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Micah: Because Laura may be walking the plank, this is MuggleCast Episode 133 for February 23rd, 2008.
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Andrew: So last week we got a few complaints that we only had three people on the show, and nobody is appreciative anymore of the hard effort we put into MuggleCast these days anymore. So, we said, "You know what? Okay. All right, you listeners are cranky, you're bugging, you want more." This week, we've got six people on the show, and a new host.
Laura: Ooo.
Elysa: Hello.
Andrew: I would like to welcome on behalf of everyone, Elysa Montfort to the show. Round of applause.
Elysa: Hey, guys!
Laura: Yay!
Andrew: Now Elysa has connections to MuggleNet. You...
Matt: She's a girl.
Andrew: What do you do, Elysa?
Elysa: I'm [laughs] True that.
Andrew: She's a girl, too. Imagine that, yeah.
Elysa: I'm one of the Head Moderators for MuggleNet Fan Fiction.
Andrew: Sweet. MuggleNet Fan Fiction has been around for what?
Elysa: Oh God. Three and a half years. Yeah.
Andrew: Wow.
Elysa: It began in October, 2004.
Andrew: Ha. Wow.
Eric: Newbie.
[Andrew and Elysa laugh]
Laura: Shut up, Eric.
[Everyone laughs]
Eric: Five and one quarter years here. Yeah.
Andrew: So, Elysa, we are very excited to have you on. You're a friend of all of ours.
Elysa: Thank you. Thanks.
Andrew: Are you excited? You said you were a little nervous.
Elysa: I was a little nervous at first, but I think I'm good. I mean, yeah. I'm pretty comfortable now.
Andrew: Okay, good. All right, we're confident you are going to be a good on the show. I'm Andrew Sims.
Eric: I'm Eric Scull.
Laura: I'm Laura Thompson.
Micah: I'm Micah Tannenbaum.
Matt: [Automated voice] I'm Matt Britton.
Elysa: [laughs] And I'm Elysa Montfort.
Andrew: Micah Tannenbaum's in the MuggleCast News Center with this week's top Harry Potter news stories. Hey, Micah.
Micah: All right, thanks, Andrew. As if anyone needed to tell us this, MTV published an article on Friday about research concluding that the Harry Potter series can in fact be addicting. The story notes:
In a just-finished study that's being submitted to the Journal of General Psychology, Psych professor Dr. Jeffrey Rudski and two of his undergrad students at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, report that they found characteristics of addiction in at least ten percent of the 4,000 Potter fans they polled online.
While the doctor discusses that the end of the series did have serious withdrawal symptoms for some, likening it to going off a drug "cold turkey," he also said he chose to do the study on the end of the boy wizard's saga over the conclusion of the hit series The Sopranos, because of his 15-year old daughter and the things she's taken from it:
"She's picked up guitar because she wants to be in a wizard rock band," he said. "She's studying Latin because she wants to better understand J.K. Rowling's choices of names for her characters. She started reading Stephen King and John Irving because they spoke with Rowling at Radio City two summers ago." If that's being an addict, he's down with it.
David Barron has revealed to the Herald Sun that a new scene has been added to the upcoming Half-Blood Prince film in order to remind moviegoers that nowhere is safe. Having J.K. Rowling's approval of the scene, Barron is confident that people will like it. He says:
"But this was brought in because Jo [Rowling] was able throughout the quite lengthy book to keep dropping little snippets of what was happening in the outside world. There'd be people reading newspapers and talking about how somebody's parents had been killed, or somebody had been withdrawn from school because their parents didn't think it was safe. And we're making aware that the Muggle world is also experiencing these disasters, but thinks they are disasters rather than the work of Voldemort. The book is peppered with those moments, but we couldn't do that quite so easily in the film. So the extra scene comes in the middle of the film and it just reminds us the world is no longer a safe place. Even in what would normally be considered the safe haven of the Burrow, nobody's safe."
Lois Lowry, a children's book writer, has updated her online blog with information about The Giver movie. She had hoped Order of the Phoenix and Half-Blood Prince director David Yates would be able to direct The Giver. However, he has just decided he wants to do the final Harry Potter first, thereby postponing The Giver by several years. While this is not confirmed by Warner Brothers yet, it appears to be a pretty reliable source.
And a new MTV Movies blog entry comments on the Deathly Hallows rumors. MTV says that a source at Warner Brothers told them an announcement was coming within the next week or two, but we've learned that MTV may have not been told this at all.
Finally, reports have emerged online that two new actors have been cast forHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. David Legeno will play the role of the werewolf Fenrir Greyback, and Ralph Ineson has been cast for the part of Death Eater Amycus Carrow.
That's all the news for this February 23rd, 2008 edition of MuggleCast. Back to the show.
Andrew: Okay, thank you, Micah.
Micah: You're welcome, Andrew.
Andrew: You want to do a little competition this week, you were saying?
Micah: Yeah, I'm feeling in a giving mood this week. So I figured what better way than to give somebody out there a chance to read the news on MuggleCast? And the way we're going to run this little competition is anybody out there who listens to the show, send in a thirty second spot to mugglecastnews at gmail dot com. And what we're going to do is we're going to go through and we're going to pick out the top five, and then on next week's show we're going to play the top five. And we'll put up a poll on MuggleCast.com, and all the fans can vote to see who they think is the top news anchor there. And the following week we'll have that person on the show to record the news, and that's it.
Andrew: Cool, cool. That's a great idea. I think everyone will enjoy that.
Eric: I have to say it's one of the most innovative, I think, competitions we've had here on the show.
Matt: Yeah.
Eric: I think it's great. It's also, you know, competition is always welcome, but I'm thinking this late in the game, we haven't had one of those for awhile, and this is just a brand new idea. It's shaking things up. I like it.
Andrew: Yup.
Micah: So that'll be, what, Episode 135?
Andrew: Yeah. That sounds right.
Micah: We'll play the news for whoever wins, and hopefully it's a good competition.
Andrew: Yeah. Can I enter? Can any of us enter?
Laura: Do you really want to do that much extra work? I mean, isn't that kind of what Micah's trying to do anyway? He's trying to get a week off the news?
Andrew: That's true, that's true.
Eric: Well, he'll still have to script it, won't he? Or will these people be in charge of scripting and...
Micah: No, it's their whole responsibility.
Andrew: They do it all? They have the MuggleCast News Center for the weekend?
Micah: They do.
Eric: Cool.
Micah: It's all theirs.
Laura: They get to go to Micah's house.
Andrew: All expenses paid.
Eric: He'll lock you in his basement.
Andrew: Except for flight, hotel, car...
Eric: Yeah. Oh, I'm sorry, I mean the transcript dungeon. He'll lock you down there.
Andrew: Speaking of news, a couple new developments this week involving the movies. Firstly, reliable source reveals David Yates is directing Deathly Hallows. This is a little leak that I'm sure Warner Brothers is not very happy about. Lois Lowry, a children's book writer, updated her blog online with information about The Giver movie. She has a book called The Giver. Has anyone read it?
Laura: Yes, and it's so good.
Elysa: I love that book.
Laura: Oh my gosh, yeah.
Andrew: Would it be a good movie?
Laura: If they do it right, yeah.
Elysa: Yeah.
Andrew: Would David Yates be a good director?
Laura: Yes. Absolutely. I think he would be, but it doesn't look like he's going to get to.
Andrew: Well, not yet. She updated her blog and said that David Yates has just "decided he wants to do the final Harry Potter film first, thereby postponing The Giver by several years." That's an exact quote. So this is the nail in the coffin, if you ask me, in terms of director rumors. Right?
Matt: Yeah. Well, it is kind of, but it's not totally official or anything. I mean, heck, I decided I want to do the final Harry Potter movie, but you don't see it being official for me, either.
Andrew: Right. Well, what I'm saying is it looks like Lois Lowry and David Yates talked to each other a few times, because apparently David Yates has planed on doing The Giver, but in my head, I see a phone conversation going down where they're calling each other up, whether it's on Skype or, you know, they got their numbers through Facebook or whatever.
