while not necessarily silent:

Velcro is your friend for 2.5" drives

Do you guys have or are you going to offer wireless N compatible wifi add on cards. my home network is N so it would be nice to upgrade it.

you need to open the yellow pages and find any metalshops in your area, if you want antec or coolermaster etc to take you seriously you need a prototype imho

just picked mine up thanks for the deal anyone want my metal and black sonata case? (paint has been removed and blowhole has been cut in the top w/ metal filter)

What a waste... I now. i want my money / time back. When your cpu / hdd die, you will understand it 2. just my 2 cents. loose the Scythe crap. I have a scythe on each machine i own (back when they were alpha and now) i would not have it any other way its too bad that the install did not go well. bu...

my only suggestion would be to flip the cd-burner arround so that you can put the disk in facing you... i know its a little thing but I am thinking ease of use... it may help with the cable length issue as well? -SLOTh PS i would consider taking something like http://www.mnpctech.com/moddersmesh.htm...

this is a great cooler, I have it on a 7800GT and my idle is around 45c with the ninja's fan pulling the air up and then out through ducting... very nice and very sturdy!

elec999 wrote:What case and what power supply are you using.
Thanks

My god man did you see the Post title

case: tj08 silverstone (i think)

PSU: Corsair hx 520...

65 is fine. Lots of stock actively cooled cards run ~90C under load. Basically, if you're not getting any artifacts, it's not too hot. 0_o really? my vm-102 on a 7800 gt runs at 70 under load (thats a passive btw) i do have a 120mm in the area spining at aprox. 6 volts. i know the vm-102 is huge......

I need to do a final upgrade on my socket A system, I need a mobo with agp 3.0 and 4-5 pci slots not really much more demanding than that . any suggestions?

(currently have an asrock k7vta+)

OHH one more thing: Must be able to run a mobile chip

usb 2.0 = +

my friend has a nsk2400 and uses a xp-120 in it with no problem... it has the same body as the fusion

because i can get a special deal on them (at bellow the cost of unregesteread ecc buffered ram...) but my mobo doesn;t require it...

will ecc buffered memory run in standard ddr memory slots?

Candor wrote:Yeah, maybe... What socket does the xp-m run on, I have socket A, and 939.

I just checked, and see that it runs on A. So, yeah, you can use mine. I'm on Capitol Hill. You?

see your PM

I updated the bios and my 900mhz duron spitfire works in the board... so i need to test the xp-m in another machine to make sure its not just a bios unsuport issue...

anyone got a system to test in, in seattle? plz help...

Awesome system, love what youve done. Personally i dont undestand why mATX isn't more accepted. Personally I prefer smaller cases. Most people use 1 or 2 slots on their motherboard (On mine all i have plugged into a slot is my VGA card). Why do we need motherboards with 7 slots when 4 will do nicel...

I am not getting a post... i know the ram is good and these are the two components that i am unsure about... how should i go about testing them? if the mobo won;t support the chip anyone know how to see if either are still good? thanks for yout time.

nici wrote:Its always possible to cut a larger hole in the PSU

that is the plan...

does anyone have any expereince with this psu... i am going to use it for a low power media center pc... i am going to mod it to a 120mm fan (i have some yate loone's sitting arround) as it has a single 80mm off the bottom.

......Now, reverting the thing to you, could you (SPCR staff) try to build an enclosure a little big bigger than a normal pc case, which still corresponds to your testing procedures, using low cost noise dampening material, build still in correspondance with noise relieving procedures (at least try...

thank you all for your time, i really do appriciate it. I will be shipping the drive back tommorow.

-SLOTh

Rusty075 wrote:Try swapping their locations..plug the 5400.2 in where the boot drive is, and the boot in where the notebook drive is now, and see if they both show up in the bios...would help isolate whether its the drive or the controller.

OK i'll try that too...

Rusty075 wrote:Is this the only SATA drive in the system, or is the boot drive sata as well?

the boot drive is also sata... hmmm well i am gona give it another go this evening...

jackylman wrote:

SLOTh wrote:its a SATA drive... do they even have jumpers?

SATA2 drives do to select speeds (1.5, 3.0) because some sata controllers that are only compatible with the original SATA spec can't read SATA2 drives.

i don;t think its a sata 3.0

the board i am using is an msi http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813130529

its a SATA drive... do they even have jumpers?

thanks for the idea... i will try that tonight any more ideas?

mg1394 wrote:Gotta appreciate all those IDE tips for a SATA drive

i am thankful that he at least replied with some ideas... anymore? got another 12 hours vbefore i can test it (about to go to work) load this thread up!!! (there is no data on it yet i would just really like not having to return it.

1: Yes
2: no

its a: ST9120821AS my computer will not recognize it (desktop) and the seagate drivefinder utility won't either... i have tommorow evening to try and see if i can get it to work... this is urgent and all helpful ideas appriciated. I will have to return it on monday if i can;t get it working...

I went ahead and bought the vm-102 from silencio on ebay, he should be sending it soon and i'll get it early july...