Not suggesting you should I just added the url for those that like to mess with the math and wanted to see how thick the foam would need to be for a given freq. range.

Heck, I might post the pics of my std Sonata rig just to freak out the folks when they see my cable tangle.

So, if you want at least 1/4 wavelength of thickness for the sound dampening material and you use 30mm total, it's good for >11kHz. Here's a handy speed of sound calculator for a given temp: For low cost deadening, couldn't ya just go to a hardware store and get composite roofing shingles for the ma...

Thanks for the review

I was curious about the topic, so I did some searching. http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20050102084049.html http://forums.amd.com/lofiversion/index.php/t48267.html Apparently, one of the modes of fakery is to take a lower cost mobile CPU and cut/bridge links to make it appear to be other th...

jamesm wrote:is it green?

It might be on a sticker on the top part of the processor. Your looking for something like: AXDA2000DUT3C

EDIT: I've never wiped off the model number before, and I use AS5.

By fake, do you mean where the dudes are selling remarked mobile cpu's as desktop CPU's?

Try Everest Home edition for freeware temp monitoring. Seems to work fine for me....although I believe it's under reporting my samsung temp by a few degrees (this is from looking at temps at boot).
http://www.lavalys.com/products/overvie ... =1&lang=en

Need some clarification on the audio side....Will your PC be driving self powered speakers or will you be using line out to drive a stereo/media receiver? If the latter, how about optical output for the audio and avoid using your sound card for the D/A conversion?

The interesting bit for me was how quickly the temp drops when I go from gaming to idle....8C in about 30 seconds (85 to 77C). My interpretation is that the heatsink is doing it's job and the rest of the equation is how good the airflow is.

It turns out my card was loaded with the version 3 Bios. I flashed the card with V4 and can now see the temps in the NVidia panel.

I have the Gigabyte 6600GT fanless AGP and am getting: Idle 3DMark2003 GuildWars 30 sec later* Chassis 34C 35C 35C 35C CPU 50-51C 52C 52C 52C GPU 58-60C 70C 85C 77C "30 sec later" is where I was playing Guildwars, quit the game and then idled for 30sec.

Here's an answer to a question you didn't ask: get 1GB of RAM if you are running Win XP and plan to do anything other than basic web browsing, word processing, etc... the OS will use up a good bit of the 512MB and strangle any other processes.

I am running 71.89...I'll download 77.72 now and see what happens....

nope - not on my agp version.

Tom's Hardware just posted the summer VGA card shootout.

Call me a little confused....I figured this card would support temp monitoring, but as far as I can tell it doesn't...don't see anything on v-tuner 2 nor does it pull up the temp monitor window in ATItool.

Anyone else out there care to confirm/deny this?

in any case, you can use Gigabyte's V-tuner to manually lower the clock rates for the core and memory.

If I bought one, I'd get the lower speed version to replace a very old g3 beige tower system. Got a monitor, got a keyboard, got a mouse, can buy a usb hub for $20, can buy a thin putty knife for $5 and add a 512MB or 1GB stick to round out the system. (Seen the video on memory replacement and it's ...

Some additional background: Cyrix was acquired by NSC. NSC expanded the development of Cyrix's x86 core to go for system on a chip designs (using the Geode name) for embedded apps where speed didn't matter, but x86 compatibility, low power/fanless apps were compelling. Core/northbridge/southbridge a...

I listen to John Cleese.

Sweet!

...probably around 75% efficiency at that power usage...so 20W. It's close

Hey Dan, here's a funny thought:

The waste heat of your PSU is probably more than your CPU power

acaurora: What program/game would actually benefit from having 2 of these beasts?

As this thread slowly wanders around digital audio......here's a link to a NIST report on CD lifetimes.

http://www.itl.nist.gov/div895/carefordisc/

Some games are written to rely heavily on the graphics card, some rely heavily on the CPU. It's really a random thing. On the absolute side of things....I seem to run games fine with my Barton 2800 (not underclocked). When compared to my 1.4GHz T-bird, the games were certainly cpu bound and running ...

Alleycat: It doesn't take much horsepower to rip/run music files. My CPU load is 20-25% when ripping to MP3 (at any compression rate) at 8x average read rate with the set up below. CPU load in playback is 1-2% with iTunes and ~2-5% with Windows Media Player. Anyone seeing higher rip rates care to co...

Here's the smoking gun: "However when I run the PC using onboard graphics there doesn't seem to be any probs. " It seems to me you've isolated the problem to your vid card. Join the club of folks that killed their video card by adding an aftermarket cooler. :? Here's a couple of low probability thin...

the smell: too big? When you can get a 200GB seagate drive for $70?

Edward: Yes, Apple has their own lossless compression std...but, a lot of bands are using FLAC for compression of their live performances. I'd rather NOT have to deal with conversions. :-) Just wishing out loud for Apple to accept other standards with regards to music compression. Eidolon: Yes, if y...

My current method is running iTunes on my quiet Wintel system in the study and porting the music via airtunes to my wireless router and then to an Airport Express in my living room. Stereo mini line out to rca inputs on my receiver. Sounds great (Yamaha/Polk system). Note that you can also run optic...