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Hard drive enclosure at compusa

The Cypress chipset was highly regarded as of July 2005: "Cypress is not recommended as a FIREWIRE chipset. However, Cypress is the INDUSTRY LEADER in QUALITY and RELIABILITY in USB chipsets. Cypress is WIDELY recommended as the best USB2 client, hands down. The better manufacturers combine...
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- Post #26
- Feb 21, 2006
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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DF servers

For the curious, the new 200 stuctures/generation client does not award twice as many point per generation, at least not with the client I downloaded. This is a little disconcerting. Conscientious users have helped relieve the worst of the server traffic by using a new client which actually...
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- Post #23
- Mar 28, 2004
- Forum: Distributed Computing
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DF servers

I'm not convinced doubling the number of structures per generation also doubles the amount of data that has to be uploaded. Each generation minimizes the energy of the best structure found, and this change simply doubles the number of candidates. You're still uploading one protien per...
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- Post #18
- Mar 25, 2004
- Forum: Distributed Computing
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DF servers

15 seconds? I just timed two uploads, one generation each. One was 30 seconds, the other 3 minutes. That may be longer than it takes to fold a generation. Today a new client became available that makes 200 structures per generation. I'll try it out as soon as my client gets to 250...
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- Post #15
- Mar 25, 2004
- Forum: Distributed Computing
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TADF! We need CRUNCHERS!

I put a second box on when I saw how fast the protien was. I suppose I could fire up a third for a while, but that was costing me $40/month in electricity...
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- Post #4
- Mar 20, 2004
- Forum: Distributed Computing
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DF: Can't afford electricity!

The unpaid internship...I wish there was a different way. I have to pay out-of-state tuition to a school where I don't need the credit (I already have my degrees) because the studio can't afford to train anyone--not that I need much training. They essentially require that you have two years of...
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- Post #6
- Mar 14, 2004
- Forum: Distributed Computing
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DF: Can't afford electricity!

Hey TeAm, I'm going to have to cut down my production dramatically because of my current employment situation (unpaid internship) and electricity prices. Running my three computers full time costs me an estimated $38 per month, calculated as 150W per computer and $0.112/kWH (Southern...
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- Thread
- Mar 14, 2004
- Replies: 5
- Forum: Distributed Computing
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Best AMD H/S

The *best* AMD heatsink? Probably the Thermalright SP-97, which is much like the SLK-900 series except it also has three heatpipes. I have the Intel version, the SP-94, and is cools a 100% loaded CPU down to only 15 degrees above ambient with a Panaflo L1A. There are also fans of one of the...
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- Post #5
- Mar 8, 2004
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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Difference in thermal pastes for lapped surfaces?

Very little heat transfer is done conductively? That surprises me, but it sounds like you know what you're talking about. Do you mean that the heat transfer from the core to the heatsink is due to the emission and absorbtion of photons? If so, then a heatsink in a vacuum an inch away from the...
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- Post #3
- Mar 7, 2004
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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DF: 1 Billion; Congrats Team!

Huzzah! xpblackdragon: so someone finally noticed me back here, huh? Cool! I'm now using three computers, and my output could have been 500000 today if I wasn't trying to get Linux kernel 2.6.3 up and running...
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- Post #8
- Mar 7, 2004
- Forum: Distributed Computing
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Difference in thermal pastes for lapped surfaces?

The specifications for AS5 on the arctic silver website mentions thicknesses of .001 and .003 inches, and implies that this thickness is best for filling in the microscopic valleys in the heatsink surface. Before I lapped my Thermalright SP-94, 947U, and 700 heatsinks the ridges were probably...
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- Thread
- Mar 7, 2004
- Replies: 4
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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Which apps are actually slowed by hyper-threading?

hmm. No sense editing out my mistake now! Looks like I mixed up the XP-no-hyperthreading and Win2K-no-hyperthreading results... Anyway, it's good to know you haven't seen any significant slowdown with HT under XP. I hope Linux will be as good to me...
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- Post #10
- Mar 7, 2004
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Which apps are actually slowed by hyper-threading?

rereading your post, I don't think you have to worry about Office, Illustrator, or Acrobat. I've used all three a fair bit, and even if they slow down a little with hyperthreading under XP (which I doubt) I don't think they'd feel sluggish provided you have a fast processor. They're just not...
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- Post #7
- Mar 7, 2004
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Which apps are actually slowed by hyper-threading?

I expect you are using Windows XP, as you seem to have a taste for recent versions of software (Photoshop CS). In case you are using Windows 2000 as I am, you should know that in most cases enabling hyperthreading slows down the application. This link (Babelfish translated English version)...
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- Post #6
- Mar 7, 2004
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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DF Stats for 2/04

Hi BlueCheez! After a few months of folding I didn't want to be a lurker anymore, either. Are you using all three computers for DF?
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- Post #7
- Mar 5, 2004
- Forum: Distributed Computing

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