Primer colored, with the case sitting on cinder blocks.

Rusty075 wrote:(that's not really my wallpaper btw, just in case anyone failed to get my humor. Well, it was, but only long enough to snap a screenshot)

Yes, we know it clashes with your cigar smoking hobby

By the way, for those with really nothing better to do, try a desktop like one of these.

Rusty075 wrote:Not sure which category my wallpaper falls into.

Erm, sickeningly cute? I'd have to prevent my daughter from seeing it, or she'd insist on using it

BTW, what's Sensor 3 measuring? HDD?

Has anyone done benchmarking on how or if desktop wallpaper affects Windows GUI performance?

I'm running with no wallpaper, black background. I find it easier on the eye esp. late at night with the lights off.

james111 wrote:Anyone else notice this? If you listen carefully, theres a high pitch sound that always on and it's driving me nuts
is there a fix for this while keeping all buttons/scroll whell working?

No solution, but you're not alone

No idea if it's new or not, but it's the main reason i bought the S12 over some other PSUs. It's a fan connector that connects to one of the standard plugs, and then has 2 LOW connectors & 1 High, 3-pin for fans. Oh, this one . Sorry, my misunderstanding. I thought you're referring to the Sonata Mk...

shadymg wrote:So i install it, and I connect the 2 rear 60mm fans to the low fan connectors of the PSU, and to be honest, I can't hear a difference.

Is this something new on the Rev2? My Rev1 S12-430 definitely doesn't have a fan only connector.

ATI's cards got spanked pretty badly in the performance test over on anandtech as well. Looks like a loser for ATI. Quietly reducing warranty to 1 year (from 3 years), and requiring you to register your product within 30 days of purchase to get warranty service, does not endear them to my heart eit...

Review at ExtremeTech.com . Lots of photos. Looks intriguing, but I think I'll pass. But I'm surprised that it actually seemed like a decent case from Thermaltake, albeit at a ridiculous price point. Didn't that case Rusty reviewed a while back (the one that got pulled) have the extruded aluminum ri...

an idea I'm playing with: a thermalright xp-90 with a fan sucking air through the CPU-heatsink and blowing it right onto the rotated heatsink of the silencer. Another fan mounted in the sidepanel sucks air through the heatsink and blows the hot air out of the case. CPU>XP-90>fan>asus HS>fan>outside...

I've had my UltraX for about a year, and my "S" is almost completely gone. I can see a very very faint shadow of it depending on the viewing angle and lighting. :roll: They charge extra for that you know... My UltraX's left shift key is starting to stick. Didn't realize I use it that much. Edit: Us...

Search the forums for that. IIRC the motors are Nidec and JVC, but I can't recall which one is the good one.

Edit: Hmm, this was just updated. May help you.

I'll checkout the reccomended list - price is a definite concern since the case was $125 and Dual 3Ghz Xeons :-) The S12-500 is about $40 more than a TruePower 2.0 550. In other words, the difference is less than 10% of what you intend to spend on the CPU. Another $25 more will get you the Phantom ...

OmegaZero wrote:Does anyone have a guess as to whether or not one direction is better than another for cooling the surrounding MB elements?

I'd guess blowing down is better. The intake airflow of a fan seems a lot more diffused than the output.

ATX12V should reach, main ATX cable is going to be a mess. It should reach, but it'll have to go over your cards to get there.

I just vacuumed out the case, in case it was dust, with no change. Use canned air (don't shake bottle, don't tilt, etc) instead of vacuuming. It's more effective at dislodging dust from CPU heatsinks, and there's concerns about static electricity from vacuum machines. Other possibility : HSF not se...

(Anybody care to translate "Ungultige Gleitkommaoperation" from MBMLog?) Invalid floating point operation. And before anyone faints in awe from my command of German, let me admit that it is limited to a few swear words, and that Babelfish and google together is a good thing :-) BTW, it's "ungültige".

What are SMART reports? I googled SMART and didn't find anything that leapt out that would tell me about HDD reliability. Here's an article on Wikipedia about SMART . Bad cabling could lead to read / write errors, but the OS should catch that. I'm not familiar with ATA specs, but I believe there's ...

I don't have a Samsung, but recall coming across some who said the 250GB is noisy. I can tell you from personal experience that the Seagate 7200.8 SATA 250GB has noisy seeks. How you mount the drive is going to make a lot of difference to idle noise. What enclosure are you using? Don't forget the Hi...

I'm suddenly getting CHKDSK errors and some apparently corrupted files on the 9-month old Seagate 80Gb 7200.7 HDD. Should I worry that it is about to die? Note: these appeared after defragging the disk. The Seagate consistently measures 34 to 36C (with MBM5), and peaked at 39C during the 30-minute ...

BrianE wrote:Hmm... didn't know that. Too bad there was no way to have two sets of drivers available or a simple software option to switch between "fast" or "pretty".

Sure you do. Just go into display settings and turn on/off AA/AF manually

Sort of related question - can I use the retention bracket that came with the XP-120?

Where can I get ahold of some sorbothane strips? My current machine is near silent, except for the seek noise of my drive (SP0802N) and I imagine I'll have similar problems in this new machine unless I do something. Sorbothane doesn't cut down seek noise that much (it does cut down some) - it's mos...

I have a Centurion 5 (silver) and I'm mostly happy with it. Build quality is OK but not great. Parts of it seem too flimsy to me. The back of my case looks a little different from agus_c_o's. I guess Cooler Master revised their case a little - for the better too, I'd say. Mine looks like the one in ...

Just to point out practical usage of reliability calculation: RAID0 ----- In this setup, all the drives (components) shall be working to in order to work. Using reliability block diagram, they all will be in series. To get the total probability of failure for RAID0, basically you add all probabilit...

Yes the bar is easily removable. It is to provide structural strength and (in some cases, not sure about this one) hold the expansion cards in place. Rear fans : Nexus / Yate Loon orange fans are decent but still noisy at 12V. I have a Cooler Master something or other that's very quiet at 12V but al...

Well, cutting out the grills is optional. It helps a little, but you don't really have to do it. But it seems like you have your decision made about the case. I recall that the Sultan of Brunei was once the richest man in the world. Is the Brunei dollar still pegged to the Singapore dollar, and acce...

I got everything today, and am ready to install the CPU and Ninja. I'm not sure I understand how to install the Ninja though. Apparently I need to remove the retention bracket (the black thing, right?) from the mobo and replace the one that came with the Ninja. No problem. But I don't understand wh...

I think Brue (in another thread) is trying to buy from Singapore (where are you from, by the way?) and mentioned that he probably will not be able to find the Evercase. I don't have any experience with the P160. I took a look at it in the store and decided I don't want to have anything to do with it...

The P180 definitely does not require you to invert your motherboard. The main difference in layout with a standard case is that the PSU is below. Check the reviews (and forums) for photos. Lian Li and Silverstone has some cases in the inverted ATX (video card above CPU) MB mount. CPU cooler - seems ...