I'm trying to decide on a 3870 to get. However, it seems that there are a raft of versions that are DDR3 as opposed to DDR4. Does this make a significant difference in terms of performance and in terms of heat/power? The DDR4 versions are some 20-30 dollars more than the DDR3 versions, which is encr...

Hi Neil. I really don't have any specific cases in mind -- I just like reading SPCR articles. I generally find info on products I never would have thought about or known about on SPCR and I was hoping that there were a few cases that I hadn't read about already that SPCR considered decent. However, ...

Firstly, without hearing the noise it's hard to diagnose what the source is. But it SEEMS like you have drive with a noisy seek mechanism. Is it more of a clicking/ticking sound, or a humming/buzzing sound? If it is seek noise, then I don't think that the products you looked at would have much effec...

There seems to be alot of companies claiming quiet cases these days. Unfortunately, the SPCR case section seems a bit sparse. I know SPCR reviews must be quite involved, but is there any chance we can see a few more tower reviews?

It's not neccessarily only found in "lab-settings", but your chance of encountering the bug is apparently extremely rare. In the CPU, however, world anything less than 100% stability is pretty significant. The biggest problem is that the workaround affecting the rare bug (BIOS update) will affect pe...

Nice and neat --- I have the same thing and was almost giving up on it till I saw this. A couple noob questions. How did you remove the walls and the hd rack? I think I have the original version of the board and they are rivetted on -- do I need to cut it with a demel or something? Also, how did you...

Depending on the size and who the company is, it doesn't really matter. MS can make good deals for corporates. A bank I was a vendor for only moved from NT4 (!!!) to XP in 2006. NT4 support had "officially" run out and there were no more NT4 was no longer sold, but this did not stop MS providing fur...