Bah, people doing scientific research and data-vis aren't going to be using consumer 'gamer' class cards. They will be using workstation class video cards with certified drivers and much higher programmability...and those have already broken the 512mb barrier.
Kinda like the Wildcat I mentioned elsewhere in this thread...
Every morning I get up and feed F-Spot (my Beagle). Then, I get out some eggs, cheese, and MooTag to make myself an omelet. I learned how to cook omelets from Emeril. So, it's Muine & Blam! and my omelets done!
Next, I take a shower and wash off the Bluefunk. Once dressed in my suit and my PolarViewer glasses I call down to Tomboy (our doorman) and have him GIB up a cab.
Once at work it is non-stop Gfaxes and sneaking some time with my SportTracker.
Anyone that is using a Cellphone and expecting a secure and private communication is seriously deluding themselves.
Sure pwning the network through their website doesn't help but you shouldn't be talking company secrets over a cell (for example) and not expecting someone, somewhere, to be able to hear you.
Hence the disclaimer that these pictures are only in the "Mostly Finished" stage.
I never got around to taking pictures of it fully-finished.
It ahs proven to be non-conductive for quite a while now though. As you can tell by the mobo, it is an older P1. I've yet to upgrade it to a faster/newer (and hotter) system.
Overheated chips get doused by readers' suggestions for cooling systems
Level: Introductory
Joshua Fruhlinger (pdwe@jfruh.com)
Editor and Writer
02 Feb 2005
Face it: the only scorching hot thing you want with a chip is salsa. Any other overheating is potentially counterproductive, and can be downright damaging to the microprocessor -- or other components. In this Power Architecture challenge, developers warm up to the idea of how to cool down the hotter processors. From the weird to the wonderful, readers uncover potential ways to chill the chips.
Somewhere, deep inside your computer is the tiny slab of silicon that makes it go. That slab in turn is built out of millions -- perhaps hundreds of millions -- of transistors. Every time one of those transistors changes state, it leaks a tiny amount of electricity; in turn, that electricity produces heat. And that heat, accumulated over millions of transistors changing state thousands of times per second, may potentially threaten your fertility (see Resources).
Dr. Claes-Goran Ostenson saw this first hand when he concluded that one of his patients had been using a laptop in the way that its name implied, became engrossed in his work, and didn't notice the burning sensation in his lap, and thus became the first victim of what has come to be known as "lapburn." Ostenson felt the incident warranted exposure in the world of medical science, so he wrote a letter to the Lancet in 2002.
It stirred a mild amount of controversy, with commentors coming down on predictable sides. Laptop manufacturers were skeptical, while spokespersons for companies that produce chip-cooling paraphenalia looked serious and nodded sagely, implying that your lap could be next. Worries about "lapburn" spawned a whole industry of fan-based gadgets that plugged into the bottom of laptops, sometimes rendering the laptops' portability features pointless in the process. But the situation did highlight one important fact: Chips are hot.
And that's meant not in a market-ese, "everybody's-gotta-have-one" kind of way, but in a very literal and skin-scorching way.
The winner
The First Law of Thermodynamics states essentially that energy -- including heat -- can not be created or destroyed. And if you think the punishment is stiff when you break municipal, state, or federal law, just try monkeying around with thermodynamic law! Also, physicists such as Frenchman Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot, as far back as the 19th century, recognized that heat tends to move from hot objects to cooler objects. These two rules circumscribe the work of every engineer and tinkerer who has attempted to cool down microprocessors. Once a chip has generated heat, that heat cannot simply be eliminated or suppressed: It must be inevitably moved from the superheated chip to something cooler. Problems arise when those cooler objects are the sorts of things that react badly to steady influxes of heat, such as other components inside the computer case, or a Swede's lap.
Since not many of you (or, frankly, none of you) wrote about how to actually reduce the amount of heat coming from a chip, this article focuses instead on cooling systems. Faithful reader Daniel Griffin did define the problem succinctly, however, and thus walks off with this month's grand prize of a developerWorks t-shirt. He points out that just "cooling a small area immediately above the processor" is fruitless; it's better "to move the heat away from the die than to deal with it." It's that struggle -- getting the heat away from the delicate, but hot, innards of your PC -- that has defined the cooling battle for the past decade.
Astute readers will also note that Daniel's was the only entry this month. Come on, where's the competition? Your entries are the only thing between my box seats and "balcony rear" at the opera! Won't someone please think of the columnist?
So this time, instead of your entries, this space is devoted to the history of the chip-cooling process. This is my treat to you, but don't forget t
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Kinda like the Wildcat I mentioned elsewhere in this thread...
It's the 3D-Labs Wildcat Realizm 800, and it's PCI-Express too.
Every morning I get up and feed F-Spot (my Beagle). Then, I get out some eggs, cheese, and MooTag to make myself an omelet. I learned how to cook omelets from Emeril. So, it's Muine & Blam! and my omelets done!
Next, I take a shower and wash off the Bluefunk. Once dressed in my suit and my PolarViewer glasses I call down to Tomboy (our doorman) and have him GIB up a cab.
