Recent content by jprad

Instructions from those who maintain the US time reference: http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/grp40/its.cfm If you're a real time geek then this is interesting reading... http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/utcnist.cfm

Never heard of a "benchmark," eh? Current Raptors are SATA3 devices. Put a pair of SATA3 Raptors in RAID 0 and you going to get write speeds close to 300MB/s, which is damn close to SSD write speeds. A lot more storage at a lot less cost.

Not even close. All I did was replace the motherboard, CPU and memory. Wiped and reinstalled the OS disc, good to go. Grand total was about the same price as what it would cost you to replace just the CPU in your P55 with an i7-880 -- about $600.

Never mind hallucinating, you're batshit crazy if you think an i7-2600K is only "marginally faster" than a 1155 socket CPU.

The P55 is so yesterday. I'm running an i7-2600K w/1600 @ CAS8. Painless overclocking when I need it, intelligent power management scales it back when I'm surfing or doing email.

P55??? CAS9??? Yeah, such a deal...

You're right, your second paragraph had already touched on this. I stopped reading once you mentioned smoothing in your first, my apologies.

Great analogy. However, it doesn't tell us if this system you're selling is actually a Ferrari or just a broken-down Yugo that you bought for the price of a Ferrari. But, you don't have to take our word for it. Put it up on eBay and see what you can get for it.

Why stop with just the adjacent bars? If a given high/low is above/below the adjacent bars it is, by definition, a local extrema. If you look at just the immediately adjacent bars the "strength" of your extrema is 1. By extension, an extreme point that's greater than 2 bars on either...

We're done, Sparky. I gave you a chance, and you passed so, move on and thank you for playing...

For those that think Sparky is da bomb, my regards. Otherwise, here's a site that takes their time to actually provide some quantitative performance, including system temperature. Here's one review for an HP Pavilion dv6-6008eg (note, it comes with an i7-2630QM)...

Oh, so you're saying I'm wrong? That trading software pushes your system just as hard as an FPS game does? Prove it. Until then, I stand by what I said; you don't have a clue what you're talking about.

It's a friggin' HP, you get what you pay for.

Well, there you go, you don't have a clue... The single largest source of heat in any modern desktop or laptop today is the GPU, not the CPU. I don't care what trading software you care to hang your hat on, none of them come close to driving a GPU the way a modern FPS game does. Heat is...

What you paid is less important than their true value, which doesn't seem to be all that much since you "gave up" on trading.