WinXP doesn't boot at all on my computer

According to Xbitlabs the 7600GS has about the same power draw as a 6600 (27.4W max vs 27.6W), and outperforms it by a factor somewhere between 1.5 and 2, so it might be worth the higher price.

Also, in a typical ATX case with a low front intake and a top read exhaust some of the air pulled in by the front fan will simply go straight through and out the back if given the chance (open slot covers). At least they do in my case, identic Papst 120mm fans at same voltage as intake and exhaust +...

To be fair to the first-past-the-post system, the UK has 3 major parties and a number of smaller ones, even if the parliament seats are pretty unevenly distributed (Labour 352, Tories 196, Lib. Dem 63, the rest 35). I still prefer the Swedish way though, it also negates any effect of gerrymandering.

Eventually ID-required voting will be the norm. The courts are gradually throwing the anti-ID cases out. It's only logical..if you have to show ID to register to vote, why wouldn't you be able to produce that same ID when it comes time to actually vote. This was my beef with that case, since I was ...

Zalman NB47J or Thermalright HR-05. Remember that both of these rely on a flow of air in the area, most often provided by quiet case fans.

Yeah, we have a proportional system for our elections (except in cases of a referendum with yes/no, of course), where all votes are counted and seats distributed accordingly. In your example, the two leftists would probably join together to govern, although it gets quite ridiculous with such low num...

In Sweden we only use paper ballots, one for each party/alternative, that are put in an envelope where only the colour (which signifies which election it is for) can be seen. This could probably get out-of-hand if you have more than 15 or so choices for a particular election. These are then put in a...

Some things are said between the lines. As for the market price? I don't think the price really reacts to market without the approval of OPEC, if they wanted, they could say it's running out and still name whatever price they wanted. Yeah, they could say that and within two weeks the EU and US woul...

The low-speed YL (D12SL-12) is rated for 47cfm @ 28dB, and the medium-speed (D12SM-12) 70cfm @ 33dB (specs taken from stores.ebay.de/silencio-777)

All new retail Seasonics are sleeved, from the S12-330 (as reviewed on spcr) to the M12-700.

Eating healthy.....maybe the hardest to do. I am diabetic now, so was my father. Keep your weight down, and avoid sweet things at all cost. You can find/make things with sugar substitutes. Do it... Fat stuff is out, lower your red meat input, and don't snack between meals. Almost all snack foods ar...

Samsung makes SATA DVD burners, like this one that are not too much more than IDE ones. They make for nice cabling too.

Actually, DDR2-667 will be 5:4, considering that that standard FSB is 266MHz, quadpumped to 1066. DDR2-800 will be 3:2. DDR2-533 will be 1:1, which means it should give lower latencies (good) but also lower throughput (bad). In most benchmarks DDR2-800 outperforms the others (even without overclocki...

Echo Star 550 Watt PSU, rated for "+3.3@14A, +5V@21A, +12@10A [/u], -12V @0.8A, -5 @0.5A, +5VSB@2A" (Unless my calculator is broken, that only adds up to <275watts) And this piece of engineering genius can be your's for the low, low price of $9.99 :lol: I get it to 293.3W, that's 20W over what you ...

The Scand is pretty much the same as the regular PC7, except it's got a 120mm exhaust as well as intake instead of 120 intake + 80 exhaust. Made specially for "the demanding scandinavian market"

Yup, we have

I've seen it in someone's sig too, not sure who.

paapaa wrote:Yes, you are very correct. But for all practical needs one can say that those fans running at the same rpm are quite equal in terms of noise and performance. The difference might be price.

Yeah, that was kinda my point. Your first post made it sound like it was clearly inferior to the Scythe.

Look at this review (link at Noctua site): http://www.au-ja.de/review-noctuanfs12-4.phtml http://www.au-ja.de/review-noctuanfs12-5.phtml As you can see, Scythe@1200rpm is quieter than Noctua@1288RPM and at the same time Scythe gives lower temperatures. What more you need to know? There is nothing s...

Yeah, I might try suspending the whole drive cage, as some here have done (or place it on some kind of foam). Otherwise it feels like the lower 5.25" bays do get some some air drawn in through them, so if I move the ODDs up to the top the HDDs should be ok in the lower bays.

Well, perhaps "new" is stretching it but for my AthlonXP 2500+ on a DFI Lanparty NF2 I installed the original heatsink (AC Copper Silent 2 TC) while in the case, since it clips on. Recently, I swapped it for a Zalman 7000, and since that meant four screws through the motherboard I didn't really have...

Uhm, DVD tops out at around 10Mbit, and that is using MPEG2 which takes a lot of space = bandwidth over MPEG4 (DivX/Xvid). So 100Mbit is plenty fast for several streams of standard resolution (DVD-quality or less), although admittedly HD will strain that, but how many people have support for full 10...

Going SLI on 7600 series cards is pointless, for around twice the price you get a 7900GS that will crush the SLI setup in performance. SLI, at best, gives an 80% performance boost, and already the 7600GT is about 50% ahead of the GS.

To get 5V, you just want to switch the outermost wires going into the molex. The default looks like this: | +5V \ (yellow) | GND | (black) | GND | (black) |+12V/ (red) with the fan drawing power from the bottom connector, and sending it back on one of the GND (black). Your modded molex should look l...

I am not a huge gamer at all but i like to have a decent graphics card just cause i can. Right now i just plan to add 1 gfx card and later down the road add the other. Since the technology is out might as well take advantage of it. You'd probably spend about the same amount of money by now getting ...

I recently bought a Samsung SATA DVD-RW drive, the SH-W163A. I'm not sure if it's available in the US.

jaganath wrote:Are there any wild wolves left in Norway?

There are a few, mostly in the woods along the Swedish border. They got in the news quite a bit a couple of years ago because (some?) Norwegians were hunting them, which I don't think Sweden liked because we're trying to increase the number.

Already posted in the Off-topic forum (kinda out-of-place there, but I dunno where else it'd fit either...)

It simply means that using internal drives are preferrable to external ones, since that will allow a higher speed. Don't be worried about the minimum speed, all current drives stay well over 20MB/s AFAIK. The enclosure linked earlier mentioned one of those chipsets, so that should be ok. The HD400LD...

I get the favicon now and then, seems to vary between page loads.