Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : CPU : 22 nm vs 32 nm

2012-07-25 Thread Alecks Gates
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 9:32 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Michael Mol wrote: On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: The point made about producing less heat with the smaller nm sounds reasonable tho. Less heat with the smaller nm, but only if all other

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: new system hardware

2012-11-11 Thread Dale
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Samstag, 10. November 2012, 23:46:52 schrieb Dale: Pandu Poluan wrote: Oh, we like digressions :-) I recall that sometimes last year, Tom's Hardware tested running a system without heat sink... but completely immersed in... cooking oil! They made a large

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: new system hardware

2012-11-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 11. November 2012, 09:35:35 schrieb Dale: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Samstag, 10. November 2012, 23:46:52 schrieb Dale: Pandu Poluan wrote: Oh, we like digressions :-) I recall that sometimes last year, Tom's Hardware tested running a system without heat sink

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: new system hardware

2012-11-11 Thread Marc Joliet
heat sink... but completely immersed in... cooking oil! They made a large acrylic container, poured in gallons of high-quality cooking oil, then proceeded to overclock the CPU and GPU to unholy frequencies... And, IIRC, Seymour Cray likes to use some inert fluoride-based coolant to dunk

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: new system hardware

2012-11-11 Thread Dale
was trying to overcome the problem that water causes things to short out when it leaks on a mobo, something mineral oil doesn't do according to what I have read. I never said it was the world's greatest heat conductor. ever heard of 'transformer oil'? for some reason or another they move

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD RX GPU in Gentoo

2019-06-18 Thread Emmanuel Vasilakis
that, I've used an external 80mm fan to blow air across the heat sink and out the adjacent slot (after the attached fan failed and i removed it.  I mounted the fan in the drive cage.  The fans on graphics cards are generally moving air the worst way possible (just like many cpu heat sink/fan combos

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Very slow POST process

2023-11-28 Thread Michael
; only thing that changed the long POST time, changing the video card. I > might add, I've booted that thing a lot since I changed the video card > and it boots right up each time. > > If you have a built in video system, you stuck. The only option I can > think of, clean the heat

Re: [gentoo-user] Very old machine blocking/update questions

2008-04-26 Thread Mark Knecht
and then talk to the backend over the network. They didn't need much space so I probably bought the smallest thing I could find 4 years ago when I first built them. I've given up on hard drives for MythTV frontends, too much noise, heat, power and space. I tried flash storage for a while but now

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [wildly OT]advice for a wireless antenna?

2008-05-12 Thread Grant
/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833315075 uses rt2x00 but has some type of failure issue. Possibly heat related, possibly not. I've experienced it firsthand. - Grant -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine freezes during gcc compile

2007-07-30 Thread Don Jerman
also had heat-related issues until I got the thermal sensors coupled with the speed governor. But then the machine would just turn off abruptly. I was able to get it to run long enough to recompile by putting a pencil up under the corner where the vents are, for more clearance and airflow. More

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] advices about motherboard+cpu+fan(+soundcard) combo?

2007-08-21 Thread Florian Philipp
matching choices you are aware of? And what about the cpu cooling fan? Thanks, m. I could be wrong but I think there are no onboard graphics solutions with dedicated video RAM. I don't think you'll lose much RAM anyway, maybe 128M. There are AMD X2 with higher efficiency and therefore lower heat

Re: [gentoo-user] linux desktop search engines are ugly!

2007-08-28 Thread Uwe Thiem
that. They don't need to know that only water, fat and sugar actually heat up in a microwave as long as they stick to food. If they start to experiment with other things ... well, they have to understand how microwaves work. Different tools are for different users. That you don't need a certain tool, doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] linux desktop search engines are ugly!

