Bump. OP is talking about completely passive, not with a fan a couple of inches away. I've recently revived an old s754 sempron with a pico PSU and AC freezer 7, for 0 moving parts system.. and looking into upgrade options. I think i've seen people with completely passive C2D systems here... Has any...

Some comments; I wouldn't recommend getting a 5450. If you don't need much graphics power then i would look towards integrated graphics to save money/heat. The integrated graphics on intels new processors is on a par with that, and may be worth keeping in mind. As above you should elaborate on what ...

I am considering a possible HDD upgrade from my current Samsung F1 1TB. (rather disappointing how little the HDD world has moved on since) The F4EG seems to be the best fit 2TB wise, but what about 1.5TB?? Those that i can see that are worth considering: Samsung F2EG, F3EG, 7200.11, Barracuda LP, WD...

looking for a cheap mATX s1156 board for an i3 530 or g6950. have been looking at *Gigabyte H55M-S2H, £67.62 @ scan *ASUS P7H55-M SI (aka ASUS P7H55-M/CSM?.. not the Pro), £60.57 @ scan *MSI H55M-E33, £77.16 @ eBuyer if anyone knows of any good reviews of these boards please point me to them! Als...

i gots mine

edit: lol @ dual mode CrossFire sticker over 4x on the box. too competitive?

They change them at ~1PM so this wasn't relevant for very long. Xigmatek S963 for £11.49.. was that with VAT? would have very been nice if so (£15 w/ VAT 'today')

Are there any plans for a card with HDMI/VGA/DVI port config.?? I would much prefer it, having a 2xHDMI monitor with no DVI. Plus, it allows for triple displays with just as much (more) flexibility as 2xDVI-I's. I have no use or desire for S-Video in 2009 and beyond! Also, since this has a max power...

having P4 boards around, what i would suggest is that you get a mobile P4 chip off ebay. (will be very cheap, <£5). by default it will run at 1.2ghz (speedstepmulti); this can be 'fixed' by breaking a pin IIRC but for your scenario i would leave it as it is. (this has been discussed here before so ...

OK, so for 1:1 (clock, and data rate with dual-channel memory), any ddr-2 800 will max out anything up to [4x400]fsb {which is more than enough for my purposes, and heat}. but, with a [4x200]fsb CPU, the motherboard will not likely allow the 1:1 (clock) memory: ratio. Q: Are there any good g31 board...

...am looking at the GA-G31M-S2L, and e5200 (not looking to max it out, will back off the multiplier perhaps, but want highest FSB for £). it seems the board will supply a max of 2.2v to the memory. So i am looking for the best OC speed with laxed timings (5-x-x-x?) for the least money (around £50...

I intentionally left the question quite open... andy, thanks, i assume u mean 2.1v... (?) -how significant are memory timings to the general performance of applications in a core duo system with ddr2? [edit:] it seems not a huge lot http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2813 http://www.anandtec...

Whilst there is no RAM section i am posting this here to draw on the wide experience of the membership here.... i am looking to get some DDR2 memory for a new intel system (i'm a student (UK) so am money pressured). Can anyone recommend some cheap memory which would allow me to get the best FSB with...

It lacks a 1:1 memory ratio for 800 MHz FSB chips, so you will give up some overclocking performance with the slower Pentium Dual Cores or Celerons (or you need to buy faster RAM). can you elabourate a bit please? i get the general idea but aren't up to date on the intel side.. and would like to kn...

i have been doing a little more reading. the 780g is definately very nice but its lack of 8 channel hi-res LPCM over HDMI means that i would want a 4670 with it, which-- whilst lacking a 'hybrid power' feature-- would make many of its best features useless for me. the g35/45 seem to have a lot of pr...

Analog out looks fine at 1600x1200@60Hz sorry i meant audio. which i am fairly sure is limited to 2 channel 48khz LPCM via digital (SPDIF out over HDMI) on the 780g. it could still be achieved by adding the 4670 of course. the e5200 is not out of the question. can anyone find a decent review (which...

i haven't been keeping up lately on hardware.. and building a new PC with the following considerations; budget (value), multimedia (1080p playback, at least 5 channel LPCM 96/24 over HDMI), features, noise/power. approximately in that order. anyway i am looking for the pros and cons of the chipsets/...

^Nope.

hint: check the numbers

the 120w limit should be fine, but thats not the end of it.... if your XPS power brick is 18v, you will need the picopsu which accepts a wide input; the regular one passes through the 12v. i'm not sure that they do one which has enough power on the 12v line, and even if so it would be less efficient...

not fundamentallly flawed turn it upside down, take the cover off where the cpu cooler is, disconnect the existing fan (or put a resistor in or something to slow it down), and then blow a low speed 120mm fan over it. test it with speedfan + stressing program to check that it doesn't overheat.. if so...

Very few dead Americans please, bluefront, can you explain to me how the life of someone who happened to be born in america, is worth more than someone born in iraq, or anywhere else? and the fact that you feel it is justified to invade a country, costing hundreds of thousands of lives (gasp, some ...

do you mean VRMs? or am i missing something..

anyway, it can't do any harm if you have them lying around. the thermal tape shouldn't be too much of a problem, as the heat flow rate wouldn't be that high anyway. it is already travelling through plastic remember. (and better than nothing anyway).

i am thinking of building the exact same thing as paulka and yourself, perhaps with some wireless router duties too (i'm getting fed up with my wrt54g, even with 3rd party FWs). you can pick up a s370 motherboard on ebay, with LAN & onboard graphics for virtually p&p. add a c3/ram (as above). remebe...

lol i love how you brought 18 durons for the one aXP. i guess you are just relisting the durons?. [i am obviously assuming this is an ebay purchase..]

ebay (older) processor/mobo prices really show how motherboards need to be made more durable.

since we now have image verification, to get rid of bots email was added when we didn't have image verification. so it definately served its purpose when it was put in. email, compared to just image verification, would marginally inconvenience a spammer. the img verification will stop bots, so it w...

it might be possibly to registry hack it but I'm not certain. i don't think it is, i posted something about how to set a custom time for drive spin down (ie, inc < 3m, stuff not included in the drop-down list) here a while back, and the registry just has one entry AFAIK. but its not usually a probl...

"To ensure that only people you want are entitled to join the forums." well you can't really do that here... "i run a forum that has limited membership and that cannot be read by non-members. Having an email exchange with folks who try to register is the only logical way to validate the credentials ...

i had written a big ranting post about email sign up, how it annoys me/wastes time/stops me posting on a lot of sites. but.. i figure i'd just be wasting everyones time reading it.. and not achieve anything but making u think i was a nut.. so i'll keep it short. since we now have image verification,...

www.geeks.com has second hand equipment for cheap. Location: UK these 2 are incompatible. but yeah otherwise they have a few good deals. the X31 is something i'd probably consider if i was buying new, it seems well built, good balance (battery life v size etc) but they just hold their value too wel...

i don't know why no one has ever sucessfully produced a displayless, batteryless, keyboardless (or maybe not?) 'laptop' to replace a desktop. i'm sure a manufacturer could easily adapt their case design for little cost, they would give a huge saving in space, much better aesthetics, would be ideal f...

hm, i wish they'd make one that was socket-compatible with a modern desktop+laptop board, like in the s370 days..