We're back this week with another informative and fun edition of the weekly Forums Spotlight! This week in the Forums Spotlight we've highlighted discussions on Fan Air Flow, Drives On Separate IDE Channels, Counter-Strike Cheating, and networking an Entire neighbourhood!
The Forums Spotlight is a highlight of just a few of the new topics posted in the SharkyForums, where over ten-thousand enthusiastic computer users post daily for help or to discuss the latest trends and products.
Each week in the Forums Spotlight, we take several of the most popular, insightful, or even controversial threads and present them to you for easy digestion. Feel free to add your own thoughts (subtract the profanity, please) and help us multiply the reader participation here at Sharky Extreme (and you thought math was tough...). We've added links on each spotlight page so you can easily add your own comments and contribute to the debate! If your repartee strikes us as useful, humorous, or otherwise entertaining, it stands the distinct possibility of being featured next week.
Without further ado...
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Cases and Cooling: Fan Air Flow Physics In Case
For those of you think it is as easy as sticking a couple fans in and letting it go - think again! In this SharkyForums thread one reader questions the physics of the airflow within the case after adding some fans. For those curious about front-to-back airflow, air paths and more, be sure to stop by and check out this thread.
General Games Forum: EXCESSIVE Cheating On Counter-Strike
Cheating and cheaters in Counter-Strike is a hot topic amongst gamers, and one that certainly hasn't gone unnoticed in the SharkyForums. To find out more on the cheating, the lack of support (by Valve) for Punkbuster and the feelings from the CS community and players, drop by the forums and check out the discussion!
Highly Technical PC Forum: Memories of Memory. How Much, When?
The original Pentium pro offered an amazing 36-bit memory address and could address up to 64GB of RAM. Intel went back to 36-bit, but has now confirmed that the Itanium will use a 64-bit address scheme. In this SharkyForums, our readers discuss their thoughts on this kind of memory capacity, and debate if it will ever actually be used in a PC.
General Hardware: Drives On Separate IDE Channels
One of our forum members has a very good question indeed - "When it says to put the devices on separate ide channels, does that mean physically on separate ide channels?" Naturally some of the 'veterans' have a pretty good idea on what this means and is able to provide some authoritive responses.
Networks & Networking: Networking My Entire Neighbourhood
While some may dream of getting a four-player LAN set-up in their basement, SharkyForums member "J Silver" has his eyes set on a bigger fish - getting his entire neighbourhood networked! After years of promises and an Excite@Home bankruptcy, J Silver believed broadband would never make it to where he is. This fun and informative SharkyForums thread provides some thoughts; ideas and discussion on how J Silver could bring in the high-speed connect himself. Ambitious indeed!