2007-08-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
for heating up food. They know they can do that. They don't need to know that only water, fat and sugar actually heat up in a microwave as long as they stick to food. If they start to experiment with other things ... well, they have to understand how microwaves work. I don't expect my users to be able

Re: [gentoo-user] MCE in kernel

2007-09-03 Thread Dan Farrell
specific manually induced causes could be: Overclocking (naturally increases heat output) Poorly fitted heatsink/computer fans (the same problem can happen with excessive dust in the CPU fan) Computer software can also cause errors in this way (normally by corrupting data they are reading

Re: [gentoo-user] MCE in kernel

2007-09-03 Thread Alan E. Davis
and/or incorrect hardware installation. Overheating can cause electrons to become more animated and thus escape from the silicon tracks, resulting in corrupted data. Some specific manually induced causes could be: Overclocking (naturally increases heat output) Poorly fitted heatsink/computer fans

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Sudden XP death

2007-12-21 Thread Thierry de Coulon
? Do I understand right that the installation of XP went OK but booting fails? Or are you trying to boot an installed XP from vmware? Anyway, my experience with such sudden failures were usually linked to either processor heat or Power Supply being not strong enough. But it was never linked

Re: [gentoo-user] Advanced routing

2008-01-03 Thread Vernon A. Fort
from routing unwanted protocols already help and you don't actually need a bandwidth limiter. This was in the heat of the moment - i was able to get a MAC address from the unknown protocol messages from tcpdump. We tracked it down to a HUNG pc - basically flooding the network. This gentoo box

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Constant Load 1.00+ on new Toshiba laptop

2009-02-18 Thread Beau Henderson
that something is causing the load and this might lead to shorter battery life and and more heat. Right in the beginning you said the load was *exactly* 1.00. Now, load is defined as the _number_ of processes on average waiting for the cpu in the last 1, 5, 15 minutes So it does not mean

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitoring temperatures

2009-03-21 Thread Mike Kazantsev
too flexible - sometimes just one of the conditioners goes down, so the room temp gets to, say, 25C, but that's still not a reason to panic if the situation is under control. And even when bunch of bioses shut system down all the systems correctly because of cpu/chipset heat when A/C dies, there'd

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT sort of] S-video support on NVidia-based cards

2009-04-30 Thread James
card with little heat and no noise. A Silent video card has to be attractive for any audiophile? It even comes with an HDMI output. I have not gotten into the interfaces (splitting) the video and audio feeds, yet, but it looks encouraging. It was $29 dollars, but, make sure it's fits into your

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: buying a keyboard

2009-06-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
on computers, I used to clean them with pure alcohol then lay them on top of the A/C condenser, you know, the hot part. It would dry real good in a couple hours. Heat plus the large volume of air works very well. Be careful that the air doesn't blow the keyboard off tho. Some A/C systems can blow huge

[gentoo-user] Gentoo laptop issues

2008-07-21 Thread list-catcher
). The button works great at first but then after a period, or it may be related to a heat issue, it stops working. Restarting X solves the problem. I have not noticed it failing with gpm but I have not stayed in console as long. Remapping works but I'd like some pointers on solving this problem

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo laptop issues

2008-07-21 Thread Miernik
but then after a period, or it may be related to a heat issue, it stops working. Restarting X solves the problem. I have not noticed it failing with gpm but I have not stayed in console as long. Remapping works but I'd like some pointers on solving this problem. Maybe install xev to see

Re: [MBZ] SDL a/c not working

2008-09-13 Thread Luther
will a back AC compressor. Check the clutch on the compressor for excessive heat after a short run -- if it slips, the compressor will be shut off by the KLIMA until the ignition is cycled on and off (this is a quick test for a bad clutch or cos-only was a BIG mistake. And as kdesvn

[gentoo-user] Re: ATI video card with water cooler

2008-12-12 Thread James
Cooling heat sink causes it to be very tall. I have an enormous thermaltake armour case and it was still a tight squeeze. If your case is less than 9 inches wide I don't know if it would fit. My case is 7 wide. Nice to know. I did find a passively cool 8500GT but I'm not sure it will be sufficient

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI video card with water cooler

2008-12-12 Thread Paul Hartman
of with this particular card is that it is HUGE, both in length and the big Arctic Cooling heat sink causes it to be very tall. I have an enormous thermaltake armour case and it was still a tight squeeze. If your case is less than 9 inches wide I don't know if it would fit. My case is 7 wide. Nice

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Why RAID1?

