It might be your lucky day... click! Is that the right kit? Is it all there? Anyone who knows these things better take a look at the auction... I must add that the auction is nothing to do with me, I was just looking on E-bay as I was reading this! :lol: Having said that... Tekheads have them in sto...

I wouldn't bother with a factory OCd 8800GT. The first wave of cards are all built by Nvidia I believe. Any card will comfortably overclock.... Having said that I just looked at some prices and the cost difference (in the same brand) between a standard 600MHz card and a 625 MHz overclocked card is o...

If performance isn't really an issue I'm sure you could find an Nvidia 6300 or 7100 or Ebay for pennies. If you're in the UK I could sort you out with a 7100GS for virtually nothing as I have a load that were bought in error (this particular card has 1 VGA plus one DVI-D digital only output... a dum...

HueyCobra wrote: That's right - Toothpaste Superior To Arctic Silver 3! Film At Eleven!

You beat me to it! After reading that a while ago I've become an arch-sceptic when it comes to claims about thermal paste!

I'm also running my HTPC in an Antec case, the Fusion. 2x120mm fans. Again, microATX only, but with a good mATX board how many slots do you actually need for a HTPC? I've got an 8600GTS and a Haupphauge PVR-1300 card in mine. My HTPC is based on an ASUS N4L-VM DH board with a T7200 Core duo processo...

I'm running a Palit 8600GTS with a NorthQ GPU cooler on it in my HTPC, although now the 8800GT has launched the 8600GTS suddenly doesn't look very attractive if you want to do any gaming (unless the price takes a big dive.... in the UK an 8600GTS is around £100 plus VAT, the 8800s I ordered were £...

I used to run a E6600, 8800GTS, a pair of Raptors and an optical drive on a Tagan sub 400W (I think it was a 380, but I can't quite remember) and it was all good. I only swapped the Tagan for a 520W Corsair because I needed the Tagan for something else.

*bump* because I'm thinking of getting a MILO to build a HTPC for my Dad!

I have the Noctua cooling an E6600, I got it after RMAing a Ninja because of the poor stock S775 mount. I don't recall having any trouble at all mounting it.

The Antec NSK1300 is basically the same as the Aria, without the memory card reader.

If you aren't going to game on it then you could get a less powerful card like an Nvidia 8400 with much lower cooling requirements. There are plenty of passive 8400s

Or the next card down the line from the card you asked about looks like it will fit, the Gigabyte 2600Pro cooler is much smaller.

It may depend on your board, but from what I remember from my Aria (which is in bits in the attic), the PSU is more likely to overhang the cpu fan, hence the strange shape of the PSU.

I think 65-70mm is about as tall as will fit.

As for another card... is this going to be used for gaming or just as a HTPC?

Rule of thumb for the fusion.... if the heatsink is higher than the retaining bracket for the card it won't fit.

Its not precise, but it helps you rule out cards like that at a glance.

As posted, this board will take any S478 cooler. I'm running a T7200 (albiet on a different board) using a passive cooler, but it is in an Antec Fusion case with a pair of 120s pulling air out of the case right next to the cooler.

My HX520 is inaudible from 1-2 m

Its in a P180B and powering :

Asus P5N32SLI-E, E6600 o/c to 350MHz FSB, 8800GTS o/c, 4x512Mb, 2x 72Gb Raptors and a DVD-RW with three tri-cool fans and a Noctua fan.

The entire setup is virtually inaudible and the Corsair PSU is fantastic.

I have a rig very similar to your, running happily on a Corsair 520, which I would heartily recommend, however the same rig was running very happily on a Tagan 420W supply too, only reason for the switch is that I'm building another PC and need the Tagan elsewhere.

I'm running a HX520 in a P182 case, I just bought extensions for the 24 pin and 8-pin cables. No problems at all, you just need to make sure nothing fouls the fan in the PSU chamber if you decide to use it. What kit are you putting in this machine? A 620 is almost certainly overkill. I'm running an ...

Looking good! I've just taken delivery of an 8600GTS to go in my HTPC, I was going to wait till I could find a Gigabyte 8500 fanless, but I saw a nice 8600 GTS on special and my resolve faltered! It is by XpertVision and has an interesting looking cooler on it. I'll plug it in tonight and see how I ...

but if you dont use the push pins and replace them with screws/nuts then the problem is rectified no? http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=117054 But why should you have to pay extra and/or bugger about with mods to get an adequate mounting mechanism? Scythe should provide one out o...

How many drives are you planning on fitting? If you want huge amounts of storage you might be better with a small diy server stuck in a cupboard and one quiet drive in your HTPC.

Whilst it isn't the best cooler, nor the most quiet, for a good balance of performance, noise, price and ease of fitment, the Arctic Freezer Pro 7 is a decent HSF. There are better alternatives, but it will just snap in place, do a decent job, much quieter than the stock HSF.

I'd give another ringing endorsement to the Corsair HX520, although my e6600, twin raptors and 8800GTS were running more than happily (and quietly) on a Tagan 420W supply that I'd borrowed out of another PC. Maybe we should lobby Corsair to bring out a 400W(ish) model for those with normal rigs who ...

My AB9Pro is currently fried, but if I remember correctly you can set which SATA ports are RAID in the BIOS. So you could go all SATA on the Intel controller and disable the JMicron altogether. Although its been a while since I used that board, I know I can certainly do that on my Nvidia board, I'm ...

the mounting system on the Asus mobo for instance makes virtually impossible to change cooler. In a case with good airflow, all you need is one of these little beauties and the retention bracket off the Asus HSF. However, I agree with the general point that with socket 478 mounts you have dozens of...

The Asus supports C2D with a Bios update and I would imagine that most i945 boards support it. I'm running a T7200 on the Asus board. The biggest drawbacks about the Asus board are the limited BIOS options and the proprietary HSF mount. Although it doesn't meet some of your other criteria (i.e DVI o...

My rig is as follows : E6600 overclocked to 3.2GHz Asus P5N32-E SLI board 8800GTS overclocked to 600 core/900 memory 4x512Mb Corsair DDR2 6400 2x74 Gb WD Raptors 4x120 mm fans Its currently running very happily playing Oblivion for hours at a time with a Tagan 420W PSU (an older model with a dedicat...

I've just seen this case on sale for about £30, and I'm putting together a cheap PC for a neighbour. Silence isn't really an issue, I'm just letting them have a few odds and ends I have, bolted in to a cheap case. Am I right in assuming that this is the same as the NSK4400 only without a PSU? What ...

I'm using an Asus N4L-VM DH motherboard with a Merom T7200 2GHz C2D as the heart of my HTPC. I have the two tri-cool fans in the side of the case set on low, and a fanless northbridge cooler keeping the CPU cool. Its in an Antec Fusion case with an Nvidia 7600GT graphics card modded with a NorthQ si...

My HTPC is running a mobile CPU (a T7200) most of the time the processor is clocked down to 1GHz even when watching DVDs and other low intensity useage, the CPU only ever ramps up to full throttle for a few seconds at a time when loading apps or during other intensive use. The Asus board I'm using d...