When comparing HDDs with SSDs it's important to remember size. The performance of large-capacity 3.5" 5400rpm drives is decent, the performance of 2.5" 5400rpm drives isn't (in my personal opinion at least).

on the Arch-Linux thread a guy is saying that the stock-spu-fan could satisfie my needs, too....what you think? https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=986807 I think he's wrong, that's what I think. The stock i3 cooler is half decent, and better than many that went before it. But you can do so...

Well the problem is that the CPU position on these mini-ITX boards varies a little, and with such little clearance between the HSF and the PCI-E it's something of a lottery whether you get the collisions you're seeing. Take a look at the Prolimatech Samuel 17. That's reasonably compact and quite asy...

Yes this is a pain. I have the same combo (DH67CF + AXP140), I got it to fit using a backplate from another heatsink IIRC.

IanM wrote:

nutball wrote:No, it doesn't seem to.

Thanks, how did you find out? do you have one or were you able to find a manual listing the BIOS options?

I have one in my general-purpose/gaming rig. There are tweaking options for memory and graphics but seemingly not for the CPU.

No, it doesn't seem to.

Well I've got hold of one of these and so far I'm pretty impressed. The sound from the cooler is much smoother than the stock cooler. At idle, no, it isn't silent. But it is quiet, and it's much quieter than the stock cooler; quieter even than the stock cooler BIOS modded to a minimum fan speed of 3...

cordis wrote:The thin form factor would be good for a media player with limited storage, but I'm not sure what else it would be useful for.

Think iMac, and so on. All-in-one monitor-PC things.

the only psu that comes to mind is the Silverstone Strider Plus ST50F-P 500W. I have one of these. Others may have had better experiences, but mine needed a fan swap to be even remotely tolerable. The stock fan was beyond appalling, I thought I'd been teleported back in time a decade. The good news...

I did hear that if all Americans ate only what they needed to, there would be enough food left over to feed the starving in the third world. Whether this is true or not I don't know. Well the other issues are where the so-called excess food is grown, whether it's transportable to where it's needed,...

ces wrote:I didn't even know they still made tape backup units.

Why did you not know this?! It's a multi-billion-dollar industry.

Intel has been making some noise that 86 applications won't automatically run on the ARM chips even if Windows does. This is relevant how? It doesn't strike you as relevant that Intel might have vested interest in saying that sort of stuff? Do you recall Intel making the same noises when Apple move...

The Antec ISK-100 is a Mini-ITX case. What main board size do you want to use, Micro ATX or Mini ITX? Mini. Why is it that a micro board is larger than a mini board? I guess there is no precise definition of micro and mini (although you could argue that micro is 10^(-6) ) but to me micro means smal...

ces, no offense but I seriously think you should rewind your life back to 1992, and pay more attention the second time through. Make that 1982 or even 1972 if you want to insist on making such self-important encyclopaedic posts. Honestly if you don't understand the basics and the history you've got ...

The fan is held in place in a plastic assembly which is, in turn, screwed to the side panel. The mounting holes for this assembly are nearly, but just not quite, a match for the spacing of mounting holes to fix a 120mm fan.

Better still a company that I have never dealth with but have seen on my travels around the interweb called Ginger 6 has the above mentioned Asrock motherboard in-stock and at a cheaper price of £ 78.90 inc VAT. Yeah I came across that a few days ago too. I've used Ginger6 in the dim and distant pa...

Never mind that their experiences with the US and nuclear fission haven't been the best to date. Before I respond to this one, please explain its relevance to moving portable generation capacity and/or water? The only people who have had negative experience with the US armed forces to deploy into h...

You are right. Afghanistan and Iraq were much much much more remote and difficult than Sedai. And their impromptu requirements for 100+kilo-watts of power delivered by helicopter is what?! 2. There are lots of reasons to sit on your hands and do nothing. If you say so. 3. Let me get this: You are s...

The US is able to fly in tanks to war theaters. The Russians have some even larger planes. US coastal power plants have staged generators for such situations. They must have some way of delivering them quickly. Planes are not helicopters. Big planes even less so. Where is the nearest functioning ru...

If they had electricity on site, then they could pump water in. They should have pretended like it was important and had generators staged outside the area to be flown in if necessary. Flown in how, exactly? Have you ever seen these things? They come in a double-standard-sized container on the back...

tim851 wrote:This is not a religious topic, where people can just imagine the truthiness.

Problem is that the evidence contradicts the "gut feel". So people tend to choose to ignore the evidence, and will go to great lengths to come up with reasons why the evidence is wrong, the Google study is flawed, etc.

I can attest to the PC-Q08 making for a nice HTPC/NAS. I've just finished a build similar to the SPCR build, 6 x WD 2TB Green drives, Intel H57JG and Core i3. It's pretty quiet. I didn't do the piece-of-card-on-the-drive-holder trick as recommended in the article, and pressing on the sides/top of th...

One of the quietest builds I've managed used this technique - flipped the fan in the PSU to draw air inward and blow down on to the CPU. The CPU had a large tower heatsink (Ninja if I recall) and I build a duct enclose it and ensure that all the air from the PSU passed through the heatsink and out o...

The Gigabyte board is showing up for pre-order from Scan now for £110

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/gigabyte ... hd6310-vga

The Intel mini-ITX H67-based motherboard is available now - I have one, it's gone in one my recent builds. It's quite a nice little board. Intel DH67CF I do love mini-ITX, it's come a long way over the past years from the under-powered VIA stuff to the current situation where you can get truly impre...

I have this board (DH57JG). One thing you need to be wary of is what's on the back of the board near the processor socket - there are surface-mount chips there. If you're wanting to use a heatsink that uses a backplate there's a good chance that these components will interfere with it. Better to use...

Somewhere in the menu of the TV you should find a setting that says 'Just Scan', which sets up 1:1 pixel mapping under HDMI or DVI. On my Samsung set this is under Picture Setttings -> Size -> there are a list of aspect ratios eg. 16:9, 4:3 and so on, and at the bottom of the list 'Just Scan'.

Looks like Charlie isn't entirely convinced by the official version of events either (and we all know how much Charlie likes a good conspiracy!)

http://www.semiaccurate.com/2011/01/31/ ... any-water/

...if it weren't for the early adopters doing the beta-testing then the cautious late adopters would be the early adopters doing the beta-testing! WTF? Since when are customers who buy product at retail considered to be "beta-testers"? A beta-test is conducted prior to general product release with ...

However I disagree with 2. If Intel knew about this PRE release they would have saved hundreds of millions of dollars on shipping alone. Read Anand's article about it , you might appreciate the fact that the cost of repair and labor is minor compared to the cost of shipping the parts back to OEMs a...