The Atom on the D945GSEJT is single core...Eh, if I had to guess, it'd probably sit somewhere between the Duron 1ghz and Celeron 2ghz systems in terms of responsiveness. I have a little GSEJT system that I use for watching videos on while I'm playing games of Civ or whatever, and it's generally a li...

Nah, you'll be fine putting a resistor-based adapter between the motherboard and the fan. I've been running 3 fans like that for several months now.

If you're set on needing ECC, I would consider something like a Supermicro, Intel or Tyan server board paired with a 35 watt single core Conroe CPU or something. Wouldn't that consume more power at idle compared to a low-power board and a 240e or some such? Yeah, but you're ignoring the "If you're ...

Had a look, but I just don't think you're gonna find a motherboard that fits all those requirements. The most challenging being MATX + ECC + Undervoltable all at the same time. ECC is used to promote data integrity and stability, while undervolting has the potential to harm that integrity, so I doub...

You might wish to consider the Sonata Elite if you liked the design of the original - http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129057 . It comes without a PSU and is fairly priced as good quality cases go. SPCR did a review of it at http://www.silentpcreview.com/Antec_Sonata_Elite if ...

In that case, you'd only want to connect the yellow sense wire to the motherboard. The only voltage droppers you want to connect directly to a 3-pin motherboard connecter are ones that use resistors to drop the voltage rather than shunting the voltage using the 4 pins on a molex plug.

Hey, what you want is a Network Switch, for example : http://www.ebuyer.com/product/35437 or http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=NW-030-EX as relatively affordable examples. You'll also want to pick up a couple of short CAT5 network cables. Plug the cable coming from downstairs into...

Hrm, 65mm is a little wider than most of the old cards. Your best bet may be to remove the failed fan from the little heatsink, and just screw an aftermarket 50mm fan onto the heatsink - it won't be particularly pretty, but it should work perfectly well.

Any chance you could measure the distance between the two mounting pins for the existing HSF? Looks like it uses the same kinda hole spacing as an old GF4 Ti4x00 (assuming it's this Matrox card - http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/graphics_cards/qid_series/qid/ ? ). If the hole spacing works...

I seriously need to tidy the wiring behind my desk =/. Really sweet build and setup

Just a quick thought on the Seasonic - are you 100% sure it's the PSU? My PC has serious squealing/whining issues if I leave the power saving features of the CPU enabled, and that issue vanishes when I turn them off. I know it's not an option for everyone, but just putting it out there .

Gotta love when people don't understand how much current an i5/i7 draws and melt things, huh?

That said, nice looking board - I do wish it had PWM cooling of some sort, for the abovementioned reason - even at stock those things are gonna get pretty warm under load.

If there was a candidate genuinely worth voting for in the UK political system, I'd be down the voting booth in a second. A valid point, but one that is ultimately pointless when others are voting for the one that you would LEAST like in power, while you dont vote AGAINST the one you would least li...

If there was a candidate genuinely worth voting for in the UK political system, I'd be down the voting booth in a second.

Not saying that it's the absolute best, but I picked up one of these for a less-demanding build and it's really pretty nice. http://www.ebuyer.com/product/150596 Another good option would be http://www.ebuyer.com/product/150985 Just posting eBuyer links cos I happen to use them and like them, but I ...

I was only referring to wcrvieira's comment, rather than to everyone in general, my apologies. While I haven't donated to the site myself, I don't use an ad blocker either.

And I suppose you donate to the site to make up for the lack of ad revenue?

I'm with you there, yeah. Some of the worst ads I've ever had the misfortune to see.

Eh, the most powerful Prescott CPUs had a published TDP of 115w, while the current LGA1136 i7s have a published TDP of 130w, and the top end Phenom IIs packing 140w published TDPs. On a per-core basis, the Prescotts were terrible, but chips in general have increased in computing power while maintain...

You're very correct in thinking that the i7/x58 combo pumps a lot of heat outta the VRMs and NB, especially when overclocked. I was suffering from stability problems with my system - any amount of overclocking was simply unstable. Moving to a top-down cooler solved all my issues - I'm using a Gigaby...

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Hrm. Yuck

Should take a look at something like TechReport's Econobox if you're looking for the $500 mark.

http://techreport.com/articles.x/17787/2

The orange LED usually means the LAN is connected at Gigabit speed, which is what you want. Have you changed the switch/router or cable recently?

I would try http://www.pcbsolution.com/. Their website is a little out of date, but they have a lot of PCBs in stock, shoot them an email. They're Canada-based too, but I got a PCB for a Seagate drive from them in less than a week (I'm in the UK). Very good communication as well, had at least 4 back...

There should be a little springy bit of plastic near the hinge at the top of the Sonata door - you can just depress that, and the door should pop right out.

If the boards are identical, down to firmware number, manufacturing location etc, then yes you can change them - make sure all the values on the labels of the drives are the same ,as well as the numbers on the major chips on the PCB.

Another option, since you're not too concerned about internal storage capacity, would be one of the "desktop netbook" type machines.

One of these, for example:

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/148886

Could take a look at http://www.tranquilpc-shop.co.uk/ .

This one likely uses the exact same board I used, and can be ordered complete with internal components:

http://www.tranquilpc-shop.co.uk/acatalog/T3N.html

I just built a little always-on box for myself, which is currently idling away at...11 watts. Used the new low-profile Intel Atom board ( http://linitx.com/viewproduct.php?prodid=12472 ) along with a Netbook-style case( http://linitx.com/viewproduct.php?prodid=12487 ) and an "old" SSD. Completely fa...