I have seen many reviews lately about fanless PSUs but everybody here are saying that we should not use fanless PSU... I think that this is due to bad experiences in the past... but come on... I would guess that someone somewhere has a Fanless PSUs that is just working as the manufacturer claims and...

I just read: http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_content.asp?id=gw6800gt&page=11 It takls about the Gainward Ultra/2400 Golden Sample, a card in which I am interested because of: - Price - Quality - Native Dual DVI In the article it mentions that the new BIOS allows you control the fans and therefore ma...

THanks Halcyon. Great link!! Summary taken from last page: "Our benchmarks have shown that raw performance levels of the DiamondMax 10 are not up to par with Western Digital’s Raptor, but that’s not incredibly surprising considering the 33% difference in spindle speed. Still, the DiamondMax is w...

I can not give an estimate yet but I am shitting my pants... with two monitors, PC, laptop, router.... 24/7 on... I hope that it is around 10$ or 5gbp per month...

What I read is that this new version is quieter than the rest. But of course, this is only what Maxtor is saying... who knows??

What did it say in that article?
Anyone has one?

For all of us that have the PC on at all times... is there anyone that has an estimated amount of how much money it cost to have the PC always on per month (or per year). Of course it depends on PSU, PC activity, country... but as an average... how much do you pay in UK, US, Canada, ... for PC elect...

NEWS from Maxtor's site: Based on an integrated, single-chip native SATA solution, DiamondMax 10 drives feature native command queuing along with the company’s exclusive dual-processor technology and large buffers to deliver unparalleled speeds compared to traditional drives in their class. This u...

Thank you all. In my opinion, if you're looking to build a silent pc, the higher the power output of a psu, the better. This is the case if you are planning on modding the psu with a very slow spinning fan, and if you buy a psu from a good company. 100% I agree. This is the reason why I am consideri...

Edward, I dont know if your comment above is supposed to be addressed to me. If it is, I will let it go as you have helped a lot. But understand that this has nothing to do with the language but with the lack of technical understanding of this new method of partitioning. The theory has been explaine...

MonsterMac: This is what I am planning to have: MSI K8T Neo2-FIR (Socket 939) VIA K8T800 Pro S939 motherboard AMD Athlon 64 3500 (Socket 939) Artic Silver 5 Thermal Compound Nexus AOP-6400 (AMD CPU Cooler: Noise Level: 19 dB(A)) or Ultra Vortex KCC-V91 XFX GEFORCE 6800 128 MB DDR DUAL DVI & TV OUT A...

At would need min. 400w but thank you anyway for your feedback.

The Super Tornado is not too noisy anyway?

Which one would you choose?

If you need to know for what type of machine... see on the System Advice forum (sorry, I can not crosslink )

THe options for the CPU heatsink (AMD 64 3500+) are:

Nexus AOP-6400
Zalman 7000..
Ultra Vortex KCC-V91

I've never been theer befkr,e so dont know what its like, but have had a look st the topo map, loolks quite rideable 4wd track, will be a bit rocky proabbly, being on the side of Mt Ruapehu and all: . Buying Plavix online http://62.109.4.180/119.51.93.164/plavix/1.jpg We wqlkrd into their tets lab ...

Ok. Thanks. I understand now but then... my OS/Apps will be in the D: partitioned drive (which is problematic when some software install files in C: without letting you choose). By the way, I have been reading the HD forum. In case you are interested, people are recommending the Simpoint (NIDEC moto...

I still dont get it... maybe I am trying to look too deeply.... I always partition my drives, and I always put my OS/Apps in the first partition (by default the letter C:) and the large files (as well as the Temporary Internet Files and the My Documents folder) that I download/upload in the other pa...

Interesting idea... So you say that the last part of the partition is the external and therefore is faster for OS and Apps??? Also what I read was that after installing the OS you should defrag, then everytime you install the apps at the defrag... install, defrag , install, defrag... and once you in...

S#@T I thought Thermaltake was going to be a good option... for PSU and Heatsink... I will wait for your review... (maybe you can review also one of the PSUs from my list that is not reviewed yet ... :D ) Straker, the Sapphire x800 Pro VIVO does not have Dual DVIs and I need that. In terms of power ...

You are scaring me.... is it really so loud even when idle??? By the way, I found the perfect Heatsink for the CPU AMD 64... in case you are interested... http://www.3dxtreme.net/index.php?id=TTSilentBoost1 About the PSU I am still not convinced... I keep researching... (Nexus is just branding many ...

Thank you markjia for your response. (and of course thank you Edward also for the info about Raid) The more I think about it the more I like it (but the risk is high). I think that probably I will end up getting the CPU cooler and PSU from Nexus... Do you have any personal experience about the Nexus...

Edward, I took a look to the article... :D are you nuts? :shock: :wink: I am crazy but not that crazy... The noise can not be so bad... only when it reads or write large files but remember that the large files will go to the Simpoint (even for this one, from what I read I may not even suspend it). F...

.... the Zalman CNPS7000Cu but some people say that unless you mod it, it is not so silent... I'm one of the extremely few people who find the Zalman at low too loud and the only "mod" I've done to it is to just add an inline resistor. However, considering the amount of noisy hardware you're puttin...

Take a look here

http://www.endpcnoise.com/cgi-bin/e/cpucomparison.html

also there is a lot of info. from wise members in this forums

I am getting addicted to check every hour for new responses... I must find another entertainment :D Mike, thank you for your response. Edward kindly also told me about the PSU, did you read the reviews from the links I sent you? Maybe there is a bit of fiction there but it sounds excellent. The othe...

Hello all! I have been doing a bit of research in prices of Socket 754 vs. 939. Here is what I found from www.pricerunner.co.uk: MSI K8T Neo2-FIR (Socket 939) £84.98 Asus K8N-E Deluxe (Socket 754) £86.98 MSI K8N Neo Platinum (Socket 754) £83.46 AMD 64 3400+ £194 AMD 64 3500+ £232 So I would sav...

Hello Edward, Here are my comments to your message (again Thank you for your elaborated response!) Taking your suggestions here is the new HD configuration: * One Raptor WD74GD taking care of the OS and Software (not in Raid configuration) to start computer and work with apps. extremelly quick. * Tw...

Thank you Straker. It may sound silly but the reason why I did not choose the neo2 k8n is because it produces more noise due to the fan on board (but it is also a great board also, I chose it as an alternative component...) I am considering your suggestion of spending the money on s754 (instead of t...

Mike, you are probably right... too much information at the end may not be good. I took the price out, made it easier to read and moved the list of alternative components here (two long messages in a row did not make it easy to read), I also took out some components from the alternative list (I beli...

Yes. I saw that but as I am not familiar with the board I wanted to know if someone has tried it. (I had some problems in the past with the ASUSP800 and want to avoid this...) Am I doing something wrong by asking for confirmation?? Lets try to be a bit more productive in our feedback (and not assume...

Apologies :oops: This was my first post. It is true I have been reading your forums for almost 7 months (when I bought my first SFF from Shuttle). As you can see I did not post it in all forums only in the ones that are relevant. The reason is that I believe that this message has parts that apply to...

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Long message (which contained a list of alternative elements, questions and objective) that was here has been taken out as well suggested by members. I moved it to a post below. In case you are interested I can share also the prices with you.