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Summary: We're proud to present the 1st Biennial Eternal Battle: 5 days of system building guides. The plan? Step 1: Build the ultimate gaming system Step 2: Build the ultimate workstation Step 3: Put both systems head-to-head Step 4: In videogame fashion, reveal the true nature of the boss.
Step 1: Build the ultimate gaming system with a no-budget, but don't waste money approach Step 2: Build a mission-critical workstation with a focus on stability Step 3: Put both systems head-to-head in the first biennial Eternal Battle. Step 4: In classic videogame fashion, reveal the true form of the final boss and continue the battle Our results might surprise you… Part 1: Building an Ultimate Gaming PC
Life is about struggles. As a kid, the struggles were simple. It was all about getting that kite to fly or whether you wanted vanilla or chocolate ice cream. As you grew up, it got a bit more complicated as you started to have responsibilities not only to yourself but to others, and one of the battles we all face daily is choosing between work and play. Admit it, if any of us won the lottery, we'd certainly go for an early retirement or at least cut back on our hours at work. This debate between work and play is reflected every time you build a computer. For any given budget, we're always balancing our need for performance, reliability, and the realities of our budget. With an unlimited budget, we certainly can go all out and get the very best of products, but few of us truly have an unlimited budget…
Dual versus Single CPU
The debate between single and dual CPUs will be resolved by next year. Everyone will need two cores in the future, and the question will change to who needs four CPU cores (through a pair of Dual Core CPUs). Dual-core for games today
Today's games aren't multithreaded. So, when designing a gaming system only one CPU core is needed. Therefore, the fastest individual core is going to be what's important for having the fastest frame rates and the fastest benchmarks. In real-life, when you're playing a game, your CPU still needs to spend time managing memory, the swap file, all while keeping your real-time anti-virus file scanner and firewall active. Everyone claims to run a clean system, but how many of us have been dropped out of a LAN game because we received an instant message? How many of you have a torrent downloading in the background while you game? Dual core CPUs would help there.
Choosing The Platform
In the choice between AMD and Intel, there's little debate. If we're looking for the fastest gaming performance, it's going to be with NVIDIA SLI. With Intel SLI products not yet widely available, we're going with AMD. (This article is being written in May 2005). However, even if Intel SLI boards were widely available, the Athlon FX-57 CPU would still our choice for the fastest gaming system. The FX-55 is already faster in real-world gaming than the P4 EE 3.73GHz CPU (and does so at almost a $250 savings) and the Athlon FX-57 should be even faster. Our FX-57 was a pre-production model. What makes Opteron 100's different from Athlon64's?
While the original Athlon FX-51 was a Socket 940 part and essentially identical to an Opteron 146, today's Socket 939 Athlon64 FX's are different. The Athlon 64 FX-57 differs from the traditional Athlon64 line-up in that it features 1MB of L2 cache rather than 512KB found in some AMD designs, and because it represents the fastest core clock speed. Both Opterons and Athlon64s have the same fundamental AMD64 core design.
The days of not knowing if your cooler would be sufficient for your CPU is gone. Manufacturers now make it easy to identify which heatsink works for which CPU, and with standardized thermal requirements, today's heatsinks consistently overshoot the minimum requirements. For non-overclocked systems, the differences in CPU coolers is more about ease of installation, operating noise, reliability, and looks than it is performance. Everything changes when you need to overclock.
Of course, when it comes to extreme performance overclocking, today's best designs are still liquid cooled systems with fan-cooled radiators. Actually, according to our contacts, by the end of the decade, both Intel and AMD believe that liquid cooling may become a "standard" component in enterprise servers. That is, forced air cooling will no longer be sufficient even for stock CPUs. Anyhow, that's 5 years from now. Zalman CNPS7000B AlCu $40 http://www.zalmanusa.com/ Arctic Silver 5
Our choice of thermal grease also remains unchanged from the last article: Arctic Silver 5. Arctic Silver 5 is one of the easiest thermal greases to apply with unparalleled performance. Although there used to be concern about the silver content of the grease, today's CPUs with large heatspreaders make the concern about the possible conductivity and capacitance a non-issue.
When it comes to motherboard chipsets, we can think of no other platform we'd prefer over NVIDIA nForce 4 and nForce Professional – even the famed Intel platform division that produced the legendary Triton 430TX, 440BX, and i875P loses in a matchup against "nForce4 SLI for Intel." The Intel team still has some SATA RAID talent that NVIDIA does not, but I wouldn't be surprised if NVIDIA's team ends up recruiting Intel platform engineers too. Which nForce4 SLI motherboard?
We've already done a round-up of most of the nForce4 SLI motherboards on the market. In that article, we gave the DFI LANPARTY nF4 SLI-DR our Editor's Choice Award and the MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum our Bull's Eye Award. Japanese Capacitors
The specification list for the DFI motherboard includes a bullet point that Japanese capacitors are used. This is a feature worth discussing – since it's not designed to suggest that Japanese-made products are better than Taiwanese-made products as some people might assume.
