71 minutes? C'mon, that is utter crap. The LCD does not comsume 3000 watts in the first few seconds it is on! I doubt my 19" CRT with the degausser and all of that consumes nearly that much either! As a matter of fact I know it doesn't or it would EASILY trip the circuit breaker when I turn on my entire system (which the CPU is also rumored to consume 3000+ watts of power when turned on, if some posts here are to be believed).
Besides, if that was true, why do laptops have all these settings to turn off the screen after so many minutes? Most of them turn them off after a coulpe of minutes of inactivity. If the 71 minute figure is true, it would make more sense to let it leave the screen on unless you were going to leave it for more than an hour.
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P4 3.2GHz Reviews
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It's never enough. Every time I have thought I have had enough computer I have been proved wrong every time. I remember having a 800MB harddrive, thinking I have more than enough - what would I ever use all that space for? Then I discovered MP3's, then Microsoft released Win98 which was twice the size of Win95, etc. Now I have a very cramped 160GB. I'm sure 10 years I'll be looking back wondering how I got by with 2Ghz.
Like this P75 I have here is pretty damn slow. I doubt dropping a P150 chip in it is going to help much. I remember back in the day with the 486's and the Pentiums and comparing numbers, benchmarks, bus speeds, FPM vs. EDO and all of that. Now they are all just plain slow.
In 8 years they won't want a 3Ghz chip in their 1.5Ghz system, they'll want a new computer.
First, who'd use this? I think it would be quicker and easier to just type target.com than to draw (.) or whatever. I doubt many people would buy a touchpad for their PCs to use this anyway.
Secondly, how many different shapes do you think it will recognize? Graffiti only has to deal with numbers, letters, some symbols. Maybe 50-100 different symbols? Any more than that and they would probably look too much alike for the computer to reliably tell them apart.
Of couse this would be a boon to the porn/spam industry, who would register something like {.} so if you draw your target sloppy you'll get to see the goatse guy or something. No thanks, I'll just use the keyboard.
It's an idea I have been throwing around. Put the box in a different room, and then run cables to your monitor, keyboard, etc. There are a few problems I can see, such as issues with longer cables (especially monitor cables), and what about when you need physical access to the box (I'd hate to have to run to the garage every time I need to burn a CD). Serial ATA and meter long cables may allow for the CD drives to be next to the monitor though.
The only other issues are the fact that my garage gets full of dust, cottenwood seeds, leaves, spiders, etc. that would wreck havoc of any fan cooled computer. The other idea would be a closet, but I fear the computer would simply roast itself in a closed closet.
Yeah, the whole project seems crazy to me when you consider it's an office PC. He probably does not need 2.2Ghz of power 99% of the time.
If I was him, I would of ordered one of those mini-ITX VIA setups that requires no CPU fan, a big honkin' case (lots of ambient air to keep it cool), a quiet 5400 RPM disk drive, and either a fanless power supply, or a really really quite one that can power off the fan if not needed.
That rig would be very quiet, possibly even fanless, with decent enough performance for his use. Plus, he could keep the 2.2ghz for when he really needs the power.
Well with multiplayer games, that is not so much the case when the server that hosts the games checks your CD key to see if it's valid. This is how Blizzard does things with battle.net.
It's actually not a bad idea, if you consider the multiplayer part of the game THE place to be, and thus a cracked single-player only install is just a crippled demo.
You mean you don't have atleast a half dozen 386 boxen waiting to be put back into use? I don't know if it's just me, but it seems more fun to play old games on the systems they were designed for.
USB 2.0 "Hi-Speed" ports will be painted bright yellow, come with custom rims, and include VTEC stickers. They may not quite put out 480Mbps, but they sure will look like they do.
Even Nullsoft seems to have acknowledged WinAmp 3 sucks, and continues to work on WinAmp 2. Winamp 2.91 is a nice little player, and is actually a newer build than the latest WinAmp 3.
It kind of makes sense in a way if you travel. You don't have to worry about batteries, and you don't have to worry about different power adaptors for different countries, you can just use the +12V coming from your laptop.
On the other hand, I would just take a standard 99 cent brush myself.
I think what he means is that the computer reacts better when the processor overheats. The P4 has a much better system, clocking the CPU down until it cools off, letting the system continue run. If the heatsink/fan is removed with the system on, the computer will still run (though *very* slowly) allowing the user to save their work, etc.
AMD is not as good when it comes to that. I know the newer chips are improved to where the computer will halt if the fan stops and the chip gets too hot. You lose all your work etc. I'm not sure if they are quick enough to handle the heatsink suddenly being removed though. Older AMD chips with no overheating circuitry on the motherboard would literally burn up if they got too hot, frying the chip and usually the motherboard at the same time.
But the poster is right, the newer P4's do produce slightly more heat than the newer Athlons (they both produce far too much).
Actually, while Intel does have a firm hold of the high end chips, AMD is still killing them in the lower end chips. If you want the fastest computer around, get Intel. But for everyone else, who is looking for the biggest bang for their buck, is buying AMD.
