| 2010/1/26-2/8 [Computer/HW/Memory] UID:53665 Activity:nil | 1/26 What's a good motherboard I can get that will fit in a 1U
case, with sata connectors, gig-e ethernet, and lots of
slots for RAM? I also don't want to have to use expensive
double buffered RAM. Can you tell I havne't bought a PC in
years? thanks.
\_ Buy a mac. Haven't you heard? if you don't buy a Mac people
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| 2009/6/1-5 [Recreation/Computer/Games] UID:53065 Activity:kinda low | 5/31 I'm not a hardcore gamer, but I do play games sometimes. Is the
80G Sony PS3 sufficient for say, 2-3 years? I'll use it 80% for
BlueRay movies and 15% game (I play 3-4 games a year max), and
possibly 5% something else. I'm just trying to figure out how
long a 80G will last based on my usage, and whether I can get
away with a 40G version, or if the 160G is a must have or not. Thanks.
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| 2009/2/15-18 [Science/GlobalWarming, Computer/HW/Drives, Science/Electric] UID:52576 Activity:nil | 2/15 How many watts does a typical desktop (not counting monitor)
use when it is completely idling (top shows at most 1-2% CPU),
assuming normal SATA HD, video card, 2-4G RAM?
\_ Google did a published study where they determined that the
largest consumer of energy in a computer is the power supply
itself. Figure that if you have a 400W power supply you are
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| 2008/12/4-10 [Computer/HW/CPU, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:52163 Activity:nil | 12/4 A question to you old crufy alumni: So lately we've suggested
VMs, and been asked why it's necessary. We've suggested top-of-the-line
hardware and been told we don't need that much power. So I'd like to
ask -- what exactly do you think the CSUA is supposed to _be_?
\_ Noone said VMs weren't needed. They suggested you use the
\_ No one said VMs weren't needed. They suggested you use the
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| 2007/10/17-19 [Computer/HW/Laptop] UID:48352 Activity:nil | 10/17 There is this magical device that lets me connect a 2.5"
laptop drive to my computer's USB port. the IT dude at work
had it. What is it called? I wanna buy one. Thank you.
\_ hard drive enclosure? they have ones that connect with
firewire and SATA also
\_ Did he use fairy dust or just the standard wand? Fairy dust is
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| 2007/5/27-30 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:46768 Activity:low | 5/27 I just spend a few hours on a silly BIOS problem and I'm posting it
here so that you guys wouldn't have to go through this again. My
MB is Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro and the latest BIOS update is version
F17, which is in 2004. It comes with the MB Sil (Silicon Image)
3112A SATA controller, which unfortunately, is outdated from 2002
and does not recognize my Seagate 750G drive-- the boot loader
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| 2006/4/20-11/12 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:42787 Activity:nil | 4/20 Soda now has a spiffy new kernel that, besides now having the SATA
RAID and SCSI disk drivers built in, also, theoretically, doesn't
have the lockd problem that has been causing so much trouble. It has
currently been up without a hitch for most of the night, and I hereby
pronounce it more "stable." (Waits for the expected crash.) In any
case, thanks to marked and rfm for helping out with building it, and
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| 2006/11/1-2 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:45076 Activity:kinda low | 11/01 Does WinXP provide good facilities for SATA+RAID? I'm thinking of
buying 2 SATA drives instead of something more expensive like
Infrant's ReadyNAS NV+, and I'm wondering if WinXP would provide
equivalently good SATA+RAID facilities. Ok thx.
\_ A lot of MoBos do on-board drive mirroring for SATA, I'd rather
trust that. -John
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| 2006/9/10-12 [Computer/HW/Drives, Computer/HW/CPU] UID:44341 Activity:nil | 9/11 For those who run his/her own server. Has any of you tried to run a
fanless system that uses AMD Operon or Pentium M that is clocked more
than 1GHz? where to get chassis like these? can't find it at Fry's.
\_ No, but I have a fanless 800 MHz Via C3, with a big Zalman heatsink.
Got the CPU on ebay for about $50 and got the heatsink (CNPS-6000AlCu
Flower Cooler) from http://endpcnoise.com for about $40.. Runs great.
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