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- Wed Jul 08, 2009 6:49 am
- Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
- Topic: My Proposed Silent PC Set-Up: Looking For Expert Opinions.
- Replies: 150
- Views: 44966
Re: My Proposed Silent PC Set-Up: Looking For Expert Opinion
The PC will be for general use (internet etc) and for photograph editing. I won't be using it for games. The basis is as follows: Motherboard: Asus P5Q SE2 CPU: Intel E5200 RAM: Buffalo Firestix PC2 8500 (4GB) Power Supply: Nexus Value 430w PSU Graphics Card: Asus EN9400GT Silent CPU Heatsink: Xigm...
- Wed Jul 08, 2009 2:06 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Recommendation required: Low Power Chip + Mobo
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7138
- Fri Jul 03, 2009 3:57 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Recommendation required: Low Power Chip + Mobo
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7138
Re: Recommendation required: Low Power Chip + Mobo
Hello, I am looking for a low power CPU + Mobo Combo. DG45FC (you'll probably want an E5200 with this or the next one) http://www.silentpcreview.com/article869-page5.html Zotac GeForce 9300-ITX http://www.silentpcreview.com/article943-page5.html Finally an Ion: maybe this won't have the same perfor...
- Wed Jul 01, 2009 9:50 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Every-Five-Years Build Advice Sought...(longwinded)
- Replies: 29
- Views: 11766
Re: Every-Five-Years Build Advice Sought...(longwinded)
You may have noticed no processor yet. I had in mind to use Core 2 Duo E7400, but got to reading and, well, you know how that goes… Pentium E5200 caught my eye, with a mild overclock it looks like a real contender at about half the $$. Comments? No need to overclock, especially since you are comi...
- Wed Jul 01, 2009 6:56 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: i7 PC electrical noise leaking into audio recordings
- Replies: 24
- Views: 14000
Re: i7 PC electrical noise leaking into audio recordings
But I'm disappointed in the noise coming out of this motherboard. Clearly, Gigabyte's priority is to implement all sorts of new hardware technology in their boards. I should have seen this as a red flag, but now I know better. They probably didn't notice or care that they neglected one of the basic...
- Mon Jun 29, 2009 3:01 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: i7 PC electrical noise leaking into audio recordings
- Replies: 24
- Views: 14000
Re: i7 PC electrical noise leaking into audio recordings
Last month I built a new Intel i7 PC for music composition and audio recording. It's more of a gaming system but should work fine for this if it's quiet. analog recordings into this new i7 PC are accompanied by an obnoxious, wide-spectrum buzzing noise centered near 2.5kHz. This electrical noise is...
- Sun Jun 28, 2009 2:19 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Win 7, what compels you to upgrade?
- Replies: 112
- Views: 50476
[quote="LodeHacker]Well current FireWire and USB implementations for Pro Audio suck to say the least. Timing/bandwidth problems being the key to distorted or delayed audio signals. For true Pro Audio you need an RME or similar in PCI Express / ExpressCard[/quote] Sure but the question is does USB 3....
- Sun Jun 28, 2009 2:13 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Win 7, what compels you to upgrade?
- Replies: 112
- Views: 50476
- Hopefully, for better compatibility with newer hardware. - Hopefully, for better security (can Windows and security even be used in the same sentence in positive terms?) - Hopefully, for less mucking around and administering, and more time actually using it for productivity and enjoyment. ...If W...
- Wed Jun 24, 2009 7:12 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Silverstone Fortress FT01
- Replies: 48
- Views: 42309
- Tue Jun 23, 2009 2:58 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: The next HTPC project
- Replies: 12
- Views: 11890
- Mon Jun 22, 2009 3:24 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: The Unconditional Basic Income ... please read !!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5974
Too ideological, not the right point of view to see economic questions. "Granted a dignity" is nonsense. Granting money does not "grant a dignity" and even if it did how much money is needed to grant dignity is not related to the variables of the economy which should really determine the level of ta...
- Tue Jun 16, 2009 7:44 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Zotac IONITX-A: An ION / dual-core Atom Mini-ITX Board
- Replies: 46
- Views: 41389
- Sat May 30, 2009 4:09 am
- Forum: Quiet Prebuilt, SFF and Barebones Systems
- Topic: suggestions for reviews
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3258
Re: suggestions for reviews
Take it easy mate. > Why not just use this checklist: > Does it use an SSD? There are significant reasons someone might choose not to use an SSD. Cost, limited capacity and slow write performance for a start. No: http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531&p=24 http://www.anandtech.com/stor...
- Fri May 29, 2009 8:46 am
- Forum: Quiet Prebuilt, SFF and Barebones Systems
- Topic: suggestions for reviews
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3258
Re: suggestions for reviews
1. laptop / netbook reviews - Most current laptops or netbooks reviews don't give useful results for the noise level of the computer. I currently use a 5 year old laptop for remote control of music playback; the fan is bothersome. But there are so many laptops. Why not just use this checklist: Does...
- Thu May 28, 2009 2:11 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Win 7, what compels you to upgrade?
- Replies: 112
- Views: 50476
Re: Win 7, what compels you to upgrade?
