Alright, I want a decent video card but I also want a fairly quiet overall computing experience because I enjoy doing audio engineering in my spare time. I've been eyeballing the GeForce 7900GT as the optimal card in the "bang for your buck" equation. However, they're apparently loud as hell. Now, I...

For starters, we don't yet have equipment that can really record, say, the full spectrum of a heavy rainfall and reproduce it accurately. (Speculation says that the problem is more on the reproduction end than the recording end, but how can you be sure?) It's entirely on the reproduction end. Digit...

I'm going to be sticking a Thermalright XP-120 on my 3500+ Venice and I want the least noisy CPU fan. Which might that be?

I do a lot of audio-engineering and I'm in the process of creating a very quiet system for that purpose but I'm also looking for my pc to be versatile: I want to play games. I'm thinking VERY strongly about the X800XT; it's received the highest reviews almost everywhere I've been as far as power-for...

cancel that..... huzzah! Post on.

Alright, I'm doing an edit to the original post here because I've really revised what I had written before. Please, critique my system: Case: Antec P-180 PSU: Seasonic S12-430 Motherboard: ASUS A8V Deluxe CPU: AMD Athlon-64 3200+ Venice Graphics: ATI RADEON X800 XL 256mb Harddrive: Samsung 160gb Spi...