[Eric laughs]
Andrew: And they're calling each other up and David Yates is like, "Sorry, Lois. I mean, I'm going to do the Potter film first."
Eric: And then she proceeded to de-friend him on Facebook.
Andrew: Yes.
Eric: She wrote a nasty note about him, tagged him in it, and then de-friended him, because all of them have Facebook. But no, I think this is pretty reliable source. To be honest, though, I'm relieved, because obviously it is reliable because he was going to adapt her book, she's a respectable author. And I would jump the gun. I would take this as official, or at least I would be very relieved because, to be honest, I think David Yates is very capable, and I'm really relieved if this is true. If he's doing the seventh movie, I'm really happy with that.
Andrew: Elysa and Laura, what is this book about, The Giver? Just out of curiosity.
Laura: Well, I read it in like eighth grade, and it's basically - Elysa can probably give a better summary of it than I can, but it's about a world in which people are assigned their working roles. Like certain women are assigned as birth mothers, and you're assigned to work at a specific area, and you're assigned a family unit. And in this, one boy is assigned the role of being the Giver, and he can see in color, when no one else can see in color, and he just has all this knowledge that no one else has, and it's a very, very tragic story. Really, really sad, but really good.
Elysa: Yeah, yeah. The premise of it is sort of that humans aren't capable of handling all the emotions and senses that come with being human, which, like Laura said, includes seeing in color, but also hearing certain things, and other things like that, and so there's only one person in this society at any given time that experiences all these emotions, including emotions like love, and even laughter and hatred, and the Giver is the only one who's capable of doing that. And so every time the Giver sort of retires, a new Giver is chosen. And so the story is following this one boy who is chosen to be the next Giver, but just his trials and tribulations and whatnot. It has a really awesome ending, but I'd be excited to see the movie.
Andrew: Well, cool.
Matt: Sounds like fun.
Andrew: It's too bad we're going to have to wait four or five years now.
Laura: Yeah. [laughs]
Andrew: Probably longer.
Matt: Ten or twelve.
[Elysa laughs]
Eric: David Yates is blowing her off here.
Andrew: Yeah.
Matt: Well, is he still directing it or are they going to choose a different director?
Eric: Well, they could do that, too, but I think I would want David Yates. I think it's worth waiting a few years if he had really sort of committed to do it, maybe.
Andrew: Yeah.
Eric: I mean, I think the author has said, well, it'll be delayed a few years.
Andrew: Right.
Eric: 'Cause I think she really wants him to...
Andrew: Right, that's how it seems. That's the impression I got, Eric, just that...
Matt: Well, they seem to have a pretty good relationship between each other.
Andrew: Exactly. So.
Elysa: Well, since he'll probably be directing the next Spiderwick Chronicles movie I'm sure he'll be busy for the next ten years, too.
[Laura laughs]
Andrew: Uh, Elysa, you can go on your Spiderwick spiel slash jokes in a second, they're very funny.
Matt: Rant. Yes. Please do it.
Micah: So, Andrew.
Andrew: Yes?
Micah: The question begs, if you were a betting man, would you say that David Yates will be directing Deathly Hallows?
Andrew: If I was a - Micah, I wouldn't be a betting man in this situation.
Micah: Awww.
Matt: He'd be a cheating man.
Andrew: My betting skills are not on par for this news item. However, another item that we're going to discuss in a second I can be the betting man. But another story that came out the following day was - well, MTV picked this up and went to Warner Brothers asking for confirmation, and MTV quotes Warner Brothers as saying an announcement should be coming in one to two weeks about the director, and I would assume at this point it seems like they're going to make the director and movie split announcement at the same time, right?
Laura: Yeah.
Andrew: I mean, 'cause both of these stories are floating around...
Eric: Yeah.
Andrew: ...and, you know, we heard the director split announcement is going to come in the not too distant future, and this now is in one to two weeks so it seems like, you know.
Micah: It would make sense.
Andrew: It would.
Eric: I find that very interesting.
Andrew: Yeah, this is - frankly, I'm very intrigued by all these, you know, developments and rumors going around. So apparently we're going to be seeing official word about this within one to two weeks.
Matt: You think so?
Andrew: [laughs] MTV thinks so. However, when I went to Warner Brothers and asked if this was true, one to two weeks, I heard that they told MTV they cannot confirm or deny. So, you know, whatever. It's a guessing game.
Eric: Well, I think the bubble is ready to burst.
Andrew: Yeah, exactly.
Eric: You know, either way. I think it's just so many - I mean, how long has this rumor been going around unconfirmed or un-denied by Warner Brothers about splitting Book 7 into two movies?
Andrew: Right. It's been a while.
Matt: At least a week.
Eric: [laughs] Since I last podcasted.
Andrew: Yeah. And then we found out Thursday that a new scene, a brand new scene, was going to be added to Half-Blood Prince. And what do you guys think of this? I mean, this is interesting, this is the first time Warner Brothers has actually ever added a scene.
Eric: Oh, I wouldn't say it's the first time.
Andrew: Oh, it's the first time.
Eric: I can't - Well, it's the first time they've actually...
Andrew: A major scene.
Eric: Well yeah, a substantial - I think a substantial enough thing where they had to go to Jo about it and say, well. But listen for their reason for doing it. I mean, when we had seen David Yates' - there was a David Yates interview, it was audio only, where he was talking about how he was going to make Book 6 into a really sort of teenage film about the romance, and here they are saying that the book has all these moments about showing what's going on in the outside world that we couldn't do that easily, didn't really translate that well to film, so they've written this scene to, you know, make up for it. I think that's a novel idea. I would love to see whatever scene they have to offer.
Micah: Well, the problem I have with this is that to me, this says that they're cutting out chapter one from Deathly Hallows. Not Deathly Hallows, Half Blood Prince.
Matt: It does look that way. Well, didn't they say that, Micah?
Eric: You did hit the nail on the head there, Micah.
Micah: No, no, they don't...
Andrew: They said this is going to be in the middle of the film.
Micah: They don't say that, they say this is in the middle of the film, which leads me to believe that the, you know, the whole scene with the Muggle Prime Minister, and Scrimgeour, and Fudge is going to be cut and essentially replaced by this scene that they're making to show what exactly is taking place in the Muggle world.
Eric: Though to be terribly honest, if you think about it, the fun in the first chapter is more sort of what has happened in the past, because not only are we getting with the Prime Minister - what's happening with the Prime Minister now, but remember she then goes in that chapter of Book 6 back to sort of all the previous times that Fudge had visited the Muggle Prime Minister, which, you know, was to tell Sirius Black escaped, that sort of thing. So she was able to do sort of several visitations of the two Ministers in that chapter, and that really, I guess, wouldn't translate well to film. Especially in the beginning of the film people would be lost.
Andrew: But wait, who's to say that...
Micah: Well, no.
Andrew: Who's to say that this new scene is involving the outside world?
Micah: He says it. He said, "we're making aware that the Muggle world is also experiencing these disasters, but thinks they are disasters rather than the work of Voldemort." So...
Eric: Yeah, yeah.
Andrew: I have to read this.
Micah: Those are his words. Those are David Barron's words.
Eric: Yeah, and then he says, "the book is peppered with those moments but we couldn't do that quite so easily in the film, so the extra scene comes in the middle of the film and it just reminds us that the world is no longer a safe place. Even in what normally would be considered the safe haven of the Burrow," you know.
Micah: Well, they could have done it quite easily if they just followed the first chapter of the book.
Matt: Yeah, but that would've been too easy.
Eric: Right especially - well, especially talking about the bridge collapse and all those kinds of things, they could have done that.
Andrew: I don't know.
Laura: Elysa, you have pretty strong opinions on how the movies should be directed. What do you think of this?
