The electoral college system doesn't deny importance to anyone's vote, it actually does the opposite. If not for the electoral college system national candidates would only cater their campaigns to voters in New York/New England, Southern California, and maybe a scattering of high population density...

What's that small grey box inside the Antec P190 and Fusion? Is it a dummy load device so the PSU and fans can be run without a mobo? It's actually one of Antec's Power Supply Tester 's, but they stick them in their cases on display for exactly the reason you thought. It's basically the same as jum...

I suspect that "OCModShop" rectally extracted the "1/80th" number, but yes, a failed heatpipe would basially become useless. But a heatpipe failingis not really something to worry about. Short of mechanical damage, there's not many ways you can destroy a heatpipe....they generally have about a 20 ye...

Frosted is exactly right. Unwicked heatsinks are basically never used in computer parts now. The wicking material is a sort of silicon powder, and is sprayed on the interior of the pipe. One thing to understand is that there's really very little liquid inside these pipes. If you crack one open nothi...

I would guess that it will have a SKU differentiation from the current Fusions, but we'll likely have some of the same revision issues we've had with other product updates, like the P180 door fix and the Seasonic PSU's. Hopefully resellers will be conscientious about updating their listings. Details...

I can understand the outside aesthetics of a case, but the insides are rarely seen. It seems like a waste of paint and time to paint all the metal black on the inside, especially for a case like the P182, which isn't designed to show the inside without compromising the well shielded case cover. Ins...

The Micro Fusion we played with in Vegas was a pre-production prototype, so it's probably a few months from being available. The P190 and P182's were full production samples, so I imagine that they'll be on store shelves very soon. The Micro Fusion is very interesting. Some aspects of it are still a...

The X1400 isn't available as a stand-alone graphics card. It's a mobile-only part. Do you mean X1300 maybe? Either way, you've skipped the most important part of the system spec from a PSU sizing point of view: the CPU. The CPU choice is what will really determine what size PSU you need. Optical dri...

We have a "SPCR Does CES" article in the works, so I won't say too much so as to not steal all of its thunder, but let me correct a couple of things mentioned above: - The 182 is not black. It's a titanium-gunmetal kind of color. It didn't photograph well in the lighting at Antec's Bellagio suite. O...

Had a discussion with the guys from Arctic Cooling during CES, and the Thermaltake knock-off's are just that...knock-offs. There is no licensing. It's just another case of Tt ripping off someone else's R&D work. We had a fun couple of minutes flipping through the Tt press brochure and listing off wh...

I agree but only if we're talking about running at stock speeds. When overclocking, a northbridge *MIGHT* require improved cooling depending on how much you're pushing the system. As the OP said. Now if you want to get into a discussion of how useless overclocking is, well, that's a whole different...

No, the little "novelty" heatsinks are generally useless. Designed to separate fools from their money. Yes, some of those things get warm. And? Chips like NB's and Winbond sensor chips are perfectly fine running at temps up in the 70-100° range. (You can look up the operating spec's for them online...

Yes, Powerpoint does have a "Narration" feature, that could probably be triggered by accident. It's buried in the Slide Show menu's somewhere, if I remember correctly. But yeah, there's obviously a mic attached somewhere. It is a tower or a laptop? If it is a fairly new laptop there's a pretty good ...

jaganath wrote:Looks like you'll need to build a lot more prisons then?

The death penalty does not reduce the prison population by a meaningful amount. The cost of the execution far outweighs the cost savings in terms of food/board.

"Unusual", as defined by the courts and the law is not synonymous with "uncommon". It is meant to prohibit "novelty" executions, or the use of different forms of execution for different prisoners. You can't sentence one guy to death by pack of rabid ferrets and give another a lethal injection. If it...

But *I'm* using an AV-710 card with the Envy24 chipset! What gives? :? Um, um, um.... Maybe it's the motherboard chipset that is transferring the ghost signal back through the SPDIF? Maybe kmixer picks up the signal from the USB device? What driver revision you running? I'll admit that I am not muc...

Does it work with a non-Antec PSU?

Just to follow up on my own experiences with a Fusion. I've been using one as my main box for a couple of months now. First, I cannot say enough what a stupid error Antec did with the drive bay. The top bay, the one you can't use because of the VFD, has the horizontal slots to adjust the drive's mou...

4) built a system for some one and when i tried to power it up can the and it would'nt after 3 and a half hours of trying to fix it realized i never hooked up the power switch jumpers I can top that... Spent a frustrating hour and half trying to figure out why a system made of old parts just in a n...

There's some info here: How to make RPM Signal for 2-Wires Fan, but its not exactly a plug-and-play type solution. There's a link to a good schematic here: Adding RPM Sensor to your Fan, but you'll have to be comfortable with a soldering iron.

Hello Michael! You're really going to feel the performance drop primarily at game startup and during level loading. In-game performance really isn't affected all that much, assuming that you've got enough ram and aren't thrashing the cache all the time. You don't necessarily have to go with a 5400rp...

I think you guys are being too hard on Bruntfca. Rather than trashing him because his opinion is different than your's, lets find out why he thinks the P180 is loud when so many other people think it is quiet. He obviously wants it to be quiet, otherwise he wouldn't be so upset about it being loud. ...

I agree with ultrachrome. I wouldn't let the motherboard removal requirement sway me one way or the other when picking a heatsink. With a tower heatsink, even if you can install it with the mobo still in the case it's often a serious PITA to try to do so. Tower heatsinks are big, and cases are cramp...

As a general, informal rule, if you're a member of the "SPCR Community", and the stuff you have for sale is at least tangentially silent-pc related, and you don't go clogging that forum full of threads pimping your auctions, I have no problems with someone putting up a link or two. I don't think we ...

Hello James! Welcome to SPCR! 1) Temperature/Humidity in garage. What is an acceptable range? Humidity isn't a terribly big concern, unless you live in a swamp. The only thing that you might want to watch out for is the possibility of the machine getting wet out there if it got splashed with somethi...

I would be using it in a new asus craosshair and that does have copper heatsinks and a heatpipe. So why aren't the fins also made of copper? You would think they would have better performance despite the weight. Yes, in theory performance would go up...But would the performance go up enough to make...

Everything else being equal, copper is the best commonly available material for heatsinks. Three years ago there were quite a few more copper heatsinks on the market than there are now. The pinnacle of that line of development was probably the ThermalRight SLK series. But what happened to all-copper...

Well that's pretty underwhelming. The cost jumped out at me... Mirra=$380 or... 250Gb HDD : $75 Epia mini-itx all-in-one : $95 Mini-itx case: $30 (? too lazy to go find a link atm..most DIY's probably have a case and PSU laying around they could scavenge for free) FreeNAS : $0 (or one of several sim...

So, does anyone have any good use for the VFD and/or the volume knob? How does the knob actually work, what do you connect it to? The knob is tied into the VFD's USB connection to the mobo. Antec includes a modified version of the iMon software with the Fusion. It has a bunch of built-in modules fo...

Interesting. Considering that it's pretty clearly based on their fanless model, the watercooling portion wouldn't have to be very effective at all for this to work. Basically the waterblock could be nothing but window dressing and it would still work just fine. (assuming they didn't muck up the inte...