Everyday life gets better for everyone. I am sure Indian children living in the slums of Mumbai with no electricity and no running water will wholeheartedly agree with you. And the coalminers of Shanxi province, China, also, who die of respiratory diseases and industrial accidents every day. And th...

I used to have a Samsung 501LJ in my Antec Solo. With the hard drive suspended it was inaudible from a few feet away sitting in front of the case. The other noise-generating components i used was a Corsair HX520W, a nexus 120 mm @700rpm and as CPU cooler a Zalman ZM-9500 AT @1350 pm. Of the four (ha...

Buy one with 256 Mb of memory! It will make no difference what so ever regarding processing of HD video. And even if you are going to run games i would recommend the 256Mb version. You won't be able to run games at higher resolutions where 512Mb of memory might make a difference since the GPU is to ...

I would also recommend the Scyth Ninja Mini. It is the perfect heatsink for this case. I have the NSK-2480 and using a ASUS P5E-VM HDMI with a Pentium E2160 clocked to 3.0 Ghz CPU temp is around 32 degrees at idle, at load it goes up to low 40-something. This is with no fan on the heatsink. Instead ...

cpemma: yes, 3.0 Ghz using onboard graphics.

I have this board since a couple of weeks, running Vista x64. mhv10: Using the HDMI to output digital sound to a Samsung LCD-TV works perfectly. It worked right out of the box, using the bundled Intel VGA Driver. I was surprised at how easy it was, also having the feeling that this would be somethin...