Since our desktop is supposed to be about lots of bling, an obvious choice was to go with the new XMS Xpert series with the giant programmable LED display. If you recall, Corsair was the original manufacturer to put the usage LEDs with XMS Pro. Conventional wisdom is that these gimmicks should compromise stability – especially the XMS Xpert which allows you to custom program the LED display through the regular memory bus interface… However, the point is that Corsair does not implement these features until they are sure that it does not compromise stability. We know this because we've been using XMS Xpert modules in a production system for several months and no matter how aggressive we are, the XMS Xperts keep on ticking without missing a beat. It is clear that Corsair's design team understands that when considering the balance between performance, "bling," cost, and reliability, that it's really a question of performance, bling, and cost and that there's never an option for anything other than 100% reliability. The LED panel is a large 10-digit alphanumeric display which shows real-time voltage, temperature, and frequency and allows you to custom program any message you want. It's cool enough to have these features, but it's even more amazing when you realize that this feature works without compromising stability. The Corsair 1GB Twin-X XMS Xpert 3200XL modules feature matched 512MB DIMMS with 2-2-2-5 timing running DDR-400. Corsair's XL modules with 2-2-2-5 do run hotter than standard 2-3-2-5 low latency modules. While extraordinary cooling is not needed, we would not be comfortable recommending those modules in a fanless system where the modules are only cooled passively. Any normal system with a basic system fan will work just fine. But DFI has custom-made PC5000 RAM from OCZ Technology available. These modules are rated to as high as 625MHz by running at 2.85V (standard is 2.75V)! Going with these modules would increase our ability to overclock the RAM, however the latency would also be increased to 3-4-4-10. One catch is that although these memory sticks are qualified at 625MHz, it's not as easy as plugging the modules in and running your applications. Running the Athlon64 memory controller at 312.5 MHz can stress the CPU itself. [image]
Particularly with Pentium 4 systems, low latency memory modules are key. They can represent the difference between two CPU clockspeeds. On the Athlon64, low latency should still be important, however while ultra low latency PC3200 should outperform standard latency PC4000 for most real world tests, it's going to be tough for 2-2-2-5 PC32000 to compete against PC5000 RAM. Which one is going to be better? You'll find out more in our benchmark article, but we ended up going with the OCZ PC-5000 modules. "1GB should be enough for everyone." Corsair TWINXP1024-3200XL $265 with XPERT LED alpha-numeric display modules $240 with XMS PRO with LED usage monitor $195 with XMS standard heat spreaders http://www.corsair.com OCZ Technology $300 OCZ EL DDR PC-5000 Dual Channel Platinum DFI nF4 Special $195 with for OCZ 2-2-2-5 standard heat spreader http://www.ocztechnology.com Running Total: $1500 SIDEBAR: $70 is a lot to ask for added bling of Corsair XPERT, but in a way it's like going for a Matrix Orbital LCD panel.
The power supply used to be an incredibly overlooked component of the system. At the turn of the century, most people did not understand why anyone would want to spend $50-60 on a power supply when a whole new ATX case with power supply could be bought for the same price. Back then, 250W was the plenty to go around. It really wasn't until the Athlon and P4 that people started to notice the effects of poor power and started to care about the available current on different voltage rails. Fast forward to 2005, and most people see 350W power supplies as the bare minimum, with most gamers opting to go to 400W and up. Making sure +12V lines have enough amps isn't as much of an issue, and I'd say that most people are returning to days of shopping by watts, with only the handful of die-hard power gurus considering things such as cross-loading (the idea that what you have on your +3.3V and +5V affects your +12V rail). Another interesting thing is that very few systems are drawing that much power over any extended period of time. That's true even with today's CPUs and SLI GPUs. You really won't be able to run out of watts until you start adding large multi-drive RAID arrays. On the other hand, the need for better and cleaner power supplies cannot be underestimated. Without question, we are all buying more powerful PSUs than we need when it comes to wattage. What has really been the case though is that PSUs capable of handling higher current are also PSUs that end up being more stable and reliable. Again, we're not really learning anything new – we're just rediscovering why the old super-stable SGI workstations would engineer 747 W power supplies when their CPUs were drawing just 17W and the whole system might only draw somewhere between 200-300W from the wall. Eating Healthy and Exercising
The issue about investing in a good power supply is that it's not a benefit you can see immediately. It's not like spending more on a faster CPU or a bigger HDD. With a PSU, you're just buying insurance and reliability. It's like eating healthy or exercising – you'll probably feel great eating the KFC all the time, and putting yourself on the Burger King Angus Diet up until the point you have your heart attack. So which power supply?
There are few unanimous comments in computing. You won't be able to get everyone to agree on which CPU to get or even which memory manufacturer is the best. When it comes to power supplies, however, the best of the best is unanimous – PC Power and Cooling. We've been using PC Power & Cooling even before high-end PSUs were the cool thing to do. Indeed, two years ago ,we used a Turbo-Cool 475 XE in our Dual Athlon MP and a Turbo-Cool 510 ATX in our Pentium 4 Storage Server. The PC Power and Cooling PSUs are really that good, and it's amazing that the design continues to be the reference PSU that has yet to be matched. For the desktop our pick is the PC Power and Cooling 510-SLI and for our workstation we're building tomorrow, we'll with a PC Power and Cooling 850W SSI. It's hard enough to stress a PC Power and Cooling 510W PSU, so I'm not even sure there's a good reason to get an 850W power supply. [cue mysterious foreshadowing music]
Turbo-Cool 510-SLI $230 PC Power and Cooling http://www.pcpow.com Running Total: $1730 SIDEBAR: Don't worry, we'll come back to the power supply in more detail later this week. [Wave Jedi hand] This is not a hint of what's coming up later.
While these BTX-style designs are not ideal for hot-swap drive cages, in a system with fixed HDDs, overall system cooling can be improved by segregating the heat into different zones, maximizing the efficiency of air cooling. While a traditional server case such as that from Chenbro or SuperMicro will still produce quiet and stable performance, this novel approach to system mounting is likely to catch on. This zone-based cooling approach, often erroneously attributed to being an Apple design, was actually found almost a decade earlier in the SGI Octane and works to maximize system cooling. Lian Li or Silverstone/Enermax?
