PartEleven, That info hurts. I was hoping to use a seagate next but if it draws more than the WD on spinup, that's a no go. It was "common knowledge" on these forums a while back. I have no means to measure but a reviewer did and WD GP did draw more than its contemporaries at that time. It may have ...

Sorry about the double post but I searched for performance comparisons and if the 3d performance matters then the 4760 is a rough match to the 9600gt. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125274 The 9600gt will draw more power and may require some extra power connection. The card...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814141094 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127396 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127386 The chipsets are 8400gs, 9400gt and 9500gt. If you care about hd video playback then there are differences b...

Well if the drives have failed then maybe they can't access the net? :evil: If after this long period it is still cloudy as to exactly what this WD feature does then I believe that is a flaw in the marketer's actions. CONSUMER DEVICE. I am not enthused by a manufacturer selecting a particular bit of...

I can't help with pinout but I do have an idea. Get butt connectors one size larger than the size that matches your wires. Identify the 12 volt and its ground on the wire that runs to the molex. Cut these. Strip the ends. Get an existing P4 connector to molex adaptor and cut off the molex and strip ...

By filling it up to saturation, nothing more would dissolve, including conductive salts See fractional crystallization. I believe that a salt would dissolve forming an anti-solute causing precipitation of the sugar. With the varying temperature of the power supply there would certainly be an opport...

Over time the coconut oil will develop polar compounds that are electrically conductive. You might look into fractionated coconut oil along with a non conductive stabilizer. I don't know the exact properties of particular stabilizers but there are a number of them. Outrageously expensive silicone li...

mx-5, Watch out! Mythbuntu will drop to the vesa driver which is poor for video overlay(Full screen video) at the drop of a hat. If you use my method then right after copying in the files the screen will flash a few times then offer an opportunity to configure. Don't! Instead hit continue then reboo...

The end result is a nice looking desktop and video up to dvd resolution looking good as well. I haven't tried anything more demanding.

mx-5, I have played with a mythbuntu frontend/backend (default) install. It works well except for the ubuntu sis video driver. The screen is useable for configuration but has artifacts so is ugly and unuseable for video. There is a solution however. In this thread ... http://ubuntuforums.org/showthr...

yamawho, Thanks for the info on the zalman. I am getting a couple of short socket 7 heatsinks (cheap is good) to fit in the new case that is apparently traveling across the plains by ox cart. The ubuntu drivers at the ubuntu forums work well. Dvd video scales to full screen and no artifacts. I had t...

yamawho, That's great news. Can you find any identifying info on the video driver that mephis is using? Also, have you tried playing a video of dvd resolution or greater at full screen? I measured the cpu heatsink. It is 45mmx50mm. The 50mm dimension is from side to side(a line parallel to the ram s...

I neglected to mention above that the ubuntu specific video drivers were prepared from drivers for Suse 10.2 and they were originally in rpm form.

Here is a discussion about running puppy linux on this board: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=154010&sid=1d06cc7f4b4519023d60c1eb49a9fe2e It looks as though some puppy linux versions have trouble while others will work. Here is a discussion about better video drivers for linux with ...

yamawho, Watch out for power requirements with this board. The minibox article showing this board with a pico psu was interesting but given my experience the power requirements of this board are worthy of careful consideration. The Intel data sheet mentions 108 watts just of 5 volts fully loaded. Th...

Yes the power supply impinging on the heatsink is a concern. Newegg sells a coolermaster 1U heatsink that should solve this problem. There is also an alpha novatek wingfin from plycon. Both of these heatsinks have slots down the middle offering the potential to reuse the existing processor heatsink ...

Everything is working now. Both nics and the wd + laptop drive. The system is snappy for websurfing. I believe that power was the issue I had earlier. Right now I have the board in an old mATX case open on its side with an antec smartpower 350. The cooling is a medium speed panaflo kind of laying ac...

I first tried the asus 690g board. Got the video corruption and the blinking. It then quit for good. I then got the biostar board. The biostar has been ok. After a boot problem due to too great a power draw from a hard drive test the blinking started as well as red and green pixels. Some reboots and...

I have mythbuntu backend loaded and without any graphics intensive anything the chipset heatsink is hot enough to elicit an involuntary withdrawal when touched. The processor heatsink is cool but the case has a thin 80mm fan blowing at half of that heatsink. I believe the board definitely needs care...

I gave some bad info earlier. The southbridge will only accept a 10/100 interface chip and the northbridge to southbridge bus is 1GB/s. Like anyone I would prefer an intel chipset and lower power consumption. My board should arrive on the 20th. I received an iStar S 3 case and I like it so far. It l...

The datasheet for this board says 10w max through the pci. Another consideration.

Assuming that intel properly makes this board, there is no doubt in my mind that this board can drive a gbE card at significantly faster speed than a 10/100. I'm pretty sure it can drive a gbE and the onboard lan at the same time while still providing faster than 100mbit through a pci gbE. Whether i...

I have decided to try this board. The tech docs I skimmed through yesterday mentioned a choice of 10/100 and gigabit ethernet for the southbridge depending upon interface chip used. I think the lack of gigabit may be a blessing in disguise. The option of a better quality interface card on pci may de...

OK, I have to ask. Earlier in this thread it was postulated that this board is not capable of pushing gigabit ethernet. I know an added controller will be on the pci bus so will be somewhat limited, but what other reasons are there for this statement? The tech docs say something along the lines of 4...

I've been interested in the same general function. I'm waiting for d-links gigabit nas box to mature. If holds two drives. If has a currently non functioning usb port for expansion. It runs linux and people are beginning to hack it. My suggestion would be to see if there was some via or sis board wi...

Public perception seems to be in a transition period right now. For instance there have been some articles about nuclear power on the radio program "Living on Earth" (www.loe.org). This is a great radio program. Perhaps when ecopcreview is in full swing they can make loe aware of the site to get a m...

At least someone is making suggestions. I disagree with the laptop proposal. A desktop can be in the same range of electrical use as a laptop but allow greater flexibility. The flexibility can allow for things like later reuse, purposeful purchases of components to encourage environmental manufactur...

If not for current immigration the us population would be no growth at all. The same is generally true for western europe. I believe that Italy is worried about population decline. Japan has little immigration and is definitely looking at population decline. Malthus's predictions did not come true l...

Do you think that a pair of slow thin 80mm fans might do as well as that 120mm fan on the vga cooler? That would buy you 10mm. Newegg is selling some new thin 80mm fans with perhaps literally unbelievable specs(silenX). The ultra-90 is on sale for 15 bucks at svc now. The specs say socket 754,939 an...

To flesh out my earlier comments about ram with the asus board. If you go to the certified vendor list, you may notice very fast ram listed as compatable. This compatable ram usually has the epp. The non epp versions of the same ram are not on the compatability list. The motherboard has no ram laten...