Father Xmas

I'm old school. I'm imagining late 60s, early 70s Toho Kaiju monster movie opening including spinning newspaper with headline "Russian science team lost in Antarctic, UN special task force investigates".

Not true with 80plus rated PSUs. Efficiency is measured at 20%, 50% and 100% rated load and all three must be at or above to qualify.

Generic 80plus certification is 80% at those three points.
80plus Bronze is 82%/85%/82%
80plus Silver is 85%/88%/85%
80plus Gold is 87%/90%/87%
80plus Platinum is 90%/92%/89%

An 80plus sticker, assuming it's real (not always the case sadly) at least means that X watt PSU can actually deliver up to X watts.

Assuming your measurement is at the wall socket, which is AC watts, you are using even less depending on the efficiency of your PSU. With an 80% efficient PSU your computer is actually only using 180 DC watts, an 85% efficient PSU then 190 DC watts. Power supplies are rated at DC watts.

That's the $64,000 question now. What to do now that Socket 1155 MBs have essentially been recalled (but not officially) and Socket 1156 MBs are in short supply because they stopped manufacturing them to make Socket 1155 MBs.

The problem with Socket 1155 are the four SATA II, 3.0Gb/s ports. You still have two SATA III, 6.0Gb/s ports that don't have the problem. Also some motherboards come with extra SATA ports via an add-on chip and there isn't a problem with those.

Oh, the problem is, according to the current guesstimate, about 5% of the P67/H67 chips will have glitchy SATA II ports when the chip gets hot or overvolted. It won't corrupt data but the error rate will increase cutting into the effective transfer rate until no "clean" data will be able to be transferred. Like I said, the problem isn't with the two SATA III, 6.0Gb/s ports.

Right now several online vendors aren't even offering the Socket 1155 CPUs or motherboards until motherboards with the "fixed" P67/H67 chipsets are out. Assuming you can find some, you can work around the problem if you are a one hard drive, one optical drive kind of user.

Other options are Socket 1156 is still around but the mid-range boards from the big names are hard to find. NewEgg was pushing their "Open Box" stock of those. There's AMD's Socket AM3, the higher end Phenom II X4 and X6 CPUs are priced competitively to Intel CPUs with the same overall performance. Then there's Intel's Socket 1366 which is a tad pricier since the lowest price CPU for that socket is just under $300.

When did New Haven, CT become Gotham?? Connecticut isn't that cool.

This thing has been logging me out everyother minute today. I surprised I was able to post at all.

No, you won't get dual channel benefits.

DDR means double data rate, that is two bytes of memory read/or written for every cycle of the clock.

Dual channel means that two sticks of memory can be accessed at the same time for improved bandwidth. Triple channel, found in the i7-9xx, means three sticks of memory can be accessed at the same time.

Exactly what I thought.

Yes. It went from 8800GTS 512KB to 9800GTX to GTS 250 (with a clock speed bump). Also 8800GT became the 9800GT.

That's OK though. From what I hear the ATI HD 57xx will become the AMD HD 67xx.

Solid State Drive, i.e. a hard drive that is based on flash memory. Upside is it can be several times faster than a hard drive while reading and there is virtually no seek time. Downside is they cost around $2-3 per GB compared to around $0.10 for a normal hard drive.

We had a big discussion about this a few weeks back.

You all are lucky you aren't on dial-up. I'll be lucky to play by the weekend.

And no, I can't get broadband where I live.

"Intel Insider" is marketing speak.

Hollywood doesn't like the idea of any 1080P content loose without encryption. That's why the data streamed over the HDMI cable from your Blu-ray to your HDTV is encrypted. Every GPU/IGP over the last few years offer this encryption.

Now for a 1080P streaming service to operate in Hollywood's eyes, it would need to heavily encrypted the stream and the problem would then be decrypting it fast enough to provide uninterrupted data.

All Sandy Bridge CPUs have the AES-NI instructions that allow encryption/decryption 4-6 times faster, fast enough to support an encrypted stream. AMD doesn't have this, not all of the previous generation of Intel CPUs have this.

So now that a service like this can be offered, Intel's marketing wrapped it all up in a nice bow and was able to get Hollywood on board so they are now hawking it to the masses as "Intel Insider".

What did you guys do, tick off Ming the Merciless? What's next, rain of burning hail?

Good luck to you all.

I'm assuming desktop here.

It's integrated video, part of the motherboard chipset so compared to even the low end of the current crop of cards, it's still slower than those. It will likely take a chunk of system memory for it's own use.

Now since we don't know which PCI nVidia you have (also assuming PCI and not PCIe) it's tough to make the comparison.

You can use this chart which orders them in approximate performance. A true PCI interface is very, very slow relative to PCIe (even AGP 2x) so the card you currently use, assuming PCI, would be bumped down a bin or two in that chart.

I'm talking about the mini-episodes. As far as I can tell all he did with that series was produce and direct. The only mentions in the art or animation departments were animation director and additional scene layout.

Paul Rudish, Lynne Naylor and Andy Suriano were the character designers, Naylor and Suriano were also CDs for Samurai Jack. Storyboards were done by Bryan Andrews and Mark Andrews. Bryan also did storyboards for Samurai Jack.

Sounds like Lucas hired as much of the crew who did Samurai Jack and asked them to do the same "no edge line" style to a Clone Wars series.

Powerpuff Girls were Craig McCracken's creation not Genndy Tartakovsky, though he worked with Craig on the series (they were classmates at CalArts).

Anyway he's, Tartakovsky, is now more of a director than character designer/storyboard artist. And then only on Dexter's and Samurai Jack, not Clone Wars.

Time to break out my James Bond music collection CDs for a listen.

Yes but before the Mac version CuppaManga fielded questions about running under BootCamp as well.

Looking at next week's preview I would swear that one of the bad guys is modeled after the wheelchair bound die hard Dethklok fan Edgar Jomfr from Metalocalpse.

I believe one trick that sat players have suggested in the past is to start multiple updaters and then choose the one that does connect after shutting the others down.

But you will still experience a large ping time, 160,000KM takes a while even at the speed of light, a bit over 1/2 a second (two round trips to the sat).

CuppaManga is the mac guru. The OP could also try posting this on the Mac Users board

This question pops up every few months. The reason is the updater is using Microsoft's DLLs to display that mini web page in the top 2/3rds of the updater window. Unfortunately the default operation for clicking on a link, part of that MS DLL, is to launch IE. Adding code to launch the user's default browser instead, to work around that default action in the DLL, isn't as straight forward as it should be.

The page that's displayed by the updater is this link;

http://www.coh.com/updater/live.html

just bring it up in your browser of choice if you feel a need to click on it for now.

"Soon" is 2nd quarter, which can mean April 1st or June 30th and still count. The P67 fix will be done and out on motherboards by the end of March.

Upon further analysis, if you already made the leap, all is not lost. The two 6Gb/s SATA ports are fine, the problem is the four 3Gb/s SATA ports on the chip (actually the clock circuitry for them). Also a number of mid range motherboards included an additional 6Gb/s SATA controller for two additional ports. Using these 6Gb/s SATA ports, even with 3Gb/s drives, is a viable work around. It's not like the problem is going to blow up your motherboard or damage your drives.