Maybe you should try using a browser that ISN'T almost 3 years old. It died around 2002 and was crap long before that.

1 Nexus 120mm in the back. 1 Nexus 92mm in the front. CPU fan is an AC Freezer 7 Pro. No OC. Motherboard is an Asus P5B. All fans at 8-9V. Cable routing in the Ralf Hutter realm of obsessiveness. All voltages at Auto an in spec, though North Bridge voltage seems high at 1.62.

Well I have the air conditioning on full blast so the room is plenty cool, but the case isn't warm, it's hot. I'm not talking enough to burn, but after about 5 seconds the top is very uncomfortable to touch.

I have an Intel Core2 6600, GeForce 8800GTS, 2 HDDs, 1 DVDRW, and 2GB or PC6400 in an Antec P150 powered by an Enermax Liberty 500 that is about a year old. At idle the machine is very warm, under load the top of the case is too hot to touch for more than a few seconds. I don't have any hard measure...

KorruptioN wrote: Ooops, I probably mistook Luxon for somebody else, my mistake.

Are you getting Chemi-Con from brown colour of the caps?

That as well as the pattern on the vent stamp. Chemi-Cons have the Mercedes-Benz style stamp and are almost always reddish brown or a mint green color.

Any word on who produces the capacitors? Rubycon? I believe Sanyo and Luxon may also be Japanese. Thanks. The ones I can see in the pics are Chemi-Con. Very nice. And Luxon is the absolute bottom of the barrel in Taiwanese crap. Sanyo, Rubycon, Chemi-Con, and Panasonic are the only acceptable brand...

RAID 1 was never meant to be a backup solution, nor does it function well as one. It's purpose is to eliminate downtime in the event of a drive failure. It does not guard against viruses, corruption, accidental deletion, theft, power irregularities, or any kind of total system meltdown. Get an exter...

When troubleshooting standby issues keep in mind that both your BIOS and every single device driver on your machine must be compliant. And I also wouldn't bother with anything other than WinXP. The simple truth is that power management issues are at the bottom of the list for hardware makers, so you...

Personally on my i875 board I got some weird results with the above reg hack-- once I entered it, the power switch no longer worked to wake my computer from standby! Doh! I had to hold it down for 4 secs to effectively power off the machine, then reboot. :P Something else just occurred to me-is you...

Hm, I'm using an 875 board and I need to use the reg file to wake from USB. I never tried the power switch though.

I've also been using this for years. It took a long time for mobo BIOSes and device drivers to all be fully compliant, and it nver really worked before WinXP. And getting the wake-on-USB to work was something I've been struggling with for longer than I can recall. Some mobos don't support USB wake f...

Just tie up and hide the extra front leads from the other side of the case.

silenceseeker wrote: Any comments, ideas or even corrections to incorrect perceptions I may have presented here would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Sam

I saw your post on alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus in the thread where the guy killed his board. He didn't know what he was doing, so don't let that influence you.

wumpus wrote: You're one up on Storage Review, WHERE THEY RUN ALL THEIR DISK BENCHMARKS ON SYSTEMS WITH 128MB OF RAM.

No, I'm not kidding, check their benchmarking methodology. This is how they generate "meaningful" results.

Sorry, you're wrong. They use 512MB PC800.

For the Americans, Radio shack sells a molex extractor:

http://www.radioshack.com/product.asp?c ... =274%2D223

Very easy. I'm sure most electronics stores have them, just make sure to get the plunger type.

Just my $0.02, but Newegg isn't a great place to buy fans. The shipping charges quickly add up, and if you buy a heavy item they won't just throw the fan in the box and call it even.

Jan Kivar wrote:Looks very neat. I just saw the same pic at SR, do You post there too (nick is different)?

Shhh...that's supposed to be a secret.

Already been said, but not the Coolermasters. The ones I tried made a very annoying irregular bearing sound.

Well damn. The first thing I did when I decided to learn cablegami was to go looking for that MaxPC article online and I could never find it. I googled till my fingers got numb and found zilch. I even went to Voodoo's site to see if I could find some halfway decent pics of their work and never saw ...

For my first post I present what I feel is a good balance between noise and performance: Intel Pentium 4 2400MHz @ 3000MHz | MSI 865PE Neo2-FISR | 1024 MB of Mushkin PC3200 Blue | Asus 8420 (Geforce4 Ti 4200) | Seagate 7200.7 SATA 8MB 80 GB | Samsung SP80 80 GB | Audigy2 | Windows XP Pro CPU-The 2.4...