I wouldn't recommend the Nexus for that application, especially if it won't start by itself if it ever does stop.

If your PSU is making noise though, can you RMA it? Usually they are virtually silent.

If you are not gaming then I wouldn't bother. The 8500GT is a nice desktop card.

I run the 8800GTS on the Seasonic 380 with no problems, not exactly the info you wanted but close.

I have the Sonota and the 8800GTX would not fit. I have an 8800GTS and it barely fits so there for sure would be no room for the GTX. Assuming the Sonata III is along the same lines inside as the Sonata and II, they the GTX will not fit. I'm sure you can find some specs on Antec's site for dimensions.

The quality differences would be so slight that you would never notice it. The main advantage with DVI is that you never have to adjust the geometry of your monitor. I disagree. DVI quality is much better than VGA. Text and graphics are more sharp and crisp. But you should try it out yourself. You ...

I own a GTS and I can not hear it. It runs a bit warm (mid to high 60s at idle) but it is the first video card I have gotten in a long time that does not need an aftermarket cooler to make it quiet. As was said it does not seem to spin up much in games although I haven't played much Oblivion on it y...

Just connect straight from the VGA output of your video card to the VGA input of the monitor. The quality differences would be so slight that you would never notice it.

The main advantage with DVI is that you never have to adjust the geometry of your monitor.

Quake 4 is an OpenGL based game and Vista has no built in support for OpenGL. Your frame rates are actually pretty good considering that. Vista has put the onus on the hardware makers to write openGL support into their drivers so expect your performance to increase when that happens. The card is act...

As far as I see it you can do this: If you don't game at all, just replace the card with a newer passive card. If you do game and you really can't afford to upgrade, find a replacement fan. If that means strapping an 80mm fan onto the heatsink with zip ties, then so be it. The third option would be ...

The HDD cage is orientated in the wrong fashion for optimal airflow. Is this the case in the old Sonata? Lets see you take a rectangle and you turn it lengthwise... tell me again how does this change the airflow? My Samsung runs at 29C in my Sonata. I love the sideways drive sleds. It makes cable m...

I just want to say congratulations on making a very very big improvement in your overal system noise!

I really enjoyed your story and especially the video clips showing the progress of your journey. Well done!

That is disappointing since my local cable company rents HDTV PVRs from Motorolla but they are quite expensive per month. I absolutely love my media center and I wish I could find a way for it to record cable TV in HD. I do not have a HDTV yet though and one of the reasons I am holding off is avoidi...

Thank you for this post! I found the information to be very useful when contemplating upgrading my Windows MCE box for HD.

On the same topic, can Windows MCE record HD from component inputs from a cable box?

The Samsungs are great. One thing though is that AAM is not enabled by default so once you set that to QUIET then the drive is one of the best for noise.

Try downloading the driver from the amd website.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814125179 This is the card I have, and I'm pretty sure it only takes up one slot. I wouldn't recommend cramming a fanless video card in anyways though, they need some space for circulation. If you don't play games a 6200 is fine. If you do play g...

For just a tiny bit more than the Gigabyte passive 6600GT, you can get: XFX 6800 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814150106 and add the Zalman ZM80D-HP http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835118216 You might have to put the optional fan on it, but you can certain...

We're kind of in a tough spot since we both have AGP. If we had PCI-E we would have a much easier time with cooling, especially the 6600GT. To make you decision easier, I'll add a link to another benchmark set http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2297&p=2 The X700 Pro just can't compete for...

The X700 Pro is not faster than a 6600GT. http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20050524/vga_charts-05.html At 1280x1024 the 6600GT is ahead of the X700 oro. The 6600GT is an all around better performing card, plus you can buy it passive from Gigabyte. My temperatures have been fine. The extra RA...

Just so you know, the heatsink is not a Zalman, and is no where near as large as the ZM80 series, however you do still have warranty. My temperatures are high but not too bad on my passive card.

There isn't much air movement up there, pull the front 5.25 cover off and blow a fan in there. If the temperature drops to a respectable temperature then you know the drive was warm, if it doesn't then you know the sensor is off.

excellent choice, you will be very happy with that cooler.

I don't think the schooner would work - I took a look at the website, it doesn't take into account that the core on the AGP version is moved, and the HSI needs to be cooled as well. Your current heatsink acts to cool both the core and the HSI chip. A lot of cards don't do that, and have a seperate h...

Wow don't get so defensive. I do use RAID 5 and tape backups kept in a secure offsite facility - every single day at work. I restore files all the time. I replace 10K U320 SCSI hard drives that are hot swapable all the time. We have terabytes of storage in RAID 5 using huge arrays - I realise the pe...

Maybe you missed where I said "Basically the only time RAID 0 is worth it is if you move a lot of large files." to me a 700MB file is pretty big. And the main reason for not wanting RAID 0, again from something I already posted (thanks for reading before you reply with my reasons) "You double your c...

I like Storage Review a lot and yes I have read their article and no I'm not changing my mind because they (the forum folks) are so biased. I configured it with 16K clusters/16K stripe and it flys. Period, end of story. :lol: I'll happily run my sythetic benchmark and post it. It's fast . Real worl...

RAID 0 just isn't worth it on a desktop computer. You double your chances to lose your data, and for almost no gain. You would be better off running the drives as seperate drives. Please read these articles: http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2101 http://faq.storagereview.com/tiki-index...

Looks like you have done your research! Nice system you have pieced together. I'd go with the Gigabyte passive video card (actually I did just this week). I have the 6600GT, it gets warm but nothing too crazy. Several people have had some high temperatures, however if they take apart the heatsink an...

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If your budget is as high as you say, go for a 6600GT right off the bat - the performance of the 6600GT is around double the 6200, and about quadruple the 6200TC32/64 Plus, when you decide to go SLI you only need to buy one card, and in the mean time your won't have an absolutely crappy card. The Le...