mcoleg wrote:actually, i noticed that it will depend on the enclosure more than anything else; i am talking from personal experience.

On that note, can anyone point me in the direction of a good online resource comparing and contrasting enclosures? Or can anyone simply recommend me a nice sturdy and simple one?

Very interesting comments people. Thanks a lot.

Anyone else have something to say on all this?

Hi folks, In about 3 weeks I'll be building a system based around an AOpen MP965-D . In case you're not familiar with this barebones beauty the website giving the specs and some pics is here: http://minipc.aopen.com/Global/spec.htm. I like this thing. It's tiny which means I'll be able to take it wi...

Hello all, I would like to buy a 2.5 inch HDD to put in an external enclosure. I'd like to know if all such drives can be bus powered over USB? Can they all be bus powered over Firewire? I am looking for a HDD with a capacity of 200 GB or more (preferably more). Can anyone recommend me a good drive?...

Hello, I live in Australia and due to the outrageous price of Sony laptops in this country I'm looking overseas to ship one here. As far as I know, one cannot customize a Sony SZ in Australia either. This is another reason for looking overseas. I'm after suggestions regarding: a) good sites with rea...

Hey,

I'm looking for a high quality HDD enclosure with a Firewire (or eSATA) interface. I'm open to suggestions regarding enclosures both for 2.5 inch and 3.5 inch drives. The external drive will be used for the odd backup.

I don't really know much about who makes this kind of stuff.

Thanks.

angelkiller wrote:Again, I would suggest a 8500GT or a 8600GT. (passive of course)

Ditto. I have an ECS 8600 GT (factory overclocked). Lovely card. Noisy as all hell. Wish I went passive. Now I have to put on an after market VGA cooler (the process isn't a problem but selecting which one is - any ideas?)

with stock heatsink, one 20(17) CM fan cooling the whole system (No other fans) its 28C at idle, about 40 at load, not bad for stock and one fan

Where did you get a 20 cm fan and what case are you using? Good temps there.

im building a system with the 3600-35W on friday (on time delivery permitting) im also planning to cool passivly, having just one 20(17)CM fan cooling the entire case (M-ATX) it'll be underclocked and undervolted, so i'll start with the stock cooler before moving onto aftermarkets (AMD is usually p...

Back to the OP, I do think you should look around for a better motherboard. I have nothing against ASUS or NVIDIA, it's that the MCP61 chipset is pretty long in the tooth. 690 boards are more power efficient and have much better onboard video, and will heavily outperform: http://www.thetechlounge.c...

Great replies people. I'm really surprised that you can cool an E6700 passively ck8-04! Gives me a lot of confidence about cooling a X2 3600+ passively, that's for sure. I agree that the Tri-Cools are quite noisy. I have a Antec P150 at the moment and the Tri-Cool is set to 'low' and it's not too ba...

I'm building myself a low powered system to do web surfing, word processing, watching movies, playing tunes, etc. :D Here are the bits I want to get: Mobo - Asus M2NPV-VM CPU - AMD X2 3600+ RAM - GeIL GX22GB6400UDC HDD - WD 800AAJS DVD - Samsung SH-W183 Case - Antec P150 I'd like to put a Thermalrig...

Thanks for the suggestions so far. Tomorrow I'm buying the bits so I just need to clear a few things up. Case : Silverstone Temjin TJ-08 PSU : Corsair HX-520 520W Mobo : DFI RS482 INFINITY CPU : AMD 64 3200+ [Venice] rev. DH-E6 RAM : Corsair TWINX1024-3200XL TCCD rev. 1.2 [2 x 512MB] GFX : onboard T...

WRT the PSU, just buy an S12-430. More than sufficient for this system and with a decent amount of headroom for more powerful rigs. Thanks derekva. I forgot to point out that I'm only going to be doing modular PSUs from now on. It's like my little vote for modular. One day, PSU manufacturers will g...

Hey folks, I've gotta build a computer for the old folks (but I'll use it a little bit too I suppose). It's gonna be used to surf the web, write some Word, compress a few archives... nothing taxing. I'll do a little bit of audio manipulation with it but I'll leave it with them in a few months' time....

Lemme just comment on how these would be relevant for me, I guess everyone has different needs :arrow: What I want 2 x IEEE 1394 (b is possible but this is too forward thinking I fear) - once again, my Premium has 2, but not sure if they're 800 or not, not like I ever use em 5 x fan headers - ummm,...

jaganath wrote:f) Will I notice a difference between 5300 and 4200 DDR2 if I'm only using a AMD 3200+? I'm not a gamer - just surfing and word processing mainly.

No offence, but the tasks you list could be easily handled by a Pentium III; so no, you won't notice any difference.

Excellent.

You can flash the BIOS of a DFI motherboard by using the Tmod BIOS CD from DFI-Street. Very handy CD that - it's what I used and it worked a charm! Also great HDD cleaners on it. Big-ups Tmod! As for 'Deport Pedro'... 8) shimq1 - I think that should have read PCI-E x16 for graphics - whoops. mattth...

I'm looking for what I would classify as a satisfactory mATX motherboard. But I can't seem to find one, no matter how hard I try. So, I hereby propose a list of features that I'd like to see. Most people won't agree with my suggestions... but I think there's a growing market for mATX with the whole ...

Hi everyone. Was wondering if anyone on here had built a similar rig: Asus M2NPV-VM AMD 3200+ Corsair 1GB DDR2 XMS2-5400 Enermax Liberty 400W ELT400AWT Zalman CNPS8000 Zalman ZM-NBF47 Silverstone Temjin TJ08 My key questions are: a) Will the Zalman CNPS8000 block RAM slots? If so, how many? b) I've ...

Hi, Just about to build a new system. It's (hopefully) going to be in a Silverstone Temjin TJ08. The motherboard will be an Asus M2NPV-VM. I want to put a Zalman CNPS8000 CPU heatsink on there - the CPU will only be around 3200+. However, I'm a little worried that the heatpipes will cover at least o...

Yeah, I've looked at the pics. I still don't know if I'll be able to install my trusty Zalman ZM-NB47J. Anyone know if this chipset heatsink is compatible with 'hooks'. Also, I want to put a Zalman CNPS8000 low profile cooler on there as I won't have a lot of room to play with. Anyone know if the he...

The Asus M2NPV-VM looks good on paper. The northbridge HS uses hooks though, and no holes for mounting a HS on the southbridge. Cheers. I don't mind about not being able to put something on the south bridge. But... the hooks? What does this mean? Does it mean I can't put on my trusty Zalman ZM-NB47...

Nice build. Thanks for posting pics.

Anyone know if the new Asus M2NPV-VM with a Ninja will fit in one of these babies? Is the CPU socket in more or less the same spot?

What do you reckon the chances are of fitting a Ninja in there on this board: http://www.theinquirer.net/images/artic ... _4_X_8.jpg

Sent it back. Just got a message now saying they tried it at the warehouse and they couldn't get it to work either.

Damn...

Damn,

Thanks for your post all-the-same nici. I appreciate it.

Pedro.

... but just got beeps. Basically, I ripped out my Quadro 280 NVS and plugged in a new Sapphire X800 GTO. The box it came in tells me: 'Connection to the system power supply is required. The power supply should have a specialized 12V graphics card power connector.' My power supply is this one: http:...

Yo,

I often read that people undervolt their fans to 5 or 7V. How is this done? Through BIOS? Software? Hardware? I can't seem to work it out.

I have a DFI Ultra-D with a 3200+ in it.

Cheers.

Awesome. Cheers.