Heat pipes aren't a panacea. They are reasonably efficient at moving heat, and that is all. Putting a flat copper block with a couple of heatpipes (which will be problematic if, say, the mobo is placed horizontally) will not make the heat magically vanish. Hell, just to make the heatpipes work you need a reasonable difference in temperatures at the evaporating and condensing ends- and that will be pretty hard to achieve, considering the scale of things. Current chips generally require all sorts of nasty supercooling, specifically LN2, to run at ~4Ghz even for a short period of time. Even if the PV is a miracle of engineering, I don't see how you can have two modules running at 5Ghz+ stacked on top of each other.
I believe parent was referring to a crafty modder utilizing a V8 engine as a case for his computer (two of them, actually).
As for T-80/T-72, you are correct. Despite the planned transition to T-90 by 1997, the majority of the force constitutes of T-72Bs. Note that the T-80s and T-72s have been in parallel production until 1992.
Chances are the boxen were actually extremely old (as in XT old, not 386 old) and/or non-functional. Unless the participants were members of the post-soviet oligarchy (which they, quite obviously, were not), they wouldn't waste good equipment.
Keep in mind that a box folding or crunching seti 24/7 drains quite a bit of power (as opposed to no box at all). My power bill nearly doubles when all of my boxen crunch - granted, I have 9 systems. It may not seem like a big deal to most of us here, but it was chewing up a good portion of our monthly income back in Russia. I don't know if the situation has changed dramatically in the last 3 years, but I doubt it.
I realize this is somewhat redundant, but how well would this work with RAID5? Since the IDE/firewire converters are three separate physical units, all parity information would have to be processed by the host (PC, or mac in this case). Firewire should be fast enough to handle the extra data, but I'm not sure the added overhead (calculating parity data, sending it over firewire) would fare well for performance. Perhaps a solution which handles RAID5 on the target end would be better?
That particular system has been around for a while, at least two years I would say - saw it linked from overclockers.com forums first. Add the two years it took him to make it, and you're back in the PII era.
I personally find it offensive that you refer someone creative enough to create an original, extremely cool and quite functional (aluminum is far better for transferring heat into the outside air than steel) case from $84 worth of junk, as "riding the short bus".
It's not a double standard in any way. This piece was originally nothing but art, created by some of the greatest creative minds of the time. If you suggest that it should be ignored just because it is associated with a greedy and bloated company, you're nuts.
Also, who the hell modded parent "Informative"?! Informative == factual. If you want to mod up an opinion, use "Interesting" or "Insightful".
Ideas have no infulence on the grade, at least in my high school. Grammar is really the main factor, followed by essay structure and, at best, vocabulary. General relavance to the topic is the only requirement in terms of content, if that.
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Sorry, but Hyper-Threading isn't really used to "take any advantage of the dualies". From the intel page:
"Hyper-Threading Technology is a form of simultaneous multi-threading technology (SMT) where multiple threads of software applications can be run simultaneously on one processor"
(emphasis mine)
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Sorry, but Hyper-Threading isn't really used to "take any advantage of the dualies". From the intel page:
"Hyper-Threading Technology is a form of simultaneous multi-threading technology (SMT) where multiple threads of software applications can be run simultaneously on one processor"
(emphasis mine)
Your agrument may sound compelling, but consider what the article compares games to: movies, television and music. *None* of these industries, despite their superior popularity, demonstrate superior quality. Quite the opposite, in fact; it's been quite some time since a recent TV show or a song on the radio did not make me shudder and hastily turn it off.
That's not the samce concept; a projection on a flat surface does not make a hologram. The little projection keyboards have been availible for some time now, and generalyl involve some lasers, but no holography.
I realize that I was speaking without knowing the complete specifications of the system in question, so I was not exactly accurate, but how exactly does one perfieve that as a troll? The celeron does, indeed suck.
And how much does it weight? Even the current Via is under 3 pounds. I would much rather go with a light and thin (just look at the pictures) sub-notebook with a slightly underpowered processor (and, mind you, Via has improved a lot in performance) that fits into my backpack, rather than a 7-pound lumbering monster that deep-fries your lap.
And Celeron is a sucky processor, too.
"Americans won't touch anything beyond voice mail."
Uhh, where exactly do you come up with that? I realize that it's 'cool' to bash US citizens on/., but that's simply untrue. Every time I walk through a park, or take a ride on a bus, I almost always see a few people enthusiastically mashing their cell phone keys or poking away at their iPaq screens in a galaga clone or some silly bowling game, or snake. Virtually all of my friends have phones used as much for gaming as for talking. So please take you cynicism elsewhere.
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Heat pipes aren't a panacea. They are reasonably efficient at moving heat, and that is all. Putting a flat copper block with a couple of heatpipes (which will be problematic if, say, the mobo is placed horizontally) will not make the heat magically vanish. Hell, just to make the heatpipes work you need a reasonable difference in temperatures at the evaporating and condensing ends- and that will be pretty hard to achieve, considering the scale of things.
Current chips generally require all sorts of nasty supercooling, specifically LN2, to run at ~4Ghz even for a short period of time. Even if the PV is a miracle of engineering, I don't see how you can have two modules running at 5Ghz+ stacked on top of each other.