By 16-bit calculations do you mean 16-bit sampling? 16-bit audio won't be a problem for most people. It's pretty much what all MP3s are encoded at. Even DVD-A at 24-bit, you won't notice the difference unless you have an audio card with a high SNR margin and a high-fidelity sound system. No samplin...
- Thu May 28, 2009 2:03 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Win 7, what compels you to upgrade?
- Replies: 112
- Views: 50476
LOL I guess you've already tried it? eSATA is great, but they lack power for hard drives, USB 2 in modern chipsets can at least use 2.5" hard drives without an extra power supply. Yeah they're slower, but USB 3 will change that. I like the idea with eSATA though, no extra controllers needed, but it...
- Thu May 28, 2009 1:55 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Livingroom PC to replace gaming PC
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1218
Re: Livingroom PC to replace gaming PC
it's also used for gaming (high end as you can imagine, eg crysis/stalker etc with settings pretty much maxed)... So my issue is - trying to find a relatively powerful PC that will game the same way, but in some combination with being a media center pc more designed for a living room and running qu...
- Thu May 28, 2009 1:42 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Doubts about my new HTPC
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3666
Re: Doubts about my new HTPC
Case: HIPER HMC-A0-2K53A MoBo: ASUS M3N78-VM (Nvidia 8200) / ASUS M3N78-EM (Nvidia 8300) No good. All previous generation integrated graphics are no good for htpc. CPU: AMD 5050e On the AMD platform wait for the new 45nm dual core processors and get a 780G motherboard. And finally, an Intel alterna...
- Sun May 24, 2009 5:15 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Why is ATX STILL Alive?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 52444
Well pure HTPC:s might not need the most powerfull cards, just depends what specifically you have planned to do whit it. If it's just playback, a IGP shall do fine. but the image enhancement stuff will need more powerful cards if you want gpu to handle it. but still then lower mid-end and below is ...
- Sun May 24, 2009 3:21 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Why is ATX STILL Alive?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 52444
it wouldn't surprise me if a different form factor would enter the market: optimized for graphics cards, ideal for HTPC's or compact gaming PC's, even with low profile cases. HTPC doens't need a graphics card; that's been true for over a year. NVidia Ion and Intel hybrid CPU+GPU will allow for smal...
- Sun May 24, 2009 3:10 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Why is ATX STILL Alive?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 52444
The reality of course is that ATX is here to stay for the foreseeable future, PC's are slowly breaking into 2 market sectors. High performance (graphics) machines that are physically bigger and contain faster higher performance components. Smaller less/ non-upgradable desktops (nettops) for the mas...
- Mon May 18, 2009 8:41 am
- Forum: Quiet Prebuilt, SFF and Barebones Systems
- Topic: silent AV receivers?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 8602
- Mon May 18, 2009 8:40 am
- Forum: Quiet Prebuilt, SFF and Barebones Systems
- Topic: silent AV receivers?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 8602
Re: silent AV receivers?
I'm looking for a small, simple HDMI receiver/amp to power 2 speakers for my HTPC. Why are receivers so large nowadays? Most Onkyos are almost as big as my computer case. You could get something simple like a integrated amplifier. Receivers do a lot of things which you don't need if you have one so...
- Thu May 14, 2009 3:45 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Win 7, what compels you to upgrade?
- Replies: 112
- Views: 50476
- Thu May 14, 2009 3:42 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Win 7, what compels you to upgrade?
- Replies: 112
- Views: 50476
Re: Win 7, what compels you to upgrade?
Vista was not better than XP. Vista was, and it is, worse-the so called "new features" in most of the cases are useless features, which make the whole OS more slowly only. Vista for me was a disaster- the teenage toy... . Windows 7 try to make Vista to look better. But the problem is the Vista... ....
- Thu May 14, 2009 2:35 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: 2009 Predictions
- Replies: 26
- Views: 16703
I'm about 51% sure that we are directly or indirectly responsible for Climate Change, but at the same time I cannot be certain because there are too many interests involved and many different ideas and sides to the argument. I think a big problem is it's very rare to understand risk. Rational decis...
- Thu May 14, 2009 2:30 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: 2009 Predictions
- Replies: 26
- Views: 16703
- Thu May 14, 2009 2:27 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: I often think of God ....
- Replies: 47
- Views: 22473
No one on earth even knows if god exists. I do. Being a good person and being religious have nothing to do with each other. Who knows what religion is? A red herring? Do you know that good exists? Why aren't you as skeptical about that as about God? Especially as God:=good:=God by a lot of definiti...
- Thu May 14, 2009 2:17 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Win 7, what compels you to upgrade?
- Replies: 112
- Views: 50476
Re: Win 7, what compels you to upgrade?
For me, the only thing I've seen that Win 7 will be able to do that XP cant is SSD optimizations out of the box. Some of which you could probably tweak on XP, while a few of the changes will be for win 7 only it seems. Vista does a lot more than XP. Just look up the list of features on wikipedia. I...
- Thu May 14, 2009 2:12 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Win 7, what compels you to upgrade?
- Replies: 112
- Views: 50476
Today, wonderful series of free h264 and high definition codecs (with low CPU usage and multithreading) exist. Actually no, assuming you want DXVA. You have to get the codec from MPC-HC, do some hacking, and probably end up without subtitles. They decide to ignore them. They choose to use their (MS...