Elysa: Oh man, I mean, honestly, we're not going to know if it works or not until we see it, but I sort of think that the whole premise of it trying to make up for other areas that they can't portray - I think that's a little - I don't know. I'm not quite sure that I buy that. Because, I mean, a lot of the things that were in the books that were showing what was going on outside in the Muggle world were the Daily Prophet, the newspapers, and then of course Harry seeing names that he recognized in these articles and stuff. And they've used the Daily Prophet - I mean just in the last movie, you saw a bunch of newspaper articles coming up on the screen, and they used that last time. I don't know why they couldn't use...
Eric: It gets old.
Elysa: ...it this time as well.
Andrew: Because I didn't like it.
Elysa: I mean. [laughs]
Laura: I thought it was awesome.
Eric: Andrew Sims, see he was on set.
Elysa: [laughs] Okay, fair enough.
Eric: This is the whole story behind the additional scene. Andrew Sims went on set, and they were talking about using that to pass time...
Andrew: I said no.
Eric: ...and Andrew says...
Andrew: No, no. I said no.
Eric: ...No, I didn't like that in movie five, dudes, you're just going to have to write another scene. J.K.R. will approve it.
Andrew: But wait, we're missing one huge thing here. He says - David Baron says, "even in what would normally be considered the safe haven of the Burrow, nobody is safe." I think this scene happens in the Burrow.
Eric: Has to do something with the Burrow, which is what I thought he was alluding to just now.
Andrew: I think it happens in the Burrow, I don't think it has anything to do with the outside world.
Laura: But...
Andrew: I think the purpose of this scene is to just show nobody's safe, but the scene's going to be in the wizarding world.
Eric: Quit picking on the Weasleys.
Andrew: I don't know. I don't know. I'm just a betting man. I don't know.
Eric: Yeah, but if something happens to the Weasleys, it doesn't really emphasize the danger in the Muggle world.
Andrew: Right, but what if you're just reading into it too hard and it has nothing to do with the Muggle world?
Micah: He said it does.
Eric: That's exactly the whole...
Andrew: No, he doesn't say it does. He just says Jo's scenes show what happened in the Muggle world.
Eric: Yeah, and we weren't able to portray that, so we wrote this scene. So if this scene doesn't really make up for that, then it's just a crap-added scene and I'll be very upset. Anyway...
Matt: He does tend to make his own scenes though, too. Because what he did in Order of the Phoenix when he wanted to make a chase through London with the flight of the Order. When...
Eric: Yeah, that was potentially hazardous to the... [laughs] Yeah.
Matt: It was stupid was what it was.
Eric: Yeah.
Matt: I'm sorry.
Eric: But I liked the rest of the movie. I did like so much of the rest of the movie. I completely see past the whole non-invisible people flying through London. Though, to be fair, if they weren't visible, you couldn't watch them flying through London.
Andrew: It was just a cool, fast-paced scene. I mean, they didn't feel like explaining why they were all visible.
Matt: Yeah, I know.
Eric: But you're right. It was bad.
Micah: Who knows, maybe chapter one will be in there, but when I read it for the first time, that was what I thought of. I thought that they were essentially creating their own scene to replace the Muggle and the wizard Prime Minister meeting.
Eric: The Other Minister. Do you know what else - and this is just my final thought on it - is that we're kind of complaining that they aren't getting the first chapter, and I agree with that, and that's a problem for me, but wait a minute. I kind of like the idea, if you can't do it right don't do it, in a way. I like that, and I like the idea that we're going to still have some really good scenes in the books that were never translated to film. I agree that the film should be accurate representations of the books, but there are some things that are always going to be better read, and I think maybe chapter one of Book 6 will be one of those moments where it's just you love reading the book even though there's a movie out to supplement.
Matt: I kind of agree with Eric.
Elysa: Yeah, I don't really think that inventing a completely new scene is that big of a deal if it's just portraying what we already know is happening in the books anyway. It's not like they're inventing huge major plot points. They're not saying Aberforth was the Giant Squid in animagus form or something. They're not like putting something completely random in there.
Eric: But if he were, can you imagine a giant squid and goat.
Elysa: [laughs] Wow. No, actually. I can't. I'm sorry. [laughs]
Matt: Gross.
Eric: Well, you said it.
Andrew: Um, yeah.
Eric: So you're a fan-fic editor. Have you never read that before?
Elysa: Oh, you would be...
Eric: Have you never read...
Laura: Oh my gosh, Elysa...
Elysa: Oh, my God. You would be terrified with the things I've read. Let me put it to you this way, okay? There are - inanimate objects do not go well in NC17 fics.
[Andrew laughs]
Eric: Like turkey legs? I remember reading that one.
Elysa: Like turkey legs, no. Turkey legs, McGonagall do not match up. I will...
Eric: The turkey leg always happens to stand out, doesn't it? We have to cut all of that out.
[Matt and Micah laugh]
Eric: Okay, I'm sorry for all your non-virgin eyes and ears.
Eric: I'm sorry, but I just figured that - well, you said the Giant Squid thing, and I just thought that you'd read that somewhere.
Elysa: No, actually, though, I have read plenty of Giant Squid and Tonks. I'm not kidding.
Laura: Do you remember that one that was Giant Squid and Ron?
Elysa: Yes.
Elysa: That was terrible.
Laura: Oh, my gosh. It was so disturbing.
Elysa: You'd be surprised how creative these people get. Like Tonks and Giant Squid. Obviously, we do not accept that on MuggleNet, but...
Elysa: ...you'd be surprised if you go and Google that. I'm not suggesting this. I mean, beware, but...
Eric: So don't Google it.
Elysa: No, don't, but you'd be surprised at how many people write that kind of stuff.
Eric: Well, 'shipping anything with Giant Squid really brings a whole new meaning to sucking face.
Laura: Oh God, Eric.
Elysa: Oh, wow.
Andrew: We're interested to hear all the listeners' feedback about the new scene. Personally, I think it's going to be at the Burrow, but I don't know. Betting man? I don't know. Whatever.
Andrew: So Spiderwick Chronicles came out this week as well. Actually, last week. And we wanted to do a little movie review. Laura, Elysa, Matt, and I all went out on a quadruple date and saw the movie, and made out during the dark scenes. And we...
Matt: Where was I?
Andrew: Oh, that wasn't - oh...
Laura: Uh-oh.
Elysa: Uh-oh.
Andrew: Who was that sitting next to me then? Whatever. So we wanted to talk about it briefly. Let me just start and say I enjoyed it. I thought it was good.
Laura: Yeah, it was a cute movie.
Andrew: Now, Laura, Elysa, and Matt you guys talk about how you thought it sucked, and...
Laura: No!
Elysa: No! I did not think it sucked.
Laura: I thought it was really cute. There's definitely a lot of Harry Potter inspiration in the film. I don't know if the books are that way, but you could tell that this was definitely made as something to appeal to Harry Potter fans.
Matt: How so, Laura? How so?
Laura: Well, you know there was that thing that looked exactly like Buckbeak.
Matt: Yeah, but it was a griffith. Totally H.P. unrelated.
Laura: Right.
Eric: I mean, where else is that actor supposed to get work? That actor that plays Buckbeak. They have to make roles for it, so...
Laura: No, but actually - first of all I want to say that Freddie Highmore is such a great actor, and I think he is one of the most adorable people I have ever seen in my life. He's so cute.
Andrew: He did play twins and as we discussed in the interview, they do a thing where the camera makes the same exact movements twice, and they digitally merge the shots together so there's two Freddies. And it's just really cool. He did a perfect job pulling off acting like he was talking to himself.
Elysa: He did. I agree.
Andrew: You couldn't tell. It was like he had a twin. Even the two other girls we went with, they were like, "Oh my god. He's not actually a set of twins? He's actually one actor?" Remember that when we were walking out?
Eric: So what's the movie actually about?
