Sorry if this is too far OT, but it is something that needs highlighting and perhaps will gain a lot of momentum if word is spread... Under UK law credit card companies are only obliged to investigate disputes between two parties, since historically transactions only took place between two parties. ...

I would have to say... no thanks! I only just moved away from a £20 biege box tower case. I'm not ready for a Skeleton case just yet!

Whatever your opinion, it is certainly generating a lot of interest.

http://img466.imageshack.us/img466/9365/line800qe9.jpg

... how much to use.

Fudzilla found that a 1.2GHz 220 Celeron was faster than the 1.6GHz Atom, sometimes twice as fast! They suggest that the Atom system only used around 5watts less than the celeron...

http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?optio ... 5&Itemid=1

first step is to find out exactly how much power my current PC is really using, to determine if it's even significant compared to the rest of the electrically-powered devices in the home. probably not. fridge-freezers, air con, washing machines and tumble dryers can be in the multi-kilowatt usage, ...

Gutted. Sorry to hear that!

I use this one: http://www.daionet.gr.jp/~masa/rthdribl/ It sure looks a lot nicer than atitool, but I found it doesn't load the card as much as atitool. I was testing a suspect X1950 Pro, that would repeatedly crashed after long sessions of test drive unlimited or CoD4. The same card would run rth...

I had the same choices to make... Q9450 vs Q6600. Q9450 runs cooler, lower wattage at idle and THG (i know!) averaged around a 7% performance increase thanks to the extra cache. SSE4.1 gives big improvements to programs supporting it.... Q6600 is cheaper, and overclocks very well. 3.2Ghz is common (...

It doesn't look any bigger than the other 1KW PSUs I've seen reviews, it differs from most 'large' PSUs by having the fan at one end rather than the middle.

I only hope this encourages others to release Silver (and one day Gold) 80+ PSUs.

I recently bought a Q6600, and TRUE and a Nexus fan. I'm running at 3.2GHz (400x8), my idle temps are 31-32 C and get to 55 under sustained high load with virtually no increase in voltage, I could probably push it to 3.4 and maybe 3.6, but in exchange for much higher voltage and much higher temps. H...

Pictures of the base on page 2 are quite interesting. There is a very defined step..

I wonder if this is Intel's answer to concave heat spreaders.

Supposedly the new Pioneer DVR-116/216 series have a redesigned chassis for lower noise. We'll see if they are any quieter next month when they are officially released. Dangit, I was just forced to order the DVR-215. :( I have two DVR-215, and I hate to say this but I've found it to be quite loud. ...

I have had one of these in use for around three weeks now. All ESTools check passed, including the surface scan. I did not try HDTools as Samsung say its incompatible. Errors found with it are of no use. I was a little dubious about my purchase following all the bad reports on the net, but the price...

Does anyone have any experience with the GA-X38-DQ6 or GA-X48-DQ6 boards? I have just built a GA-X48-DQ6 based PC. P182 GA-X48-DQ6 Q6600 TRUE + 120mm nexus fan Corsair HX620 Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB passively cooled HD3450 The loudest thing in the case are the tri-cool fans (on Low). Next the hardd...

I've just bought a passively cooled 256MB Sapphire 3450 from novatech.co.uk, however it was the last sapphire they had in stock. Only £25! They also stock an Asus version of the card, which has a MUCH larger heatsink that the Sapphire model... it is £10 more expensive though. http://www.novatech.c...

In response to the OP's question about why have a plastic housing, and small fans with little ventilation. Its all form over function. Ever since the iMac things have started looking cool for the sake of it. Your PC and associated equipment all has to look cool these days. Otherwise.. well.. its not...

It's nice to see things going so well, I honestly didn't expect donations to come in so quickly. The prizes are probably the main reason for this, so big thanks to the vendors for donating them. Hope things keep up at this rate, if so you should have that new setup in no time Mike. :) I didn't expe...

TN: awful vertical viewing angles, poor colour reproduction *VA: awful horizontal viewing angles, black crush *IPS: horribly expensive, contrast barely reaching good levels nowadays FWIW, I have an MVA Viewsonic VP930 and the horizontal viewing angle is huge. My friend has a TN Viewsonic VX922... a...

Just donated $50. The chance of winning the quad core CPU is too good to pass up! :) Having said that, I'm happy to donate anyway. The reviews and advice I've got from the site in the past couple of months have meant I've reduced the noise of my PC dramatically. I can now hear my harddrive seeking, ...

That's an interesting suggestion, but I wonder how useful it really would be. With all other heatsinks, because they have a one-piece base that makes contact with the die, as long as it covers the die, the heat transfer effectiveness would not change. Things like mounting pressure & evenness, flatn...

Another excellent article, especially with the added information on die sizes. I do have one suggestion that I would like to see incorporated into future GPU cooler reviews... I would like to see a photo of the base of the cooler, and outlines of various core sizes overdrawn onto this photo. Much li...

Indeed the Zalman does come highly recommended. I had been holding out for an SI-97, but it appears they're rarer than hen's teeth! I was trying to avoid the Zalman type however it looks like I have little hope of finding a SI-97.I hope the Zalman will perform better/quieter than my swiftech mcx462....

As subject really...

I'd like to buy a Thermalright SI-97 to help quiet my hot/loud/overclocked Athlon XP.

Paypal preferred... unless anyone can find one for sale online.

After lots of searching, I've just bought a P182 and a Corsair HX620 through Amazon - via one of their third party sellers - it was by far the cheapest price I could find.

I was surprised, I'd pretty much written Amazon off on computer gear, but they do have some surprisingly cheap gear.

MikeC wrote:The recent renewed interest in really old SPCR articles is amazing! (The HDD suspension article from 2002 has been read some 10,000 times in the past week!) I've updated the link above.

10,001.