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35 Element EN 3400 BK USB 20 Aluminum External IDE
35 Element EN 3400 BK USB 20 Aluminum External IDE $23.39
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New Aluminum Dual Cooler Cooling Hard Drive Disk Fan for 35 SATA IDE HDD K
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Frisby SATA IDE USB PC MAC Aluminum Hard Disk HDD Drive External Enclosure Kit
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Free CAD Shipping New USB 20 25 IDE Harddisk Aluminum Enclosure
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25 Aluminum USB 20 IDE Hard Disk Drive HD HDD Case
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Frisby 35 Aluminum Desktop Laptop HDD Hard Disc Drive SATA IDE Enclosure Case
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HD 238 U2 Aluminum 25 USB20 mini External Enclosure IDE New
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HOT 480Mbps Aluminum 35 inch HDD case IDE and SATA to USB 20
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Black Masscool UE211 25in IDE to USB 20 Aluminum HDD External Enclosure
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Silver Sabrent SBT ESU25 USB 20 25in IDE Aluminum Hard Drive Enclosure
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Masscool UHB UPS255 25in IDE SATA to USB 20 Aluminum HDD External Enclosure
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35 Aluminum Hard Drive Enclosure for both IDE OR SATA hard drives I35USBSP
35 Aluminum Hard Drive Enclosure for both IDE OR SATA hard drives I35USBSP $24.99
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Pleiades Silver Aluminum 35 IDE Dual Firewire 400 1394a Mac Storage Enclosure
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Sabrent 35 ide hard drive aluminum enclosure
Sabrent 35 ide hard drive aluminum enclosure $37.99
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Vantec 35 Aluminum Removable IDE Hard Drive Mobile Rack Key Fan MRK 300FD BK
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35 EMC IDE to Fibre Channel Aluminum Hard Drive Tray w Rails Controller Board
35 EMC IDE to Fibre Channel Aluminum Hard Drive Tray w Rails Controller Board $11.76
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Startech Professional Aluminum Black IDE Removable Hard Drive Drawer
Startech Professional Aluminum Black IDE Removable Hard Drive Drawer $61.11
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525 Aluminum IDE Hard Drive Mobile Rack w Fan and key
525 Aluminum IDE Hard Drive Mobile Rack w Fan and key $29.99
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Sabrent 35 SATA IDE Hard Drive Enclosure Aluminum USB 20 Mac Vista Windows 7
Sabrent 35 SATA IDE Hard Drive Enclosure Aluminum USB 20 Mac Vista Windows 7 $20.00
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ATN 999 BK Black LCD Display IDE ATA133 Aluminum Mobile Rack
ATN 999 BK Black LCD Display IDE ATA133 Aluminum Mobile Rack $28.75
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ATN 999 S Silver LCD Display IDE ATA133 Aluminum Mobile Rack
ATN 999 S Silver LCD Display IDE ATA133 Aluminum Mobile Rack $28.75
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ATN 999 W White LCD Display IDE ATA133 Aluminum Mobile Rack
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Acomdata SMBXXXU2E Aluminum 35 SATA IDE Black USB 20 Samba Enclosure Kit
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35 Addlogix FireXpress 350L USB 20 Aluminum External IDE Hard Drive Case
35 Addlogix FireXpress 350L USB 20 Aluminum External IDE Hard Drive Case $21.99
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Kingwin KF 101 Aluminum ATA 100 133 IDE 525 Mobile Rack with 2 drive cases
Kingwin KF 101 Aluminum ATA 100 133 IDE 525 Mobile Rack with 2 drive cases $24.99
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AirLink101 AEN U25K 25 USB 20 Aluminum IDE Hard Dr
AirLink101 AEN U25K 25 USB 20 Aluminum IDE Hard Dr $14.99
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2 BAY ALUMINUM 25 TO 35 IDE SATA SSD Hard Drive RACK ORICO AC325 2S
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ORICO 2 BAY ALUMINUM 25 TO 35 IDE SATA SSD Hard Drive RACK
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25 35 HDD SATA IDE ATA to USB Slim External Aluminum Laptop PC Caddy Enclosure
