Using 80/20 to form the frame of a computer case will be very costly, in both money and space. But I guess it will certainly get you a very unique industrial/laboratory look if that's what you're after.

Before I invest 37 minutes, what's the 20-word summary of what this is about?

I make no guarantees, but it generally holds to metal standoffs pretty well. If you use a female/female standoff and are generous with the epoxy, some will flow up into the thread and grab those. You can help by roughing up (with coarse sandpaper or a blade) both surfaces.

To answer the other question (#1) from the O.P:

Performance flipping between windows is probably most dependent on:

1. Your monitor
2. Your mouse
3. Your GPU (2D performance)

If you get the hole size right, Lodestar's idea will probably work. Honestly, when I'm faced with this problem, I usually just get a female/female standoff and epoxy it to the surface. It's ghetto, but you don't get points for style in my profession. An alternative option would be to drill a through...

Fortunately, you're wrong! WD Green is 5400 RPM. Those, or the Samsung F2EG (Eco-Green) are a good choice.

Edit: 5200 was a typo. 5400 it is.

Nice find. Too bad the GTX 480 isn't on there, that would make the charts kinda interesting

If the reviews are split on which has the higher power consumption, then I'd say it's a toss-up. They're close enough to be called the same. They're also the same price. However, one thing the reviews agree on is that the i5-750 is faster. The faster your processor is, the faster it finishes its wor...

Alright, the limitations are what they are for HD 5450. I will probably try to get twice the expensive XFX HD 5670 with DVI, DP and HDMI. With three digital output there should be no problem putting all three SyncMaster 913tm's into triple monitor system. I already have DP->DVI converter at my work...

Are you saying that the 5000 series of cards are set up assuming that you are going to have one VGA monitor, one DVI monitor and one Eyefinity monitor? The single-slot 5xxx cards have 1 VGA, 1 DVI, and 1 DisplayPort connector. They likely expect you to use one VGA-attached monitor, 1 DVI-attached m...

Read this page for several concerns and limitations of Eyefinity on the 5450:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/rad ... 549-3.html

That's a huge premium for the 5770 - 61% more expensive than the 5750 for you. There's no way it's anywhere near 61% faster, so you're getting gouged if you go with the 5770.

Coil whine. It could be either in your PSU, on your graphics card, or on the motherboard, but in the latter two cases it'll be near the power-regulation circuitry. To diagnose this, push your finger* against any toroidal coils that you see while doing something that reproduces the noise. If pushing ...

Here's another fun statistic: the census is costing about $35 per person. How do they possibly spend that much?

Your intuition is probably correct. Higher intake resistance when the case is closed is making the fan noisier. At the end of the day, the NSK 3480 has a pretty restrictive front, due to the semi-tortuous path air must take to get in.

Do you need to run the exhaust fan at 12V?

What about: "Notable for the Intel H67 is the HD Graphics Support, which allows two independent displays, Integrated Audio Codec and Gigabit Ethernet MAC." ??? Yeah, I'm pretty confused about that. Aren't those 3 things precisely not notable? Doesn't the current Clarksdale GPU do 2 independent disp...

I'm not gonna run the actual numbers, but the payoff times for this sort of thing, when related to computers, are generally very long, unless you get most of the cost back by selling the old components. By very long, I mean 5+ years, and possibly never at all if you apply discounting.

http://promotions.newegg.com/NEemail/Ap ... 0-_-AllSSD

120GB OCZ Vertex: $300 after MIR
120GB OCZ Agility: $290 after MIR
160GB Intel X25-M: $414

etc...

Tzupy wrote:With only 2GB your system will be choking.

Oh please.

I'm glad my computer was finally able to stop choking and post this message.

I read some of these posts and wonder if any of these people have ever been in an office aside from a Take your kid to work day SSD's? Add in video cards? Right... QFT. Along the same lines, I can't see an office computer buy splurging for $100 cases either. Maybe take a look at some of the InWin M...

the chances you destroy the environment more using this much crude oil for energy is about 99.99% more likely than finding the missing link to whatever the researcher is trying to find... and probably won't. .... which is why youre calculating it and not them. Perhaps true. I wish we could find a c...

spworley wrote:Even though I've seen no issues, those temps can't be good.

I have to agree with the other posters. Seeing no issues is exactly a sign that those temps are good.

Ugh, I'd totally jump on the 120 Agility for twice that price, why can't it go on sale!?

/stompfeet!

It's the read/write head parking and unparking. Read more about it here.

The bottom line is if you need the data fast, it goes on the SSD. If you don't need it fast, 5400 RPM is just as good as 7200 RPM while being quieter and cheaper per GB. I think I would have to disagree. If you are opening up Word for example, you want the data file to come up as quickly as the app...

Your user profiles and windows temp files are probably going to be accessed fairly frequently, so I'd put them on the SSD.

The bottom line is if you need the data fast, it goes on the SSD. If you don't need it fast, 5400 RPM is just as good as 7200 RPM while being quieter and cheaper per GB.

Here's one solution: get a Samsung Spinpoint F3 500GB, which are 1-platter, pretty fast, and acceptably quiet.

The TJ-08 is exactly the same case as the Cooler Master Elite 340, with a different bezel and twice the price tag. However, the 340 is now discontinued (if you search you may still be able to get one) and replaced with the 341, which seems to be substantially different.

That's a toroidal coil inductor. It's probably part of the power regulation circuitry. I'm sure it's fine running hot - that's why they use such large wire.

What's on the other hard disk, and was it present when you installed windows? In my experience, you can only trust windows to install itself properly if there's only 1 HDD in the system during installation.