You mentioned playback in 3 different rooms...the method you use may help determine the horsepower required... one zone -> external amp -> speaker distribution to 3 rooms (lowest hp_ multizone (multiple soundcards driving different tunes to ea room) (highest hp) I'd also lean toward dual core to sep...

I was annoyed by this article as well. The author couldn't even get the spectrum information correct.

That being said, I don't think I'd strap a wireless router to my head. 6ft away, sure. Inverse square law rules.

the higher temp at idle is more likely due to the low fan rpm on the ninja and airflow through the case than dealing with the AS5. At best, you'd see a difference of a degree C or two by reapplication. up the rpm's or improve case airflow and see what happens. Personally, I'd focus on the HDD. Worry...

lol - nope. Pretty decent temps. Any idea what your HDD and GPU are seeing? Only reason to ad an intake fan would be to cool the HDD.

Thanks for the datapoint - too bad you aren't running macOS on it (just kidding)

Ok, a question for all of you that have dual core rigs - how well is it actually working in XP when running multiple concurrent applications? Case in point - what about playing a CPU intensive game and also doing another cpu intensive task or two at the same time? Does it bog down the game (assumpti...

Ralf Hutter wrote:Does anyone know when Antec will be releasing white versions of these cases?

Prices are probably comparable if you do similar builds. Apple tends to be price competitive at the base model, and then charges a premium for large HDD's, more memory, etc.. - upsides to Mac Mini: - ships with OS, so don't have to pay for it separately. - prebuilt working system. Unpack and turn on...

It's a level of customization that I really don't want to do. Plus my gen 1 Mini only gets about 5-6hrs per charge. I'd rather wait for a higher capacity small form factor iPod with the higher time per charge (~18hr).

gaming vid card:

cheap: 7600gt$200
performance @ $300: 7900GT

Probably not so quiet, but good performance per $.

perplex wrote:Maybe Apple should reconsider their Flash usage with the Nano line-up

We think alike. I've got a 1st gen 4GB Mini that I use for travel and wished that it was 8GB. This 12GB meets my needs quite well. It'll be 2 years before Flash can get to this density/pricepoint.

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I wonder how that compares to my refrigerator ... According to the little power efficiency star sticker on the front of my fridge it's rated at 540kw per year. If only I could store beer in my PC.... Anyway, I turn my PC on when I wake and off when I go to bed. It's set up to go into hibernate when...

/nods I will no longer have a rogue process hogging all the cpu, it can only hog a max of 50%, which means I have a very good chance of killing it off, rather than hoping that my kill action might eventually filter through the system. Now, there's an expensive way to fix this longstanding iTunes 10...

Nice. Thanks!

Optical port - cool.

Just saw an add in today's paper for an HP Pentium M laptop with 533MHz FSB and they are using DDR333 in it. Who knows what drives them to do this stuff...sort of like Dell shipping XP desktop systems with 256MB of RAM.

It's probably a price point thing. They did the same cheesy thing with desktops when I was looking 4 yrs ago.

Congrats on a successful delivery :D I recently rebuilt a PC for a friend going to a small village in Mexico with less than stunning results. Packed the thing in the original shipping case and told them to take care on how they move it (ie: not directly on the bed of the pickup truck, etc). 1500mile...

re: how much further

<shrugs> every barrier seems to bring a new solution...deep UV lithography, deep UV in liquid lithography, bonded wafers, strained silicon, etc...

The other issue is the card is 128 bit and the future is 256 bit--if not already. What I mean by that is Windows will be coming out with a new O/S Vista that requires cards with 256 bits, as was told to me by a tech guy in my area. Since I plan on building a system around an AMD Athlon 3500 Venice ...

As per the posting above, suspending the case in helium baloons would be the ultimate in breaking the vibration transmittance trail Yeah, but if you use more than one balloon, the vibrations may resonate the strings (think piano, violin, guitar...) and then transmit this to the balloons that will t...

Nope - sublayers on the mattress may be, but the top layer of viscous foam is flat.

I think this foam will only stop PC vibrations if there is a woman jumping up and down in your room.

As a point of reference, with a low rpm fan in the front of my sonata case, the sp1614C runs about 30C.

Very nice - I'll probably have a p150 build later in the year and it's nice to see these temps.

HDD - the Spinpoint has a temp sensor - what temps are you seeing?

I find that if I wrap myself in a hiking mattress and wear noise isolation headphones, all of my problems go away.

Take a look at the bottom of your PC case. If there are any intake areas for ventilation, then just placing the PC on towels, etc, may hamper the PC's airflow. The big thing is to isolate/decouple the PC vibrations from the wood floor. If your case does have air intake on the bottom, then maybe you ...