If you want holey, check out the Cooler Master Centurion 590. That thing is more hole than case.

I have no idea about the actual performance of the HD4350, but it's probably the sort of card you wouldn't really want to play games on. It gets about a third the numbers in benchmarks that a 4670 does, so if casual gaming is desired, it would be wise to step up the GPU. I lied about the name of the...

If you put the NIC card in the 2nd x16 slot, the GPU and the NIC will both get 8 lanes. That might result in a small hit to the performance of your 5850. If you put the GPU in the 2nd x16 slot, it SHOULD probably work, but both slots will be getting x8 just as before and you'll take the same small h...

If I had to do it, I'd look at these two possibilities. Let's set aside $150 for the case+PSU and $30 for an optical drive, leaving $520 for components. Option 1: Super cheap CPU, nice budget for extras: - Athlon II X2 245 + Gigabyte GA-MA785GM-US2H : $125 - 4 GB DDR2-800: $90 That leaves $305 to bu...

I guess you mean this review? http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=1691&pageID=7678 If so, I wouldn't fret over the difference. They get 39C load at 20C ambient (which is pretty chilly). They don't even mention what fan is used, and I'm sure they're running it at 12v. 50C under prime95 is nothing to ...

In the picture on the cover of the manual, they show the case standing up on the feet, with the power supply down. Doesn't this totally block airflow to the PSU? Can it be stood up on the other end, and would that block the two vents near the CPU socket? And let me just say now: I love this case . B...

Yeah I guess I saw your thread at AT. I think if some of those guys tried to consider the three-way balance between performance, price, and noise, instead of just the former two, their heads would explode. The attractive blue 100284VXL one is the "Vapor-X" version of the card, and has the more advan...

Also the 790GX is an overclocked 780G, which was already more power-hungry than the 785G, so there's another watt or two at your chipset, than at others' maybe.

Sideport memory also must consume a little power, but I have no idea how much that would be.

So not one person in the entire world uses a floppy drive? Is this the same as noone uses DOS anymore? I guess you caught me in hyperbole. I don't use floppy drives anymore. At the very least, it would be nice to see some bottom-PSU designs come to the matx size. A shrunken Lancool K-56 wouldn't be...

In case you don't find any, these Lian-Li 3-in-3s are excellent, and I believe should work in any case:

http://www.frozencpu.com/products/8253/ ... d=VN9tq8I2

The reason people cut those out is to reduce the resistance to airflow. Restrictive grills require that the fan be run at higher speed to push the same amount of air into or out of the case.

To make my ideal matx mini tower, start with Cooler Master Centurion 541 and change it in the following ways: - Remove all 3.5" drive bays entirely - Relocate front buttons, LEDs, and ports to the very top of the front face in a neat little row - Put 2 120mm intake fan mounts in the front - Remove t...

Most PSUs with 2 rails have the ATX12V connector (the one near the CPU socket) on 1 rail and everything else on the other.

Okay, I have figured out how to reliably and automatically disable head parks. This procedure should work for all hard disks, but may vary for different versions of Windows (I have Vista 32 business). Here's what I did: - Download and install hdparm - Run hdparm from a command line (as administrato...

Looks like you have 4GB of space on your SSD reserved by the operating system for some purpose. This is likely the page file - because it isn't actually a true file, it doesn't get included in the backup. It could also be some sort of readyboost/readyboot/prefetch/etc type stuff.

Well, that's a graet question. I mean many of us buy both a faster and a slower card at the same time. I personally purchase 4-7 video cards, all different models and turn them on all at the same time. I like to game that way. Actually, some people love to do exactly that, so they start review site...

That shortcut is new in Windows 7. It does not help his case with Windows XP. It's good to take note of though. Oh, that's too bad. I guess there are features that the infinitely stubborn XP fanbase misses out on after all. I'm not trying to start a fight here, I'm just saying - Windows 7 has the f...

Why not winkey+P?

I guess you mean GA-P55M-UD2. This looks like a great board and the i5-750 is a nice price-to-performance winner. If you're not going to play games at all or use 3D apps, you don't need the HD 4670. You can go down as far as an HD4350 which won't have a giant heatsink hanging off the card and will s...

johnbentley wrote: For writes the VelociRaptor is faster. Is it in the reads that the Intel X25-M G2 is faster?

Yes, the X25-M is faster for reads, but that's missing the point. The SSD is MUCH MUCH faster for anything involving random access.

For $150 you can't get a good SSD, you can only get worse-than-HDD crap. Wait until a 60GB Agility comes into your price range.

Because there's 300 million of us and it would take way too long to get all of our votes on every little thing that gets passed.

Also, healthcare reform impacts everyone who consumes healthcare, even if a given individual won't be covered by any of the direct changes.

Windows 7 is currently making me very happy. It has eliminated several annoyances that I had with Vista, and Aero Peek is pretty useful. I can tolerate 7 with Aero turned on, which is something for which Vista never had the performance on my laptop. Sure, XP is lighter and simpler. However, some XP ...

The Palm Beach Post wrote:Roderman could not explain how a fight over the volume on a computer speaker could escalate to the point that William allegedly took a kitchen knife and stabbed his brother in the chest.

Alas, not an SPCR situation.

Maybe I'm a little behind-the-times, but isn't Readyboost the only one of those that's supposed to be disabled? Superfetch (isn't this just the new name for Prefetch?) loads commonly-used stuff from the disk into RAM. RAM is still a lot faster than an SSD, so Superfetch is still something you want e...

nutball wrote:Are we mixing up the NSK2480 and NSK3480 here?

Yes, yes we are.

*Leaves with tail between legs*

Hopefully, they're making it 2-3" deeper, so that a tower heatsink doesn't conflict with the optical drive bay, and putting a fanless ~450W PSU in the front of the case, through which air can be drawn as an intake.

Hopefully, someone at Antec is listening to me writing this too .

That won't work with the HDT oriented vertically (ie. with the airflow front-to-back). It will probably work with the HDT oriented horizontally, with the fan mounted on top. Disclaimer: by reading this post, you hereby acknowledge that I'm just guessing and waive all right to get mad at me if you bu...

For Starcraft 2, I'd go with any of the Radeon HD 4x50 cards, where x is a number that isn't 8.

Chips don't make noise, but coils can whine. There are lots of coils in your PSU, as well as some small ones on your motherboard and/or GPU. In fact. coil whine being audible while scrolling has been mentioned on these forums several times before. Unfortunately, I don't think there's ever been a goo...