You will initially cringe when hearing this, but the heatpipes in the Accelero S2 can be pretty easily bent - just make a gentle curve so the cooler arcs instead of going straight up. Some general advice: the FX5600 AGP card is completely unsuited to HTPC use - it is too hot, too underpowered and is...

Coolerguys just got a shipment of these in (I just picked one up this afternoon). The sound of the 1450RPM model is very pleasing to the ears (albeit not completely silent). I'm going to drop it in my WHS system (because of the high MTBF of the dual ball bearing) at 12V.

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With Win7 Enterprise version, my %systemroot% is 9.57GB.

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Why should it even be necessary to have a phone and or internet to use an OS anyway? I paid for why do i have to jump through hoops to use it? How are you supposed to test for this bug ahead of time? I know hind sight is 20/20 but the comments here indicate it was a pretty dumb error. http://www.cr...

Even more interesting would be Atom 330 + 9400M combination with GigE, 2-4 SATA ports, 2 SODIMM slots and a PCIe x1 slot. It could be a WHS system or a media center or an email / web browser system. No room on a Pico-ITX. No point for a reference board. Make production version a Mini-ITX or Micro-A...

Even more interesting would be Atom 330 + 9400M combination with GigE, 2-4 SATA ports, 2 SODIMM slots and a PCIe x1 slot. It could be a WHS system or a media center or an email / web browser system.

Make it so...

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There's always the upcoming Nvidia MCP79chipset for the Atom which should be low powered (3W idle, 14W full load w/ IGP). Specs look to be pretty nice (including HDMI 1.2). Now if it has more than 2 SATA ports and GigE, it could be a fabulous platform for WHS.

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Would have been much more interested in a review of the Micro Fusion 350 since it is visually more appealing than the Max. Also interesting from a silent PC standpoint (can Antec build a chassis that cools well and cools quietly using 80mm fans?). However, I understand why this was reviewed (support...

derekva -- Here you go, the only vendor who has a page on the product... limited tho it is: http://www.maingear.com/mediacenter/axess/ Cool! Thanks! -D I went to their site and then went "!?!". Too rich for my blood. If only OEMs could sell motherboard + OCUR combos...damn the blackened souls of Ca...

MikeC wrote:derekva -- Here you go, the only vendor who has a page on the product... limited tho it is: http://www.maingear.com/mediacenter/axess/

Cool! Thanks!

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This first impression is only after one afternoon of messing with the Maui HTPC sample from AMD, specifically the 5ch Power Amplifier and Intersil D2Audio DAE-3 (on the motherboard): The sound quality through a pair of high quality hifi speakers (self-designed/built 7" Focal + 1" aluminum dome in 6...

I keep a very large speaker magnet on hand for wiping out hard drives in general. Does that actually work...... I have used the stupidly powerful magnets that are actually used "inside" HDD's and that doesnt work, I thought that the magnetism had to be directed very very specifically to actually wo...

Has anyone found passive 4550 in retail? I need hdmi blueray playback solution for my passive modt :) I've purchased passive ASUS 4350 card with native HDMI (code: EAH4350 SILENT) for 40 euros. QUICK REVIEW: + Blueray, x264 1080p mkv's rips play fine (previously stuttered with integrated intel gpu,...

How many drives are you using?

You could always go with a D945GCLF2 + SATA PCI card.

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angelkiller wrote: Conceded.

(What? nobody makes a passive 4670?)

No need to be mad.

If anything, I should be mad at AOpen for putting the bloody PCIe x1 slot right next to the PCIe x16 slot.

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780G ig great, but then ur stuck with AMD cpu, intel gives more room for undervolting and cooler systems. The undervolting thing is debatable. In terms of power consumption, a 4550 + Intel chipset + Intel CPU > 780G motherboard + AMD CPU. And for HTPC tasks, they do the exact same thing, exactly th...

Zed Lopez wrote:On pages 1 and 2, the review says it has 10/100 Mbps ethernet. Intel says it's 10/100/1000.

D945GCLF has a 100Mbps network connection.
D945GCLF2 has a 1Gbps network connection.

The review was for the D945GCLF.

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If an Atom solution was used, it could be built on the single core or single vs dual core Intel Mini-ITX mobo's that Mike has already reviewed. The results from this would be comparable to any Atom based system. Ironically, Yamawho, your system in your .SIG is pretty close to my WHS system (I have ...

Vinyl...lots and lots of vinyl...latest on the turntable are:

She & Him - Volume One
Miles Davis - Greatest Hits
Round Midnight - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

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that is the worst video card I have ever seen. 17 frames on low quality, 120 dollar version of an LCD screen level of playing ? i agree that a 4670 is the better choice over this. the 4670 actually can play games. things need a 128 bit bus at least. 64 is really really old school well, i guess it i...

All I want to know about Palin - does she believe that dinosaurs and humans co-existed?

If the answer is yes (and based upon various articles I've read, that's the case), then that tells me everything I need to know about her.

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I love my Chaintech AV-710. It's out of production now, but you can still find it on eBay . It has been around long enough that it works in Ubuntu (At least in Feisty Faun). It uses the ENVY24 HT-S chipset + Wolfson WM8728 DAC and supports: » Analog 20-bit/48KHz I/Os » Digital I/Os supporting 24-b...

What about Windows Home Server? Microsoft finally got the data corruption bug fixed and it's pretty darn stable. It doesn't require a lot of power from a CPU standpoint (my WHS server is built on a D201GLY2) and is pretty easy to manage. Granted, it's not free like Ubuntu, but it does everything I n...

I am in lust with that motherboard...

If only Intel could produce something that cool.

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Of course it was dead.. I loved it myself, unfortunately after 11 years of service it wouldn`t read anymore. And it`s not just the platter, every cable inside was carefully grounded and the transformer is 4 times the size of that in my dvd player. They even used copper screws.. You can do better to...

Please tell me that PD-S904 was dead before you hacked it up...

Do you know how excellent the old Pioneer stable platter CD transports were? I'd love to have one in my stereo system.

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.....and a single PCIe 16X graphic port.... A single PCI slot would have been so much better IMO. Looks to be a great HTPC board. Actually, I'll dispute this. Most if not all of the new combo tuners (Digital + Analog) come in PCIe rather than PCI. If you want to be able to tune clear QAM with an HT...

HammerSandwich wrote:

FartingBob wrote:Really, as a prototype its doing its job of getting noticed, but i cant see it ever making it to production.

That's what everyone said about the Pontiac Aztek.

Yeah, but I don't see soccer moms buying this computer case.

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Devo - Jocko Homo

What about this: Intel D945GCLF (with integrated Atom 1.6Ghz CPU) Cheers. Tasty. I see Mini-Box is listing it for only $80 -- competitive with D201GLY2, as MikeC said. With lower power consumption and better chipset, this is a huge upgrade over the D201GLY2. Of course, people will still bitch about...