I have succeeded in filling all of my PCI slots !

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2004-03-12 07:53pm

Just set up dual monitors, and therefore added an old PCI ATI Rage Pro. The occupants of the other slots are an offboard harddrive controller, a NIC and a soundcard.

The dual monitor setup actually sucks, since my second monitor is only 800x600, which makes it useless for most anything.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2004-03-12 08:34pm

Useless? I beg to differ. I imagine that second monitor would be great for video/audio playback, or as a nice place to keep your IM windows.

Embracer Of Darkness · Post by **Embracer Of Darkness** » 2004-03-12 08:42pm

Play a Winamp visualisation on it constantly in full screen and trip all your pets out!

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2004-03-12 08:46pm

Embracer Of Darkness wrote:Play a Winamp visualisation on it constantly in full screen and trip all your pets out!

Be careful, they may begin to want to become people, and start stealing your body parts in your sleep.

And a dual monitor setup is great if you do programming or graphics work too.

Comosicus · Post by **Comosicus** » 2004-03-12 08:52pm

I'm using only 800x600 and I got used to it (my monitor can offer only 60Hz in 1024x758). There are a lot of things that don't require a big resolution.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2004-03-12 11:52pm

Well I'm currently using it to hold IM windows, and an SSH session. The lines that drift across the screen due to poor shielding is annoying though... also all that radiation probably isn't good for my health.

Also, I'm running my main monitor @60Hz at 1280x1024. I would think having a low resolution would be more annoying than low refresh rate.

There's lot's of things that don't require a high resolution, but for me there's a minimum comfort level.

Did I mention the 2nd monitor is from an IBM PS/1 and is probably over a decade old and the colors are "a bit" off?

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2004-03-13 12:22am

Pu-239 wrote:Well I'm currently using it to hold IM windows, and an SSH session. The lines that drift across the screen due to poor shielding is annoying though... also all that radiation probably isn't good for my health.

There is no measurable ionizing radiation from a computer monitor. The Ontario Hydro health and safety department put sensitive environmental ionizing radiation sensors all over a computer monitor more than 10 years ago and didn't read a blip. I know; I was part of that department at the time. The correlation of health problems to long-term "exposure" to computer monitors probably has more to do with sitting on your ass in front of a computer all day than any kind of mystical unmeasurable radiation.

Also, I'm running my main monitor @60Hz at 1280x1024. I would think having a low resolution would be more annoying than low refresh rate.

There's lot's of things that don't require a high resolution, but for me there's a minimum comfort level.

Did I mention the 2nd monitor is from an IBM PS/1 and is probably over a decade old and the colors are "a bit" off?

Did I mention that the title of this thread is perhaps the geekiest thing I've ever seen?

sketerpot · Post by **sketerpot** » 2004-03-13 04:41pm

Darth Wong wrote: There is no measurable ionizing radiation from a computer monitor. The Ontario Hydro health and safety department put sensitive environmental ionizing radiation sensors all over a computer monitor more than 10 years ago and didn't read a blip. I know; I was part of that department at the time. The correlation of health problems to long-term "exposure" to computer monitors probably has more to do with sitting on your ass in front of a computer all day than any kind of mystical unmeasurable radiation.

That's comforting, since I walk around a lot but also spend a good amount of time in front of a computer monitor. It's also refreshing, considering the type of rhetoric I normally see:

http://www.emr.bc.ca/health.html wrote:All electrical equipment, from house wiring to cellular phones and computers,
emits electromagnetic radiation (EMR). There is growing public concern about
the health effects of EMR exposure and a wide range of diseases. This list
includes headaches, depression, neurological damage, Alzheimer's and Cancer.
Every day we are unknowingly exposed, in the workplace and at home, to harmful
levels of EMR which studies show increase the risk of Cancer. In spite of this, Health
Canada has not created regulations against citizens being exposed to dangerous levels
of EMR. To understand why we are not protected against this form of radiation, one
must comprehend the relative omnipotence of the global Electrical Industry and it's
supporting ideology of corporatism.

