA33 40 pin cables and my computer would refuse to boot into Windows with DMA enabled. Disabling DMA or using a normal cable fixed the problem.
I currently run a normal cable to my primary drive. It is a short jump from the motherboard anyway. The cable going to way up to my CDROM and extra harddrive is cut into 4 strips with those strips on top of each other, cutting down the face width to 1/4 size. All drives run fine with DMA enabled.
Peltiers are incredibly inefficient. They produce more power than they pump. And most are 60-70 C DT with zero load, which of course never happens.
I did a bit of experimenting and heres what I came up with. A single "55 watt" peltier element on a 25 watt load ends up outputting well over 100 watts (25 pumped + about 90 produced itself, 12V * 6A or so) which leads to about 14 deg C DT from hot side to cold side. Crunch a few numbers and you'll quickly find you either need a water to radiator intercooler or an incredible heatsink to gain anything over a normal heatsink. If a normal heatsink gives you ambient + 10C, you need to have a heatsink that can get rid of 115 watts and stay under ambient + 24 or you gain nothing. With my water intercooler, the hotside waterblock stayed at about ambient + 8, so my dummy load was only 6 under ambient, or 16 under what a normal large OEM heatsink would do. Seriously minimal gains for the ammount of work and the price.
Plus peltiers can cause condensation and a peltier failure is catastrophic.
When I first saw the post, the first thing that popped into my mind was nanotube inlays, ala copper inlays in Alpha heatsinks.
You run a group of nanotubes from the center of the contact patch to the end of each fin. This pulls the heat away from the actual heat source and creates a greater temperature delta across the fins. The greater the DT, the more efficient the heatsink (lower thermal resistance).
IME, it's tough to get the chip below (ambient + 10 C), but with nanotubes to pull the heat to the fins more efficiently, you may be able to get (ambient + 5 C) or less.
I doubt you're going to see any nanotubes carrying heat distances larger than an inch. But I think just dumping the low grade tubes into the molten mold could lower thermal resistance the same way copper inlays do.
We've seen a few claims of 1024x768x32bit with 4X FSAA, but wait. Can it really be THAT fast?
Now if my thinking is correct, the 6000 will be at best twice as fast as the 5500. And that will only be achieved when the rest of the system bottlenecks (namely CPU) are completely removed.
So, if the Voodoo 5 5500 can't get 30 fps at 1024x768x32bit 4X FSAA, there should be no way in hell the 6000 can do the same but at 60 fps, right? I don't think the 5500 is that fast...
Also, if I'm thinking right, the 5500 at 2X FSAA will always be exactly (err, close to) the same speed as the 6000 at 4X FSAA all else the same. Em.. Twice the speed of the 5500 isn't that fast unforunately.
Almost sad considering the 1.4 gigapixel fillrate and 12 odd gigabyte bandwidth eh? I think I'll wait a few months for the NV20 or Rampage (if 3dfx is in business) and pay only $300 to the same thing. Actually I'll probably just get a Geforce 2 MX for $100 and say screw it all.
A few of these anti- or pro- 6000 comments seem a bit off base, or are just irrelevant.
First. So what if it take 4 chips? If a Dodge Viper with an 8 liter V10 smacks around the turbo V6 in the import (all else the same), who really cares? This alone is kind of a moot point. There is no law or rule saying you have to use a single chip or only 3.2 liters. As long as it meets emissions and gets the same gas mileage as its competitors, who really gives a rat's ass how they get there?
Now, there are REAL penalties and issues that are caused indirectly with the brute force approach. Obviously price and gas mileage (or power consumption). The price is ridiculous. This we know, but it is not completely out of line compared to the $500 GF2 Ultra that it will compete with. The 4 chip/8 liter solution is not a good solution for the value/Ford Focus.
The power issue is really a non-issue again because they will include an external 50W supply. If you've got $600 to blow on a video card, a $20 surge protector isn't going to break the bank.
Now there is size. This is truely going to be an issue. Some people are already having problems with the 5500. I have a feeling the 6000 will be a real chore to install for those who don't have huge full tower cases.
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If you really think hacking a computer and a car are that much different, go to www.aempower.com and download their ECU demo. It is a completely configurable ECU system you could potentially drop into any computer controlled, fuel injection car up to 10 cylinders.
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http://www.aempower.com/product_ems.asp
Click the demo download, install, and open one of the included base maps for an Eclipse.
Their forums where people share their hacking experiences:
http://forum.aempower.com/bbs/index
This is a step above the "piggy back" (signal interceptor/retransmittor) or firmware re-flashes (resolder flash chip that stores the lookup tables the company researched, using the stock processor, close to what the article talks about). This completely replaces your entire engine management. But it is incredibly configurable. People generally use this product for high boost Supras and Eclipses, but you get the point.
