i plan to go sli and this unit is more effective and quieter than my current one. I have only a few experiences hard drive wise, maxtor seagate and wd are what I have personal experience with and WD has been rock solid and in fact I am replacing a 8 year old WD with the new one. I hated maxtor and s...

found a good review finally, looks like its a 7750 for sure.

7750 + Consair 650
LIAN LI V1100 + EVGA 9800 GTX+ SC
4GB Kingston ram + 1TB WD HDD
Tuniq Tower

Not bad for $950
going to price hunt beyond newegg

how much of a heat difference would there be between an E8200 vs a 7750? still $100 cheaper with amd.... might switch between either one of the two since they are both priced right but as soon as I check out a few more reviews between the two units i will decide since I am going to mate a 9800gtx+ w...

I recall the i7's being quite warm chips. Phenom's are also supposedly warm, as well, compared to 45nm C2D stuff. I would consider a 45nm Core2 E8XXX or E7XXX.. both of these would have plenty of power for encoding, gaming, etc, and run cool. Motherboard for these are inexpensive [good ones are eas...

So I need a new upgrade for this dying setup. Current: 3800 Sempron 939 socket 2GB ram. 1TB across 3 drives (one the drives needs to be replaced) Random 939 mobo with a hot south bridge heatsink 8600GTS Westinghouse 19" 16:9 monitor I don't play games as often as I used to, this setup kind of limits...

Another idea of a case that may be worth reviewing.

Lian Li PC-A08... its a fairly new one to the market and looks like a winner

Possible review by SPRC on the...

Scythe KATANA 2

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Just a bit too deep there....

I will stay with the smaller die gfx cards such as GTS and 8600's... couldnt find myself with a p180 or even a p190... dont need that much!

EsaT wrote:

nici wrote:How about the Lian Li PC-S80?

Kinda short for DX10 cards.

really? its deeper than my Solo but are the measurements including the rear cover? if so then I wonder how much space it has inside.

I myself am considering a S80 thus is why I am troubled by your response.

i just noticed that the only other good case out there other than the Solo or p180...

would be expensive but the LIAN LI PC-S80 would be it, has an extra 5 inches in height and depth.

Maybe my next case? Yes its rather tempting!

120 isnt really needed... and I can testify about that! havent had the money yet to get some 92 fans and have a 120 fan lying around (but its a thermaltake) and since my hdd temps were starting to scare me as summer isnt here yet I installed it. its loud *duh* but my hdd now posts temps of 28c with ...

So I just transfered my old system to a new case and ready to upgrade to PCI-E. I was looking into a few motherboards and keep finding to my dislike that there are a lot of 2 pci slot boards vs 3 slot. With this I have been left with a few boards so far to choice from: DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 SLI-DR Exp...

the 6600GT did fine for a while... but with games like Company of Heroes eating it up for breakfast... I think its time to upgrade (and a dual will help) cant wait for midrange 8800's to come out may just get a XFX 7950 for the mean time. kater, Yup I know what your talkin about... saw a thread abou...

Thanks Kater for the post! Since I am currently on a single core unit and don't over clock I guess I can go with passive cooling to start with and see how that goes. As for the front, I will have to see how my two HDD's line up with just one 92mm fan before I consider a second one. Might even try tw...

After some consideration I changed my order and went ahead and got a Solo and a Seasonic s12 550(energy plus) and a seagate 320gig hdd. Looked thru some threads and ran into a couple of questions 1) with two nexus 92mm fans up front will i run into issue in terms of airflow disruption (turbulence) w...

I have a P150 on its way for my new build and started to become intrested in updating my main board and graphics card. I am considering a 7900GTS or maybe a 8 series graphics card. with two hard drives at the moment and possibly two 5" drives will i exceed the psu's capibility? thanks for your time ...

thanks for the post! i just ordered my p150 and found a nice deal on a 250 and 500 gig hdds for $210.

i am likely going to mirror the thailand build and wait for the prices on the 700+ gig seagates to drop before continuing onwards with storage.

thanks for your time spcr
-chris

Single core... dont see any dual cores for sale also. I do still plan on purchasing another HDD preferably a 500gig sata as I am quite limited on storage space with quite of few more video's I watch are starting to post into the 1280x720 resolution and thus take about 1.3gigs of space per an episode...

I am looking for a new case as I will have my setup back as soon as I move into a 2 bedroom apartment next month. I am split between what to go for as I am still on a budget. The general uses of my setup consist of mostly media (watching tv shows...dvds), some gaming, video encoding while away from ...

looks like JT has just earned another customer now... never heard about them before but after confirming that they are in the US and finding a BBB on them I knew I would be in good hands.

Looks like I will buy my fans, heatsink, and other goodies

I am going to check first with my current favorite FrozenCPU to see if they can match/beat prices or if they have that plate in stock... if not I will give jab-tech a try.

Just read a review that acually explained that the CSPS8000 does not clear.

Thx

-Chris

velvet45 now that I think of it.... I have a sempron 3200

jackylman I was wondering where I could get that plate because I read that on many of the gigabytes require it for install.

Removal of Motherboard isnt an issue... I just hope it grounds correctly.

Hello, Well I just placed on order via a retailer for a new 3800 AMD 64 939 flavor. My reason for the upgrade is that the current 3200 is bottlenecking my GPU(BFG 6600GT) that pushes onto my 27inch viewsonic. But I need a better than OEM cooler for the new chip(Its about time). I know part of my pro...

found it!! http://www.silverstonetek.com/products-pp02.htm One over the psu and see if I can place another one/two on the top *for the two exhaust fans located up there*. Hopefully with some moding I might be able to replicate the one that fits naturally over the psu onto the others... or something ...

That reply just set me up and over for the p180 :) 530 has like said great intake but no way to contain the noise from it. sonata 2's intake wont cut it in keeping as cool as a p180 as I did a search and found temps in the p180 to be cooler than a sonata 2. I live in arizona where the summers are ex...

wont work due to the angle. check their site

also its 300g! the zalman is only 160g

Ralf Hutter wrote:

cotdt wrote:Banana Republic Case 600 Turbo

Huh?

+1 when I first saw that I literally wondered what this person was on.

back to topic...come on people which would you choice over the other?

finally found the best thread tonight. overall the VF seems to be the lighter and cools the best. just wonder what the sound levels are when its hooked up to the vga board instead of one of the 4 outputs it has...

big red x over the idea of using 80mm fans. I currently do on my old case and I dont want to go back to using 80...no more! 120 is where I like to stay. so which one of those would anyone of you people here on the forum choice to get out of all the cases. Sonata 2 is nice and clean...not as much as ...

I know that the following cases are good in being/becoming QUIET and keeping temps down but I still can not make my mind up on what to grab Antec p180 http://www.endpcnoise.com/cgi-bin/e/p180.html Antec Sonata 2 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811129155 Coolermaster Centurion 53...