Thanks guys.

What's your take on the bottom PSU placement form factor in a big case like this? Good, bad or no material difference?

It seems to work fairly well in a case with a well structured flow paths, but a big case is usually a mess when it comes to air flows.

I'm looking for a full tower case with fairly specific reqs: - min. 6 * 5.25" external slots (pref 8) - front door covering 5.25" slots (with enough room inside the door for damping materials) - not overwide - max 27.5 inch (70cm) tall (with or without removable feet, if such exist) - preferably wit...

Another review, this time from Madshrimps, although the noise measurements are wanting: http://www.madshrimps.be/?action=getarticle&number=5&artpage=3204&articID=673 Regardless, it looks like the trend continues and this looks to be a very high performing heat sink, regardless of whether one uses lo...

Hexen, when buying a ready combo of external enclosure and drive, you can never be sure what model drive you will get. Many manufacturers can and do change the drive contained, without any change in specs or model number. Hence you play silence crapshoot :) That's why it is always good to buy drive ...

Frostytech has reviewed Xigmatek HDT-S1283 heatpipe heatsink for K8/LG775 CPUs.

http://www.frostytech.com/articleview.c ... 233&page=5

The results for 150W and 85W loads with low fan speed are quite promising.

Anybody tried this?

WR304,

excellent! Very informative with useful pictures/instructions. Thanks!

My old GPU just gave up and I have to order a new one, so this came at just the right time for me.

Another Tagan manufacture BeQuiet that will break down before too long? YMMV, but I already had two tagans fail on me. Seasonics (out of tree used: none, fsp out of four used: none).

In any flash memory write test, the size of the files being written is absolutely critical. This is not unique to Flash Voyager; it's a property of all flash drives. I'm in perfect agreement and this goes without saying. I may have been unclear above, but this is exactly what I tried to write. Howe...

jojo4u, thanks for that link, I had missed that test altogether (probably not the only one). That is indeed different from the other tests I've read, so it's good you brought it up. Here are the test I was referring to: http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/2918-ocz-atv-turbo...

Just two quick points: USB Flash drives, try to get OCZ ATV Turbo (turbo being the defining word here) in either 4GB or 8GB. That is the highest performing flash USB drive (consistently from test to test) that I've been able to find. Beats anything/everything by Corsair, Buffalo, Patriot, etc. For b...

Fairly good review at silent-hardware.de http://www.silenthardware.de/reviews/cpu/scythe_ninja_copper/kuhlercharts_silent_fanless/index.html And a quickie at forumdeluxx http://www.forumdeluxx.de/forum/showthread.php?threadid=333208 Another one at pc-experience http://www.pc-experience.de/wbb2/threa...

Anybody got it working easily with 8800GTS (the 512MB G92 variant)?

What kind of temps are you getting?

This is a crapshoot. all drives are very noisy at 16x-20x speeds. Some can be throttled down via sofware (Samsung, orig. Plextor, some Pioneers, some others). Some know how to switch to 1x speed on dvd playback. On the average, the Asus and Pioneer models have been a bit less noisy than many others....

To be fair, 6 fans can be quiet if they. Can, but also can be not quiet. All things being equal, 1 slow fan is still much more quiet than 6 quiet fans. And even 1 quiet fan can drive some people insane. Trust me. anyway, in this era of freely available, cheap 35W TDP CPUs, if we were only dealing w...

This is posted once or twice a month, please use the search.

And if you spell properly, your posts can also be searched accurately.

Anyone?

Hopefully somebody has tried one of these :)

I really feel for you all with repeated Samsung (or other brand) HD failures. To summarize, if you have already ruled out temps (have a direct out of the case airflow on them, and not too high ambient temp, tried the finger trick), then check: 1) Sourcing. All dead drives from the same seller? Try s...

Don't really know where this post should go, but probably this has most interest among notebook users: Thermaltake NBcool T3000 Fanless notebook cooler http://www.fareastgizmos.com/entry_images/1007/23/Thermal_take_CoolingSystem.jpg http://www.fareastgizmos.com/entry_images/1007/23/Thermaltake_1.jpg...

Should have read the article. For dedicated corp. storage at this point and price range. Wait till it's 0.50/GB or lower. Hope the tech catches on. The current bulk of SATA/PATA flash drives are pathetic in performance, barely on the level of WD Raptor in many cases. Of course, for us silence addict...

It's that time of the year again: need to upgrade the PVR HD (PATA, 5.25", 400GB or more). I wonder if anybody bought the Hitachi Cinemastar disks and how are they? They were supposedly developed for low-power, low acoustics CES applications: 15ms avg. read seek time, 7200RPM and rated at 3.00 bels ...

Why again PCI-E?

Why not standard SATA II?

Sounds like it needs a lot of juice and may generate lots of heat as well.

Actually a PC is the best source for CD playback from a hard drive because it completely removes jitter. CDs are NOT really a digital format. They are an analog stream of digital data. When you go to CES you will see a lot of really high end audio companies using Ipods to drive their equipment, say...

Has anyone actually tried the 1TB WD GP? Is it really that quiet? How does it compare to the current WD5000AAAKS I ordered 2. Got them on Friday. 1st installed ok and is roughly similar to 5000AAAKS noise/vibration -wise, maybe a tad more (I just can't perform an accurate comparison now, way too bu...

Interitus, I've had only 2 x 160 GB (P120?, can't remember model) and one 400GB (T133?). All running fine (160Gbs for years). Now, this is of course not to say that you haven't had problems or others can't have. In general, and this is true for Samsung as well as other drives, I'd check the followin...

whiic, thanks for the tip on the store. Just ordered 2 for myself. I hope these babies last. The power draw seems to be promisingly low and I'm hoping the acoustics will be as well. I'm also tired of waiting for F1s to arrive.

Burn quality ======== Binary data is encoded as analog reflectivity variation on the dye. The amount of reading jitter and resulting reading PIE/POE (and subsequent failures) is what defines the quality of the writing (and reading). In simple english: burn quality varies A LOT and it's not just "wor...

Wow! 65W!

Really efficient.

How about Zonbu @ ~10W / typical.

www.zonbu.com

I hope the real world numbers of the Dell PC are much better and 65W is just PSU max wattage?

Anybody got experience with one yet?

Vibration? Seek acoustics? Heat?

Some alternative opinions (based on a few thousand burned discs and three dozens of burners evaluated statistically): BenQ 1640/1650 - most consistent burners. Not easily available. 1650 can still be had under the LiteOn brand in Central Europe. Lousy at cd-writing LG - bad cd error correction. Fast...