Computer Jargon

[Madaz]

thats correct it was a EOI to see who might be interested

[Cubes]

lol yes it was EOI.

And there is plenty of it.

The back room here just isn't ready yet.. I've got exams on so I'll get my arse in to gear and rig up some secure tables that span around the room.

Power is the next issue.. Unsure if a single 15amp feed out to the back room that also powers lights to be sufficient. :S

[Madaz]

got extension cable and rig it from the neighbours house

who said that

[Pauly33GTS-t]

yeh, should be ok, i mean, 6 computers with monitors no problem, 7-8 pushing it, id think about getting a long extension cord from another section of the house to power any more than another 4. 12-16 people is the sweet spot in numbers anyway, less its boring after a while and more its to much trouble. get every1 to pay around 15-20 bux for power and food/drink for the day and BYO alco.

[Madaz]

BYO alco

but wont he want to drink every ones drinks

[Nozila]

does anyone have any recovery disk for a toshiba a10 ??

[Whiplash]

any update on the LAN dates?

[Cubes]

It realistically won't happen until after xmas..

I've got exams on at the moment and then I have to place secure benches around the back room, sort out power issues etc..

So it all takes time and coin.

[Whiplash]

ahh good i have to upgrade the PC so that will give me some time to save up the pennies

[Cubes]

In the mean time if any one runs in to a sparky ask him how many pc's he thinks its safe to run off each power point. i.e power boards. :S

I've got 6 dual outlets in the same room.

Obviously we will need a pair of headphones each also.

[Rolls]

Well a power board can supply what 2400 watts can't it 240x10 and your average computer would use ~350W tops and a 17" LCD uses ~40w so that works out to roughly 6 PCs.

I may be completely wrong though

[Nightcrawler]

yeah I would have thought 6 PCs per power 'zone' .... normally you would have 1 zone per section of the house (most houses have 3 zones), and likely all of the 6 power points in your rumpus room would be on the same zone. So what you do is run an extension cord from the complete other end of your house, so you get 2 zones of power to use.

When we built our house I got the sparkies to put 3 different zones to my rumpus room for this exact purpose .... then I went and ruined a perfectly good LAN room by putting my beautiful pool table right in the middle of it .... I also have 3 zones of power in my office for the large number of electrical devices I run in here too

[Bl4cK32]

Well a power board can supply what 2400 watts can't it 240x10 and your average computer would use ~350W tops and a 17" LCD uses ~40w so that works out to roughly 6 PCs.

I may be completely wrong though

my pc uses 3 case fans, the psu fan running, watercooling pump, and 2 external fans on the radiator. The psu is a 550W antec jobbie + a 20" widescreen, so a couple more newer pcs would blow the power usage right up...

Edited November 18, 2006 by Bl4cK32

[Rolls]

550w is the max power it can supply though, it wont be using this much most of the time, average is going to be a fair bit lower, thats why I quoted ~350w. But yeah the fans etc would raise it a bit.

[Bl4cK32]

we're not talking averages though...gaming is flat stick on gpu, cpu and fans...

[Whiplash]

Hey Madaz,

this is the stuff that i am doing. At the moment this is only 69000 polys and my computer is starting to struggle with it.

i'm not sure if its only my video card that need up grading or more

I have a gig of ram which helps, The video card is only a 128mb ati radeon 9600.

got a 2.6ghz cpu

any suggestions?

[Nozila]

doing a computer course their mate?

i remember seeing my gf do something like this but it was computer animation using a program called maya which required to peform at its best at 3ghz with 2gb ram

[Whiplash]

No mate, starting to do it proffesionally (paid woohoo) now and just need a bit more power to help run smooth. The model in the pics is only 60pixels long I just need something that will stop it running jerky when doing the fine details

[Madaz]

looking good there mate generally anything above a 3ghz with 256mb gfx should do the trick

[pixel8r]

With regards to how many pcs you can run off one powerpoint, wouldn't that have something to do with how many amps each is pulling? Powerboards usually have a 10A fuse, regardless of how many outlets...

Is it possible to measure how many amps an average high-spec'd pc draws and use that to work out how many could be run safely off a single powerboard etc? I presume powerpoints themselves also have a limit to how many amps they can provide? dont know enough about the electrical side of things to go any deeper into it.

its also worth noting that a 350w power supply means 350w MAXIMUM (or "safe" maximum? before its likely to fail). It would normally run well below this amount, obviously depending on how much of the system you're using at any one time. I think the biggest power drawers are your video/tv cards and drives...from memory (used to be a tech years ago).

plus I only have 2 pc's (running off separate powerpoints) so no problems at all.

good luck with the "lan party"