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|  | Building a 300W Fan Controller from an ATX PSU
Friday, May 30, 2008
This sounds crazy but it’s true! If you want to have more than 20 high speed fans in your computer and want to control them in an effective way, you can go ahead and build your own fan controller. In this tutorial you will learn how to convert your old 300W ATX PSU into a powerful fan controller.
Why would you want to build a 330W Fan controller? Do you really need that type of power for fans? Is it even possible? Well the answer is yes! “From time to time we receive some of the craziest requests in our [M]ailbox, so goes the tale about a young fellow who wanted to use up to 20 fans inside his computer. Frowning my eyebrows I did not question him further since I know this fellow has an extreme way of living, instead I went on thinking that maybe some of the older ATX PSU's I have around might proof to be of good use. Now few months later I'm ready to share with you the [M]axtreme Fan Controller, nothing but an ordinary ATX PSU.” Keep a pen and paper ready to note down the tweaks and tricks of building high power 300W fan controller as you read the entire tutorial on Madshrimps. |   |
| | Computex Explained
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Next week, John is heading over the Computex, the annual IT trade show in Taipei, Taiwan. There are just absolutely heaps of PC component manufacturers based in Taiwan and anybody who is anybody has a stand at Computex. John plans on interviewing reps on the stands like he did at CES earlier in the year. Another website who were also at CES and now at Computex have written up an article explaining what it is. If you’d like to know more about Computex before we start featuring content on it next week, head on over to Futurelooks and find out. | |
| Mid-week vlog
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Normally our vlogs are on a Friday but this week John surprised me as we were about to film more of the Blu-ray series we’re working on. The camera rolled (so to speak) and while I was about to start the intro, John announced it was a vlog! Watch it here. | |
| NVIDIA predicts the future...
Thursday, May 29, 2008
At the Spring 2008 Editor’s day, NVIDIA presented their forthcoming series of graphics processing units which will be released next month. According to NVIDIA, usage of GPGPU, that is the use of graphic chips by regular programs, represents the future of computing. On the Editor’s day NVIDIA explained how amazing GPGPU is and showed several examples of applications where performance increased dramatically through the use of these techniques. The idea behind this new technology is that the video card GPU will process regular programs instead of using the CPU - and NVIDIA’s CUDA compiler will make it possible. The CUDA compiler is capable of compiling any program written in C so they can be run on any NVIDIA GPU from series 8 and above. Source – hardwaresecrets.com. | |
| | Syncing a Windows PC with an Xbox 360
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
I personally don’t own an Xbox. In fact I don’t have a console of any kind. John has his heart set on getting a Sony PS3 later in the year. Maybe. We’ll see. Anyway if you do have an Xbox, did you know that you can sync it with a PC so that you can use it as a multimedia center to play video or audio files you may have stored on your PC, on your Xbox? Since most Xbox units are in people’s lounge rooms, this seems like a pretty nifty thing to be able to do. In this guide, Jason shows you how to do it whether you have a Vista PC or an XP PC. | |
| Folding@home to run on NVIDIA GeForce Video Cards
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
“Folding@home is a distributed computing project -- people from throughout the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Every computer takes the project closer to our goals. Folding@home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed computing, to simulate problems millions of times more challenging than previously achieved” - Vijay Pande and Stanford University.
Mr Pande made a presentation last week, explaining current projects such simulating viruses and conducting research into a cure for Altzeimers. He asserted that “a petaflop of computing can and does make a difference in research.”
But perhaps the most exciting part of the presentation was when a “NVIDIA GPU client [was shown] running a live demo on the next generation GeForce graphics card.
NVIDIA has 70 million graphics card on the market today that can use CUDA programming, which means that the folding project could get a huge boost in the performance if more end users with NVIDIA GPUs join the project. Source: LegitReviews.com. (Rating-4.00) | |
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| | | Update in Process | | John Gatt's Babblings
| By John Gatt onThursday, August 21, 2008 2:13 PM | |
| So, there’s a new iPhone update out there. The first thing I did this morning was plug in my iPhone to sync it with iTunes and get the latest update, hoping it would fix some of the crash Apple screens ... |  | | Comments (0) | More... |
| | @Me dot com | | John Gatt's Babblings
| By John Gatt onTuesday, August 19, 2008 9:34 AM | |
| iTunes has advertised the Apple @Me service to me a couple of times, so I thought I’d give it a spin. If you don’t know what @Me is, it’s iTune or Apple’s solution to Gmail but it’s meant to have more ... | | | Comments (0) | More... |
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| | Updating my iPhone | | John Gatt's Babblings
| By John Gatt onTuesday, August 12, 2008 11:39 AM | |
| iPhone 2.0.1 software update is now available from iTunes. This 249.2MB update was released to fix numerous issues that have been plaguing the release of the 3G iPhone. I personally have found the iPhone to be less stable than your average V ... | | | Comments (0) | More... |
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