I'm building a budget rig a friend of mine who has lived off of his graphic designer father's old Macs for his entire life currently. He gave me a 700$ budget, and so with 750 I went out and bought these parts from NCIX.

Everything went fine when ordering, except for two small mishaps, the first one being that it took like a friggin week to even get the stuff in the mail, and the other being that the power supply I ordered was back ordered.

I get the parts, throw it...

Nvidia is acting weird lately. Apart from keeping the bar high in the GPU sector, Nvidia seems to be wanting to take over something else, the CPU sector. I'm a bit confused as if they want to do so using CUDA and GPU-powered applications to entirely eradicate the need for a powerful CPU and build crappy replacements of their own, or just trying to beat Intel at their own game, plain and simple, by producing super high end chips.

I might be totally wrong, but in the case that this "...

Although I'm now somewhat ashamed to admit it, I gnawed my way into the top 350 in the folding ranks with regular clients. By fear of bricking my machines with 100% load all the time, I simply ran the lamer v5 clients, even though half the machines I was running them on were SMP capable.

It's only until very recently that I've started folding full tilt with SMP on my capable machines. First impressions:

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I've finished building my server just recently, and despite running 2 active projects, one rebuild and another involving a Rocketfish, I still feel the need to chuck out more of my money at computers. Not necessarily super high end equipment, and certainly not to upgrade any current machine, unless it's an easy upgrade like SLI. To build the PC I would really want to build, I'd just buy super high end hardware and water cooling for Bloody Bridget, but I have tons of things to buy before that, car,...

I finally did it. After trying to snipe a D40 off ebay in vain a couple of times, I decided to be a real man and ride my bike to the camera store and buy it there, with the full warranty.

I've been jacking off over this camera for too many months now, and the pressure was just too strong, I put a down on it, and it should be arriving by next week. I took the standard kit,...