Moved to CPU forum.

For the price of adding a VFD to a 2400 you could just about buy the Fusion. Having built systems in both I like the Fusion better. I think it is also slightly quieter. Not greatly, but I think the thick aluminum front might block some of the noise, either through its sheer mass, or it is adding rig...

OT aside: VLC and WMP will play back DVR-MS files recorded off tv with MCE. I've also watched them on WMP over the network on non-MCE machines.

I'm guessing that it's intended as some flavor of a POS, right? I could see a potential for it as a set-top media relay type system. Lacks the storage capacity to really use it as an htpc, but it could stream data from a remote server to the tv/audio system. If it had the space inside for more stora...

A Scythe Katana would probably do the trick as well. If your mobo's socket orientation is correct the Katana can be positioned to get pretty good passive airflow from your PSU.

nightmorph wrote:Really, three or four versions isn't enough? Now we have what, seven, nine different Vistas?

There's currently 10 versions of XP available.

The issue of "impartiality", either perceived or real, comes up more often than most readers would realize during the "behind the scenes" conversations the staff has here at SPCR. It's an issue for pretty much every product review organization, be it computer parts, appliances, cars, whatever. There...

By default, Windows Vista ships with thirteen gadgets: Calculator, Clock, CPU Meter, Currency Conversion, Feed Viewer, Feed Watcher, Notes, Number Puzzle, Picture Puzzle, Recycle Bin, Slide Show, Stocks, and an egg timer . Well no wonder it's need 2 GB of RAM to run properly. :? If they're not turn...

I think I get what vertigo is thinking...he's just a bit confused about how it works under Vista. Vista's "Superfetch" feature fills a portion whatever ram is unused at that moment with whatever it thinks you are going to ask for next off the HDD. (It leaves some space empty in case it guessed wrong...

I suspect that you're using the wrong ambient temps. You need to use the in-case temperature, not the in-the-room ambient temp. There's no good on-mobo sensor to measure that though. You'll need to stick a thermometer in there, near where the HSF is drawing air into itself, and see what temps you ge...

yeah, Ciz is right-on. Vista handles RAM much differently that XP does, so comparisons between the two are not really apples to apples. The Superfetch tends to put more stuff into RAM in anticipation of it being used, so theit looks like more RAM is in active use than it really is. But it also unloa...

Bluefront wrote:Is this anything to be concerned with? I doubt it, but........

Considering that Winbond H/W monitoring IC's are rated for a max operating temp of 70°C, I would say, no.

It is good find to locate the chip though. You think you could post a pic of the mobo to show us where it is exactly?

Things look about like you would expect them to, given a system like that. As you're already aware, his CPU is producing a bunch more heat than your's...nearly double, actually. No amount of fans or heatsinks are going to make the room any cooler...it will still be pumping the same amount of heat in...

All 120mm fanned PSU's, including the s12's, still blow out the back of the PSU. The 120mm fan pushes air into the PSU.

I was implying that Rusty is an FBI agent sent to infiltrate SPCR, become a trusted reviewer, and use his status to convince us the moon landing was real. I guess he would have had special interest in the moon landing because he was involved in it as well. Trip, I'm very sorry that you had to come ...

If you look at the shadows under the vehicle it looks like they're pretty close to vertical...wouldn't take much of a ground slope to tilt them from one side of a rock to the other.

Well that sucks. Understandable, but unfortunate. Maybe, if there's something mcMaster sells that you absolutely cannot find in Canada, we could setup some sort of shipping relay system from SPCR members here in the states. Preferably somebody that's close to both Mcmaster's warehouse and the border...

I would be very interested for someone on SPCR to try this, either the editorial team or one of the more EE-savvy regulars. I think making and testing one if these would be a great Reader Submitted article. Jaganath, you've got 2500+ posts, plenty of modding experience, and lots of experience with ...

Yeah, but what is it really revealing? If it's only revealing that Brand Q fans may have an interaction with tower heatsinks that have fins X mm thick spaced Y mm's apart when mounted Z mm's from the face of the fan...that info might not be that useful. Don't get me wrong, I think it's an interestin...

There is another interaction between the fan and a heat sink that I think is probably more interesting: the change in sound when a fan is placed against a heat sink vs its sound in free air.... So it might be a helpful step in a review to listen to the fan up against a heat sink... Too many variabl...

Andy, I think you're spending too much time in front of the computer. :lol: Lets think about this logically, in an overall sense. Not even about the idea of a conspiracy in general, but just about these pictures. First, if the moon landings were faked, these pics would have been taken here on earth ...

Ok, I give up....where in those pics is the proof that the moon landings were fake?

I feel your pain, really, but you're barking up the wrong trees. Go to UPS's site and read about the shipping terms. "3-business day" is average not guaranteed. If it took them a week to get it to you it'd still be in accordance with their terms. If you want to be guaranteed that you get it faster.....

You're welcome. :lol: Eventually ID-required voting will be the norm. The courts are gradually throwing the anti-ID cases out. It's only logical..if you have to show ID to register to vote, why wouldn't you be able to produce that same ID when it comes time to actually vote. And just to clarify, I d...

The problem with voter ID's as I understand it, is that while it may or may not cost a fee for the ID (which would be an unconstitutional poll tax) -- if someone does not have the required papers to get the ID, they have to go through a lot of hoops, and it definitely does cost money to get them. O...

An interesting contrast to the Swedish system is the current controversy here in the US about states requiring ID to be shown when voting. Leftist groups say that requiring ID to vote is discriminatory against the poor, the non-english speaking, and the immigrant population. Which is, of course, a t...

Trip, the Buchanan issue was with good old-fashioned 18th century technology paper ballots, and is not a case of election vote tampering. No one, not even the Dem. campaign, complained that votes in Florida were stolen . They claimed that the ballot system was intentionally confusing to the poor-eye...

0) would you be willing to use shared computer resources? I.e. not fully own your own computer or at least not all the CPU cycles/storage/memory that you use. Depends upon the implementation. While at university I used exactly this system, with no qualms whatsoever. But a government controlled syst...

I'm not sure any of those examples are even unique to SPCR. Cruise through any popular hardware or OC'ing forum and you'll see recommendations of P180's, Seasonic PSU's, Ninja's and P5B's. The P180 is Antec's highest selling enthusiast case, Seasonic's have been well-reviewed by just about everyone,...

North American availability. Unless you're thinking of some site I'm not familiar with, most other dedicated "silencing" websites are EU based, so their users tend to talk more about products that they can get there. Some of it might also depend on the knowledge levels of other forums. SPCR has a hi...