2008-12-17 Thread Grant
why so many thing that don't normally have issues are having issues in your system. :-) Do you guys think RAID1 is unnecessary with an SLC SSD drive? I actually did lose one or two laptop hard drives now that I think about it. The other stuff: power supply - cheapness video cards - heat modem

Re: [gentoo-user] problem booting from a USB flash drive

2005-06-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
would also reduce the amount of heat generated, so you could reduce fan speeds to make it even quieter. -- Neil Bothwick If you smoke after sex, you're doing it too fast. pgpEXDa0j8gEO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] power-down during emerge -u world causing library-issues

2005-11-01 Thread Fernando Meira
was in use.defaults but I didn't have dbus! Anyway, that only makes difference to ecore.. no other package in my system has that flag (as it seems so..) That is one problem I have not ran into before.May want to clean thosefans.All the compiling in Gentoo sure does make a lot of heat build up.Only

[gentoo-user] What STABLE nForce 680i based motherboard?

2007-05-04 Thread Richard Ruth
RAM total) Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 with Thermalright Ultra-120 heat sink (and Scythe S-Flex SFF21E 120mm fan) Two Seagate Barracuda ES SATA 3.0Gb/s 500-GB Hard Drive One BFG Tech 8800 GTS 640 MB pcHDTV HD-5500 HDTV card (http://pchdtv.com/) All to fit in an existing California PC

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Core Duo Processor - Anyone?

2006-03-29 Thread Mike Myers
Are you sure that it was a Pentium M and not a Pentium4-M or just the p4s? There is a signicant difference. With all the benchmarks I've seen, the Pentium Ms beat all the other processors in terms of power consumption and heat and in a lot of cases, performance. it even outdoes the P4s

Re: [gentoo-user] Bad mem, over heat and games

2006-05-06 Thread Mick
On 06/05/06, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 24x7. I am not sure if this is messing it up or not. It seems to stay pretty warm. I bought an extra 1GB of mem for the laptop and put that in today after the first lockup. I ran memtest for about 10 minutes and didn't see any issues. Laptops

Re: [gentoo-user] Bad mem, over heat and games - update

2006-05-06 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/6/06, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: JimD wrote: Ok, this is a three part question. I am on vacation and I am using my wife's laptop that used to have winxp and now has Gentoo. Starting today I started to get garbled video output followed by a lock-up. I have been using the laptop as

[gentoo-user] [OT overheat] How to cause shutdown on overheat

2006-09-30 Thread reader
Group, I recently built a ventilated stucture around my 4 desktops to try to quiet things down and get rid of the heat. I made no provision for forced shutdown in case of overheat, which is quite likely to happen if, for example the main ventilation fan went down for some reason. Well

Re: [gentoo-user] Going to Ubuntu - was 1.) Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interupt handler

2005-07-21 Thread Bob Sanders
problems - maybe a heat issue. have you tried running with the covers off and a fan blowing onto the system? I think I went too fast for AMD64; I should have stayed with x86 and old good IDE drive. Somebody suggested: Enabling 32 bit mode for the drives in the BIOS to cure this problem. I'll

Re: [gentoo-user] Going to Ubuntu - was 1.) Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interupt handler

2005-07-21 Thread Joseph
and I can only find some suggestion; no clear answer. i I think you have hardware problems - maybe a heat issue. have you tried running with the covers off and a fan blowing onto the system? Good thinking Bob! That 20 to 30 minutes certainly seems symptomatic of overheating

Re: [gentoo-user] Going to Ubuntu - was 1.) Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interupt handler

