Hi Barry, The P150 comes with a 'pretty good' powersupply, not as good as the Seasonic. The Antec Solo is basically a black P150 without the powersupply The powersupply in the P150 has a 80mm fan, which has two consequences: - it doesn't directly suck air over the Scythe Ninja heatsink - it needs hi...

Is it me or is Nexus loosing the plot? They have some new powersupplies, which are most likely decent rebranded Fortrons.. they have expensive fans which are just Yate Loons.. It seems that their only good products are the ones they don't design themselves! :S

Its not a very high power system, and I would prefer going with an Antec Solo case. - better HD suspension - smaller - cheaper I'm sure that the Seasonic powersupply won't ramp up with the components you've chosen. The harddisk suspension really makes it easy to build and effective. As for case fans...

This whole "watercooling" stuff.. it is still aircooling, its just with a water phase in between. With todays available (air) coolers and the fact that one or two HD's will make some noise, I'd see no point whatsoever to go watercooling.

I went for MP3s.. With flac you know there is no 'data loss'.. but I did some blind tests and read about some of those online and basically nobody can tell the difference between a good mp3 and the original.

Except your HD that is

First, I don't know if I should congratulate you on being able to set a mobo on fire, or that I should give you my condolences.. :D Are you sure though? If you've built systems before, then perhaps the last episode was one of bad luck. If you take an Antec P150 or P180 as the base, go for the usual ...

My experience is that the Yate Loon starts more reliably at a lower speed and is the more usable and cheaper fan compared to the Nexus. I have only tried two of either though. I did the 'fan controller + 50 ohm resistor trick' on them and the Yate Loon starts at the absolute lowest voltage which res...

Its a little odd how they test overclocking. Sure there is a difference between the stock cooler and higher performance coolers but 3060 or 3000mhz; its not the point where you can blame it on the cooler. Near the limit you'd need 12 or 24 hours of stress testing to judge real stability and perhaps ...

Those temps are very likely to be just fine. If the system is stable then its fine. If the system isn't quite stable, its just as likely to be something else than the CPU temp..

And if you're not going to play games, a cheap 7300 based nvidia card will be the better choice!

VGA doesn't have to be worse but it can be. DVI is pretty much always good. In some bad cases, especially with higher reslutions like the monitor in this topic, the vga card but especially the cable can, when crap, cause some blurring / ghosting. If you're going to watch TV and use the same screen f...

I picked up a 'Medion' PSU for 10 euro on 'dutch ebay' which is one of those 12cm FSP "more than 70% efficient" models. With a 500rpm low speed yate loon fan swap, its heatsinks barely reach 40c under load, which is ~110W DC ish. I say this to point out that the stock fan speed control on most FSP u...

With Rivatuner there is a good chance your GF6800 can be 'soft modded' into a Quadro 'professional card'. This helps heaps in 'pro 3d' performance and its almost as if Solidworks deliberatly introduces bugs when using the plain 6800. The Quadro type cards are essentially 100% identical to the gamer ...

I just tried to pull that S1 out of my monitor! Sadly that didn't work..

Every zalman fan is poor basically. Though somewhat tricky, people have installed different fans on their VF700s, which would be the way to go, imo!

Compared to CPU / RAM, any form of harddisk(s) will be very very slow, relatively. Notebook drives are of course noticably worse than a Raptor 10.000rpm drive, or two raptors in RAID.. but reall fluent it won't get, even with RAM based harddrives as mostly the interface (bus) is a bit slow.. While a...

I'm getting impatient! Plus the info on their site doesn't mention Nvidia 6800 cards to be supported.. :/

http://www.arctic-cooling.com/vga2.php?idx=125

It wasn't *that* hard to find

similarities with the Arctic Accelero series are VERY obvious! This coolermaster: http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/coolers/coolermaster-coolviva-pro/07_cv_rad.jpg An old Accelero without the plastic: http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/6718/6800mod004yh9.jpg Three 'flat on the floor' heatpipes, but wit...

Those would be pretty low but possible idle temps. But in the days of Socket A sensor accuracy was pretty low. These days, with utilities like CoreTemp it seems one actually gets fairly accurate temperature readings from AMD64 and CoreDuo chips... Most graphics chips seem to come with fairly reliabl...

Its more or less impossible that your CPU is that temperature, but it doesn't matter too much if its quiet and stable

You do know that the idea of the 'gallery' forum section is to provide some pictures as well?

Hi all! A little odd but for a 'home electro' project I need a few 3 pin connectors. The ones used on fans would be ideal... It must be some type of industry standard; does anyone know the name / type of headers and connectors used in 3 pin fans? :) I know PSU cables are Molex somethings.. but fans ...

Big thumbs up!

With those load temps, I'd 7 volt the nexus immediatly though! Very well done!

Hi all, It used to be easy. Type the name of the thing you want info about, add 'review' and click 'search'.. You'd find the Tomshardware review of the device, and / or a load of other true reviews. Since a few years however, typing something like 'Canon printer review' gives you about 10.000 'produ...

You can't unplug it and have a working card, even in 2D mode it'll burn. http://www.xbitlabs.com/misc/picture/?src=/images/video/power-noise/x1600pro.gif&1=1 It uses too much power to deal with passively with such a small heatsink. It could be passive with one of the popular 'big heatpipe coolers' a...

Agreed, with a couple of 500rpm Nexus fans you can often get a dozen or two degrees below 'stability threshold'. It is also pretty hard to get a 7200rpm HD to run above 40c with any sort of minimal airflow.

The danger in the topic starters question is that this can be purely subjective. Temperatures that 'feel safe' to you might not have anything to do with the thermal limits of your pc parts. CPU: The only real limit you can set that is objective, is, *find* the limit. Run that prime95 torture test (t...

Hi,

Thanks for the idea(s).. Technically possible but most linear dampers I found have a little deadzone when changing direction. It might also be tricky to DIY the rack/pinion cheaply..

Seems I will have to shell out for the Kinetrol damper eventually

Hey guys, Where would the world be without 'off topic' sections in your favorite forum.. :) I'm hoping to build a better steeringwheel for use in race simulations. Now I hear you all think "Force Feedback!" which indeed would be great, but doing that properly quickly reveals a lot of downsides and c...