Thank you very much for your replies. A few points: 1. I know all the ram works because I have tested them individually AND the second batch worked as a set in the Intel cooler set up as 16Gbs. To say again - the four modules worked fine together giving me 16Gb when I tested them with the stock Inte...

I had a similar problem recently, but replacing ram solved so it must have been either bad or incompatible (in some strange way) ram. In your case, it is most likely the motherboard, since you tried two different kinds of ram. I am assuming that you did the BIOS reset? If so, have you tried updatin...

Populating all 4 memory slots on a board has sometimes given issue to the problems you're experiencing. The usual solutions are to increase the voltage and relax the timings. You've tried the first, and despite the lack of immediate success, I would not drop the voltage back yet, but maybe increase...

I have built a new pc which is fine except that I cannot get it to work with 16Gbs of ram. I'm desperate for advice on how to solve this problem. The kit: Corsair AX 850 Pro psu, Asus p8p67 Deluxe motherboard, 2600K cpu, Gigabyte 5750 vga card, 16Gb Corsair x4 (4Gb each) module matched DRAM set (CML...

Has anyone built a system with the Nexus Prominent 5 case, please? I'm thinking about it for my next build but I wondered what it was like to work with and what its build quality is like. I like the tool less approach but would like to know if the drive holders work ok. I am thinking of suspending m...

In the absence of any Lian Li PC-9f cases in the UK I am thinking of the Nexus Prominent 5 (which is hardly mentioned in SPCR): http://www.nexustek.nl/nexus_prominent5_premium_silent_pc_case.htm It seems to tick most of the boxes I care about - though the cable access and routing options are a bit p...

Thank you very much. Clear now.

Grateful if someone can advise me whether a fan controller (this one - http://www.quietpc.com/gb-en-gbp/products/casefanaccessories/zm-mfc1-plus ) will control a 140mm fan. I am using the controller with 120mm fans but so hopeless is my knowledge that I don't know if it will work with 140mm fans. I ...

Great. Very helpful photos. Thanks. More, please. Is there enough room between the rearside of the MB panel and side panel with some acoustic padding to still accommodate and hide cables - or do you have to choose between cables' accommodation or padding for the side panel?

Figment - I used to own a Lian Li pc7 case for some years and liked it. I moved later to a P183 but now find it so heavy that I risk a heart attack every time I try to lift it - I want to go back to an aluminium case. The biggest breakthrough in both cases for me was using an SPCR hdd elastic suspen...

Thanks. I went to another German shop - Caseking - which advertised the 9F as being in stock, ordered it and then got an email saying it wasn't in stock. Atelco seems to be another German company. Given the additional shipping cost and fragility of aluminium cases, I think I'll just wait till a UK s...

Figment - can I be clear that you are saying you just cannot put larger (140mm) fans into the 120mm housings? But it would be no problem to put different 120mm fans in? Does the 3.25 hdd cage come out easily (ie you just unscrew some screws) or do you have to drill out some rivets? I am thinking abo...

David Cole wrote:Have bought a Lian Li PC-9F from Caseking in Germany which will have had sound deadening material applied to it already. Better build the beast now...Thanks for all the advice.

Oh no I haven't...Case now not in stock. Ho hum. Back to the drawing board.

Have bought a Lian Li PC-9F from Caseking in Germany which will have had sound deadening material applied to it already. Better build the beast now...Thanks for all the advice.

Thanks very much for further help. That weight definitely crosses the 600T off my list - thank you for alerting me to this. I'll look at a Solo or go back to a Lian Li. Light is good for me. I may just stick with the overkill of the Corsair PSU - the AX850 is stuck in the frontal lobes now. So the V...

Thanks very much for all your patient advice. Now I have had another look at the Corsair 600T. I see all the 200mm fans can be swapped for 140mm models (I would use Noctua I think), the hdd cages can be taken out, there are good holes for cabling, it has handles for lifting and it has a built in fan...

It is reassuring to learn that DDR3 doesn't require extra cooling. I have only gone for the Vengeance variety because I want 16Gb of matched modules. I'm very happy to use something else if I can get 16Gb of it. The psu has been selected simply because of its outstanding recommendation by SPCR. Than...

Micro. Well, I'm a bit concerned about fumbling hands and older eyesight leading to clumping about in a small case with components even more on top of each other than they are in a mid case. I need all the space I can get to work in (though a full size case is too much). It's a possibility though. W...

Thanks. No, I haven't considered the Lian Li A05 but will certainly do so. Zm-FC1 - convenience not number of fans to be controlled. Different room temps in summer and winter mean I want some latitude in choosing my rpms even if for only 2 or 3 fans. Velociraptors - yes, I am already running them wi...

I am going to assemble a new pc with: Asus P8P67 Deluxe 16Gb Corsair Vengeance Intel 2600K Noctua NH-C14 (top fan only) Gigabyte 5750 Silent Cell Corsair AX850 x2 300Gb WD Velociraptors (data) an Intel 160Gb SSD (OS and programs) Zalman ZM-MFC1 fan controller (5 fans) W7 64bit I need to choose a cas...

Can anyone tell me if it's possible to put an old P183 door (the one without the "decorative" holes on the right edge) on a new P183 v3? I have the old P183 and want the newer model but not its awful door. I'm sure the swap won't work but it's worth asking.

Thanks.

Thanks. I went about it in reverse order! I went to Corsair and searched on the motherboard model. I'll double check with the Asus site and have a look at the motherboard's manual.

Thank you very much for all this information and advice. The Noctua does seem the way to go. I am naturally attracted to the downward blower as the first system I built used a Zalman flower heatsink which incorporated a fan blowing down onto it suspended from a bracket over the heatsink. The memory ...

Thanks. Is 140mm fan and heatsink likely to clear the memory modules?

My build is going to be:
P183
16Gb DDR3
Asus P8P67
Intel i7 2600K
Gigabyte 5750 silent cell

Please could I have a steer on a quiet heatsink/fan to use with the CPU.

Thanks

This is apparently a known issue and is mentioned in the Release Notes for 11.3. Seems to me pretty dumb to have a driver that deals fine with OpenGL in the previous 11.2 driver then issue a new driver that breaks the OpenGL performance. The problem is still apparent in the 11.4 beta driver so I hop...

Thanks. You put me on the right track. Prompted by your advice I tried reinstalling the 11.2 driver again and this time it worked. I can now again use the auto-rotate feature with OpenGL set to Normal. There must be some incompatibility with the 11.3 and 11.4 versions.

Thanks again.

I have Photoshop CS5 32bit, Q9550, Asus P5K Premium, 8Gb ram, Gigabyte HD5750 Silent Cell 1Gb, Windows Ultimate 64bit. The OS, programs and CS5 scratch disk are on an SSD, the data is spread between x2 WD Velociraptors. I have the latest ATI driver 11.3 (have also used 11.4 beta which works fine too...

NEC LCD2690wuxi - has a high pitched whine which is modulated a little by different brightness settings but never eliminated. The noise problem was said to be confined to early european models of the monitor. I don't know about recent 2690 models. I got fed up with the noise, and wide colour gamut c...

I'll try that.