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- Tue Jun 22, 2010 7:34 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Antec Solo upgrade soon?
- Replies: 71
- Views: 47759
Something I would suggest is making the USB ports on the front farther apart. With so little room between them, if I already have a cable connected in one port, I can't plug in anything wide (like some flash drives) in the other port. Adding about a half inch or so of extra space between ports would...
- Sun May 25, 2008 8:39 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Low power system not booting with high efficiency PSU?!
- Replies: 84
- Views: 151740
- Mon Mar 03, 2008 11:41 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Low power system not booting with high efficiency PSU?!
- Replies: 84
- Views: 151740
I wonder if this is related to my Corsair 520hx crapping out after about six months of use. About a month or so ago, the system started not coming back from a suspended state. I would see the DVD drive's light come on, and if I got close to it I could hear it trying to start up, but it would stop. A...
- Sat Sep 15, 2007 5:30 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: GA-P35-DS3R BIOS Settings - Need Help
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9345
A few more observations: The BIOS is not detecting my drives - sorta. In the "Standard CMOS Features" section anyway, when I installed a new drive (which replaced the previous one), it's not detecting any of the drives including the DVD-ROM. However, when I go to the section with the boot order, the...
- Thu Sep 13, 2007 4:08 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: building my first HTPC
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6452
I'll tell you what, there is no point in buying an expensive X-Fi sound card if all you will be doing is sending the Dolby Digital/DTS digital bitstreams as S/PDIF from the computer to a receiver. Most basic cards (or even onboard sound) can do that, and the quality will be the same. The X-Fi is for...
- Thu Sep 13, 2007 11:07 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: XP ram limitations - considerations for upgrade to 4GB?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9394
Here's a really good article on the issue: http://www.dansdata.com/askdan00015.htm I'm still a bit confused though, as I haven't seen anything in the BIOS of my GA-P35-DS3P board about memory remapping. I'm using Vista 64-bit, which shows 4093 MB of memory in Task Manager. I suppose that means I'm u...
- Tue Sep 11, 2007 9:03 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Motherboard w/Native support of BLU-RAY & 1080P?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 10492
Nearly all HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc titles are 1080p. The only exceptions that I know of are the Chronos HD DVD which I believe is 1080i, a few 1080i Discovery titles, and a few porn titles that are 720p. Now, there were a handful of earlier Warner titles that were sourced from 1080i masters but they...
- Mon Sep 10, 2007 12:09 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: GA-P35-DS3R BIOS Settings - Need Help
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9345
I'm having difficulty deciding between the gigabyte mobos DS3R and DS3P. Besides the difference in Firewire and the PCI ports, is there a reason the DS3P is more suited to quad-core with non-extreme overclock, eg 3.0-3.4? Your thoughts are appreciated! The DS3P also has Dual BIOS, which will copy a...
- Sat Sep 08, 2007 7:12 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: GA-P35-DS3R BIOS Settings - Need Help
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9345
So how did it go? I got my DS3P up and running a few days ago and it's been working fine. I have the e6750 overclocked to 3.2 Ghz (400x8). So far the only tweak I've done is lower the CPU voltage to the upper end of the recommended voltage for the chip. The board had it set higher. I have not adjust...
- Fri Aug 31, 2007 2:36 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: New Superbad System Build - $1,200 ceiling
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6584
- Wed Aug 29, 2007 6:11 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Big thanks to SPCR!
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1615
Big thanks to SPCR!
While I have been building computers for years, I've never really taken silence seriously until now. I wanted something kind of quiet a few years ago and made the mistake of getting the Aria case (which was a bitch to work with) and pairing it with a Pentium 4 3.2Ghz. Even with a Zalman HSF and a re...
- Wed Aug 29, 2007 12:21 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Gigabyte P35 Lineup - Revision 2.0
- Replies: 52
- Views: 36164
- Mon Aug 27, 2007 4:02 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: First System Build
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3428
- Mon Aug 27, 2007 3:53 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: HDD vibration & noise reducing methods - ranked
- Replies: 196
- Views: 1359103
I know you're not supposed to move the PC when a drive is suspended, but is just a little movement okay? I'm about to build a new computer with a suspended drive, and the computer will go with its door side facing a wall. Because of that, I can't really get to the drive once the computer is in its p...
- Mon Aug 27, 2007 3:30 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Why does Gigabyte have 27 boards based on the P35 chipset??
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6112
Some of those are revisions of a particular board, with some boards having 3 versions. The BIOS and driver files are the same for different versions of the same board, but the manuals are updated to reflect the changes. The new revisions replace the earlier ones, so it's not as if they actually have...
- Thu Aug 23, 2007 5:14 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Gigabyte P35 Lineup - Revision 2.0
- Replies: 52
- Views: 36164
- Wed Aug 22, 2007 4:39 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Best P35 Motherboard?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8174
- Wed Aug 22, 2007 4:28 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Does disabling on-board graphics save power?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4892
- Tue Aug 21, 2007 7:47 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Gigabyte P35 Lineup - Revision 2.0
- Replies: 52
- Views: 36164
So, any word on when this will be available? I'm beginning to think it will be a quiet replacement for the previous revisions, and you won't be able to specify which one you will get without someone to open it for you. Looking at boards online, I don't see revision numbers for them. As for my USB us...
- Mon Aug 20, 2007 5:52 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Scythe Mini Ninja spotted
- Replies: 106
- Views: 96414
- Mon Aug 20, 2007 7:33 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: [60+ PHOTOS] A Newbies Journey to a Silent PC [56k WARNING!]
- Replies: 43
- Views: 41172
Nice build, I'm planning on very similar (same case, PSU, MoBo, and CPU cooler). Where there problems with CPU heatsink installation? Did you use stock mount, or pass through bolts? Any deformation or stress on motherboard? No problems so far. But the fan of the ninja does touch my OCZ memory. But ...
- Sat Aug 18, 2007 9:14 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Mini Ninja at Newegg
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6665
- Sat Aug 18, 2007 7:39 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: GA-P35-DS3R BIOS Settings - Need Help
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9345
I'll try to answer what I can. About the BIOS: 1. Set the DVD drive as the first boot device if you're installing Windows, with your primary hard drive (where the OS will go) as the second. This way, the Windows setup DVD will boot for the initial setup, and when it reboots it can still boot to the ...
- Mon Aug 13, 2007 9:54 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Do you see anything objectionable about this motherboard ?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3684
- Sun Aug 12, 2007 8:28 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: ASUS, Gigabyte or ABIT P35 board for Q6600?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 25095
It's a second, backup BIOS in case the first gets corrupted or fails to boot (quad being 3 extra, I suppose). It would come in handy in case of a bad flash.krille wrote:3) Frankly, I don't even know what Quad BIOS or DualBIOS Plus is supposed to mean. Again, does it matter / justify the price difference?
- Sat Aug 11, 2007 9:09 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Gigabyte P35 Lineup - Revision 2.0
- Replies: 52
- Views: 36164
I'd imagine that they include the Parallel break-out cable with the board, and since there is a header on the motherboard, this wouldn't take up another PCI slot. What he means is that the breakout board still takes up a "slot" even though there's no card to plug in. It occupies a space where anoth...