Maybe you mean something like this http://www.startech.com/item/SATA35252X ... apter.aspx

FYI mike someone (at ncix I think) said that the GP is now made with the larger 320gb platters... might be something to look into.

Sorry, I actually knew that but forgot. Of course the two best topical sites got it right! Eugene and ninja mike take no prisoners, boyeeeeee

small motherboards are not stagnating, they are becoming more popular than ever

your read on the market is apparently incorrect

Well, my comment was not to self-congratulate I agree, that is why I congratulated ninja mike myself :) As far as I could tell at the time, nowhere on the internet except for spcr actually proved the speed of the GP! That shows the skill and rigor of spcr! Everyone else just quoted the manufacturer...

I know mike, some people are slow (mike is fast and silent, like a ninja)

if your psu fan is ramping up it means your case is getting hot, not that you need another psu.

flow more air through the case and the temperatures will fall...

37 degrees loaded and you're wondering if your heat sink is flat. Is your nose straight?

re: http://www.silentpcreview.com/article810-page7.html

you're killing me here, you did this great followup on the big fan at low rpm, but you didn't review it inside the case! It was like you left out the payoff! In vitro vs in vivo man, you've got to hit the important one

You can't go two months without buying a heatsink? You cant run your case with the door off for 2 months?

Xigmatek 1283 is probably what everyone should buy. That should answer your question start to finish.

I have a computer engineering background, and unfortunately the marketing people have a significant say in product design. Guys with tassles on their shoes should be locked out of engineering labs. :wink: The new AXP-140 continues the TR tradition of no additional cooling block on the cpu mount. Th...

With all the talk about reducing vibrations, I asked Ted how hard drive suspension affected performance. "It's horrible!" Not only does it increase the chances that the heads sidetrack, in some cases, the drive hits a resonant frequency inside the case, causing massive and repeated failures. If you...

Looking at your pictures, I'm guessing you have the same problem I've been having in my system - SATA power cables. I'm completely puzzled as to why the design has been changed from Molex at all. Probably just to make everybody's life a little more complicated. In addition to what Nick said, they k...

The divided 5.25" bay at the bottom is a difference between the P180B and the P182 that I did not notice before. My P182 has all 4 bays as one big piece, no divider. I've actually had some vibration noise problems with it after mounting hard drives up there, so I wonder if the extra rigidity of the ...

Those video cards provide their own air flow and output it outside the case, right? So it is just a matter of providing them as much cool air as they ouput. I expect you can make that work in a p182, just clear the path for the two 120mm fans you put in the front middle and front top. Remove the mid...

debatable. Your high power examples are fringe products and not representative of the general tide of things. :) The new Intel CPU is about the same power output per unit performance as every other Core 2 Duo, and the new ATI cards will be very high performance and low power compare to the Nvidia c...

There is no reason to do that, it is not a good case.

I'm not sure antec is going in the right direction by opening up the p183. The industry is clearly moving toward mini-itx. You can fit almost everything a modern PC needs onto a mini-itx board. You CAN fit everything you need onto a mini-atx board, which is why the industry is moving to mini-itx ins...

> Silence yet performance, is it possible?

if you consider silence to be a couple 500rpm 120mm fans, then yes, it is easy with stock parts search the forum.

the only challenge is building a silent yet performance mini-atx or mini-itx case.

from the sound of this http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/19889 ... g-problems

it does have a speaker

ps: someone else had your problem, google Asus P5B beep

modern cases dont have speakers because modern motherboards (like yours) do have speakers

well just look at the reviews... all of those drives are faster than the m60, they are all similarly quiet, and the GP vibrates the least because it is the slowest. So pick your poison, there isn't that much difference, and the differences are very clear.

> The reason for the CPU bottleneck on level loads is that most games compress data in order to conserve space; decompressing all the textures and models and such takes a fair amount of CPU power, to the point where the hard drives probably only need to sustain around 15-25MB/s. You make a compellin...

Thanks for the links... these must be the new products that will compete with the new intel-micron SLC products later this year. The better SSDs get, the more happy I get in my pants!

Nah - 10 years ago I was buying hard drives for capacity because I didn't have room for Windows and more than one game. 10 years ago I was paying top dollar ($250 ish) for a 5GB drive to replace my 512Meg drive. Speed didn't matter, I just picked one that was ATA compatable with my southbridge. Poo...

Haha :lol: . As you can see, you're not saying nothing that I hadn't said, and even remarked, in both my own previous posts... I'm not bashing anyone that want/prefer/consider to buy a VelociRaptor. In fact I've reached this thread searching info about this drive myself (why do you think I was read...

Do I need to make the same points again : - The TriCools are quiet enough for most people - Quieter fans would shift less air - You can't please everybody all the time, all you can do is come up with the best compromise, and hope it's reflected in the balance sheet Lets get real here. Nobody needs ...

the new antec 500 or 400 or 600 or whatever number it is is a copy of the 590

2tb in 2 years. by then ssd will be the preferred drive for normal power users, and large hdds will be used to archive home video of our flying cars

AZBrandon wrote: When does Windows do that? Everything I've seen, it properly scales along units of 1024. KB is really KB and so on.

That is not properly... Windows gives you KiB values but labels them KB...