Oh and get one of these or one of it's brother or sisters

http://www.artic-cooling.com/pc_case2.php?idx=117

not only can you hear yourself think it has a great PSU from Seasonic in there the important points being

* Excellent Efficiency of up to 80%
- Low heat generation
- Lower energy consumption
- Lowest electricity costs
* Active PFC
- Apparent power = real power
- No additional power bill cost because of higher apparent power consumption




(One day I'll get that sponsorship deal from the Arctic Cooling gang )

All my Fans are Arctic Cooling - to be recommended

Dave

Well..... I know I'm probably going to get flamed for this, but I'm going to say it anyway, because it's true.

- If there were only 0.1 billion humans (instead of 6 billion), the environmental problems would not exist. Fewer humans == less pollution == no need to worry about scarcity of resources & damage to the earth.

If today's world was the same population as 0 A.D., we'd not have smog.

Well you see, this is the part that I dispute. Why? Because a PC that is sitting idle will "throttle down" and use less energy.

It would be the (rough) equivalent of slowing-down your car to 45. Yeah sure, you could redline the engine and "use the spare horses" at 110 mph, but why would you want to? You'll reduce your energy expenditure if you throttle down.

WCG runs my PC at 50.
I'd prefer to let my PC sit idling at 5,
and save some energy (and make my room cooler too).

But you are using what as a benchmark?
I'll bet your P4 or duocore is drawing no more power than a 486 CPU did.
With advances in HDDs, even with the huge sizes, they now draw less power than the 20MB HDD I paid $1000 for years ago.
Unless you are leaving the monitor or other periphiels on; you should be using less energy with a modern box than any of the older ones... and doing 10x the crunching.

So where should we start in reducing the population?
Euthanasia?
Who will volunteer their parents/grandparents to be first?
How many in your family would be willing to have their children (or themselves) sterilized to help reduce the population explosion?

Humans are not an endangered species, true. We in the western U.S. now have CHINESE smog.

BTW, there was no 0 A.D. Years went directly from -1 B.C. to 1 A.D. (conveniently calculated without the use of zero after the fact sometime after 525 A.D.) Grabbing off chunks of 100 years means that the current century started in 2001, not 2000.

If the population were not "1" in 4004 BC and "2" shortly thereafter, look after the eruption of Mount Toba in Sumatra 71,000 years ago for a population bottleneck --- with a 6 year worldwide volcanic winter and the coldest 1,000 years of the ice age. Perhaps only 15,000 to 40,000 people survived.

A 0.5GHz machine here is still barely crunching. I *DID* transmogrify a 1.7GHz Dell into into a 2.0GHz AMD machine, which was further overclocked to 2.4GHz for crunching.