Out of those two, get the Solo, it's better in every way unless you particularly prefer the Sonata's aesthetics. IMHO any special deals available on the Sonata aren't really a factor worth considering, given that you'll probably be living with the case for many years and it could see you through man...

Haha, ok so I guess this doesn't make any sense to non-Americans. BCS, Bowl Championship Series, is a system for determining the top 2 teams in college football to play for the National Championship since there isn't a playoff or elimination round or w/e you want to call it. I looked at this thread...

I agree with you completely! Although my biggest beef with the Vista explorer (and the XP version some too) is that it seems to randomly decide how it thinks you want to view your files. Columns, widths, view (icon, detail, etc)... I could live with it I think if it wasn't for some of this crap. Vi...

In this case, you - as a computer-literate SPCR-er - are driving a tank... Not a car. And you are a professional tank driver. Well, okay, maybe you aren't, I don't know ;) Thank you sir, but I think you give me too much credit. Also, there are munitions out there which will go through even Chobham ...

Matija wrote:Have you honestly ever had problems with malware?

I haven't personally, but I've also never gone face-first through my car windscreen. I don't see that as a good argument for not wearing a seatbelt...

Make sure you don't get ordinary cat6 or even cat7 cable - any discerning audiophile, or indeed videophile, needs nothing less than the AK-DL1: Ultra Premium Denon Link Cable! As it happens, you can now snap one up from Amazon for a bargain $297, saving $200 on the RRP. Make sure you check out some ...

According to the published specs, that TV will accept either a 50Hz or a 60Hz input (as most do these days). I doubt if feeding it a 100Hz signal would work - it's not designed for it, and the EDID wouldn't report it to the graphics card as an available option. You might be able to force it with Pow...

"Vote for your favorite associate by clicking on their picture below. After voting you will receive a free upgrade."

What sort of upgrade? HDD, graphics card, CPU, motherboard?

BTW, there are two Amys. Do you have two sisters, both called Amy? Doesn't that get confusing over the dinner table?

The HP LP2475W is regarded to be fairly noiseless, or at least the little noise it makes is imperceptible under normal conditions. I have one of those, and can confirm it's silent for all practical purposes. If I have my ear within a few cm of the top ventilation slots, I can just hear a very faint...

At least that's sort of comparable to 720p. No its not, its not wide enough to display 720p. So you get squished with bars, you get bars with normal SD formats (pal and ntsc). Its a bloody useless resolution for a TV. "720p" simply describes the number of horizontal lines (non-interlaced) in the im...

What causes the "most" noise depends on the specific components, but I've always found hard drive noise the most pernicious and difficult to deal with. It's quite easy to get a very quiet computer by selecting your other parts carefully, but if your HDD still bothers you even after you've soft-mount...

The top front fan is normally set up to draw air into the case, through the filter - actually it's very often redundant in practice, although it can help for spot cooling if you have an extra hot graphics card or you're using the upper HDD bays as in your case. If there's nothing except the PSU in t...

aristide1 wrote:Thank you, I rarely if ever see anything positive about what I've said in print.

You usually have some very interesting things to say, it's just that you occasionally come across as an obsessive lunatic.

Where is he these days, anyway? I miss the bunfights...

looks like section 11 in the EULA got the smack down pretty quickly see for example http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2329414,00.asp Yes, the shitstorm promised by nutball hit the fan (pardon my mixed metaphor). :D So apparently Google's (no doubt highly qualified and highly paid) legal team jus...

Here was MS's attempt http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/03/30/all_your_data_and_biz/ My (perhaps jaded) recollection is that at that time MS was selling Passport as precisely the sort of services which Google is now wowing the masses by giving away, eg. "store all your data on our servers and acces...

What are "services" in the context of the EULA? They must state specifically in the preamble what it is they are referring to when they say "Services", otherwise you cannot be held to these terms and there would be no point in Googlecorp even including them. They do, right at the beginning: http://...

I just browsed thru the EULA before installing, but im not really surprised to see somehting like htat in there. I am - this goes *way* beyond anything I've ever seen before. Just imagine if the EULA for Windows or MS Office contained a clause that any document *you* created using Word would be Mic...

If I'm reading the EULA right, any content to which I own the copyright, and which I post or even access via Chrome, is subsequently Google's to do with as they see fit, as long as it's "for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the Services" (which could be interpre...

I have tried the soft wrist rest before, but I couldn't get used to it. Maybe I didn't give it enough of a chance. I was getting severe pains in my wrist with a standard (flat) mouse mat, and switching to one with a silicone "booby" was a huge improvement. The angle seemed awkward at first, but it ...

Honestly, I don't even understand how you're supposed to get a hdd cable up through the hole if you leave the psu area fan in place - won't you have to route the cable through the fan? Definitely route around the mobo tray! Nope, there are two holes, one behind the fan and one in front. Stuffing as...

I was under the impression that that was basically how multi-platter drives work anyway. Nope - I used to think so too, but apparently the drive only reads from one platter at a time. There's a post somewhere here by whiic , where he puts someone else straight on the matter in his own inimitable st...

What... hot? Here? ;) You know I'm considering a move to the UK actually and hadn't yet considered cooling for my PC as a good reason to do so! :P It would certainly be effective - this year we're having a particularly miserable summer here in the UK, and frankly anywhere with temps over about 20C ...

I can get a Slipstream 800rpm too it turns out. I'm not sure a single 800rpm exhaust fan is altogether a good idea - there's no doubt that a Q6600 chucks out the calories when it's working hard, you're thinking of overclocking, you have a hot GFX card (which with passive cooling will be dumping all...

Have you tried the usual suspects - Speedfan, Everest, Core Temp, HDTune, HWMonitor... ?

So 99.9% of people reading this have crap monitors. :D Actually, I think you'll find it's 98.372%... :P I have to admit though, if you've spent much time with a decent S-IPS panel, the deficiencies inherent in other technologies become harder to tolerate (which is not to say IPS monitors are free f...

However, some 30" monitors that have been released _this year_ do contain both a) many kinds of connectors and b) a scaler so they could be used. The Dell 3008WFP does, but I'm not aware of any others at the moment (which is not to say they don't exist). I've noticed many gamers seem to moan about ...

The question of how much CFM you "need," whether at the front or the rear, is a bit meaningless without knowing your component temperatures.

The fans are there to keep your temps within acceptable limits, not to generate airflow for its own sake.

Does anyone think these are actually a hazard to fall off the way I installed them? It shouldn't really matter, provided the actual brackets/pillars/backplate combination is solidly screwed together - once the heatsink is screwed down and the brackets are pulled "up," it's the length of the pillars...

nafets, you are wrong - ninja instructions have nothing to hr-01 plus. its very simple why - when you secure brackets from front of motherboard, and secure heatsink there IS NO WAY that brackets will touch mobo. o-rings are only to secure pillars in backplate and pillars are long enough to be above...

I agree with all of the above - I have a similar setup to the one you envisage, and continuous torrenting hammers the bejesus out of the HDD, even though I don't have anything like your download bandwidth, let alone upload. If you're planning on having two or three storage drives anyway, I do think ...