I recently bought Foxconn NF4K8MC-ERS M/B. I am running AMD Venice 3000+ overclocked to 2.17 ghz on this m/b without any problems. However, the speedfan and the (crappy) Foxconn utility is reporting ~50c idle and ~60c load temp on my CPU whether I run it at stock speed of 1.8 ghz or overclocked spee...

I have 4 Samsung SATA 160MB drives and 1 Seagate 200MB SATA drive. 3 of the Samsung drives are very quiet but the 4th one makes a high pitch noise which is quite annoying. 1 Seagate I have is pretty noisy, quite a bit noisier than the Samsung. Also, Seagate drive seems to run quite a bit hotter than...

I got me a silver pc-v1100 case last week. I finished putting it together yesterday but I haven't had too much time to play with it yet. The overall look of the case is clean. The case comes with CD bezel and a Floppy bezel for 5 1/4 drive bay. The front door comes off and looks good with it or with...

I have 2 6070 cases here at work that I built. Lian Li 6070 cases are pretty nice but there are couple of things... 1. put a 120mm blowhole with a fan on the top or the case ambient temp will get hot under load (I'm running P4 2.8C processors on em) 2. don't get black unless you like cleaning your f...

I would like to know which P4 CPU cooler I should use also... I have a P4 2.8C overclocked & running at 3.64Ghz with stock cooler on Abit IC7-G M/B. On Abit system monitor, the load temp is averaging 70C. I would like to bring the temperature down a bit but it runs great as it is now. I'll be puttin...