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Noise of Stock P4 2.0A Heatsink Fan?

Hi, I'm wondering if anyone knows how noisy the stock P4 2.0a heatsink fan is. I'm thinking of looking around for another heat sink, and would like to have my current noise level for comparison. Thanks. Bruce
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- Dec 15, 2004
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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New btx cases are NOT efficient

OK, personally I don't see HD temperatures as being a problem. Check out the layout for the cooling flow here. Notice how there is only one fan there. What is stopping case manufacturers from putting another intake fan in front of the HDs? This would allow there to be two channels of flow in...
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- Post #21
- Mar 29, 2004
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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ET uses TCP?

What the hell, I'll tackle the second question :P Obviously, the first step would be that they somehow tap into the system to get the data in the binary form we transmit it in. I won't tackle this matter, since it would require several assumptions about the aliens. Let's just say that the...
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- Post #6
- Mar 27, 2004
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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POLL: Sedna, planet or debris?

Yes, this is correct, and that's why we get tides. But that doesn't make the earth-moon pair a binary system. It's a simple matter of the weight ratio... The earth is so much more massive than the moon, the centre of mass of the system is actually inside the earth. So the earth can't orbit about...
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- Post #24
- Mar 24, 2004
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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POLL: Sedna, planet or debris?

That's not the data that I have found... hmm, it seems like there is a lot of conflicting data about, heh. I read that the centre of mass is about 1000 km below the earth's surface. So closer to the earth's surface than to the core, but still inside the earth.
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- Post #21
- Mar 23, 2004
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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POLL: Sedna, planet or debris?

No. When talking astronomy, a binary system means that two bodies orbit around a common point. There are many binary star systems, where two stars orbit about a point that I think is usually the centre of mass of the pair. The earth orbits directly about the sun, and the moon orbits about the...
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- Post #17
- Mar 22, 2004
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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POLL: Sedna, planet or debris?

Personally, I lean more towards the downgrade of Pluto. I just think it really disturbs the whole niceness of the planetary system... four inner planets and four outer planets all moving in roughly circular orbits on roughly the same plane. The other thing is that Pluto doesn't actually orbit...
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- Post #14
- Mar 21, 2004
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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cpu & gpu convergence

Yeah, but the chips themselves aren't optimized to run non-graphics code, that's my point. The low core speeds are fine for the graphics pipelining, but not necessarily for general-purpose stuff.
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- Post #19
- Mar 10, 2004
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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cpu & gpu convergence

I don't know if a GPU evolving into a CPU is any easier. Yes, the GPU has specialized functions that aren't in a CPU. But a GPU is completely designed to run those functions and those functions alone. If a GPU could run a general purpose program now (which I consider unlikely, there's probably...
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- Post #17
- Mar 8, 2004
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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math problem for the sake of it.

You are correct. I wrote someone about it and they gave 2004 as the correct value there. Makes sense too, since they normally use the year in some of the questions.
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- Post #18
- Mar 7, 2004
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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math problem for the sake of it.

I played with this too, but couldn't think of anything that would limit the answer more. However, it is interesting to note that the correct answer is 250,500. AMC Competition Results (question 23 on 12B) It is also possible that the OP got the question wrong. Or that all of us are missing...
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- Post #16
- Mar 5, 2004
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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cpu & gpu convergence

I think it's more likely that we'll just start seeing more and more non-video code running on GPUs, especially once PCI Express drastically improves the bandwidth from the GPU to the system. When this happens, I think it'll be beneficial to keep the cores separate, since it'll allow more...
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- Post #9
- Mar 3, 2004
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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8 way processor vs. 4 way processor in regards to SQL

The most likely beneficial information I could come up with are benchmarks IBM has done for its servers. The main entry point is here: http://www.pc.ibm.com/ww/eserver/xseries/benchmarks/series.html Most of the database benchmarks are DB2, but they have some SQL Server 2000 benchmarks for...
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- Post #2
- Mar 3, 2004
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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Is time continuous or granular?

I checked out that page, but it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me... I'm not a physicist. However, I thought that the strong force was unique in that it increases is strength over an increase in distance until a certain boundary where it ceases to work anymore. So to fuse atoms together...
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- Post #7
- Mar 3, 2004
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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How would an electric rocket engine work?

Being able to convert between matter and energy at will would probably completely change the problem though. Think of the kinds of vehicles we could create if we could build the thing from the atoms up. But yeah, for space vehicles, you've got two ways of moving... 1) shoot some mass in one...
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- Post #9
- Feb 29, 2004
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional

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