The differences between these cases are in the layout of the power supply and hard drives. The Lian Li V-series places the hard drives and power supply at the bottom of the case. In doing so, the airflow across the hard drives is optimized because the power supply exhaust fan will also be moving air across the hard drives. The disadvantage is that the CPU is in close proximity to all of the major heat producing elements of the system (the HDDs and PSU). There is a funnel of heat below the CPU with a warm aluminum shield. Likewise, although the HDDs will have superb cooling, the PSU is under greater stress from all of the heat from those HDDs. Tread Lightly…
With the Silverstone and Enermax design, the motherboard is inverted but the power supply remains at the top of the chassis. This approach is designed to place the CPU as far away from the PSU/HDDs as possible. Dedicated twin 120mm fans provide a continuous stream of cool air. The hard drives are mounted at the rear, at the very top of the chassis. The chassis engineers envisioned gamers using PSUs with twin fans such that the PSU's second intake fan would also move air across the HDDs. The HDDs face the rising heat of the GPU, and so the stress on the PSU is also significant So…
To summarize, both the Lian-Li design and Silverstone/Enermax design work to improve cooling over the conventional ATX tower design. The Lian Li V-series does a better job keeping HDDs cool and is overall the easier system to work with, but the Silverstone/Enermax will be better at keeping the CPUs cool. It's just as effective at cooling HDDs if you're using a power supply with a second intake fan, however with a flagship PSU, you may need to make modifications. Other considerations include the fact that the Silverstone case offers a reset button whereas the Lian Li does not. The Lian Li also requires the use of specialized screws and tools (which are included), which can be a problem if you lose the accessories and the V1000 and V1200 can have trouble with large power supplies.
The fastest performing single desktop hard drives will be the WD Raptor 10,000 rpm drives despite the lack of S-ATA features such as NCQ. If we were looking for the absolute fastest performance and could live with the reduced drive capacity, they would be good choices. On the other hand, I never seem to have enough hard drive space. The true ultimate setup would therefore be a pair of Raptors in RAID-0 as the main program drive, a third Raptor dedicated for swap file and temporary files (a 36GB would be fine, but the 74GB is quieter with FDB motors), and then several large capacity 7200 rpm SATA drives for data. Placing the swap/temp files on a dedicated drive will speed up virtual memory accesses, and with a Raptor, it would be that much faster. The striped RAID-0 would provide superior read and write performance, and the remaining 7200rpm drives could be the place for video, audio, and all other large media. This isn't a luxury we can all afford. One of the key secrets to the performance of the Western Digital Raptor is its low seek times. However, with NCQ optimization the differences in seek time under real-world conditions narrows. Where the Raptor still holds the crown is with throughput. This is where RAID comes into play. In a RAID-0 Striping setup, data is read and written to alternative drives and as a result you can double the throughput both when writing and reading. In a RAID-1 Mirroring setup, data is written simultaneously to two drives. While this can actually slow down write speed, the added level of redundancy protects data against a physical crash of a hard drive. Most RAID-1 Mirroring devices do not accelerate the read, but more advanced RAID controllers will be able to read-stripe by requesting alternating blocks from each drive. What are the best 7200 RPM desktop drives for RAID-0?
On the desktop, our favorite 7200 RPM drive for RAID-0 is the Hitachi Deskstar T7K250. These 250GB 7200 rpm SATA-II based drives have a peak bandwidth of 300MB/sec and NCQ support. Most importantly, Hitachi has built these drives using 2 high-density platters each having 125GB. This increased density should improve reliability, but it will also increase throughput and reduce the seek times. Seagate also produces high-density platter drives (the highest in the industry with 133GB/sec). While this also helps Seagate improve reliability, the design philosophy between Seagate and Hitachi is substantially different. As a general stereotype, when comparing the two, Hitachi drives are engineered for lower-latency whereas Seagate drives have been engineered for quieter operation. That's just the stereotype, and everyone will be able to find exceptions, however that's just a design philosophy. No manufacturer will ever claim that their drive is anything but reliable and there is not a very good way to evaluate HDD reliability at this time.
The Hitachi Deskstar T7K250 makes sense in a gaming platform because a RAID-0 configuration doubles your bandwidth, but does not have the same benefit to the drive latency. Therefore, the best HDDs to use for a RAID-0 setup ends up being the one with lowest latency, which ends up being the Hitachi T7K250 when considering 7200 rpm drives. This approach of RAID-0 T7K250's should provide excellent performance giving us the best of all three worlds: low latency, high throughput, and high capacity. You can go faster with WD Raptors but dollar for dollar, nothing beats a RAID-0 Hitachi T7K250. Hitachi Deskstar T7K250 $130 x 2 http://www.hitachigst.com Running Total: $2200 SIDEBAR: Hitachi used to own Denon electronics.
Why Serial ATA is more than just about transfer rates
When you ask most people what makes Serial ATA so interesting, the answer is usually going to involve the super-thin cabling and the frustration of new power plugs. Some people may add that SATA 1.0 can support 150MB/sec transfer instead of a peak 133MB/sec of IDE, but we are all wise to the fact that most hard drives won't saturate an ATA 133 bus. The cabling issue seems trivial, but it's just as important as some of the additional underlying features. Having a single cable for each drive produces a point-to-point topology in which each drive can provide maximum throughput to the controller. With IDE, or even traditional SCSI, each additional hard drive can reduce the total throughput available to the system. Likewise, if you look at the SATA cables very carefully, you'll see that they're staggered. This is done intentionally so that when you hot-swap a drive, power is sent to the drive in a controlled fashion to limit the inrush of current to a drive. The drive will never get power before the pre-charge and grounding have occurred.