I would imagine "their own" meaning "hardware they owned" (as opposed to event-supplied), not their main rigs. Then again, who knows.
I believe parent was referring to a crafty modder utilizing a V8 engine as a case for his computer (two of them, actually).
As for T-80/T-72, you are correct. Despite the planned transition to T-90 by 1997, the majority of the force constitutes of T-72Bs. Note that the T-80s and T-72s have been in parallel production until 1992.
Chances are the boxen were actually extremely old (as in XT old, not 386 old) and/or non-functional. Unless the participants were members of the post-soviet oligarchy (which they, quite obviously, were not), they wouldn't waste good equipment.
Keep in mind that a box folding or crunching seti 24/7 drains quite a bit of power (as opposed to no box at all). My power bill nearly doubles when all of my boxen crunch - granted, I have 9 systems.
It may not seem like a big deal to most of us here, but it was chewing up a good portion of our monthly income back in Russia. I don't know if the situation has changed dramatically in the last 3 years, but I doubt it.
I realize this is somewhat redundant, but how well would this work with RAID5? Since the IDE/firewire converters are three separate physical units, all parity information would have to be processed by the host (PC, or mac in this case).
Firewire should be fast enough to handle the extra data, but I'm not sure the added overhead (calculating parity data, sending it over firewire) would fare well for performance. Perhaps a solution which handles RAID5 on the target end would be better?
RTFA and mod parent down. This isn't about rate caps, it's about total bandwidth/months caps.
There are no less than FOUR posts like the above, and they keep getting modded funny. Stop it.
You generally want a vacuum for dealing with superheated gases and plasma.
That particular system has been around for a while, at least two years I would say - saw it linked from overclockers.com forums first. Add the two years it took him to make it, and you're back in the PII era.
I personally find it offensive that you refer someone creative enough to create an original, extremely cool and quite functional (aluminum is far better for transferring heat into the outside air than steel) case from $84 worth of junk, as "riding the short bus".
"The dude who made that picture of a pipe that says it isn't a pipe."
Who was this guy?
It's not a double standard in any way. This piece was originally nothing but art, created by some of the greatest creative minds of the time. If you suggest that it should be ignored just because it is associated with a greedy and bloated company, you're nuts. Also, who the hell modded parent "Informative"?! Informative == factual. If you want to mod up an opinion, use "Interesting" or "Insightful".
Originally published in Australian Personal Computer Magazine, January 1998.
Last updated 20/02/03.
Very timely indeed.
Addendum: The above applies equally to literature and history classes.
Ideas have no infulence on the grade, at least in my high school. Grammar is really the main factor, followed by essay structure and, at best, vocabulary. General relavance to the topic is the only requirement in terms of content, if that.
That should read:
Sorry, but Hyper-Threading isn't really used to "take any advantage of the dualies".
From the intel page:
"Hyper-Threading Technology is a form of simultaneous multi-threading technology (SMT) where multiple threads of software applications can be run simultaneously on one processor"
(emphasis mine)
Sorry, but Hyper-Threading isn't really used to "take any advantage of the dualies". From the intel page: "Hyper-Threading Technology is a form of simultaneous multi-threading technology (SMT) where multiple threads of software applications can be run simultaneously on one processor" (emphasis mine)
Your agrument may sound compelling, but consider what the article compares games to: movies, television and music. *None* of these industries, despite their superior popularity, demonstrate superior quality. Quite the opposite, in fact; it's been quite some time since a recent TV show or a song on the radio did not make me shudder and hastily turn it off.
The -o /dev/null and -O /dev/null promptly send the retreived files to /dev/null, so that script does not waste drive space, either. Heh.
That's not the samce concept; a projection on a flat surface does not make a hologram. The little projection keyboards have been availible for some time now, and generalyl involve some lasers, but no holography.
I realize that I was speaking without knowing the complete specifications of the system in question, so I was not exactly accurate, but how exactly does one perfieve that as a troll? The celeron does, indeed suck.
"The humble RJ45 could have a big future" That would be an appropriate statement for the late '80s, yes. (unsure of the exact date of RJ45 standard )
And how much does it weight? Even the current Via is under 3 pounds. I would much rather go with a light and thin (just look at the pictures) sub-notebook with a slightly underpowered processor (and, mind you, Via has improved a lot in performance) that fits into my backpack, rather than a 7-pound lumbering monster that deep-fries your lap. And Celeron is a sucky processor, too.
On the other hand, the default tooltip for the penguin unit is "Call uopn the spirit of a penguin to save you". Interesting, yes? ;-)
"Americans won't touch anything beyond voice mail." /., but that's simply untrue. Every time I walk through a park, or take a ride on a bus, I almost always see a few people enthusiastically mashing their cell phone keys or poking away at their iPaq screens in a galaga clone or some silly bowling game, or snake. Virtually all of my friends have phones used as much for gaming as for talking.
Uhh, where exactly do you come up with that? I realize that it's 'cool' to bash US citizens on
So please take you cynicism elsewhere.