2005-07-21 Thread Zac Medico
solutions and I can only find some suggestion; no clear answer. i I think you have hardware problems - maybe a heat issue. have you tried running with the covers off and a fan blowing onto the system? Good thinking Bob! That 20 to 30 minutes certainly seems symptomatic of overheating. I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Going to Ubuntu - was 1.) Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interupt handler

2005-07-22 Thread Martins Steinbergs
the error, and then try to reproduce the error again without your sata driver loaded. Zac I have an old IDE drive, maybe I can squeeze Gentoo on it for testing. Bob has a good idea too regarding the CPU compound under the heat-sink but at CPU temp. 39C I don't see how that could cause any

Re: [gentoo-user] Going to Ubuntu - was 1.) Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interupt handler

2005-07-22 Thread Zac Medico
get another heat probe to double check the readings from the first one ;-). Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: update - was 1.) Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interupt handler

2005-07-22 Thread Joseph
may be of use. Considering the positive results that you've gotten so far, it seems like you may be on the right track here. It makes me less concerned about any possible overheating, but if you wanted to be paranoid about it, you could get another heat probe to double check the readings

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [Update] - was 1.) Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interupt handler

2005-07-22 Thread Joseph
heatsinks don't do the job, and you might need to get a better one (assuming heat is the problem). I build a lot of computers, and with AMD cpus, overkill in the cooling dept. is sometimes necessary. Robert Crawford As I posted earlier: -- Here is what I have done: 1.) Disable

Re: [gentoo-user] Random Kernel Crashes ... Need more info

2005-09-17 Thread Dave Nebinger
issue, some device flaking out, etc. 3. Have you looked at crashes due to heat? Is your box cleaned and have proper airflow? 4. Are you running any esoteric or rare hardware components in the box? 5. Have you ensured that your kernel config matches the hardware? In some cases the selection

Re: [gentoo-user] [Not strictly Gentoo] Touchpad as graphic tablet?

2006-06-29 Thread Daniel da Veiga
or anything like that should not work. Has anybody tried to use it in this way (maybe with Gimp)? I've posted in foruns, where most of the time it was taken as a joke ;) but I only have my synaptic notebook touchpad, maybe another one (I've heard some sense heat, others sense pressure only) can work

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with Emerge

2006-09-07 Thread Justin Findlay
and observe at which temperature the compiler segfaults. Older Athlons run pretty hot. If this is your case you may want to buy the expensive silver heat sink compound. As for OS problems I don't know what to say except that this may be a sign not to run -mm or better patch sets and expect things

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI-Driver 9.6 support?

2009-07-03 Thread Jesús Guerrero
in xorg.conf, and I do not even use a compositing wm. sorry about that last line. No harm done. Heat raises easily sometimes. I apologize for anything I've done wrong as well. Regards. -- Jesús Guerrero

Re: [gentoo-user] random reboots

2009-07-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
, quoted by B. A. Palevitz sounds like a) heat or b) psu problems or c) triple faults. c) is a lot of time caused by memory problems. One thing causing memory problems is a bad psu. so - in your case - just try a different psu. Ask a friend for one for a couple of days. If your problem stays, you

Re: [gentoo-user] What magic does portage use?

2009-12-12 Thread Dale
is the advantage? Why do you keep your computer running, wasting energy? Is there any good reason? Well, in the winter time, I run folding and it adds a little extra heat to my room. In the summer time I don't run folding but I do keep it on unless I am going to be gone all day or something like

Re: [gentoo-user] What magic does portage use?

2009-12-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
. Dale :-) :-) and what is the advantage? Why do you keep your computer running, wasting energy? Is there any good reason? Well, in the winter time, I run folding and it adds a little extra heat to my room. isolation is a lot cheaper on the long run.

Re: [gentoo-user] What magic does portage use?

