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So, what makes you think this doesn't work? It seems like a pretty simple concept: Use a capacitor or small high-amperage battery to store a little of the 5V juice from the power pins..... Then feed it back at a MUCH higher voltage and amperage on the data pins and BAM, it's done. Shiz, we have...

Thanks for recommending the 500GB Crucial MX500. Very reasonable price/performance and I'll do some more research on it. Seems like a great option between the 250 and 500GB Samsung 860s. As for my system, it's an i5-3570K @ a comfortable 3.8ghz on an Asus P8Z77-V mobo. Many generations behind...

Sure have, but I don't think Win 7 and those m2 pcie adapters play well together for booting. If someone has had good luck with a config like that, let me know and I'll reconsider.

Ya dude, when society collapses, you'll wish you had a bunch of crappy 480p rips of analog Simpsons broadcasts from the 90's that you got off Napster..... stored in offline cold storage so the EMPs don't get of course (duh)

I have no specific suggestions for this issue and haven't ever owned Toshiba drives. However, I'll offer up my general tips and tricks for dead mechanical drives: - Run speedfan or some other utility that lets you read SMART codes - Check the Windows "Disk Management" utility and see if it...

Most of what I've read on the new 860 EVO SATA is positive, with many reviewers considering it an improvement on the already excellent 850 EVO. These are reviews of the larger sizes though, often 1TB at least. Has anyone heard of or aware of any performance issues with the smallest 250GB size...

Count me in! Seems like exactly the power supply I have been looking for.

Going to get a 46in LCD and really like what I have seen from Samsung. The only difference i noticed between the 640 and 650 is the contrast ratio, and I wasn't able to notice it in BB. Aside from the bluish blacks, anything wrong with these sets? Also, should I be considering anything else...

ugh, too many choices! Anyone check out the OCZ Agility EX 60GB SLC drive? http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/24507-ocz-agility-ex-60gb-ssd-review.html Seems to be the first consumer drive to touch the IO performance of the X25-M. Plus it has the raw read write...

I would get the 1TB drive to store media and large data files and stick with your 150 Raptor for the OS. I have both in my system and they each have their pros and cons. Save your money for a SSD. The differences between spindle drives are insignificant when you compare them to the amazing...

http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=766&type=expert&pid=12 the pcp guys say that some of the smaller capacity drives are slower because they only use half the channels on their flash controllers. Something for me to consider since I am looking at the 60-80GB range?

The 150GB raptor i am using in my current rig is way too slow. I will be building a new system in the next 6 months, but would like the SSD speed boost sooner... If there is something great (a new Intel controller to replace their current 2 yr old one), i'll wait. But it's not worth waiting for...

Speed is the top priority here, as 60GB is plenty of room for me. I am Focusing on boot time, application loading, and level loading speeds. This will be paired with Windows 7 and eventually an X58 mobo (right now it’s an nforce4, but only for a little while). Is there anything new on the...

12 cores and only dual channel ram? Since these are just two istanbuls stuck together, they should have gone with quad channel ram. Considering what they will be used for in the server market, there could be memory bandwidth issues. Also, Sun has been hammering the "whole bunch of slow, highly...

What is that logo on her suit? It looks like the "bluecat networks" logo.... Seriously, it does. Just wondering.. we use a lot of bluecat gear around here and have always wondered what they spend their R&D money on... now I know... and she looks expensive (as in $4K/night..... for your...

Yep. Cancel the charge with your CC company and get another monitor.... or even order the same Dell one again. These people are idiots for not standing up to dell. Every time i have had a problem with dell, I simply tell the manager what he is going to do to make it right and it happens...

I heard that Steve Jobs is extremely angry....... that he can't do this to Apple employees suspected of leaking info.

sweet. I am back in business folding for team 33!!

I have been running the 6.23 Windows SMP mpich client on my quad core for quite some time now. It starts via "C:\Folding\[email protected] -smp" shortcut in the startup folder. I restarted the other day and it failed to come back up. I tried launching it manually, and the CMD prompt...