Still think it isn't like hacking?
How does copy protection make it so you don't own your own property?
Sounds like you dislike what your own property is. If the RIAA could force you to relinquish your CD collection, maybe you would have a point.
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I guess this begs the question, who cares? Counter-strike doesn't exactly take a $2000 server to run. I think something along the lines of a single AMD 1.4GHz with 256MB SDR SDRAM can run a 20-24 player server without much issue. Dual CPU DDR systems with 512MB shouldn't have any trouble running two 20 player servers. And I think I'm even being generously on the safe side.
Who in their right mind is going to run Counter-strike servers on expensive 64bit chips when a $40 CPU and pre-DDR architecture has no trouble at all?
We're still using SDRAM after almost a decade. The only real big change has been doubling the data rate. Everything else has been incremental, such as timings and clock speed. I consider bus width an outside factor.
Even the promise of RDRAM hasn't been able to topple SDRAM. It knocked a dent in it at best.
I've always kinda like my text only BIOS. It discourages normal users from screwing around in it. It has a nice K.I.S.S. principle about it, too.
Maybe it's just that whole "the more you put in, the more can break" kinda thing.
Fertilizer is also very easy to make into large bombs.
Nitric Acid is too, although you don't go to the corner store to get barrels of it. But you don't need barrels of it, either.
Oh, and of course not like this article doesn't imply that listening to just one set of speakers all day could cause you issues. Speakers are lossy, and in very consistant ways depending on know issues (crossovers, damping, non-linearities in materials, shitty construction, etc).
Just as I don't listen to just one set of speakers all day, I don't listen to stuff with the same codec, bitrate, and quality setting all day long. And yes, I even occasionally turn to talk to a real person. Amazing!
But pictures are seen on different parts of your eye and at different distances. All that varies with sound is volume, really. It's a linear input.
Not that I don't think the article is full of crap. So the guy reads Snowcrash (good book) and he thinks he's a genius. Show me studies.
I agree the love story was distracting, but the movie was still good. I have no idea how the reviewer thought there were such long quiet pauses when 2001 had at least four times more lack of sound. I've seen both movies (and even 2010) within the past 3 days. Hey, HBO free preview weekend.
Even with the distracting love story, the end really resolves well and doesn't play too hard on the leads' relationship. I guess it should have been used more as a device.
Overall, it was a good "theme" movie (as opposed to 99.5% of movies, which fall into the "plot/action" category) along the lines of Magnolia or American Beauty. I walked away with a few interesting questions and mixed feelings.
The heatpipe works VERY well. It works as well as an aftermarket copper cooler at least.
I have a 1.8A in mine at 1.7v and 2.3GHz in my SS51G (SiS chipset). It runs at less than 54C at all times. And that's with a Geforce 3, two 256MB DDR266, two 7200rpm IDE drives, a CDRW, and an Adaptec 29160 (and I'll soon replace the primary IDE with a 10k RPM SCSI drive). I will however be adding one extra 60mm fan for the SCSI drive.
It runs within a few percent of a full desktop board. It weighs about 1/4 of a steel midtower, too. I couldn't be happier with it.
Sounds like a remarkable waste of wireless bandwidth.
Are they going to compress it? Common. 1280x960 at 32bpp and 60hz is a LOT of bandwidth. Even 1024x768x16@60hz is a lot, relatively. I'm guessing they'll at least skip sending static data, which means it may not be able to handle realtime fullscreen displays (i.e. games, flybys, or just scrolling with your web browser or word processor fullscreen).
Just what the world needs. A local display that is as slow as a VPN or term services window over a marginal T1 connection. And it will cost an arm and a leg. And don't forget batteries.
I would assume others make the same thing, or that the MSI card would work with any other Nforce board.
Hardware is the male of the relationship. It just has to be there. (I had to fit an allusion to Clerks in there somewhere)
Pretty reasonable outlook when you think about it. Hardware isn't really that important any more, relatively speaking compared to the past.
"You can see in the charts that there's actually quite a bit of advantage with AGP8X especially at lower resolutions."
Huh? The difference at 1024x768x32 and above is moot, or often non-existant. Are these guys looking at the same graphs I am?
No one plays at 800x600x16 anymore.
I know several people with the normal cheaper UXGA screen, one with the Geforce2Go. It's an awesome screen, and the video is fast enough to play most games in lower detail settings if you're not super picky about framerate. I imagine the Geforce4 440 with 64MB of DDR would fair quite well even in games like RTCW with a decent detail setting and 32bit color.
