I'm just been staring at my rack and I do have one other hole i could use. Which would make the requirement completely different.

I have 19x29cm ... most of the Cubes are too high but there may be something i could use

As you say none of those are slim line. The Lian Li's are and they will take a full sized GPU on riser see http://www.lian-li.com/v2/en/product/product06.php?pr_index=219&cl_index=1&sc_index=25&ss_index=64&g=f And manage to have dimensions of: 435 x 94 x 378mm (W, H, D) I didn't want to go any highe...

Hi, I'm looking for a mATX case that will look "DVD" player like (ie i want it fit in with the rest of the kit on my rack. I want it to be able to take a full size bluray player and a full sized graphics card in the future The closest i've found is the Lian Li C36/c37 case. Any other alternatives ou...

To more clearly explain myself, right now I'm running my HTPC over HDMI and I have to put up with blurred text. As far as I've read, it is bc my Sharp TV doesn't support 1:1 pixel mapping over HDMI On my Toshiba i have the card set to 1920x1080 and it looked truly horrible (even though it's properl...

What version of Windows are you running? Windows XP with the latest 9.1 Catalyst drivers Also, for the record - the VGA input on most TVs won't allow you to display anything of a "proper" resolution. By proper, I mean either something that is native to the TV, or a resolution that would make sense....

For the sake of completeness.... i managed to get this working correctly. Using powerstrip i set the ATI cards output spec to the one stated in the Toshiba manual and the desktop is now full screen. The horrible fonts were solved by playing with the TV's "sharpness" control. After turning this down ...

Hi, I have a HTPC built around a Asus M3A78-EM MB and Powercolor HD4670 graphics card. The Tv is a Toshiba 46RV555DB (UK version) with a 10bit 1080P panel. There are a number of articles on the net, regarding problems with various HDTV's and ATI cards. Using the TV's VGA input things work as expecte...

Interesting thread ... I have one of the WD10EACS 00ZJB0 drives in my Thomson Sky HD box.

It works a treat but should i be worried ? Is it worth pulling the drive to look at the SMART counts ? Or should i go back to blissful ignorance ?

Andy

Fanerman91 .... don't you just love reviews ! they never agree :-) i'm building a system at the moment, so i'll try and get some decent power numbers to share. 4850e Processor M3A78-EM MB WD GreenPower 500G HD Powercolor 4670. I'm hoping for 60 watts idle and 100ish in 3D gaming ...but we shall see....

oh ... and before i forget .... if anyone finds a PSU that works efficiently at these really low wattages .... please, please let me know ...

MiKeLezZ, Please do let us have some power figures as soon as it's up and running. I've been looking along the same lines, but had been considering the 790 chipset on a board like the Asus M3A78-T (which seems to be more power efficient than the 740g) to build a low power HTPC/gaming box. A single G...

How about the new ATI HD 4670 cards ? In the following article it states ~9 watts idle .... http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/powercolor-pcshd4670-512mb_5.html#sect0 http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/video/powercolor-pcshd4670-512mb/4670_power.gif But i'm very confused by this article http...

mooo2a,

What sort of power consumption do you get with that configuration ?

Andy

Umm ... now you've got me thinking even more ... An Atom with a low wattage chipset sounds like a winner ... The machine needs to be able to run WinServer 2003, as it needs to be a a basic email/web/file server. As it's a mail server, i has to be on 24x7. The current machine is an old Celeron 500meg...

lowpower, thanks for the info .... sounds like Intel have missed a trick ... why put a low power CPU with a high power chip set ... Doh ! i'm more than happy to go the sempron and/or LE Athlon .... but i was concerned about the 45Watt TDP .... then i was concerned about the current draw of the Mothe...

also ... also you may be interested in this at www.very-pc.co.uk only 16 watts at idle !! Fulwood Media PC Coming Soon VeryPC Fulwood 75% more efficient than Energy Star requirements VeryPC announces the launch of a high performance 16Watt dual-cored media centre PC, aptly named Fulwood (after the p...

djon ... out of interest why did you discount the Atom based systems ? i've been looking at building a <30W based mail/web server and was considering the 330.

Regards ... Andy