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- Mon Mar 09, 2009 4:33 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Seeking comments on planned new build
- Replies: 23
- Views: 8093
I wish I could, but I don't have a good screen capture program. The AA and filtering and HDR add enough slight blur to the overall look that 16 vs 32 bit isn't even noticeable. It all looks gorgeous and mirror smooth either way. edit: 16 bit color is 65K colors. A 1600*1200 monitor only has 1.92 mil...
- Mon Mar 09, 2009 4:29 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Rubber band 2" fan mounting did the trick
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5373
- Mon Mar 09, 2009 4:28 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: New Scythe Heatsink -- GODHAND
- Replies: 32
- Views: 17803
- Fri Mar 06, 2009 2:57 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Have you ever damaged a motherboard installing a heatsink?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4059
I've done it once or twice where the screwdriver knocked off a surface-mount component or made a gouge and nuked a trace. In both cases I fixed it with soldering and some very fine wire-wrapping wire. (30-40awg coated magnet wire, typically). Try to see where the broken trace is - and follow it to t...
- Fri Mar 06, 2009 2:48 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Seeking comments on planned new build
- Replies: 23
- Views: 8093
*I did drop the bit depth to 16 bits How do you do that? ATITool? ATT? CCC had no impact on the game, of course, and I couldn't find that option in the game settings. Well, I have two tools at my disposal: First is the ATI tool, which I can tweak to 16 bits. This vastly improves HDR and smoke/haze ...
- Fri Mar 06, 2009 1:55 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: OCZ PCIe 1 SI TB SSD
- Replies: 17
- Views: 10186
- Thu Mar 05, 2009 2:10 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Seeking comments on planned new build
- Replies: 23
- Views: 8093
From that review: 1680*1050 4xFSAA 16XAF That's quite silly, really. If you drop the resolution a notch, or the 16XAF to 4x, you'll not see any meaningful difference. I run far cry 2 at 1204*768 on my old 17 inch monitor with everything at nearly max settings and it's mirror smooth. On an old X1800X...
- Thu Mar 05, 2009 1:57 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: drilling holes in steel chassis
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3352
- Thu Mar 05, 2009 1:51 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Do suspended hard disks break sooner?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8447
- Wed Mar 04, 2009 11:50 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Seeking comments on planned new build
- Replies: 23
- Views: 8093
- Wed Feb 25, 2009 10:37 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Most PowerEfficient LCD 22" monitor
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11758
- Mon Feb 23, 2009 9:37 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Recommended Heatsinks updated
- Replies: 158
- Views: 264747
I ran across one review of the IFX-14 that used it passively *and* aligned with the opening facing the rear fan. And it was by far the best passive design that they had tested when it was set up this way.(basically the huge middle opening allows loads of air to blow past the two towers(since the are...
- Mon Feb 23, 2009 9:08 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Suggestions on homebuilt (cheap) cooling [UPDATE! 18/3]
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7850
What I did was open a drive bay cover for the air intake. If there's significant negative pressure, the air will squeeze its way through the opening at higher velocity and actually cool down. IME, a 3.5 bay cover or two are plenty large enough of an opening. The CPU heatsink, though, should have fin...
- Sat Feb 21, 2009 1:15 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Lowest heat Core2Duo??
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5249
- Fri Feb 20, 2009 2:42 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Accelero S1 included instructions
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3482
- Wed Feb 18, 2009 3:30 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: My first [quiet] build
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4380
I'd still get a Gigabyte motherboard - just not that extreme. The Gigabyte Ultra-Reliable motherboards are very good and run quite a bit cooler than the type without solid state capacitors. GA-EP45T-UD3P (rev. 1.0) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128369 Very good board - not...
- Wed Feb 18, 2009 3:15 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: is this a good set up for i7?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5934
http://www.hackint0sh.org/
This site is specifically dedicated to making these work. Better link than the previous one I posted.
This site is specifically dedicated to making these work. Better link than the previous one I posted.
- Wed Feb 18, 2009 3:08 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: New Solo build; component advice needed.
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7060
I second the raid 1 for important data. WD makes great drives made for raid - their enterprise models - and these are reliable. But they also will die eventually. My record for new drives in the last decade is a bit over two years. Brand seems to make little difference if they are 7200rpm drives. Fo...
- Wed Feb 18, 2009 2:55 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Cool to the touch Ninja despite 1.5V dual core.. Odd or not?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7257
- Tue Feb 17, 2009 11:20 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: New Solo build; component advice needed.
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7060
http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=52467 Read my reply at the bottom concerning PAE and extra memory. If you have a 1GB video card, only a bit over 2 GB will be usable out of that 4GB. Also, you are SOL with an Intel chip as the memory controller won't support PAE correctly(despite...
- Tue Feb 17, 2009 11:11 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: is this a good set up for i7?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5934
Enable PAE in the OS (patch/hack). This will allow you to utilize up to 8-32GB of ram.(depends on actual chipset and processor you are using - see below!) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/09/03/road_to_mac_os_x_snow_leopard_64_bits_santa...
- Mon Feb 16, 2009 8:55 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Please recommend a CPU cooling solution
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4340
- Mon Feb 16, 2009 2:52 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Please recommend a CPU cooling solution
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4340
I personally have a Ninja plus a Thermalright 775 bolt-through kit. The thing is inexpensive and works well. Most of those monster coolers won't fit in a typical case without some serious modding. Note - if the case is on its side, with the heatsink facing upwards, you don't need the mounting kit - ...
- Mon Feb 16, 2009 2:43 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Microdrives: a solution?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4497
Microsoft has not allowed 4GB memory access, but that was probably due to hardware that only does 32-bit DMA. Any hardware that works in x64 should also allow >4GB in a 32-bit OS using PAE. It *should*, but it's 1000% disabled and with no way to get around it in 32 bit Windows. All other OSes can u...
- Mon Feb 16, 2009 2:27 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Quick, Quiet 160GB HDD?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 8460
The problem is with drives that have TLER or similar technology. The Wikipedia article on it explains how raid drives in Windows are generally dropped from a non-responding controller after 8 seconds, requiring a rebuild of the array. Let's say you have a bad sector. Under normal single drive operat...
- Sun Feb 15, 2009 10:16 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Microdrives: a solution?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4497
Ah - this was my problem as well. How do you get past 3.25GB in Windows? You have to give it a huge swapfile. But this has to be in memory as well, which then allows it to go past the 4GB barrier via swapping and caching. The problem is of course, virtual memory/swap is very very slow. So you would ...
- Sun Feb 15, 2009 1:11 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Advice for online poker system builder
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3668
- Sun Feb 15, 2009 1:05 pm
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Need suggestion for top fan in P180
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1435
- Sun Feb 15, 2009 1:02 pm
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Two part fan mounting/shroud idea
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4703
- Sun Feb 15, 2009 12:57 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: 4670 fanless - which Accelero model?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6942