Normally, I'd take the time to ponder the ATI versus NVIDIA issue. After all, the X850 line has proven to be a top-notch GPU that most of us would love to own. Still, NVIDIA stole the thunder from ATI. There's no debate since NVIDIA beat ATI to dual modern dual PCI Express GPU support and those of us looking for top-of-the-line performance can get a pair 6800 Ultra's today, while it'll still be at least a month before ATI will have their new Crossfire GPUs available. Is SLI a waste of money? What about the GeForce 7800 GTX?
An obvious question is why we aren't going with a GeForce 7800 GTX in our article. Actually, the easy answer is that this article is being written in May (yup, we had our FX-57 then), a time when the 7800 GTX was not announced yet. This will also help us delineate the issues that arise when buying a "flagship GPU." Does it make sense to buy the flagship GPU or wait for the "next generation" GPU to come out? This seems like a tough question, but the real answer is straightforward – go with your budget, and buy as early as you can. So which 6800 Ultras?
For our GPUs, we ended up selecting a pair of BFG GeForce 6800 Ultra OC PCI-E 256MB. These cards feature a 1.1GHz memory clock and a 425MHz core clockspeed a small bump over the standard 400MHz. We like BFG graphics cards a lot as they have quickly grown from being the "start-up" board manufacturer (they came to the market in the GeForce 4 era) to probably one of the most consistently performing manufacturers to date. In a way, they are like the new Canopus of graphics cards, only with more reasonable pricing. We would anticipate BFG's GeForce 7800 GTX's to be just as good.
BFG GeForce 6800 Ultra OC 256MB PCI-e $550 each http://www.bfgtech.com Running Total: $3300 SIDEBAR: Tiled based multi-GPU rendering was introduced with the PowerVR PCX1 in 1997. The PCI bus did not have enough bandwidth to make it as effective as it could have been.
Whereas PC Power & Cooling are the unanimous choice for flagship power supplies, the closest thing to flagship optical drives are those from Plextor. I still remember my 4Plex SCSI CD-ROM with a massive 1MB buffer which came in a box so big you'd think there was a laser printer inside. Indeed, my 12x Plexwriter and UltraPlex 40x Wide SCSI CD-ROM still hold a special place in my heart. Even before Plextor was Plextor and was called Texel, they were always considered one of the best optical drive manufacturers in the world. (I actually skipped Texel drives in my upgrade path. My first single-speed CD-ROM was a Sony drive and then I quickly upgraded to the venerable 2.2x Toshiba XM-3401B. I was an early adopter for CD-ROM technology, paying what probably is the equivalent of buying blu-ray stuff today). Plextor's current flagship models are the PX-716SA and the PX-716AL. The SA is a Serial ATA model with 16x DVD+R write performance on 8x certified discs, and 6X write performance on dual layer discs! The AL variant, though being an IDE drive, is a slot-loading drive. We haven't seen slot-loading drives for sometime (since Pioneer) and this is something we're looking forward to seeing again. Plextor's new approach is notable because they claim to be able to use 3-inch CDs without any trouble or extra adapters. It's unclear if it'll work with "business card CDs." For media, I use Taiyo Yuden CD-Rs and DVD-Rs exclusively. The M.A.M. Gold media is better, but the Taiyo Yuden's are good enough for most. Plextor PX-716SA $125 http://www.plextor.com Running Total: $3425 Keyboard and Mouse
Last year, we recommended the Goldtouch USB adjustable ergonomic keyboard at ~$120. While the Goldtouch remains the best keyboard we've used to date for typing, the poor placement of the ALT button makes it a little less ideal platform for a multi-tasking user. We would still recommend the Goldtouch USB to writers or anyone else who spends most of time in the QWERTY area, but we've since found a great alternative.
Keyboard and input devices are definitely a personal decision, so it's worthwhile to head to your local store and to try out a few different mice. I'm not sure how good my recommendations are if both the keyboard and mice I've recommended are either discontinued or almost discontinued. I like to think of it as me being too picky about my input devices and Logitech just not being able to justify the expense to continue manufacturing them. Logitech Cordless Comfort Duo - $100 Logitech MX700 (Refurbished) - $50 http://www.logitech.com Running Total: $3575 SIDEBAR: Logitech mice are among the most reliable.
Microsoft's poor design choice aside, the floppy drive remains a critical component of your system. Many manufacturers still believe in DOS-based BIOS flashing utilities and refuse to support Windows based flash BIOS updates on the account of the greater potential for irreversible damage. Newer motherboards are able to update the BIOS via a USB flash drive. If you really cared about the a quality 1.44 floppy drive, you will need to go with a "sealed" design with a die-cast frame such as the 1.44 floppy from Teac (the original gold-standard in floppy drives) or Sony in which moving parts aren't exposed to the user's fingers (as is the case with Samsung floppy drives). USB double-speed read floppy drives are available, but I'm not sure who would actually benefit from that as opposed to a USB flash drive. 1.44 Floppy Drive $15 Running Total: $3590 Monitor
In our 17" LCD Round-Up, I mentioned that "all things equal," smaller LCD monitors would offer better gaming performance, even for the same advertised pixel refresh. For that reason we've opted to go with a 17" LCD monitor rather than a 19" one. Our monitor of choice for the ultimate gaming system is therefore the NEC MultiSync LCD1770NX. It has the excellent color that will let this system show the full efforts of video game artists, and the brisk pixel refresh that keeps smearing at a level that doesn't interfere significantly with your gaming. Since our review, the LCD1770NX has actually dropped in price, making it an even better deal. Last time we awarded it 1st place, but we're making this a Bull's Eye product.
