MikeC wrote:...private messages that contain a Trojan virus...

Did the messages themselves contain a virus, or was it just a link to a malicious site?

MikeC wrote: Glad to see someone actually commenting (and appreciating) the hard-worked content in this review.

I could be called a gamer.

There's a difference between appreciating the review and the looks of the case. I do appreciate your work, it's just that the case hurts my eyes.

How about building yourself?

My eyes are melting. I suppose the case is targeted at people half my age.

MythTV is actually a linux solution, but an easy to use one. You could get a bunch of movies with that £60 GBP instead.

Dunno, but here's some tips: -Dust accumulation makes it worse, so a well-filtered and either a positive pressure or an insulated negative pressure system would help. -Different bearing types have different service life lengths. Ball bearing is very good in this regard. -Different orientations have ...

MythTV, Open Source DVR

The best part is that you don't have to commit any money!

You can achieve all the other tasks you list with free software too.

Does this material have good thermal conductivity, both as a solid and as a liquid? Would the capillary forces really prevent it from leaking when it melts (and surely it will melt several times every day)? If it leaks, it almost certainly will short circuit something on the mobo. Does it react with...

Sassmastersq wrote:got for free (free yay!!) ... took way longer than I thought

Sounds like the most expensive fans you ever got tbh.

You think that you would need to keep one fan at high rpm with such a beast of a cooler and an entry level cpu? No. My problem is noise of stock cooler. It's not quality of cpu :) I was referring to the Ultra 120. The point about the CPU was perfectly relevant, because entry level cpus just don't o...

MoJo: The high end of the Raden 5000 series have both low idle power and good performance. Maybe you could just sell your 4000 series Radeon and buy a 5850?

maalitehdas wrote: Unfortunately I don't own a kill-a-watt, maybe some day i'll get it.

I got something similar from Clas Ohlson for something between 15 and 20 eur.

You think that you would need to keep one fan at high rpm with such a beast of a cooler and an entry level cpu?

No.

Power consumption differences between different brands of the same GPU are a big problem - it might be that there is a much less consuming 5750 from another brand and that the 5850 reviewed was on the low side.

I was a bit surprised of how much power an optical drive needs. I suppose it's the laser there which is hungry. I doubt it. Probably rather needing to move a heavy read/write head around and spin a far from perfectly balanced heavy disk. Hard drives have much lighter read/write heads that have shor...

How did you measure power use of all those components? RAM etc

My guess is that you made a duct from the exhaust vents to air exhaust vent of the room.

I have planned this myself more or less seriously, as our building has fully forced air circulation.

With Linux you don't have to deal with this crap. You know you want to!

Sell those 2 small drives and buy one large storage drive from the SPCR recommended list.

ncomben: Anandtech said 5570 is the perfect HTPC card (see link in previous post). Can you give me some links to reviews that say 5570 can't handle some video material that 5750 can?

My PSU seems to make more noise as well when running on UPS power (Corsair VX450 and APC back-ups 650).

Haven't bothered to care about it, there aren't that many power outages here anyway.

http://anandtech.com/weblog/showpost.aspx?i=669 wrote:5570 is in fact the perfect Radeon HTPC card

This is already only because of its video postprocessing abilities (deinterlacing quality etc). Gaming is not even mentioned.

1000W with 80% PSU = 200W for the birds. That makes a whole kW/game (5h)!! If the PC idles the rest of the day at 70W (19h) and energy efficiency is only 60% at that level, that's another half of a kW for birds. Well, maybe birds save their energy since they don't need to fly far to south at winter...

Any chance you can do some drop test onto a hard floor to see which one loses any keys, mouse ball, battery cover ect. Or perhaps give feed back if they are captured so there is no way of that happening please. +1 A drop test should be mandatory for all "mobile" devices. Preferably drop it several ...

Case fans. System is a bit too hot for the closet so case fans are running on full speed. Still the door blocks most of the noise so doesn't matter much.

Air vents for the forced air circulation in this building make the most noise.

Wow, that ht4u link was nice. According to their numbers, I could get a whopping 25W idle reduction in DC, if I replaced my Nvidia 8800GTS 512MB by an ATI 5870 and while my system uses around 110W AC at idle now and my Corsair VX450 being about 80% efficient at that load, would reduce my idle by 31W...

It makes much more sense to put $50 or so to custom-molded earplugs, which because of the perfect fit to your ear canal are very comfortable and dampen noise very effectively, than to put too much effort into silencing those motors. I've found mine very handy when occasionally needing to use power t...

I believed that the PFC on PSUs were designed to correct the AC power factor that is delivered to your house. No. Power factor is a property of a load (so it can have different values even for the same device). The PFC circuitry in PSUs tries to make this power factor close to ideal (1). There migh...

Also, the current shown is on 50% load of each PSU, and those PSUs have different max loads! The higher the load, the higher the current is supposed to be. So, why then at 50% load on these following two examples, the input current waveforms are not 99% sinusoidal ( Hipro 250W ) but also on the 2nd...

I'm sorry but I believe that you have completely misunderstood those graphs. The reference voltage, shown by the blue curve, has its scale on the left and is identical in all those graphs you linked to, representing a perfect sine wave. The current, shown by the red curve, has its scale on the right...