I initially opted-in, had horrible thoughts about driver issues, and then thankfully found the opt-out option. *phew*

Hmm, I tempted to cancel my Mugen Max order and try out the Zalman now (also, it's cheaper).

Do you have a fan strapped to it Luca, or is it completely fanless?

Using a Z87 at the moment. Performance is decent until it comes to rendering (both audio and video) which is where I always lose a ton of time, hence the desire for the extra cores. The software I use will happily take advantage of it. Maybe you want a completely different beast? Are the two extra ...

Personally, I prefer this to the R5. My only use for a case this size these days is as a gaming ring, so 3 fans in front at min speed + only SSDs would be the way to go. Or only exhaust fans at min, no fans in front. If needed, a single big hdd on rubber on the bottom panel rigged up DIY style woul...

xan_user wrote:Ouch, my eyes are bleeding.

What eyes?

The things you guys have to do so they continue sending you review samples. Kudos.

Tiiiiiny front vents, no?

If you can stand the occasional advert, Spotify is a freemium product.

Is your Enermax series II or the original, the original never was on the Haswell compatibily list and likely had no/low load issues as did many PSUs at the time. I can't find any good resource that non-support of the Haswell deeeep sleep states is actually a real issue. Do you have any links? Deact...

How much did you overclock and is there anything else drawing loads of power in the system?

I have the small Pro82+ 385W and that's still going strong after 7 years. The fan is equally annoying so I swapped that.

If these are just talking head webcasts, then 8GB should be fine. If you were producing music with orchestral levels of tracks/VSTs, then you would need more. You could always benchmark your existing system and see how much is being used via Task Manager. Yeah, talking heads, presentations, etc. Wh...

Ahh, thanks for that Steve - 50 quid is all right!

Btw. would I profit from more RAM for audio production, or would 8 GB suffice. Because if I head the mITX route, I'd only have 2 slots.

First, let me say welcome to the GTX 960 fan club. :) I'm pressed for time, so here's a couple of quick comments. CPU: My i5-4670K does fine for temps. I'm grumpy about the crappy TIM used, but the CPU does ok with a decent cooler. That said, there's only a few pounds difference between the 4690K a...

Hi folks, My current PC is from 2008, which, while not the oldest around here, puts it squarely into grandpa territory. Recently my HD3870 decided to shed a inductor . The replacement 8800GTX I got from my IT department does the job, but I had to bake it twice already and it's heatsink is just terri...

Nice idea with the aluminium profiles. Where these the 20mm ones?

Unless you need portability (which with 0% battery retention ... nope) these things are helplessly outmoded. I daresay a 35 bucks raspberry pi II would be a lot more versatile.

I don't like throwing things away either, but considering the D610 was released about 10 years ago.

I don't visit much due to how quiet it got. That new sign up date is off by 4 or five years.. I still wished that original sign up was there. I actually disappeared after changing my nick for reasons of moving and new computer. I have been here since day one. my retirement is disability, and still ...

Whether it is safe will have to do with the cross-section of the wires used. I'm pretty sure they will be over-dimensioned and you'll be fine. If you follow Abula's reasoning, many GTX970's need only a single 8-pin plug. That would imply the amperage poses no problems for the cable. In your scenario...

Ah come on, you big tease!

I'm already hell annoyed that my macbook air doesn't have 2 thunderbolt ports so I can run two monitors (of course the 2014 model didn't get displayport 1.2). I'm sure the vast majority of MacBook Air users don't run any external monitors, let alone two. And I'm guessing Apple thinks their customer...

toronado455 wrote:Not sure how I feel about needing an adapter plugged in for the ports

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I'm already hell annoyed that my macbook air doesn't have 2 thunderbolt ports so I can run two monitors (of course the 2014 model didn't get displayport 1.2).

Does it even need the tube?

Cut it off and mount a larger fan on top?

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I guess a peak inside was not allowed/possible?

I think these anecdotes only show that some states/regions are better prepared than others and shows what a crucial role a well-funded government plays. I rather fight for that, than stockpile food and water at home. Good government is indeed the best form of emergency preparation, but some of us a...

NeilBlanchard wrote:What advantages would this have over doing a dual boot?

It's nice to setup a quick dev environment. No reboot required to switch between the OSes. However, I'm having that nagging feeling that mehimu is just trying to do SEO.

Well watch the extremists use it literally to tear it apart as "class envy." The funny thing is that some of those extremists seem to sit in the poorest classes of the US's population. The unattainable American dream shoved down their throats for the last 50 years has left them unable to swallow th...

I was in Denver in 2002 or 2003 when a storm dumped ~3ft of snow in a day. There wasn't much wind and the storm broke no records (IIRC, there had been worse within the last 20 years), but it still took three days for some areas to become accessible by car. If it had been more widespread, longer-las...

In Britain our weather doesn't work that way. :lol: I predict grey. That's a pretty solid prediction for London. "60% of the time, it works all the time" ;) In the US 1% means over 3 million people, this is a ridiculously high number for the accusations that fall on them to work I would say "the to...

Oh damn, that all sounds very unlucky. You might have seen my graphics card debacles: http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=67798 Then I had to bake the 8800GTX, which I scored as a replacement. My PC is also potentially dying for good, as the Desktop keeps refreshing itself ever...

Since we are all angry about the top 1%, I'd like to pour a little more oil onto the flames by recommending the recent BBC documentary series "the super-rich and us" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2BiuW93bos). And for all the Brits out there, you'll love the Guardian's piece on a book about the C...

The reason why I would choose mITX over mATX: there are hardly any (or none, I couldn't find any) mATX boards with built-in WiFi/Bluetooth, miniSATA or .m2 slots. So if you'd want to add features you'll just end up using the empty PCI slots, likely interfering with GPU cooling. I a bad case scenario...