Sound Card $35 to $280
Sound cards have really started to drop off in technology. The integrated soundcard on the DFI motherboard with Karajan isn't bad and is perfect when dealing with games and movies. We can improve the quality and performance with an Audigy2 or an Envy24HT. My preference is to go with the Envy24 as it offers better music performance, although the Audigy 2 should offer better CPU performance. A lot of people will be perfectly happy with the Karajan integrated audio though which his why I've left it as an optional upgrade. Speakers $150 to $$$$
Two years ago, we called the Swans T200A and M200A speakers are our PC speakers of choice. The T200A's remain very difficult to find, but the M200A's are available at Newegg. These still remain our recommended speakers when it comes to music. For movies and games, the Klipsch ProMedia 4.1 or 5.1 Ultra is our recommendation. Logitech's Z-5300e offers the best bang-for-the-buck in the lower-priced range. There haven't been any new speakers that really catch our attention. Ageia PPU?
We actually don't have a physics processor in this ultimate system build, but if it were available, we'd definitely put one in. You would be right to point out that most games don't support the Ageia at this time, but physics processing really isn't the big deal. You see, realistic physics are not entirely necessary in today's games. Yes, in the future, game developers might start incorporating things like modeling non-playable characters with Denavit-Hartenberg conventions and then using real-time optimization-based kinematics of virtual characters, but today's "rag doll" physics and hand-animated characters actually work just fine. Conclusion
So there you have it, a starting price of a little over $4000 for our "ultimate gaming desktop" with the sound card and speakers being optional. By going with a "no-budget but don't waste money approach," our $4000 price puts us in the same price range as Alienware and VoodooPC, only our system has better components such as OCZ's DFI Special RAM and the DFI LanParty nForce4 SLI-DR. We've also listed MSRP for several items in our build, so you should be able to find lower prices on the components we've listed.
This is only the beginning, and we've intentionally spread out our article. Don't forget to come back tomorrow morning, for day 2 of our 5-day event! The benchmarks are coming. |
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They ply the waters of the Potomac River with metal, spider-like prongs dangling off the bow of an aluminum johnboat in search of a voracious, piscine invader lurking in the shoreline's shallows -- the Northern snakehead fish (Channa argus). John Odenkirk, a Virginia fish biologist, and several assistants have caught and studied snakeheads in northern Virginia every year from March to October since 2004 for the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (DGIF).
The northern snakehead, a native of Asia that can reach 15 pounds, camouflages in vegetation and woody debris along the waterway's edge. Their mottled brown hues easily blend into the plants, flotsam and muck.
"That fallen-over sycamore is great snakehead habitat," Odenkirk said, pointing to a tree stretched across Little Hunting Creek on a recent morning outing.
He and his colleagues go "snakeheading" three times a week in Little Hunting, Dogue and Pohick creeks and the Occoquan River. They "electrofish," a method that shoots pulses into the water, temporarily stunning all fish within a 6-foot radius. The gentle current causes the fish to float aimlessly for a few seconds near the surface and the researchers scoop up the targets with nets. The wily snakehead is not easily stunned or scooped.
"They fight hard," Odenkirk observed, as a snakehead writhed to evade capture.
The year 2012 is pivotal for the snakehead project, Odenkirk said. In 2004, 2005 and 2006, his team's mean catch rate rose every year at a "significant rate," but in 2011 their catch rate was flat. That finding could be an anomaly.
"If it stays flat in 2012, that is very significant," he said. If the
numbers level out, it could mean that the population has stopped growing and has maxed out with available habitat, that the local environment is at carrying capacity," Odenkirk said. Reaching any conclusions now would be premature.
Why Catch Snakeheads?
DGIF scientists have been tracking snakeheads and large-mouth bass and analyzing impacts since 2004. They are examining size and abundance and changes from year to year. Odenkirk has recaptured 40 snakeheads to analyze
their growth rates.
Some anglers maintain that the snakehead is reducing the Potomac's large-mouth bass population, a popular sport fish. Odenkirk explained that the two species have "dietary overlap"; they compete for the same food, like banded killifish, pumpkinseed sunfish and white perch. Both are top-level predators and in the spring, they share the same habitat, but Odenkirk has not confirmed a negative impact of the snakehead on bass.
"The Potomac River is amazing," he said. "The watershed is productive. We are currently in one of the best large-mouth bass fisheries we have seen in many, many years based on catch rates in electro-fishing surveys and tournament-winning stringers."
Odenkirk summed it up: "The snakehead is here to stay." His message to the public is, "We still don't want these fish moved around and present in other systems, but the early hysterics may have been a bit too shrill. Time will tell."
The Snakehead Story
The northern snakehead was found in a Crofton, Md., pond in 2002 and exaggerations quickly went viral. Their ferocious appearance, snakeskin pattern, canine-like teeth and boundless appetite earned them the moniker "Frankenfish." They could "walk on land," some claimed.
No one knows how they got here, but theories range from home aquarists dumping them when the fish outgrew home tanks to intentional introduction for food. A popular food in Asia, they taste like pork chops, some say.
Invasive animals and plants are problematic because many can disrupt an ecosystem and some can outcompete native species. Snakeheads could alter the food availability and behaviors of other animals.
