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    Make this Christmas [H]ard to forget

    Thanks Skillz & Sparky, you were right -- it's fine. The CPU temps stabilized at around 90C with F@H on Light setting. It sits on a cooling pad (though half the time one of the 2 fans in said pad dies out, I need to replace it!), so I'm no longer worried. The shut-down & video-problem the...
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    Make this Christmas [H]ard to forget

    Roger that, it's shut down. Now I'm sad.. no Folding for me. :( I would if my laptop did OK with it, but it just made my CPU temps go from like 65-70C avg (idle) to 90-95C, and I guess the thing it smart enough to try to prevent heat damage by shutting stuff down when it gets that hot. Maybe...
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    Make this Christmas [H]ard to forget

    Well after I had may laptop's video flake out on me following the afternoon of folding, I decided to table that for now. Instead, I fired up an unused workstation at my office (sshhh, don't tell the boss!), which is a hell of a lot better anyway, at ~14k PPD. It's a Core i7 @3.4 GHz, with a...
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    Make this Christmas [H]ard to forget

    Thanks! Forgive the n00b question, but I couldn't find an answer here or by Google-ing... If I pause in the middle of a work-unit and exit the client (i.e. actually stop the process, not just the GUI), will it resume the work-unit when I turn it back on, or do I lose my progress? Reason I ask...
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    Make this Christmas [H]ard to forget

    Even though I have but a lowly laptop with a Core i7 @1.6GHz and a Radeon Mobility 5k-something, I'm happy to say that this made me take the plunge and start F@H for the [H]orde. My PPD may be in the single-digits but dammit I'm contributing! (Though honestly I literally just started about 10...
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    Punch Cards: How Much Space Would Google Need?

    Maybe I'm just old-fashioned, but I think you should link straight to the source (the XKCD page) instead of the Gizmodo re-hash. I'm not anti-Gizmodo or anything, it's just that XKCD deserves the credit for the 'story'.
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    Visualizing How A Bitcoin Transaction Works

    LOL'd! Good point too.
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    Visualizing How A Bitcoin Transaction Works

    Aaahhhh, *now* I get it! Thanks to Spidey329 & AutomaticMan. It makes sense now. Not that I ever had the audacity to think I could make any money with it, I just didn't understand why people wouldn't have tried in the first place. But now it makes sense -- if you missed the boat at the...
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    Visualizing How A Bitcoin Transaction Works

    I could see the argument about the cost-offset of your electricity/whatever .. but if I leave my machine on all the time anyway (or at least, fairly consistently), I'm not "losing" or "wasting" the resources. Would the mining process shorten the lifespan of my CPU/GPU? And of course the...
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    Visualizing How A Bitcoin Transaction Works

    Okay, whats the deal with this Bitcoin crap... Can you actually make money by just running your computer with some piece of Bitcoin software 24/7, like Folding@Home except involving money? Is that what these "miners" do? Or am I completely missing the point?
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    Ecomaster / Enermax Ostrog GT Case Lucky Draw

    I've always preferred black cases myself, and these Enermax Ostrogs are beauties, even in other colors. Dark red or deep blue would catch my eye, I think.
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    SeaSonic M12II Power Supply Lucky Draw

    I wanted a SeaSonic M12-something (they've been making that line for a while, no?) *so* badly for the build I was working on a few years ago, but it never came to pass due to lack of budget.. This would help jump-start!
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    Enermax Hoplite ST Lucky Draw

    My favorite Enermax product would be this case, because it'd be FREEEE! Haha. But srsly forks. I replaced the default Dell PSU in my desktop from 2002, with an Enermax 350W (can't remember the exact model), in 2004, and it's STILL keeping this dino running smoothly when I want to fire it up...
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    Customer Has Positive Experience At Best Buy

    Yeah, it's not like it's that rare, it's just that the loudest voices are the complainers. A friend of mine has always gone to the local BB with his computer troubles and they've never tried to give him the run-around or up-sell him on some fancy service plan. They tell him what's wrong, even...
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    AMD Radeon HD 7870 CrossFire Never Settle Bundle Lucky Draw

    Oh how this would jump-start my plans for a new desktop build this holiday season! Radeon GPUs have been ahead of "the big green" in terms of value / bang-for-the-buck, for a while now, and I think they deserve props for that (meaning, I think I deserve to get my grimy paws on one to play those...
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