Laura: Well basically, it's about a family that moves into this house that belonged to - what - their great uncle or something. His name was Spiderwick, and he basically gained the sight to see all things that humans can't see like goblins, and that type of thing. And he chronicled all of the secrets of these creatures into a book, and basically the book was not supposed to be opened. It was supposed to stay in the house and be protected. And Freddie Highmore and his family move into the house, and of course he finds the book, and he opens it, and there is this giant goblin that wants it so that he can kill everything. And i's basically about them trying to figure out how to destroy him and how to keep the book safe.
Eric: Okay, so how much of this movie is going to remind me of the last Freddie Highmore movie that I saw, Arthur and the Invisibles?
Laura: I haven't seen that, so I couldn't tell you.
Elysa: Neither have I.
Eric: Because that also had a very similar - from what you guys are telling me - a very similar in that the house - I think it was his father I think or grandfather that he had to rescue, and he had to open and figure out how to enter the world of the Minimoys. Except that movie had David Bowie, so that was pretty cool.
Andrew: Well, at any rate, it has been getting good reviews. It's fair to say that we all enjoyed it. Elysa, do you want to tell as story about what you said once the credits started rolling?
Elysa: Oh, the credits started rolling, and I said, "directed by Alfonso Cuaron."
Elysa: Because it was pretty much - it was pretty much - I mean the first five Harry Potter books rolled in one. What really got me - what really got me - I was so confused - what really got me was I guess because I hadn't read the book - and don't get me wrong. I really enjoyed it and I thought that Freddie Highmore did a great acting job actually - but I was so confused by the allergy season crap that was all over the place.
Elysa: It honestly seemed to me that it was a promotion for Claritin Clear.
[Two hosts laughs]
Elysa: I was expecting it to say, "symptoms may include bloody nose, saggy jowls, death by nuclear radiation."
Elysa: I was so confused, and you know what? But it was good. It was good, though. I enjoyed it. I guess just - you know.
Eric: Who has asthma?
Elysa: Who has asthma? [laughs]
Laura: Through the whole movie it looked like a Claritin commercial. The sky was bright blue and there would always little dandelions flying around, so it really did look like a Claritin commercial.
Eric: Wow. I...
Matt: It was also a promotion for Campbell's Tomato Soup and honey.
Elysa: And honey.
[Elysa and Laura laugh]
Andrew: See, I liked that though. I enjoyed the little things that - the one little creature that lived in Spiderwick's house; he needed honey to calm him down.
Elysa: Thimbletag right?
Andrew: Was that the...
Matt: Humbletack? Thumbtack?
Elysa: I am pretty sure it was Thimbletag.
Laura: Dobby? Was that his name?
Andrew: Dobby?
Andrew: Dobby.
Matt: It was like a Dobby/Kreacher hybrid or something.
Andrew: The one thing that really got us was when they were all flying on the griffin.
Matt: [laughs] I just remember when we saw that scene I turned over to Andrew, and I said, "I could have sworn I've seen this scene before." [laughs]
Andrew: It was very reminiscent, but at any rate, we're just playing around, having fun. It was a good movie. I would recommend you would see it. I'm sure all of us do.
Elysa: Yeah.
Laura: Oh yeah, definitely. It's very enjoyable.
Andrew: Yeah. Micah, one other thing you wanted to bring up this week is some casting news.
Micah: Yeah, we finally started to get a little bit more information about two characters. Fenrir Greyback and Amycus Carrow both have been cast for Half-Blood Prince. I think one of the concerns that people have are more on the side of Fenrir Greyback being in the movie as opposed to Amycus Carrow. Don't know if many people really care if - we knew the Death Eaters by name, but I was kind of getting concerned. It still begs the question, is there more casting information to come?
Matt: I'm getting really scared. They're not even still casting the new Minister yet.
Andrew: Right.
Eric: We haven't heard who the new - who Scrimgeour is played by?
Matt: No, we have not.
Andrew: I guess the one thing that could be holding them up is just that they haven't started filming with the actor yet, so I mean, you know...
Eric: So it's not relevant to know who the actor is going to be?
Andrew: I guess. I don't know. I mean they have a reason for everything.
Eric: They've got their reasons.
Andrew: They're not the best reasons, but they have reasons.
Eric: Maybe he is cut out. I don't think they will cut him out of Movie 7, so, you know. It just kind of happens.
Micah: Well, when will we get - is there a time that Warner Brothers releases a full cast report for a movie? Is that something that they would do?
Andrew: I would think by the first teaser trailer they would have all the casting out. I mean that just makes sense for me because that's just when they're starting to kick off the publicity.
Matt: Yeah. That's when they're done with principle photography and everything.
Andrew: Well, is that true? Teaser trailers come out before that.
Eric: Teaser trailers can be - no, teaser trailers can be out for anything. If you recall, even the new Indiana Jones trailer, it has a - it has some from the upcoming movie, but most of it is the previous three movies. So they can do those kinds of teasers, which just go back into those sorts of things. And I mean if you remember in the original Harry Potter trailer, which you may or may not, it was more or less, you know, Vernon Dursley going, "There's no such thing as magic.," and slapping the trap, and it was like this really cool, sort of - you know, teaser trailers - no, you don't need to have the whole movie completed to do that.
Matt: They kind of tease you a little bit.
Eric: They just tease you a little bit.
Andrew: I guess that would make sense why they call them teaser trailers.
Laura: Yeah.
Eric: Why do they call them trailers at all? Okay, so moving on. Announcements.
Andrew: Okay, so moving on to announcements. This sort of is relevant to our first news item that we were talking about. It comes from Lucas. I was planning on talking about it anyway, but Lucas read my mind as I e-mailed him. It's Lucas, 16, from Chicago. He's been on the show a couple times when he calls in during the live shows. He writes:
"I think that you guys should have one more live show that lasts for a couple hours. You haven't had one in a while and I noticed that tons of people would love it." And then he talks about some other podcast we're doing in the future. But yeah, so I think what we should do - we should do another live podcast. I'm personally itching to do another one because they are a lot of fun. Are you guys - Would you guys be up for doing one?
Laura: Yeah. I'd be all for it.
Andrew: Yeah, I think we should do one when they make the announcement - the director and split into two announcement, so then maybe we'll step off Chapter-by-Chapter for that live show and we'll just...
Matt: Talk?
Andrew: Yeah, well, we'll talk about the official announcements, and we'll have people call in, and we'll discuss what their thoughts are on the movie being split in two, and the new director.
Matt: Okay.
Andrew: So...
Laura: Sounds good.
Andrew: I think it would be a timely - I'm just saying ahead of time, we're going to set some ground rules this time. First of all, no shout outs. They're fun, they're fun. We all laugh. We all LOL on the chat.
Andrew: But...
Laura: Until the point when every person that calls in doesn't have anything to say.
Andrew: Yeah, such as a shout out.
Andrew: We need to stop that. It slows the show down.
Matt: They do that, really?
Eric: Yeah, and no gack, no gack unless you're like from Nickelodeon, okay?
Andrew: Or unless you're actually choking on something then you can...
Andrew and
Eric: Gack.
Andrew: Or gag.
Eric: And anyway, anyway. Yeah.
Andrew: So, yeah. Keep an eye out. Whenever there's an official announcement we'll try to do a live show as quickly as possible. It seems one's coming in the next one to two weeks, and that lines up with when I was sort of thinking we could do a live show anyway. So we'll just wait for that announcement. Hopefully, it's not during the week. It could be between Thursday and Saturday. Most likely it's going to be made - the announcement's going to be a Monday morning or something terrible. So I don't know, we'll see. But we will do a live show soon for all of you who are looking forward to one, so plan it out. Most people - a lot of people get upset about when we announce them last minute because then they don't have time to plan ahead and tune in, so we're giving your warning ahead of time. So that's really the only announcement we have this week. Let's move on to Muggle Mail now.
Laura: Our first Muggle Mail comes from Naomi, 23, of Israel. She writes:
"So what you all are saying is you don't have time to respond to listeners that send you nice, long letters, but you have time to respond to idiots that talk trash and say horrible things to you. That's normal. Who am I kidding? I'm crazy. Wow wow wow."
