I've read various threads on quiet mice several places, including here, and it seems nobody ever came up with a good answer. It was always either: use another input device (tablet, etc), tear apart your mouse, or wrap yourself in foam, etc.. not useful at all :) Personally, before I present the solu...

Chancellor Martok, I'm planning on getting 2 gigs of memory. I do a lot of memory intensive tasks, such as image manipulation and 3d, and I've lived with the restrictions of only 512 mb for far too long now. As for your maya and radeon question: Not having owned one myself, I cannot verify any of th...

Thank you guys for the added feedback. A few replies are in order. markjia, I did consider it, but I found that canterwood suits me better. I like the idea of ECC memory, and from what I've seen, springdale seems to have inconsistent test results. Sometimes bad, sometimes really good, while canterwo...

Thanks for the advice, I feel reassured now. And thank you for the welcome!

I'm going to build a new system from scratch that has to be as close to completely silent as possible. It's not screaming high end, so maybe there's hope ;) Here's what I have so far: Case : FK-330 PSU : Seasonic Super Silencer 400 (whatever new revision comes out) (if needed, I'll change the PSU fa...