I can't speak for the ocworkbench bios, but I have no problem with underclocking my Asrock 939Dual-SATA2 with an Opteron 144 using the standard version 1.40 bios that came with the board. As far as I can tell, the only reason for using the ocworkbench bios is that it allows higher overclocking. Most...

I can live with some noise, but the stock fan sounds like an airplane taking off. Have you tried slowing down the fan on the 6600GT? I have a Leadtek PX6600GT TDH Geforce 6600GT 128MB and it's also very noisy with the fan at 100%, but it quiets down alot by just slowing down the fan a bit. Assuming...

Is anyone aware of any reviews on the Antec Performance CPU Cooler ? I just happened to see it on Antec's site today and don't remember hearing anything about it before. Is it new? Hmm, I just read the specifications and it is small, fairly light, and has a fast, noisy 70mm fan. Off hand, I would su...

There is a thermal sensor in the PSU already and it will s[peed up the PSU fan if things get too hot in there, so... the best thing to do is just try it. Yes, I knew that there was a sensor controling the fan speed in the PSU. In fact, I remember you saying, in a past review, that the fan controlle...

I guess my goal was to have one fan serve three purposes: Cool the CPU Cool the PSU Exhaust all of the warm air from the case If that were possible, the 120mm fan in the Seasonic PSU could be the only fan in the system assuming the air intakes were properly positioned to have cool air flow past the ...

I'm thinking about building a custom case and was wondering whether I could position my Seasonic S12-380 directly above an XP-120 and use the PSU's 120mm fan to suck air through the XP-120. The PSU fan would be in an almost identical position as a normal fan connected to an XP-120. Would the Seasoni...

How does the trend toward HTPC or SFF systems fit in? There appear to be some trade offs here between compact size and ease of access/modification. Also, how about standardization? I suspect that a case that's quiet with good cooling but that won't accept your choice of components would not be OK. O...

Sorry about that. I still don't know how that happened.

I meant to point to the guides section at pcapex.com. Here

There are a couple of guides to sleeving:Here

Edit: fixed the link

Sorry, if somebody only listens to my arguments about one point if I have to feed him him sugar about another point, then we are never going to get along. I'm sorry if my point came across that way. What I was trying to say was that I have found criticism to be more effective if offered in a respec...

Tibors - I learned long ago as a junior engineering manager that the best way to provide constructive feedback is to: 1) Say something nice to put the recipient in an appropriate mood. 2) Provide your feedback in the most constructive manner possible 3) Follow up with something else that's positive ...

I just searched froogle for seasonic s12 and found case-mod.com has the s12-330 for $46.25 and the s12-430 for $77.50. I did notice that if you go to case-mod.com and just check their price list, but s12-430 does not show the sale price, but I would not worry about that. I purchased 2 s12-380 power ...

I'd like to know why you consider it money well spent. With the number of modifications you've done, it seems like just about any case of a comparable size would be equivalent. Of course, you were able to use the 150's hard drive suspension, but with the reports I've heard about bands breaking, I wo...

My first thought was that this cooler was not listed as supporting Socket A. I was wrong. It is supposed to support Socket A. Unfortunately, according to Thermaltake's FAQ : Question: Will the Silent Tower, Beetle, Big Typhoon, or Sonic Tower fit my motherboard? Answer: The 4in1 series coolers utili...

It's sad to say that Antec has made some poor manufacturing/sourcing decisions in the past year that may cost them a great deal of time and money to recover from. This forum is just littered with comments about bad NeoHE power supplies, warped doors in 180 cases, and hard drive mounting bands breaki...

Would lower speed memory consume less power and run cooler?

nutball wrote:No, I'll be running Linux/MythTV -- I've installed Windows for now because it's easier to mess about with underclock/undervolt/CPUBurn/temperature monitoring things than Linux. Once I find some stable settings I'll wipe and install Linux.

Did you have any success with Linux/MythTV on this setup?

I rebuilt my primary system with an ASrock 939Dual-Sata2 and Opteron 144 last month and have had no serious problems with it. Things to think about are: 1) There are only 2 fan headers on the board and the fan speeds cannot be controlled with software like SpeedFan. This means that, unless you want ...

I have another thing you might want to consider: How many fans can be connected to the motherboard and can the fan speeds be controlled via software. The motherboard listing at: http://www.almico.com/forummotherboards.php might be useful. Of course you may have other methods for controlling fan spee...

Ihmemies wrote:Why no one can make a case with similar layout from acidproof (don't know better word) steel?

I suspect you are referring to what we call "stainless steel" in the US.

BTW, what is the rest of your machine like? Well, building this thing is a work in progress. The motherboard got here last week, but Opteron 146s were out of stock in many places for a while and the prices skyrocketed. I ended up ordering a 144 (should oc well) and it just got here yesterday evenin...

Just get a knife or something similar with a this point, lever ip the plastic clip/flap on the plug on the end of the wire wher you ft it into the motherboard, pull the wire. To put it into a different position, just push it. Yep, that should work. With the way the connection block is set up, the t...

I'm in the process of putting together a similar system with the ASrock mobo and an Opteron 144. (the Opteron should get here on Monday :) ) I was very interested to see how the Ninja fits on this board. You pictures clearly show that it works just fine. Thanks! I don't have a P150, but I have an ol...

Where did you see this? On the XP-90 page on Thermalright's site is a picture with a link to the XP-90RT (retail package). It goes to here. The RT includes a fan, but clearly not the Panaflow that they recommend on the other page. I was just curious what it was. It really doesn't matter since I've ...

Thermalright has a retail package for the XP-90 that includes a fan. The specs from the Thermalright site are: OEM Fan Size: 92 x 92 x 25 (mm) Bearing: Two ball Voltage: 12V Speed: 2400 rpm Air Flow: 44.79 CFM Noise Level: 35.0 dBA Weight: 70g Does anyone have any ideas on who makes this fan and if ...

Zed Lopez wrote:Look into the QEMU emulator (which is really fast with the KQemu accelerator) for running Windows ME within Linux -- it's easier than dual booting.

I'm currently using Wine, but it has it's problems. I'll take a look at QEMU. Thanks!

After reading your suggestions and doing a fair amount of research elsewhere, I've decided to go with an ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 motherboard with an Opteron 146 CPU. The ASRock mobo doesn't have gigabit lan or firewire, but it supports everything else I need, seems to work fairly well with Linux, and h...

A lot of you have tried to convince me that a system intended to last several years needs a dual core CPU. This may be true, but what, besides games would we do with that processing power? Is it possible that the future of "personal computing" could be processors with similar processing power as tod...

warriorpoet - Your suggestions could clearly put together a very nice system. You obviously have the ABit AN8 Ultra motherboard. Do you also have the P150 and if so, do they play nicely together? The P150 looks like a very nice case, and on paper, the NeoHE is a good power supply, but there are obvi...

Quicken? For basic home finance/budgetting I migrated to gnucash no problem (including 18 years of historic data from Quicken). It seems to have some advanced accounting options but I cant say I have tried them. Actually, I have Quicken 2001 running under Wine on Gentoo. I tried migrating my years ...