My corsair vx450 has a main large japanese capacitor rated at 105 degree C. Good supply. I have 3 of them, and I have yet to have any power-related problems. I've noticed this being advertised as a selling point on other PSU from fortran to seasonic to antec Is this a good selling point or marketin...

Since I will not be adding a lot of programs onto this drive, I feel comfortable with 128 GB. I chose the M4 that Abula pointed out, as I think it is a good bang for buck. Also, I changed my case to the P183....long story, but I think it will fit my needs better. I'm glad that you decided on the 12...

Have you been able to shift your fans to be powered from the on-motherboard headers? Have you been able to change the BIOS option for the fans to Automatic? My graphics driver that I downloaded from asrock's website is giving me an error An error occured when registering a dll - mfx_mft_h264vd_32.dl...

Do you have Microsoft Windows 7 installed? How much faster do you think it is compared to your old computer? All Done and it's booting up (booted up on the 1st attempt itself!). Overall the toughest thing was the Xigmatek install - I guess I wasn't looking at the diagrams correct Xigmakek needs to s...

Take some pride in your marketing! Don't just cut 'n paste the same ad into every forum. If you want your ad to be effective, customize it to the site you are going to post it on. The market here is one of people that care about silence. You should point out that the only case you stock that does no...

I'm stuck during assembly of the xigmatek SD1283. I removed the middle cushion of the back plate but the side cushions are still there. Should I place the back plate on the motherboard with the cushion on the downside or upside? In other words, when it's placed on the motherboard, should I be able ...

Edit: I'm still happy with my Q9300 @ 3.0 GHz, 8 GB DDR2 800, AMD HD 5770, and C300 SSD on my desktop PC. I feel my computer is up-to-date due to the much slower advancement of desktop computer technology in recent years. I also understand why the improvements are not coming as fast; they are not n...

What are the key performance bottlenecks to a modern day computer? [...] A faster internet connection (or at least one with low latency) is always nice... but that is a separate issue. I agree with you about this, and I think that the performance bottlenecks are Internet LATENCY and user brain spee...

Is there anything similar or better than NZXT H2 ? I need 8 or more 3.5 slots with damping. http://www.nzxt.com/new/images/_upload/product_gallery/IMG3_2.jpg I have been using the NZXT Whisper with up to 10 hard drives. Nine (yes, 9) of the drives fit into the trays with vibration isolating dampene...

I would stick to the same brand but it seems very hard to find any seasonic psu here in the uk. So the question is there a psu as good out there with the silence and build quality. Hardwaresecrets has the best power supply reviews, but they do not say anything about noise levels. What they do tell ...

I'll install Speedfan when I get a chance and see where they're at. Regardless, the current cooling is 'sufficient', where sufficient means things aren't crashing or locking up, even under fairly heavy CPU use. The fact that an i3-2100 is going to more power efficient than my current CPU makes me w...

Reading around the 'net, and here, has lead me to believe that SFF computers need to mount to the back of the monitor to really be out of the way. This also reduces cable clutter, giving an almost black-iMac-like look. Does anyone know of a VESA-mount case that can hold a single full-sized graphics ...

I got a Seasonic M12 II Bronze M520 a couple of months ago and I'm very happy with it. As far as I can tell from the reviews, it's identical otherwise to the non-modular version. The VX 450 is in my circumstances at least, certainly a lot louder than the S12; I know that from personal experience be...

I was reading this which showed that 2100t and G840 has similar power consumption (within 3W) http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/pentium-g850-g840-g620_8.html However I am getting no where close to where they are getting. I am getting 30W at idle, part of the reason might be I am using a ...

Thank you all for the great help. You are welcome. Pay us back by helping other people in any way you can. [ASUS] has (2) 4 wire fan connectors (one Chassis, one CPU) so I can use it to dial down the two fans. This will let me have lower noise in cooler temps, but still the capacity to increase flo...