2009-12-13 Thread Dale
to take it out. Isn't there metal in CPUs, memory chips and stuff? I know there is silicone but I assume there is metal like copper or something in there too. They can't like heat cycles either. They are so small nowadays. Dale :-) :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Has semantic-desktop really become compulsatory for kmail?

2010-02-11 Thread Zeerak Waseem
. By the authority vested in me by My-Wife-the-Windows-User, I welcome you to the gentoo-users mail list. (I don't recall your name from previous months, but, nevermind.) I see that you've taken some heat in return for your opinions, but you've maintained a very civil and polite tone to your

[gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
to it with a hammer either. :/ You can at least disconnect it then. Right now all it does and eat power, heat the case and make noise :-/ My theory is something like this: hda will become sda; hdb will become sdb; hdc will become sdc; hdd will become sdd; and sda will become sde. Would that be a logical

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-27 Thread J. Roeleveld
or something of that nature. It's just hard to get out of the case right now and I can't get to it with a hammer either. :/ You can at least disconnect it then. Right now all it does and eat power, heat the case and make noise :-/ My theory is something like this: hda will become sda; hdb

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-19 Thread Dale
that thing had a bigger heat sink on it with fans. I may change that thing pretty quick. Thanks. Dale :-) :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: swap usage creeping up

2010-10-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
). You can even take out the battery (I even stripped an old laptop, removed the cpu, disks, heat pipes, fans, and put it all back together on S4 and then resumed). S4 can leave some bios function and power for WOL and other devices, but it's not essential. In fact S5 which every modern ATX computer

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-11-08 Thread Dale
was to downgrade gtkam to see if the old version crashes too. Nothing else has been messed with since this morning. Any ideas at all? I'm about ready to do a emerge -e world and see if that helps. It's getting cool so I could use the heat anyway. Dale :-) :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-11-08 Thread Dale
. It's getting cool so I could use the heat anyway. Anything in syslog, Xorg.log or dmesg about drm suddenly being turned off? I'd get back into the garden and turn the air compressor to reverse. Wonko I checked messages, Xorg.log and dmesg, nothing out of the ordinary

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: netbook

2010-11-11 Thread Daniel da Veiga
(and have) drop my netbook from a certain height, or thrown my bag in the sofa (forgetting it was inside, and on) and never worry about my HDD failing. Also, less power, noise, heat, and some (not very big) read speed improve. Besides, its a netbook, its supposed to be a small storage, fast and simple

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CPU socket and picking a heat sink.

2010-12-03 Thread John Campbell
On 12/03/2010 05:38 PM, Dale wrote: masterprometheus wrote: Thanks for confirming that the coolers will fit. I did some googling but it just wasn't making sense to me yet. I found a site later on that said most coolers used different adapters to work with different sockets if needed.

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: CPU socket and picking a heat sink.

2010-12-04 Thread masterprometheus
Dale wrote: Thanks for confirming that the coolers will fit. I did some googling but it just wasn't making sense to me yet. I found a site later on that said most coolers used different adapters to work with different sockets if needed. That helped me figure out some of it. Picking

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: CPU socket and picking a heat sink.

2010-12-05 Thread masterprometheus
Dale wrote: masterprometheus wrote: Dale wrote: Your motherboard includes a serial port header. The only thing you need is a port like this one : http://www.cablestogo.com/product.asp?cat_id=3543sku=09480# Thanks for the link. If the mobo does have that when it gets here, I'll

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Check CPU for throttling

2011-05-10 Thread Mark Knecht
needs more performance. In a machine such as he's playing with I wonder if he really wants ondemand (jumps to max and then slows down over time) vs conservative which more slowly ramps up the clock rate if the job at hand takes more time. It's all a trade off of performance vs power heat. On my 12

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT - More Router Advice] Cheap Router with decent/reliable VLAN support

2011-05-28 Thread Pandu Poluan
have endured untold days of heat and cold, and nearly all of them survived to this day (barring some who got hit directly by lightning). The documentation is widely available on the 'net, the CLI is much more intuitive than Cisco IOS, and their features are on a par with the most expensive IOS

