provided aero's off i should imagine vista to be better than xp when set to the power saving plan in the beta 7 when set to low power plan i noticed it turns off aero affect when you unplug it, can't remember if vista does it, but i imagine it would. one of the things about vista was its battery lif...

Was I the only one who saw this psu and thought, easily exchangable external 120mm fan?

Seems like a plus to me!

can you upload photos to this forum? got 2 photos of the inside of the case, but then you all get to see my hack nslash approach with the dodgy foam which i'm not 100% sure about! i'll try n get them uploaded later to show heres my dodgy way of attaching it, large pics mind http://www.v75.talktalk....

just out of interest what you planning on doing with this computer? if your planning on gaming, and just using the big monitor, why buy such powerful card for 2/3 monitors? seems like a waste and an easy way to increase heat? also i belive 2560x1600 is only avaliable when running 'dual link' with dv...

one thing i can safely say, i've never missed VT and to be honest, even with the e6600 chip, when switching between using the VT and not i saw no difference with virtual pc's, (only tried it with vmware) That is an interesting observation. Most articles that I have read almost demand the use of har...

for what its worth, my e7200 at stock runs at 1.05 volts (my mobo won't let me change the voltage) at 3ghz it runs at 1.11v (again can't change voltage) also when using 45nm chips all the voltages on my motherboard run lower, was looking thru the bios the other day and on average voltages are .1v lo...

I bought one 1850rpm 120mm fan, was so impressed i ended up buying another 2 1450 92mm fan's, can't get how quiet they are

can you upload photos to this forum?

got 2 photos of the inside of the case, but then you all get to see my hack nslash approach with the dodgy foam which i'm not 100% sure about!

i'll try n get them uploaded later to show

I caved in and bougt the 400w version purely because it was £30!! was going to get the 500 but i've been running this machine for the last 3 years on a 380w antec neo he so figured it should be fine, afterall, i don't consider OCZ to be a bottom of the range brand. so far i'm more than impressed, m...

i'm currently running a antec neo he 380, i'm tempted to try one of these ocz ones, turn all the fans off, and and the most annoying noise overeverything seems to be the powersupply, the large fan and properosed silence is what is tempting me! the 80mm of the antec i'm sure is too loud when it has t...

The best stuff to dampen the sound would be the thick 'eggbox' stuff. Although I would be tempted to combine that with the first link- the bitumen pads. Also Maplin are doing a couple of kits of sound absorbing stuff: http://www.maplin.co.uk/Search.aspx?menuno=12130 Hope this helps. Phil cheers! lo...

just wondering if anyone could give me some pointers to shops that sell anything useful, been considering getting some of this stuff https://secure.wilmslow-audio.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=263&osCsid=2d4380a94cefa7a83f40d90d8b53af94 https://secure.wilmslow-audio.co.uk/catalog/produc...

i've been trying to figure out if its better buying stuff like this over the kit stuff for pc's?

i'd also appricate anyfeedback on this stuff!

hrmm, i was going to go for watercooling to make my solo quieter, but after seeing your case, i'm tempted to get a bit more creative!

we recently had a g31 board with 6 sata ports and a e5200 in work, well under 100 watts idle, i think it was under 100watts load too, can't remeber the figures off hand, but we were shocked how little power it used, and we were running it with a 4770 card guessing that with a e1000 series core 2 chi...

Try putting the fan closer to the video card. I've suspended a 92mm fan between the two top rear elastic suspension chords with the hard drive in the bottom chords. i've got a passive gigabyte 4850 in my antec solo, and this case is not designed for cooling video cards i've noticed! i've put a 1700...

Well been using this pc fine so far with no problems but theres a couple of odd things For some reason Avast seems to hog the cpu for around 20 minutes when updating, so i've turned the auto update off and just have it manually update from time to time, although this may just because of something i'...

Just wanted to say thanks again, installed the Hitachi driver, works fine! only thing that is a bit annoying is the card is running in DMA mode 2 limiting the performance of the card slightly :( Also, for some reason the card won't boot when formatted as anything other than ntfs, performance seems q...

Cheers, I didn't actually find those, searched for 'compact flash' instead of cf on the forum, at least i now know it can be done, shall have a read thru and try to figure it out

Hi, i've used this site a lot for recommendations on silent components... recently I was given an old Dell precision 410 workstation, i was just gonna throw it away or try and flog it for a fiver.....anywho i noticed the dual cpu's have heatpipe coolers and are fanless, so i ordered a couple of ide ...

hrmm, after reading this review i've got feelings of a few things 1, i half want to sue a stupid local bar which plays music insanly loud, and even people who listen to music loud all day everyday whatever they are doing complain about how loud the music is.. (everytime i've been there i get that ri...