Unless you're doing heavy numbers-crunching or gaming, it's probably worthless, other than a hobby to tinker around with. If you're trying to run Half-Life 2 and it just looks a little choppy, with a good CPU & HT overclock you can squeeze out another 10-15 frames, which can be a pretty huge differe...

...at XYZcomputing.com Seemed like a pretty fair article, includes antec phantom, coolmax CF-400, and many other favorites. It's a good link for those who are wondering about the differences without making (yet) another post on this site.

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1) The AGP version of this card requires an additional molex, but the PCI-E version draws all the power it needs through the bus, so you're safe

2) I don't live there so I couldn't tell you for sure, but check out this sticky, it might help out some.

Overall, that's not a bad setup...but just a couple more questions about what you intend for it to do. Heavy gaming? Just internet browsing/MP3 playing? Unless you plan to add a second 6800GT later, I would forego the SLI board, as the NF4 ultra models have the exact same feature set and run $40-$50...

Claus Ogerman - Cityscapes

(since probably nobody's ever heard of this guy I'll make an aside: phenomenal jazz arranger, did Diana Krall's The Look of Love)

It's a possibility. They might just be phasing it out altogether in favor of the much better Pentium M (e.g. Yonah, only one year away). Check out this thread for what's turning into an ongoing discussion of the subject.

Me, I'm holding out for Turion

What about heating/cooling vents? If you share those, they tend to allow a lot of sound through especiall yof the mid/high frequencies of a child crying. You shouldnt much care about low frequency (< 100 Hz) i think. Other than that the raised floor sounds like the best option. Good point, a lot of...

This might be a silly question, but...could you move your office to another room? I know when we lived in a place with two babies above us, the room below the babies' room was always noisy, but you usually couldn't hear them in the other bedroom (although sometimes you could hear other things... :sh...

*UPDATE*

New THG article, a follow-up to the one that started this thread, can be seen here.

Has anyone been paying much attention to IDF? I've read that they have demos of the Smithfields there, but that they're only running at 2.0 GHz. Since these are supposed to come out in one quarter at 3.0 GHz......can we say "delayed?"

two words......baby benadryl.

that's because it's still in the news...

Mats wrote:I wonder if they will stop using JVC, or if we will have the never ending search for HD's with Nidec motors this time too....

Keeping my fingers crossed....hope Nidec doesn't end up like Betamax up against the VHS of JVC

If I was to get a passively cooled 6800 or 6600GT AGP would it make sense to cut a hole in the bottom of my case and add a 120mm fan blowing up at it? If your case isn't sitting on the carpet it would :D Although I haven't tried it myself, it seems like it would be. You'd be working with convection...

It seems like WD is starting to catch on...I've seen several threads floating around here the last couple of weeks saying how the new WD drives are alot quieter than the old ones (there are at least three threads just for the WD3200JB, I think, but I'm too lazy to search right now). I hope this is a...

125 Gig platters w/ SATA II-300 and NCQ? :shock: Now we just have to wait for these to possibly see the light of day. I noticed on pg. 15 of the PDF they were doing the second-gens in two phases (these obviously being the second since they're native SATA II) but the stupid press release didn't give ...

I drive a stick so I very rarely have two hands on the wheel, but if you count driving my wife's car I guess I'm a cross-over.

Apple's OSX is extremely memory hungry. With 256m it won't feel snappy at all. 512mb is an option with the mini, as is 1gb. The last option is so hidous expensive that 512mb is as much memory any sane person would put in it. 512mb is ok-ish for OSX, but it won't fly. And the little fan is indeed fa...

ditto Jan. Sound dampening is useful in theory, and should work at least somewhat with high frequencies, but those low-frequency waveforms are just too darn big for anything you could fit inside your harddrive to soak up. That's why some of us in apartments are at war with our upward neighbors who o...

Tibors, I'm not trying to refute any point that MikeC made. On the contrary, I agree with him. The 3 dB law is true but what we do here involves too many variables for it to ever be accurate, and we don't always hear what our measurements suggest we should. But I come from the music studio side of t...

mmmm....blacklit PSU and P180.....*wishes there was a drooling smiley*

Yeah.....what we really need here is an anechoic chamber. That's the only way to get true measurements of these things. Vanderbilt has one down the street but they never let anyone use it. :cry: Maybe if we get a bunch more people to donate Mike can build one himself :wink: This is just personal pre...

Not to mention that if you run PCI-e you don't need to run any molex connectors to your graphics card. I can't remember for sure, but I think I saw one the other day (6800U?) that required 2 molex plugs!

I think the biggest potential benefit of a bigger AMD would be a larger selection of CPU's, allowing for more good deals or better than flagship products to slip through. I'm not 100% sure what you mean by this; Intel and AMD usually have around the same # of processor lines out at any given time.....

I just ran across this article. Dell & AMD........I think we've heard this swan song before

Greetings! Drive suspension is indeed the best way to get rid of seek noise. Just be glad you're not using external SCSI, those would be a serious pain to silence :( . Actually, if you're willing to.... ....I used to work in a studio that had a ProTools 5.1 room. The computer, I/Os, and hard drives ...

If AMD get more market share, their R&D budget goes up, and they'll hopefully be able to remain competitive with Intel. If AMD's market share goes down, how will they afford to keep Intel on their toes? The last thing we want is for Intel (or AMD) to become complacent. That's a good point about the...

As long as we're all making off-topic posts.... :wink: As far as market share goes, the real key for AMD is Dell. Of course, Intel will go bankrupt before they willfully lose the Dell deal, so it's a pretty big uphill battle. Here's a question, though: what advantage would we as educated computer us...

This translates to annual savings of approximately 85 kWh/year in desktop PCs and 300 kWh/year in desktop-derived servers. Where I live power is only 6.5 cents a KWh, so it's only a savings of $5.20 a year for me; I think those numbers are accurate. What is more applicable for SPCR folks is that a ...

Good advice given by all. Don't get too caught up in the waiting game, though: if you wait for dual-core, then you'll want to wait just a little longer for DDR3, then just a little longer for the next big thing..... .....that being said, unless you're doing heavy gaming (and have a VGA card that can...