If You See a Snakehead
No one is required to report a snakehead, but DGIF requests that they be reported and killed if possible. Call 804-367-2925.
DGIF's web site states, "If an angler wishes to keep a legally caught northern snakehead, the fish must be killed to be in possession, and the angler must call the hotline and report the angler's last name, date of catch, location of catch and size."
It is illegal in Virginia to own a live snakehead without a permit. Federal regulations prohibit the importation of snakehead fish into the U.S. and prohibit interstate transport.
For more information, visit http://www.dgif.virginia.gov/fishing/snakehead-faq.asp and http://www.fws.gov/snakeheadfstotal.pdf.
Click here to see a video of Odenkirk working in Dogue Creek.
M. Ellsworth
12:41 pm on Thursday, May 3, 2012
I heard there are several species of snakeheads in these waters, including Cameron Run. Is that true? And are they good eating as I've heard?

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Last post: 10 months, 2 weeks ago | Thread started: Jan 26, 12, 9:21 a.m.
- clearThoughts
While on a full time job... which one do you prefer?
- Jan 26, 12, 9:21 a.m. – Permalink
- Gordy22
NYC - no question. Was in London for 10 years, been in NYC for almost 5.
NYC is just more convenient; cheap cabs, closer and easier to see your friends, better (goes on later) nightlife, great inexpensive restaurants, Lots of take-out.
That said, I do love London AND I'm further on in my career here, so a bit more cash.
- Dog-earJan 26, 12, 9:30 a.m. – Permalink
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LONDON... It's where REAL people live.
- Dog-earJan 26, 12, 10:49 a.m. – Permalink
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- Dog-earJun 30, 12, 8:20 a.m. – Permalink
- Douglas
Londoners seem to knock off work at a more reasonable hour, take their lunch break, and work less on the weekend. New Yorkers leave work at 2am, eat at their desk, and only take one day off. Londoners get 2month holiday. New Yorkers get 2 weeks holiday. The girlies in New York are nicer on the eyes, but have attitude to match. London will drain your bank account in the bat of an eye. NewYork is easier to do on the cheap. The MTA is dirtier than the tube, but will get you there faster. Buses in London take forever.
- Dog-earJun 30, 12, 10:43 a.m. – Permalink
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You are less likely to get shot when in London, but stand more of a chance of getting stabbed though. Be prepared for queues in London, patience is a religion. The transport system is a joke and so are the utility costs. Sick pay is generous and there are better holiday benefits. It takes longer to fire you than in the States. That having said, it costs a fortune to live here, but you're very close to Europe...
- Dog-earJul 1, 12, 8:57 a.m. – Permalink
- clearThoughts
Bearing in mind that for most part of the year it gets dark at 5pm in London
- Dog-earJul 1, 12, 9:31 a.m. – Permalink
- mydo
I only lived in NYC for 3 months. but that still wasn't long enough to get my head around the following; queuing to get into bars, taxi drivers not knowing where they are going (it's a fricken numbered grid, how hard can it be) and tipping for bad service for fear of being thrown through a window.
I lived in London 5 years before realizing it doesn't matter how many friends you have, you don't live near them and therefore it's too expensive to see them in the evening.
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Ville Leino, Andrej Sekera, and Jordan Leopold were back on the practice ice. Leino and Sekera are getting close, but Ron Rolston doesn't expect them Sunday in Philadelphia. With two days to clean up their game, it's an opportunity for the Sabres to work on closing things out. They blew a two-goal lead Thursday and put their goaltenders in a tough spot.
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220 foot drop into water and survives with a broken tailbone and briused lung.
He was on a school excursion and later told classmates dared him.
Google lists world diving record at 177 feet.
hell ya. Dude is a sav...lol
New hero. Who does that shit just for a dare? So he broke the record on accident? And how does one 'tear' a lung?
I recently watched the documentary The Bridge. It's about suicide from jumping off of the Golden Gate Bridge. It follows stories of a few jumpers. One being a guy that survived (without a scratch)
It's pretty interesting and worth watching.
Edit: I can't believe that guy said his friend was mad. Most people would have thought it was a suicide attempt and tried to help, then be relieved that he lived.
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hahaha epic gotta respect that
some come cross over...some come to win badass bets with their college buddies.
17 years old, no adult charges, high five
now wheres all the cellphone videos of the kids jumping, you know his classmates had to have copped that
Did he grab it?
If I were gonna jump off the bridge I'd do it in my skates. Huck the barrier. Might as well get a clip of it before i die haha!
So let me get this straight... his "friends" dared him to attempt suicide? Some friends.
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The rocking chair wobbles on its fragile frame. This is the third generation of babies it has cradled. Naptime for my young grandson is imminent. Jonathan rubs his eyes and fusses a bit, so I lay aside the afghan I am crocheting for his soon-to-be sibling. Jonathan's rocking days are numbered. I know that full well. But for now, he snuggles on my shoulder. His short breaths and fluttering eyelids succumb to sleep.
The rocking chair speaks to me of good times spent in its embrace. The harmony of our hearts beat a cadence of silent symphony. I remember time spent in the rocking chair on Granny's screened in front porch many summer afternoons. It was my favorite spot to read a Nancy Drew mystery or write in my diary.
Years later, my daughters would climb into my lap in the bentwood rocker giggling and wet from running through the sprinklers. Wrapped in beach towels, we read adventures from the library books we'd lugged home. No matter that the caned back occasionally threatened to dump its massive load. My two merrymakers remained oblivious.
