Thanks to all who posted. Probably a bit of all your suggestions apply. I guess I just needed a little bit of reassurance for my "is there some terrible problem I hadn't heard about" moment. Another thought came to mind after my install. The package and manuals all sport large AM2+ logos. Now that A...

I just bought a GA-MA78GM-S2HP. I'm dieing to rip open the package and install it. But when checking the Gigabyte site for newer BIOS, drivers etc I noticed that the latest version of the board is v2.1 The one I received is v2.0 Anybody know the difference? Should I play a grumpy customer, return it...

Interesting link. It also seems to jive with my personal bittorrent speeds. I've noticed that the seeds/peers from whom I'm getting the fastest connections are almost always from the same countries as those at the top of the list. It tends to be not quite a much from the Japan/South Korea side -- I ...

UPS is cheep for shipping inside the US of A. But LORD do they gouge when crossing borders.

Might I suggest pricing it via the good old Postal Service. Then it might actually be affordable by non "Dot Com" billionaires.

Perhaps I should ad that "parts of equivalent value" doesn't necessarily mean the newest cutting edge equipment. My current desktop computer is the made from the things I bought to build a Knoppmyth SD PVR. By today's standards it's old and quite anaemic. So parts you might consider "out of date," m...

The GV-NX88T512HP does PWM. It doesn't need to know how fast the fan is spinning -- hence no third wire. It's basing the speed on GPU temperature. Since the board is handling PWM, it doesn't need the fourth wire (which is used for the fan to do the PWM under signal from say a motherboard BIOS). By t...

There is one interesting point in this "war of words" that I haven't seen discussed. Up to now Nvidia has produced chipsets for both Intel and AMD processors. Does this tiff mean Nvidia will shy away from making new Intel chipsets? Logically, ones already in development would be followed through to ...

After all the high praise for Stretch Magic around here, I went out and bought some. But now I'm not so sure. Stretch Magic seems to me to be a little "twangy" (think elastic band twang). Perhaps it's the size I got. I ended up with the 1.5mm variety. Since a portion of hard drive noise is high freq...

Antec NSK6500 case (NSK6580 without the power supply), with mass-loaded foam applied to the door panel for increased rigidity

Just out of curiosity, what kind/brand of mass-loaded foam did you use?

Funny, but I couldn't help notice that some of the earliest articles at SPCR, are still being linked out there today, like this... Wouldn't that be validation of the good quality of that early (and of course the new) content? I think a mention of this site in a March 2003 LangaList article first br...

Like many of you, I frequently visit hardware manufacturers' websites, looking at specifications, or for updated BIOS, drivers, etc. Every once in while an advert for a company sponsored contest appears. I figure that they already have my "junk" email address from registering the stuff I bought, so ...