Recent content by Gannon

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    Any actuaries, finance, or wall-street people in the house?

    Please don't peddle this garbage here, the government did no such thing. The banks and people doing the lending knew exactly what they were doing, up here in canada they want to know EVERYTHING about you before they even lend you any kind of money, they won't lend you money if you don't meet...
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    Harddrives: shutting down or leaving computer on?

    If your hard disks are uncooled leaving them on will expose them to heat damage over time. Most modern hard disks run incredibly hot without cooling, don't trust the manufacturer either. Hard disk bearings are the least of your worries. All hard disk failures I've ever had were head/disk...
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    Perpetual motion machine

    I've always wondered if you couldn't fill large balls with gas and release them down an open tube (gravity does most of the work) into the ocean and then open up the door and allow the ball to rise and use the difference in pressure to generate 'perpetual energy', not perpetual motion per se but...
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    Boot.ini issues, rdisk, dual booting XP can't figure out what is wrong...

    I am dual booting two copies of XP off two different drives but one copy is not loading properly, it has something to do with the RDISK lines I've tried incrementing: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1) To multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1) But it doesn't seem to be working, I...
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    Durability of a CPU w/ and w/o OC

    heat + volts = electric death, it's simple. Also beware of water! I fried a motherboard by overvolting the chipset with a bad heatsink. It's "do at own risk" and try to stay within tolerances by increasing voltage incrementally and then doing those burn in tests to see where the chip will...
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    What happens when there is a Time paradox?

    Which doesn't mean anything, because the multiverse depends on each universe being connected to other universes, you can't exactly have a theory of the multiverse if you can't detect them. It's like the magical pink unicorn., the whole point of my comment was if you can get to a multiverse this...
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    What happens when there is a Time paradox?

    But this would mean each universes timeline would be independent from one another, so what you say is a contradiction, because technically you could not reach the multiverse to kill yourself to begin with (i.e. timeline integrity), to say you could go back in time, is to say that the timelines...
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    Is there any calculation that current processors cannot calculate ?

    Searching really large datasets(tm) (better search). Language processing, consider the fact that we have enormous amounts of cpu power and still don't have a device that can universally translate, understand, decode and learn even one language automatically without any kind of training or user...
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    e6600 to e8400

    No it's not worth it, take it from me... save your money for the next videocard / upgrade. You'd be better off sinking that money into a better aftermarket heatsink if you don't have one already, if you are really desperate for extra mhz out of your E6600. If you're on a budget, just say no...
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    Video cuts out on and off on machine then 'freezes' power problem? video card issue?

    Here's exactly what happens, the machines video begins to cut out and then come back, and then cut out again a few times until the system 'freezes' (as far as I can tell, since the keyboard lights lock). I'm wondering if this is a power problem or a video card issue. I don't get any kinds of...
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    Adding quickpar to benchmark suite test..

    I've been using quickpar on and off for a while now and it's starting to get more important as the amount of data I'm backing up off hard disks starts to expand and errors on bad discs need to be insulated against. I'd like to see it added to the benchmark suite, also quickpar IMHO is a highly...
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    Will Nehalem motherboards need new power supply?

    ^^ questions in the topic.
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    P5W-DH .45nm Intel CPU Speedstep not functioning

    That CPU is not technically supposed to work with that motherboad and chipset, despite asus's claims. I know because I have the deluxe model the P5W DH deluxe. I have another PC with the correct motherboard for those kinds of CPU's. Asus hacked support for 45nm cpu's into the bios well after...
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    What the *@&%! had happened to AnandTech??

    Site is losing focus, I find myself going to other hardware sites. I come to websites because they are 1) Informative 2) Useful Anand has been slipping. The layout of the site and infrequent updates means I visit less. I would also like them to call bullshit on hardware manufacturers...