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It started off okay. I dealt with beatings and near broken bones, dealt with threats and knives to my throat, things thrown at me and ridicule, neglect, and abandonment. But to have the sexual abuse start up again, and this time as more than before, I didnt know what to do. I was in despair, whereas before I felt things would get better. I now had to try to rely on a system that waited until it was way too late.
I was 10 and I think what started first when I was ten was my mother's part. I was in the bathroom trying to take a shower and i locked the door but my mother unlocked it with a butterknife. She said I wasnt allowed to lock the door and thats why she used the butterknife. But since I was in the shower and close to "becoming a young lady" she said she needed to teach me to properly wash. I was 10; I knew how to wash my body. So I told her no, that i already knew how to wash and didnt need her help, but she wouldnt listen. She pulled the curtain open and got in. She started to wash my body with her hands, paying particular care to my breasts and my private. I tried to push her away, and I tried to get her to leave me alone, but she wouldnt. It hurt badly,
and she was taking a very long time. I felt so disgusting. I felt ashamed and didn't know what was going on. I didnt know what to say, and couldnt tell anyone because it was my mother. My mother. Female-female. I didnt understand what was going on and didnt even think anyone would believe me because even when they did believe me they didnt do anything to stop them and they just made it worse.
Then came the man who was soon to be my stepfather. He began like any other "normal" sex offender. The usual molestation and rapes. The threatening and belittling. Telling me I wouldnt tell because I didnt tell about the other things in my past. Just like my mother told me when she hurt me. He and my mother took their turns unknowingly at first that each were hurting me. Each would molest and rape me in their own ways. Then they added objects and other things into it. My mother told me she was doing it to prepare me for the men in my life. I guess that was her excuse.
It was when they found out about each other's sexual abuse of me that they began to once in a while sexually assault me as a team. They would use objects and hold me down, my mother would be doing one thing while my stepfather would be doing another. They would make me do sexual things to them, threatening my life. At that time i still had faith in DHHS, so I didn't want to die. But when I did, they used my protective instincts for my sister against me. They would threaten they would harm my sister worse than my while i would have to watch if i didnt do what they told me.
It then progressed to have a religous aspect to the assaults. At first they would just recite words out of the bible and explain to me how it pertained to the assaults, how they weren't hurting me and how it was all my fault and I deserved it all. But soon after they would be reciting the words as they assaulted me, with incense burning in the background and a fairly large crucifix put to my head. One would hold me down and recite the words as the other assaulted me. Then came the christian songs, and them twisting it to fit what they did and justify it. They would call me a devil, devils child, evil spawn of satan, undeserving of good, selfish, nasty swearwords like s*ut, b**ch, w**re, good for nothing but sex, etc. I would have to listen to a lot of this even when they werent sexually assaulting me. They tried to kill me a great deal of times and only made me live so they could continue to punish me.
I would try to be good, clean, cook, do their errands, babysit, and so many other things, but i was never good enough. I tried to do well in school, tried so hard, but no matter what i was only recognized when i stood up for myself in school but aggressively, or accidentally hurt my sister or was blamed for something i didnt do. I could do no right. Whatever bad happened was always my fault even if it was completely unrelated and impossible for it to truly be my fault.
I would be crying and begging them to stop, wondering what I was doing so bad to have all of it happening to me. I didnt understand why I wasnt being helped even though they knew what i told them. I didnt understand why dhhs was leaving me to all of this even though they had been involved in my life for a very long time. I thought there mustve really been something wrong with me to have all this happening to me and nobody who wanted to help me. I didnt understand why I was so bad and didnt ever want to be on the face of the earth. I remembered back to when I was two and I wished I hadnt been born but I wished it even more so then than i did as a two year old. I didnt think things would ever get better and thought the world would be better off without me, just like they would always tell me.
I frequently went to my neighbor's house to escape. The ones I escaped to were wonderful great people but they couldnt care for me as often as they were.
By that point my alters were pretty clearly around. I didnt know what they were until much later in my years. I knew they were my friends and my allies; my only allies at the time, because even at school i was an outcast and treated badly.
It was my 6th time at Halifax house that changed everything for me.
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Some of you will know Raf Simons did take time off fashion early in his career – and was a very successful curator – he's now teamed up with Mercedes-Benz with a new project series, starting off this July 2011 in Berlin.
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Data matching involves comparing computer records held by one body against other computer records held by the same or another body. This is usually personal information. Computerised data matching allows potentially fraudulent claims and payments to be identified. Where a match is found it may indicate that there is an inconsistency which requires further investigation. No assumption can be made as to whether there is fraud, error or other explanation until an investigation is carried out.
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This drawing by Karin Uusikorpi of an owl is incredible. I found it by accident by looking through flickr. Karin writes about herself: " I am a prairie girl born in Saskatchewan and raised in Northern Alberta. I draw, paint and play with colour. I eventually will get back to making things out of clay. I have made art in some form or another since I was little & still do. I am always picking stuff off the ground and saving it for future use - I am a self proclaimed 'packrat' and 'magpie' that routinely tries to cull the collection of stuff"
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One of my favorite Flemish vanitas paintings is "Still Life with wild Strawberries" by Osias Beert the Younger. Vanitas is a type of still life painting popular in Northern Europe in Flanders and the Netherlands in the 16th - 17th centuries. The word "vanitas" is Latin, meaning "emptiness" and loosely translated corresponds to the meaninglessness of earthly life and the transient nature of vanity. Paintings executed in the vanitas style are meant as a reminder of the transience of life, the futility of pleasure and the certainty of death.
