Hi FrankL, I am a proud owner of a Thinkpad T43. SSD upgrade has also been on my mind for a while but that Marvell SATA-IDE bridge bugged me to no end. (Although some guys went to the lengths of removing it) Watching the new drive adapters popping up on ebay everyday finally made me want to go the a...

Alright, so the rest of my system is running on Arctic Cooling stuff, AC3 80's on 5v, Freezer4 with fan removed, and NV5 (which actually is the loudest part of the system, apart from the PSU). Barracuda IV hard drive, DM10 external drive and nothing else. So, looking at my sig, what do you think is ...

Doing a search for "headphone neck cloth" came up with this . Is that what you were looking for? AH!!! You are a genius sir, I don't know how many times I've searched those keywords and it didnt return me anything worthy of looking. Well, those are it! Although... I'd still like it if it was blueto...

I've been seeing them around lately. Basically, still behind-the-neck design like those sony street-style headphones, but, the whole thing is enclosed in cloth. To help you picture the headphones, imagine a pantiliner long enough to reach ear-to-ear, crossing behind your neck. well, now that I've pu...

3.5" HDDs draw on both the 12V and 5V lines, so a power brick is impractical, as few have more than a single output voltage line. You could just look for the smallest PSU to hack up. Two HDDs will not draw more than 40W total, so any old PC PSU made in the last couple decades (with 4-pin molex conn...

Alright here's the story. I'm building myself a dual-300Gb external hard drive enclosure with those IDE -> USB2.0 convertors, and instead of using 2 of those weak small external powerbricks, I want to have one thing that has just enough amps for the 2 Diamondmax10's. 12V 4A and 5V 4A is all I want, ...

it's just that the outside footprint looks like 479 pins. in fact the ACTUAL count is 478 pins.

Ok.... DM10 200Gb from retailers:

$84 DM10 200Gb

And um yeah.. that WAS quite mean to say stop downloading lol... Hard these days to have a grand total of storage space of less than 100Gb.

Well, you can concider the Maxtor's. Rumor has it that the Maxline III is basically a twin of the DM10, just with a better warrenty. I won't question that either, since the DM10 for me REALLY is just superb. Noise levels for a 300Gb, win win. Performance, well, like you said, it's not that important...

haha... if that's the case.... I'd say go with the 300Gb Maxtor DM10's. Friends say it's slow. I don't mind, I got 2 of them and I like them! Cheap too, I racked up both for $230, after shipping!

yep thats the right one, and to answer about eBay, lol not that I forgot pricegrabber, but I forgot that I live in Canada and you dont.... most big sites like Newegg doesn't ship to Canada, so, I leave eBay to that.

Check eBay for the 160Gb Seagate 7200.9's, I've seen some review on them, where they say it's ok for silence, and stats show that burst transfer rates can reach up to like 237mb/s or something. Best of all, it can be had for oh lets say around $78 USD........ So, pay your shipping whatever, probably...

I may be underjudging the Seagates, but I don't think the 7200.8 is THAT loud. I own the Barracuda IV 40G, 7200.7 160G, and 7200.8 250G SATA. Barracuda IV PATA 100 - ST340016A - 40Gb - F/W 3.75 - Singapore - Date code 02361 - Site code AMK: Well, what can I say really. King of Quiet. It does get war...

I don't think Seagate is intentionally pissing us off with the sound. If it was all for the better to remove it of course they would, they realize the amount of complains recieved across their WHOLE lineup and obviously they'd like to have happier customers. But the fact that they're not doing a THI...

Heh, I don't know how bad they could get but I just switched from Twinx to 2x Ballistix...... Not that it'd help but I'm getting tighter timings for just a bit more money on retail......... w00t!!

you know what, it WAS the voltage. It was failing at the same place in memtestX86 and then I told the dude to bump the voltage up to 2.7 and then it worked like a charm....... thanks guys!!

I know there isn't a section for ram, and this forum isn't a place for error troubleshooting, but here goes the problem. A friend of mine bought a single stick of Corsair XMS CMX256-3200C2PT, 256Mb 400MHz CL2 ram, and he said that the ram failed the "WMATS+" and the "WINVC" part of the diagnostics. ...

It seems at idle it will randomly for long periods of time make lots of seek noise. Sometimes I will be downloading something to the drive, but even if I turn the downloads off, the noise continues. So, the periods when it does this seem to be random. I get it on my 7200.7 also. Seems like a common...

well hahaha........... I mean, when we remove them there wont be any pins on the processor and may god pity the one who tries to solder 478 pins onto it!!

I see. which means the 479 BGA's are not in pin form, instead they are permanently attached to the board, meaning we won't find them for sale anywhere, even in 2nd hand right? So, the 479 BGA is an embedded chip?

Obviously we'd need special platforms, either the ASUS convertor or the dedicated motherboards. Here's the thing. We KNOW the 479's will work, but the ones labeled 478........ where are they used? I mean, if BOTH the 479 and 478 Pentium-M's are being offered in laptops, there must be no difference i...

WOW hahaha that is cool. A little sucker it may be, Space is puny at 10Gb, but damn that is sweet. Imagine packing that in your lunchbox. No one knows you're surfing for lunch.

Yes. But as far as I know, there aren't any "normal" 478-pin'd Pentium-M's. The Pentium 4-M's are, but not the Pentium-M's. Is intel trying to say that the ones labeled with 478 is ACTUALLY the normal P4 478 layout?

No, I know what I'm talking about. But look here, on the Intel site. These are BOTH Pentium-M 750's, exactly the same specs, but the socket is different. what the heck?

750 S478

750 S479

And there's lots of these examples too, check the Intel Spec Finder

I prefer not to have a computer with large surface area since I don't have alot of flat surface for the pc itself. That's why I'm interested in these cubic computers.

*Edit* All cases welcome. Sections for both kinds.

YES YES more stuff like this!!

WOW, that M1000 could basically replace my DVD player! And yes. Functionality and esthetically.

hmmm..... It is µATX in terms of height but.... the counter area it covers is HUGE!! I REALLY don't concider it a small form case, I'd say its a tower on slimfast.

There's numerous µATX threads popping around this category, but I can't help but thinking I'm lacking selection. I'm deciding to buying a µATX case but I don't know which one to pick, since I've not seen many, so I'm asking everyone to put a selection of µATX that is either empty, or a barebone for ...

Damn. I'd like to make my own case. I always planned to but never had the time. I know how hard it is to show off a design and not recieve much in opinions. Well, it looks like a very plain case. If you shave the led's out, I'd pass it off for an amp. Not a bad idea. I like quiet looking cases. One ...

Damn. It has such large surface area yet none of it is used for a side panel : ( And holy crap, $190 is not even funny, especially for a case that has no motherboard and PSU.

It's a nice case and all, but I think I'll stick with the X-Qpack. It's a better deal for me. half the price too.