Eric: Woah.
Laura: "But really, why..."
Andrew: It's actually, "wowowowowow."
Laura: Okay, that's good.
Andrew: Like an Indian.
Laura: Okay, that's nice. "But really, why do you have the need to respond to idiots and not the people that really think before they write? Because idiots that talk like that just rant about everything. They find flaws everywhere."
Matt: That's not true!
[Eric and Laura laugh]
Laura: Actually, it's true.
Eric: [mocking Matt] "You're a liar!"
Matt: We don't just respond to just idiot e-mail and stuff. We respond to stupid ones too.
Laura: Naomi has a point. Every now and then we do like to pick out a ridiculous e-mail to read, but those are just for fun. We don't really take them seriously. Like...
Andrew: Actually - actually, hold on, wait. Actually, what we were saying...
Micah: [unintelligible] ...last week.
Andrew: ...last week was we reply to e-mails that have people complaining about the show and stuff.
Laura: Oh. Well, stop your whining. That's all I have to say.
Andrew: Well, no...
Laura: It's our show and we'll run it the way we want to.
Matt: Oooo!
Elysa: Damn, Laura.
Eric: Whoa, Laura. We mean for the people who...wow.
Eric: That's...
Matt: Momma's going to crack the whip.
Laura: You know - you know what it really bothers me? Is every now and then I'll see an e-mail, and really it's pretty often, and someone will be like, "I think you're doing this wrong. You should do..." And I'm like, you know what? Go make your own podcast. Just do it.
Elysa: Damn.
Laura: If you don't like the way we run ours, make your own.
Andrew: Yeah. Listen, we do everything for a reason. The reason why we said that we reply to the e-mails that are negative - we reply to the ones that have claims that we're doing something wrong, like, a serious issue. I'm not really talking about, like, hate mail. Like, we don't really reply to hate mail. We just reply to things that - with people that are like - like every so often we'll get a parent whose like, "I can't believe you said this word for my son, blah, blah, blah." So like, you know.
Eric: And then we laugh.
Andrew: To us that's - yeah, I mean, you know - moderate what your kids watch, or listen to. That's all I have to say. But we're family friendly here.
Micah: Yeah, we are, and the other thing I wanted to point out about this was, we do read and respond to people who send in nice things, because we do it on the show. We have a whole section where we sit and we respond to people's rebuttals, we have Chicken Soup, so it's not like we're not taking people's stuff and replying to it. I think everybody probably replies to at least five e-mails a week that are people questioning, "Why can't I download this? Why isn't this working?"
Micah: So we do take the time to - to do that in addition to all the other mail.
Andrew: And we're not trying to be mean here...
Laura: No.
Andrew: We're just saying, you know, we run the show how we do. We can't reply to - you know, most of the e-mails - the majority - I will say the majority of the e-mails we get are theories, so we can't reply back and be like, you know, "Oh, I think this is good because blah, blah, blah, blah, blah" you know, it's just - we just can't.
Micah: Yeah. We do - we do read it. That's the point I think we wanted people to get from last week's show...
Micah: ...is we do read everything.
Andrew: Yeah, that's all.
Micah: But we don't have the time to reply to it.
Andrew: Yeah. Well, let's not dwell on this, 'cause it, you know - people, you know, we made our point clear.
Andrew: Okay, next e-mail comes from Amanda, 25, of Sunshine Coast in Australia. She actually - a lot of people wrote this response in to our discussion on Gryffindor's sword last week and why Luna, Ginny, and Neville tried to steal it. She writes:
"This is probably one of hundreds of e-mails you received, but Ginny found out that Harry had Gryffindor's sword passed to him when on page 11 of DH, U.K. edition, it states, 'Outside in the garden, over the dinner tables, the three objects Scrimgeour had given them were passed from hand to hand. Everyone exclaimed over the Deluminator and the Tales of Beedle the Bard and lamented the fact Scrimgeour had refused to pass on the sword.' So Ginny would have heard about it then and thought it was a great way to help Harry since she couldn't go with him, and to exact some revenge on Snape, too." So that's a great point.
Matt: Yeah.
Elysa: I would agree.
Andrew: I think that's the explanation we needed.
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Spc. Christopher Halski, an Omaha, Neb., native, assigned to Company C, 2nd Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, stood out among his peers as his company awarded him, and the comrades with whom he shed blood and sweat the past year, multiple commendations. Halski earned two Purple Heart Medals, two Army Commendation Medals, a Combat Infantryman Badge and an Iraqi Campaign Medal.
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The power supply unit (PSU), usually just called the power supply, is the component that provides the computer's components with power. It is connected to the mains electricity by a power cable and is itself usually connected to the PC's motherboard via a main power connector and an auxiliary power connector. (If the auxiliary power connector is not connected, the PC won't boot - a mistake that is often made by people building their first PC.) When the Power button is pressed in the front to the case with a desktop PC and the power button on a laptop PC, the motherboard turns the power supply on, its internal fan starts working and power is supplied to the components connected to the motherboard.
Some of the PC's components are only powered from the motherboard, such as an adapter card (network card, sound card, etc.), and others are powered only from the power supply (hard disk and optical disc drives). Some high-end graphics cards installed in adapter-cards slots are powered from the motherboard and from one or two power connectors from the power supply.
Since the motherboard has to be switched on via the PC's Power button before the power supply is turned on, if the power supply's fan works while it is not connected to the motherboard then the power supply is faulty. If the power supply doesn't work when the Power button is pressed, then either the power supply is not connected properly to the motherboard or the motherboard is faulty.
You can program what happens when the Power button is pressed when the PC is working via the Power Options category in the Windows Control Panel. You can set the PC to go into hibernation, standby mode or switch off when its Power button is pressed.
The power supply is one of the most overlooked components in a PC. I suppose the reason is that most people simply believe that if a power supply unit has the physical capacity to be connected to the other components via the motherboard then it must be able to deliver the quality of power that they require.
Unfortunately, that is often not the case, because the power supply in a computer, or the power supply that comes with a PC case, can be underpowered or of low quality. If that is the case and you install a high-end graphics card or a dual-core processor, the system could become unstable or might even fail to boot.
In 2005, I bought an Advent desktop PC from PC World for office use that came with a decent power supply unit. When it gave up the ghost, I looked at the specs and bought another Advent desktop PC from PC World, but when I opened the case it had a very light 300W switching power supply made by ISO that can be purchased for $15, so I replaced it with a decent 400W model made by Corsair, because if the power supply goes it can take the other components with it. The power supply wasn't listed in the specs. This is the one component that PC manufacturers can skimp on without the buyer noticing it, so you have to check what is installed yourself. Even reputable case manufactures, such as Foxconn, are using these cheap ISO power supplies in their cases.
Here is an Amazon UK purchaser review of an "Alpine Black 700W Silent Quiet PC ATX PSU" priced at L19.95, which a self-builder should avoid like the plague:
"After 3 months of having the power supply... BOOM!!! Was like my own personal firework display for a couple of minutes. I quickly removed it from computer and the mains. Would really not recommend this even if you like fireworks. As many others have said. This wasn't even worth the L19.95 as it could have caused more damage. Luckily my computer was saved, but I would recommend going with Corsair instead.
"Hardware I had when it blew:
"AMD FX-8150 Bulldozer processor "
GTX 3GB 660TI FTW graphics card
"Corsair 8GB 1600mhz RAM memory
"Western Digital 1TB 7200rpm hard drive
"Crosshair Formula V motherboard
"700W should have been more than enough for this machine, this power supply must not be capable of what it says. With the amount of bad reviews this item should really be taken off."
Many other purchasers found it inadequate, while others had no complaints, seven even gave it five stars, probably because their self-built PCs were built around a motherboard and processor that provided integrated video and sound, or they were using it to replace the power supply in an old, low-spec PC.
Many other purchasers found it inadequate, while others had no complaints, seven even gave it the maximum of five stars, probably because their self-built PCs were built around a motherboard and processor that provided integrated video and sound, or they were using it to replace the power supply in an old, low-spec PC.
