My intel heatsinks are aluminum too, neon blue, came with these 2 Celerons. I have Golden Orbs on them now, also Aluminum.
 
I know the actual caps on the cores have copper in them, though many people would never know this first hand. If you have ever lapped a Celeron, you know that when the top goes copper, then starts turning silver again, you STOP!!! Sanding through that 3rd layer, layer, the second aluminum would render your cpu usuless even as a good paperweight. I lapped my GOrbs and the Celerons, it was actually quite cool seeing the metal layers in the core cap. Mirror, 1000 grit sandpaper, cpu upsidedown on top, sand sand sand. I made them smooth like Mirrors, same with the orbs, perfect connections, appsolutly beautiful.
 
I didn't realize how NOT flat a heatsinks or cpu really are until i went through my lapping phase. I wish I had a digitial camera, I would love to show you the picks from it, it's quite cool. And it's quite COOL... hehehe! Well, not that cool, perhaps more like cool,
 
Hey! I recognize that program! I used it once. No offence, I thought it was ugly and fairly useless compared to the things I ended up using, but it's cool talking to the guy who made it. I found it in my search for something to OC my Voodoo3. I couldn't use the 3DFX overclocker, it only works on Win9x unfortunately, even today with the x3dfx-c guys having taken over driver devolopment/hacking.
 
I agree entirely with Aluminum, and all the theories behind it don't intrigue me like that did back then, but my only realy point up there was to make people question Tom's integretity. I do not believe for one second that Intel or nVidia paid Tom for a favourable review, i just feel that that;s the way he feels.
 
If any of you want to see the CPU burnout comparision video I'll gladly find it, I know exactly where to get a link for it. It's funny watching that t-bird smoke, but also sad
 
Well, good Converstation, I agree as well. Spent all afternoon mentally dualing, and now it's time to go fry my brain with some video games.
hmm, AquaNox? Or BattleRealms?
 
I know! Wolfenstein it'll be for now, then I'll go try to make AquaNox run. Those are some sweet graphics, but I've never had to drop the graphics to the floor to play a game, not since I got my V3, and certainly not since I got my V5.

The reason I didn't like your program was purely cosmetic. I didn't like the pictures for buttons along the button, I didn't like the banner at the top, and I didn't like the shading behind the words. The white text fading into a white background is very hard to read. I don't like all those pictures scattered around where they're not needed. Take those things out and it looks good and normal, and I probobaly would have used it for a fairly long while. It worked okay I think, I just couldn't stand looking at it was all!
 
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I'm not talking about heatsinks at all anymore, I'm only talking about the physical CPU. I'll look for a link for you to read up on lapping of celerons and the 3 layers in the metal caps.
 
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Yea, I wouldn't buy Celeron's, but when you want a cheap SMP rig that can still MOVE, and you're offered a BP6, and 2 Celeron400s, for designing a website you don't question, that's for damn sure!
 
I wouldn't trade my Dual system for a single cpu system of double the power. My next system will be dual as well, I'm looking at Dual amds, but that won't be happening until next summer at the earliest. My system still stacks up against nearly everything, and the computer industry is so slow lately.
 
People don't have any particular reason to buy a new computer, and software engineers aren't making software that that needs a faster computer, for fear that no one will buy it, because no one needs to buy new computers.
 
Someone needs to make the most killer awesome that EVERYONE MUST HAVE, and needs 2Ghz of power. Only something with the balls and brilliance enough to do such a thing will pull the computer industry back up like it used to be any time soon.
 
AquaNox does push the envelope though, as one of the big GF3 titles, it has basically taxed my system to to the extreme. It's not something that is so great though to persuade me to want to upgrade. If I can't play it, oh well, I have dozens and dozens of other games to choose from.

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You could turn them off & elect to use non-gradiated ones... I did not know how that was done at the time of the writing of this one! I learned later how it is done.

Too bad, but live and learn eh! If I could have turned them off I surely would have.

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Relative term. Depends on your tastes. You're what I call a minimalist, who likes std. looks in programs. I would guess you do not like Microsoft Media Player 7-8x, ZoneAlarm, & others designed along WAY non-std. interface design. Personally, I do like them. Matter of taste/opinion!

Actually I quite like skinnable programs and non-standard designed like that, they're fun, yet functional. I guess the problem with yours was that it was only a little bit non standard. Usually the small things bother me, something that is just a little out of place. Let's say something is normally in one place, and get's moved across the room. Usually in my mind, that object isn't out of place, it merely has a new place, but if it's just moved an inch or two it's out of place and needs to go back the way it used to be. That's the way I look at programs like yours. They give the impression of trying to be fun or cool looking, but don't pull it off because they're not different enough or use something as plain as a simple gradient. A common theme is more attractive then a collection of seeminly random coloured gratient buttons. Give them rounded buttons, with an even shading or shadow or something, use the same theme for all of the program. In all honesty, it looks like the Teletubbies were the artists in your programs. It's not that they're different, it's that they're not professional looking.

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Well, I figure if THIS site recommended it,and it still does, making it into PCWorld, Chip of Germany (hardest people on software I know of in Germany, real quality fiends, not in looks, but technology used), and onto Cd-Rom distros etc., it was not bad. In fact, I shipped it with like 30 folks statements on its effectiveness, showing between 5%-35% gains in speed.

You really need to stop blowing your own horn. You come off as someone who is trying to prove to everyone how good he is, even though you're a nice guy. "See, my programs got all these little awards, see!" To many people those awards don't mean very much. The awards don't show that you have a good program, just that such and such magazine liked it. If you have lots of little awards like that, it means that more people like your software, not necessary that it's better in any particular fashion. I can appreciate the challenges of programming, I'm learning at the moment, and my life is aimed at software engineering. I can understand that you can't please everyone, and I'm not saying you shouldn't be proud of your awards, because you should be proud of them, but please stop waving them in the air, it is very unbecoming of you and makes your message very difficult to read through.

On a completely different note, just for my curiosity, what is your native language? I'm sure it's not english, i'm just curious as to what it is.

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Games... games are Intel's future now! You can BET they are helping John Carmack & others like him develop SUPERHIGHEND games that eat CPU cycles like a hungry dog eats meat!APK

I agree, it certainly isn't going to be an OS any time soon, that's for sure! XP has pushed it up to the 400-500mhz range, but it runs just fine on 333. And they've pushed the screen resolution up to 640x480. That actually really bothed me. I was running XP on a second computer on a 14" and I wanted to put my fist through the monitor every time it started up because MS was telling me that 640x480 wasn't good enough. I did not see anything to show that it NEEDED higher! I like high res, hell, I run it mine at 1600x1200 (my gf says it's too small, bah!), but i don't like being forced to use ANYTHING.

Yea, anyways, so games are the answer, I agreed. They need either one really big game that everyone will love, or a big influx of games for everyone, all of which need behemoths to run. The "DoomIII" was just speculatio

I'm not refering to the tool tips, but the buttons themselves. Take a blue to white gradient button, with white text. The white text ends up in a nearly white background. As the blue decreases, so to the ease of reading.

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Relative term. Depends on your tastes. You're what I call a minimalist, who likes std. looks in programs. I would guess you do not like Microsoft Media Player 7-8x, ZoneAlarm, & others designed along WAY non-std. interface design. Personally, I do like them. Matter of taste/opinion!

Actually I quite like skinnable programs and non-standard designed like that, they're fun, yet functional. I guess the problem with yours was that it was only a little bit non standard. Usually the small things bother me, something that is just a little out of place. Let's say something is normally in one place, and get's moved across the room. Usually in my mind, that object isn't out of place, it merely has a new place, but if it's just moved an inch or two it's out of place and needs to go back the way it used to be. That's the way I look at programs like yours. They give the impression of trying to be fun or cool looking, but don't pull it off because they're not different enough or use something as plain as a simple gradient. A common theme is more attractive then a collection of seeminly random coloured gratient buttons. Give them rounded buttons, with an even shading or shadow or something, use the same theme for all of the program. In all honesty, it looks like the Teletubbies were the artists in your programs. It's not that they're different, it's that they're not professional looking.

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Well, I figure if THIS site recommended it,and it still does, making it into PCWorld, Chip of Germany (hardest people on software I know of in Germany, real quality fiends, not in looks, but technology used), and onto Cd-Rom distros etc., it was not bad. In fact, I shipped it with like 30 folks statements on its effectiveness, showing between 5%-35% gains in speed.

You really need to stop blowing your own horn. You come off as someone who is trying to prove to everyone how good he is, even though you're a nice guy. "See, my programs got all these little awards, see!" To many people those awards don't mean very much. The awards don't show that you have a good program, just that such and such magazine liked it. If you have lots of little awards like that, it means that more people like your software, not necessary that it's better in any particular fashion. I can appreciate the challenges of programming, I'm learning at the moment, and my life is aimed at software engineering. I can understand that you can't please everyone, and I'm not saying you shouldn't be proud of your awards, because you should be proud of them, but please stop waving them in the air, it is very unbecoming of you and makes your message very difficult to read through.

On a completely different note, just for my curiosity, what is your native language? I'm sure it's not english, i'm just curious as to what it is.

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Games... games are Intel's future now! You can BET they are helping John Carmack & others like him develop SUPERHIGHEND games that eat CPU cycles like a hungry dog eats meat!APK

I agree, it certainly isn't going to be an OS any time soon, that's for sure! XP has pushed it up to the 400-500mhz range, but it runs just fine on 333. And they've pushed the screen resolution up to 640x480. That actually really bothed me. I was running XP on a second computer on a 14" and I wanted to put my fist through the monitor every time it started up because MS was telling me that 640x480 wasn't good enough. I did not see anything to show that it NEEDED higher! I like high res, hell, I run it mine at 1600x1200 (my gf says it's too small, bah!), but i don't like being forced to use ANYTHING.

Yea, anyways, so games are the answer, I agreed. They need either one really big game that everyone will love, or a big influx of games for everyone, all of which need behemoths to run. The "DoomIII" was just speculation, it COULD be something else, though I doubt it, but it certainly was amazing to see, from a crappy quality quicktime file. I want to see a large high res, high definition movie of it, I love drolling over stuff like that. Give AquaNox a chance if you can, the graphics are quite impressive.

Quote:I see. I think it may be overheating actualy. I do NOT have a heat sink! All i have is a mall fan! Quote:Note, again for reference, here is the system specs: AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1.4GHZ on an ECS k55SA motherboard

heh, i'm still stunned at this part of the post! u'd think the cpu would be fried by now!

Amazingly enough, its not! As a matter of fact, I'm using it as I type this reply right now!

Quote:Amazingly enough, its not! As a matter of fact, I'm using it as I type this reply right now!

heh, are you typing it outside in the snow?

LOL, that's OK.
Its amazing because All it seems to be doing is restart the syetem every now and then, and guess what, I keep the machine running! I notice that it runs for a few hours, until at some point where you open up a program or add an MP3 to the winamp list, it would just restart.
Heck, I've run Max Payne on it and it doesn't seem to be complaining.But I DO agree with AlecStaar and evryone else. As soon as that paycheck comes, I'm going to get myself an Aluminum heat sink!

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Well, that's your opinion, again, you know? I mean, yes, that is your right... but some folks they may have run tests with, and they DID do this alot especially back in Windows 95 testings, their majority of testers on 14" units? MUST have told them otherwise...

They do test & from samples of testers, cater to the majority I imagine, to make sales.

I know that not mant people are running on 14" monitors, but I don't feel it is right for those who are to be hasseled every time they turn on there computer to "fix" there resolution. There is nothing wrong with 640x480, and to this day I have no seen anything that NEEDS 800x600 or higher. Windows is one of the very few OSes I can actually say that about and that's always impressed me.

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Besides... how hard was it for you to change it, with rightclick on your desktop & up to 1600x1200 you go!

It ISN'T a problem for me on this computer, but the other computer I mentioned, the one I was talking about used a 14" monitor. Whenever I started it up, I'd get this stupid error bubble in the system tray telling me that my resolution was wrong! As you can see, that still bothers me and I don't even have to deal with it now. I would understand if there was something that required the higher resolution, but there is nothing of the sort!

If something ain't broke, don't fix it! It should obviously be an option to use higher res, anything else would be murder, but to not have the option to go lower?! Why on earth would they stop you from going down to 640x480? No research in the world could prove why they SHOULDN'T ALLOW users to use a lower res if they want to.

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There is or can be no such thing...

I didn't say anything about there being anything, you confuse me to great extends with this one....

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(I can show you letters from folks, by the dozens stating otherwise! Who do you think I will be swayed by the most? I did on the first program APK 3dFx Tuning Engine, omit the ability to use low res std. colored buttons. I did not know the technique of skinning them that year for example. ON the second one, folks like you asked for it, I put it in, the APK Cd-Rom Alarm Clock, I learned it to cater to folks like yourself's tastes.)

You're doing it again (bragging)

I would be quite interested with such a patch! Remember my messages about this, in the other big thread I believe? I could really use such a patch. I'm not running XP right now, have gone back to Win2k for sanity's sake, but I'm sure I'll be with XP again sometime!

I have never heard of this XP feature. Is it something that is done automatically and by default, or is it something that must be configured?

You make a lot of questions into statements, I have a headache now You don't need to verify everything that you say with us. If you're telling us something, then TELL us, not ask of if it is so??
 
See, you do that a lot (with the question marks where they don't belong), like I just did to demostrate.
 
For example, from your post above: "What my program does, is tell Speedisk from the time you logon to your OS?" What, are you asking us how your program works?
 
Anyways, that's very interesting, the parts of it that I understand atleast. I'll usually set speeddisk to realtime priority and got to bed, so i have no idea if they fight. And I'm running Win2k now, and for while, so I won't be able to test it out.

I have lost my reply twice now, so I will be even quicker than I had planned after I lost my reply the first time. Anything that seems like an attack isn't one, it is just said quickly, without extra words to avoid stepping on anyone's feet.
 
