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First, I said nothing about latency or spin up. Rob's article reference 1.5 TB drives and not puny:rolleyes: 32 GB drives. Second, I would hope a low capacity $400 (SSD) drive out performs a TB $100 drive and it does initially. BUT SSDs slow down with use ... just a minor little point...

off topic tangent!!! Certain things are just grossly overpriced. Take for instance & similar to what you are talking about http://www.amazon.com/MuscleTech-Cell-Tech-Hardcore-Grape/dp/B000WSG16M/ref=sr_1_100?ie=UTF8&s=hpc&qid=1255215759&sr=1-100 I had a trainer (back when I could afford things...

It really depends on what the purpose is. For me, my business appears to be picking up & that translates to a lot of long (hours to days) simulation runs. And, I charge for that. :D It is "time is money" so I will go for maximum smoke ... meaning CPU speed. Then there is the "retirement" of...

That's not nice ... you can tell that certain things I have difficulty making a decision about. ;)

That "+" is pretty subtle. I went to the web site & had a few boards lined up in the comparison tool & didn't get it. We have talked before about the 2 oz Cu buried in the PCB as to what heat removal benefit it could be ... of which I am skeptical. But, it can't hurt in anyway and I do think...

I am absolutely fascinated with computer science over the past just 3 to 5 years. There are sooooo many ways to make complex algorithms faster ... and this does or could apply to any worth while game. Given a GPGPU like this and add on MPI, distributed computing, multi-core processors...

You hit the nail on the head with that question. Many a marketeer spin the old tune about not needing something when they themselves cannot offer it. Actually we all do this ... offering an "reason" to others to not needing something of us when we don't know how or just don't want to do it...

Smart. Very smart.

RAID makes sense in the original context that I remember hearing about it, and this was several years ago which is part of the context. 1) The whole mechanical thing with HDDs was much slower then. Parallel a pile of them & have significant improvement. As HDDs access time has improved the...

I was feeling humorous, but doesn't meant that it always comes across that way. I suppose humorous and ridiculous :rolleyes: I had found water pumps that run on 110 VAC. The pump has its own power cord supplied thru a little relay triggered with the computer's PSU. So when the computer is off...

Thanks. I have gone thru so many utilities I can't keep those straight either & wasn't sure that one provided it so clearly. cpuz 64 bit confirms that it is the Pentium D Processor 960. Hmmm, an E5200. Great, thanks. Business is starting to pick up in a very big way so I am all over this...

Ok, I drag & drop and both windows must be visible. The question was 2 clicks. I suspect it is mostly about compliance with the environment with the GUI. "Compliance" is meeting all the standards of the GUI ... and OS (MS or linux); compatible is just not crashing. My higher end Windows...

You read right & it is obvious that I don't know what is in the socket! ! It has been a couple of years. I thought I had back tracked adequately to figure out what it is ... NOT. It is dual core. It is 3.6 GHz & not over clocked. It is LGA775. I built 3 machines at the time & this was the...

I was being facitious :cool:

Same for VW bug gas caps ... and that I do know:o

Rob Williams asked ....How do you manage to get by with only two clicks? I {click left button} highlighted those words. Then {click left button} on the highlighted words & dragged & dropped them in the Reply to Thread window. I believe the identical operation works quite similarly in most...

Is anyone doing/have information about benchmarks in Windoze versus any linux? I interested in number crunchers. The Spec site seems to have somewhat different systems for the Windows & linux boxes. I used Sparc Unix /w X Windows for quite a while. Personally, I didn't see a huge difference...

I have a low ball system with an older P4 560 or (660?) CPU in an ASUS P5Q. This CPU is 800 MHz FSB. I am thinking about splurging & upping the CPU to quad core & faster, but wondering if it will be faster? I do not plan on upping the memory unless I decide to go over the installed 4 GB. I am...

CPU cooling solution maintenance ... rant ... part deux Air cooling is easier. HA! I have 3 of those huge Noctua Russian apartment building looking "nearly as good as water cooling" heat piped 2 quiet fans for each air coolers. My office is clean (did I say that before?).:confused: The...

I have water cooled and air cooled CPUs & they both require maintenance. For water, that means ensuring that some of the coolant hasn't disappeared over time. To me, this seems inevitable regardless of purchasing a "sealed" self contained system or the obvious assembled system using plumbing...