Then again, I should probably consider the possibility that you're just a pawn of the near-omnipotent Electrical Industry and the ideology of corporatism.

Glocksman · Post by **Glocksman** » 2004-03-13 11:24pm

And to think I went from a full set of PCI slots to only one.

I went from having a soundcard, 2 NIC's, modem, and SCSI card on my old board to having just a Promise IDE card on my current board (Asus A7N8X Deluxe).

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-03-13 11:27pm

Hrm. Home fileserver...

AGP: TNT2 M64
PCI0: ATA66 Controller
PCI1: ATA100 Controller
PCI2: UltraSCSI Controller
PCI3: 10/100 NIC
PCI4: Empty.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2004-03-13 11:28pm

At the rate I'm filling my case up, I'm going to have to get a second IDE card... either that, or use the Promise RAID IDE controller on my A7V8X board as a regular IDE (if that's possible).

Damnit, it's like I can never have enough drives... (currently: 3 HDDs, 1 CD-RW, 1 3.5" floppy, 1 5.25" floppy)

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-03-14 04:32pm

Crayz9000 wrote:At the rate I'm filling my case up, I'm going to have to get a second IDE card... either that, or use the Promise RAID IDE controller on my A7V8X board as a regular IDE (if that's possible).

You should be able to do that.

Xon · Post by **Xon** » 2004-03-14 05:22pm

Darth Wong wrote:Did I mention that the title of this thread is perhaps the geekiest thing I've ever seen?

Saddly this isnt nearly the geekiest thing I've seen as a title.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-03-14 05:46pm

would this be worse than or better than the 2309 bloodwyne title in PST?

Post by **AdmiralKanos** » 2004-03-14 05:52pm

sketerpot wrote:That's comforting, since I walk around a lot but also spend a good amount of time in front of a computer monitor. It's also refreshing, considering the type of rhetoric I normally see:
http://www.emr.bc.ca/health.html wrote:All electrical equipment, from house wiring to cellular phones and computers,
emits electromagnetic radiation (EMR). There is growing public concern about
the health effects of EMR exposure and a wide range of diseases. This list
includes headaches, depression, neurological damage, Alzheimer's and Cancer.
Every day we are unknowingly exposed, in the workplace and at home, to harmful
levels of EMR which studies show increase the risk of Cancer. In spite of this, Health
Canada has not created regulations against citizens being exposed to dangerous levels
of EMR. To understand why we are not protected against this form of radiation, one
must comprehend the relative omnipotence of the global Electrical Industry and it's
supporting ideology of corporatism.
Then again, I should probably consider the possibility that you're just a pawn of the near-omnipotent Electrical Industry and the ideology of corporatism.

Those people are idiots. Do you notice how they don't bother differentiating between ionizing and non-ionizing EMR? Computer monitors do not emit measurable ionizing radiation, but they do emit EMR. However, the same can be said of a flashlight, a candle, or even objects such as desks and pencils, not to mention your own body, in the infrared spectrum. Ionizing radiation is known to cause cancer, but only an imbecile would assume that ionizing and non-ionizing EMR can be equated.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2004-03-15 04:08pm

AdmiralKanos wrote:Those people are idiots. Do you notice how they don't bother differentiating between ionizing and non-ionizing EMR? Computer monitors do not emit measurable ionizing radiation, but they do emit EMR. However, the same can be said of a flashlight, a candle, or even objects such as desks and pencils, not to mention your own body, in the infrared spectrum. Ionizing radiation is known to cause cancer, but only an imbecile would assume that ionizing and non-ionizing EMR can be equated.

Not to mention that anything in your house doesn't put out anything close to what our own planet puts out everyday....unless you're Hyperion.

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2004-03-15 10:15pm

Or me. You'd be suprised the ammount of emr my personal m/am reactor.