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We lost a power adapter, similar to, but not exactly looking like this: It was over on the air hockey table which was behind Jay, Jerry and Kevin. It seems to have disappeared. I was wondering if someone might have packed it up by mistake. It actually goes to our LitterMaid Kitty box. If you could please check your stuff, that would be cool, thanks!!
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I upgraded my system from a Sapphire 2900XT 512Mb (the card that everyone whined used so much power) to a Sapphire 4870 Toxic 1GB. I wanted to see what my power was at idle/once the computer was fully booted. Thinking that the 4870 (Two 6-pin = 150Watts avalible to the card) used quite a bit less power then the 2900 (8-pin and 6-pin = 300Watts avalible to the card) I decided to see by hooking up a Kill-a-Watt meter. To my surprise the 4870 uses more power when idle. Going to see if I can get my hands on a 3870 512Mb from a friend to test in my system also. 2900XT = 263Watts 4870 = 289Watts If anyone else has a Kill-A-Watt Meter let me know what your system specs …
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Exactly what I predicted would happen when Guitar Hero's first appeared. http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10465715-1.html Instead of using plastic simulations of guitars that are essentially just dressed-up plastic game controllers, the game uses fully functional six-string guitars that control the game, but can also be played in real life. We got a sneak peek at an early version of the game and its hardware, and came away impressed with the general concept. The guitars have quarter-inch instrument jacks, which can be used to hook them up to any guitar amp. When connected to an Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 console, you press a button and a dampening …
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Looking to rewire my basement something like this.
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Got this from PurSuiT: Power Supply Calculator Wish I had seen this before I started to OC... as my system comes up 477w stock, 615w OC'd. :post34:
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Dude, you're getting a Dell server PowerEdge SC 430 Pentium 4 Processor 521 at 2.8 GHz/1MB Cache 512 MB RAM (533) 80 GB HD 1 year basic support plan $299 + shipping ($39) + tax Upgrade system to Dual Core Processor 820 at 2.8GHz/2X1MB Cache, 800MHz FSB for $100. I know 2 people that bought at least one of these last time...just use for downloading, game serving and burning.
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World's First Powerless Air Cooler on a Mainboard! "The "Air Power Cooler" transfers the chipset heat into air momentum, when the air becomes hot, the air will expand then push the fan to rotate and In doing so cooling the heatsink immediately. After the air moves from the bottom to top of the piston, the air will become heavy to push the up piston down. The better air piston design can transfer over 70% heat power and transfer to air power, that's great efficiency transfer from Stirling engine theory. In a comparison with solar power the transfer rate is only around 20~30% requiring more surface and as a result cost." One thing I DO like about this, is the fan wo…
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Reviews here: 1) [H]ard|OCP 2) AnandTech 3) Tom's Hardware
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Preview of NVIDIA Quad GPU SLI "Thanks to the PCI Express (PCIe) interface, combining two graphics cards in an SLI configuration is easily achieved. Just plug two identical GeForce 6 or GeForce 7 cards into the motherboard, and connect them with the SLI bridge connector. The two cards will then split the 3D rendering load between them, which can result in a performance improvement of up to 70 percent in everyday life. Now that PCI Express motherboards are available with PCIe x32 - or, more correctly, two x16 slots - there are also some new and intriguing possibilities."
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Prey - The big crunch "I'm not talking about a certain unhealthy sugary cereal with a ship's stumpy captain as a mascot...I'm talking about the 14 hour days developers put in near a project's end to shine-up our games before that inevitable looming date when we must hand over the gold master to our publisher. Even us "when-it's-done" studios have such dates -- we just do not make them public until the very end. It's impossible to avoid deadline dates nowadays, because there's so much coordinated pre-planning and marketing that must be created and purchased (magazine ads, banners, marketing events, etc.) in order to maximize the anticipation and awareness of your gam…
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Prey for June 22nd! "Available that day on the PC as well as in the Xbox Live Marketplace will be a 5 level demo containing both single player and multiplayer modes of the game. The size of the demo, which levels, what time it is to be released has yet to be determined, but June 22nd is Prey Day - you're going to want to keep an eye out for that!"
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Prey interview "GS: Tell us about the world of Prey. Will the game take place on a futuristic version of Earth, on another planet, or somewhere else entirely? What kind of environments can we expect to explore and fight through in the game? Will the game be focused primarily on indoor corridor crawls, huge outdoor areas, or some combination of the two? TG and CR: The "sphere" that Tommy finds himself on turns out to be a huge living being the size of the state of Texas. The "corridors" and "rooms" inside this sphere are part of its living flesh, with races of survivors living a parasitic existence by using the materials they harvest from the worlds they visit to …
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Prey Super Trailer This looks incredible!!! Also an article to go along with it: Prey Super Trailer! "I have to say that Prey is a powerful, amazing game. And even this trailer barely conveys the story depth and unique gameplay innovations the game world will soon experience firsthand. I've spent the better part of the last six months living with all the latest builds. And even before that, growing up across the street from 3D Realms founder, Scott Miller (how cool is that!), I was around for the birth of Prey back in 1996...so I've had quite a few years for Prey to percolate in my film-director mindset."
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Prey to use PunkBuster Software ... - PB Servers can optionally be configured to randomly check player settings looking for known exploits of the game engine ... - PB Admins can request actual screenshot samples from specific players and/or can configure the PB Server to randomly grab screenshot samples from players during gameplay ... - Search functions are provided for PB Admins who wish to search player's keybindings and scripts for anything that may be known to exploit the game
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