I love James Randi. Here's his latest rant...

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/tag/james-randi/

What da ya think?

Don't we have some nice weather right now in England, I love the weather but when its nice like this I loose my TV and start getting French TV, makes a change but as I don't speak French I haven't got a clue what is going on.

So its actually very annoying, I pay the BBC for a TV licence but all I can get is French TV, personally I think there should be a rebate for people like me that only get TV for about half the year.

And France should use directional transmitters on the coast of France that point in land, like we do in the UK then they would not interfere with us in nice weather conditions.

This is the third track from the collection.

In this track I attempt to make a synthesizer sing.


Feel free to use it how you see fit.


Artist name: RonSuperJet

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Download:
http://www.datahopa.co.uk/forum/index.php?action=tpmod;dl=item21

An essential free tool for people that like to tweak their PC's, it can monitor temperatures and voltages and adjust the speed of the fans in your rig, enabling you to have a quieter PC under low load.

It can also be used as a plug-in for other applications such as ATI tray tools and windows 7 gadgets.

Speedfan as a plug-in for the All CPU monitor gadget, showing the CPU core temps on the desktop.




Speedfan has a nice way off sitting in the system tray.




Speedfan as a plug-in to ATI tray tools, bottom of the image, displaying the core temperatures, top line, while playing the game Juiced 2.




More info and download:
http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php

CPU-Z is a freeware that gathers information on some of the main devices of your system.

It comes in very handy for checking all those speeds and timings particularly if you are clocking or tweaking your PC.

http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php

Comprehensive tests for just about every part of your PC, you can also compare your results with the built in benchmarks, giving you a good idea on how your rig stacks up to others.

Want the free version? Look for lite.

http://www.sisoftware.net/?d=&f=downandbuy&l=en&a=

This utility is for ATI graphics cards only

ATI Tray Tools is a small utility that can be found in the windows system tray which then allows instant access to options and settings.

This tool can save you money too by underclocking the Radeons GPU and memory in normal windows use. On my system (HD4890) it reduces power consumption by 40 watts.

It can detect when a game or a 3D application is running and automatically clock up the speed of the card.

Alternatively you can make your own clock speeds and set them as hot keys, very useful, the phone might ring but you don't want to stop playing so you can underclock the card while still in the game and save power.


The onscreen display that can be seen when playing games is very handy for keeping an eye on temps, voltages, CPU and GPU load, FPS and more.

In short a powerful tool but can take a while to fully get your head around how it works.

There isn't a single page to download it from, but it can be found from the site below.


http://downloads.guru3d.com/Videocards----Overclocking-&-Tweaking_c13.html

EDIT:
Thought I would do a screen shot to help explain the OSD.

Here is a screen shot of ATI Tray Tools On Screen Display while I was playing the game Juiced 2. You can make it display quite a number of things but this is how I have it set-up

Quick explanation.

The top row of numbers is displaying the CPU core temperatures, using Speedfan as a plug-in.

The next line down shows, in this order.

GPU speed, Graphics memory speed, CPU load, GPU temperature, GPU load.

And finally, the frames per second.