Recent content by The Borg

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    AMD and nVidia Graphics cards

    Guys, As usual, great advice and feedback. Thank you very much.
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    AMD and nVidia Graphics cards

    It does. what about putting in another nVidia card? The 2 GTX295's make it Quad SLI, but I don't run it like that - messes around with the 4 monitors I have. And even Crysis 2 does not push one chip very far. Can you go more than Quad? Maybe then I will go for a GTX 590???!!!
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    The TeAm's Great BBQ Recipe Compendium

    What a pleasant surprise to find this informative thead still weaving its way along...
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    AMD and nVidia Graphics cards

    Hi All, Looks like my PSU has blown and my motherboard has got stuck (i7 - 1366). It is not a dead BIOS, but more like a stuck BIOS. Freezes when it is 'Initializing._' the INTEL HDD adapter BIOS. Anyway, was looking at a replacement MB. My current one is rather nice as it has a space...
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    2 Science Fiction books - titles unknown.

    Hi there, Anyone got an idea about the first book's name?
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    2 Science Fiction books - titles unknown.

    Thanks. Checked Wikipedia and it seems to ring a bell. The author's name certainly does.
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    2 Science Fiction books - titles unknown.

    Hi all, Been trying to search for the names of 2 science fiction books I read at the end of 1989 or 1990. I have always wanted to re-read the stories but the books were on loan from a fellow worker. The one was about this guy that wakes up and finds that he has suffered severe head trauma...
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    Personal Milestone

    Thanks guys!!! Really appreciated.
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    Personal Milestone

    Hi guys, Just hit no. 1 in my country. Pretty pleased with my contribution. Taken me 10 years and 4 months. Regards, The Borg.
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    Hi all - me's back...

    Hi all, Been out of the forums for a while. Been needing to take a bit of care of myself. Still been crunching, but not wanting to get too involved with human communication. Anyway, I recently upgraded to Windows 7 (64) - schweet. Been having problems with nVidia drivers and stuff. Finally...
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    AQUA@Home

    Thanks but no go. I do have a few CUDA WU's still running, so maybe once they are finished it will work. Or, I will try the detach / attach thing - thanks.
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    TAS Crunch for August 2009

    Too much info... Been quiet for sure. I posted a query re AQUA - 24 view, no replies. BTW, I re-installed IE 8 and Vista a while back (with new i7) and have been having trouble with IE remembering passwords and the like. I know there is some security setting but I cannot find it. May as...
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    AQUA@Home

    hi, npw that AQUA@home has some WU's avaialble, how do I get them? I checked the settng for downloading and there seems like a change in that the selection for AQUA was unselected and AQUA_CUDA was selected. I don't like the CUDA WU's - very slow and gerky on my machine. My I cannot get my...
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    A sad milestone

    Other things. Other projects. I did buy 5 of his machines and they are busy crunching.
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    A sad milestone

    I passed a sad milestone a day or so ago. I finally passed amd.borg - sorry Johan. It was quite a target to aim for, but it is finally reached. It always seemed fo far away when you where really giving it stick. Thanks for the challenge. :thumbsup: