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Great links. Thanks ladytekki!

To keep it going...

Here is a HOWTO to get synergy to work, a program that lets you use multiple machines (OS's) and one keyboard/mouse.

 

 

Dear root and lowboy. I just finished testing my psu and it passed all of the tests. This was so important because I'am sending this PC 2000 miles, to my brother. You both are awesome. There are not words to describe how grateful I'am for your help and education. Thankyou again. Rob~!

lowboy:

MouthpiecePC heres what you need to know to test PSU.

How to test/read rails/voltages:

http://www.driverheaven.net/guides/testingPSU/

http://forums.extremeoverclocking.com/showthread.php?t=137886

Keep in mind that this doesn't show the ability of the PSU to provide the rated amperage to the rails only the voltage and therefore it doesn't prove the PSU is good.

Hey lowboy. I was wondering if there is a way to test the amperage also. Thankyou again for your help.

MIT OpenCourseWare

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm

and by the end of this year the entire curriculum will be online free of charge

 http://www.audiodesignline.com/news/198000938

the above link is a great audio resource too.

 

MouthpiecePC:

lowboy:

MouthpiecePC heres what you need to know to test PSU.

How to test/read rails/voltages:

http://www.driverheaven.net/guides/testingPSU/

http://forums.extremeoverclocking.com/showthread.php?t=137886

Keep in mind that this doesn't show the ability of the PSU to provide the rated amperage to the rails only the voltage and therefore it doesn't prove the PSU is good.

Hey lowboy. I was wondering if there is a way to test the amperage also. Thankyou again for your help.

 

You can test Amperage by fully loading the PSU and using a Volt/Ohm meter with an amperage sensor, It clips around the wires and is very sensitive so all other wires should not be close to the Circuit being tested. They are kind of costly though, for a good one, My Fluke meter cost about $300.00

Oh wow, thankyou GmsCool. Why are they so expensive I wonder. And are you saying that you clip them onto the insulated part of the wire meaning they dont have to connect directly to the wire? Also I misunderstood about keeping it away from other wires. I can borrow one from a buddy. Then there is the question of how to test the psu with one, the readings and all. If I'am succesful learning how to use one, I may buy one myself. Thanks for all of the help.

It is inductive meaning it does not need to be connected to the wire, just clamped around it, the other wires need to be out of the way so they will not cause interference.

One of the cost factors is that it plugs into a DVOM and you'll want a good one for an accurate reading as it will read in Millivolts as to what your amperage is.

Here is an egxample, but not the one I have (can't find it online, weird)     90i-610s  Remember that model will only work with certain DVOM's

Sorry still OT root, been meaning to give a contribution, just busy I guess. 

Edited the first post with the following:

Eggipedia : coined by iPot

The idea of Eggipedia would be a wiki style section of the site, dedicated to the transferring of Knowledge to others. We believe that knowledge should be shared freely to all. Whether it's a How To, an article explaining something what Northbridge/Southbridge Mumbo Jumbo is about, or a current project someone is doing and wants to share their build step by step with pictures.

Current ideas:

1. Each article is called an Eggi
2. Have a tab, next to Blogs, called Eggipedia
3. The main page of Eggipedia would have a navigation, by categories, on the left. It would also have it's own dedicated search engine at the top. In the middle could be the most recently added Eggi's, similar to Skookum's format. 
4. Each Eggi would have a style/format similar to wiki. An introduction, brief outline of the Eggi (and quick links to those sections) and, if need be, page numbers, depending on the type of Eggi. On the right could be the contributor's to the Eggi and creation/updates/owner information. Bottom would have reference links/reading materials/blogs/threads/posts/etc. The top would have the search field, and just below that what section the Eggi is in, along with links to other sections on the left.
   
5. Each Eggi would be owned by the original submitter, and anyone wanting to contribute to it's growth would have to go through the owner--or above him/her through the mods/admins... or maybe sent to the Ubers to be judged by, if the owner denies the modification.
6. A "Eggi Builder" tool that helps the submitter create Eggi's using the standardized format.
7. A Modification request tool that helps contributors modify the Eggi and submit modification for review.
8. Integration from the rest of the site into Eggipedia. Have Stickies in each category with the top 3-4 most popular Eggi's in their respected categories (dynamic).
9. Digg like rating system to articles (see above idea onto how this helps).
10. Integration into the blogs... perhaps linking to them from the contributor's section.

 

I don't mind |o.O|

The more you guys talk on here, the more this thread gets bumped to the top.

 

Thats truely Beutiful ROOT but I think for now that would be Taxing the poor ole' Egg a bit. Maybe after no longer Beta, if they want to spend the extra recources. that Idea could tax the moderators time considerably, but is a very good way to go about it.

Maybe we could just ask for the Forum Idea, and hope for this later? 

GmsCool, thanks for posting the info about the Volt/Ohm meter, maybe I can use it on my new project. I'm learning to build solar panels. Everything solar is my new passion. Photovoltaic cells are so cool. The future is here. If this would have been implemented before, we could have save ourself at least a war. 

Root, I really liked this Eggipidia concept, maybe it is not so hard to implement. Lets wait for the Admins opinion.

Yeah, thats the one thing I'm worried about. Could take way too many cycles to get it off the ground, but who knows. Maybe wikipedia has already done the leg work... I'm not much of a website coder, so wouldn't know.

 

Here is a site I get weekly Emails and updates from. http://www.pcstats.com/ArtVNL.cfm?articleID=1681

They have done something like this project in that they archive and share all their tech tips for along time now.  The tech tips I linked to are for Windows XP but the site has tons of great info for noobs to old timers. 

Heh, the reason I get any work done at the office is that I run Synergy with a 2-screen Vista workstation and a 1-screen XP workstation. I have 1 window for system/server management, 1 for e-mail, and 1 for web browsers where I EggXpert all day long :p

ladytekki:

Lets wait for the Admins opinion.

... good things come to those who wait.  

MeiLing:

Here is a site I get weekly Emails and updates from. http://www.pcstats.com/ArtVNL.cfm?articleID=1681

They have done something like this project in that they archive and share all their tech tips for along time now.  The tech tips I linked to are for Windows XP but the site has tons of great info for noobs to old timers. 

 I just went ahead and subscribed to there rss feeds for the newsletter and news. This looks like some great information to have coming in. I look at www.dailytech.com on a daily basis and see what all is out there. Thats a great site as well.
 

freezy:

a scratch no but not being flush yes. Here's a guide for lapping your heat sink. Some will lap their cpu also. Kinda hard to sell afterwards

http://www.overclockers.com/tips1015/

shameless bump

 

Ok here is a link to an arcticle telling about the performance differences between ddr2 ram and ddr3 ram.

http://www.legionhardware.com/document.php?id=674 

EggiPedia I like it now can you get the powers that be to approve all of this. Then who's going to main line it and see that the ball gets rolling in the right direction? Any volunteers root your idea & a really great 1 too. Kuddo's to you root!

root...where is the pedia ?

Thanks Hoghauler

I wish I could code it myself (and had the time to do it).

Until EggXpert gets some extra cycles, and this project gets bumped up on their to-do-list (which is large right now), no Eggipedia until then.

I've heard this has been in the works well before I had suggested the idea, so hopefully there has already been some progress on this.

 

root:

Until EggXpert gets some extra cycles, and this project gets bumped up on their to-do-list (which is large right now), no Eggipedia until then.

I've heard this has been in the works well before I had suggested the idea, so hopefully there has already been some progress on this.

good to know that...

Hello all,
I joined this forum just so that I could voice a very similar idea (it seems I have been beaten to the punch).  The main differences with my idea:

I would like the eggipedia to have a section for specific products with two pages for each (take your pick of names): The Skinny; where a "mom friendly" description of the pros, cons, compatabilities and incompatabilites (in a boolean manner, "yes this board will work with this cpu", no confusing breakdown of why) of any given product can be found, and The Fat; where all of the technical issues (manufacturer driver links, workarounds to known problems, specs that didn't make it on the specs tab, etc) can be collected.
The trick is, for this to be usefull the articles must be viewable from a single click from the product page on newegg propper and without registration.

This idea came to me today when shopping for CPU heatsinks.  They're all huge nowadays (rediculously so in many cases), and a sizable number of the posted reviews say "make sure this will fit in your case".  However, the standoff distance between the mobo tray and the mobo itself is never specified, nor is the depth of the CPU+mobo, nor is the distance from the mobo tray to the inside edge of the case, so how is one to know?  I realize that I could figure it out without too much work, but I've been in the game for a long time (a decade or so, not that long in some games, but think about it in terms of moores law) and have a pretty good idea of how it all works, I think those sorts of questions should be abstracted so that they're simple enough for the christmas shopping mom to say "yes, this will fit in johnny's computer"  provided of course that johnny tells her what he currently has.

It'd be neat to integrate that with order history too (this could just be the software engineer in me talking now) so members of eggxpert can go to a section with their recent purchase listed out and comment on the various compatibilites and overall performance of the resulting system, which would then update the appropriate eggipedia pages' compatabilites sections.  It could also be used as a source of reccommendation data (at this point I know I'm just nerdgasming, but I enjoy thinking of designs for this kind of thing), imagine that instead of a "customers who bought this also bought" section that was based on individual items it could make reccommendations based on the compatabilities and overall style of system (htpc/gaming/silent/etc) that the user has been shopping for so far.  Give a small discount on the next purchase for people who write good compatability reviews.

Awe sad...