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...

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...

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...

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, ...

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...

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...

http://www.scythe-eu.com/forum/mugen-series/

the official scythe forum, for questions regarding fitment issues and such.

aSASa wrote:Don't have a Kill-A-Watt, but my RS1500VA APC UPS claims [ Furmark + Prime95 ] that its using ( With monitor off ) 320W max. [ Usually 290-305 ]

furmark and prime95 running at the same time only adds 30w at the most??

i think that the cp-850 was a good choice, because it's something like 84% efficient with a ~200 watt load, and it could outlive the case

buy.com has that ps for $120, you'd be hard-pressed to find that ratio of quality power delivery vs. $$$ vs. noise in a 650 watt ps.

socket 754? good luck trying to find a cheap replacement mb.

just build another computer, you'll be further ahead in the long run.

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...

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

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 ...

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...

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...

that's a plasma monitor, and a very good one at that, but how do plasmas do with computer games? the native rez is 1024x768.

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...

the mugen 2 is better than the xigmatek... it cools better, it's quieter, and the cost is similar, or maybe even cheaper... the only drawback is that it's much bigger.

i have it running on the ep45t-ud3lr

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...

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,...

do you have a speaker plugged into the motherboard, so you can hear the beeps during post?

unplug as much as you can on the motherboard, and see if it posts then... stuff like the hdd, dvd, etc.

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...

how about synthetic testing with the side panel off vs. on?

i'm having a hard time imagining that it's starved for cool air, tho

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...

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...

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...

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...

nice trick with the fan controller, thanks for the tip

fwiw, some of those old small hdds can make a lot more noise than the latest green drives do.

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...

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...