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16dBA

Anybody else wanna see spcr test this?

Hmmm... perhaps you are right and RAID 5 is the safer way to go. Does anyone know the performance difference between RAID 5 and RAID 0? I understand that you lose in effect one disk-worth of space to parity information. How does parity computation affect the CPU? Software RAID 5 will be slow. Can't...

This is depressing, first you're posting in the wrong place to get answers about storage performance. Read this first... http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2101 Then post on their forums. What is it you want to do with this set up? Serve data, load apps faster? App loading is dependent ...

Hi there. I've been heavily engrossed in reading reviews for all sorts of computer compoents over the past few days, as I'm looking to perform a complete overall, having been out of the country for a year. My current system is an Athlon XP 2000+, Geforce 4 AGP. Since I'm upgrading to PCIe and an At...

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The cholcolate starfish stickes again!

All your bases are belong to us. Yeah, marc emery is being charged because Canadians don't stand behind their citizens enough. You think that we would allow you guys to extradite people to canada for excercising our rights? Noway! Maybe canadians don't have the desire and power to protect it's citiz...

Athlon64 3200+ Venice
Asus A8N-SLI Premium
Corsair Value Ram

Nix the NB cooler with the Asus mobo. Everything else looks good and it looks like your going to save some cash!

Dump the DFI for the asus premium and dump the ram for value select. DFI won't help you OC that chip any better than the asus and the asus is more quiet and more stable. That ram, I got TCCD too, I thought ram speeds were important once. Silly us, get corsair value select. Everything else looks grea...

Well it doesnt have any problems cooling a 3500+, OCd x800XL at 450/550 and the nF4 chipset and with good temps. check my sig for details.. beware of the ugly mutilated case though :lol: LOL! I thought I was the first to use one of those cheap vga coolers as a waterblock for the NB! I'm impressed t...

Are you cooling more than just the CPU on the res1? Are you OCing that winnie? I'm curious cause I hear that people who put too much on that cooling system simply have problems under stress testing causeing the system to shutdown. I also read that a guy solved a lot of his overheating issues by putt...

So, no psu fan and a 120mm fan blowing inward? You have an exaust fan right?

When you rma, you need to have them cross ship you by putting a hold on your creditcard. With asus, it comes in two days.

The 3500+ chips are great overclockers, especially the Venice cores. Venice is an overclocker’s word for God; they are amazing and almost completely idiot proof. I had my last chip, a 3500+ Winnie up to 2.75 GHz stable. My RAM, mobo and sub-par memory controller on my chip were holding me back, I a...

Any MSI-SLI plat user will tell you that it wont fit while the board is in SLI.

It's perfect! How far have you clocked that 3700?

alglove dawns the crystal ball of tech support +4 on that one. Good job!

i guess an important factor to point out is the noise level. being spcr, the pertinent question is: will you be able to quietly use *this* radiator to cool *that* setup? :) Excellent Point there, that's why I'm using the triple fans. outside the case with the eheim pump to keep the fans away from t...

I'm running a black Ice III on a 7800GTX and a venice 3000+ OC'd to 2.943GHz. I hope it survives prime95 overnight! Still cannot believe that the BI 1 cannot handle the thermal dissipation. I just talked to a guy with a similar setup and he loves it. He told me that the BI2 could handle my processor...

Damn, running a barton must be HOT!

I agree, that makes much more sence now.

I believe that ram runs like raid0 so bandwidth won't be an issue with 4 sticks even if you ran them at 333. Timings on the otherhand might be not that it makes much of a difference. This is incorrect. Each 32/64 bit word is stored completely on one memory stick. The reduced clock rate would slow t...

Welcome to the boards. I agree the DFI board is a great board, so great that it really doesn't make a difference whether you get a 3500+ or a 3000+.

Anyway, Mike is the board admin and seems pretty cool and knows a heck of a lot about keep your computer hush.

Again, welcome to the boards.

I believe that ram runs like raid0 so bandwidth won't be an issue with 4 sticks even if you ran them at 333. Timings on the otherhand might be not that it makes much of a difference. I think that 2x1GB sticks is fine if you don't want to have to upgrade for awhile. I would be inclined to get 2x512 a...

Cant do it yet, the 1GB ram stick if thats what you want is going to have to dial back the timings. Also, you probably don't want to run on one 1GB ram stick due to bandwidth issues. It might hurt when you play games. My TCCD dropped frames all over the place when I took out one of my ram sticks to ...

Yeah, email dan at dangerden.com and he's an expert and he'll tell you for sure. They sell all that stuff.

Interesting stuff Kesv. Thank you!

needs ram heatsinks but I would go with an eheim pump. Black ice is certainly enough

CM makes solid cases IMO, I love the way that case looks and it's at the right price.

I really appreciate your suggestions. Iron sharpens iron, right? If SLI is going to be a huge heat/noise source, then I don't really want to go that way. As far as sound is concerned, I usually go on-board (especially w/ ABIT's 7.1/ off-board card solution). What is the problem with the Neo4-F? I'v...

I'm in the U.S. and the C5 is 33% cheaper here than the 530. :shock: So by all means I like the 530 more for just a little more cash, it has two 120mm fans inside! :D PSU wise I would stress to go higher quality. I like the Antec 430W True Power 2.0 but while it seems to be cheaper (25%) it's also l...