Note that most power supplies should fit into a standard ATX case, but some of them have more depth than is usual, so make sure that you can fit a power supply in your PC case before you buy it.
In the UK, a power supply uses the 230V AC mains supply and tranforms it into power at the correct voltages for the computer's components.
Some power supplies have a switch to change between 230V (used in the UK) and 115V (used in the USA), but other models have automatic sensors that switch input voltage automatically, or are able to accept any voltage between those limits. If the power supply uses a switch, you must make sure, having just installed it, that you have it set to use the correct voltage before you switch the computer on.
Choosing a power supply for your self-built desktop PC is an important factor that can easily be underdone or overdone, depending on your computing needs. A gaming computer requires much more power than an office computer. The following power calculator allows you to enter the components. When all of the components are entered, the calculator tells you the wattage you require, which allows you to choose a power supply that provides that wattage plus some overhead just in case all of the components are being used at the same time. The power used by the motherboard is factored into the calculation. Search for Enermax Power Supply Calculator to find a good one.
Different components require different voltages, so a power supply is really several power supplies in one unit. Each supply is called a rail. All power supplies have three main rails - 3.3V, 5V, and 12V - two secondary standby rails - 12V and 5V. A power supply's maximum wattage (e.g., 700W) is the total power it can supply across all of its rails. Some power supplies can have up to four 12V rails. These are used to power PCs running powerful components so that they can each have their own rail.
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An ATX12V 2.0 power supply has several four-pin Molex and SATA connectors/plugs. Molex plugs are connected to IDE ATA CD/DVD optical drives and IDE ATA hard disk drives and some redundant-technology AGP graphics cards. SATA connectors/plugs connect to SATA hard disk drives and optical SATA CD/DVD drives. Molex-to-SATA adapters that make a Molex plug into an SATA plug are readily available, but SATA-to-Molex adapters are not.
Note that adapter cables are available that bridge the previous and current power supply standards. The following webpage shows which adapters are available:
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Powerful high-end PCI Express graphics cards connect to a six-pin or eight-pin power connector from the power supply, so if you buy such a card your PC's power supply must have one. The most powerful PCI Express graphics cards require two such connectors, which are also required for dual-graphics-card setups. There are four-pin, six-pin and eight-pin PCI Express graphics power connectors and there are: "PCIe2.0 cable adapter, updates PSU compatibility with latest VGA cards. Converts 6pin PCIe to 8pin PCIe2.0" and "PCIe cable adapter, updates PSU compatibility with PCIe VGA cards. Converts 2x 4pin Molex to 6pin PCIe."
Some PCI Express video cards require to be connected to the power supply unit (PSU) via a special PCI Express power connector. If you use two such cards, you need a power supply unit (PSU) with two such power connectors - one for each card. An excellent example is the Akasa Power80+ 500W unit. (Akasa also make excellent cases). It has "Two CPU 12V connectors" that combine to make an 8-pin connector (required by some motherboards) or spit in two to make a 4-pin connector (required by some motherboards) and "PCI-E connectors for multiple dual GPU", which translates as PCI Express connectors for multiple graphics cards.
Note that the latest AMD and Nvidia graphics cards use a six-pin and an eight-pin PCI Express connector. Tom's Hardware provides in-depth reviews of power supplies that include the power cables that are provided with each model.
If you plan on using dual graphics cards that use either Nvidia's SLI technology or AMD's CrossFire technology, make sure that your PC has a power supply that explicitly states in its specifications that it supports the dual-card technology that you want to install. A power supply can have certification for both technologies or only one of them.
Recommended makes of power supply? - The image above shows power supplies made by the major manufacturers Enermax (top) and Antec. Both companies make cases with power supplies, and separate power supplies. Akasa, Cooler Master, Zalman, Seasonic, and Tagan are reputable major manufacturers of power supplies.
There are many smaller, less well known manufacturers of quality power supplies, such as Jeantech, that makes cases and power supplies. The best-known supplier of Jeantech products in the UK is PC World. I have a Jeantech 350W power supply (that cost me about £30) in a desktop PC that runs an AMD 64 X2 3800+ dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM memory, which has been running flawlessly since 2005. It was recently upgraded to run Windows 7 without having to upgrade any of it hardware (graphics card, memory, etc).
A new ATX standard for power supply units has replaced the previous ATX 1.3 standard. It's called ATX12V 2.0.
The old ATX 1.3 standard has a 20-pin power connector that connects the power supply to the motherboard. The ATX12V 2.0 standard uses a 24-pin power connector. The image below shows the two power connectors, with the smaller 20-pin connector on the left.
An adapter is required to be able to use the new 24-pin plug of a ATX12V 2.0 power supply in motherboards that have the current ATX 1.3 20-pin motherboard connector. Most power supply manufacturers include one with their new ATX12V 2.0 power supplies, because 20-pin connectors are still being used on many motherboards. A 20-pin power-supply cable also fits into the adapter, making it possible to use an old-style power supply unit with a motherboard that has the new 24-pin connector.
Note that the motherboards for Intel Pentium 4 and AMD Athlon 64 and the current AMD and Intel processors have what is called an additional ATX 12V Power Connector. It is a small square box on the motherboard for a four-pin plug from an ATX12V 2.0 power supply unit.
For example, some motherboards that run Intel Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad processors require the use of 1x12V (8pin) power connector, which not all power supplies provide. However, not all motherboards require an 8-pin power connector. The MSI 945GCM-F motherboard that can run Intel Core 2 Duo processors only uses the additional 1x12V(4pin) power connector.
Because of specific power requirements of components, such as the processor, you should always read the motherboard's user manual all the way through before you start buying or installing the components in the case. The power requirements for the processor and the graphics card(s) will always be made clear in it. All of the major motherboard manufacturers provide downloads of their motherboard manuals, which can be read before buying a particular make/model of motherboard.
The major motherboard manufacturers can recommend power supplies suitable for use with a particular model of motherboard.
Power supplies are often recommended or ridiculed on computer forums.
ATX is a power standard as well as a motherboard standard, as is the newer BTX (Balanced Technology Extended) standard, which was intended to replace the ATX standard for power supply units and motherboards. However, although Dell used it extensively, it has failed to take over from the ATX standard.
In June 2007, AMD announced its own DTX form factor, which is similar to Intel's BTX form factor. However, at the time of reviewing this (January 2015), the ATX standard still rules.
Watch the following video if you want to see a demonstration of how to install an ATX power supply in a case and connect its cables to the devices to an ATX motherboard and inside the computer.
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Choosing a power supply for your self-built desktop PC is an important factor that can easily be underdone or overdone, depending on your computing needs. A gaming computer requires much more power than an office computer. The following power calculator allows you to enter the components. When all of the components are entered, the calculator tells you the wattage you require, which allows you to choose a power supply that provides that wattage plus some overhead just in case all of the components are being used at the same time. The calculator linked to below takes into consideration the power used by the motherboard.
Modular power supplies allow the user to attach only the power connectors in use instead of having them all connected to the power supply whether they are in use or not. They come with a full range of cables. Molex cables connect to IDE hard and CD/DVD drives, PCI Express (PCI-E) cables connect to PCI Express video/graphics cards, and SATA cables connect to SATA hard drives. The cables connect to the devices and to dedicated ports on the power supply unit itself.
The following 500W modular power supplies are products made by Antec and Enermax. There will be more recent models the information about which can be accessed on antec.com and ernermax.com, but these will do as examples here.
The Antec Neo HE500 is supplied with six Molex, two PCI-E, and four SATA cables that connect to five modular ports on the power supply. If you want to use a mixture of Molex and SATA cables, you have to use more than one cable.
The Enermax Liberty ELT500AWT is more flexible than the Antec Neo HE500. It has six modular ports on the power supply for both Molex and SATA cables. It has two dedicated PCI-E ports. The Molex and SATA connectors are one one cable. The unit comes with a neat bag in which to store the spare cables.
