Curious Pineapple

I used to fiddle with crap all the time, had Windows break all the time. Now I just use it and never have any problems, even on this old hardware that will just break when I update according to so many on here.

It'll probably run just fine if it's a higher compression petrol engine. You'll blow smoke, loose power and spend more money on fuel but it will likely work. Don't do it though, cable tie a tennis ball to the back of the throttle pedal if you want to save fuel.

Nope, you can desolder them but cutting wont be a good idea.

Just bypass the VRM's and put 12v straight into it, you'll get a stable 14 THz OC.

DP to HDMI cable will work fine

£4???? Living the high life there. I still have a bunch of them from Poundworld that have fallen apart but still work great.

Wasn't this the law that has an earnings threshold, meaning that a low income platform intended for piracy was exemp from the law?

Higher density, intel memory controllers can't address all the memory in each chip.

You just found out that the forums are wrong, they are AMD specific modules.

Not quite

Maybe the 400 is a bit more fussy. My 800 doesn't support the Westmere architecture and it can take 5 minutes of power cycling to get it to boot at times. I have yet to flash a new bootblock.

Does anyone nearby have solar panels installed by any chance?

Throw the RAM support guide in the bin. I've run mis-matched ram across a pair of CPU's with various sizes of module. The only thing that's guarenteed not to work is mixing ECC and non-ECC.

You're going to be told to take whatever job you can get, or do whatever work you can do wherever you ask.

I have a z800 with X5670's in it, more than enough for gaming and when it comes to heavy multitasking, having 24 threads is a great benefit over a more modern CPU with half as many threads.

Sounds like a badly designed pile of shite if I'm honest.

It was exactly that dislike of the lack of shifting that killed them off in the American market. They've been used in Europe in small town cars for many years, probably because nobody bought one then complained that it wasn't like an auto. When they work, they work really well, when they don't work you're going nowhere.

At 120v it's what, 1.25A. Not clue what the usual breaker rating in the US is but here they're usually 32A minimum for a ring. Lightning circuits are 6A. A breaker should be designed to carry it's rated load indefinitely at 30 C. May be different for you guys though. As I understand it, every outlet in a US home is on a single spur with it's own breaker, even rated at 5A, that's 600W leaving 450W for the computer. A high load appliance turning off won't create a higher voltage than what the grid can supply (unless it's a purely inductive load with no supression). What it may do is cause a voltage decrease when powered on due to line resistance. BTW, I wouldn't trust an electrician that describes an increase of voltage as a surge, that's a spike. A surge is a momentary (or sometimes sustained) drop in voltage caused by a lower impedance path further down the line.

I've been trying but it's not worth the effort. A lot of work to run an older OS that has no real advantage over other options out there.

It's always those that fuck around with things too much that break Windows. I've had no issues since I stopped farting around with things and just used the machine as intended. If you think that MS has never snook things back into Windows hidden in patches and security fixes then you've not been looking that hard. I think they did it with XP, the WGA checker was bundled with a general security patch and deactivated loads of machines, mostly genuine installations.

Nothing to do with voltage and everything to do with all the outlets being on the same ring over here. Electrically the entire ring is one big outlet. Motors are huge inductors and the problem will be the supression capacitors in the freezer degrading. Switching supplies have supression capacitors linking the low voltage outputs back to the mains to reduce the noise sent back onto the lines. If a motor with bad run caps is anywhere near it (electrically) then noise from the motor can end up coupled to the PSU outputs. A heater however is mostly a resistive load with a small (and most likely synchromous) fan motor. It's going to do jack shit to a PC power supply. You'll have more problems running a second machine on the same outlet.

I guess being able to pull 12KW and not have it dim the lights is a bit of a UK thing then

Well I guess every appliance in the UK must blow frequently......

You sure about that?

I'm running dual X5670's, I'm going to guess you've found a Z800 or a T5500.