someone had the good idea to actually save the form... I forgot to do it and now they removed it from there website.

hehe sorry, I'm in the US (well not yet but I will be)

Your cpu choice happens to be the same as mine (on order, not yet received) and I'm going to cool it with an Arctic Cooling alpine64 92mm. I used the same on a Athlon 4000+ system I built about a month ago, and besides being cheap, it is quiet and sufficient for these processors that don't dissipat...

2 . Not a quietness question, but a general computer-building one. Description of ASRock board includes the phrase "1 x COM Port header". Am I right in thinking that a) COM port is a synonym for serial port? b) header means a bit to which I could attach some kind of cable, with a connector on the e...

Hehe thanks for the input. I may go for the Gigabyte even if it doesn't have undervolting as it will leave more room to put a big heatsink ( I hope so). Having a 6150 would be nice but I guess it is not that usefull since the machine will run in console mode most probably. I looked for the Asrock bu...

I am currently in the process of bulding a Linux server based on the AM2 Platform. Almost everything is settled down except for motherboard and the heatsink that will go on top of it. Here are the main components I have chosen: Case: Antec P150 PSU: Antec Neo HE 430W (Included in the case)[ HDD: SAM...

I have not yet bought my system but I just looked at the DS3 and none of them are for the AM2 Platform so this is not an option for me. Maybe if the Intel processors go down enough after the price cut it will be worth it but for now it would increase the price of the machine by a fair margin.

I was also looking to build a powerful server that would be my only computer always one that would be used for a web server, downloading maybe hosting game server too. I tried to go for something that is quiet while minimizing the cost here is what I came up with: Antec P150 (Power Supply is include...

Good point; I don't think I've done a cold start at 1.125v yet, only hot or warm starts. Since I leave my PC on all the time running folding@home now, I haven't had the opportunity to do a truly cold start. I'll give it a shot maybe this weekend and see if it boots up. Some mobos will actually appl...

I've been looking in CrystalCPUID myself and there was one thing I wondered. The interval time is seems significently higher then what CnQ use (I've read CnQ react in a matter of nano secconds) while the CrystalCPUID react in a matter of seconds. Has anyone noticed anykind of slowdown using crystal...

I've been looking in CrystalCPUID myself and there was one thing I wondered. The interval time is seems significently higher then what CnQ use (I've read CnQ react in a matter of nano secconds) while the CrystalCPUID react in a matter of seconds. Has anyone noticed anykind of slowdown using crystal?...

Older drives are making more noise then newer one. You could do yourself a favor and buy a 200GB for under 100$ which is probably les then what you have paid in fans.

ronrem I don't know for sure but the coolermaster BLUE ICE (I think its the one you are talking about) seems very big and I don't think it would fit in my case.

I don't think a 20mm tall fan would fit in my case. Ahh well I'm like you I don't like to risk the price of the motherboard. If I had know the chipset was that noisy I would probably have bought the a8n-sli premium (though it has a 100$ price premium over it :-/ ) but right now I would need to inves...

Yes, I think I maid a mistake when buying the NB-1. But I did remove the previous heatsink (original) because it was totaly dead I really didn't liked trying to remove the heatsink because I was a bit scaredto break the northbrindge since everyone seems to say how it is fragile and ppl have experien...

I can keep my finger about 4 seconds before it start to burn so I guess its probably very hot without the fan.... I would still prefer to keep my current northbridge since I already paid for it

Hi, I currently have an asus a8n-e and I've changed the northbridge for a thermalright NB-1. I have a 40mm (or 45 I don't remember) fan running at over 6500 rpm. (which is excessivly noisy.) I tried removing the fan completly but it gets pretty hot for my tastes so I'm not sur I wan't to leave it fa...

you can look for PCIe Benchmarks. From what I know agp are about the same (maybe a few percent lower).
Toms hardware has some benchmark for the standard 6600 PCIe.

mine stays between 30-35 at idle with no cool'n'quiet and reach a high 41C under full load. My fan is totaly innaudible compared to anything else in my pc.

I can't find it anywhere in Montreal.... I would have bought the papst if I had it but seems like 40mm fans aren't running around to much. Beside I would prefer to buy them in store because I'm not a huge fan of paying the same price for shipping as the item....

someone know an other fan beside the papst that will fit in the same holes as the original fans (for the Asus A8N-E same as A8N-SLI)

do you use any sort of fan control program to regulate your fan speed?

seems like older bios had Temperator monitor enabled but newer ones have it disabled. Or something like that. They didn't wanted ppl overclocking too much I guess

This site has all the Bios or close to for most card. It also has a tool called Nibitorv that can modify the bios for you.

http://www.mvktech.net

For Canada- NCIX.COM seems to list it but it's out of stock? Maybe contact them? http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=14425&vpn=GV-NX66T128VP&manufacture=Gigabyte Please let me know what they respond with. :) Ted Dated Apr 06, 2005 at 04:41 PM reply from Ncix Support Unfortunately, we have no...

Well, for those who didn't want to put a passive Heatsink it could be an alternative I guess (for me, but not to sure its worth 50$...)

I've heard the DFI boards are quite with the stock fan...

seems like the Canadian distributor didn't started distributing it because everystore I checked or called are backordered with no estimate date. I'll try to contact supercomp or something

[quote="needmorstuff"]warranty only voide if yuo can't put it back how it was before
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but I've read you must bend some pin of the heatsink to be able to put a 40mm fan on it... so puting it back as it was before could prove hard...

Just a quick question... replacing the fan for a 40mm fan will void the warranty right?