If you want more information on these power supplies, look them up on the Antec.com or Enermax.com, or use the make and model as the search query in a web search engine.
The cooling of the case is a crucial requirement, especially with high-speed Intel Pentium 4, Intel Core 2 Duo, Intel Core 2 Quad and AMD Athlon 64 x2 dual-core and AMD Phenom quad-core processors.
In any case, always remember to check from the manufacturer's website what level of cooling and power supply is required for a OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) processor before you buy it. An OEM processor is supported by the vendor instead of the manufacturer. If it is faulty, you return it to the vendor, not the manufacturer. An OEM processor is usually sold on its own. If so, you would have to buy a cooling unit for it. The boxed, retail product comes with a heatsink and fan unit. OEM CPUs from both AMD and Intel are available. Previously only AMD used to make them available to vendors. The product will always be labelled as an OEM product.
Heat dissipation occurs most rapidly when there is a large temperature difference between the heatsink and surrounding air. It is pointless to invest in a good cooling unit and then allow heat to build up in the case.
Heat also shortens the life of other components, in particular the video/graphics card and hard disk drives. Consequently, it is important to keep the air well circulated. If the power supply unit's fan is the only source of ventilation, the addition of a second fan is advisable, since many new cases are designed to accept a 60mm intake fan at the bottom front area of the case, where you should see a series of ventilation holes from the outside of the case.
The image above shows power supply units made by Enermax (top) and Antec.
The clusters of wires to the left and right of each unit have the various Molex plugs (or headers) on their ends that are required to connect drives, the motherboard, heatsink and fan units, and sometimes even adapter cards, such as some FireWire cards, etc., to the power supply unit.
If you run out of Molex drive headers, you can use a power Y splitter, which adds two headers by plugging it into one header, but, note well that because they can put a greater load on the power cable than it was intended to carry, they should only be used to power devices that don't draw much power.
If you run out of drive power headers, you can use a power splitter, which adds two headers by plugging it into one header, but they can put a greater load on the power cable than it was intended to carry.
A cheap adapter power cable can convert a Molex plug into an SATA power cable that is connected to SATA hard-disk or optical drives (CD/DVD/Blu-ray drives). Adapters are also available that convert a Molex plug into a PCI Express power cable that is connected to a graphics card to provide additional power. The connection points for two PCI Express power cables are shown in the image below of AMD Radeon HD 6790 graphics card.
See the Processor Sockets page on this site for more information on them.
AMD Athlon 64/Phenom and Intel Pentium 4/Core 2 Duo/Core 2 Quad processors require a motherboard with a power supply with an extra 12V connector that is connected to a 4-pin header on the motherboard, as shown in the image below. Some motherboards have an 8-pin 12V connector. You have to have a power supply that provides the 8-pin connector to use it with such a motherboard or you have to buy an adapter. An ATX 4 Pin Male to 8 Pin Female EPS Power Adapter Cable, available from Amazon for £2.50, is attached to the 4-pin auxiliary power connected to convert it to an 8-pin connector. It is also possible to use a 4-pin Molex to 8-pin 12V EPS Motherboard ATX Power Cable Adapter to convert a standard Molex power cable used to power non-SATA devices (IDE hard drives, etc.). When I looked for one on Amazon.co.uk, they were out of stock.
As you can see, the keyed connector can only be connected one way to the motherboard. The hook on the connector fits over the protrusion on the header on the motherboard.
Note that some power supplies provide an 8-pin connector that can be split into a two 4-pin connectors, as shown in the image below, allowing it to be used with motherboards that require a 4-pin or an 8-pin connector.
Download the user manual for the MSI 945GCM5-F Socket LGA 775 motherboard, made by MSI, to read the illustrated installation instructions. It runs Intel Core 2 Duo processors and only uses the additional 12V four-pin connector.
It can be very frustrating if a power supply's cables are too short to reach the top or the bottom drive installed in a case, or if the ATX power leads don't reach to the motherboard when, say, it is installed in a full tower case. Lead extenders are available, but it's always best to buy a fully satisfactory power supply in the first place. Most quality brands of power supply provide plenty of cable length, while many of the cheaper brands do not.
The maximum amperage delivered by the +12V rail of a power supply unit (PSU) is of particular importance with modern high-performance systems. The PSU unit itself always has the power details of its different rails printed on it.
Most motherboard manuals tell you what the amperage of the +12V rail has to be in order to power the motherboard properly.
For example, the manual for the MSI RS480M2-IL motherboard, which has an inbuilt video chip and therefore doesn't require a video card to be installed, says that the +12V rail must supply at least 18A (amps) of current. Many cheap off-the shelf PSUs provide only 15A or less of current on the +12V rail, and therefore can't be used with that motherboard if you want a stable system.
If you want to install a high-end video/graphics card the +12V rail would have to deliver between 20A and 30A. Therefore, you should always make sure that the PSU in a system can match the power requirements of a high-end video card before you buy or install it.
For example, it's the middle of June, 2005, and NVIDIA has just released its long-awaited 7800 GTX graphics chip. A single video/graphics card using the chip requires the minimum of a 400W PSU with a +12V rating of 26A, while the SLI, dual-card configuration, requires a 500W PSU with a +12V rating of 34A as the minimum. Most standard PSUs don't usually deliver either 26A or 34A on the +12V rail, so a special PSU is required to run both of those options.
High-end PCI Express video/graphics cards have to be connected directly to the PSU.
If a particular PSU doesn't have a PCI Express connector and one is required of it, it's possible to buy an adapter that is fitted to a standard power connector of the kind that fits to standard IDE ATA (non-SATA) disk drives.
You can purchase individual 430W, 550W, 600W, 700W, 750W, 800W, 1000W, 1200W, 1300W, and 1500W power supplies, or PC cases that come with that magnitude of power supply. Power supplies higher than 700W are used for systems that have up to four graphics processor units (GPUs) in multiple-graphics-card configurations. A standard office PC won't need a power supply higher than 400W.
If you are ignorant on the subject, the above article should be read, because the latest AMD Athlon x2, Phenom x4 and Intel Core2 Duo and Core 2 Quad dual-core and quad-core processors draw most of their power from the +12V rail(s), which was not the case with earlier processors, which draw most of their power from the +5V rail. Therefore, if a power supply designed to run earlier processors is used to run the latest processors, the +12V rail might not be up to the job.
Click here! to go to more information on the second Motherboard, Power Supplies and Cases page on this site about standard ATX 1.3 power supplies, the new ATX12V 2.0 standard, and how serial-ATA (SATA) drives connect to them. Use your browser's Back button to return to this point on this page.
If want in-depth details of the specifications of a power supply, read this article:
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Note that if your electricity supply is irregular or subject to storm interference, etc., you should invest in an Uninterruptible Power Supply unit (UPS) that you plug the whole system into. The UPS is connected to the wall socket. It has batteries that it keeps fully charged, and when there is a power failure it automatically keeps the power supply to the computer running until either a person shuts it down, or the software it runs shuts the system down automatically.
UPS units vary in price depending on the use. A unit for a single PC will be cheaper than one designed to cover a network. They are available from most of the large vendors of computer components.
Battery technology is improving all the time. The latest UPS is lighter, smaller, and cheaper than its predecessors. For as little as £30/$50, you can buy an amazingly small, entry-level UPS that has a built-in power surge suppressor. It provides enough battery power to give you the time to shut the system down properly in the event of a power failure.
The more expensive UPS run software that comes with the unit, which monitors the system and shuts it down properly, saving unsaved data first so that nothing is lost, or puts it into hibernation so that it can be resurrected without losing data. For mission-critical systems, the software an UPS runs is therefore as important as the UPS unit itself.
UPS can even come with generous insurance policies that pay for the replacement of any equipment that is damaged by electrical problems that the UPS has failed to filter. The longer the run time, the higher the surge ratings, and the greater the insurance protection, the more the UPS unit will cost.
