Setup Help Needed

[dakang]

I got a new power supply for my computer a while back (350W) and a new case. The case came with 7 fans. I connected all the fans together and the harddrive to one of the fan power lines. So from the power supply the wires first go to the cd-rom and fans and then last to the hard drive. Does this matter what order I connect the wires to the power supply to (i.e. bigger things first)? Will this affect the performance of my harddrive? Thanks

 

[Scout]

I'm no electrical engineer, but why on earth would you not just have a PSU header go directly to your hard drive? With a 350 watt you should have an adequate number. At any rate, I expect it will work OK... but 7 fans are a lot!

Scout
700 Mflops in SETI!

 

[TheMASK]

700 Mflops in SETI!

cud u explain what score is this? is this a benchmark of some kind?

If it was not for <b><font color=red>C</font color=red></b>, we wud be using <b><font color=blue>BASI, PASAL & OBOL</font color=blue></b>
<b><A HREF="http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=959979" target="_new">3DMark 03 score - 297 </A> 😎 </b>

 

[sturm]

I would put the hard drives on one power lead, cd-roms on another, and put the fans on their own power leads. Dont want to take a chance of overloading the one power connector. Plus it will make easier to keep the wires neat and tidy for good airflow.

 

[Scout]

MFlops stands for "millions of floating point operations" per second and it's a measure of the calculating horsepower of your computer. My 700 score was at one time I had several machines working on SETI and they added up to 700 MFlops on average. I use a program called SETI SPY to see how fast my rigs are going on SETI and it gives the MFlops number. Now on a single machine, I can just about get 400 MFlops average on my single nForce2 machine... so things have gotten a bit faster since I made that signature line.

Plus, now-a-days I have most of my computers working on the United Devices (Grid.org) distributed computing project.

Scout
700 Mflops in SETI!

 

[TheMASK]

Hey, i am running SETI on my home computer too. so i was wondering how to measure MFlops. u mentioned SETI Spy, u know where i cud get it? i think i'll search, but in case u know where u got that from, let me know.

Typically, it takes less than 4 hour on my comp to complete one "data Unit" from SETI.

<b>thinking of a good sig. till then...</b>

 

[Scout]

Here is the link... works great for me!

http://cox-internet.com/setispy/

Scout
700 Mflops in SETI!