My ancient mechanical caliper measures 2.090" square (+/-0.02") off of the stock heatsink from a 3870. I assume you are talking about the four holes around the ASIC.

Speedfan is a bit funny, somewhere in the configuration you have to change the fan control from BIOS to Speedfan, and you have to tell it to remember (!) the setting. Otherwise its a matter of linking temperatures to fans and setting minimum speeds.

The GA-G33M-DS2R is mATX, the DS3R is ATX.

I have this board, both fans are controlled by BIOS and both fans can be controlled by Speedfan. As it is, when I plug in my Ninja B 120mm fan and my Nexus 120mm fan, neither seem to spin up with BIOS implementation (until a few minutes in), so I've set BIOS to run the fans always at high and for Sp...

Ugh there's a parallel port on it. The way Asus arranged the PCIe and PCI slots is better too. I'd rather lose a PCIe 1x slot than a PCI slot. I think I'll get the Asus then. I hope you see the irony of complaining about parallel ports (old tech) and then asking for a PCI (old tech) over PCIe. :D

For overclocking, I remember reading that there was a core frequency ceiling (860 perhaps?) and that there was some hack or patch if you wanted to go higher.

I would double check before buying if the part you want includes the power adapter cable. I got the HIS 3870 and it didn't include the cable, but looking at the Newegg pics, the Asus and Gecube ones do (for example).

If you like pictures of a bare 3870, check the Hardware Canucks 3870 review.

They also fit a Thermaltake Duorb on it, but I'd have been more interested to see an HR-03 installation detail shot. I always wonder about HR-03 clearance around NB heatsinks and RAMs with heatsinks.

I don't know if this is typical, but I have found when loading a thread, I will be able to read the first post but everything else stalls until the ad loads. I don't mind the ad so much (well, I do think they detract a bit from the style of the site) but it is a little frustrating when they hold up ...

The nice thing about the College and Spadina retailers is you can haggle a bit. For common parts I can get a better deal on College then I can with any web order places (pay PST, save shipping, cash discount *cough*, etc).

I have seen the odd power supply that has a minimum loading requirement on the label. Below that minimum the power supply doesn't make any promises to stay in tolerances.

That said, I doubt this would ever prove to be an issue.

It is removable, I got an NSK3300 with a faulty power LED so I took it off to fiddle with the LED. I think the giant finger tabs (visible in the image) are part of the plastic panel.

I get the impression that using hardware decoding on a GPU will use less power than getting a big enough CPU to handle HD video. But then there are other trade offs to consider. When idling, a CPU + GPU combination might use more power than a big CPU setup only. Also, a big CPU will be faster at doi...

If you look for ancient threads in the Sudhian Shuttle Forums (I think the SB61G2s were pretty bad), a lot of people tackled the coil whine using RTV. They pretty much just dabbed it on, let it set, I didn't see any complaints about the solution.

to answer one question from your article: In case you haven't guessed yet, the name DTX naturally follows from ATX and BTX... although perhaps an inquiry should be made about what happened to CTX? CTX is a monitor manufacturer... Not really a valid argument since DTx is the name of a system builder...

In general, if you look for places that do CNC punching, they are geared for short run sheet metal parts. Its very neat to watch a CNC punch, it'll have several dozen tools on a big spindle and it just whirs away. Bang bang bang bang whiizzzz (new tool) bang bang bang.....

aristide1 wrote:When did Texans need a reason to shoot somebody?

You drive down the road and if they get pissed at somebody they waive their gun permit at the other driver.

What?? You need a gun permit in Texas???

I'm rooting for Mini-DTX (I've always been a big fan of Mini-ITX). I hope this stuff catches on and eventually steers the industry towards more power efficient CPUs. Especially for Mini-ITX, I think CPUs shouldn't exceed much more than 25W. I've been thinking of building a Mini-ITX system with a sli...

I like this line: "In fact, most household circuits can't even provide the AC power this unit would require in order to put out 2000W of DC power. -George Ali, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Ultra Products And this: But there's the always-inevitable questions of 'Do I have enough power? E...

My suggestion is to try out what you have now. OTA HDTV is either 720p or 1080i, not very demanding compared to 1080p. I've tested out OTA HDTV on a couple computer setups. On my P-4 2.4GHz with a Radeon 9500 Pro, I never maxed out the CPU. On a Pentium M 2.0GHz using intel 915 graphics, CPU did max...

Before you rush out and buy this PSU, make sure you know how you're going to install it! I also own an NSK3400 (and love it!) but if you look closely, the NSK3400 PSUs are mounted upside down compared to most ATX cases. Thus the intake of the fan will be against a very high air flow resistance piece...

The PSUs had too high voltage (and not right capacity) My understanding of capacitors, the voltage only matters as an upper limit (think of voltage ratings on wires). You can use a high voltage cap in a low voltage application so long as the capacitance is right. But good job on the repair! I love ...

Thanks for the support guys, hopefully the new owner will appreciate it as much as I did.

Bump: Anyone interested in the CPU?

pipperoni, do you know of any X16 right facing risers that supermicro makes? I can't find any. Right side (connectors at back) PCIe angle connectors are generally very rare. Call Adexelec (www.adexelec.com), but they seem to only have a PCIe x8 right angle connector. But at the very least, Adexelec...

If you can get the Supermicro one (especially for cheap) then get that. I've purchased the 1U PCI (not express) Supermicro riser because they are reasonably affordable and very available. Another place I really like is Adexelec, they have a monster selection and have always been fair when dealing wi...

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I was talking to a few vendors in the Toronto area, the ones I knew who carried Thermalright told me the only Canadian distributor (well in the Toronto area anyway) of Thermalright parts had gone south. A few of the vendors were trying to find American distributors but otherwise Thermalright parts h...

Short answer seems to be no.

The only mATX board I've seen with DVI and G33 is the Intel board.
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Otherwise there is the G33 Shuttle which has HDMI.

Moreover, one of the attractions of the more recent ATI & NVIDIA chipsets is their support for video decoding. Does this work under Linux, I wonder? Sadly no VC-1 or H264 decoding capabilities yet in either chipset (so far as I am aware). For an HTPC setup using those codecs, hardware acceleration ...

I really like this board, especially for the array of connectivity options on the back. I am hoping to get this board and build a custom case to be a nice little PVR box. By far the scariest part is the price though, expect it to come in at about $300~.

To be extra tricky, you could require everyone to always use each of their available pixels, thus everyone will have to update their avatar every time they post! The problem with this is prime numbers... Well then your avatar has to be a line, I'm sure people can come up with all sorts of interesti...