Recently acquired a silent Powercolor 3870 to replace my X1900XT. The X1900 was fitted with an HR-03 plus Noctua 120mm fan, due to some clearance issues the HR-03 was mounted on top of the card rather than around it so it was fairly large, as such I wasn't too worried about the passive 3870. I shoul...

2. The Asus Q-Fan control is pretty poor. Ideally I'd like to see all MB connected fans to be set to gradient up in speed based on a link to any temp sensor you chose - aka the default fan control on newer ATI GPUs. AKA.... Abit FanEq... ;) Ah. So i've bought a lemon.. ;) Will be interesting so see...

I had expected a deluge of P35 articles today, but I guess the fact is has been out for ages has meant that hasn't happened. Interesting comparisons here (AnandTech) and here (Legion Hardware) where AnandTech are claiming a 5% gaming performance boost over the P965 based on a 1 board, 1 benchmark te...

Only really got it properly running today so not formed a proper opinion yet, had to endure a hellish day of screwing around because my antiquated XP CD barely reads in the drive.. Seems stable, and there's plenty of BIOS options to poke at. 2 things off the top of my head that are pissing me off : ...

I didn't try anything to be honest - just pulled at it as hard as I felt comfortable with and then decided to leave it. I was only going to replace the paste and given how hard they seemed to be stuck on I decided it couldn't be that bad a contact and even entertained the idea they had used one of t...

Jazzforce, I'll be interested to see how you get on replacing the heatsinks on the P5K Deluxe, I got as far as unclipping them all but they were stuck down very well and I decided that I wasn't chancing destroying my new board just to apply some AS5... The individual voltage regulator heatsink at th...

Thanks guys. Recieved the power meter yesterday and its drawing 141W peak at boot, 100W idle and 125W while running a CS Server, playing a DVD from drive and an AVI from HD. Worryingly this means it is costing me 0.018p in extra electricity to watch a 22 minute cartoon ;) Will need to be more select...

Thought I'd share this highly unprofessional mod... We have a Socket A machine running in our living room as a server. Its a DVD player, CS:Source server, P2P client and soon to be digital TV box. It's quite noisy so the plan was to completely silence it. It was running a faulty 3200+ Barton at 1700...