@Megge saving energy is mostly incompatible with transcoding; while you're transcoding, you're going to be using a lot of energy no matter what, or your transcoding won't be able to keep up if the CPU is too weak
Yeah but any new-core processor whatever the load is going to be better power consumption than an older gen running at 99% load. Aslong as it's not AMD lol
compute per watt doesn't imply low energy consumption, though: if you have an excellent compute per watt ratio and a supercomputer, you're using more energy than your town
Sony VAIO Duo 11 to come in the mail today! Unfortunately, today is the day that I have Tai Chi after work, so I probably won't be getting home until around 9:30.
Yes I know It's windows but I rely don'n like microsoft and there answering system plus I got some good answers from you guys on ubuntu.
Ok so i'm running windows 7 Home Premium sp1 on a hp laptop, I just bought, that has 3GB of RAM and 2.20GH processor so it runs better then my windows 7 deskt...
@allquixotic This transcoding is just something I can't stop because its not me transcoding, I just provide the enviornment and want to make the best of it
anyone try to overclock one of the "extreme" edition Pentium 4 Dual Core chips? if you've ever done that, you'd know, you can melt steel by touching it to the top of the CPU package
When I game on my desktop in a particularly resource-intensive game, it's almost like sitting next to a space heater. The airflow is even particularly well that I can feel the hot air blowing up from under my desk. :P
Amazon Glacier has a very high data retention claim (low probability of losing anything) but if you have to read from the backups frequently, bad solution, then use S3 instead
@Megge Amazon Glacier is 1 US cent per gigabyte :D
I cannot sync files with synctoy from my laptop because it will not install, presumably because laptop is only 755.2 GH intel pentium m (synctoy says it needs 1000GH computer). Is there a solution (I love my laptop too much to change).
I'm not even visiting this webpage because of the title alone would probably trigger several alarms down the hall, but I do declare that the actual article content is SFW... www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/13/ventblockers
(I've seen it before at home)
@sidran32 this picture reminded me of that article
@allquixotic I've seen stuff like that in machines I had to clean out. :P Check out reddit.com/r/techsupportgore
I'm so addicted to that subreddit.
@HaydnWVN I'm gonna create my own custom power light setup in the case. Only thing I don't like about it: the power indicator is powered directly off the PSU, so I don't get any sleep state lighting.
@HaydnWVN Yeah. There's a molex that plugs into the front panel that powers all lighting in the case (except the HDD light). The power LED connection off the motherboard isn't used at all.
@HaydnWVN I plan on getting an adapter (posted on EE.SE for this, actually) and power a 12V LED spotlight under the front grill for my power light, controlled with the mobo power LED connection.
@allquixotic I still haven't hooked up my temperature probes. I don't want my case to get that much tangled a wirey mess. It has a window, after all.
@HaydnWVN I know. It's 3.3V. That's why I posted on EE.SE about it. :P Someone on there said he once controlled a halogen lamp off the HDD light indicator.
@HaydnWVN Precisely. I'll have to probably get some external power to the 12V light so it'll be lit during standby mode, but that shouldn't be too problematic.
Yeah, if only the PSU didn't shut down (mostly) in S3.
I might have an external 12V wall adapter, or (preferably, if possible), get an internal rechargeable 12V battery pack that I could charge off the PSU while the computer is powered on while not in standby.
Background for the problem:
I rebuilt my computer in a new case where the components fit a bit better. Everything is great, and I have no issues with it. However, because of the way they engineered the front panel LEDs, I don't have an LED indicator of computer sleep status. The power light is p...
one of my 5.25" drive bays has a load of holes drilled into it as i started to make my own fanbus as they're so over priced... I fabricated the basic circuit to do it but never built it properly and finished it off
@sidran32 Lol tell me about it... My current Lianli is a 'PC75'... I bought it 10 years ago and didn't use it for about5 years... Then found out i needed an additional 'adaptor' to mount an ATX PSU correctly... Beautiful case, PITA when needing anything changing
@HaydnWVN Yeah. Also, while I have no qualms with using power tools, I don't do it enough to feel confident that I might end up messing something up. Given my slight OCD tendencies, even an uneven edge or a slightly offset hole would bug the heck out of me.
@sidran32 Yeah and all aluminium so it's really light and fairly strong... I've modded handles into the top, changed the PSU mount at the back and have a side panel with a full window (like the picture - wasn't available when i ordered mine)
@sidran32 Most annoying thing ever are the cheap and crappy BEIGE plastic feet with crappy silver spray-paint on them
Would a question about fitting a specific fan in a specific case be on topic here? Not sure if I can fit a Corsair H100 in an Antec 300 case (both are common products)
The case does have a 2 fan slot but I'm not sure sure A) the hoses are long enough to reach the front from the MoBo B) I can fit the fans in front of the hard drive slots
This is my first desktop for a while, bought it for gaming/recording. Went sort of conservative because I wasn't 100% sure how much I'd use it. Turns out it almsot completely replaced my laptop, so further upgrades might be in order
Wasn't picky with the case or power supply and I probably should have been. Non-modular PSU sucks
At least I get a chance to sell the CPU before I get a new one. Figured I could never sell a used, (software) OC'd CPU, but my mom's getting a new PC anyway, so I'm selling it to her and building her rig
PSU no longer worked. Motherboard (tyan tiger) was dead. DIMM (1x 512MB ECC) was dead. One of the CPU's was dead. NIC (PCI 64bit, 66Mhz, dual copper eithernet) worked fine. PCI card (HW RAID to a shelf with SCSI drives) was also fine. GPU (matrox G200) was fine
If you need to restore the Windows boot loader after using GRUB (or something similar) and subsequently deleting its installation, you can use the Windows setup disk. The following refers to the Windows 7 installation media, but Windows 8 should have similar options from the disc.
Boot onto the ...
Because of the way NTFS partitions work, you would need to ensure that the partition on the old drive is small enough to be replicated onto the SSD.
Then you can use something like Clonezilla or some other drive cloning utility to migrate the data onto the new drive.
As long as nothing else on ...
can i get two votes on this questions so I can get back into tier 3?
I cannot sync files with synctoy from my laptop because it will not install, presumably because laptop is only 755.2 GH intel pentium m (synctoy says it needs 1000GH computer). Is there a solution (I love my laptop too much to change).
Because of the way NTFS partitions work, you would need to ensure that the partition on the old drive is small enough to be replicated onto the SSD.
Then you can use something like Clonezilla or some other drive cloning utility to migrate the data onto the new drive.
As long as nothing else on ...
