Is it not better to pick the new Athlon II X2 250? Not all too pricey, way better performance than the old Athlons and also it's 3.0Ghz!. and still only 65watt TDP. Under volt it and you should probably get even lower. Though the initial price off it might be to much maybe? It's about 40-50% more t...

Is it not better to pick the new Athlon II X2 250? Not all too pricey, way better performance than the old Athlons and also it's 3.0Ghz!. and still only 65watt TDP. Under volt it and you should probably get even lower. Though the initial price off it might be to much maybe? It's about 40-50% more th...

I used a Titan Copper VGA cooler to replace the NB fan/heatsink on my old Asus A8N-SLI DELUXE as the fan died on it, didn't bother whit trying to get a new fan from Asus as it was a bother and I knew the new fan would probably die sooner than later again. The specific model number is TTC-CUV2AB/RHS(...

Just a little update. After much messing and trying back and forth diffrent ideas and whatnot to try and get the computer to run cooler I found a suggestion on having the front fan pushing air out off the case rather than inside would lower temps quite effectively. I tried this and it works wonders....

Dell has probably gone and switched the wire layout to get DELL exclusive fans. I.E. you can't pop in any fans but but the dell ones. OEM FTW! Besides. On normal retail motherboards the fan connectors are quite different. Normally only 3 pins for non PWM fan connectors and 4 for pwm capable connecto...

Something I'm interesting in seeing more is a HTPC gaming machines. And the DTX+E thing I suggested could work quite nicely in such a environment. We could today actually have a "Console PC" instead off a PS3, XBOX360 etc. You would only need to create a few standards these computers need to follow ...

This was a really interesting topic. Got me to think about this myself and I came to a simple and effective solution. No need to major overhauls just create a extra add-on specification that motherboards and add-on PCI etc cards may use as well as chassi makers to make it go all around. It requires ...

a single graphics card doesn't need 500watts... no way close. going sli or just having mutiple graphics cards then you might start a need for 500watts and above. The HX520 is all good to go for your system as it is currently, and still have loads off room to spare. Minimum? Makes me laugh! :lol: Jus...

I think you would most likely need to find some small form factor PSU whit a rated spec off about 250-300watt rather trying to use a PicoPsu whit a external AC-DC conversion. There are rather powerfull bricks (200watt or maybe more if I remember correctly), I've seen them before but they are huge ug...

I undervolt my current computer to get less heat from it. It has just turned 1 year old. It's a Phenom X4 9750 whit amd stock heatpipe cooler. Though it's on it's 3rd motherboard already. On stock voltage 1.3v it gets just ridiculously hot in my setup. I have it set to 1.175v in bios which actually ...

Looks just lovely. I would loved to have built it myself if I would have the money.

But I got to ask about the temperatures. How are they? Hot but stable? Cool or Temperate?

I've been messing a bit whit my computer these last days trying different fan configurations/positions/speeds to get more silent and cooler temperature. Trying to find the most quiet combination to decent cooling in short. Well today I encountered a weird phenomena... My AMD stock fan started to go ...

Yeah this case is practically only designed for 1 hdd and 2 other 3.5 things like a floppy drive and maybe a smart card reader not 3 hdd's as I have in it. Those two 3.5 bays whit openings outside are a pain in the ass to get hard drives in if you want to keep the front plates there. Took me ages to...

I experimented whit my cpu cooler and the papst fan I had by switching their positions whit the papst over the small hole to the cpu cooler and the amd fan on the 780/HD3200. Gave about same temps. well it seemed it was better but full load temp climbed higher than whit the amd fan, though it climbe...

YOU HAVE RAMSINKS ON YOUR HDD CAGE. While you technically might be handling the thing correctly... You have ramsinks on your HDD cage. That is far from normal :) LOL. that got me laughing for real when you really pointed that out. I would agree that's quite rare, or unique when I really think about...

Please don't get me wrong, but this case is absolutely horrible and you shouldn't spend any more time and money to get rid of its shortcomings. You can't polish a turd, as the old saying goes. I neved understood the obsession with Lian Li cases. They might look pretty on the outside, but constructi...

From what you have suggested ntavlas I myself would only about think off doing is the cpu cooler swap, and get a bigger fan to pull air inside from the side air intake. a 70mm fan is kinda small for the huge potential of a fan to be placed there. Problem is I need to cut into the dvd-cage holder to ...

Hi all. Been away for a little while but I was here quite a lot for a little while 1 year back when I was planning my new computer which was supposed to become a smaller and more silent system than my old really loud one, and it would have enough punch to handle most stuff I thought. Well I felt lik...

The gigabyte 780G board does seem to have quite the load of driver problems at the moment... Mostly thinking off the AVSforums official Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H thread. 100+ pages. The board itself is great but the software to make use off the features ain't all that great.

Crysis as best? well you can't max it whit about any card... well Ati HD4870 will do it good enough atleast. Now you need to pick a case that can fitt it aswell.

But more importantly what kind off money limits do you have in mind for total system cost? It decides quite alot the parts...

Have any of you tried "be quiet! PC NOISE ABSORBER KIT"? I bought a Universal big tower kit for my computer consisting off a Lian-Li PC-A01B case. And it effectively by my hearing reduced noise by half in general and in all removed the vibrations off the case all over to zero in that you could hear ...

No whit a Phenom you can't undervolt in bios whit this board only overvolt or stick whit standard "normal" orginal stock voltage. I've experienced some overheating problems over here when playing games that utilize graphics somewhat. I had a X850XT whit Ice-Q cooling whit a ghetto 120mm modification...

DJ Peter B wrote:Well.. thanks for your comment
i still think that ill go with the 203 sammy. ill let you know how it is when i have it.

I found a 20x dvd burning article whit the S203D and DVR-215BK on cdrinfo

The results here

Maybe tilt your opinion a little?

Oildalemonkey, you know what, waiting a couple of days cant hurt so ill give the Antec 120mm fans a chance. thanks Nighthog, according to cdfreaks.com the SH-S203B performs better then the DVR-215BK . it even got the Editor’s Choice Award. Hmm I did buy mine about 3-4 weeks back, so it was before...

If you are after the best burner or burn quality I think a Pioneer DVR-215BK SATA should be the best.

What graphics card do you have? And about the pci-slot cooler. I have heard Thermaltake only have loud fan stuff... Well you could just rewire the cooler so it draws from the 5volt instead of the 12v standard. should lower noise quite alot but at the same time not getting as much cfm. Why not try fo...

Yea the acoustics of this case aren't too impressive are they? :D The fan noise is driving me nuts, I just loathe pulling everything out to reinstall the mobo (zalman mounts with support behind the board !!!). Will be a nice weekend project I think. If you go with an aftermarket fan you can just ha...

I had a Antec Truepower 430W PSU for my old computer. Well as I started to get random restarts etc whit the computer I started to look for any problems on my comp and got sugested it might be the psu and that the psu I had was notorius for blowing upp... Well I checked everything else but found noth...

I have a bad problem whit my computer concerning the cpu-fan... When the cpu-fan goes to rpm off 2500 or more I start to get BAD air turbulence/sucking air sound from the airintake for the cpu... it's really bad sounding and ALOUD!! the turbulence eats and envelopes all other computer sounds kinda, ...

The Lian Li PC-A01B is quite nice, just built a computer which uses this case. I have 3 hdd's in it. it's close and tight and can be a pain to get those harddrives into position before you figure out the best way to do it. It's though recomended to only have 1 hdd in this case if you don't want to m...