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Forum: Homebuilt PC's April 18th 13, 11:51 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia,comp.arch,nl.comp.hardware,sci.electronics.design
Replies: 86
Views: 2,493
Posted By Quadibloc
Why are PC sales declining ? (Skybuck thoughts on it too)

On Apr 18, 8:09*am, "Skybuck Flying"
wrote:

3. Windows 8 sucks ? (bad reason, can use windows 7 as alternative)

Good reason: if you already have a computer that...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's December 9th 12, 02:11 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,comp.arch,sci.electronics.design
Replies: 29
Views: 1,236
Posted By Quadibloc
I want a passively cooled desktop/cpu/gpu by 2016, power supplymay have fan.

Why shouldn't they be able to do this?

After all, look at the chips they're putting in tablets these days.
They don't need fans, and they're a lot more powerful than the 386
chips of yesteryear that...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's August 20th 12, 06:16 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia,comp.arch,sci.electronics.design
Replies: 53
Views: 1,605
Posted By Quadibloc
(NVIDIA) Fan-Based-Heatsink Designs are probably wrong. (suck,don't blow ! heatfins direction)

On Aug 18, 11:17*pm, Jeff Liebermann wrote:

What you want is immersion cooling:

I did a Google search after my post, and found that all the references
to the use of mineral oil...
Forum: Nvidia Videocards August 20th 12, 06:16 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia,comp.arch,sci.electronics.design
Replies: 52
Views: 5,603
Posted By Quadibloc
(NVIDIA) Fan-Based-Heatsink Designs are probably wrong. (suck,don't blow ! heatfins direction)

On Aug 18, 11:17*pm, Jeff Liebermann wrote:

What you want is immersion cooling:

I did a Google search after my post, and found that all the references
to the use of mineral oil...
Forum: Nvidia Videocards August 19th 12, 01:54 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia,comp.arch,sci.electronics.design
Replies: 52
Views: 5,603
Posted By Quadibloc
(NVIDIA) Fan-Based-Heatsink Designs are probably wrong. (suck,don't blow ! heatfins direction)

On Aug 18, 11:19*am, "Skybuck Flying"
wrote:

Place the heatsink fins 90 degrees turned so that the overflow must go OVER
the heatsink fins and not in between.

The...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's August 19th 12, 01:54 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia,comp.arch,sci.electronics.design
Replies: 53
Views: 1,605
Posted By Quadibloc
(NVIDIA) Fan-Based-Heatsink Designs are probably wrong. (suck,don't blow ! heatfins direction)

On Aug 18, 11:19*am, "Skybuck Flying"
wrote:

Place the heatsink fins 90 degrees turned so that the overflow must go OVER
the heatsink fins and not in between.

The...
Forum: Intel January 20th 12, 09:42 PM Posted to comp.sys.intel
Replies: 2
Views: 1,314
Posted By Quadibloc
Why is the E7 so hard to find?

I was excited when I heard the news that the Xeon E7 chip would bring
to the x86 platfom the kind of RAS features that had previously only
been available for the Itanium (and, of course, other...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's September 25th 11, 03:41 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,comp.arch,microsoft.public.windows.64bit.general,nl.comp.hardware,sci.electronics.design
Replies: 50
Views: 2,113
Posted By Quadibloc
New harddisks don't boot when old harddisks are disconnected.

On Sep 24, 9:42*pm, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:
Quadibloc wrote:

What about those little black things on the pins on the hard drive
that you move over to...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's September 25th 11, 12:56 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,comp.arch,microsoft.public.windows.64bit.general,nl.comp.hardware,sci.electronics.design
Replies: 50
Views: 2,113
Posted By Quadibloc
New harddisks don't boot when old harddisks are disconnected.

On Sep 22, 12:21*pm, "Skybuck Flying"
wrote:

Ofcourse I tried changing boot order in bios, or tried the boot option menu

What about those little black things on the...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's September 10th 11, 02:01 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia,comp.arch,sci.electronics.design
Replies: 18
Views: 820
Posted By Quadibloc
Alternatives for ground (for PC's)

On Sep 7, 3:33*pm, "Skybuck Flying"
wrote:

I am starting to suspect "ground" for PC's does more damage than good.

Perhaps the "ground" leads to a "backdoor" for...
Forum: General August 16th 11, 04:43 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware,comp.arch,sci.electronics.design
Replies: 16
Views: 1,094
Posted By Quadibloc
Heat-tolerent computers.

On Aug 15, 4:15*pm, Phil Hobbs
wrote:
On 08/15/2011 05:04 PM, Quadibloc wrote:

The silicon is mounted to a substrate in a package, the package is
...
Forum: General August 15th 11, 10:04 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware,comp.arch,sci.electronics.design
Replies: 16
Views: 1,094
Posted By Quadibloc
Heat-tolerent computers.

On Aug 15, 10:04*am, Phil Hobbs
wrote:

Packaging is a huge problem at high temperatures. *The differential
thermal expansion of silicon and FR4 causes a...
Forum: General August 15th 11, 03:52 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware,comp.arch,sci.electronics.design
Replies: 16
Views: 1,094
Posted By Quadibloc
Heat-tolerent computers.

Here we go:

http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/SiC/

a place to start learning about the exciting world of silicon carbide
heat-tolerant electronics.

