Yep; using dual DVI for two LCDs.

-Ed

But it does that ALC; doesn't that work with your Airport?

Yep; right this moment I'm looking at 1.12V according to ABIT EQ. When I run CPUBurn, voltage rises to 1.14V in ABIT EQ, even though CrystalCPUID is still set for 1.10. Who knows how accurate this reading is, though...

-Ed

I don't rip to uncompressed, I rip to lossless compressed (a format known as FLAC; used to use Monkey's Audio before). I use foobar2000 to output via Kernel Streaming to an Echo Audio Mia MIDI sound adapter, which then sends the data via 75 ohm digital coax S/PDIF to a Benchmark DAC1, converting to ...

I could not underclock my Venice from the BIOS, that is correct--whether this is the case with all cores I do not know. ABIT EQ doesn't control voltages for the CPU, OC Guru does, but its selection of voltages is the same as the BIOS, which means neither the BIOS nor ABIT's software allows undervolt...

I am thinking about using both the motherboard and graphics card you used in your build and would appreciate your comments about how hot they run. Do they run as cool as boards with good 3rd party cooling solutions? Are they truly passive, or will I have to set up fans to help cool them? I'm still ...

ABIT AN8-SLI and AN8 Ultra, but both only go down to 1.1, not 0.8.

-Ed

anthonysimilion wrote:But does it have those annoying Red LEDs?

According to pics in this review, yes.

Looks like the board is very much the same as mine, except no SLI mode selection card and one less PCI-Ex 16X slot, and of course the less expensive nF4 Ultra chip instead of the SLI chip.

-Ed

The stock retention bracket must be unbolted and swapped out for one included with the XP-120; the stock under-board backplate is used. Just keep the two bolts and the stock retention frame in a safe place; if anything should go awry, simply swap the stock retention frame back in using the stock bol...

The DFI LAN Party nF3 250Gb works fine with S12-600 in my P180.

-Ed

Have anyone tried one of these PSUs with Antec P180 case? It seems to me that ATX and P4 cables are too short :( I planned to order S12-600 and P180 but I'm little concerned that cables won't be able to reach connectors on my Asus A8N SLI motherboard (especially the P4 connector) The cables reach j...

i am interested in the OC'in aspects of the board... The best I can give you is this; other than that, I can't really provide much assistance, as I haven't tried torture testing this board. I will likely be buying a second one for my gaming rig and then overclocking the begeezus (sic?) out of it, b...

If I'm not mistaken, that device is his fan controller.

And also helps leverage the radiator.

Interesting; I wonder if this can be done on a P180...

It's not the drivers, as I tried several different MSi and nVIDIA versions; it has to do with the temp reading being locked in the BIOS.

I've since switched to a different card that came from the factory passive.

-Ed

I am not sure how much air would actually come in through the small vents at the front of the CoolDrive; it's not very well ventilated, particularly considering you'll be using a slow-spinning exhaust fan and the side intake has such wide bandwidth in comparison. I am not too confident it would work...

1) No difference in sharpness between 2D and 3D; I haven't tried it myself on this particular card, but on my XFX 6800GT, the image quality is merely okay. I did find, however, that using a higher quality VGA cable helped at the higher resolutions & refresh rates than the stock cable that came with ...

fierce_freak, what case are you using for your build?

BobtheGreatZeta wrote:How is USB 2.0 slower than PCI and SATA? I was under the impression that the interface can handle 480MB/sec... Is its connection to the northbridge slow or something?

Not 480MB/s. It's 480Mb/s. That's also wishful thinking--it's almost never really close to 60MB/s in actual usage.

-Ed

Yeah man I ordered one from Hank Baron's Performance PCs and it shipped today as well!

-Ed

Wayne: That is very difficult for me to just guess at in the dark; I do not believe it will be too much of a divide as long as you keep to stock voltages on the chipset and memory and undervolt the CPU; also, other than the opening for the HDD and for the CPU, seal everything else tight. It's worth ...

Damn they didn't include the ATX extension cable?!

Here's a power chart measured using a SeaSonic Power Angel: HTTP://WWW.NgTechnik.com/Sigma2.5/PowerChart2.jpg CrystalCPUID is set to idle at 5.0*200&0.90V, midrange at 7.0*200&0.95V and full load at 7.0*200&1.00V. However, the tray icon always indicates 1.10V, no matter the multiplier. RTHDRIBL is r...

Updated power chart comparing CnQ to CrystalCPUID: HTTP://WWW.NgTechnik.com/Sigma2.5/PowerChart2.jpg CrystalCPUID is set to idle at 5.0*200 at 0.9V, middle speed 7.0*200 at 0.95V and maximum speed 9.0*200 at 1.0V. When I tried 4.0*200 at 0.8V, it froze my system. Note, however, that the tray icon al...

EDIT:

Okay, must've been my settings from my NewCastle that made it freeze; I downloaded the newest version of CrystalCPUID and put it in a new folder and works fine now. CPUBurn K7 at full 9.0*200 and 1.1V the CPU doesn't even go over 55C.

-Ed

Ed's using 2.5" notebook drives. They're smaller, cooler and quieter (and also slower and more expensive). The SmartDrive review is with 3.5" drives (ditto for SilentDrive cautions). Ed, how did you mount the drives inside the enclosure? With the 2.5" to 3.5" adapters or with something more exotic?...

I thought this would be some nice news for many here. I know I'm stoked about it! The current capacity of 2.5" drives is what keeps many people from changing over, but this should help out a bunch (no word yet on pricing, or how these drives will compare to current parallel storage 3.5" drives, in t...

Blah my bad; I thought you meant the converter itself...

When I get back home, I'll try to check if the rails that come with the adapter include the holes on the bottom. I can't recall offhand if they do or not, sorry...

The new adapter I use now doesn't come with mounting rails at all.

-Ed

No; I used to use these and they just hang off the back of the drive.

-Ed

SPCR review showed that SilentDrive is prone to overheating 3.5", 7200rpm drives. In terms of acoustic reduction effectivity, the SilentDrive is completely effective in preventing the sound of these 2.5" drives from escaping, and costs much less than SmartDrive as well. As these are far cooler opera...