It should be compatible. Might need to check if there's any different mounting hardware required, not sure. I put a Ninja rev. B (I think) on an AM2 board no problem.

All that horsepower, and a green drive? And XP?

that is all, have a good night SPCR!


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They are not supposed to be released until 1Q 2010. These are the cards I'm interested in also (5670/50, 5550, 5350).

mr. poopyhead wrote:computer specs are in my sig...

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the systray icons for sound and network are ugly...

and get these damn kids off my lawn, arrrr.....

Just ordered one from Newegg for my WHS system. Hopefully I get a gooderer one. :lol: Sounds like the M2B0 is the one to get? edit: saw you over at the chubbypurse thread for it too :D just tried ordering from Fry's online, it says it's available but the order isn't going through, oh well. Or all th...

Mid-range graphics should be your best bet then: on the Nvidia side 9600 series, ATI side probably 4600 series.

Also,

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Thought I commented before but I guess not--very nice!

very Slipperyskip-like actually, thought it was one of his at first when I saw this topic before.

As far as RAID goes, WHS does not support software based RAID. You could do hardware level, but it is most likely looking for trouble. What it does on the first disk, there will be a 20GB partition for the system, and the rest will be for storage. You can add additional drives to the system for stor...

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Wow...sorry, feel like I put a penny on the tracks watching this thread derail onto something completely different, yet so awesomely SPCR.

I would put my faith in the KAW before a regular consumer-level UPS. But yeah, maybe some testing this weekend with some light bulbs would be a good verification of the thing. Throw some low watt CFLs at it, and the 150W 3 way lamp also.

Check out the Biostar A760G M2+ from this thread: link here

here's a newegg link so you can at least check out some of the specs: linky

got it running my home server now and it's going pretty good so far.

flapane Frankly say, there is no such thing like 3D power mode or 2D power mode , at modern ATI cards e.g. Just a High GPU' Usage or Low GPU' Usage . No distinction whether it is 3D, or 2D, or anything else, an HDMI connected e.g. So don't bother that much with. At last you can tweak the BIOS with ...

I had a reply typed up earlier but SPCR went down for a bit--will come back later and try again, gotta go to work now.

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actually, as far memtest goes, get memtest86+ and burn it to cd or floppy and boot from it, it tests pretty much all the memory that way, if it was running in Windows, well most of the memory is already in use.

good luck and glad you got it part way sorted out. Now backup those files!

Don't trust any other site for noise. Not if you want really quiet. This is true. I think a small, fairly low-powered mATX system should give you the best bang for buck and future options. The last list of options is pretty good, though I'm still on the fence about x86/x64 myself. It seems like thi...

I think I saw some agp HD4650/70's at Newegg recently...dunno if they would actually be compatible with W7, I can't see why not though.

yeah mATX you can still fit fans inside

They are just *shorter*, they have less expansion slots. See if any of your Photoshop work can be video-card accelerated, I think the Nvidias can help with that. I think an Intel (dual?) and Nvidia card might work good but you will want to research that.

Well, the later 3 are all laptop drives, so they should consume less power and most likely be as quiet if not more than the Blue. And there's sample variance to consider, some have reported with multiple drives there being differences (you figure different plants, and evolution of the maunfacturing ...

Points for AMD--cheaper total cost, generally better integrated graphics (which are plenty good enough for your needs). Points for Intel--faster overall, get some modern integrated graphics (X4500 HD I think?) and you will, again, be just fine. If you don't need all the expansion slots, a mATX board...

I don't really have any experience with any other modern drives, but 640GB WD Caviar Blue works for me in my HTPC. And gaming rig. And Windows Home Server. Nice and quiet, plenty fast enough, affordable enough, modern design (not like how WD has gone back and slapped Green/Blue/Black on all the old ...

I measured 33W idle Biostar TA690G, 4850e, cheap 300W PSU, old 250GB HDD, 4 memory sticks 3GB, two optical drives, floppy, and - HD4670! Should be 25W without 4670 (or not... I'm not sure.) The best low power board?? I mean - what barrier? Broken long ago. What did you measure with? My Asus mATX bo...

Couple observations so far: can't wait for WHS to be updated to the newer (Vista/W7/Server08) codebase. The older stuff really just does not like changes to hardware that the newer stuff can handle much better. The ancient 250GB Seagate I put in needs to be replaced first, Speedfan did it's little S...

Has anyone with this board had any trouble with it detecting the memory--I have a stick of 1GB PC2-6400 in it and it only recognizes 768...or is the video memory permanently locked at 256? I can't see a way to change it, would like to dedicate the lowest possible amount. edit: I'm an idiot, found it...

It's been discontinued, and it's not quite what you describe, but I'm happy with the NZXT Duet I have for it. Discreet, but with a silver front, door over the DVD, and I think you could jam an IR receiver up there (I just have our receiver tucked under the TV). If you could find one used it might wo...

I play older games and get the newer ones when they are old and down to $20-30. I'm sorry, this just reminded me of http://xkcd.com/606/ The cake is a lie Let me add to all FUD rampagin in this thread: ATI cards have better image quality! :) It's only 2009. I had to look up the cake reference. :oops:

Browsing over at Phoronix it sounds like the ATI Linux drivers are doing better...also, *throws gasoline on the fire* who puts Linux and gaming in the same sentence anyway? It's all on Windows anyway ;) That said I play older games anyways--heck I run COD2 MP in DX7 mode...I play older games and get...

Here's some steps you could try to get the repair option to come up:

http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairi ... m#warning2

Aren't the ATI cards destroying Nvidia's cards at comparable price points though? That seems to be the general idea I get from all these reviews--although I don't read them that thoroughly, as I am way out of them budget wise (I stick under $100 usually). I basically buy ATI cards for a few reasons:...

Oh well. Just means I won't buy it.

I'm finally about to the first one and WAW as well...I'll get those used since buying new would just support them making a game that doesn't support their community.