HDD - its not silent (cos of seek something?), but its very quick (hight recommend on the other forum). I think I will try it out, if I dont like it, will get a HDD case, and use it in there! The Seagate drives emit a high pitch whining sound. Even in an enclosure, I can hear that evil whine. Sure ...

if you're going to insist on the $600 model because that's "what most people would want" then I'll have to insist on a PC with a quad core processor and two 8800GTX in SLI, because that's "what most people would want." j/k ;-) Joking aside, that PC still lacks one of the key elements that makes a PS...

Believe or not, we can do a lot more with a $1000 computer... You can do more with a swiss army knife than a hammer, but what do you reach for when you are working with nails? But if you really insist on comparing the capabilities of a PS3 to a computer, level the playing field and limit both to $5...

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB 7200rpm 16MB cache SATA2 Loud drive with a high pitch whine. You might want to get something else The motherboard has i965 chipset, is i975x a better choice? the P965 motherboards in general use slightly less lower than the 975X motherboards (I think it was Anandtech...

Motherboard: Asus P5N32E-SLI 680i (seems like 680i chipset is still not stable yet. Hopefully, this will get fixed soon) 680i doesn't offer any real advantages over the Intel chipsets, so why bother when Intel's are perfectly stable. Regarding getting a larger PSU in case of an SLI upgrade in the f...

i myself edit with aodobe premire pro 2... you definitly want to go with ati for video editing..get one with 512 video ram if u can.. High end video cards for video editing is a huge waste of money. It doesn't accelerate processing at all. Unless you are using 3D applications pretty much any new ca...

CPU on MB
memory on MB
Ninja on MB
PSU in case (if you run cable behidn the MB, otherwise timeing doesn't matter)
MB in case

After that, in any order:
expansion cards on MB (in case) e.g. video card, sound card
hard drives
optical drives

I know this doesn't really answer your question, but what are you running that you need that much airflow?

2. I suspect that I could speed up the machine a good deal by spending additional money on 10,000 rpm disk drives rather than on a faster CPU. Right? If so, are there quiet 10,000 RPM HDDs out there? Is your development work that disk intensive that you'd expect to see an appreciable increase in pe...

I currently have Seagate 7200.9 drives suspended in an SLK3000B and they are pretty inaudible. Are the 7200.10 drives that much worse? :oops: X I found the high pitch whine from my 7200.10 to be slightly more annoying than a scratching a chalkboard with a dentist drill. :wink: I stuck it in an encl...

did the crashing start after you undervolted the system?

If so the CPU might not be getting enough juice to run stably.

thanks again! I found lots of bad sources of information, nice to know there's good ones out there.

Wow. How the heck did I miss finding that many cases. hehe. thanks!

I've been searching around but it looks like there aren't many HTPC cases that accept ATX motherboards - only micro ATX. I came across a couple but the cases were either ugly or looked like they'd be inefficient at cooling quietly. If I can find a good ATX case, then I can simply put one of my old c...

I love the idea of gaming again so I want to make sure I have a system that can deal with games for the next few years. You'll see that I've left a GPU out of my spec below - I'm hoping that more directX 10 cards on the market will drive prices down in a few months. I've also gone SLI in case I get...

Until games come out that require DX10 (DX10 compatible is around the corner, but DX10 req'd is a year away), DX10 cards are just really high end DX9 cards with an equally high price tag. ;-) Are you planning on overclocking your computer? If so, the E6300 is probably a better option. The Asus P5B D...

... and why would the ninja be quieter ? is the swiftech pump louder than a fan at 1500RPM ? (the swiftech site specifies pump @24 to 26 dbA, while its fan is only 20 dbA @7v ... I'd have thought that this makes the pump relatively noisy! hmmmm ... if only I could find a reasonable review of the da...

qx6700 evga 680i motherboard (there is a fan that goes with it) P180 case (3 fans that comes with it) raptor 74gb x2 (raid 1) seagate 720gb hd bfg 8800 gtx corsair 620 psu I think it's easier to name the parts that are decently silent: Corsair PSU and the P180 case (but not the fans that come with ...

Hard drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=397203 loud drive with a high pitch whine while idling. I can still hear the whine after putting it in an enclosure and suspended it. PSU: Enermax Liberty 500W http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...

- Motherboard: Asus P5L 1394 That board uses the 945G chipset. IIRC, that isn't as overclock friendly as other chipsets if you care about overclocking. If so, you might want to look into P965 boards (Asus P5B line if you want to stick to Asus). nVidia has their 680i chipset if you like nVidia's off...

4 GB of system ram and a sSagate 320 gig SATA2 drive. 4 Gigs of RAM?? :shock: Is that really necessary?? Personally, I would reccomend only one, two for a high end system, but four? Thats crazy expensive too! Would any application (excluding server related) ever use 4 Gigs? There's plenty of apps o...

I have little knowledge of memory that overclocks well, but I would look for something by Corsair or OCZ. If you get memory that is rated as DDR2-800 (PC2-6400) then you can overclock your CPU to 2.8GHz without overclocking the memory. If youu plan on overclocking faster than that, Corsair is a saf...

Obviously I'm taking a wild guess here, but I can see a few ways how registration could be beneficial to them. - less random people will use it, so reduce hardware needs (don't need to upgrade as soon). This translates to reduced operating costs. - reduce liability with copyright infringement. Easie...

I put most of my optical discs in binders or spindles (which is why the size of cases don't bug me really). But the more I think about it, smaller cases means less garbage. Damn marketing folks are destroying the environment!

Hmmm... thanks for the thought out responses, but maybe I should have pointed out my gripe was completely tongue-in-cheek

My biggest gripe is with the size of the Blu-ray and HD-DVD cases. Who was the idiot that decided that DVDs should come in a bigger case than CDs? I mean the discs are the exact same size! That forced me to have to get different shelves for my CD collection and DVD collection (yeah I can stick CDs i...

are you overclocked? if so, what clock and voltages?

What are your ambient temps?

Hello Steve, Are you referring to the Samsung? All 7200RPM SATA drives are a hair's breadth apart for performance, in the real world. I have a Samsung and a Seagate in my system (with a dual boot) and they both boot in the same amount of time, and they both perform virtually the same -- I cannot te...

I'm brand loyal to ASUS Brand loyalty again. Intel may have a current winner in the Core2Duo series, good for them. I'm a huge fan of Cruicial's lifetime warranty and I highly doubt I would ever go with another memory manufacturer. The only loyalties I have here are nVidia chipsets and a fondness f...

albundyhere wrote:I would have thought that with HDMI video cable (vs DVI), video degradation would improve up to 10 meters, but I could be wrong.

The signal for the video component of HDMI and digital DVI is identical thus subject to the same limitations.