Yeah I'm taking it back at some point, when I have the time. It's just that taking the motherboard to pieces is such a pain in the ass, there's all the cable management etc.. and the worst part is the time without internet :o, I don't know how I could cope with that :). The motherboard has plenty of...

Uhm... I guess someone should create a new topic to discusse the new "proper" reviews eh? :lol: And the 7900 is supposed to consume less and run cooler than the 7800 while offering much more performance (maybe more than the X1900). EDIT: OUCH! :shock: and DOUBLE OUCH! But then again, It simply depe...

Nice. At least it is capable to keep the processor cool. Although I am more interested how it would do with a quiet fan like the 80mm nexus. Jmke: Do you think there would be a chance for testing the stock cooler with also 80mm nexus? Just to know how well it will do when silence is the objective. O...

Ok, here's my ghetto suspension. http://www.mv.helsinki.fi/emreko/kone/IMG_0043.jpg My 160gb samsung in DiskTwin. Screws are touching the rubber of DiskTwins. I'm using those wires that are found in almost every cable package, they are used to keep the cables nice and tight, everyone should have ton...

Tons of methods. Pick your choise. Here's a Sticky from the General Gallery. http://www.mv.helsinki.fi/emreko/kone/IMG_0043.jpg Here's a picture of how I did mine. I used those platic bag clippers, or what ever you call those things, that are used to wrap around cables, and normal HD mounting screws...

The only ripoff I see here is the fan design, and that's probably because Tt actually buys them from Arctic Cooling as in the past it used Panaflo L1A in certain heatsinks. Well, two years ago it was panaflo, now it's AC fans. The heatsink itself is a standard heatsink that Tt has been reusing for ...

Well here it is - 7800GTX with a nexus 80mm fan swapped out. It runs on 5v pretty much all the time and idles at 41deg. What an overkill. I think that fan was measured at 18db in some article. In recommended fans they even said it didn't start reliably at voltages lower then 7V. But whatever suits ...

I think I will wait for the "better" (anandtech, xbit, etc...) hardware sites to be released from their NDA, and pass the judgement after I see their reviews of x1900 XTX , which I'm sure will mob the floor with the 7800GTX512, which btw has as bad availability as ATIs Phantom Editions in the past. ...

So did the one, that I purchased in December. I guess there are still lots of "old" boxed models on the market.

Amorphis - House of Sleep

Amorphis chose a really good song for their new single.

Hello I have a maxtor sata hard disk with 160go , Partitionned with equal partitions 40go it makes some noise when running some software now I 'm thinking to repartition a 40 go partition to 10go partitions will this reduce the noise ? since I assume il will read & write faster a 10 go partition Th...

From what ive heard, the newer intel HD audio chipset and the like are about the equivalant of a sound blaster audigy. so if that sound card is good enough for you then a new motherboard with onboard HD audio will be good enough also. a seperate card may decrease cpu utilization a bit if thats real...

You don't need rpm monitoring for controlling the voltage like you said. You could always just try out with temperature monitoring and subjective listening to find out the right voltage. I think your Asus has Q-fan options in bios, so you can set a thermal threshold for the fans to control the speed...

Most fans have a capanility for monitoring the rpms. It is the yellow wire in the 3-pin connectors, IIRC. RPM monitoring/controlling depends on the motherboards. Most modern motherboards have chips that can monitor the rpm, but not all of them can necessarily be controlled.

How do you do, I'm about to purchase my new system which will hopefully last me the next 2 years. I have a few questions which I hope you can help me with. My Priorities: 1) Reliability & Stability (I will not be overclocking) 2) Low Noise 3) Performance 4) Cost Applications for this computer: 1) S...

Enermax Liberty would seem like a good candidate for PSU. At least it is modular and has plenty of SATA power connections for the HDs (8 for 500W model).

Neither am I, nor do I have the necessary hardware to give this PSU the run for it's life.

Not very likely that will happen. I have been hoping to see the review since NX-5000 came out. If this is any consolation, here's a review http://www.hardwarexl.com/reviews/nexus/nexus5000/12b.jpg Judging from that picture, it has a D12SH-12 0.30A which is high speed fan build by Yate Loon, so that ...

Thanks for all the comments and hints! The SX8300 uses PCI-X, but as far as I know, PCIX is backwards compatible with PCI, so that should work with an Epia board (and if it doesn't, I'll just buy an ordinary ATX board, since the Epias are so ridiculously cheap anyway :-)) As for the suggestions of ...

I can answer for him, because I too am from Finland and I know the availability of SP-500 is non existant. The price of seasonics is really high, and availability has been pretty bad in past (became available less then 6 months ago). It is safe to say he has no way to compare them.

Diablo - Mimic 47

Yep. I just meant that the topic implied that it is a low budget rig. Seems like you are building a fine machine, good luck with it.

OK, I've posted here before with questions on which compents to get, etc. So here's the list of stuff I'm going to upgrade to. The system is going into an Antec P160 case. Yeah, it's kinda loud but it does have good airflow and it looks cool. So out with the old and in with the new. Seasonic S12-33...

you will most likely never use more than 400watts, and non SLI setups will most likely never use more than 300watts. to answer your qestion, it would probably produce more heat to split power usage between 2 psu's than just using 1. if you look at most PSU effeciency results, the lower end (under 1...

I think that there are tons of threads about NEO HE already. I also think, that you when you interpret the Neo HE poll, you should keep in mind that many many people have recently registered to these forums to talk about NEO HE, or just plainly to contribute to the poll. So in light of failure proce...

spolitta wrote:matva, your chipset temps are really high, Try putting the HD on the top and install an intake fan on the topper one as well.

I wouldn't call them "really high". If it is stable it's fine. Btw my chipset temps reads 41c atm and my system is running at stock speeds.

It would be cool, if SPCR could test this cooler.

Could it be you are overpushing your memory? What kind of timings are you using?

Check this thread from xtremesystems. Some user posted a pics of a cooler that came with Opteron 170. It has 4 heatpipes and a copper base and a swappable 80mm fan. As he says that is pretty sick for a stock cooler! Could this mean, that finally there is a stock cooler with good performance, only a ...

Wow I never believed D 820 would be so hot with ninja and a highspeed fan. Although you have overclocked it a bit.

Maybe you should tone down a bit? That Titan fan must be loud as hell. If it is thermally throttling it cannot be a good sign.