You forgot the fact that it will also be painted bright yellow. Intel will provide buyers of the chips with VTEC stickers to plaster all over their computer cases too.
Seriously, look at all the stuff Enron pulled off and the thousands of people they hurt - and the best they can do is try to slap them with hyping some vaporware? C'mon here people!
Well if I didn't have a money pit...I mean... a car, I could of saved up that kind of money. $1000+/yr for insurance, gas&oil, repairs, new stereo system, various little things... it adds up quick even on a 10 year old Nissan.
Even with my uptime experiments, which consisted of taking an old but reliable hardware, installing Windows 95/OSR2/98/98SE/ME, and then letting the computer idle and do nothing never resulted in more than about 25 days before I came over and windows was fubar'ed or the computer was simply locked hard.
Windows 3.1 actually did quite well if I remember right, as it seemed perfectly content sitting idle doing nothing seemly forever. Windows 9x always seemed to randomly thrash the HDD, even after a clean install, which led me to believe that Windows 9x is never truly idle, it's always up to something (virtual memory?), and that something eventually will bring it down.
Windows 9x actually has a bug in it that would lock the computer after 46 days of uptime, but it took years to catch it because no one ever got close to that mark.
Why not do something like a ram RAID array? Thay way you have a backup for random memory errors.
I suppose you still have the problem if this bit is a 1 in this array and a 0 in the other array, which one is right? I guess either a third array (hey RAM is cheap) or some kind of logic to figure it out, if that's possible.
Re:These sorts of questions apply to all devices..
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Hey I like my utilitarian 80's economy car. It's simple, and the simple design appeals to me because it gets the job done without glitzy eye candy getting in the way. It's still well constructed, and someone spent some time thinking things out for the design so it works well.
As opposed to many cars I see now with tons of eye-candy, but I don't think anyone ever considered people would need to actually use these cars. Flashing lights, hard to read and use controls, really hard to read gauges, stupidly designed overly complicated interfaces (BMW iDrive anyone?)
Besides, some things like paint do serve a purpose. Unless you drive a Delorean, you will appreciate the paint every time it rains or snows.
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71 minutes? C'mon, that is utter crap. The LCD does not comsume 3000 watts in the first few seconds it is on! I doubt my 19" CRT with the degausser and all of that consumes nearly that much either! As a matter of fact I know it doesn't or it would EASILY trip the circuit breaker when I turn on my entire system (which the CPU is also rumored to consume 3000+ watts of power when turned on, if some posts here are to be believed). Besides, if that was true, why do laptops have all these settings to turn off the screen after so many minutes? Most of them turn them off after a coulpe of minutes of inactivity. If the 71 minute figure is true, it would make more sense to let it leave the screen on unless you were going to leave it for more than an hour.
It's never enough. Every time I have thought I have had enough computer I have been proved wrong every time. I remember having a 800MB harddrive, thinking I have more than enough - what would I ever use all that space for? Then I discovered MP3's, then Microsoft released Win98 which was twice the size of Win95, etc. Now I have a very cramped 160GB. I'm sure 10 years I'll be looking back wondering how I got by with 2Ghz.
Like this P75 I have here is pretty damn slow. I doubt dropping a P150 chip in it is going to help much. I remember back in the day with the 486's and the Pentiums and comparing numbers, benchmarks, bus speeds, FPM vs. EDO and all of that. Now they are all just plain slow.
In 8 years they won't want a 3Ghz chip in their 1.5Ghz system, they'll want a new computer.
First, who'd use this? I think it would be quicker and easier to just type target.com than to draw (.) or whatever. I doubt many people would buy a touchpad for their PCs to use this anyway.
Secondly, how many different shapes do you think it will recognize? Graffiti only has to deal with numbers, letters, some symbols. Maybe 50-100 different symbols? Any more than that and they would probably look too much alike for the computer to reliably tell them apart.
Of couse this would be a boon to the porn/spam industry, who would register something like {.} so if you draw your target sloppy you'll get to see the goatse guy or something. No thanks, I'll just use the keyboard.
It's an idea I have been throwing around. Put the box in a different room, and then run cables to your monitor, keyboard, etc. There are a few problems I can see, such as issues with longer cables (especially monitor cables), and what about when you need physical access to the box (I'd hate to have to run to the garage every time I need to burn a CD). Serial ATA and meter long cables may allow for the CD drives to be next to the monitor though.
The only other issues are the fact that my garage gets full of dust, cottenwood seeds, leaves, spiders, etc. that would wreck havoc of any fan cooled computer. The other idea would be a closet, but I fear the computer would simply roast itself in a closed closet.
Yeah, the whole project seems crazy to me when you consider it's an office PC. He probably does not need 2.2Ghz of power 99% of the time.
If I was him, I would of ordered one of those mini-ITX VIA setups that requires no CPU fan, a big honkin' case (lots of ambient air to keep it cool), a quiet 5400 RPM disk drive, and either a fanless power supply, or a really really quite one that can power off the fan if not needed.
