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Man that Kuhler 1250 would really be a step up from my stock Intel cooler.

My favorite feature of this phone is that you can dial other people and talk to them. Plus I would totally rock that dbrand linus swag.

That screen looks awesome. I think I can handle it's girth.

This is the best result I've gotten at school but I'm at home for break now....

While voiding my laptop warranty recently I discovered an mSATA slot. Which mSATA SSD is best or does it not really make a difference? I'm looking for ~120GB and I've found these two which seem good. Mushkin Enhanced Atlas Series MKNSSDAT120GB-DX mSATA 120GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive Plextor M5M PX-128M5M mSATA 128GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive I'm moderately knowledgeable but I figured it wouldn't hurt to ask.

7000-8000 in games I make before I add anything to render.

Eclipse all day.

I have an old computer and I think something is wrong with the fan header controller or temperature sensor or something. The CPU fan sounds like its getting ready for take off and reads ~5000 RPM almost all the time. What can you expect from an 8 year old prebuilt eMachines?

Why would you want a 1 or even 10 Gbps local network when drives don't even begin to approach those speeds? What's the point?

I am new to Python as well but not new to programming. I find it helpful and often interesting to Google everything even when I know how to do it. Usually someone will have asked the same question on StackOverflow or somewhere else and you can see answers from people who have been using Python for a long time. There are lots of built-in functions and things you would never think of.

I made a Python command line version of Deal or No Deal in exactly 100 lines. Download a executable version here. Just extract all the files in the zip and run DealOrNoDeal.exe from console. Unfortunately in the end of the game there is no pause and the window closes. I will work on fixing that. http://filesmelt.com/dl/deal_or_no_deal.7z from colorama import Fore, Back, Stylefrom termcolor import coloredimport colorama, random, os, syscolorama.init()values = [ 0.01, 1, 5, 10, 25, 50, 75, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 750, 1000, 5000, 10000, 25000, 50000, 75000, 100000, 200000, 300000, 400000, 500000, 750000, 1000000 ] cases = []choice = 0round = 1class Case: def __init__(self, number, value): self.number = number self.value = value self.active = True def print_cases(x): os.system('cls') print('') for i in range(0, 13): if not values[i] == 0: a = ' $' + ' '*( 5 - len(str(values[i]))) + str(values[i]) + ' ' else: a = ' '*8 if not values[i + 13] == 0: b = ' $' + ' '*( 8 - len(str(values[i+13]))) + str(values[i+13]) + ' ' else: b = ' '*11 print( '\t\t\t' + colored(a, 'grey', 'on_yellow') + ' ' + colored(b, 'grey', 'on_yellow'), end='') if i == 6: print('\tYour Case', end='') if i == 7 and not choice == 0: print( '\t' + colored(' ' + str(choice) + ' '*(4-len(str(choice))), 'grey', 'on_yellow'), end='' ) print('') print('\n') for i in range(0, 26): if(x[i].active): print( colored(' ' + str(x[i].number) + ' '*(4-len(str(x[i].number))), 'grey', 'on_yellow'), end='\t') else: print(colored(' ', 'grey', 'on_yellow'), end='\t') if( i == 19): print('\n\n\t\t', end='') elif( i == 9): print('\n') def setup_cases(): r = list(values) random.shuffle(r) for i in range(0,26): cases.append( Case( i + 1 , r[i] ) ) def get_offer(): total, a = 0, 0 for x in cases: if x.number == choice or x.active: a += 1 total += x.value return int((total/a) * (round/10))setup_cases()print_cases(cases)while choice < 1 or choice > 26: choice = int(input('\n\nChoose a case (1 - 26): '))for x in cases: if x.number == choice: x.active = Falseprint_cases(cases)while round < 10: p = 7 - round if p < 1: p = 1 for i in range(0, p): print('\nPick ' + str(p) + ' cases this round') x = 0 while x < 1 or x > 26 or not cases[x-1].active: x = int(input('\n' + str(i + 1) + ': ')) for j in cases: if j.number == x: print('Case ' + str(x) + ': ' + str(j.value)) values[values.index(j.value)] = 0 j.active = False input('Press Enter to continue...') print_cases(cases) print('\nThe bank offers ' + str(get_offer())) d = input('Deal or No Deal? ') if d.lower() == 'deal': print ('Congratulations! You\'ve won $' + str(get_offer())) sys.exit(0) input('Press Enter to continue...') print_cases(cases) round += 1 for x in cases: if x.active and not x.number == choice: val = x.valueprint('\n\nThe last case contained $' + str(val) + '\nCongratulations! You stuck with your case and won $' + str(cases[choice-1].value))

I suppose its just limitations of the add-in card. The boot up time increase isn't not problem really. I still boot in about 50 seconds. The SSD is still very fast and I will have it for quite some time. I have a 1366 processor and I don't think upgrading just the motherboard is worth it. And I will just disregard the fact that Windows gives me the option to eject the SSD.

I bought a Samsung 840 Pro but my mother board does not have SATA 3 ports. I bought a SIIG add-in card for $25 (USD) and I get additional speeds but not the speed the drive promises. ( I get ~395 MB/s sequential reads and writes but the drive claims 540 MB/s read and 520 MB/s write. ) Are those numbers absolute best results? Are my speeds within normal range or is the card limiting speed. Another issue I have is during boot. The card detects connected drives every time I boot the machine after the POST and then goes back to the BOIS splash screen before continuing. Then once booted into Windows, the start-up process hangs for a while before playing the Windows logo animation. This was not a problem when connected to the SATA2 ports on the motherboard. Any help or additional information about SATA3 add-in cards would be welcome as well.