Well, the lack of responses certainly seems to indicate that water-cooling is less alive amongst the silentpc enthousiasts. :( You know, the question is - why bother ? These days air cooling can be as silent as water cooling, and the fact that instead of 50C under load you get 65C - who cares ? The...

No, you cannot make a 5400RPM drive from 7200RPM drive. Best you can do is enable AAM and hope it won't be noisy. Or sell it and get greens .

FYI that "temperature theory" contradicts the WD numbering scheme : http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/Flyer/ENG/2579-001028.pdf WD30EZRX = Western Digital (WD) 3.0 TB (30) 3.5 inch drive (E) Desktop Advanced Format/WD Caviar (Z) 5400RPM with 64MB cache (R) SATA 6 Gb/s with 22-pin SATA connector ...

but Techarp measure a higher surface temp for the WD30EZRX attributing to higher rotation speed. Seriously ? Getting the rotation speed from temperature ? Why not use crystal ball instead ? The only real way to find out the rotation speed is how SPCR does it, from rotation noise profile. Temperatur...

Antec TruePower New 750 and Corsair AX750 - no coil whine here (EVGA P55 SLI and MSI P55M-GD45 boards).

You should do the same i did. Remove all the unused drive bays. Only if the whole 3,5" drive bay construction wouldn't be riveted but only screwed in, i would remove it ASAP. 1/8" drill bit solves the rivet problem Of course it does... Except with my skills, i would end up drilling through front pa...

You should do the same i did. Remove all the unused drive bays. Only if the whole 3,5" drive bay construction wouldn't be riveted but only screwed in, i would remove it ASAP.

I have yet to hear my Seasonic X or Corsair AX. The reason is that if you really have something eating up 300+ watts, then usually the system is already louder than the maximum sound of power supply.

1) Look what Frostytech uses for cooler testing. No, it is not a CPU. Frostytech tests how good these coolers cool a piece of copper (38x38mm@125W for AMD and 30x30mm@85&150W for Intel). Sorry, but in my eyes that is not a relevant test. It tests the contact area of a cooler and heat transfer of it ...

I picked this up from the Frostytech site. They seemed to think that specific direct contact coolers work better with some CPUs and not so well with others depending on the placement of the heat pipes on the base. Frostytech thinks many stupid things. Anything they say is invalidated just by lookin...

cordis wrote:Now, I've heard that the 1155 mounting holes are the same as for the 1156, so is anyone actually coming out with a cooler specifically for the 1155 socket?

No one does specific 1155 coolers. Most of them are universal coolers (775/1155/1156/1366/AM2/AM3).

Measure it for yourself ? But AFAIK Seasonic X-650 is a standard size ATX PSU, so if your current PSU is standard size as well, then i don't see why it shouldn't fit.

However, I'm now torn between a solid Atom board/CPU package (say, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182233) with passive cooling (one less fan!) and the afore-mentioned i3 setup. If I give up live transcoding, which seems like a good idea, I don't need much more power than a...

No, no and again no :D. The differences between 2500 and 2500K are : - 2500K/2600K has Intel HD Graphics 3000 instead of Intel HD Graphics 2000 in 2500/2600 - 2500K/2600K has maximum multiplier of x57 instead of x41/x42 for 2500/2600 - H67 doesn't allow you to even use this x41 or x42, as it gives y...

You base your asumption on false statement. You see a 3.3GHz and asume that i5 2500 has standard x33 multiplier. While it is theoretically true, technically it is not. i5 2500 has minimum multipler of 16, maximum of 37 and maximum unlocked of 41 that is it (for 2500K, it is maximum unlocked of 57). ...

Nope. H67 does support turbo, but in case of H67, there is only the green part from those pictures, there is no purple "Overclocked" state. You have the turbo, but no OC higher than maximum Turbo Freq. That is all.

you will get same "overclocking posibility" with 2500 and 2600, without K. It's questionable, as usually the BCLK seems to hit the wall around 103-105MHz (with reference to current web results). However, as the fixed multiplier doesn't seem able to oc the four fores, it's doesn't matter at all. No,...

Any chance we can dismiss or confirm Asus's claim to have both iGPU and PCIe GPU active at the same time? Anyone with an Asus H67 motherboard out there want to give it a shot? I will be able to confirm it for you in 1st week of March, if that is enough for you. I'm waiting for my 2600K to arrive fr...

So its settled then? H67 can NOT OC regardless of manufacturer or CPU type. It is what NTNgod said after all. Exactly. Even if some H67 board offers you the control for multiplier, you are still limited by maximum multipler of a non-K version of the same CPU. It is useless for you that 2500K and 26...

The reason why fuses are inside the PSU is the fact, that if you fuse is gone, then there is a very high chance for something else to be damaged/gone. This way, you will RMA it and they can check for any other defects. Instead of that you choose to replace it yourself and use a probably damaged powe...

AFAIK/IIRC ASRock claims its board is able to do so, and this is exactly what I said, and what you have not understood. Claim where ? There is none of that on product page, none on the manual. If you mean "- Supports K-Series unlocked CPU", then you overestimate the importance of this line. It mean...

All H67 boards can run K-series CPU. But none of them can overclock it through multiplier change.

does this board have RAID? I don't see it, but there have times I've just missed things in reviews. I really don't use RAID anymore, but it would be nice to have it. I use The Cloud and usb external drives for backup. Are 6gbs SATA drives worthwhile yet?. No, it looks liek it doesn't (at least the ...

Then Gigabyte screwed up this option (again). Some motherborads with integrated graphics cards have these problems sometimes.

Then the correct answer is : it depends, look it up in manual of your motherboard.

Once you plug in a dedicated GPU, it deactivates the integrated GPU. Since SNB is power gated I'm assuming it shuts down the GPU completely. You base your statement on what ? Manuals for H67 boards say otherwise. For example ASUS P8H67-M PRO (manual, page 1-19, 31 of 74): This motherboard also supp...

Are the PCI/PCI-E slots shared ? Can i put a PCI-E card in the x16 slot and still use the PCI slots. Can i use the integrated graphics while having a non-graphics card in x16 slot ?

Hm... today E35M1-M Pro article is interesting, i expected a little lower power consumption, but it is acceptable. But what i didn't find out is how the slots work. I mean if i put a x8 HBA card in the x16 slot running in x4, how will the rest of the slots work ? Will PCI-E x1 still work ? Will PCI ...

My biggest issue with these boards is exactly the PCI-E x4 slot. Right now i have a Atom board with ION and full PCI-E x16 slot. I have a PCI-E x8 card in it ( http://www.intel.com/products/server/raid-controllers/SASUC8I/SASUC8I-overview.htm to be exact). Now the question is if it would work in x4 ...

Jeroenlol wrote:Its not only about the side panels, a case for €100 should be alot better made then this crap lol. No seriously I think its utter crap for the price you pay for that thing.

Ok, tell me what other 100€ case is better than this ? CM692 ? Don't make me laugh.

My friend bought a Fractal R3 , compare to a P183 I really didnt like the poor build quality it has. The side panels are sooo filmsie its like such poor quality... Really expected alot more from that case/company. It really comes down what does really matter. Flimsy slide panels ? Of course they ar...