That rig would be very quiet, possibly even fanless, with decent enough performance for his use. Plus, he could keep the 2.2ghz for when he really needs the power.
Well with multiplayer games, that is not so much the case when the server that hosts the games checks your CD key to see if it's valid. This is how Blizzard does things with battle.net.
It's actually not a bad idea, if you consider the multiplayer part of the game THE place to be, and thus a cracked single-player only install is just a crippled demo.
You mean you don't have atleast a half dozen 386 boxen waiting to be put back into use? I don't know if it's just me, but it seems more fun to play old games on the systems they were designed for.
USB 2.0 "Hi-Speed" ports will be painted bright yellow, come with custom rims, and include VTEC stickers. They may not quite put out 480Mbps, but they sure will look like they do.
And in other news, Bill Gates was quoted as saying, "This Segway thing is just like a Macintosh, it's expensive, flashy, and completely useless."
*ducks*
Wasn't TV banned in Afganistan until late 2001?
Even Nullsoft seems to have acknowledged WinAmp 3 sucks, and continues to work on WinAmp 2. Winamp 2.91 is a nice little player, and is actually a newer build than the latest WinAmp 3.
After watching the movie 15 times you should be able to pick them out. What, you mean you haven't watched it 15 times? What kind of geek are you?
It kind of makes sense in a way if you travel. You don't have to worry about batteries, and you don't have to worry about different power adaptors for different countries, you can just use the +12V coming from your laptop.
On the other hand, I would just take a standard 99 cent brush myself.
I think what he means is that the computer reacts better when the processor overheats. The P4 has a much better system, clocking the CPU down until it cools off, letting the system continue run. If the heatsink/fan is removed with the system on, the computer will still run (though *very* slowly) allowing the user to save their work, etc.
AMD is not as good when it comes to that. I know the newer chips are improved to where the computer will halt if the fan stops and the chip gets too hot. You lose all your work etc. I'm not sure if they are quick enough to handle the heatsink suddenly being removed though. Older AMD chips with no overheating circuitry on the motherboard would literally burn up if they got too hot, frying the chip and usually the motherboard at the same time.
But the poster is right, the newer P4's do produce slightly more heat than the newer Athlons (they both produce far too much).
Actually, while Intel does have a firm hold of the high end chips, AMD is still killing them in the lower end chips. If you want the fastest computer around, get Intel. But for everyone else, who is looking for the biggest bang for their buck, is buying AMD.
You forgot the fact that it will also be painted bright yellow. Intel will provide buyers of the chips with VTEC stickers to plaster all over their computer cases too.
Seriously, look at all the stuff Enron pulled off and the thousands of people they hurt - and the best they can do is try to slap them with hyping some vaporware? C'mon here people!
Well if I didn't have a money pit...I mean... a car, I could of saved up that kind of money. $1000+/yr for insurance, gas&oil, repairs, new stereo system, various little things... it adds up quick even on a 10 year old Nissan.
I know there is a space-rated version of the Pentium Classic out now. Not the Pentium MMX though (has to do with the increased L1 cache size I think).
Should be plenty of power to get to Mars if you ask me.
Now if they made a way for that phone to talk to my car's stereo, so I could recieve streaming audio while I drive, now that would be cool.
Otherwise, I see very little point in these phones.
Even with my uptime experiments, which consisted of taking an old but reliable hardware, installing Windows 95/OSR2/98/98SE/ME, and then letting the computer idle and do nothing never resulted in more than about 25 days before I came over and windows was fubar'ed or the computer was simply locked hard.
Windows 3.1 actually did quite well if I remember right, as it seemed perfectly content sitting idle doing nothing seemly forever. Windows 9x always seemed to randomly thrash the HDD, even after a clean install, which led me to believe that Windows 9x is never truly idle, it's always up to something (virtual memory?), and that something eventually will bring it down.
Windows 9x actually has a bug in it that would lock the computer after 46 days of uptime, but it took years to catch it because no one ever got close to that mark.
But we will see it released in the next year?
Why not do something like a ram RAID array? Thay way you have a backup for random memory errors.
I suppose you still have the problem if this bit is a 1 in this array and a 0 in the other array, which one is right? I guess either a third array (hey RAM is cheap) or some kind of logic to figure it out, if that's possible.
Hey I like my utilitarian 80's economy car. It's simple, and the simple design appeals to me because it gets the job done without glitzy eye candy getting in the way. It's still well constructed, and someone spent some time thinking things out for the design so it works well.
As opposed to many cars I see now with tons of eye-candy, but I don't think anyone ever considered people would need to actually use these cars. Flashing lights, hard to read and use controls, really hard to read gauges, stupidly designed overly complicated interfaces (BMW iDrive anyone?)
Besides, some things like paint do serve a purpose. Unless you drive a Delorean, you will appreciate the paint every time it rains or snows.