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- Wed Jul 22, 2009 10:11 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Advice to build or not to build and with what?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 10202
windows 7 is solid, last month i used that o.s. and sony vegas to edit and author a 2-hour dvd, based on avchd video that i shot... no crashing or bsod, and windows 7 has much better support for things like avchd than either winxp or vista has. when i installed windows 7 on the gigabyte mb, i didn't...
- Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:49 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Weird problem - help needed
- Replies: 22
- Views: 7567
congrats on getting it running! your final troubleshooting approach there is a great blueprint for others to follow. what was the recommended voltage for the geil ram? if it was, say, 1.8v, while the ocz ram was 2.1v, you had an incompatability that probably never would have worked out right. ocz ra...
- Tue Jul 21, 2009 9:33 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Weird problem - help needed
- Replies: 22
- Views: 7567
Well... I haven't. But please do a quick google search for the "infinite loop" error and you'll see that this problem has been endemic in nVidia cards since 2001. In my opinion - if a producer can't solve a problem in eight years and just goes on ignoring those who fell victims to it (relatively sm...
- Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:48 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Advice to build or not to build and with what?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 10202
with premiere, you'll want a late-model nvidia video card, because that program is supposed to be capable of off-loading the avchd decoding... you are working with avchd, right? not dv? we still don't know all of the specifics... have you ever done any video editing, or 3d work? macs are intel pcs, ...
- Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:00 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Weird problem - help needed
- Replies: 22
- Views: 7567
One thing is certain - this is the last nVidia (and EVGA) card I bought in my life. :evil: you haven't shown any correlation between that hardware and this lockup problem, so lets not start assigning blame just yet. you need to go back to the basic troubleshooting steps, which you seem to have bypa...
- Mon Jul 20, 2009 10:59 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Advice to build or not to build and with what?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 10202
the other day i saw a comparison between a video card with something like 1792mb of onboard ram vs the same gtx card with 896mb of ram... there was essentially very little difference in game playing frame rates at 1920 and below, and minimal gains above that. i agree that it's difficult to recommend...
- Sat Jul 18, 2009 2:41 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Scythe Mugen-2 CPU Cooler
- Replies: 64
- Views: 37588
http://www.scythe-eu.com/forum/mugen-series/
the official scythe forum, for questions regarding fitment issues and such.
the official scythe forum, for questions regarding fitment issues and such.
- Sat Jul 18, 2009 11:49 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Looking for a new PSU - Again [ Quiet up to 400W ]
- Replies: 34
- Views: 14843
- Fri Jul 17, 2009 8:55 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Noob builds an i7 w/P183 case
- Replies: 17
- Views: 13255
- Fri Jul 17, 2009 8:47 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: OMG!! What has happened to my pc build - big problems!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4877
- Fri Jul 17, 2009 8:44 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Scythe Mugen-2 CPU Cooler
- Replies: 64
- Views: 37588
Re: Slight error
We have much weaker retail competition here, our exchange rate is relatively weak, we pay a GST, high shipping costs and have a strong minimum wage system so prices tend to be quite higher here than in the northern continents. You guys get cheap PC parts; we have a decent health, welfare and wage s...
- Thu Jul 16, 2009 10:23 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Scythe Mugen-2 CPU Cooler
- Replies: 64
- Views: 37588
this will give you some perspective on the amount of overall cooling surface area that the mugen 2 has:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cooler ... html#sect0
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cooler ... html#sect0
- Wed Jul 15, 2009 6:24 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Scythe Mugen-2 CPU Cooler
- Replies: 64
- Views: 37588
i really liked the addition of two fans to the review, because of the way that it was tailored towards silent computing... as long as you don't require more cpu cooling capability than the fixed undervolted fans are delivering to the cooler, it's a very interesting option... right now i'm wondering ...
- Wed Jul 15, 2009 3:42 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Project: Silencing the P183?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3003
if you install 5 fans blowing inwards on the p183, you'll achieve positive air pressure... the problem is where to blow the air out, because the card slots around the video card may not be enough, and there is no grill above the slots, like you have on the earlier p18x's... i was thinking that you c...
