White all over with red highlights, Famicom style! Or just how it looks now isn't bad :D Black clashes hard with my Macs, so the white and silver is a nice compromise. PowerBooks and Power Macs (silver), iMac and iBook (white). Then the Mac mini is both so it looks good with all of them. At least un...

My EVGA 7800GTX KO has been quiet, well, when my 3800+ X2 ramps up its it drowns out everything. So I put the back exhaust (P180) on medium and now I can keep my stock HSF at 2500 RPM idle and 3000 RPM under load... of course now the back exhaust drowns out anything else. Haha. But I don't notice th...

Gigabyte K8N Ultra-SLI + Seasonic S12-500 = Success (with caveats) Main power cable is tight but connects 4pin must be routed under video card Because of 4pin position all PCI (and remaining PCI-E 8x) slots are inaccessible Oh, and be sure to connect front-case cables BEFORE wiring power and install...

HotHardware has a review of the TOP. Linked to page 2 to demonstrate something; you need an ASUS board for SLI. These cards are too wide to work in the majority of SLI boards and need two PCI-E connectors between each 16x one.

What I mean by reference, I mean mostly the coolers. With the exception of the eVGA K.O. and this ASUS 7800GTX TOP the rest look nearly identical. So the vast majority are sticking with the reference cooling solution. Thats what I'm saying. Yeah I've been the to the eVGA Forums, looks like you have ...

I'm curious too, and will be going either eVGA (lifetime warranty) or the ASUS TOP. But anything about these cards is good, the vast majority of which are based directly off reference design.

FTA: "ASUS claims that there would not be any installation problems using the Extreme N7800 GTX in an SLI rig due to its size. The catch is that the SLI motherboard must be an ASUS board too. As our test system is coincidentally based on an ASUS SLI motherboard, we did not encounter any problems wit...

And I was just reading about the EVGA KO Edition card at AnandTech. This of course looks like a better cooler then EVGA's but at least we now have manufactures deverging from the reference cooler. First I wanted to go BFG, now EVGA looks tempting with lower noise, temps and increased performance plu...

jermaink wrote:dodecahedron, your bulging is quite minimal. I'm getting about 5 mm on mine, while yours looks to be about 2 mm.

Yeah mine is closer to 5mm too. The bulge starts shortly below the top of the door and doesn't stop until near the bottom.

Purchased mine from End PC Noise with free ground shipping.

teknerd is right about the Asus Premium mobo, but for the video card, you should get an X800XL, cheaper and performs alongside the 6800GT. The Abit AN8-SLI is a lot cheaper than the Asus Premium board though and the Asus board doesnt seem to feature the nice 6-way fan speed controller found on the ...

I don't know it temp has anything to do with it. When I first got my case it was over 35c outside and from the touch had been on the delivery van all day. It was VERY warm inside. And the front bulged. Haven't noticed a real difference after it has been sitting in the office. Even the ones in Frys, ...

Yeah, my Black P180 bulges but so were the aluminum P180s at Frys. It doesn't look too bad, setting apart the USB/FireWire/Etc area a bit more then the door.

Cool. Yeah I'll probably end up going with a 3700. Reviews I read though said a 7800GTX SLI setup begins to bottleneck at the processor but I'm not sure by how much and they were using some FX, probably the plus-grand one. Multis huh. Ok. I haven't built a PC in over 7 years, and have been a Mac use...

Yeah, I'm seeing less and less benefit to FX with the 3700+, 4000+, etc. At least for gaming. Few more FPS?

$150 plus RAM and GB are only making a limited production of them. The peformance benefits were good, but once you couple the pricing and space (4 GB MAX) it becomes an iffy purchase.

Silent though

Mine came today. A reply email from endpcnoise said there was a snafu on the order tracking page. They gave me the track number and it was already on the truck waiting to be delivered. Its very large. Shipped in a silver Antec P180 box, and inside that... another beige box with the SPCR Black P180 a...

Shadowknight wrote:Good news, my order from Endpcnoise finally shipped!

Bad news is that since they're on the other side of the country, it'll take a week to get here....

Congrats on it shipping, I'm not completely on the otherside of the country but I'm still awaiting. All items are pending.

Order Date: Jul 11, 2005. Everything still listed as pending. Well I won't have a complete system until August or September. I can wait.

Have the told you if it's shipped yet? They say it's in stock, but my order still says Pending on the website... Emailed them about when they'd charge my card. They said they would charge it in a few days and get their shipment in on friday. That way last week. Sure enough they charged it but yeah,...

Purchased the Black SPCR edition from EndPCNoise.com, still waiting.

Wonder if SPCR can do an official review of the Nexus drive-a-way? If it does keep things quiet I may take the Raptor out of my Power Mac.

Don't have much to add but I'm also in this dilemma. I remember seeing a gaming benchmark showing very little increase in frames per second versus all AMD processors. Even the FX chips gave you 5 fps more each on up. Then again I'm building a computer primarily for gaming so I'm not concerned with a...

Coming from a Mac I'm hoping between CDs, thumb/pen drives, and external USB floppy (use one at work) and MO that I don't need an internal floppy.

Heard people need it to S-ATA but that the nForce boards don't need anything special to install XP onto it.

That sucks Ed. 24" Dell? Very nice. My 20" Apple Cinema has been treating me rather nice too. Widescreen is great. Keep us posted.

What you probably *don't* know about the 7800GTX is that it has at least three different internal clocks that vary depending on load. It's a bit like Cool n' Quiet, but better because individual sections of the GPU can vary their clock based on demand. Cool. That should keep it quiet (relatively) d...

This will be my first PC build in nearly 8 years (I switched to Mac a while ago) and are in the process of building a gaming and desktop PC for home. I'll be following this thread closely. So the facts; as powerful or nearly so against a 6800 Ultra SLI, yet lower power and noise then a single 6800 U...

... as far as i know the video requirements of OSX affect only whether the OS itself is hardware or software rendered, not whether 3D games are hardware or software rendered, but i could be wrong. Your correct slam. The OpenGL used for games isn't the same as whether Core Image/Video support is ava...

Here's hoping Antec will put out a black (non-ugly) version... Black is so last year ;) This case looks nice, lot bigger then I'd ever need but yeah I can't wait for a review of this thing. Does anyone have specs on it? Particularly the height of the case? The minimalist outer design (not sure how ...

OK, back to original subject. It's been quite a few years but IIRC, the G4 wasn't exactly a cool running processor and had thermal safety built in - like the Presscots. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong. If that's correct, I'll bet anything that the CPU will go into throttling as soon as somebody fi...

Also as far as it not supporting Core Image, its apparently intentional. This is their bargan basement PC that was released to finally take care of the sub $500 segment. Just like economy PC's in the IBM-PC realm, the low end systems don't take advantage of all the latest hardware or software by de...