Apple's OSX is extremely memory hungry. With 256m it won't feel snappy at all. 512mb is an option with the mini, as is 1gb. The last option is so hidous expensive that 512mb is as much memory any sane person would put in it. 512mb is ok-ish for OSX, but it won't fly. And the little fan is indeed fai...

After sickening myself with endless benchmarks, i just ordered the following: Antec SLK2650-BQE MSI K8N NFORCE3 NEO PLATINUM MD Athlon 64 3000+ Zalman CNPS7000B-AlCu 512MB DIMM PC-3200 DDR ASUS V9999 TD 128mb GF 6800 Seagate BARRACUDA 7200.7 80GB SATA 8MB LG DVD player The only thing that is slightl...

The following board seems to be quite nice, MSI K8N Neo Platinum, a test can be found here: http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.html?i=2036&p=1 Asus seem to be making not much mobo's for AMD64 (yet?), alot of shops seem to only stock the ASUS K8V Deluxe, test: http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art...

Thanks Edwood!

With Everquest II and World of Warcraft on the horizon the old online rpg bug got me. As a otherwise happy Apple user i will only play games on this machine, so spending too much is out of the question. I've got two items in this house which are 'known' dB-wise: - my iMac which is around 30dB (depen...

After reading too many reviews for this card and no reviewer saying something usefull about noiselvl's here it comes: How loud is the stockfan on a 'generic' X800 pro? Seeing that a X800 doesn't draw much more power than a ati 9800 ( http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=14668 ) and seein...

Ralf ofcourse.....

I once asked a g-friend how to spell her name after dating for months. It's not your name, it's my brain...

ting - your reply helped Good to see the zalman 7000 is not only good coolingwise but also 'do-able' installationwise.

Ralph - thanks! I just might go for a zalman 7000 on a s478

I'm sure this topic has come up before. It's just that i cannot find it

What is the best socket/cpu combo for an easy install of the heatsink? The socket A athlons seem very fragile, also the mobo's for socket A cpu's seem less 'heatsink friendly' than the intel socket 478.