In my lost reply I had a section clarifying how I'm not here to hurt anyone or make them feel dumb. I stand by that, making you feel stupid is not my goal.
 
As for the Ph.D. part, I don't need a Ph.D. to recognize a poorly constructed or cumbersome sentance. I have excellent gramittical skills, wish my spelling skills were at the same level, and if you could talk to my teachers and peers, they would support me in saying that. Where I old enough to have a Ph.D., and interested in English as a field of study, I would consider pursuing a Ph.D. when I complete university. If you would like me to prove myself, you have but to ask; I am more than willing to go through some of your sentences with you and point out grammatical errors. If you would like to improve your english, I will leave you with one very important grammital element to consider: sentance fragments. You can research this yourself if you like, and I am more than will to help you out if you need it.
 
Nothing in this universe is right or wrong. Nothing is impossible. I follow those 2 simple rules as I live my life, and try to keep an open mind whenever possible. I am not trying to tell you that the way you speak english is wrong, all I can do is compare it to other ways of speaking. For this discussion, the only way I can analyze your speech is to compare it with what is considered "normal". Normal is a relative term and has relevance only within the frame of reference that it refers too. The frame of reference I speak from contains people that have been speaking only, or primarily, english
for the majority of their lives. These people, like myself, are fluent speakers of the language and have very little difficulty understanding what another means or is trying to say. The most important thing you must consider about english grammer is that it's rules were designed to fit this frame of reference.
 
I asked you earlier what your native language was, but you never replied. I am fairly certain that you were not born in an english speaking environment, and can say this fairly confidently because the grammatical practices you follow are not "normal", thus do not follow the currently accept way to speak and write english. This isn't me saying this, this is just the way it is. There are certain rules and guidelines for the english langauge and you break too many of them to be an educated adult raised in an english speaking environment. That leaves two options. You either aren't educated, which I highly doubt, or you haven't lived within the "norm" long enough to obsorb it all.
 
Typos and spelling mistakes are inevitable on the internet, but the meaning is usually quite clear if taken in context with the rest of the text. Whole sentances can usually be decoded in a similar fasion, though not always with such ease.
 
Could you please decode this for me? This is one of the sentences that I had trouble understanding, and your last port did nothing to help that. I've looked at it long and hard, and can't make heads nor tails of it.

Quote:Originally posted by brainsoft:For example, from your post above: "What my program does, is tell Speedisk from the time you logon to your OS?" What, are you asking us how your program works?
Your sentance start off as a statement, "this is what my program does," but some how ends off as a sentance. If you removed the first comma things would be a little better, but the second half of the sentance is the stumper for me. You're saying that your programs tells Speedisk from the time you logon to your OS. That doesn't make any sense though! If you said WHAT your program tells Speedisk, the situation may improve. Then you start off a range in time that the program will do whatever it is that needs to be done. The time range starts when you logon to your OS, but doesn't have an end, and is somehow a question; that just isn't proper english.
 
I'm tired now and have re-typed this message too many times now. I appolgize if I have offended or confused you, I am just trying to understand you, and perhaps help you improve your english. There are many people who view constructive critism as an insult, but you don't seem like that type seeing how you responded to user input with your programs. I'll leave you with something to think about:
 
Normally when someone feels accused of something, they will try their hardest to deny it while supressing, to the best of their ability, whatever it is they are accused of. Being completely honest, did you try to make yourself as clear and concise as possible in your last message?

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I have lost my reply twice now, so I will be even quicker than I had planned after I lost my reply the first time. Anything that seems like an attack isn't one, it is just said quickly, without extra words to avoid stepping on anyone's feet.

Yea, I know I said I was going to be quick, but quick is a relative term too. That reply is atleast three paragraphs shorter than my original reply was going to be, so it is "relatively" short.

Well, I think Alec belongs to that kind of very creative people who are thinking aloud most of the time.
Fingers and keyboard simply cannot cope with the speed of their brain, especially when they do multithread or even parallel thinking when exploring the limits of a given knowledge.
They ask (themselves?) questions while trying to find answers and share their thinking process with others, looking for feedback at the same time.
I call it shared thinking process - like you do at a brainstorming session. Left and right brains are competing all the time. Logical process on the left one, communications process on the right one.
I hope this does not hurt you in any way. For me it is rather a compliment and the expression of a talent.

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He had a saying about speech & written english as well:

"The baud rates' TOO slow!"

(LOL, and I agree with him...)



The baud rates' TOO slow! LOL
I do agree
BTW, Carl Sagan, what a brain!
Technology has to provide the Humans with some kind of high-speed inter-personal communications channel.
Imagine megabytes of info exchanged in a split second