bottom to top airflow pattern isn't optimal in many situations compare to bottom-front to top-back, with the former requires enough raise below the case to generate enough airflow and requires more clearing above it.

I use DVD drives primarily for DVD playback and sometimes burning CD & DVD. The spin up noise gets really lound compare to my DVD player or a PS2, thus my concern. Guess I willl have to try setting up a SAMBA/MythTV server and stream the videos from garage then. :( What are the software options for ...

CA_Steve wrote:If "serious" shipments start in October, I'd expect it to be available to the general riff-raff like us around November.

given their recent EE/EE SFF release track record, I would guess "shipment"/"availability" in October and in store shelves in December

They are hard and they crumble if you touch them. Didn't notice any reduction in noise with them either, acoustipack blocks are way better. You can tie a knot with them and they won't break. Very useful blocks, they be :wink: The only thing good with these blocks is the box they are shipped in, it'...

F*CKING SUCKS. DO NOT BUY.

The blocks are extremely rigit so you could imagine how much actual surface area it has.

EDIT: definitely feel cheap compare to AcousticPac's blocks. I guess you get what you paid for.

This news kinda suprised me when AMD made no annoucement about it. I am suspecting the fab guys are saying shipping to the backend packaging/assembly @ malay, which means November timeframe.

Lets just hope if its really true, Dell/HP won't be sucking up all the orders.

For once I actually want to be in Australia right now.

The E6300 isn't always faster than the X2 3800+ at video encoding even . That is the EE 3800 not the 65 watt one he's comparing. Comparison wise the e6300 is closer the 4x00+ tier of X2's in performance. As for undervolting, that is a concept I never really follow. I understand the concept, but pis...

It just doesn't make any sense to me to use performance per watt as a metrix when you are talking about encoding/decoding. If I want to rip a DVD or transcode some DVIX files to AVI formats, I want them to be done fast. I don't care how much power that will take, but I want them to be done now. Perf...

You need 6300 and discrete graphics card. X2 3800+ is SLOW for HTPC. I repeat SLOW!!! 6300 will crash 3800+ X2 in encoding/decoding and ripping DVD. A 7600GT or 1600XT is definitely needed if you plan to drop in a HD DVD or BR in the near future. You CANNOT have a smooth HD decoding/playback without...

My system is in my sig. I have had up to nine 3.5" hard drives in it and the power rails remained rock-solid. OK, the graphics (7600GS) is mid-range not state of the art, but I probably have at least 100W more of hard drives than most people. So I think a 430W PSU should be ample for any single gra...

As a general rule, I recommend 300W PSUs for mainstream systems, 400~450W PSUs for high end systems with dual GFX, and 500W for high end overclockers. 500W for high end overclockers/benchers is probably not enough, if you taken into account those 4x RAID0 SCSI/SAS/SATA2 15k/10k HDD, 50%+ OC CPU, 20...

Need a few details. You shouldn't need dampening material yet. First switch all of your Antec fans to Low speed, and get a fanmate to undervolt the thermaltake fan. The major source of noise is probably your gfx card coolers. so get an Arctic cooling HSF or a Zalman. Listen in to your computer and y...

blowing down the heatsick will be better IMO, because it will also remove some of the heat circulating around the capacitors and PWM. My experience (with hot overclocked CPUs) is the opposite. By blowing down, you're washing hot air across the VRM, and if the CPU is a toaster like a Pentium 8xx D, ...

Please list your ambien room temperature when posting because your CPU temp only is not helpful at all. No one cares if you can run your PD805 OC to 4.0GHz passively when you live in Alaska and have the computer outdoors. :p

BTW which direction is the nexus supposed to be blowing air? down onto the heatsink or up away from the heatsink? Many prefer the fan blowing down onto the heatsink, but I get more uniform load temps (same CPU, lower VRM, higher northbridge, all under 47C) if it is blowing away. It's extremely easy...

Is the P5WDG2-WS Pro better than the P5W DH-Deluxe? It's targeted at a different audience due to its PCI-X slots setup. The motherbaord itself are slightly more stable at overclocking compare to P5W-DH, but it's probably not worth it ($50-100 higher price tag) if you are not using the PCI-X slots. ...

really? I haven't seen any info on 3600 X2 getting axed, and that's my personal favorite AMD product before year end, along with E4300. Care to share the source?

good info!!

Those are stock undervoted parts that won't OC as well as the 89W counterparts.

If you can hold off, get the 65nm A64 as they can do 65W by default. Or the 3600X2

If the system would run multiple applications at the same time, it would probably make sense to build two computers and connect them to a KVM switch. This would allow the first computer to run background applications while the second computer was doing important things like gaming. Dual core proces...

It's very interesting to see the normal people's "high end system" looks like. Most of the components besides CPU and grahpics card listed in this thread are nowhere close to high end systems. :p 1. CPU. If you want an highest performance single CPU system, AMD is totally out of the question. Core 2...

floffe wrote:From what I heard there'll be no new processors released for s939 or s754

not sure about the mobile athlon part (s754), but s939 is already officially eol

well, it be best to try to "rent" a PSU to test the motherbaord before you RMA the case, which would be expensive in shipping and probably takes a while. Oh, and another thing. You should probably check if you have enough clearing between the case and the bottome of the motherboard, i.e, are there a...

Tried to call the corporate office in TW to get some straight answers but can't dial international without paying $10 so, I'm stickin with the original US rep time quote. October Ps. it's only September 6th And its not yet 4 AM taiwan time. :p Don't know about you, but I am going to get M12 when it...

First check your smaller connectors/components like the case to motherboard power/reset pins and BIOS chip/battery. Maybe they are lose or something. Worst case is that you need to test each individual components seperately. I would start by switching a working PSU cos it looks like you might have z...

Did you try to flash your BIOS to either latest version or 1305?

Try this thread: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/sho ... p?t=110193

I guess I was lucky then. :p

That's 939 judging by the model number. ASUS's AM2 boards all start with M2x##-xx. I would say if you want to game and encode using the box, 2x1GB will be tons better especially for HD gaming and encoding. The OCZs are good RAM for the 939 DDR. But RAM doesn't really matter unless you are shooting f...

If you ignore all the errors, your system will not work most of the time. To get rid of the slow POST (boot) process, disable all Q-FAN control in hardware monitor. And in case if you are not using any IDE ports (SATA only, i.e. HDD, DVD all in SATA), disable all IDE detections. Also disable Firewir...

First generation 65nm should be available by december. I don't recall seeing usable projections on the second generation with the new transistordesign, so no idea on that I'm afraid. thx i hope 65nm socket 754 will b among em dont think they are going to update the s754 processors as they are phasi...