Probably not.

I'll go with the low power video card and remove
the extra fans.

Speedstep will only clock down to 1.1ghz, so
I will just manually set the speed and volts in the bios.

Speedstep is a pain to install for linux anyways.

Well the psu sucks, it dies at 480w that's why I had to pull it from the i5 2500k. It's 80% efficient at low draw. Once I have the video card I was going to put in the earthwatts psu. I was thinking of using an ati rage 8mb card. Linux build so command line only. I was thinking I could underclock th...

I need advice on cutting away the fat from this machine. I keep building it like it's a game box so I need ideas, like underclocking it or the ram. Here's the hardware: GA-965P-DS3 v3 E4300 (can oc to 3.2) 2GB DDR2-667 1GB DDR2-800 all clocked to 667 4x WD 1TB green Sony DVD/RW Sata 8800GT OC(replac...

Thank you for your comments. I appreciate the insight.

I'm a bit worried x58 will be a three pony show. Two cpus and
an extreme edition already?

The new p55 is a bit confusing as well.

I made the mistake of reading too much. Too many reviews, too many recommendations for people wiling to have a 60DB machine ruin their hearing. What I intend: Overclocked i7 and ram, plus single gpu. Not looking to win any contests, I would prefer to lose out on the 5% performance gain with a $300 M...

I used to have 2tb+ in one case. I now have a 5TB storage. However, I had to give up on a single case design. I would warn you away with a large HDD population in one case based on my experience. Some problems with my single case setup (16 drives): Notes: All the drives were suspended in bungees. Vi...

100% nonconductive. Not for use between heat transfer.
It gets stronger with heat.

Well I can leave the system on (all drives on) and it will slowly over the period of a day , day 1/2 warm the room if all windows and door is closed. However, as it's nbulk storage, I set the drives to shut off after 5 minutes of inactivity, and that keeps the heat and noise down. Defragging in xp i...

What I do is take the sink and place it on the bare metal. I thermal paste only the bare metal area. I don't cover the labels etc, no point unless it's bare metal. I lay the sink on, and then tack it to the disk with dabs of JB weld, like weld points. It hardens in 4 mins. Then I can screw a fan on ...

I run 11 mixed 120 and 100 gig drives using the built in IDE and two ULTRA 133 cards. This is non raid system. I use a large server case that mounts the drives in metal frames. After adding the last two drives, the system began to vibrate like you wouldn't belive. Some interesting things about a Ter...