I've noticed that the past year or so as I've perused the forums; more performance, easier cooling. That's a nice trend for a change. Actually, I hadn't intended to go for a D510/D525 board, I was initially looking at 2500/2700/2800 boards due to easier cooling, but chose not to mess with the video ...

Thanks for your comments HFat. I'm aware that the Atom CPU is fairly robust to handle temps much higher than I have, and that it can run fanless. The Intel boards have a huge heatsink compared to the tiny excuse for a heatsink that came on the Foxconn board. Even my replacement pales in comparison. ...

Thanks Ralf; and for the 'official' awards. I think. :shock: My wife dings me on the OCD occasionally. Once I decided to do more than the 1 1/2" x 6" section of holes, I decided I liked the look of the real holes vs. the 'fake' holes anyway. So I rationalized that all the holes would be my 'custom' ...

After reading SPCR for a while, I was finally convinced to boot the mini-tower Dell box off my desk and dive into mini-itx size computing. I purchased a used ISK300-150 case with a Foxconn D51S motherboard, 2x2GB ram, extra network card, Win XP Pro COA for real cheap [$65 off ebay]. Expecting really...

Hello all - Long time lurker/learner/processor finally decides to get on board and participate... I'm currently building/modding a MI-008 based file server and am looking for a hardware pack from a PC-Q18, specifically the 2.5" drive mount screws/rubber o-rings [but 3.5" screws & o-rings would be go...

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