PICO power supplies should be available all the way up to 220W, if not a little more, so if you were to get a good 16v power brick at around 13A, you'd be just shy of maxing out your PICO. You logic is impeccable... but few if any human purchasing decisions revolve around logic. For example, why wo...

The second NIC is to sniff traffic from the switch for an application i use. Won't be doing it very often but may need to do it from a remote location hence always need the NIC connected The more you talk about your needs, the more it sounds like you are a real power user. You might just use Word &...

The M350 specs say it can handle cooling up to a 65W TDP CPU with just the CPU fan, and I've heard of people using the i3-2100 in M350s, but I have no experience when it comes to dealing with enclosures that small. I do not understand the desire to get a low-powered desktop. They are all the rage b...

TDLR: You don`t seem to be in immediata need of better cooling so this is something you`d do to have the most elegant solution, not because you need to. Your statement is true. I am surprised that I didn't notice. I had just assumed that he was asking about how to move up to the latest platform tha...

Okay, here's the TLDR: Would it be worth it to track down a mini tower that can work in a push-pull setup with the side mounted fans in this desktop style HTPC case? The hardware inside is pretty modest: a Wolfdale E7300 cooled by a Scythe Shuriken, a Radeon 5570, Ceton InfiniTV, some RAM and a har...

I completely forgot - I need a mobo with 2 LAN NIC's. Can recommend me one with Smart response SSD caching? previously I was going to go with ASRock Z68 PRO3-M LGA 1155 Intel but it only has a single LAN port All the Z68 boards that I can find that have dual LAN ports are really expensive, meaning ...

I think I'm nearing my final build with the ASrock Z68 I think that is the best choice. While you can save $10 by getting a H67 board, you might want to use the features of the Z68 chipset in the future. A friend aid he has a few Samsung 4GB chips from a decommissioned server - M393B5170FH0-YH9. Th...

Hello ! First I'm new here so greetings everyone! I am the proud owner of a Dell mini 10, which was exactly the perfect notebook for me: fanless, you can only hear the DD. Good to have another noise snob on the site, and I mean that is a positive way. I was tempted by the Dell Mini 10, but Intel's ...

I'm worried that the heat spreaders on a lot of DDR3-1600 memory sticks might be too tall to fit in the M350. Thoughts? Heat spreaders are usually not needed, they are just for looks. I expect that you can find DDR3-1600 that does not use heat spreaders. Gskill even makes low-voltage RAM, they call...

It would also work with Windows 2008. However, I can't figure out if the ASUS motherboard will support a 3TB HDD Any of the top name-brand boards will support hard drives larger then 2 TB. Both Windows Server 2008 or Windows Home Server 2008 should work with 3 TB drives, but there are some (usually...

I'm not sure what the context of this discussion is, but are there any P4's that weight 3lbs and have battery lives of 6+ hours? Not that I'm a fan of the Atom. But... just sayin'! I agree that Atom is amazing in laptops. Under $400, over 5 hours of battery life at around 3 lbs.! HFat and I were he...

I need a silent video card with hdmi, dvi, and something that is relatively inexpensive. I will also have a dual 24 inch monitor setup so that will need to work as well. [...] but i do work with tons of photos (super high quality) and videos with my business and would need a card that can handle th...

Atom + IGP is roughly the speed of a mainstream Pentium 4 from 2004. My users don't think so (and neither do I of course)... Many users do not run an old system side-by-side with a new one. They also don't want to feel foolish for spending 2011 money to get 2004 desktop performance. So just ask Ana...

HFat, I moved the off-topic "how fast is Intel's Atom" discussion to a new thread. I would not get the G620, it can not work with 1333 Mhz RAM . It only works with 1066 Mhz RAM. That makes no sense. My G620T works with 1333Mhz. So why would the G620 not work? I'm just looking at Intel's Ark site fo...

I plan to connect my computer to my TV via HDMI maybe 3 hours a week but at that time to watch HD video, etc but it's unlikely I'll be using the computer at the same time. Ok, make sure that you have a long enough cable to reach from your PC to your TV. You should also either have a wireless keyboa...