Lots of ppl here still have, use & love SCNJ-1000, otherwise known as the first & best Ninja. Usually on 775 - a v common platform. Especially that the original Ninja uses a sturdy spring-loaded 775 installation mechanism, so much better than the dreaded pushpins, introduced later on by Scythe's sti...

Guys, any news on the launch date of 2120K? Could be a great CPU for those wanting higher clocks, rather than a real quad core. I do hope to see this chip soon in shops

i3 2100 is IMHO way too much for a media player. My puny E3200 handles all HTPC affairs just fine. I don't really monitor it during playback, but never hear its cooler ramping up so I'd assume it just idles for most of the time. So I guess a G620 - a much stronger CPU compared to E3200 - will handle...

MSI P67A-C45 / G45 B3 or Gigabyte P67A-UD3-B3 ? Please help me with decision on a 1155 budget board for i5 2500K (possibly i3 2100 at first) Goals: easily a dozen hours daily on, of which about 1 hour gaming; mild OC up to where default Vcore is needed or with just a slight voltage bump if the CPU f...

Well, if you want to cut initial cost and buy 2nd hand/heavily discounted 775 gear then it seems an ok idea. Otherwise getting some new generation mobo+cpu would be more sensible - both in terms of performance and power consumption. Although a properly set 775 gear is definitely power frugal and str...

Here's the situation: I have 3 PCs at home, all connected to TP Link WR340G WiFi router. My main PC is connected with a cable, the HTPC connects via a WN350GD wireless card, and my wife's notebook connects via its own wireless card. All PCs run Windows 7 and Kaspersky. Now, I bought a second identic...

... damn thing doesn't detect my HDTV while it's connect via a DVI-VGA cable ... Try disconnecting the cable from the TV HDTV socket and/or PC DVI socket. I had a similar issue with my TV and 2 mobos (one with DVI, one with HDTV output) and I had all sorts of trouble - the PC couldn't always find t...

Why not a single word about TRIM? Why not discuss performance impact or lack thereof?
OTOH, I'm pretty sure that most SPCR readers hunting for a good SSD have already read Anand's reviews and are in the know.

So you're saying that S12 430 actually has a 20 pin ATX connector? Only 20 pin? I had this very PSU and mine had 24. Of course as said before, 20 will work just fine, no big deal.

Scythe's new tin box - meet the Gekkou (greed is good!) http://www.sun-trust.net/products/img/scythe/1769_1.jpg http://chlodzenie.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Scythe-Gekkou_1.jpg http://chlodzenie.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Scythe-Gekkou_2.jpg http://chlodzenie.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/S...

Come, Igor. Pull the switch!

That is one crafty, self-propelled contraption

What components are you running? And, more importantly, what case? All of these PSUs will work best when bottom mounted. If your PSU goes on top, as in "older" cases, a unit with a fan would be safer. "Safer" as in "all of these will work great but to be super extra sure, get a unit with a fan". Wha...

Any guess as to what - apart from the price - makes the drive different from Agility 2 / Vertex 2? I mean, is real life performance going to be noticeably worse/better?

You can also put a 100 mm Scythe Kaze something in front. It has two sets of mounting holes - for 92 mm and 100 mm. Tho only one such fan can be fitted in there if you wish to use the door's holes. I'm not sure if two 100 mm fans could fit. I'd have to check.

A good 300W PSU will be plenty for this system. I'd get a Seasonic S12, either 330W or (for future sake) 380W. The saved money would go to the VGA upgrade fund. 8600 is kinda oldish and can be cheaply upgraded to sth. both beefier and more pwr efficient - e.g. GT220 or GT240, or a Radeon 4670 or som...

C'mon, do it for humanity. Since you're going to flash it anyway, why not see if the 20%-30% tweak works with your card? Pretty please?

That is v good news! Especially the Nibitor settings. So basically there'd be no need to use aftermarket coolers and also v little need to pay for more expensive verions of the card (e.g. MSI Hawk or GB Windfart). Just get the cheapest reference card and mod the bios. Cooooool. Given the VGA's defau...

Welcome to SPCR Now, the pleasantries concluded, you'd best start by browsing the PSU review section and see for yourself what the heatpiped Zalman is worth. Hint - there are plenty quieter, cheaper and simply better PSUs in the market now. How quiet a PSU is depends more on the fan and the fan's c...

Hmm, that would suck as this kind of setup is pretty popular. Tho I'm sure not all 775 mobos have the CPU socket in the same place.

I'm just not sure if you've just calculated that or actually tested real life?

With 2 drives in the front you can safely add a front 92 mm fan and run it at constant 600-700 rpm. You won't heat the difference. You could align your HDDs to form sort of a duct to direct air to the VGA. Sure, the card will handle the heat fine, but there's no harm in giving it some air. A faster ...

You can start with reading the extensive P150 review here. P150 = Solo in white. And of course there are plenty of happy Solo users here. What can I say: +++++ v hi quality overall, v good front (blocks noise, looks great), allows some cable management (more like hiding cables behind the tray), exce...

This setup will run perfectly OK on a quality 500W*. If you want to OC it very heavily, both CPU and VGA, then maybe a 600W would be a little safer. In idle you'll be probably drawing around 130W, and <300W when playing games. These are number at the wall, so your PSU will be actually feeding ca 15%...

Another boring review of another boringly great PSU *

Is it too much to want a PSU like this in < 500W range and at < $ 100?

* smiley is here for joyless haters who need it to properly read the post...

@kater: if you'd search the 'fanlessly' term in SPCR forums, you'd find 83 matches, so I doubt you can 'claim' it as 'new'. :? I'm sorry, I forgot to put - :wink: - in my post. And something tells me I'm making another mistake not putting another one in this post. But I'm a quick learner, someday I...

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Let's wait for these cards. And then wait for complaints about cooked VRMs. While it's perfectly possible to cool the GPU of a card drawing around 100W fanlessly (I hereby claim this new adverb!), it's much harder to keep its power section cool and healthy.

AFAIK 58xx series cards come with dual PCI-E 6 pin connectors. I don't think this kind of load can be handled with a fanless cooler. And I think the power consumption on 67xx to provide this level of performance will not be dramatically lower. A pity no VGA manufacturer has come up with a card that ...

Tell us what exactly you're going to run (CPU, VGA, drives) and you'll get a very accurate prediction of wattage. And knowing your wattage you'll be able to pick the optimal PSU. Optimal meaning that it'll have enough power to fuel your rig, will be ultra quiet (or even effectively silent) at low lo...

mudkip wrote:no they all fit i have calculated it

Care to let us know how? No, really, I'm intrigued. Do you mean you can fit the cooler "over"* the PSU?
* as in "above"

The reason why I chose that PSU is because it's the only one in its price range with 9x SATA plugs , while still remaining (mostly) very quiet. If you don't mind a little cable mess you could use molex > SATA converters (connectors?) to feed power to HDDs. There are also cables that will split a si...

WD AV-GP WD5000AVVS 8MB cache, 500GB. 3.5" in their AV streaming line runs between 5400 and 7200rpm Just curious - are you trying to say it has variable speed (as WD marketoids would like us to believe) or that it's speed is constant but impossible to specify clearly, with the range being 5400-7200...