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[Cruncher Pete]

Optimisers $ Diagnostics.

Have you got too many computers to manage and forgot their detailed specifications, their properties and settings?  SIW a Free program from Computer Active might be just what you are looking for.  Whilst it is only for the windows platform it might be worthwhile to check it out Here

[Cruncher Pete]

From Boincstats Forum:

Advanced Micro Devices added new Phenom II desktop models on Monday, including triple-core processors, as it tries to outdo Intel desktop price-performance.

The Phenom II "Dragon" line of desktop processors uses AMD's new 45-nanometer technology and comprises both quad-core (X4) and triple-core (X3) parts.

The triple-core Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition processor is priced at $145, which AMD compares to Intel's Core 2 Duo (dual-core) E8400 processor, priced at $163. The quad-core X4 810 processor (2.6GHz) is priced at $175 versus the Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 processor (2.33GHz), priced at $163. (Prises in US Dollars.)

The Phenom II processors fit in either AM2+ or AM3 sockets and support DDR2 or next generation DDR3 memory technology.

Models include:

* AMD Phenom II X4 910 - (2.6GHz)
* AMD Phenom II X4 810 - (2.6GHz)
* AMD Phenom II X4 805 - (2.5GHz)
* AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition - (2.8GHz)
* AMD Phenom II X3 710 - (2.6GHz)

The processors are available immediately, AMD said.

[veebee]

Yeah.. I thought about going that direction myself for a moment.

But if you have a read of this article.... I personally think that their comparisons to particular intel CPU's need to be changed... even a few of the dual core CPU's outperform these new AMD units....

I am glad I went the i7 route.... even with the extra cost.

[Cruncher Pete]

Funny that.  A year and a half ago I started with two AMD Machines, both dual core.  Now, I havn't got any, but I do have an Intel I720, a xeon 3350, and 10 Q6600's.  No AMD in site. biggrin

[Cruncher Pete]

From WiredCom:

Gene Roddenberry's ashes
A portion of the ashes of Gene Roddenberry, creator of the Star Trek series, were delivered to space in 1992 by the space shuttle Columbia on its STS-52 mission. The lipstick-sized capsule containing his ashes orbited the Earth before eventually disintegrating in the atmosphere. The rest of Roddenberry's ashes, along with those of his wife Majel who died in December 2008, will be shipped into space along with digitized fan letters in 2010.

[Mike Mitchell]

Given what he's done to motivate the USoA in space exploration, you'd reckon NASA could have coughed up enough money to pay for all the ashes to go into space and a very high orbit at that.

[Cruncher Pete]

From Atomic Maximum Power Computing:

Boffins from Arizona State University have demonstrated a microrefrigerator which effectively cools a PC system by targeting specific chip hot spots.
Until now, copper plates, fans and liquid cooling systems have been the traditional chip coolers, but now Intel-sponsored researchers have integrated thermoelectric material directly into chip packaging.

The idea of thermoelectric coolers isn't new, but its application is. Researchers use nanostructured thin-film superlattice as their material of choice. While superlattice does conduct electricity, it doesn't much like conducting heat, making it useful as an integrated thermoelectric system.

Engineers integrated the cooler onto a tiny square of copper, similar to that already used as a heat disperser in contemporary chip packaging. In this case, however, they stuck a 0.4mm squared bit of cooler in between the chip and the copper, so that when the microrefrigerator was turned on, it cooled a specific part of the chip by 15°C.

The researchers say they'll soon be able to stick three or four microrefrigerators on each chip.

So far the cooling method is still a tad expensive to be in any way realistic, but the time for dispensing with clunky, noisy fans may soon be nigh.

[Tixx]

Cant wait for the micro-fridges!! :)

[Mysteron347]

Micro-fridges?

Wouldn't that mean very small beer cans?

This passes for progress nowadays?

[Tixx]

Yeah but the brag stories will sound more epic !!

'i remember the time when i drank 192,899 micro-beers and still drove home'

hhahaah

[veebee]

.. or " gaaawd, it'll take 45,325 beers to make HER look good !" (no offence intended to our female members.. BTW.. where IS .. the photographer girl...???)

[Mike Mitchell]

There is a link to full immersion cooling on that page too. Not all that exciting when it will cost $US4 to $US5K a PC. 

[Wang Solutions]

where IS .. the photographer girl...???

She has not logged in to the new forum as yet. Perhaps she has not found it. I'll send her a PM now.

[ONYX]

.. or " gaaawd, it'll take 45,325 beers to make HER look good !" (no offence intended to our female members.. BTW.. where IS .. the photographer girl...???)

Simone if I recall correctly .....

[Vajras]

...with bikes