Thanks for the suggestion! I did see a Bravia there and really liked the image quality. I will have to check the model number and take a closer look.

I am looking for a 32in LCD for the bedroom, don’t need 1080P, and want to keep it under $600. The Samsung LN32B360 has some of the best image quality I have seen in that price range. It can be difficult to tell under the bright lights of BB and without adjusting image quality settings, but all...

I have a Dell Precision 390 at work with an i975X mobo and a Q6600 processor. I would like to swap out the processor for a Q9650 and the Dell techs claim that it will work, and at worst, the Q9650 will run with a 1066FSB instead of 1333. So, will an i975X support a Q9650? Intel's...

I agree with the previous posters..... i would rather have the brick! The brick is far more useful, and can even be used for work related tasks(unlike the Mac).... I would use the brick as a negotiating tool at my next departmental meeting.

Looks like this is for the ladies only! A future version will add a vibrating "massager".

It seems pretty obvious that Intel is designing Larrabee for a console. I don’t believe them when they say they want to compete with ATI and Nvidia for high end PC graphics… Even Intel admits they won’t be able to beat anyone on current game performance. So why would a PC game developer make a...

Only because they are less likelyy to earn a Darwin Award for doing something special.

My comcast account has a password? And E Mail? never would have guessed it. I sure hope they didn't make me set a password!

Didn't they try that in Blow? Oh well, as long as Google doesn't stick the money in a bank in Panama they should be ok;)

The Mac Pro 8 core Nehalem unit seems to be a soft launch. They are quoting a 6-8 week ship time on the website if you configure one. I would be pissed if Apple managed to release an 8 core Nehalem unit before Dell ships their new PowerEdge models. Dell better have these out the door first, as...

Here is a link to a CNN article with some more info: http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/reuters/MTFH76752_2009-03-02_22-37-28_N02409178.htm These two statements in the article seem to contradict one another: 1. "But Intel stressed it will not transfer its highly prized...

I ALWAYS rent movies instead of buying them. $20 is WAY too much to spend on a movie. Plus I only watch movies once. Even if it was a great movie, why would i want to see it again? I already know what happens and exactly how it happens. I can replay the movie in my head if it was really that...

Hells yes! I am gonna do some H with that thing.... oh... it's just a replica.. I guess it's back to that dirty, rusted, 3 year old, AIDS infected syringe I have been using to shoot up between my toes. But seriously, main lining is bad, and i believe that thing is used for intra-muscular...

WOW…. Narcotics cops sure are stupid (and lazy… druggies are much easier to bust than real criminals like murders or robbers)! Seems like a textbook example of entrapment and will probably be thrown out of court. Cops can’t ask someone to do something illegal or offer to perform an illegal...

LOL, the Dutch are so cool! Someone stole their porn collection and they would just be happy to get it back, "no questions asked"... HAHA, they are probably figuring that someone wanted some "alone time" with it and would be too embarrassed to return it now that it has been reported...

Is that thing gonna swim upstream? Considering the speed at which blood flows (not totally sure, but i think it's fairly fast), how is that thing going to make any progress? I think that it would just get pushed around by the blood.

Any ideas? Even if I could just get a tuner card with Linux drivers, I could probably figure something out for the multicasting.

First, I need a standard def tuner card that has drivers for Linux. I don’t care if it is analog only, or has digital support, but I have had problems finding a tuner card that with Linux drivers. PCI-Express would be nice, but I think I can also use PCI. Second, do you know of any Linux...

Ya, I just ordered the L227WTG from the egg a few days ago. Should be here soon! I thought about that Samsung, but couldn’t find any places in town to actually look at it (BB had the LG, although hooked up with VGA to a low res signal). Unless you can find someplace to actually look at the...

Ya, i think i will go with the LG. It seems like it would be worth the extra $$ over the Dell. Thanks for the advice!

Thanks for the support! Unfortunately, a lot of my PPD is from spare servers at work (8 core 3Ghz Xeons). I can only use these until we put them into production, so my PPD will probably drop to around 5-8K pretty soon. If I can keep my 8800GTS folding 24x7, I might be able to stay up here for...