>> ^xxovercastxx:

But from what I've seen they've greatly improved since then... at least their products have, if not their support.


Support is still terrible from what I hear as well, but their actual hardware is pretty great.

I've had two netbooks that have worked great, and they make some decent motherboards.

>> ^xxovercastxx:


But from what I've seen they've greatly improved since then... at least their products have, if not their support.


Nope, their support didn't improve at all. They said that the reason they failed to repair my motherboard and won't try again is because of my misuse but wouldn't say what I did wrong. That happened about a year ago.

I've never heard anyone pronounce it as anything but "Ay-sus" before.

I haven't owned one of their products since two of their Geforce 2 cards and one of their motherboards crapped out, all under warranty, and their support people basically told me to go fuck myself.

But from what I've seen they've greatly improved since then... at least their products have, if not their support.

>> ^Shepppard:
"One kilogram of plastic waste produces almost a liter of oil while using about 1 kilowatt of electricity."
source

this seems all kinds of bullshit to me
1 liter of water is 1kg. density of crude oil is about ~8/10th of water.
so this about 80% efficiency of conversion plastic into "oil" in materials itself.
"while using about 1 kilowatt of electricity" isn't a complete measure of the amount of energy.
amount of energy usage is measured in kilowatt/hour or Joules or even 'horse power'. just "1 kilowatt" doesn't tell anything.
so it's using 1 kilowatt of electricity during what period of time? per second? per minute? per day?

plus the whole conversion seem to be way too simple.
if you'll take a look at the bottom of most (any?) plastic container you'll see some symbols, they indicate how recyclable that plastic is. most plastic deteriorates after repeated recycling. so not all plastic is created equal. different types have different polymers which do not turn back into crude oil when heated.

Aha!

"One kilogram of plastic waste produces almost a liter of oil while using about 1 kilowatt of electricity."

source

Any one with the EFIx usb boot loader module can do this. The trick to do this with out it. That motherboard is a great Hackintosh board. You can use the Apple install disk.. Just need kext for the chip sets. Life hacker web has excellent how to this this EP45 board.


The guy did a great job customizing the Xbox. that was worth the watch.

papercut, this looks like he may have installed a obsolete motherboard within the colony as a base, since the real electronics would need to be pristine to function.

That said, there are some effects like the "moving bar backlighting" that not only need to be planned and carried out over several days in a time lapse, but to synch it to music ques? sounds more like a guy planned out months of time lapse to an already choreographed music video.

For the record, Jobs didn't do ANYTHING.

They took the iPhone motherboard and everything in it and verbatim slapped a big screen on it.
There was zero development. It's just a large iPhone.

Yesterday I squeezed this meme onto a computer memory review on NewEgg ($800 for 3 sticks!):

Pros: High density, you can pack 12GB or 24GB of memory onto a typical i7 motherboard.

Cons: So expensive, my goodness, "bring da RAMbulamps!"

Tags for this video have been changed from 'just nerdy and fun' to 'just nerdy and fun, gigabyte, robot, motherboard, assembly' - edited by demon_ix

>> ^marinara:
i put in my new motherboard, and now I have a problem where the first time i boot, everything disk related is horribly terribly slow, but after a reboot the speed is fine.


If you swapped your mobo without doing a clean install, then you really shouldn't be surprised. Windows doesn't handle this sort of change. It's still loading all the drivers and such for your previous board.

>> ^marinara:
i put in my new motherboard, and now I have a problem where the first time i boot, everything disk related is horribly terribly slow, but after a reboot the speed is fine.

Can you try moving your HDD to a different SATA port on your mobo? If that doesn't work, or if it's not SATA, try looking up a newer BIOS firmware and flashing it.

i put in my new motherboard, and now I have a problem where the first time i boot, everything disk related is horribly terribly slow, but after a reboot the speed is fine.

A UPS is generally a battery designed to keep your computer running in the event of an environmental power failure. It has to cool itself, since the charging up generates a lot of heat (feel your cellphone battery while it's charging once . The fans usually make the noise.

Any UPS the size of a surge protector won't give you much. The most valuable feature you can have on them is the shutdown-command that they can give the computer if there's a power-outage.

If you're worried about your motherboard / PSU failing due to a power surge, all you need is a surge protector as far as I'm concerned. The only component of the computer that might suffer damage from an instant shutdown is the hard-drive, and in the case of desktop computers, the damage is unlikly.

Make sure you buy a quality surge protector. $20-30 more isn't a lot to pay, and you don't want the cheap ones

In reply to this comment by chilaxe:
Demon_IX, Thanks for the advice on the UPS thread.

When you say UPS are loud, are you referring to the beeping when the power goes out, or to normal noise that they make?

Are you referring to the big box ones that have their own LCD screens, or to the smaller ones that look basically like normal surge protectors?

In reply to this comment by demon_ix:
I'd recommend something like a Surge Protector and not a UPS. Those things are loud, heavy, expensive and not very useful for home users.

oh, and did i mention that it was my motherboard taht had died? I bought a new motherboard for total good deal at newegg and everything is back.