all of your data will still be there.

yep, fan speed can be controlled by motherboard, if youve got a 4-pin pwm fan header, then take a good look at the slipstream pwm. as for the mount... backplate says to me that there should be screws somewhere. undo those. alternatively you might just pull your whole motherboard and gently do the fa...

i just want to ask you something before you spend any more money on this motherboard... what ram do you have? im wondering, because if its compatible, you might just want to buy an AM2+ motherboard, and an athlon II dualcore cpu... the speed boost over a nocona should be large. also, lower power dra...

other than what you could gather from the recommended hard drives list; i would suggest suspension in the 5.25" bays. nothing beats it, and then you can select from a larger pool of drives. laptop hdds should vibrate less, just as a rule... you'll probably be safe getting something lower than 7.2k r...

nothing to worry about. it will get plenty of airflow in there. just mount it with the fan to the top.

4 ports. PCI-X. slow, but cheap. <-you'll have to look into pci-x bandwidth yourself to see if you think it'll be able to provide enough bandwidth. 4 ports. PCIe x4. fakeraid, but thats fine for raid0 in my opinion, you shouldnt be mirroring for data backup. go with incremental backups, and unplug ...

to me, that does sound like your fan is wearing out. 1. look at the recommended 120mm fans article. i seem to have misplaced my personal favorite parts list. 2. there should be little rubber things that go through the holes in the corner of the fan, and kinda into the heatsinks fins. thats the mount...

about the acoustipack: you have to have an extremely quiet system for it to make a difference. i'd look at suspending any hard drives you have before moving onto foam. with your tricools: try running them at 7v and 5v with molex mods; then turning the switch to low. from my experiments, the tricool ...

i like this. the case is very clean and elegant.

http://www.swiftech.com/images/products/detail/POLARIS-FRONTX600.png http://www.swiftech.com/images/Product_pages/polaris_120/POLARIS-BASE-X600.png http://www.swiftech.com/images/Product_pages/polaris_120/air-flowx250.png 5 8mm heatpipes, with a direct touch base. should be very competitive until y...

im gonna jump in here and back the GTs as well. not sure i'd get the high rpm one, but rather something like the 1450rpm one(the 1150 might work fine). you can go onto any forum with a bunch of watercoolers, and they'll point you to the gt for static pressure. the silverstone ap is just a fan with a...

Zoide wrote:How about an update for socket 1155 motherboards? Thanks

i somehow doubt that there's tons of experience with them yet.

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nikkai wrote:i7 - 2600 k (Don't know what to do w/ cooling yet...)
6 gb ram (3 x 2)

1155 is only dual channel. get 4GB unless you know you want more, then go with 8GB
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OC3D took a look at this too. ok performance, but questionable value without fans.

lol. cant believe i forgot about lian li.

yeah, its definitely not perfect. i was thinking more about the gtx570 op is working with though. in fairness if he was willing to go matx then a tj08 would also have to be recommended. not to mention the nsk3480... though personally i'd want to drop the use of an optical drive if i was using one of...

if motherboard size isnt an issue, there's still the white mini p180 too...

/shameless mini p180 plug

thermalright hr-05 user here too. i thought about putting a fan on it, but then i saw my temps and laughed at the fact that a fan was even considered.

theyre lies people want to believe though, which is why it works.

no comparisons between ic diamond and ic perihelion?

also: ic diamond user here, very satisfied.

less comptent power management, less stable power feed and a less capable BIOS. diminishing returns. "good enough" is a term most people are familiar with. its value tends to be different for every person. so moving away from opinions and general "someone on the internet doesnt like the same things...

if you only have that one hard drive, then look into the " NoiseMagic NoVibes III " (old spcr link, theyre still being made) with that, you just have to find a decent midtower. just gotta find a balance of looks, performance, features and price... and how much it will actually take/cost to make it q...

The new Asus P8 motherboard in full ATX has much better power/voltage regulation than mATX boards. a very valid point. the feature sets on full atx boards can get a lot more impressive than their matx brethren. we dont know what kind of system op is even considering though, just what the pros and c...

if you are not bothered by the feature set of a particular mATX board (they generally offer almost everything a full size board does, though generally multicard vga setups dont get a lot of love); i would say go with micro. the cost is generally lower. but perhaps more relevant is that there is less...

wow that is tight looking. i might try suspension still though. string whatever chord just through the large kinda rectangular holes on the hdd cage. then instead of twisting the chord around the drive like most people can, i think you could use pclips screwed into the bottom of the drive to secure ...

what are you using to control fanspeed?

speedfan would allow you to control the fan based off of any temperature reading... if your board supports it.

your new system might be drawing less power overall, but if it's asking for more of its power from the 5v rail than your picopsu can handle that might be the issue.

i was basing it more on the part where picopsus pass the 12v through from the adapter, whereas i assume theres going to be a fair bit more regulatory circuitry in a standard psu.

that could also be a side effect of the power from the wall not being um.. clean?

if you ran a UPS or some form of power conditioner i wonder if you'd have the same issue. or did you, and the problems occurred regardless?

as for tler, theres a reason you cant enable it on hitachi or samsung: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-Limited_Error_Recovery i have both drives btw. they're not identical: the hitachi spins at 5.9k, where the samsung is at 5.4k; this leads to a bit better performance for the hitachi, but a little...