Silicon carbide can work at up to 650 degrees C... but...
Forum: General August 15th 11, 03:48 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware,comp.arch,sci.electronics.design
Replies: 16
Views: 1,094
Posted By Quadibloc
Heat-tolerent computers.

On Aug 14, 8:40*pm, "Skybuck Flying"
wrote:

Here is an idea for the future which could buy some time with increasing
computer performance:

Start designing...
Forum: Nvidia Videocards July 23rd 11, 02:52 PM Posted to alt.comp.lang.borland-delphi,alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia,alt.lang.asm,comp.arch,rec.games.corewar
Replies: 22
Views: 2,962
Posted By Quadibloc
An idea how to speed up computer programs and avoid waiting.("event driven memory system")

On Jul 22, 9:06*am, "wolfgang kern" wrote:

All this issues are already covered/implemented in x86 architectures,
OoO features exist there since a while (10 years).

Indeed....
Forum: Nvidia Videocards July 23rd 11, 02:49 PM Posted to alt.comp.lang.borland-delphi,alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia,alt.lang.asm,comp.arch,rec.games.corewar
Replies: 52
Views: 5,868
Posted By Quadibloc
An idea how to speed up computer programs and avoid waiting.("event driven memory system")

On Jul 23, 3:09*am, Tony Harding wrote:

IBM's 650 computer used this design, i.e., an instruction contained the
address of the next instruction for execution, which lead...
Forum: Nvidia Videocards July 18th 11, 02:14 AM Posted to alt.comp.lang.borland-delphi,alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia,comp.arch,comp.graphics.api.opengl,microsoft.public.windows.64bit.general
Replies: 24
Views: 1,736
Posted By Quadibloc
OpenGL works slow without graphics drivers, and also in VirtualMachines (VMWare) ?

On Jul 17, 11:06*am, "David" wrote:
"Skybuck Flying" *wrote in message
...

What makes you believe that...
Forum: Nvidia Videocards July 17th 11, 01:24 PM Posted to alt.comp.lang.borland-delphi,alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia,comp.arch,comp.graphics.api.opengl,microsoft.public.windows.64bit.general
Replies: 24
Views: 1,736
Posted By Quadibloc
OpenGL works slow without graphics drivers, and also in VirtualMachines (VMWare) ?

What you state in the title should come as no surprise.

OpenGL and Direct X both provide graphics-intensive programs with a
standardized interface for doing things applicable, for example, to...
Forum: General April 11th 11, 09:29 PM Posted to comp.arch,alt.comp.hardware,comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.amd.x86-64
Replies: 10
Views: 1,041
Posted By Quadibloc
Possibility for a layer that allows for running of CISC apps onRISC CPU?

On Apr 11, 9:44*am, MitchAlsup wrote:

After a decade of x86 being 64-bits, why can't the BIOS boot, and to
all the other nonOS stuff in a more normal mode?

That would break...
Forum: General April 11th 11, 10:15 AM Posted to comp.arch,alt.comp.hardware,comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.amd.x86-64
Replies: 10
Views: 1,041
Posted By Quadibloc
Possibility for a layer that allows for running of CISC apps onRISC CPU?

.... and the basic problem seems to be that Legacy Mode is a mode of
the whole processor, _not_ of an individual process. So it isn't
possible to run applications in Legacy Mode in a window while...
Forum: General April 11th 11, 10:00 AM Posted to comp.arch,alt.comp.hardware,comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.amd.x86-64
Replies: 10
Views: 1,041
Posted By Quadibloc
Possibility for a layer that allows for running of CISC apps onRISC CPU?

On Apr 10, 8:29*pm, Quadibloc wrote:
On Apr 10, 8:17*pm, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:

Andrew Reilly writes:

Almost all...
Forum: General April 11th 11, 03:29 AM Posted to comp.arch,alt.comp.hardware,comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.amd.x86-64
Replies: 10
Views: 1,041
Posted By Quadibloc
Possibility for a layer that allows for running of CISC apps onRISC CPU?

On Apr 10, 8:17*pm, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
Andrew Reilly writes:

Almost all x86-64 systems today ship with an x86 emulator in order to be
...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's September 4th 10, 11:12 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia,comp.arch,sci.electronics.design
Replies: 52
Views: 1,833
Posted By Quadibloc
Fans could generate electricity and damage motherboard ?

On Sep 4, 6:31*am, Clifford Heath wrote:
Mark Lloyd wrote:
BTW, I used to have a computer running without a case. It worked OK,
although I had to cover it when the...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's May 4th 10, 11:35 AM Posted to alt.english.usage,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.fetish,alt.folklore.computers,alt.pl.allegro
Replies: 1
Views: 432
Posted By Quadibloc
Please, DO NOT forget the only thing that matters on this planet........................……..

On May 4, 2:15*am, "last.chance"
wrote:

Keep you eyes open, for the things to come... and do not be afraid,
because your soul is untouchable.
Do not care...
Forum: Intel April 18th 10, 03:08 PM Posted to alt.folklore.computers,comp.sys.intel,comp.arch,comp.os.os2.misc
Replies: 54
Views: 3,193
Posted By Quadibloc
Interesting: Is IBM considering an OS/2 redo?

On Apr 18, 3:56*am, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard J.deBoynePollard-
wrote:

One thing that I know xe did write was a call to open-source SOM. *Now
that's something that...
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