mrmylanman
[H]ard|Gawd
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I got 2 8800 Ultras in the mail after a long ordeal with the nation's great postal service, and I am bit again by the house's shoddy wiring.
This is a really old house, and extremely hard to run wire in (when I had to run a length of network cable I just ran it under the house and then drilled a hole in the floor against the wall).
No sockets in the house are grounded, and I got away with it like that for a while but now I will finally have to do something about it. It may have something to do with the amount of power my computer is no drawing with 2 GPUs plus folding, but it keeps tripping my battery backup, making it think the power's out or something.
I'll also have to get another fan for my case.
Also I read somewhere that folding without the dummy connectors works in Windows 7 now but it doesn't seem like that is the case (at least for me). So that kind of sucks. I may just go back to Windows XP. Especially if folding for multiple card architectures works (I have a GTX260 that is sitting it out right now... two 8800 Ultras should get more PPD than a GTX260, at least from what my particular 260 was getting).
So right now I'm not folding at all on my video cards because my battery backup keeps getting tripped.
Sometimes folding can be frustrating... lol. Even though it's nothing too major I guess.
This is a really old house, and extremely hard to run wire in (when I had to run a length of network cable I just ran it under the house and then drilled a hole in the floor against the wall).
No sockets in the house are grounded, and I got away with it like that for a while but now I will finally have to do something about it. It may have something to do with the amount of power my computer is no drawing with 2 GPUs plus folding, but it keeps tripping my battery backup, making it think the power's out or something.
I'll also have to get another fan for my case.
Also I read somewhere that folding without the dummy connectors works in Windows 7 now but it doesn't seem like that is the case (at least for me). So that kind of sucks. I may just go back to Windows XP. Especially if folding for multiple card architectures works (I have a GTX260 that is sitting it out right now... two 8800 Ultras should get more PPD than a GTX260, at least from what my particular 260 was getting).
So right now I'm not folding at all on my video cards because my battery backup keeps getting tripped.
Sometimes folding can be frustrating... lol. Even though it's nothing too major I guess.