Note that as long as the UPS has the plugs for it, you can plug in any device into the unit that you want to protect against power-supply problems.
APC make excellent units that can come with excellent software. Even the cheapest APC UPS shut the system down or put it into hibernation automatically.
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Click here! for additional information, such as to find out how to do the calculations so that you select the correct UPS for your situation.
A web search for uninterruptible power supply will provide plenty of information on this subject.
If you are building a PC with plenty of high-end components, you will want to consider adding extra cooling fans to the case, or buy a case with extra cooling fans. Using a search phrase such as pc case fans to conduct a web search should bring up links to sites with all kinds of information on them.
ATX cases made to accommodate the latest ultra-fast processors are equipped with more than one fan, and the processor and video-card fan can come together to produce a great deal of noise. Because of the noise, you can purchase cases designed to be quiet, such as Enermax Whisper cases, which, of course, cost more than regular, much noisier cases. The Enermax Whisper II power supply, for example, balances maximum power with minimum noise.
The more powerful the power supply in the case, the longer it will be before you have to upgrade it.
If in doubt about the power supply requirements for a particular processor refer to the Intel and AMD websites.
A new PC case will usually come with the connection cable to connect it to a power outlet, and all of the stand-off screws and washers required to mount a motherboard, plus an assortment of mounting screws for drives and adapter cards.
A power supply is easy to install in the case. It just screws into its bay that has a cutting in the back of the case for the fan to blow out of, and is attached to the motherboard by a specially keyed plug - the largest of them - so that it can only be inserted one way round.
In an ATX case, the wires for the power-on and reset buttons, and LED (Light-Emitting Diode) lights, at the front of the case, have plugs that connect to the motherboard that are marked with a short description of their purpose. For instance, HDD written on a connector means that it is connected to the LED light that flickers on and off to indicate hard-disk-drive activity. Note that this light will also flicker when an IDE CD/DVD drive is in use, because it indicates IDE activity, and most CD/DVD drives are IDE devices. However, note that SATA CD/DVD drves are available. A plug marked Reset, will be for the Reset switch, etc. Where the plugs connect to the motherboard will be shown in its manual.
Note that the case might provide more LED plugs or other plugs than can be fitted to the motherboard. This is because the case provides all of the plugs that can be supported by a wide range of motherboards.
An old-style AT case usually has a power supply with a thick black cable coming from it that is attached to the power-on button in the front of the AT case, thereby making the replacement of the power supply much more difficult than it is for an ATX case that has a power supply switched on via a power-on button attached to the motherboard by a cable made up of only two wires. An AT power supply in an AT case has two plugs that are attached to an AT motherboard. They are correctly installed when the black wires on both plugs are next to each other so that all of the black wires are in the middle when plugged into the motherboard. Some older motherboards have both ATX and AT power- supply connection sockets.
An ATX case is unlikely to come with an instruction manual, because you only need to know how to attach five or six plugs to the motherboard, the instructions for which will be provided by the motherboard's user manual, and you can easily work out which of the other power plugs will be attached to a floppy disk drive, a CD/DVD drive, or a hard disk drive. Moreover, the plugs are all keyed so that they can only be plugged in one way round.
The largest keyed plug on an ATX power supply powers the motherboard. It can only fit in the socket the correct way round.
Remember never to use force to fit anything. If the installation of a component seems to require force, the chances are that it is not being installed properly, or is not the right way round.
Socketed processors, for instance, look very strongly built, but they can easily be cracked in half by rough handling when fitting the heatsink and fan unit. And any kind of pin can easily be bent, including those on the processor. All of the pins have to fit the holes meant for them or the device will not work. (Note that Intel's processors no longer have pins, just metal contact points.)
Finally, always remember to make sure that the case and its power supply unit can accommodate the processor and all of the hardware that you want to use in the system.
The more hardware you want to install, the more powerful the power supply will need to be. You cannot just buy any ATX case (with a power supply) and use it for any ATX motherboard and the processors it supports. If you purchase a standard ATX case with a 230W or 300W power supply with the intention of installing a motherboard fitted with an Intel Core 2 Duo dual-core or Core 2 Quad quad-core, or an AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual-core or Phenom quad-core processor, a 512MB video/graphics card, and 2GB of RAM memory, plus a huge, fast hard disk drive or two, you won't be able to get it to work.
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Croatia Island Escape
1 country \ 9 days \ from US$1105 per person
Cruise the Croatian Islands in style on this week long exercise in relaxation. With visits to Hvar, Korcula and Sipan to name a few, there's also ample time to discover the delights of mainland Dubrovnik and chill out in Split. Your photos of the stunning Dalmatian Coastline sunsets won't do justice to the experience of actually being there.
Greek Island Hopping
1 country \ 13 days \ from US$1558 per person
If you were going to make a Greek island your holiday destination, you'd be faced with the tough decision of which one to choose, so we've put together a holiday that combines three of the best! Mykonos, Santorini and Ios are at your disposal and with three nights on each, you have plenty of time to shop, dine, relax or party. There's also time for wining, dining and sightseeing in the capital, Athens, at the beginning and end of your island stay. The perfect combination of culture, relaxation and partying, Greek style!
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Oktoberfest - 6 Days Hotel (Start/End London)
3 countries \ 6 days \ from US$909 per person
Known worldwide as a beer festival, Oktoberfest is actually so much more! From humble beginnings as a royal wedding celebration, the 'Fest has become a party with enough beer, pork, merchandise & amusement park attractions to entertain you for days. Travel with us on the coach from London - once you get to Munich, you'll be staying in a comfortable hotel. There's no thinking required, just have fun!
European Highlights
8 countries \ 15 days \ from US$1730 per person
Got two weeks to spare and want to see as much of Europe as possible? Then this is the tour for you! Two night stops in the big cities - Paris, French Riviera, Rome and Amsterdam - included sightseeing, walking tours, scenic drives...you'll wish your holiday would never end.
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I'm sorry I couldn't think of a more specific title for the topic, but here's my question. Last Friday afternoon, Miami Air (flight 621-B738) flew the Arkansas football team charter from KXNA to KBHM. Apparently they deplaned the team at KBHM, and several hours later appeared to have deadheaded to KTCL where they waited until Saturday night for a return flight with the team from KTCL to KXNA. Why would they deplane in KBHM, but depart from KTCL? Why not deplane and depart from KTCL? Rwy length at KTCL is 6499 x 150. Thanks.
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What Do People Truly See You As?
People see you as Truly Dark. Congradulations. Your
are dark by nature and not just because it's
cool. Dark people are not always loners but
definatly not the center of attention either.
Many people are the dark are like the shadows
and can conform into any shape they need to be.
But the dark can't be hidden forever. It's
often only a matter of time untill you tire of
the charade and show your darkness. Thus how
those in the dark remian solitary. Being dark
does not always mean your gloomy, you are
probably just artistic. Whether is be in the
drawing, music,painting, or singing. If you can
find a friend who shares your twisted ideals or
is willing to brave the iceiness of your world,
hang on to them for how rare it is to find a
light in the dark.
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Untreated Purple Sapphire and Diamond Ring
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Three marvelous purple sapphires are wonders to behold in this dazzling ring
Key Features
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- Stunning in beauty and rarity, three purple sapphires are the stars of this elegant ring
- Weighing approximately 3.00 total carats, these striking gems display impeccable coloring
- These untreated gems are surrounded by a band of brilliant diamonds
- All jewels are set in platinum
Item Details
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Three rare and stunning purple sapphires glimmer with distinctive color in this eye-catching ring. Weighing approximately 3.00 total carats, these enchanting rose-cut jewels exhibit a lovely, rich lilac hue, which is beautifully complemented by a band of sparkling diamonds. Set in platinum, these magnificent sapphires have received no heat treatment. Much rarer than blue sapphire, purple sapphires do not need the typical heat treatment that other fancy sapphires usually do in order to show their best colors. To find three such remarkable and beautifully matched natural gems is truly extraordinary.