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Living Room / Re: Where's Cody? (Where's Waldo, Twitter Style)
« Last post by Deozaan on May 28, 2009, 09:45 PM »Neat. 
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What do you do if your TV dies and now you have nothing?-app103 (May 22, 2009, 05:37 AM)
The rich have big libraries.
The poor have big TVs.
I'm not sure. I let Gmail handle it however they want to.I do not use Gmail, but I suspect it is immediate because as soon as their server sees and processes it for spam, etc. it would be sent to your account. Unless someone knows better, the checking is moment by moment so you could choose option "1" above if you want to.-Deozaan (May 23, 2009, 04:33 PM)-CodeTRUCKER (May 23, 2009, 04:48 PM)
a fat ugly geek in his underwear.-app103 (February 29, 2008, 09:32 AM)
the video kind of hinted that what made people sick was that people inhaled a cleaning spray that wasn't meant to be inhaled.-mouser (May 14, 2009, 12:59 AM)
if that was the case, then how comes the lady that cleaned the fridge was not affected by it?-Dell[a] (May 14, 2009, 01:03 AM)
So? She still inhales, doesn't she?
If it were truly chemicals or spores or whatever (ie, something truly harmful), then she would also be affected.-Gothi[c] (May 14, 2009, 12:44 AM)
Lets be careful about the choice of words for the naming "Open"+"Candy". They are making it like this stuff is all open and sweet. app103 is right on the track. These guys are very sneaky.-kartal (May 13, 2009, 12:36 AM)
has there been any tabulations of the data presented here? would make a nice reading..-lanux128 (May 12, 2009, 05:27 AM)
Half of the programs store the album art they find anywhere but with your music too, which is partially to blame for my current lack of covers. :/-worstje (May 12, 2009, 02:21 PM)
after a recent thread, (cant remember name now..*) I think if I was to get a new PC I would get a smaller drive just for windows and at least one other drive then. Ups the price naturally, especially if you were to get a higher speed drive for the OS.-tomos (May 10, 2009, 04:50 PM)
So you received an offer, but "they" don't even have the hardware in stock?They might have pre-built PCs ready but not the individual parts...-housetier (May 10, 2009, 07:36 AM)-f0dder (May 10, 2009, 07:53 AM)
I wouldn't go for SLI, I don't need the juice (a GF8800GT/512meg does just fine) - costs too much, draws too much power, generates too much heat.-f0dder (May 10, 2009, 07:53 AM)
The GPUs are sufficient if a bit underpowered. Not really underpowered, but there are several offerings both from nVidia and ATI with similar prices as the two 9800GT (which is nothing more than a revision of f0dder's GPU), but better performance. You also avoid several of the SLI-induced headaches, and with a 19" monitor you won't be using resolutions that need so many power.-Lashiec (May 10, 2009, 12:43 PM)
Am I the only person thinking that buying 1TB HDD is not wise?
I see that a little bit risky, not because the brand (or capacity) but from reliability point of view. Personally I'd rather go for two smaller disks for completely new PC. Shit happens and I would never store my data on one HDD only.-fenixproductions (May 10, 2009, 08:12 AM)
fenix: I wouldn't go with a single drive either, no matter what the capacity. For my storage needs, 2x500GB disks in a raid mirror would be quite adequate - and since I use a fileserver for bulk storage, I don't even need that much for my workstation.-f0dder (May 10, 2009, 10:58 AM)
3. Sure, as fenixproductions and f0dder said, two hard drives (or three, or even four...) is not a bad idea. You have several options there: a small one for the OS and applications and a big one for the rest of the data-Lashiec (May 10, 2009, 12:43 PM)
Dunno about PSU - I got a 700W, but even when maxxed out, my system draws ~250W or so... and that's with a 2.4GHz Q6600 overclocked to 3GHz. I'd probably have been better off with a decent 400W PSU, from what i understand a PSU runs most effectively near the power consumption it was designed for.-f0dder (May 10, 2009, 07:53 AM)
A thermal compound is not really necessary, probably all coolers carry one, and IIRC the Core i7 one carries its own thermal compound patch so you don't have to spread it over the CPU.-Lashiec (May 10, 2009, 12:43 PM)
12GB is overkill, you'd probably be fine with 6GB. I'd personally go for 12GB though, as I've gotten used to 8GB in my workstation, and 12GB would allow for even larger permanent ramdisks-f0dder (May 10, 2009, 07:53 AM)
1. Sure, 12 GB is overkill. Dunno what kind of apps you run, but you have to be a seriously heavy multi-tasker using heavy apps to take advantage of that. 4 GB, or 6 GB if you use a Core i7 (to take advantage of triple channel) is more adequate IMO, you save money and you still get quite some memory to go crazy (based on my experiences with 2 GB of RAM).-Lashiec (May 10, 2009, 12:43 PM)
Do you really need such big gear now?-housetier (May 10, 2009, 07:36 AM)
2. Cost-wise, it would be a good idea to take a look to the Phenom II or the older Core 2 (Duo or Quad), maybe even wait for the i5. The Core i7 may be the fastest processor available, but it has a matching price, including the motherboard, and on most tasks you will be hard-pressed to notice an advantage (again, depending on what you do with the computer).-Lashiec (May 10, 2009, 12:43 PM)
Right - one mouse, two cursors; I got the two mixed up-wreckedcarzz (May 10, 2009, 01:29 AM)
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