You've got me curious though whether Windows Server 2003 will boot without a graphic cards.....that would be ideal. I might be able to offer some insight into this. I run a web-based company. We use Linux for all our development, but of course need to test the site in IE so we have a headless WinXP...

See [*]the hole spacing around the GPU differs from all other cards on the market.[/list]Unfortunately I bought this card in a bit of a rush, right before a LAN party, so I hadn't researched my options properly. It certainly delivers in terms of performance but the noise penalty is high: my system ...

I just checked the Zalman site. They list the VF700s as: 7800 GT and 7800 GTX (no mention of the GS) and the VF900 as "7800 series (except GS)" Ah well. I'm pretty pissed at the whole having to upgrade to PCI-E thing. I suppose I'll just put it off until my CPU is too old, and then upgrade a bunch o...

Accelero X1 and NV Silencer 5 from Arctic Cooling fits the GF6800 as well as the GF7800, same thing with the VF700 and the VF900 from Zalman. So, supposedly, coolers compatible with the GF6800 series are also compatible with the GF7800 series. Thanks for the reply. I'd assumed heatsinks woudln't be...

In terms of cards themselves, you may want to reconsider. If this is a platform you're sticking with for a few years, the 7800GS is the best you can get. However, if it's just something to hold you over for a few months, the 6800(vanilla) and the X1600 cost about half as much and are still magnitud...

I have a pretty nice system. Not cutting edge, but pretty nice. Athlon 3300 etc. The only thing that needs any upgrades is the fanless GeForce 4200 video card. I don't do games that often, but it is getting a bit jumpy even for me. The mobo doens't have PCI-E and I don't have the money or energy to ...

Perhaps I'm being silly, but why would a headless server need a graphics card? The computer won't boot without an AGP card What a lousy motherboard! I like how they guessed for you that you'd be using a graphical operating system rather than letting you decide. I've never seen this before on even c...

I'm looking for a very cool running feature-stripped AGP 4x/8x (1.5v) graphics card to put into a home server I'm building. It's a headless server that I'll only use with Remote Desktop Connection so I just need basic 2D support. Perhaps I'm being silly, but why would a headless server need a graph...

check that line-in and mic are muted, even if nothing is connected to them as they can often pick up interfearence from other components

btw, my science may be wrong, any alternative expalanations an why this works are welcome, but the fact is that it does work very well, even with my ear right up to it I can hardly hear a thing!

Wish I could replace the lights, but I'm not sure the landlady would understand my silenco fetish! I've just lolved this problem, so I'll give how in case anyone in future searches the forums for a similar problem (we can hope) I noticed that when I touch the tube the noise stops the noise, and take...

Quite the oposite, the problem is that my monitor produces too much light to be used in a dark room for any length of time, but with TFTs if you turn the brightness down you loose all the dark gray shades to black - hardly ideal for the odd game of quake/tenebrae

And slower. That is, when they're not cheating the benchmarks.

what are the 'boards'? sounds strange!

btw, I almost take it as a compliment that I CAN hear the lights - shows off how quiet my pc is!

coil whine sounds about right for the noise, where in the assembly wil I find the transformer?

LushMD:
300-350 watts?? 500?? are you trying to emulate perpetual daylight?

...ok, so not to do with PCs directly, but my pc is directly under one and it's driving me crazy! I'm getting a very quiet, very high pitched whine coming from it, a little like an old whistling kettle boiling two floors above. What can I do??? I don't own this flat so I can't make any serious chang...

Maybe I'm confusing definitions but to me the "silent" means no noise (ie 0dBA), with quiet meaning little noise. Maybe this is a misconception but I think it's one the industry sees and takes advantage of. As for villans, well I was foolish enough to buy a Thermaltake "silent" psu (it's long since ...

Am I the only person who has mouting holes on their mobo TRAY? I'm not using them but they look like they'd line up with holes on the mobo if I had any.

oops.that's a broken link! Have found elsewhere but not certain if final version.

Anyyone know where on teh seagate site you can find this? I've tried seatools, and that doesn't seem to have the option.

L4177312 wrote:does anyone have a link to seaaam.exe? i cant seem to find it

quick google search brings up http://forum.seagate.com/SERVICE/Email% ... enDocument

Wow - I've been living 'disconected' for a while (long story) and I get back to see the biggest thread I've ever seen on SPCR review, I thought there was only me and a few other guys getting these things. Jut read through it all, sounds like there's a far bit of interest out there! I've been talking...

The guy in my local computer shop tells me teh cudas have 2 modes, but doesn't know how to access them. how do you put it in silent mode anyone?

Yep. Northern lads love their gravvy! (uk tv reference) I just realised it'll need a sensor in and out of the case, so as to keep pressure above ambient. I'm relying on the excellent javax.comm framework implementation, but I that's getting almost standard, where it isn't I can write native code and...

Pleeeese include linux support. And for that matter.. may as well make sure it'll work w/ Macs Yep. And Beos and BSD and Solaris and unix and anything else for that matter. Becasue the thing will be written in... java! Contrary to popular opiniion java is actually VERY good at serial ports and that...

So then why don't Intel etc spend a few extra $ and make super-flat heat spreaders for their cpus? Going off this must be good for an extra 5% performance at least.

You have to measure it somehow! well you have to discribe, I'm not certain that the description has to be a quantative measurement. People say it's unscientific but I think that's wrong, to me the MOST scientific way is the one that studies the experiance from the user's pov if the aim of the study...

If it's integer then I'd say via. Much of the Athlon's speed comes from it's fpu.

To be honest, buying and unerclocking an athlon to run on less power is like putting a speed restrictor on a Lamboughini (sp?) for fuel economy.

Whereas the via is a new beetle. Or somthing.

I'd despute anyone who claimed to be able to tell the difference between this and a stock card during gameplay. I mean, who can tell 85 from 110 without a frame rate counter? Maybe instead of concentrating on frame rates these reviewers should give qualitative accounts on what it does for the gaming...

Have any of you heard the rumours that Nvidia drivers secretly optimise 3Dmark03 pixel shaders by swapping in their own versions? Incidently, I can't finish the tests since some unknown program takes focus. No idea what, but then I only wanted it for the pretty graphics anyway. I don't think games a...

It depends on if the BONK format does mainly integer or float calculations. If it's integer I recon a 800MHz ezra woul be fine. I've never heard of BONK - does it offer very high compression and audio quality? What are the file sized like? When you say CPU intensive, how intensive are you talking? M...