While CF cards have less problems with dieing after too much erase/write cycles, putting your main system drive with your swap file on it is still not a smart idea. (Unless you have a spare CF card and very regular backups.)

I remember Intel saying in the spring or so, that by this time of the year they would be doing only BTX

This question gets asked again and again for every HD brand. Despite the anecdotal evidence people start bringing in such a thread, the only good answer we can give you is: We don't know. The only people knowing the answer to this question are the brand itself and large OEMs. They are the only ones ...

s_xero wrote:but I thought the 380 and 330 were in the same league...then there's the 430 with improved heatsinks

No, the 380 and 430 have the same heatsinks. Only the heatsinks of the 330 are a little smaller.

And from the average silencers standpoint the number of platters is irrelevant. He just cares about capacity and noise.

Don't know how relevant it is, but in the case of the Condor cooler the chips are wide open to free air. While from your description it sounds you will have them with less than a mm of stagnant warm air above them.

Wouldn't it make more sense if they required that ambient noise should be e.g. <15dB and that the measuring equipment should have a sensitivity of 0.1dB or better... No, because when you want to measure 15dB, then you'll need a very special (like I don't know if it even exists) measuring apparatus....

nici wrote:And why would you want to remove the stuff from the panels?

Because you got this new idea for a mod where you want to cut a hole in it. (This is just one example.)

That review probably starts with the next line for a reason:

Abit designed a board that you will either love or hate.

I don't think that Mcubed brick is a "real" brick. It looks like an industrial 12V powersupply in a nice package.

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No. They replaced the blues with seventies and eighties disco. Whoever had that plan

Sorry, I forgot to say that I will use linux so I cannot use RMClock. I hope to find some motherboards with bios undervolting, anyway I have found that also linux with a kernel patch can undervolt. That’s good to hear; if you could give a link for info on this it would be useful, as I’m not sur...

As far as I can tell it depends on how close the CPU is to the top side of the motherboard. Can anyone say how far the cpu needs to be away from the edge for the Ninja to not overhang the edge of the board? The fins of the Ninja are 110x110mm. The cooler has a symmetrical design. The retention brac...

I think they should equip all skyscrapers with Goalkeepers

Yes

I recommend that you read this thread.

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If you are building your own MDF enclosure and it is big enough, then putting your drives into alleycat's Homebrew drive enclosures will save you a lot of noise.

aztec wrote:mATX with eSATA. This is essential for me.

What's wrong with using an eSATA bracket

Just watch out to buy the right type: A real eSATA type "I" connector or an external SATA type "L" connector.

Not really after some choices that are already made for this case. Full size ATX PSU ~14cm Optical drive ~19cm Space for cables inbetween them ~2cm Total ~35cm. Mobo 24.4cm That gives you 10cm for fans. With a case width of 28.6cm, there is room for three 8cm fan openings. ____________ On top of tha...

If you put two fans in series, they will draw less Amps then one of them (if the power source stays the same).

Two fans in series means twice the resistance. V=I*R -> I=V/R The voltage stays the same and the resistance doubles, so the current halves.

Easy 6V Fan Mod...DIY.
Now with tacho.

As the review shows, the air intake is the most important weak point in this case.

There seems to be some free bottom space between the front edge of the mobo and the front of the case. How about adding some holes there?

The weather stripping I have is some kind of foam. I would expect silicone to be harder than that. The softer it is the better for this application.

It should be availlable in any store that sells stuff for home improvement.

Rubber sticks from Verax will not work with Nexus 92mm fans. They will work with Nexus 120mm fans (and Verax fans of course). Those fans have a different type of mounting.

Weather stripping or sponges are my favorite sources of soft material. Then zip-ties to actually fasten the fans.

I suggest you take programming off the list of lightweight tasks, if you don't believe me, try running Websphere Integration Developer. I don't know that particular development environment, but there are enough development environments that don't have a bloated IDE over a bloated framework. Because...

Candor wrote:I also wonder what one would have to do to get their RAM hot enough to need them.

Well, that's simple. Normal RAM has enough room to "breath". But as soon as you put RAM with those ridiculous heatspreaders on a mobo, only the top edge is exposed to cool air.

Disk performance will be really bad without gigabit ethernet, though. Well, that depends on your definition of really bad. I don't think anybody is going to do this for a gaming machine or hoping to win any benchmarks. On the other hand, for an average computer used for surfing, mailing and serious...

No, not Evercool, but Everflow. Important distinction.
See the bottom of this page.

Edit: stupid typo.