25 35 HDD SATA IDE ATA to USB Slim External Aluminum Laptop PC Caddy Enclosure $1.56
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Frisby 35 Aluminum Desktop Laptop MAC HDD Hard Disc Drive SATA IDE Enclosure
Frisby 35 Aluminum Desktop Laptop MAC HDD Hard Disc Drive SATA IDE Enclosure $14.95 (1 Bid)
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500gb External Hard Drive Aluminum Case Hitachi Deskstar T7K500 HDT725050VLAT80
500gb External Hard Drive Aluminum Case Hitachi Deskstar T7K500 HDT725050VLAT80 $51.50
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AirLink101 AEN U25K 25 USB 20 Aluminum IDE Hard Drive Enclosure Silver
AirLink101 AEN U25K 25 USB 20 Aluminum IDE Hard Drive Enclosure Silver $1.99
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ICY DOCK MB911APGF Aluminum Internal Mobile Rack for 35 ATA IDE Hard Drive
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ICY DOCK MB123AK Aluminum Internal Mobile Rack for 35 ATA133 IDE Drive Beige
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35 Addlogix FireXpress 350L USB 20 Aluminum External IDE HDD Enclosure
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25 IDE Hard Drive Enclosure New Aluminum case High Speed USB 20 Nice
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Sabrent 25 IDE Hard Drive Enclosure New Aluminum case High Speed USB 20 EKU25
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Kingwin Aluminum 25 USB 20 IDE External Enclosure Silver Model KH 200U S
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25 USB 20 Aluminum External IDE HDD Enclosure Black
25 USB 20 Aluminum External IDE HDD Enclosure Black $9.99
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35 Aluminum HDD Hard Disc Drive SATA IDE Enclosure NB
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35 IDE to USB Aluminum External Silver HDD Enclosure Caddy For Laptop Notebook
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35 IDE to USB Aluminum External Black HDD Enclosure Caddy For Laptop Notebook
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35 IDE to USB 20 External Aluminum HDD Enclosure Hard Drive Caddy Blue Color
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525 IDE ATA PATA to USB 20 External HDD Disk Drive Aluminum Enclosure Caddy
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525 IDE ATA PATA to USB20 External HDD Disk Drive Aluminum Enclosure Caddy UK
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Element EN 3400 BK Ext IDE SATA HDD Enclosure 35 Aluminum USB 20
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Kingwin KF 21 IPF B Black Aluminum Mobile Rack For IDE ATA100 133 w Single Fan
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Kingwin KF 21 IT BK Black IDE Aluminum Inner Tray for KF 21 IPF B Mobile Rack
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I ROCKS IR 9300C SL Aluminum 35IN IDE HDD Enclosure
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USB 20 25 Aluminum Slim IDE USB HDD Hard Drive Disk External Enclosure Case
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35 Element EN 3400 BK USB 20 Aluminum External IDE SATA HDD Enclosure Black
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Pleiades 35 IDE Dual FireWire 400 Aluminum Storage 1394a
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Merax 25 SATA IDE HDD Dual purpose USB 20 Aluminum External Enclosure
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Kingwin Aluminum Alloy 25 IDE External Enclosure
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35 X MEDIA EN 3400 BKEN 3 USB 20 Aluminum External IDE SATA HDD Enclosure 2TB
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SYBA CL ENC35008 Aluminum external enclosure USB 20 for 35 IDE or SATA HD
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IDE to USB 25 Aluminum Hard Drive External Enclosure
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AcomData SMBXXXU2E RED Aluminum Blue SATAIDE 35 USB20 HDD External Enclosure
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Kingwin Aluminum Alloy 25 IDE External Enclosure
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SYBA CL EN35008 Aluminum 35 SATA IDE Hard Disk USB 20 External Enclosure
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Black Aluminum 35 External HDD Hard Disk Drive Enclosure IDE USB 20
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HELP NEEDED ON BUILDING A GAMING PC!!?

