The thing is, nowadays high wattage sells. It's simply a fact. Too many times I see "enthusiasts" with 850W+ PSU powering rigs that at worse would require a 400W PSU! I don't know whether it's future-proofing, for the ease of mind or simply e-pen but it's happening. None of the above, it's simply i...

These drives will definitely work with any non-nVidia chipset laptop with more than two USB ports. Other than that, you're on your own (most chipsets have two ports per root hub, which is where the power comes from, and nVidia ones are broken by design and often place up to ten ports on the one root...

Have a look at this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6817332017

_MarcoM_ wrote:Is the lan a pci ethernet, or a pci-e? It is unclear from the review.

The frankly impressive three different NICs their site has downloads for suggest PCI-E.

bgiddins wrote:What are the new Mac Airs like?

Is the software required Windows only?

Macbook Air? Overpriced and overhyped.

What software?

I don't think there are any fanless laptops, at least from Lenovo. Thinkpads are fairly quiet however, and in many of them you can turn the fan off from software for quite a while without overheating.

I have had eight USB devices plugged into my GF8200 at one time without incident: Saitek keyboard, Logitec trackball, Canon printer, Epson scanner, flashdrive, Nikon camera, USB Transit, and AVerMedia Volar. But I think only three are USB 1. And they weren't all actually being used at one time. And...

Greg F. wrote:but their chipsets are designed by people on drugs.

those people on drugs have managed to produce an integrated chipset that will reproduce HD video with 24fps. That is something that the 780 cannot do.

At least the 780G can handle more than a couple of USB 1.1 devices.

Not much about the GIGABYTE GA-M78SM-S2H which is the nVidia 8200 version of this board. Looks exactly the same other than the chipset. Any advantages of one over the other? The 8200 board is cheaper. :) I'd say the 780G board has the advantage of not being an nVidia chipset. I prefer nVidia GPUs (...

AMD card had 580SP, Powercolor card had 640SP. Until SPCR can test the HD4830 with the correct BIOS I'll assume the difference is because of the disabled SPs. That is completely illogical. The idle power differences must be due mainly to reduced voltages and secondarily to reduced clockspeeds. Yes,...

Not really. Especially considering current nVidia GPUs can do the work onboard via CUDA.

my experince is that many highend DAC's for headphones actualy fields the same chips as my X-FI Elite Pro And those DACs don't come with unstable drivers. Yup pretty much right - at these price ranges products are handmade and tested well. Whereas Creative cards make more money, are not handmade, a...

runep wrote:my experince is that many highend DAC's for headphones actualy fields the same chips as my X-FI Elite Pro

And those DACs don't come with unstable drivers.

brenta100 wrote:Good point about the sound card...it might be worth it to hear how the onboard sound is before I buy the X-fi.

Warning: X-Fi's are a very bad idea. They're buggy and like to cause BSODs. If you decide you want a dedicated card (highly recommended, btw) try an Asus Xonar DX.

That system I am planning to run on LInux Gentoo and Win XP, so I think that better support has ati3200 than ati 2100 in linux kernel, but not sure. Neither is supported directly by the kernel. radeonhd might handle both, but likely not very well. Certainly the older chip is more likely to work, no...

So are you saying that in systems with 4GB of RAM, 32-bit Vista/XP does not reserve some memory addresses between 3GB and 4GB for I/O regions for memory mapped peripherals, and that all 4GB is available for processes? No. I don't know about Vista (and don't want to), but in XP there are other compl...

The amount of RAM addressed by Windows depends on the graphics card memory and cpu cache. 32-bit Windows can address a maximum of 4GB of memory, which means that when you put 4GB of RAM in the PC it will subtract the graphics card memory and CPU cache from this total. So if you have a 512MB graphic...

The amount of RAM addressed by Windows depends on the graphics card memory and cpu cache. 32-bit Windows can address a maximum of 4GB of memory, which means that when you put 4GB of RAM in the PC it will subtract the graphics card memory and CPU cache from this total. So if you have a 512MB graphic...

I have a 7800GT, a 6600, a 4200, etc and have never had a single problem with Nvidia cards of any make or model. I simply won't take the chance of having the problems that are widely reported on current Nvidia cards. I don't think I have ever had any computer hardware from any company that hasn't h...

@Monkeh16: Yeah, I built a few home NAS servers for friends using the sil port multipliers from Addonics. Great little buggers. Bit steep @ $85/ea. though. Only thing I haven't done was tried polling SMART queries from individual drives with it. http://www.addonics.com/products/host_controller/ad5s...

If you value your data, STAY AWAY from the cheap Silicon Image SATA cards. They're known to corrupt your drives. Should you decide against that warning, www.mono-price.com has them for cheap. Spend a few bucks and get a decent Marvell PCI or PCI-Express SATA controller. There's nothing wrong with S...

If you value your data, STAY AWAY from the cheap Silicon Image SATA cards. They're known to corrupt your drives. Should you decide against that warning, www.mono-price.com has them for cheap. Spend a few bucks and get a decent Marvell PCI or PCI-Express SATA controller. There's nothing wrong with S...

Try it and see what happens. There's a good chance it'll work. If it doesn't, then you need to get a new board. Within your budget, this would probably suit: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128347 Personally I'd highly recommend one of these, having experience with them, but...

bonestonne wrote:the E7200 comes with that new lower profile intel cooler?

maybe look for a stock quad core cooler for it.

The quads come with the same low profile heatsinks.

protellect wrote:Any of the models by Gigabyte that start with "GA-P35-yaddayaddayadda" are my recommendation. They are mostly the same thing with different features [an "R" designates RAID, the DS4 has dual 16x PCI-E, etc]

Not if it's a P35 it doesn't.

Frez wrote:The Q6600 has 2MB cache per core compared to the 3MB per core of the E8400.

No, the Q6600 has 4MB of cache per pair of cores, and the E8400 has 6MB of cache shared between both cores.

Thanks.. I will give the stock cooler a try and see what the results are.. Any idea what a normal temperature range should be with the stock cooler? What I also may do is try an E1200 that I have for another PC and see what the results are.. According to the Intel website both have the same TDP so ...

Not sure what "TIM" is but I think you are referring to thermal grease of some kind.. I am using AS5 which I always use.. Thermal Interface Material. AS5 is fine (I use it). If it is the proc, how would I prove it and do you have any idea what the warranty period is on a proc? Fit an Intel stock co...

I'm not sure what you fed those PSU calculators, but you got the wrong numbers out of them. A 620W should be enough for that machine, although it's a little closer than I'd like.

If you have stability problems under load, a 750W will cover it.

Unless you've got two faulty heatsinks, or a very low socket (both unlikely), I'd say there's something wrong with the CPU itself. Those temperatures aren't normal.

I'm going to assume you are applying TIM?