How much does it sound? Well, being noise obsessed I would say it sounds just like a concorde. Most normal persons would say it's completely silent. A SPCR person would probably say it's very quiet. Does it also break the sound barrier? And what's the deal with the HD unplugged? (Just out of intere...

In my HTPC case (Lian Li PC-9300) I have an SFX PSU. I removed the noisy 80mm fan along with more than half the housing and replaced it with a 120mm. In the first incarnation was a P4 with Zalman flower, and the 120mm fan cooled both. I did also have an 80mm fan to help bring in fresh air under the ...

BTW, there is another project I am involved in w/ Antec: A HTPC case. enuf said. :wink: I've just redone my HTPC, which is in a Lian Li MATX case (forget the name). A goo HTPC case from Antec would no doubt be popular, as it would no doubt come in cheaper than the lovely cases you can get, and offe...

Depends what you're going to do with it. I have an original PC-7, which is good now that I've removed all the original fans and only put back in a single quiet 80mm one for rear exhaust, along with a Seasonic PSU and a Ninja with 120mm fan.

I'm with nguyenkj on this... 500MHz or so is all you really need for this. OK, if you do want X and so on, then a bit more is good, but you don't need a powerful server for local development. I have a PIII-700 in my sever that does all of that and software RAID, and it is much more than happy CPU po...

I have a MATX case that is along the lines of what you're after. It's a Suntek TH-617 . I opened up the rear with a dremmel to take a 92mm fan (not an easy job!). The drive rack is not great, and I haven't suspended a drive in it, but it's possible, although it might need drilling out of some rivets...

Well, I'd stick up for the Gigabyte, as they're my mobo maker of choice, afetr trying others and having problems, I keep coming back to Gigabyte. You might want to look at a new case, such as the Antec SLK3000B, as it can be pretty cheap from some places (I got mine from dabs.com). It has 120mm fans...

I have 2 80G Samsung 2.5" drives, 1 in my laptop (which doesn't see a lot of use) and the other in a desktop. I can't say I've heard anything much from them ever. Does yours get hot?

P4 3.0Ghz CPU with standard heatsink + fan OK, I'd suggest looking at the Scythe Ninja or Zalmas offersings as well as the XP120. Plenty of info on this site anf forums... I have the Ninja on my P4 2.53, with an undervolted, quiet 120mm fan Lian Li P61 case (black) with 4 90mm-ish case fans (2 fron...

If you use the drive a lot (as in loading and saving) then you'll want to go 5400. If you don't (as in boot, load firefox/thunderbird and leave running for months), then 4200 is OK. I have a laptop that came with a 4200, but I swapped it out for a 5400 as it took too long to boot and load maps for r...

Uhhh, now!

At least in the UK

I was just going to post up saying that Scan have the S12-380W at £42.29 inc VAT. I've just ordere 2 of them after my OEM 350W Seasonic (from Kool & Quiet) blew me away with its lack of noise! Guess I was beaten to it. I was on the lookout for a SFX PSU (MATX size) which scan had an FSP 300W. My old...

You can do a suspension of a single in the bottom removable harddisk cage with some sewing elastic. That's exaclty what I'd do, and have done in my similar setup - PC-7 with 2.5" Samsung drive. With the raptor I would think you'd want to keep some air flowing over the drive from th front fans. With...

I don't have one, and wouldn't expect to get one. It looks good (currently) for people who have a LAN for at least 2 PCs, but no central server, and are running only Windows. Since it uses a driver to add functionality (security and access), as well as not being a native format for any OS, it does m...

Dark Pearlescent Blue please. Like my car!

introducing TMR technology for notebooks Cool :lol: TMR is excellent, although I somewhat expect the Samsung TMR isn't the same as the TMR I used to work with - Triplicated Modular Redundancy. :? :roll: Being serious though, I'm glad Samsung seem to be pushing ahead with larger drives. I only have ...

I'm think you mean something a bit different to Rockwool, which is used in acoustic traps, at least by DIYers who find the professional products overpriced. I guess you mean to surround the PC with material to absorb as much of the emitted noise as possible.

Dabs seem to have good prices on Samsungs at the moment. I got a SP1614N from them a year ago which was a NIDEC, in fact all 5 of mine are NIDEC's. I know I got some from Oevrclockers as well. I'd expect the 250Gb is fine as well, I keep thinking about geting one, although my recent hard drive purch...

My favourite... Even with a Thermaltake XP-90 heatsink and fan, the heat coming from the case was insane. LOL :lol: The heatsink wont make a difference to your 3 year old 3GHz Northwood's (hang on, they're 3.06GHz and not 3 years old quite yet) heat output. It's probably so hot because it's overcloc...

I suspend my 2.5" drive with elastic, much like a 3.5" drive, but it can fit in a smaller space...

I have a server at home which I can't hear. That's because it's up in the loft, out of the way. Not that it's too loud anyway, but having good cooling for the five drives I have is never going to be silent. It used to live in a built in wardrobe, along with a couple of other PCs. Since it's a few ye...

I'd suggest a Samsung hard drive, suspended of course. The new ones are available with 200 and 250GB. For the graphics, you might want to look at Matrox. See if they can do what you want. Perhaps an older G500 would be OK. I don't game and find they're very good for what I need. I had a Nvidea card ...

I run my P4 undervolted. It's a lowly Northwoord 2.53, which for the time being is down from 1.525V to 1.4V. I did get it down to 1.2 by clocking down to 1.9GHz. All of this is done with the Gigabyte windows utility. The only Asus boards I've had have been AMD and don't do underclocking, as much as ...

I will be using this PC in the basement, where I have an overhead projector . My options are S-Video, Component, and DVI. I am currently using DVI. I still have a lot of research to do in this area, and probably won't tackle with for a while. Of the best I'd say (and I have zero experience with pro...

I wouldn't bother with the cordless one. I've had mine a few years and don't use it much. Why? Short battery life (for typical PC modding), lower speed due to being cordless, and larger size due to having a battery on the back. Yes it's more manouverable, and you don't have to find a mains socket to...

Could be a ground loop, so rather than removing the earth connection to the mains, solder in a resistor (10k) on the "ground" of the incoming signal. Alternativly use a DI box with a ground lift or plug the subwoofer into the same power block as whatever it's being fed the audio from.

Thanks Pete, that sounds good, if not ideal. Setting it that way should maximise battery life when away from the mains I guess. I don't mind having the GUI client running, and since I doubt the laptop that's on its way will have any speedstep stuff (you never know though!), it might be better than g...

So, my wife and I are rearranging our living room, and decide that her PC will be replaced by a laptop, saving the space from the desk to accomodate another chair so people can sit down! Currently my wife uses our HTPC which hooks up to the TV and surround, so I ordered a laptop that can still do th...

Keira can play football (or at least act like she can), as "Bend It Like Beckham" showed: http://www.keiraknightleypalace.com/photos3/bilb/bilb10.jpg Also, check out "Love Actually": http://film.onet.pl/_i/film/l/love_actually/g/g16.jpg And while you're mentioning Star Wars, you do all know Keira pl...

I have done something like this with a D-link acess point. It was advertised as being able to bridge, and then the manual told me that was only with another AP exactly the same. Well, tinkering for a while made it work with my 3Com router, so I'm happy, and it works. The range I go is quite small (d...