Re: [gentoo-user] kde update

2011-05-31 Thread Dale
after all. Manners dictates that apologies to Dale are in order. Sorry Dale. No need. I'm more worried about the heat over here. It's going to be 100F tomorrow. My poor garden is starting to cook the food as well as grow it. O_O I just need to explain it better from now on. ;-) Now

Re: [gentoo-user] kde update

2011-05-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
are in order. Sorry Dale. No need. I'm more worried about the heat over here. It's going to be 100F tomorrow. My poor garden is starting to cook the food as well as grow it. O_O I just need to explain it better from now on. ;-) You live down Louisiana/New Orleans way right? Sticking

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: thunderbird fixed folders? [SOLVED]

2011-06-06 Thread Indi
in, has the most annual deaths for bicyclers .. I think it's Randy Cassingham in the This Is True newsletter who often mentions the prevalence of crazy people n FL. Given the weather, it's no great surprise. The heat here makes me feel pretty looney sometimes. Do people down there spend

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Time for hardware upgrade(s)

2011-07-02 Thread meino . cramer
:-) :-) I prefer overclocker boards and dont overclock them. Most of them have a better heat dissipation and the PCB has a better layout HF-wise. Only my two cent...you currency may vary ;) Best regards mcc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Time for hardware upgrade(s)

2011-07-02 Thread Dale
. Dale :-) :-) I prefer overclocker boards and dont overclock them. Most of them have a better heat dissipation and the PCB has a better layout HF-wise. Only my two cent...you currency may vary ;) Best regards mcc I have a Cooler Master HAF932 case. Cooling is not a issue here. BTW

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Any way around Argument list too long?

2011-07-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
. OK, it's probably electrolytic caps deteriorated from heat, but electron rot sounds much more dramatic ;-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-18 Thread James
processors:[4] like the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer (dual ARM Cortex-A9, touchscreen. The future is ARM, bro Super low power, clusters being developed that control resources awake/sleep/awake in micro seconds and full sata interfaces. Intel cannot compete with ARM on similar power/heat comparisons. Several

[gentoo-user] Re: Suspend to RAM caused crashes

2011-08-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
: [...] The RAM gets hot when there's RAM load (meaning being used heavily), not when there's CPU load :*) Do you feel heat when your PC is turned on and running hard? Of course you do. The whole machine heats up. The CPU under load heats the machine so the RAM and drives and everything else heats up

Re: [gentoo-user] Motherboard support?

2011-09-28 Thread Dale
. Of all the video issues I have ever had on Linux, it has been built in video cards. There are other good reasons for this too, heat being one of them. As to Gigabyte as a brand, I have a 770 based mobo and it works great. It's worth every penny and then some. I have also had good luck

Re: [gentoo-user] Motherboard support?

2011-09-28 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
in video system, get a separate video card. Of all the video issues I have ever had on Linux, it has been built in video cards. There are other good reasons for this too, heat being one of them. As to Gigabyte as a brand, I have a 770 based mobo and it works great. It's worth every penny

Re: [gentoo-user] Limit number of cores used by emerge?

2011-09-30 Thread Dale
around the cores. I guess it makes the CPU heat spread out evenly or something. Hope that helps. Dale :-) :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Something weird and I'm confused. BIOS and SATA is empty

2011-11-08 Thread Dale
better get a new plan. The current one is shockingly the wrong way to do it. lol Plus I hate when the lights go out. Winter is about here and we have electric heat. :/ Dale :-) :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Binary install distro

2011-11-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:25:11 -0600 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, This is maybe a bit off topic but here goes. I want to install Linux on my brothers rig. The heat sink on the CPU is not much, OEM type. I don't want to install Gentoo because of that and it is a older rig

