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  1. CardJoe

    CardJoe Freelance Journalist

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  2. Bauul

    Bauul Sir Bongaminge

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    Up next: Play Crysis with your PC turned off!
     
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  3. p3n

    p3n What's a Dremel?

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    bit torrent is so last year!
     
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  4. MajorTom

    MajorTom Minimodder

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    Yes there is no talk about bit torrent these days whatsoever.
     
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  5. TTmodder

    TTmodder Hammertime

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    that would require another pc
     
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  6. Psytek

    Psytek What's a Dremel?

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    Microsoft approves of bittorrent - woohoo
     
    Psytek, 27 Apr 2009
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  7. Blademrk

    Blademrk Why so serious?

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    Computer sleep? what's that? ;)

    Whenever I've used sleep mode (no mattter what build) It's always blue screened on wake up or shortly after. So sleep mode is always the first thing I disable on an install.
     
    Blademrk, 27 Apr 2009
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  8. Xir

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    ...I thought that's what Netbooks were for :D
     
    Xir, 27 Apr 2009
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  9. perplekks45

    perplekks45 LIKE AN ANIMAL!

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    Interesting but if I'm that desperate to download, I'll just leave my computer on to be honest.
     
    perplekks45, 27 Apr 2009
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  10. steveo_mcg

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    Biggest issue is cost, if its going to be >£80 (i just picked a number) your going to need to have some size gaming rig drawing many hundreds of watts to save any money for a good couple of years.
     
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  11. Jojii

    Jojii hardware freak

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    Money calculations aside, the savings on your ears when your trying to sleep and not having that wirr 24/7 of all your fans might be worth it for some people.
     
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  12. chrisb2e9

    chrisb2e9 Dont do that...

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    I agree with jojii, I leave my pc running and I am used to the fans but I have to turn it off if someone else is here. would be nice to have something like this.
     
    chrisb2e9, 27 Apr 2009
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  13. Cupboard

    Cupboard I'm not a modder.

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    Nice idea, but as far as cost savings go I think I have to agree with steveo_mcg and as far as noise goes, I would find it a lot less distracting to leave my computer on (which is a gentle whirring noise) than have it turn on periodically which makes a noise like it is about to take off as all the fans start up.
     
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  14. bigkingfun

    bigkingfun Tinkering addict

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    It will only be a matter of time before this will all be an IC, using the massive RAM space more and more people are getting.
    It will be on the spec. pages of mobos along with teaming, WOL etc...
     
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  15. HourBeforeDawn

    HourBeforeDawn a.k.a KazeModz

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    doesnt the Killer Nic M1 or whatever its called already do this by allowing your system to be in sleep mode and have a USB hard drive hooked up to it running a BT client on a linux type kernel? Also there are plenty of NAS unites that can do this as well.
     
    HourBeforeDawn, 28 Apr 2009
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  16. Zeus-Nolan

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    If i really want to download something i often use my phone (N95 8gb) and if its a torrent then i use symtorrent, i downloaded a trailer for star trek yesterday and pluged it into my ps3 and watched it with out having to dl from my pc :)
     
    Zeus-Nolan, 28 Apr 2009
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  17. UberTiger

    UberTiger What's a Dremel?

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    Is there a symtorrent equivalent for the iPhone? Sounds like a top idea.
     
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