- Tue Jul 14, 2009 2:55 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: If I don't play games, 3D card xp
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5866
I do re-incode video to ipod mp4 format does a more powerful 3d cuda card help? if you are talking about shooting avchd, and re-encoding that to h.264, you'll need the most cpu that you can afford... avchd is very cpu-intensive to decode, and not many video editing apps can take avantage of cuda. t...
- Tue Jul 14, 2009 2:44 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Questions over High Performace Video Card for an HTPC
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7642
- Tue Jul 14, 2009 2:34 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Install new drivers for motherboard but keep the hard disks?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4567
ultimately the only reliable way to swap motherboards is to use windows repair, even if you have to re-install the updates and maybe re-license it with microsoft. I can use my brother's installation CD's, his version includes SP3 IIRC (my version is the original one, it's an upgrade which doesn't e...
- Tue Jul 14, 2009 1:48 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: A Tall Order? :D
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3049
- Mon Jul 13, 2009 9:53 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Install new drivers for motherboard but keep the hard disks?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4567
If you could get it to boot into safe mode, uninstall the old drivers, reboot and then install the new drivers it might work. I have not had luck with it but what do you have to loose? the way to do that is with the old motherboard, right before you replace it... uninstall all of the drivers, prior...
- Mon Jul 13, 2009 9:41 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Blown motherboard after case upgrade?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5121
dang, that case/ps is too nice to just sit unused all summer. it may not have been anything that you did, i've seen motherboards get flakey and die like that. just for drill... there is no speaker in the p183, so the only way that you'd hear a post code is if you plugged in a speaker that you added,...
- Mon Jul 13, 2009 8:05 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Blown motherboard after case upgrade?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5121
- Sun Jul 12, 2009 10:07 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Is a HDD that survived ~1m fall still okay for storage
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4417
So true. Not all manufacturers care much about ESD protection either. When I got my Samsung drive, it came all naked inside a single transparent clam-style plastic case. No ESD protection, no protecting sponge. When I asked the shop about this crappy way of packaging, they said that's the way the g...
- Sun Jul 12, 2009 9:57 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: P183 Media/Gaming (Almost Silent)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10319
- Sat Jul 11, 2009 2:02 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: P183 Media/Gaming (Almost Silent)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10319
Having spent quite some time with tweaking this system, the Core i7 isn't running quite as cool as I would have hoped. It generally ranged in the 38-42C range at idle, 55-60C in heavy "real" usage, and can reach 78C in synthetic usage. Originally I was allowing the motherboard to adjust the fan spe...
- Thu Jul 09, 2009 7:40 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Anyone with a really silent 920-system?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2808
Thank you for your answers but I am not yet convinced. : ) The reason I started this thread is because of this thread ( http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=54338 ) that I interpret as the i7 and unaudiable computing is an impossible combination. it was obvious that the o.p. in that...
- Thu Jul 09, 2009 5:54 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Best psu ( 400 - 450w ) for an Antec P182 + advice
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2968
once you get the load high enough on a power supply, the efficiency starts going down. i'm just now evaluating moving from the p180b up to a p183, and i'd advise you to consider doing the same... the airflow through the door is better, and there is more overall dust filtering area on the front of th...
- Tue Jul 07, 2009 8:31 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Alternatives to P182/P183
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5138
the advantage with the p183 is that it gives you a door in front of the fans, which is pretty difficult to find with other cases... mikec is on record out here as saying that the door lessens the fan noise, and the big advantage with the p183 over the p182 is the extra venting, because it might be e...
- Tue Jul 07, 2009 8:17 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Antec P182 build. With Q9550. Update: Finally quiet
- Replies: 17
- Views: 17187
- Tue Jul 07, 2009 8:00 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Silent gfxcard for I7 rig?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3508
dell has a smoking hot deal on the evga gtx260 core 216 right now, $114 plus tax, shipped to your door... you could add a passive cooler to that later down the line, and hopefully maybe use the same cooler for the 285(??), when prices are more realistic. luca is right... if you overclock the 260, it...
- Tue Jul 07, 2009 7:40 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Antec P183: The P182 Gets More Air
- Replies: 145
- Views: 133732
I've just ordered P183. :) 2. How are those TriCool fans behaving? Are they efficent/silent? Or should I replace them with something else...? i wish that i had a p183! the top fan in my p180b started making noise, so i tried peeling the label back and oiling the bearing, but it didn't help. i think...