fastturtle the 6150 is good gpu provided your not gaming. if this is setup is just for normal net use or htpc then it should work fine. i got a 6100 based board on the way with 1gig ram, and sst-365 psu to run the whole thing.

@MikeC, and all those who may want to do reviews. guess it's time to watermark them review pictures in way that it is hard for other sites to defeat.

Hotchpotch this may help. it's for Seasonic S12-380 though
http://www.tekheads.co.uk/s/product?product=604298

Hotchpotch heres my specs for what i'm building. for the most part we are bilding the same thing. not too sure you will need 430watt. as for the fan some users here have manage to use heatsinks with out fans on the cpu. however this really comes down to how your cooling your system, and as for the f...

http://www.silverstonetek.com/products-tj08.htm theres also some reviews listed on the bottom of the page. from what i can see it does look kind of sweet as a microcase two fan setup would make for pretty good cooling mods ect.

papito sorry to hear it was the board,however atleast it was replaced. what psu have you picked out to repleace the one you have? also you may want to test this new setup using the onboard graphics this time so it will be easier for you to spot trouble.


hope it all works out..

does anyone know when the next family for ati nvidia is going to come out? The cards out now just arent cutting it for Oblivion, at least not running everything at full tilt, which is how I want to play it when I do get the game. May have to wait another 6 months before new cards are released and f...

do you have a spare pci vga card to test with? this will help rule the other vga as blown or not. the smae hold true for the keyboard if you have spares use those to check, and test. if your still getting juice. theres something else worng. just my thoughts. you can wait for one of the more advance ...

This is the fan http://www.endpcnoise.com/cgi-bin/e/std ... 120mm.html i beleave most of the users here swear by as being quiet yet able to cool. you may also want to look in to some of the Panaflo models. they are known to be quiet.

Tibors thank you for all your insite, and help.

Tibors so something like the fsp AX400-PN with rail spec's of +3.3V@22A, +5V@21A, +12V1@18A, +12V2@16A, -12V@0.3A, +5VSB@2A is overkill? I just want to make sure that whatever i use is right,and not overkill. if the ST365 will run this,and more then thats fine. i'm not a gamer,and if i did upgrade t...

Chunker thanks. only thing thats still bugging me is th 12v rails on the psu. so i'm back looking into a fortron which another member here suggested,

McBanjo yes i know. i was just wondering how such a substantial case could be made so quiet. I was not trying to be mean with what i posted. it's just most silent pc cases i have seen have been along the lines of small form factor cases.

The P180B is huge, and cool looking though. One thought how would it work as a SilentPC?

This is my low budget (Non Gaming) 64bit build. monitor/dvd-rw/hd/ already have. Spec's started out like this: PSU SILVERSTONE SST-ST365 360W Power Supply - Retail Board BIOSTAR TForce6100-939 (Will be using the onboard gpu) CPU AMD Athlon 64 3000+ (Venice) Socket 939 Memory Infineon 1gig-DDR 400 51...

I have a rotron feather fan 7" 115v model while not built to SPCR spec's (NOT QUIET) it does move some massive cfm, If your looking for quiet you may want to look at 120mm or if you can find one 145mm 12v-24v models.

reyn116 thats a sweet score, and a hell of a free upgrade.. I just read the review done on here for it, and that things a beast. hope it works out for you this time.

Thankyou again NeilBlanchard. As for casing it for now it will just go in a old standard atx case nothing big or fancy. at some point it might be moved over to a smaller form factor case. sidenote: I have been reading the what will a 300watt PS run, and i must say you guys run some heavy machines of...

Well after reading the recommended psu list which the model i was going to buy is not on. It would seem i need to do more reseach on this model. if any of the SPCR forum users have used the SST-ST365 please post your experience with this psu. Thanks to all who have posted. Edit: after looking the Se...

NeilBlanchard Thanks for the fsp link. right now i'm leanning more to this model SILVERSTONE SST-ST365 360W. only issue is with the rails they spec out like this +3.3V@22A, +5V@21A, +12V1@10A, +12V2@15A, -12V@0.3A, +5VSB@2A.I know the machine i'm building is not power hungry by any means however are...

GHz thanks. i just thought from reading the sticky (thread about Low power system not booting with high efficiency PSU?!) that cold booting would be an issue, and that i would need to find a psu that did not need a min of 1A load to boot up. as of now these are the psu's i'm looking over. if any of ...

larrymoencurly thanks. will look into fortron-Source. i had thought about a seasonic s12 330 however this seemed to me to overkill for the machine being built. Sidenote: since this system seems to draw a low amount of power. would i have to worry about the 1amp min with some PSU's need to boot the s...

Though this is my frist post here i been reading you guys info/howto's ect. well i'm looking for a low budget psu. specs of the system is listed below.

1)BioStar Tforce-939 (will use the onboard graphics.)
2)Amd 64 3000+
3)1Gig-512x2-DDR400
4)CD-RW
5)40gig 5400rpm laptop-HD/with adapter

Thanks.