Well this little guy is looking pretty good:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813128341
( GIGABYTE GA-MA78GPM-DS2H )

Other discussion going on here: http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1320461

For a few days/weeks/months. They die quickly at those temps. Plus all that hot air is just radiating itself throughout your case, heating up the air the rest of your components are trying to use to cool themselves, thus resulting in hotter temps for everything in your case. They age faster at a hi...

I only use my HDs for a year or two as a primary drive. Then I use them just for general data back-up for up to another year. Then I wipe them with a few runs in Eraser, defrag, and reformat a couple times. Then I take them apart. The magnets are fun to play with and other parts like the platters ca...

to Vicotnik: I don´t understand, because the AC AF9PWM cooler DOES exhaust hot air from the case. What are you worried about? Most graphics card can handle 90C+ without problem. For a few days/weeks/months. They die quickly at those temps. Plus all that hot air is just radiating itself throughout ...

not to mention it's already sort of old. this tech needs to be applied on the state-of-the-art cards as well, not just "last gen" parts.

My lack of knowledge about 780G?
I had no idea there was such a capable onboard GPU, and passively-cooled at that.

This one looks even better: http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Mot ... uctID=2859

Say one is building a PC with a 45watt CPU w/ a passive cooler, an SSD for the hard drive, and wants a silent GPU as well to go with it. It needs to be capable enough to run DVDs upscaled to 1680x or 1920x, and HD content as well. It needs to have HDMI as well. Is there any GPU like this that's avai...

Thanks!

Raw is all zeros.
Reallocated Event Count is zero.

Needs more 150GB model as their site once listed. No need for 300GB for my OS/boot drive. Heck, a 75GB model would work fine too, and both would be a lot cheaper than the 300GB.

In SMART I see a value of 200 for it. In SpeedFan this shows a green OK symbol next to it but if I do In-dept Online Analysis, it rates it kinda low on the slider and only says Good, not Very Good. Everything else in SMART looks fine. SpeedFan shows three columns: Value Worst and Warn. For this driv...

Well just to close the loop, the 6400AAKS is on sale for $88 so I jumped on that.
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1319016

Then there's also the potential priority of stability/compatibility , which when reading user reviews of many of the microATX boards over the last couple years on NewEgg or even on technical forums like Anandtech or SPCR, really steers the buyer away from many of them. I think the first step is to f...

As I no longer game much anymore, I've been thinking about building a small footprint PC with energy-efficient, quiet parts to be my primary rig for daily use, which generally consists of surfing websites, watching movies, and listening to music . This would replace the gaming-oriented rig I current...

ryboto wrote:Don't know if anyone posted this, but a 150gb version of the drive will also be available

WD HDD PDF

Awesome! That's perfect for a boot/OS drive, then. No need for 300GB for that, after all.

The major "bottleneck" in a computer is the user input by long. Except that user input is irrelevant because when the user is doing something, the user is not waiting. It is everything ELSE that occurs between the time the user completes their input and the time when the results are presented to th...

clinkme wrote:It seems, there is also the Version 3 of WD3200AAKS. The drive motor is different from all previous versions.
The drive is very noisy: no seek sounds at all, very small vibration(7+), but very loud high pitch tone from the wheel.

Wow, that's HUGE news. Ugh.

wow, it dropped nearly 30% off the filesize copy tests at the end of their chart. that's much better. Gary Key ftw

The only thing turning me off to the P7K500 is that I'd opt for the 250MB single platter model and they only offer that with an 8MB cache. I would like the 16MB cache.

Thanks I'll try to find some performance data for that model. I have an SP2004C Samsung and found it a bit slow and with an odd harmonic to it so I don't run it anymore, just use it for occasional data backup. I'll have to see how the model you noted compared to that one in performance and sound lev...

GPU-Z reports a temp several degrees lower than the NVThermalDiode. I would also recommend taking the safest course, which is to go with the highest reported temp.

Most probably!

Yeah but lots of drives do. It's the same for the new WD AAKS 320GB single platter drives. Hard to ever find an HD with all good reviews since most people only review if there's a problem. Then again, a lot of problem reviews is still a lot of bad drives.

The Hitachi drive has been great; I want that same level of satisfaction again (better is fine!) but that model is now OOS at most vendors since it's a year or two old. I'm looking for a 3.5" SATA 3Gb/s drive with stats as good or better than the Hitachi I have now (Silence, Reliability, Speed, Pric...

Flashing the BIOS simply to change the clocks for 2D seems excessive when you can simply run a program like RivaTuner or ATiTool that will do it for you and you can keep changing it anytime you want.

I love my P150

Nice and quiet until I had to switch out a dying PSU for another PSU that is just slightly louder plus the fan on my GPU I think is starting to die. Still very quiet though.

cool, thanks guys

I would aim for the new 90mm if that reviews well but I have more 120mm fans lying around so I may end up sticking with the plan to grab an ultra 120 Extreme

My primary concern is that there's enough voltage to those little 3-pin fan leads on motherboards to power a 120mm fan up at start. If you're saying there is then awesome, that's my primary concern. :D I just wasn't sure if they were designed to handle starting such a big fan (since general retail f...

Currently my retail hsf on my CPU is controlled by SpeedFan, so it can dynamically adjust the fan's speed based on the CPU's measured temperature. So I'm preparing to upgrade to a core2duo system and I plan to get a nice aftermarket hsf to cool it more quietly and effectively. My question is whether...

Anyone know if it'll fit in a P150/SOLO case?