hey, i am building a gaming pc and would like to know if this is good
the speks i am considering to get are:

-Case - Antec 900 "Nine Hundred" gaming case

-Graphics card - Nvidia GeForce 9800 GX2 1gig free cod4

-MB - MSI P7N SLI-FI Motherboard - nForce 750i SLI

-Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400 free farcry2

OR

-Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 free farcry2

-Hard Drive - Seagate / 500GB / 7200 / 16MB / SATA-300

-Ram - Corsair XMS2 DHX 4096MB Dual Channel PC6400 DDR2 800MHz Memory

-Operating System - Vista home premium

-Power supply - Ultra LSP750 750-Watt Power Supply

-CPU heatsink - Ultra X-Wind CPU Fan Aluminum Socket 775 with PWM Control

-CD/DVD Drive - Sony DRUV200A/BR DVD/CD Rewritable IDE Retail Drive

yh so i would like to know if this stuff is good and wether i need better or not

THANKS !!!

well could get better mobo such as 780i, also i dn how much more the better CPU is but if its a big diff just get the lower one then OC it.....also find a diff hard drive.... you wan one with 32 mb cache, the 1 tb seagates are good and for only a lil over 100! hope this helps

Green Building: Intelligent Ways of Construction

Global warming refers to "the warming of the earth's surface around the world, based on documented information on the temperature that has been maintained by humans since 1880" (Nodvin, S. 2008).

There has been an increase in the news referring to Global Warming, March 27, 2008 the world woke up with a shocking event: the detachment of an ice sheet measuring 41 km by 2.5 km in Antarctica. Scientists argue that climate change is responsible for the rapid collapse of the ice cap that was detaching since the month of February, but global warming affects not only the polar icecaps, but also the fauna of tropical ecosystems, as this type of species "live to the limit of their maximum temperature, a slight increase in temperature is lethal" (Tewksbury, quoted by J. Tristan, R. 2008). Facts like these remind us that global warming is no longer an unknown subject and has become a problem that is part of our everyday life.

Despite the constant bombardment of the media with news regarding this issue, we are not fully informed about the factors of global warming, in fact, it is believed that cars are the largest producers of the negative impact to the environment; however, there is an even more damaging one: Buildings. These static works of construction are part of our daily lives, most of our work is mainly done within them, we spend 90% of our life in confined spaces and the concentration of population is much greater in these spaces than out of them (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2003. Quoted by Kats, G. 2003). However, we are unaware that they "produce nearly half (48%) of all emission of greenhouse gases which is much higher than what emitted by vehicles (27%) and by the industrial sector (25%) "(The American Institute of Architects. 2006).

To explain how the greenhouse effect occurs inside the buildings, lets imagine them as giant glass cubes in which the sun's rays penetrate throughout the day on the surface, which implies that the objects found within them will warm , an in so doing they "give back the heat in the form of radiation. As the temperature at which they heat up is relatively low, the radiation emitted has a long wavelength; this means they emit an infrared radiation, not visible. Over the years,  they will eventually give an equal amount of energy in the form of infrared absorbed in the form of sunlight, so their temperature  will tend to remain constant (although, of course, they will be warmer than if they were not exposed to direct action of the Sun) ". (Greenhouse effect, 2007). Thus the same thing happens in a greenhouse, where you can cultivate flowers and plants even though the outside temperature reaches lower degrees in temperature.

According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) the decade of 1998-2007 was the hottest of which has ever been documented. The global surface temperature for 2007 was estimated at 0.41 ° C/0.74 ° F over the annual average of 1961-1990: 14.00 ° C/57.20 ° F. (WMO. 2008. Quoted by Nodvin, S. 2008).