Personally, I'll take a *pair* of Dells before I'd look at this dual product. Although the fullsize keyboard is nice.
You can be gauranteed the PS2 will probably always play the game better in terms of performance and polish.
Personally I'd rather play it on a PC. High res, my normal mouse and keyboard, my desk chair...
Sounds a lot more like an overglorified mechanical filter than something that will be used to create powerful digital devices.
I guess I fail to see how this is better than a digital filter.
... too busy to record itself.
Ok, who wants to share their 'ZC3' files with me? :)
Or better yet, hack the client to do it all automatically, of course. I'm not fudging all my filenames on MY disk. I suppose I could get really good at reading ROT13 native, though.
I rounded some ATA33 40 pin cables and my computer would refuse to boot into Windows with DMA enabled. Disabling DMA or using a normal cable fixed the problem. I currently run a normal cable to my primary drive. It is a short jump from the motherboard anyway. The cable going to way up to my CDROM and extra harddrive is cut into 4 strips with those strips on top of each other, cutting down the face width to 1/4 size. All drives run fine with DMA enabled.
Peltiers are incredibly inefficient. They produce more power than they pump. And most are 60-70 C DT with zero load, which of course never happens.
I did a bit of experimenting and heres what I came up with. A single "55 watt" peltier element on a 25 watt load ends up outputting well over 100 watts (25 pumped + about 90 produced itself, 12V * 6A or so) which leads to about 14 deg C DT from hot side to cold side. Crunch a few numbers and you'll quickly find you either need a water to radiator intercooler or an incredible heatsink to gain anything over a normal heatsink. If a normal heatsink gives you ambient + 10C, you need to have a heatsink that can get rid of 115 watts and stay under ambient + 24 or you gain nothing. With my water intercooler, the hotside waterblock stayed at about ambient + 8, so my dummy load was only 6 under ambient, or 16 under what a normal large OEM heatsink would do. Seriously minimal gains for the ammount of work and the price.
Plus peltiers can cause condensation and a peltier failure is catastrophic.
When I first saw the post, the first thing that popped into my mind was nanotube inlays, ala copper inlays in Alpha heatsinks. You run a group of nanotubes from the center of the contact patch to the end of each fin. This pulls the heat away from the actual heat source and creates a greater temperature delta across the fins. The greater the DT, the more efficient the heatsink (lower thermal resistance). IME, it's tough to get the chip below (ambient + 10 C), but with nanotubes to pull the heat to the fins more efficiently, you may be able to get (ambient + 5 C) or less. I doubt you're going to see any nanotubes carrying heat distances larger than an inch. But I think just dumping the low grade tubes into the molten mold could lower thermal resistance the same way copper inlays do.
We've seen a few claims of 1024x768x32bit with 4X FSAA, but wait. Can it really be THAT fast? Now if my thinking is correct, the 6000 will be at best twice as fast as the 5500. And that will only be achieved when the rest of the system bottlenecks (namely CPU) are completely removed. So, if the Voodoo 5 5500 can't get 30 fps at 1024x768x32bit 4X FSAA, there should be no way in hell the 6000 can do the same but at 60 fps, right? I don't think the 5500 is that fast... Also, if I'm thinking right, the 5500 at 2X FSAA will always be exactly (err, close to) the same speed as the 6000 at 4X FSAA all else the same. Em.. Twice the speed of the 5500 isn't that fast unforunately. Almost sad considering the 1.4 gigapixel fillrate and 12 odd gigabyte bandwidth eh? I think I'll wait a few months for the NV20 or Rampage (if 3dfx is in business) and pay only $300 to the same thing. Actually I'll probably just get a Geforce 2 MX for $100 and say screw it all.
A few of these anti- or pro- 6000 comments seem a bit off base, or are just irrelevant. First. So what if it take 4 chips? If a Dodge Viper with an 8 liter V10 smacks around the turbo V6 in the import (all else the same), who really cares? This alone is kind of a moot point. There is no law or rule saying you have to use a single chip or only 3.2 liters. As long as it meets emissions and gets the same gas mileage as its competitors, who really gives a rat's ass how they get there? Now, there are REAL penalties and issues that are caused indirectly with the brute force approach. Obviously price and gas mileage (or power consumption). The price is ridiculous. This we know, but it is not completely out of line compared to the $500 GF2 Ultra that it will compete with. The 4 chip/8 liter solution is not a good solution for the value/Ford Focus. The power issue is really a non-issue again because they will include an external 50W supply. If you've got $600 to blow on a video card, a $20 surge protector isn't going to break the bank. Now there is size. This is truely going to be an issue. Some people are already having problems with the 5500. I have a feeling the 6000 will be a real chore to install for those who don't have huge full tower cases.