Once at work it is non-stop Gfaxes and sneaking some time with my SportTracker.
Sure pwning the network through their website doesn't help but you shouldn't be talking company secrets over a cell (for example) and not expecting someone, somewhere, to be able to hear you.
Who (or what) is IGE and why are they bad?
I can buy just-released movies on DVD from Wal*Mart (ick) or Target for $14.95. Wait a month and they are down to $9.99. So, why pirate?
"Dude, you're getting mono!"
I never got around to taking pictures of it fully-finished.
It ahs proven to be non-conductive for quite a while now though. As you can tell by the mobo, it is an older P1. I've yet to upgrade it to a faster/newer (and hotter) system.
One of these days I have to take new pictures...
Here it is in the "mostly finished" stage:
Picture 1
Picture 2
Joshua Fruhlinger (pdwe@jfruh.com) Editor and Writer 02 Feb 2005
Face it: the only scorching hot thing you want with a chip is salsa. Any other overheating is potentially counterproductive, and can be downright damaging to the microprocessor -- or other components. In this Power Architecture challenge, developers warm up to the idea of how to cool down the hotter processors. From the weird to the wonderful, readers uncover potential ways to chill the chips. Somewhere, deep inside your computer is the tiny slab of silicon that makes it go. That slab in turn is built out of millions -- perhaps hundreds of millions -- of transistors. Every time one of those transistors changes state, it leaks a tiny amount of electricity; in turn, that electricity produces heat. And that heat, accumulated over millions of transistors changing state thousands of times per second, may potentially threaten your fertility (see Resources).
Dr. Claes-Goran Ostenson saw this first hand when he concluded that one of his patients had been using a laptop in the way that its name implied, became engrossed in his work, and didn't notice the burning sensation in his lap, and thus became the first victim of what has come to be known as "lapburn." Ostenson felt the incident warranted exposure in the world of medical science, so he wrote a letter to the Lancet in 2002.
It stirred a mild amount of controversy, with commentors coming down on predictable sides. Laptop manufacturers were skeptical, while spokespersons for companies that produce chip-cooling paraphenalia looked serious and nodded sagely, implying that your lap could be next. Worries about "lapburn" spawned a whole industry of fan-based gadgets that plugged into the bottom of laptops, sometimes rendering the laptops' portability features pointless in the process. But the situation did highlight one important fact: Chips are hot.
And that's meant not in a market-ese, "everybody's-gotta-have-one" kind of way, but in a very literal and skin-scorching way.
The winner The First Law of Thermodynamics states essentially that energy -- including heat -- can not be created or destroyed. And if you think the punishment is stiff when you break municipal, state, or federal law, just try monkeying around with thermodynamic law! Also, physicists such as Frenchman Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot, as far back as the 19th century, recognized that heat tends to move from hot objects to cooler objects. These two rules circumscribe the work of every engineer and tinkerer who has attempted to cool down microprocessors. Once a chip has generated heat, that heat cannot simply be eliminated or suppressed: It must be inevitably moved from the superheated chip to something cooler. Problems arise when those cooler objects are the sorts of things that react badly to steady influxes of heat, such as other components inside the computer case, or a Swede's lap.
Since not many of you (or, frankly, none of you) wrote about how to actually reduce the amount of heat coming from a chip, this article focuses instead on cooling systems. Faithful reader Daniel Griffin did define the problem succinctly, however, and thus walks off with this month's grand prize of a developerWorks t-shirt. He points out that just "cooling a small area immediately above the processor" is fruitless; it's better "to move the heat away from the die than to deal with it." It's that struggle -- getting the heat away from the delicate, but hot, innards of your PC -- that has defined the cooling battle for the past decade.
Astute readers will also note that Daniel's was the only entry this month. Come on, where's the competition? Your entries are the only thing between my box seats and "balcony rear" at the opera! Won't someone please think of the columnist?
So this time, instead of your entries, this space is devoted to the history of the chip-cooling process. This is my treat to you, but don't forget t
But, paper-launches aside, I want to see who actually has a chip "in-stores" for purchase first.
Looks like the "Who is Winning the CPU War" line just shifted again.
Few tiny thermonuclear detonations and a robotic drilling rig - good to go!
When I search the web for "xxx" I don't get anything even close to what I wanted!!
Your post will be deleted in 1 hour.
Have a nice day.
If anything, the original parent was the flamebait...
They may replace [insert favorite registrar here] if they have good pricing!
*ducks stones*
The really funny part is that the original parent is actually he CEO of Verizon....
Well, now you know. :?
Once is a typo, three times is stupidity.
I just want a nice phone to TALK on. The picture-phone thing is OK, but just give me amazing coverage and good audio quality.
I don't want (or need) my phone to do anything else.
How in the world is that demo more functional than traditional HTML and/or a "normal" hierarchical file system?
Eh, be interesting to see the final result...but I hope the 'zoom' feature is not a huge part of it.
However, to get an LCD with a native resolution on 1600x1200 you will be buying a 20in or larger.
Who runs a 20in+ LCD at 800x600???