I have been so wrong. The Nexus fan mounts I recently tried are indeed better than the Antec mounts. Both are very soft but the Nexus mounts can be easily removed for reuse and also work with closed corner fans.

Hi alphabetbackward. Thanks a lot for the link to Antec silicon fan mounts at a much better price. I needed to order some more soon.

The best mounts I have found are made by antec.

http://www.antec.com/Detail.bok?no=328

I have two Samsung F1 1TB drives suspended in a Solo and I have not experienced a high pitched whine. One of my Samsung HD501LJ 500GB drives had a whine like you described when it was new, but after a couple of weeks it stopped whining.

PC Magazine was the only rag left for my dog to use. I no longer have a newspaper. Last year the Atlanta Journal And Constitution discontinued delivery to south Georgia.

As far as I am concerned PC Magazine is dead. It's only advantage was that it was hard copy. The web is full of much better digital info.

For eight years I have been a subscriber of PC Magazine. A couple of months ago I renewed for 24 new issues. The last issue sent was for November 2008. I recently discovered that PC Magazine intends to fulfill their obligations via email of digital issues. I am steamed and plan to cancel my subscrip...

The best silicone fan mounts I've seen came from Antec but they were expensive.

You could go for the 400 Watt Corsair made by Seasonic. Today is the last day Newegg has a $20 rebate resulting in after shipping cost of $30.

You are right Vertigo. There are no clearance problems. I installed the retention bracket with my XP-90 and all is well. Thanks for your reply.

Surf Newegg (just for info Aussie) and check out Gigabyte's AMD 780G offerings. You can choose from MATX or ATX at good prices. These boards also work with Phenom II and some future AM3 processors.

I paired a GIGABYTE GA-MA78G-DS3HP with a 4850E.

I just ordered a new Gigabyte GA-MA78G-DS3HP motherboard. I have a spare XP-90 lying around. If I order Thermalright's AM2 Rev B retention bracket will I run into a compatibility problem?

Thanks in advance for any replies.

Bush would look great in Tar and Feathers.

The subject says it all. I just ordered my second one of these.

The 780G chipset has been surpassed by the new 790GX examples of which SPCR has in the lab now. Wait for the review here.

Hello SPCR'ers

Tomorrow I will receive a new Samsung 1TB HD. Because some people have experienced problems I will test with ES Tool before Use. Should I format the drive before testing? Any advice would be appreciated. I have never tried using ES Tool. Thanks.

The Solo has great air flow through the HD area even without a front fan. My Solo is vented by a 120mm Nexus at 600RPM and an Modu82+ power supply fan at 460RPM. I run two Samsung HD501LJ's whose temperatures never exceed 35 degrees. I did cut out my rear grill and also discarded the HD mount unit.

There is a wealth of free info available for free PDF download at the Tweak Guides web site. There are both XP and Vista Tweaking Companions that cover hardware and software. Head to Tweak Guides and check out its large set of resources.

Using that kind of bandwidth just to show ok/not ok tags next to search results is intolerable. I'll certainly switch to another virus scanner when the support for 7.5 ends. Hello melton, The new AVG 8.0 function that does this scanning is an option that can be omitted. Refer to the Tweaking Compan...

After running a Seasonic SS-400 for three years I began experiencing hesitant cold booting and swapped for a Modu82+ 425w unit. After reading this thread I opened the Seasonic SS-400 to look for bulging Caps. At first everything looked OK but then I saw one smaller cap that was obviously swollen and...

I had to swap power supplies in my Solo several times recently. Each time I had to remove and reinstall the HSF. It seemed like removing the HSF would be easier than removing the MB. It may be possible with my setup to remove the PSU from the optical drive bays but I have not tried that.

I don't see how anyone can be certain that his computer is not infected if he does not employ AV software. I agree that good practices will likely keep one virus free but periodic manual scanning is a wise choice. If AVG Free 8.0 is configured not to run in the background there is no downside to run...

I use AVG Free AV but I configure the program so that no processes run in the background. I am willing to forgo realtime protection in favor of speed. A guide to configuring the new 8.0 version of AVG Free for unobtrusiveness can be found in the Windows XP Tweaking Companion on the Tweak Guides web ...

My favorite SPCR recommended quiet HD is the 500GB Samsung HD501LJ. Here in the USA the HD501LJ can be purchased for as low as $85.

Are you using the P150 rails on the drive you are putting in the Solo? Is the protruding latch on the outside of the rails? Do you have the same problem if you put the drive in one of the other bays?

There is no speaker in the Solo. The top mounted optical drive is flush with the drive bay covers in my Solo.

Hi mttcrlsn,

Did you try to RMA the unit with Newegg?

I installed SP3 on each of my two boot drives in AMD64 systems and all seems well. I was expecting the service pack to force installation of WGA, but apparently it does not do so when updating an existing setup. I also created a SP3 slipstreamed WinXP OEM install disk with AutoStreamer to use for th...

Can't you RMA the MB with Gigabyte?

...there's always the chance they'll go the same way as Autopatcher... I think MS finally lost patience with AP when they started providing Office hotfix rollups as well as for Windows itself... Go the same way as Autopatcher??? Autopatcher is alive and well. The team changed the program to fetch f...