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Binary install distro

2011-11-10 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 10.11.2011 19:25, schrieb Dale: Hi, This is maybe a bit off topic but here goes. I want to install Linux on my brothers rig. The heat sink on the CPU is not much, OEM type. I don't want to install Gentoo because of that and it is a older rig with a slow CPU and not a lot of ram either

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Binary install distro

2011-11-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, This is maybe a bit off topic but here goes.  I want to install Linux on my brothers rig.  The heat sink on the CPU is not much, OEM type.  I don't want to install Gentoo because of that and it is a older rig with a slow

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Binary install distro

2011-11-10 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Nov 11, 2011 5:17 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, This is maybe a bit off topic but here goes. I want to install Linux on my brothers rig. The heat sink on the CPU is not much, OEM type. I

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Binary install distro

2011-11-12 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Hi, This is maybe a bit off topic but here goes. I want to install Linux on my brothers rig. The heat sink on the CPU is not much, OEM type. I don't want to install Gentoo because of that and it is a older rig with a slow CPU and not a lot of ram either. So, what is a easy

Re: [gentoo-user] Are those green drives any good?

2012-05-09 Thread Dale
Daniel Troeder wrote: I'm using big WD Caviar Green (WDxxEAxx) SATA HDDs for some years now in my home 24/7 server, and haven't had any issues - they run cool and low-noise, and the performance is good. Low power and heat was what was important for me when choosing. HDD performance isn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Are those green drives any good?

2012-05-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 09 May 2012 04:52:57 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I was thinking the same thing about the speed and them lasting longer because of the slower speed. I mean, it's less wear and less heat. I'd just hate to buy one and it be a piece of junk or something else I wasn't expecting

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare Hypervisor - SD vs CF card?

2012-06-26 Thread Tanstaafl
with servers, and my only experience with netbooting at all was with LTSP about 10 years ago. I think having 4 CF cards (mirrored pair of mirrored pairs) will be enough redundancy though... ;) Well, these seem to work swimmingly well... now I just need to find some kind of non-flammable/heat

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : CPU : 22 nm vs 32 nm

2012-07-25 Thread Florian Philipp
advantages: Lower current (- potentially lower power consumption and heat) and more transistors to do something. The practical effects depend on what the chip maker does with this. In the same price range, AMD offers Bulldozer X8 FX-8150 (125W) 8-Core Socket AM3+, 3.6 GHz, 8Mb Cache, 32 nm

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new machine : CPU : AMD FX-4100 ?

2012-07-29 Thread Michael Mol
. To be fair, power savings are relevant if you're concerned about your electric bill, or if you're concerned about heat management in your system. Consider my dual E5345...leaving that on 24x7 appears to cost me about 90USD/mo. CPU power savings will transform that into a 89.9USD/mo

[gentoo-user] Re: new machine : CPU : AMD FX-4100 ?

2012-07-30 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
just the thermal upper limit. To be fair, power savings are relevant if you're concerned about your electric bill, or if you're concerned about heat management in your system. Consider my dual E5345...leaving that on 24x7 appears to cost me about 90USD/mo. CPU power savings will transform

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new machine : CPU : AMD FX-4100 ?

2012-07-30 Thread Michael Mol
consumer when compared to the total of the 6 500GB 7200 RPM hard drives I have in the box. Spinning disks consume surprisingly little power once they're up to speed. My GPU, by comparison, doesn't seem to reduce heat generation very much when relatively idle. WRT to money spent to run a machine I hope

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new machine : CPU : AMD FX-4100 ?

2012-07-30 Thread Michael Hampicke
suspect it's not the biggest power consumer when compared to the total of the 6 500GB 7200 RPM hard drives I have in the box. Spinning disks consume surprisingly little power once they're up to speed. My GPU, by comparison, doesn't seem to reduce heat generation very much when relatively idle

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new machine : CPU : AMD FX-4100 ?

