Zotac is definitely making some nice Mini-ITX boards. If this board had two gigabit ethernet ports it would be perfect for making an Untangle box. As it is, you still have to spend money for a PCI Express to gigabit NIC.

nici wrote:Just to make this off topic, lets assume there was drunk reindeer on the road that caused me to have the fatal accident.

Mar. wrote:And somehow it's Bush's fault.

Oh, c'mon, quit beating around "bush". You know it's Rudolph fault!

Quite complaining Mike, you should bless you luck! Just think, all that lovely snow, all those low temps, ... why I could open my window, and get AT LEAST another 10% better O/C. Might even break 4Ghz.

NeilBlanchard wrote:This is one of the silliest statements I have heard.

Really? Read this.

From my personal experience, the best stuff is Acoustipack It's expensive but well worth it.

Could be a couple of things: First thing: " Capacitor Squeal or excessive loading. You're pushing the 'board too far. When you back off the O/C the noise goes away. MICROPHONICS Semiconductors are not prone to microphonics themselves, but some other circuit elements can cause them. One case is the i...

Contact MSI to see if they would fix it, and how much they would charge.

Once again the Neo-Prohibitonist Fascists are on the march This adds an important aspect to your argument. Perhaps you can shoot your way out of it. I don't believe you should force people to wear seat belts, but I managed to leave the "YEE-HAW!!!" out of the equation. Read this Back Door To Prohib...

jaganath wrote:It's a lot easier in Europe, cos most big cities have good public transport, so you can get wasted and not have to worry about driving home.

Definitely a plus. Some large cities in the US, Arlington, Texas, for example, don't even have Public Buses. Your only choice is a taxi.

I think if you read the article, you'll see that they reached the bottom, and the hard-core drinkers are the only ones left. Maybe throw THEM in the slammer permanently instead of infringing on the rights of the law abiding. What's gong to be considered "Drunk" .08? .06? .04? .02? .01? How low will ...

Well I feared this would eventually happen. Once again the Neo-Prohibitonist Fascists are on the march and you can here their jackboots hitting the pavement. For any of you to young to remember, a similar stupidity was tried back in the 70s with seat belts. In order to force people to wear seat belt...

Good review Mike. Nice to see Seasonic finally going the modular route.

But what are all the different eVGA skus? There are 581s and 582s and 583s, etc. Anyone know? Looks like they might have some different cooling solutions, but I can't be sure if that is the only thing. All they are are various speeds of 7900 GTs, with as you said slightly different cooling solution...

Nvidia is well aware of the problem, they just don't want to go public with it. Nvidia doesn't have to care about it since anything above reference-speed isn't supported by Nvidia but by the manufacturer. Unless it's a bug that would appear no mather what Well, from what I've read, it's NOT the GPU...

I got a brand new 7900 GT KO that went south after only a few days. Be advised the NEW cards are now for sale at Newegg. You want the ones that are RoHS. These are the N58X or N571 series, and these are coming DIRECTLY from Nvidia, this is not some fix EVGA worked up. Nvidia is well aware of the pro...

Yep me too. And it's ALL browsers, IE, Firefox, and Opera. And not just this PC, either. Both home units and my workstation also. It's a site bug and needs to be fixed.

Check out this review at [H]ardOCP. It should help you out. "No less than twenty-four screws had to be removed to open the casing and get at the two final screws that hold the radiator in place." And those fans are probably Rullian Science Fans like on the EXOS AL, pretty crappy. So YL would be a be...

WOW! That is a a heck of a board and a great value.

The first thing is to stay away from Nvidia based 'boards. They consume much more power. It seems the most efficient boards today are using ATI chipsets. Unless you're going to wait and buy one of the new Conroe CPUs, which are very energy efficient, then that would mean you will have to get an Athl...

Update: It WAS a hardware problem. I installed the sound card I bought and the problem went away. This is the first mobo with onboard sound that I have encountered this sort of problem.

BlueAvatar wrote:the new gear looks pretty good, but I haven't seen a zalman watercooled PSU to go with it yet

Alphacool has one.

Well I've ordered a Via Envy 24 based sound card and I'll post back when it gets here. Can't beat the price, $28.49 shipped.

Chenbro Gaming Bomb II Asus A8N32-SLI / | BIOS 1205 Realtek 97 Onboard sound Opteron 144 @ 312 x 9 Koolance EXOS AL 2 x 512MB OCZ 4200EL EVGA 7600GT 256MB Silver Stone SST-ST60F Maxtor 300GB SATA x 1 Maxtor 120GB SATA x 1 Emprex 16X DVD/RW NEC ND-2510A DVD/RW Dell 2405FPW Saitek Gamers KB Logitech M...

it probably is aluminum. It is aluminum. http://www.matbe.com/actualites/13485/computex-zalman-reserator-2/ Translation: "We had been able to see it in slides at the time of CeBIT without being able to take photographs of them but at the time of this Computex, Reserator 2 is posted finally publicly...

Anodized in gold? What is the point? Copper is a better conductor of heat. The block is probably made of copper, the radiator is probably aluminum. By coating the block with gold there will be no galvanism. Koolance has done the same thing with their systems since the beginning. A copper radiator t...

So it now looks like a pretty solid bet that these new 750gb drives demand extra cooling, meaning at least a dedicated fan now. Guess it goes to show that I don't want such a large drive due to heat. I think we are rapidly approaching the point where those who want it all: large drives, silence and...

Seems like this Gigabyte 7600GT Would be the best silent card out there. Now the trick is to find a motherboard that would accomodate your tuner cards and the dual-slot cooler on that card. The MSI K8N Platinum has 4 PCI slots (3 after you install your video card) as well as digital audio out. Of c...

Linux support for video decoding is a bit tricky to set up and incomplete. I don't believe most of purevideo's features are available using xvmc. ATI recently started supporting AVIVO under linux, but I have no indication as to what features are supported. Google Avivo Linux and Purevideo linux for...

Well, I found this: GeForce 6 and 7 GPUs all have a video engine built into them. The engine, powered by the PureVideo software, will get an upgrade in ForceWare 85 that will enable the H.264 decoding. Most GPUs from the 6600GT and upwards will be able to handle full bitrate, 1080p content, accordi...

jackylman wrote:This is a nice video card for a linux htpc unless you plan to do 3d gaming:eVGA 7600GS

No gaming. So a a7600 series would be enough to run at 1080 Progressive?