At Tom's Hardware's notebook cpu charts -article they also comment MSI:s Fuzzy Board (and run it with 8800GTX). They seemed quite satisfied with the MB.

http://www.tomshardware.com/2008/01/09/ ... page2.html

Any news on the DTX -front? I'm eagerly waiting on these MB:s to ramp up because I have a couple of case mods in my mind.. It will be really disappointing if this form factor is going to end up as same kind of flop as BTX. If Intel and AMD have both tried to evolve the contemporary system and failed...

BillTodd wrote:Will the Topfield firmware support 400-500GB ? (Didn't Xp need a patch for these monsters?)

Yes, I've heard that someone has managed to get Toppy work even with 750GB hd.

Thanks a bunch. Both WD and Hitachi look like good options.

I decided to skip Fusion and got a NSK2400 as well. I'd say that there is around 2-3 cm between Xfires fan and the case lid. I guess it´s true that Xfire isn't that much more powerful than the stock cooler but it is definately more silent.

I ended up getting Aerocools XFire -HSF with 120mm fan. Fits like a charm and is reasonably efficient, quiet and was also pretty cheap (36 euros).

http://www.aerocool.us/p-cooler/xfire/xfire.html

Hi all, I´m helping my dad to update the hard drive in his DVB-C receiver (Topfield TF5100PVRc). The reason for update is that the stock HD (160 GB) is starting to get full and it runs really hot. According the info I´ve found the replacement could be any kind of 3,5" P-ATA drive. The problem is t...

Firetech wrote:Aren't Scythe bringing out a mini Ninja purely for HTPC use?

Yes they are, but I need to buy the heatsink in a week or so.

My initial reaction is why do you want/need a quad core CPU in a HTPC? I built mine using a fanless cooler on a T7200 core2duo mobile CPU, although if I was starting again I'd be tempted to base my selection around the board you've chosen and go for a regular C2D. The thing is that it is going to b...

Here are the links to the case and mobo (couldn't attach them to my first post).

Antec Fusion:
http://www.antec.com/ec/productDetails.php?ProdID=08738

Abit Fatal1ty F-190HD
http://www.abit.com.tw/page/no/motherbo ... YPE=LGA775

Hi everyone, I'm looking forward to assembling my first quiet-ish HTPC (I've done several traditional rigs though) in the following week or so. The components are following: - Antec Fusion -case (14(H) x 44.5(W) x 41.4(L) cm) - Abit Fatal1ty F-I90HD Xpress1250 -motherboard - 1x 2048MB OCZ PC2-6400 (...