2012-07-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Michael Hampicke gentoo-u...@hadt.biz wrote: SNIP Spinning disks consume surprisingly little power once they're up to speed. My GPU, by comparison, doesn't seem to reduce heat generation very much when relatively idle. Idle on a GPU (in Linux) might be more

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-06 Thread Dale
to fail because of anything, including heat, I would rather it do so BEFORE I put my stuff on it. Right now, a backup is not possible other than a blue ray or something. Also, I have a Cooler Master case with the fan blowing right on the drives. If it gets hot and blows a fuse, it has a problem

Re: [gentoo-user] My PC died. What should I try?

2012-08-17 Thread Alex Schuster
, it is unlikely that the capacitors dried. But they could easily bloat, especially if they were of bad quality or situated near some hot surface like heat sinks. Testing the power supply needs not only visual analysis. It would be good to attach the oscilloscope to the output and see the voltage level

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : a few small queries

2012-09-15 Thread Mick
, so have a look in there just in case. (2) Luxi Mono is not coming out cleanly in Gvim or (Xfce) Terminal : IIRC there's a pkg or a setting somewhere to fix it, but I can't find it in my extensive notes from the past. (3) I have 4 heat sensors in Gkrellm : 'k10temp' + 3 * 'it87'. Can

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel options and udisk

2012-09-19 Thread Dale
the brand but it was driving a pair of Bose 901's and it was neat. The amps were driving several hundred watts a channel with very little heat. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wireless dropping connections

2012-11-01 Thread Mark Knecht
off to clean dust out the CPU heat sink. With the machine back in place but the side of the case off the AP in my office was dropping packets all over the place. Download speeds went to about 30%. Case back on and speeds went right back up. Keep looking for EMI sources near the router. Mess

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: new system hardware

2012-11-10 Thread James
as a (liquid at working temperatures) fluid, moves orders of magnitude more heat than air (as working fluid) does, Sure Glycol or TEG (Tetraethylene Glycol) is best, but I do not have time to find a non corrosive, non conducting fluid in lieu of water (although Silicone brake fluid or DOT-5 might

[gentoo-user] Re: ~amd64 compatibility with modern cpus

2012-12-15 Thread Grant Edwards
or ridiculously expensive. 2) If you had a replacement part, it's probably a BGA part, and you have to have special equipment (and/or a _lot_ of luck with a heat-gun) to get the old part off and the new part on without destroying the board or surrounding parts. Your best bet would

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Questions about optimal mplayer settings

2012-12-19 Thread Dale
... don't ever remember getting that type of speed in FF. This shows (via gkrellm) the effects it had playing on this system: http://www.servantsofyeshua.org/XITHbsUUlYI.mp4-screenshot.png Didn't really heat my GPU (temp1) over 38C, and it's normally around 31C. Here's another file check on the MP4

Re: [gentoo-user] Any way of tracing kernel freezes?

2013-06-14 Thread Thomas Mueller
or surrounding room temperature? I have an old computer whose fan has quit as happened once before. CPUs generate considerable heat, I see system temperature and realize the fan is much more critical than whether the room temperature is a chilly 20 C or sweaty (for humans) 35 C. I don't use that old 2001

[gentoo-user] SQL Server Advice for Small Business

2013-07-29 Thread Randy Westlund
order status, and analyze random things about job status and customer base. I intend to set up a PostgreSQL server and write simple graphical front ends for the employees. I'll do most of the advanced customer base analysis for him. Eventually, I want to be generating heat maps of cashflow from

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Need a new server

2013-09-14 Thread Grant
! Everything else is a distant concern. When did you last hear of a CPU failure anywhere at any time? CPUs do not fail for the most part. When they do it's because everything else got hot which brings us back to #2 in the list. I had one fail a number of years ago but I do think it was because of heat

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel ricing

2013-10-24 Thread James
* architectures on keen issues of minimization. There is so much going on with ARM. Minimization is about low power. The paradigm shift to low power (the lowest heat) allows for for the greatest transistor concentration == smallest size. ARM has beaten them all, AMD sees the light and is working on a myriad

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