To counter this, a novel form of construction has been created, masterminded by a new generation of architects, designers and builders, who have expressed interest in creating a kind of architecture that is "friendly" with nature and sustainable over time, allowing the reduction of damage that conventional construction has done to the planet. This new form of construction is known as Green Building and is to "create healthier and more efficient, in terms of resource consumption, models of construction, renovation, operation, maintenance and demolition. The elements of green construction are: the sources of energetic efficiency and renewable energy, water management, waste reduction, specifications and construction materials preferably organic". (Taken from http://espanol.orangecountyfl.net/orangecty/enes/24/_www_orangecountyfl_net/cms/DEPT/growth/building/greenbldg.htm)

There is a perception that the construction of Green Buildings is much more expensive than conventional construction, and indeed this is true, however the long-term cost is significantly lower. Studies show that the amount of the construction of Green Buildings is substantially lower (2%) of what is expected and price increases are related to the costs of architectural and engineering that this type of construction requires. The sooner this type of practice of Green Building is included in construction; the increase of its costs will be less.  (The United States Green Building Council, 2002. Cited by Kats, G. 2003).

However, despite short term cost increases, Green Buildings provide long-term benefits that conventional ones do not offer, for example: lower utility costs in electricity and water, environmentally effective use of building materials, enhancing the health and productivity, long term economic return, reducing environmental impact, among others. (Environmental Services, 2008)

Colombia has within its Green Building the Chamber of Commerce’s green building in Bogota, built in Salitre City. This magnificent building has 28 thousand square meters distributed in two basements, three floors of public attention, five levels for staff and 500 parking spaces. It has electronic accessories that allow the entry of people arriving in wheelchairs or who have some type of disability that prevents them from entering by stairs. On the second floor is the convention hall, which has a capacity for a thousand people, and has the possibility of being sub-divided into eight rooms, each for one hundred users.

Another example of Green Building in Colombia is the Family Compensation Fund Compensate, located in northern Bogota: Stands out the use of glass on the facade and inside there is a mixture of aluminum and wood. The building has 16,579 square meters and one of its most important features is an "evaporative cooling system that allows natural air collection, and after an interior process the air reaches the top and leaves the building, so that the installation maintains a pleasant temperature that can range between 18 and 21 degrees Celsius (Metrocuadrado.com, 2006), and within the building the services offered are: "multiple stadium, gymnasium, aerobics room, spinning, gourmet salon, spa area, pool, Turkish bath, sauna, Jacuzzi, game rooms, library, computer room (Internet) , VIP lounge, cafeteria and auditorium of 150 square meters, designed as a space for Film Society, with projection equipment, and a retractable tier; and - Medical care: 50 doctors, vaccination, laboratory, dental, radiology, psychology, rehabilitation, nutrition, gynecology, diagnosis, prevention, surgery and medicine in general "(Metrocuadrado.com, 2006).

In Latin America Argentina presents a very interesting Green Building: the building Malecon Buenos Aires. This is an office building of 125,000 feet ² which was built on an abandoned industrial area (his garage was built on the foundations of a warehouse dating from the nineteenth century) in Puerto Madero, an area of redevelopment in Buenos Aires. The construction was made as a long strait block in order to minimize solar gain in the structure and terminations of east and west sides of whom are united. The broad north facade, the first to be exposed to the sun, is shaped to follow the path of the sun and has many deep screens with umbrellas that virtually eliminate sunlight during peak cooling months. The south facade, which reflects the geometry of the northern facade, is equipped with the same system of high-performance curtain of the other facades, minimizing the solar gain; open floor plants and high floors provide flexibility for multiple office tenants or future uses. (From http://www.aia.org/aiarchitect/thisweek02/tw0419/0419tw1cote.htm, May 2008)

In the U.S. this type of buildings have great technical and financial support from the public administrations; in Europe there are funding programs such as PAE (Fed-IDE), SAVE 3, Thermi &, among others, which in addition to providing aid, certify buildings that meet the exact standards so they are differentiated as Green Buildings, giving them green or eco-labels (LEEDS-Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, ISO 14001, EEA, among others).

Finally what is intended with this type of construction, grants and certifications is to reduce energy consumption and exploit natural resources, so as to achieve the prolongation of the service life of the planet and the reversal of the ecological phenomena as the greenhouse effect, among others.

About the Author

María Angélica Pérez Corcho.
Psychologist.
Minor in Economic and Consumer Psychology.

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