http://www.xoxide.com/thermalright-si-97a-cpu-cooler.html There you go. And it's on sale too :) I got one myself too (though not at that shop, I'm in Europe) but have not yet installed it. It'll replace a Zalman CU-5100 on a Palomino XP2000+. I've ordered a 92mm Nexus fan with it, ran it in the test...

Interesting to see that that backplate sink does lower the temperatures some across the entire range. I was skeptical about the use of that. It should be interesting to see how they develop that further, in terms of minimizing mainboard interference, maximizing (thermal) contact, etc.

I'm running OpenOffice on an XP 2000+ with 512MB - XP Pro and it's running just fine. The last MS office I used was version 97 with Clippy, Einstein and the cute kitty. I looked at buying an additional language and grammar pack for it - I use English software only, but needed a Dutch language/gramma...

Saw the demo too a while ago when I was checking out their new disks. When I did I started to wonder how much different this "Intelliseek" is from " NCQ ". Maybe they added some intelligence to make the head movement more smooth, and I can see that being interesting and beneficial. But the overall i...

One thing with the Matrox cards, which you may have concluded yourself: They won't support the new Vista Aero features most likely.

Just wanted to point it out to be sure, since I forgot to mention that in my other post, sorry about that.

Do you have fans connected to all terminals? I read in a review the controller assumes 4 fans will be installed by default, and you have to change the mode (to standby if I recall correct) of the ones that have no fan attached.

Damn, are you kidding me? So the Nexus fans already have Fan Mounts included? :( So I ordered them for nothing... (4x4!). If you're sure about this, I will try to cancel the order for the fan mounts. Yea, I am sure the new ones have them included, but I am not sure where the new ones are available ...

BoomAM wrote:I run 3 monitors and dont game anymore. So a X1650 was a logical choice imo.

Not sure what operating system you will be running, but if it's Vista, you should read this: MultiMonitor Support and Windows Vista.

Finally, of course I'd expect Vista to be much better than XP, like every new model should be better than the previous one. I am also confident that its performance will improve over the time, when hardware manufacturers improve their drivers, the way that happened with XP. I think that's the main ...

If you don't care about games, I can recommend the Matrox P650 . I'm using one myself right now, and the 2D performance is great. It has no fan, doesn't run hot and the drivers for it are pretty mature. Vista drivers seem to be available, but I've no experience with those myself yet. I now run it wi...

Not sure if the Thermalright SE-128 SE is available in your regions yet, but it might be worth considering. Reviews show that its performance is very close to the Ultra 120, but without the fear of heights. A review of a sample unit by PC Perspective shows them mounting it on a board very similar to...

When did [you] order the fans? I've ordered them last week - 07/16/2007. The shop - Informatique - had them in stock but apparently my order was too big and I ended up waiting a few days. I've not checked all of them (13) but the packaging all looks the same, so I am expecting they are all the same...

I've received a batch of Nexus fans today and was quite surprised when I unpacked them: http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/3376/newnexus1dy8.jpg As my furry assistant points out, they changed the corner to a "normal" one. http://img479.imageshack.us/img479/5041/newnexus2lg0.jpg A set of 4 rubber fan...

Yea, they did make an odd choice of wire colour when they made that diagram. There is a little "notch" on the far side of the connector that should prevent you from plugging it in wrong. The notch is the same on both the 4 pin and 3 pin connectors, you can see it in the illustration behind the conne...

I remembered the Intel manual had a nice illustration of both options, gathered them together:

Doing it with HTML alone is no good. There used to be a "hack" that allowed use of action="mailto:..." in the form, but some browsers will now block use of that, and you'd get spammed to death after about a month or so. Check if the host where you are running the site has any form handlers set up. M...

The first time I tried to open the site I got an error message: "The connection has timed out". The second time it did work, only it took ages to load the page. Summary of the page: Headphones: Steel Series 3H Communications: Apple iPhone Communications: My first day with Apple's iPhone News items: ...

Most of the Western Digitals have a max operating temperature of 55 to 60 degrees. If you look up the specific type of drive you have (Windows Device Manager), you should be able to get a WD number. Enter the first series of characters (WDxxxxcc) on the following url: http://support.wdc.com/products...

Ran into this today, pretty interesting: Linux MPX Multi-touch Table May Become Alternative Microsoft Surface.

I wouldn't know about students, I never spend much time in school, preferred to lean over the pool table instead of school desks.

I've not read much about that specific case and the efficiency of the system yet, but it has 120mm fans all throughout the system. Though they may not be the most silent fans, at least this will give you the option of replacing them by more silent models. It seems to be available for ordering alread...

I'm not really looking for a silent computer, stability and reliability are my first aims. I have a small development/media server that is on 24/7 and a workstation that runs most of the day when I'm awake. The systems I currently have are pretty noisy, but they've done their duty very well in the p...

Some more info here: http://www.microsoft.com/surface/ When I first saw it I thought it would be using a touch-screen interface, but instead it uses 5 cameras - more details on Arstechnica - which gives it a lot more options and flexibility in terms of tracking. Now I just wonder if the price is wor...

Ah, I'm sorry I must have missed thatone. And you're right, the chance of running into problems is a lot less when the chips are on the QVL.

Apologies again, guess I should wake up before doing research

Only thing I noticed is that your choice of memory is not on the QVL list for this mainboard. The chips used on your selected memory (Micron D9GMH) do not appear on the QVL either. Though this may not be a problem at all, many recent mainboards have been very picky with memory. You can find the QVL ...

While doing some digging a while ago I ran into a few pictures of a Zalman fan controller I had not yet seen announced yet. The pictures I had found at the time were all thumbnail sizes so I couldn't really get a good look, but found something better now: Zalman MFC-2B Direct links to the images: Fr...

Heh, I know the feeling. My cat loves to use the side fans on my Chieftec Dragons to trim his whiskers for some reason. No more side intake fans for me

If possible, could you clarify the following for me? From reading about your experiments with the Arctic Cooling and Scythe PWM fans, I understand there is a difference in approach with low PWM signals (<=30%). AC approached this issue by making the fan run on 100% for a few seconds to make sure it ...

Very nice job. And nice to see I am not the only nut who wants three monitors :) How is that Asus board working out for you? I still haven't decided what to use for my new build. One voice tells me to go for an SLI capable mainboard, while the other voice tells me to stay clear of Nvidia mainboard c...

zistu.....I tend to believe your "dimming/blinking" problem is caused by a general wiring problem, rather than a missing ground wire. Perhaps the guage of the wiring is too small, maybe there is aluminum wiring and/or outlet corrosion, or the service box and the wiring coming into the house cannot ...

A lot of Intel boards with on-board VGA also support dual monitors (based on the 9xx chipsets). A fairly cheap add-on card supplies the extra port, giving you either dual DVI or Sub-D and DVI depending on what the board itself came with. Some links: SDVO on Wiki , Intel ADD2 info , HP ADD2 card info...