just heard about this today on the site for the servers I play at...poop on them

I just grabbed the open-box Biostar 760G board mentioned in a thread on here--along with a 4450e (slightly slower than the 5050e). Board from Newegg, cpu from ebay. Hopefully I get under 30W idle also.

heres the thread: linky

I think there's been some people using them on videocards and whatnot. That amount of CFM should be fine for HD's, you're just trying to get some air moving around the drives and taking the heat elsewhere--where your exhaust fans will do the dumping out of the case. In fact you could probably underv...

I've been using VMC (Vista Media Center) for about a year and a half now. Been the only real use of the computer--for a year or so it was on an SD TV with dual analog tuners getting either cable or antenna. Then I had it set up with dual digital converter boxes with IR blasters after the digital swi...

Does Sage cost money up front or subscription? You could just use WMC instead. Joinnnnnnn usssss.... You could probably skip the "OS" drive. A drive that small is probably old, or at the least old tech. If you're just using the computer as a media unit the Green drive should be fine. The onboard gra...

I use Speedfan as opposed to Coretemp because I can just get the standard thermal sensor (diode?) reading which is good enough for me. It also sounds like the amount of error can vary so a set number wouldn't be appropriate.

Welcome to SPCR! you could probably make at least $50 on ebay with that dual-core socket-939 btw. Do you have any ebay or heatware feedback for anyone here to check out? the other stuff you might be able to sell cheap on ebay and get a bucks for them...or maybe some of the other tech forums (Anandte...

Makes sure you use capacitors with a low ESR (Equivalent Series Resistance). If they don't have low ESR, the very high peak currents in the circuit will cause them to heat up, shortening their lifespan. Yep--these were Rubycon MBZ 6.3V 3300uF caps with "ultra-low ESR for VRM" according to the spec ...

Intro: This summer I ended up re-doing our HTPC, I had an extra AMD BE-2300 (45W) laying around, so I figured I could make the machine into an HD capable HTPC with our HDTV. I found an Asus AM2 motherboard on ebay for under $30 shipped, but when it arrived, I found that the capacitors right at the ...

I've run 9600 GT with 350W PSU with C2D cpu with no problems. Its not wattages really, its the amperages on the lines. High quality 400W+ PSU's have better amperages on the lines than most crappy or no-name 600W+ PSU's. That is why its always important to use high quality PSU's from reliable names....

Could just use a Gparted livecd for that matter....the gui makes me feel all warm and fuzzy and it doesn't do anything until you hit the go button (so you can review your pending operations first and avoid any screw-ups). Also...backup any really important data first :wink: edit: Did you just panic ...

I bet a 4670 or 4770 with an AC S2 (or even S1 for future use) would be plenty for you, especially if you are satisfied with the onboard so far. Or if you waited until the mid-range 5000-series come out (5770 or 5670) in a few months. just for comparison sake: the 4850 has 800 unified shaders. the 4...

My cyber-stalking hasn't turned much up: http://forums.bit-tech.net/member.php?u=601 <--last activity April 11, he's a moderator with over 12K posts as well http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/member.php?u=5372 <-- last activity dec 21, and he had lots of posts there Last activity on hardforums was last ...

Based on your current hardware and stated needs, you could probably go much cheaper with slightly older hardware (ie C2D and DDR2). Throw in a Geforce 9400-9600 (I believe Nv has better Linux compatibility, but you should double-check that) and a modern HD (I've been quite happy with the WD Blue 640...

Not sure if you are in North America or not--if not I would think the 14" Timeline with Intel dual core would be the way to go. Reports I've seen indicate the single-core has trouble with HD Youtube content (aka Flash is a piece of crap). Unfortunately they don't seem to really offer the dual-core m...

I ended up setting it up this last couple weeks and I like it. Still working on the file sharing aspect, as I need to go through all the ripped mp3's from over the years and get the naming and file info consistent, but just the daily backups alone make me happy. Totally automagical and the plugin fl...

lechuck wrote:I'd agree with Meato. I look forward to 56x0 series - if they manage to get rid of power adapter and also lower idle power draw, well lower than 4670 that is.

Heck yeah. Waiting for the 5670--in my perfect world it won't require external power, idle at 10W, and have the power of a 4870.

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I tested some 720p video playback there with both 780G and HD4670.

Are you getting (it should be I think) hw acceleration from the 780g? Seems like it should be helping with that--could it be a driver/codec issue?

I'll try to find the posts I made with some power/cpu% numbers this year.

nice price and shipping is fair

wife would neuter me if I bought it though

bump for someone else with cash available to notice it

Or the cables could've just worked a slight bit loose, then when you unplugged and plugged back in, they were good. Rund HDtune or something to check SMART and an error scan.

Hopefully just nothing to bad.

:?: I think we've been insulted. :roll: No! just ended up on the front page topics and I read it slowly through before catching on where the post was...I appreciate all the research this stuff helps out. 4 video cards and not for gaming! That's crazy, and in this case, that's a compliment! Carry on...

Based on this and some other recent postings, I think I will never buy MSI to begin with. Wow...really unfortunate that Maui setup never got any attention or the bit of finish and polish necessary for it to not catch fire and stop working.

It's the little details like that, MSI

My understanding of the audio is that Nvidia is better on the AMD platform as well, but if you're limited anyway by the receiver it's not going to affect you I think. I use our HTPC to record HD and some Hulu watching, it's an AMD 1.9GHz dual core which so far is nice and smooth especially compared ...

WELCOME TO SPCR! Any plans for gaming? And what kind of audio demands do you look for regarding Bluray playback? Anandtech just had a comparison of the integrated chipsets when it comes to HTPC demands, Intel on Nvidia seems the best for right now. Although an AMD on ATI combo is good if your audio ...

Wait...this is the crazy FAH forum...

<--tiptoes back out of the ward

I thought this was extremely interesting especially for us here (from the Anandtech review): Finally, while we’re discussing the monitoring chip, we may as well talk about the rest of its features. Along with monitoring the GPU, it also is a PWM controller. This means that the PWM controller is no...

You can get longer as well as rounded floppy cables.

You could set up the airflow with separate zones for the power supply and then the rest of the case. Then maybe add a baffle to force some of the air down by the video card before it goes up by the CPU and exhausted by the case fan.

So....is the 5670 going to be as powerful as a 4850 with the power draw of a 4350? That would rock.

The ringing/whining is in background all the time but it does not bother me until there is silence and then I notice it. Prognosis is it won't get any worse but it is unlikely to go away. I assure you I am far from being a martyr but I can live with it. Ignoring it is the trick. I wonder how my hea...