Ever so slowly inching towards 3$/GB. Two years from now? Three? That will be the tipping point...

Thanks for the entries, RedAE102 and St.Apostol! On a sidenote, does anyone know of a program that can change FSB and CPU voltage according to system load, on a Gigabyte P35-DS3? I'd like to bring power consumption down a little, while still maintaining overclocking potential. Wasn't CrystalCPUID a...

S939 Athlon64 3200+ (Venice): * 1.1V between 1GHz-1.75GHz (minimum voltage) * 1.125V at 2GHz (wrote 1.175V before - oops!) * 1.275V at 2.25GHz (overclocked) * 1.425V at 2.5GHz (overclocked, overvolted) Stock is 1.4V at 2GHz. Many multipliers in this CPU (4x-10x), and excellent idle power consumptio...

From personal experience, the 500GB Samsung (501LJ) is almost inaudible when soft-mounted or suspended. Seeks are pleasant and the disk stays at the cool side of warm (~40C, vs ~46C of the old WD 1600JS it replaced). Performance is excellent (5.8 Windows experience index). Compared to a 500GB Seagat...

Thanks, everyone. I just ordered the DS3 with Kingston memory (it was an immediate need, as my server died - I'll relegate my current Athlon64 to a silent 24/7 server and upgrade my workstation with these parts). Unfortunately, I couldn't find 800MHz memory from a trusted retailer that was listed as...

DS3L has ICH9 as well. Aha, nice! One review said it had the ICH7, but I should have known to check the actual specs first. The DS3L looks more a lot more attractive now :) When you say the P35 has fixed dividers, do you mean 1:1 only, or are there others like 4:5, 3:4 etc? Also, would you suggest ...

I'm looking for a motherboard to pair a Core 2 E6750 with. I am looking for something that is overclockable, supports undervolting and is stable. Fan control would be nice too, but it's not a high priority. I am not really interested in RAID or SLI/Crossfire. It seems that Gigabyte parts support all...

AFAIK, superfetch does not cause random grinding apart from system startup (for 2 to 3 minutes after booting in my system). I would say the real culprit is the indexer service that creates the search index for all files in your hard drive ("all" isn't correct technically but anyway). Try disabling e...

Hello everyone and congratulations to MikeC for this wonderful site! Accompanied by the knowledge found here, I've embarked on a journey towards computing silence :) After getting rid of the motherboard fan, underclocking, undervolting, suspending the hard drivers, throwing a Ninja in the mix etc et...