I don't ever remember anyone ever claiming that the government of Iraq was responsible for 9-11. It was a co-ordinated attack by a bunch of people who share a common religion that uses terrorism to advance it's causes. They do not come from a single country...you know that, everybody knows that. Ou...

...or you can just patch your computer regularly, not open strange email attachments, and not download weird executable programs. (i.e. common sense). It's free, and it lacks layered service providers infiltrating your network stack and causing random application crashes. Common sense is all well a...

According to the LAME usage guide , straight stereo is going to be the default for bitrates above 128 and VBR_q <=4. That said, it is probably pointless to specify but I figured since I was writing the CLI options anyway I might as well specify everything. Also, I did test the file sizes with and w...

The only real hiccup has been the fact that it seems to incorrectly pass compression settings to LAME. I am working on writing the command-line switches manually - should fix the issue. Has anyone else had this issue? If so, I would love to see your command-line settings for comparison. PS: In case...

I'd go with the 3007, if you can get it for a good price and you don't need the extra inputs provided in the 3008. There have been various issues which have dogged the 3008 since its release - backlight bleed, poor build quality, input lag caused by the built-in scaler (important if you're a gamer),...

Nice to see a top performing cooler that's optimized for low airflow and doesn't weigh as much as a small asteroid, but there's one small point that could perhaps be clarified: "Compared to the Ultra-120/eXtreme, the HR-01 Plus is narrower, slightly taller , and has much greater spacing between the ...

Cryoburner wrote:So it sounds like an infernal chorus of wailing cacodaemons? : >

I love it!!!

/makes note for future reference...

I'm not a fan of the holes in the front door either, but I definitely see this as a response to all the crying and whining about the P180's poor airflow. Yes, there's been a fair amount of "crying and whining" as you so charmingly put it, but it happens to be justified in some circumstances. I stil...

P183,P193,NineHundred2 seems to have been announced simultaneously with Skeleton. http://day8ge.blog15.fc2.com/blog-entry-615.html Nice catch, but what a shame to see the mini-P182's carbuncles transplanted to the full-size model. The opening up of the side intake slots was an obvious step, but are...

I didn't even take off the mobo to verify pins as I like to live dangerously, but it's certainly easy making sure the pins go all the way through: just push the top completely down, twist and let the spring back up. It just can't go wrong if the pins are not damaged and you study the right locking ...

I think one of the big shelf-type coolers from Scythe, Thermalright, Enzotech etc would be well placed to receive airflow from the top fan, *if* (and it's a big if) they would physically fit... it's a bit hard to tell from the photos. The fins would also be aligned properly for convection purposes, ...

I think it's quite interesting - with onboard graphics or a passive video card, and an efficient top-down CPU cooler (if it will fit), you'd only need a single fan in the top mounting. With air blowing down and washing outwards in all directions, over a relatively small uATX board, I reckon cooling ...

Thankfully, English has become at least the second language for many/most people. I suppose that's the main reason many (most?) native English-speakers are relatively poor at foreign languages - there's not so much incentive to learn (or at least retain) them when English has become a sort of de fa...

There's a review right here - it was a few years ago, but I guess the case is the same now as it was then (apart from the window).

Not bad if you like that sort of thing, but if quietness is a priority there are better choices to use as a starting point.

Where are you from that everybody talks against it? I'm not "against" the Euro as such, I just can't see any significant benefits to it from a UK point of view, at least for the time being. Certainly nothing that would justify handing over control of our monetary policy to a bunch of German bankers...

Anybody blown a PC with a vacuum cleaner yet? Yep, many times. I've often sent the fans whizzing merrily that way as well. The thought did occur to me that they'd be acting as a dynamo, and it was probably A Bad Thing, and I don't suppose it does the fan bearings much good either. Nothing disastrou...

But I think it's great. In fact I wish the damn britons would finally switch to the euro also, it would make things easier, considering britain is pretty much my second most visited european country. I wouldn't bet on it happening any time soon. :P If the UK were to join the Eurozone, it would mean...

Any ideas? Do I need more airflow? I'd hate to get a monster heatsink because of the small P150 case and my PSU is right next to the motherboard. The fact that your idle temps have actually increased noticeably (assuming your ambient temps haven't gone up) suggests to me that the heatsink has shift...

I've just measured mine, and it's eleven inches from the PCI slot covers and I/O plate to the back of the drive cages (which are all in a straight line), so it should fit... just. You might have one or two problems though - I'm not sure if you could fit large aftermarket heatsinks given the position...

So where do you stop? "Here's by car, my home, everything I own.....even the shirt off my back". Those things are your life......the hours you spent to buy those things are your life. If you don't value your life throw up your hands and give it away. I don't buy into that sort of thinking. The impl...

Yes, it can be omitted but if the program then shows an error state in the tray icon it is still annoying, even though tray icons can be hidden. If you run the setup program with the switches "/REMOVE_FEATURE fea_AVG_SafeSurf /REMOVE_FEATURE fea_AVG_SafeSearch" it won't be installed at all, and you...

mr. poopyhead...... You don't "shoot people in the face" if you want to stop them. It's way too easy to miss such a shot. You aim for the heart......any place even close will stop them dead. And I'm well aware that there are people so poor that nothing they have is worth fighting for...... not free...

I'm not sure the MBR (or lack of) was really the issue - I'm guessing the original RAID controller wrote "something" to each drive at a lower level than the partition table in order to create the array, and it was that "something" that prevented Windows from recognising it as a readable single drive...

Uhm, no, you can take a drive out and do whatever you want with it. It's exactly like a normal drive - in fact, you can probably even boot from it (might depend on the controller that was used on the original system and if the drive was master or slave in the array). That's the whole point of RAID-...

...though i wonder, since you mentioned it, in raid-1, discs cannot be used as single in another mobo (and having full-access to data) after a controller failure? Nope - the OS won't recognise one half of a RAID-1 array as a formatted volume. The data would all be there, and you could probably retr...

Those dragonmods results look bogus. Especially those passive temps. It takes away whole credibility from the test imo. I actually bothered to do a bit of digging and found out, that DragonSteelMods is the official US launch partner for Noctua. No wonder those numbers looked so weird... ugh... I re...

Yes, I agree with the above, the F1 is neither as cool nor as quiet as the GP and its extra speed won't be that much of a benefit for your purposes. If I were you I wouldn't bother with RAID-1 either - simply run the drives independently, and set up a daily scheduled synchronising operation using on...

but after reading this thread, am i right that most of you guys are saying, there is no need for an intake fan at the front? Normally no, unless you're a dustaphobe and like all your air filtered before it enters the PC case (which would necessitate a positive pressure setup). or are you saying jus...

Your temps look absolutely fine to me. Your (passive) GPU temps are a little better than mine, even with a hotter card - the S1 is undoubtedly a good deal more efficient than the stock Gigabyte passive cooler on my HD2600XT, although I'm also running just a single exhaust fan at 600rpm or so (no int...

Ok I put a top fan in now, same as the other 3 fans scythe sflex 800 rpm fan. And it did pretty much nothing. Temps are exactly how they were before with just the rear exhaust fan and the cpu fan... Are your temps too high? What would you regard as satisfactory? What exactly are you trying to achie...