I have a Zalman Something-80C heatsink contraption on my Radeon 9700 Pro - can't get much quieter than silent.
As for motherboards, just get one without a chipset fan - you don't need one unless you're crazy-overclocking your FSB, which isn't all that smart anyway.
For the CPU, I have an Alpha PAL8045, big monster of a heatsink, but there's better designs out there now. Zalman has a big round orb-looking thing that's supposed to be very good, and the flower ones are supposed to work well too.
I've really found that it's not worth overclocking to get higher performance, because you'll inevitably have a loud computer (and my priorities place quiet over speed). Just get a fast-enough CPU and run it at spec, and you'll have no problem keeping it cool with any heatsink - and don't get swept into the "gotta keep my temps as low as possible" craze, just keep 'em within operating specs.
Agreed - don't buy koolance. My water started getting murky, strange phlegm-looking stuff growing in the CPU block - after convincing them to replace all the affected parts, it just came back again, and then a nozzle snapped, draining the water from the system into the bottom of the case. Luckily nothing was harmed, but I ordered really big cpu/vidcard heatsinks and haven't looked back.
Those koolance cases aren't really all that quiet, either, even on their slowest fan setting. I ended up keeping two out of the three top fans disabled to save some noise.
My current system is only marginally louder, and all I have to do is blow the dust out every now and then - no messing with draining the system every 6 months like they recommend. Hoses going everywhere make it difficult to work on your computer. I just can't think of any pro's to watercooling anymore, when you can get perfectly effective, very quiet heatsinks these days.
I was watching a DirectTV HD feed in a store, and noticed compression artifacts from fast-action scenes or quick scene changes. It looked beautiful as long as there wasn't too much movement, otherwise it got all blocky.
You have no idea what you're talking about. EDO was just an enhanced form of the DRAM we'd been using before (DRAM - D for Dynamic). Just ask google if you don't believe me.
They probably just embedded IE as a control. Windows Update would update the browser just like it does the real IE (which is just a wrapper for the IE control also).
If I say "I have two rectangles and two squares", it sounds like I have four objects, even though I might just have two squares (squares are rectangles, after all). The use of "and" implies "in addition to", which is not the case. It's just badly worded.
I know you said retail, but I bought a lucent orinoco minipci card off Ebay a little while ago. $35 for the minipci card attached to a real pci card - removed two screws, popped it out of the socket and replaced my Intel pro/2100 (piece of crap), and have been happy ever since!
It uses the Orinoco cardbus drivers, since the orinoco minipci card is essentially a PCI card with a TI 1410 PCI/CardBus bridge and a CardBus orinoco card all in a minipci form factor. Cool stuff.
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How do you install Windows Updates if you're not rebooting?
Not much. There's a bunch of other root servers scattered around the world; this just happens to be the first one.
Yeah, but we can live without spam. The article was about hated things that we can't live without, such as cell phones and alarm clocks.
Are you sure it's not that the emitter's spilling into the visible red range, rather than you seeing infrared?
I have a Zalman Something-80C heatsink contraption on my Radeon 9700 Pro - can't get much quieter than silent.
As for motherboards, just get one without a chipset fan - you don't need one unless you're crazy-overclocking your FSB, which isn't all that smart anyway.
For the CPU, I have an Alpha PAL8045, big monster of a heatsink, but there's better designs out there now. Zalman has a big round orb-looking thing that's supposed to be very good, and the flower ones are supposed to work well too.
I've really found that it's not worth overclocking to get higher performance, because you'll inevitably have a loud computer (and my priorities place quiet over speed). Just get a fast-enough CPU and run it at spec, and you'll have no problem keeping it cool with any heatsink - and don't get swept into the "gotta keep my temps as low as possible" craze, just keep 'em within operating specs.
Agreed - don't buy koolance. My water started getting murky, strange phlegm-looking stuff growing in the CPU block - after convincing them to replace all the affected parts, it just came back again, and then a nozzle snapped, draining the water from the system into the bottom of the case. Luckily nothing was harmed, but I ordered really big cpu/vidcard heatsinks and haven't looked back.
Those koolance cases aren't really all that quiet, either, even on their slowest fan setting. I ended up keeping two out of the three top fans disabled to save some noise.
My current system is only marginally louder, and all I have to do is blow the dust out every now and then - no messing with draining the system every 6 months like they recommend. Hoses going everywhere make it difficult to work on your computer. I just can't think of any pro's to watercooling anymore, when you can get perfectly effective, very quiet heatsinks these days.
I was watching a DirectTV HD feed in a store, and noticed compression artifacts from fast-action scenes or quick scene changes. It looked beautiful as long as there wasn't too much movement, otherwise it got all blocky.
Can you make it a symlink to /dev/zero?
You have no idea what you're talking about. EDO was just an enhanced form of the DRAM we'd been using before (DRAM - D for Dynamic). Just ask google if you don't believe me.
They probably just embedded IE as a control. Windows Update would update the browser just like it does the real IE (which is just a wrapper for the IE control also).
Well, no, all your server has to do is send one more line of html. Everything else is handled by their servers, not yours.
No, it would take too long just to upload the scene data to the client, let alone render anything useful within the average person's attention span.
Why just SOHO? We've sent a lot of stuff off the Earth - if SOHO can change it by one second, then we'd notice effects from everything else as well.
If I say "I have two rectangles and two squares", it sounds like I have four objects, even though I might just have two squares (squares are rectangles, after all). The use of "and" implies "in addition to", which is not the case. It's just badly worded.
There are a loooot of slashdotters at UW. Almost everyone I work with in MGH reads (or at least knows of) slashdot...
That's a set of slides from my class! Perkins would be proud.
You can still hardly say that they stole your design - my point being that a laptop DVD alone makes your design much larger than this one.
This thing is way smaller than a laptop dvd... check out the pics..
Did it restrict the destination of the VPN packets? Otherwise I could set up my own VPN somewhere and tunnel it through your one open port.
Not a seriously big deal, but I'd do it.
They may have the biggest selection of *included* games, but you won't be winning over the hearts of any gamers.
My 1.8L 4-cyl Kia Sephia is rated at 122 hp.
I know you said retail, but I bought a lucent orinoco minipci card off Ebay a little while ago. $35 for the minipci card attached to a real pci card - removed two screws, popped it out of the socket and replaced my Intel pro/2100 (piece of crap), and have been happy ever since!
It uses the Orinoco cardbus drivers, since the orinoco minipci card is essentially a PCI card with a TI 1410 PCI/CardBus bridge and a CardBus orinoco card all in a minipci form factor. Cool stuff.
Would a Ph-sensing fish be a "Phish"?
everything is equal to everything else, and we delude ourselves into perceiving imaginary distinctions between things.
Sounds like a really good hit of acid, to me...
Check your BIOS for power-on timers or something, cause that's definitely not an XP default.