Osias Beert the Younger
Still Life with Wild Raspberries
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Pieter Brueghel the Younger
Still Life with Flowers
Jan the Elder Brueghel
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Scottish Highlands area is an amazing and magical place that is definitely not from this world. Steep bare mountains, strong winds, rainfall , swampy grasslands and many waterfalls, they hide one of the strangest animals - Kyloe.
Kyloe or Highland Cow is an ancient Scottish breed of beef cattle with long horns and long wavy pelts. ( They look a lot like mammoths or at least like giant,big headed, hairy cows) Highland cows are known are a hardy breed due to the rugged nature of their native Scottish Highlands, they graze on plants many other cattle avoid.
Other inhabitants of the Highlands are lots and lots of sheep. Sheep is everywhere.
Casamento, located in Cape Town, South Africa individually hand crafts furniture using recycled frames and only natural fibers throughout: natural non-allergenic fibers: sisal, raw cotton wadding, horsehair jute webbing, hessian and flock natural fibers.
I love lighting made from old teacups and milk bottles! (as you already could have guessed from my previous blog postings) I found this teacup chandelier by Domestic Construction and this milk bottle chandelier by Bonne Plat on the Conversation Pieces Blog - blog about finding neat, sweet and unusual items in junk and charity shops, online, and everywhere else in between.
Kaelyn Garcia's Organic Cotton and natural silk sateen circle dress.
Book shelves made from old books - http://www.littlefishfurniture.com/.
Nadia Nour is a fashion designer based in New York City. Nadia keeps manufacturing and sourcing supplies for her garments local and uses organics as much as possible - naturally dyed silks, fabrics that are healthy for people and the environment. Her clothing designs are sophisticated, high-end and chic but at the same time organic and sustainable.
This is a Folk Architecture Monument by Tomas Dzadon, Chezh Republic. Tomas writes: "The mistake is made. The socialist urban projects destroyed the marvellous countryside. I grew up in such an utopic project. I was lucky to be able to watch the Tatra mountains from my window. Finally that blocks were not so bad. The proportion changed. From family houses to 13-floor blocks. From houses built by their owners to flats built by the regime".
Projekt Mobilivre - Bookmobile Project is primarily based in Montreal and Philadelphia. It is a trailer converted into a small mobile gallery and library that showcases handmade books and zines from all over the world. Traveling through Canada and US, this bookmobile visits community centers, schools, colleges, libraries, festivals and artist-run centers. I happened to run into Mobilivre-Bookmobile while I was studying at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and was stunned by the idea of a traveling gallery/library.
Bookmobile is a vehicle designed as a traveling library. Slumgullion, is a collaboration project that strives to create community, empower young voices, and promote literacy and the humanities through the book arts and zines. It is based in Missoula, Montana. Slumgullion's bookmobile exhibits handmade books, art zines and is just like a regular bookmobile only it is bike powered!
*Above: Patchwork Harmony - http://www.patchworkharmony.co.uk
The wall of a beautiful housewares store Vessel in Boston is made with…...shipping pallets. Nice way to reuse old shipping pallets.
1. Chandeliers by Madeleine Boulsteix are made from old tea cups, jewelry, beads, marbles and kitchen utencils.
2. Droog Design Chandelier made from milk bottles.
Pando is a clonal colony of a single male Quaking Aspen located in the state of Utah, U.S. All trees in Pando colony are determined to be part of a single living organism with same genetic material and one massive underground root system. The plant is estimated to weigh collectively 6,000 tonnes making it the heaviest known organism and with the oldest root system known in existence at ~80,000 years of age.
Kusamono and shitakusa are a potted collection of plants. Plants used are typically moss, grass, lichen, small mountain flowers and plants, bonsai trees, bamboo, or bulbs, that may be arranged to heighten the beauty or reflect a certain season. Usually a collection is displayed separately in special pots, driftwood, or even stones. Photos from beautiful blogs: Shitakusamono and Happy Hearts at Home.
Terraskin, Via Stone and Fiberstone are tree-free papers made of minerals. Stone paper is similar to traditional papers only it has a lot of advantages. When it comes to printing Via Stone paper uses 20-30% less ink than conventional papers. Stone paper can be water-resistant, tear-resistant, recyclable and biodegradable. No water or bleach can be used in its production as well!
Two day hundred mile bike ride from New York to Lake Purdy and back.
Sycamore is one of the species of Platanus native to North America. It has been extensively planted in New York City as a shade tree. It can easily endure the big city environment, bears transplanting well and grows rapidly.
Above: Interactive U.S population map showing the population density in America.
World population map by National Geographic
Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's memoir in a comic book form in which Marjane describes her unforgettable childhood, growing up during the Islamic Revolution.
Waltz with Bashir - is a 2008 Israeli animated documentary film and graphic novel written and directed by Ari Folman. The film was conceived as a journey in search of Folman's lost memories from the 1982 Lebanon War. Folman designed the film as an anti-war message.
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I love these beautiful nature inspired wallpaper designs by William Morris. William Morris was an English architect, furniture and textile designer, artist, writer, and socialist associated with the Arts and Crafts Movement. The Arts and Crafts Movement was a British, Canadian, and American aesthetic movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries that influenced arts, crafts and architecture. The Arts and Crafts Movement was inspired by the writings of John Ruskin and a romantic idealization of a craftsperson taking pride in their personal handiwork. The movement was a reaction to the eclectic revival of historic styles of the Victorian era and to "soulless" machine-made production aided by the Industrial Revolution.
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