The NEX-series is NOT the recommended (by me) Supernova G2/P2 series : the first is based on FSP Aurum, the latter is based upon the Super Flower Leadex (updated platform of the Kingwin/Rosewill PSUs reviewed by SPCR). Noise wise the NEX is not that good and, being a not high-performance, group-reg...

What's your dad going to do with the machine that he would go from not-sure-he-gets-a-powerful GPU to two? Also, why did you overclock the CPU? I built my machine about 8 years ago and I'm a bit annoyed that I went into overly-thrifty mode on the case ( and jumped through hoops to get it quiet ). S...

No good for my Dad's build, as he only has space for a tower but the Cooler Master HAF XB EVO http://www.coolermaster.com/case/lan-box-haf-series/haf-xb-evo/ looks pretty amazing. I've actually been planning to build a case like that for myself for over a year (currently have my rig in plastic crate...

As you mentioned it, what would you suggest as an alternative to the CX750M? Not that I've read anything bad about the CX750M, although the only review I could find was in Danish and not very detailed. Looking at Aria's selection (I might have to swap it rather than get a refund but I'm not sure), a...

It can be useful to partition the drive if for example, you have your games on one partition and all your other junk on the other partition. This will reduce fragmentation on the games partition, so you won't need to defrag it as often and it won't take as long when you do. Likewise, if you make a p...

I need full ATX. Bitfenix Neos: ATX, just slightly bigger than Silencio 352/N200, 160mm cooler, 300mm graphics, mesh front with dust filter and USB 3.0, around 30Gbp or less, can be ordered on Caseking.de with noise absorption (dampening) kit (a 25Gbp option I guess), in lots of colours and optiona...

Antec One, Good..- Bad: CPU cooler max 155mm No, it can accomodate EASILY any 160-162mm cooler (I did it). Hmm, weird. Their website doesn't give any details on this point but the review they link to states the max is 150mm http://www.antec.com/pdf/press/2504-Antec_ONE%20pg2-Atomic_June%202012.pdf ...

I've heard decent things about the Bitfenix Merc Alpha , if you don't want to splurge on a case. The Fractal Core series, as well - but...not as cheap. Thanks but that has the HDD cage blocking long GPUs, only has USB 2 ports on the front and doesn't seem to mention what size CPU HSF it will take. ...

but I want to try and keep it as quiet as possible Then you should not have pick the Corsair CX-750M, and you should pick a better fan for the Hyper 212... I should have phrased that better. I mean I want to keep it reasonably quiet without spending a lot to get the quietest components. I only real...

Hi guys So I'm upgrading my Dad's PC and have got him a i5-4670k and Asus Z97-A for £265 (with £30 cashback to come). I went a bit OTT with the PSU and got him a Corsair CX750M, when he'll probably only be pulling 400W max and that's if he gets a very powerful GPU which is probably unlikely but I fi...

Hi Doveman Did he receive it in one piece? What did you finally use? Hi thierry, Yeah, you must have missed my post on 27 September but it arrived safely thank god. I'm not sure if I was more worried about it getting damaged or my brother being out and Parcelforce leaving it with a random neighbour...

Lol. Yeah, then I could have supervised him whenever he went near the PC

Maybe I should have just shipped him some extra bubble-wrap to wrap himself him in, to protect the PC from him

bummer. You might want to reset the CMOS, too. If you ever need to transfer that much data again, you might consider removing the HDD from the old PC and just attaching it to the new one - SATA is a tad faster the ethernet. :) Reset the CMOS. Not if I can help it, I don't fancy having to talk my br...

Well I managed to find a box 30x24x20", which was close enough, for £8.95. I had to cut the height down to fit within the Parcelforce limits of girth+length<=3m (just got in at 2.98m and just under the 15kg limit at 14.8kg as well) otherwise I would have had to pay an extra £20 or so for the large p...

Sorry to break it to you laststop but this draw was on 09/24/2012 so you're a year too late!

Actually, having done some more testing it seems that the Samsung on it's own produces the noise now. I even thought it might be some interaction between it and the front fan, which I had secured with zipties but decided to screw in instead but even with the fan disconnected the HDD was making the n...

I've got a Samsung 1TB SATA drive and an old 80GB IDE drive (Seagate I think) which is just for temporary files so that programs aren't having to read the source files and write to the same drive, which slows things down immensely. I'm using an Aerocool VS-4 case which has a removable drive cage wit...

The bigger problem is finding an outer box 6" larger in each dimension than my current case box, as per Fedex recommendations, which would make it 29*26*16". I think I might have to just try and find a box around the same size as the case one, 23*20*10", but stronger and more suitable for shipping ...

I've received the replacement G-360 now and am happy to report silent service has been restored

fwiw, I have everything in BIOS at "default" and use K10Stat for all settings. At my P3 state in K10Stat, I have: CPU Volt: .75 NB Volt: 1.0125 I could probably go lower with the NB, but I've been running this config for years and it's just rock solid. I've used PMSRT also, works the same, I just l...

Having failed miserably to overclock this CPU on my Asrock 880GMH/U3S3 board http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=62817&p=577294#p577294 I've now decided to undervolt it instead. As it will be only serving media files to a RPi sometimes, it seems to make sense to have it run at ...

OK, I think I'll give up on overclocking as this board just doesn't seem to like it and go for a nice cool and quiet underclock instead. I'll see if I can get it to idle at 700Mhz@0.75v as you've done first. For the other end, what voltage do you think I might be able to use for 2.8Ghz? Currently it...

Yeah, that sounds like a recipe for disaster, with a little bit of foil left behind and blowing the thing up as soon as he switches it on :roll: It could be. But you could make sure only the wrap the stabilising foam pieces with the heavy variant of the foil. Is your brother really that clumsy and ...

Looking back, I wonder if it was the CPU temp that was 40c on the Biostar board or the Core. I was using the TRUE so maybe that was cooling the socket better than the Xigmatek is or maybe it was reducing the Core temps better but it seems unlikely it would get it down to 40c at 1.456v when I'm getti...

OK, so either the TIM re-application or the re-orientation or a combination of both has definitely helped. Stock (FSB 200, CPU 2.8Ghz): Exhaust fan (Xilence) 920 RPM, Front Intake Fan 610 RPM, CPU Fan 1035 RPM Idle: CPU 35, Core 24, MB 39 IntelBurnTest (Standard, 5 runs): CPU 50, Core 42, MB 42. CPU...

my voltage on my "crap" amd 1100t system is much higher than the voltages around here. I'm at 1.46 volts to achieve 4.2ghz 21x200 on the amd phenomII x6 1100t. And this is in a crappy dell case with 1 intake fan and 1 exhaust and a corsair h80 in push pull. Prime 95 pushes temps to 58C in an air co...

doveman that is definitely not a normal sound for any PSU let alone a quality one. Hell the generic 400 watt PSU that comes with a dell doesn't even make those noises. You should RMA that to Seasonic. That noise is totally unacceptable. Seasonic is supposed to be a premium brand. My x660 will go ri...

Well this time, instead of putting the two lines of TIM on the dividers, as shown at the bottom of this page http://archive.benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=170&Itemid=1&limit=1&limitstart=5 I put it on the two centre heatpipes instead and it seem to have spread rather ...

Well I took the heatsink off to re-orient it and as you can see from these photos, the TIM coverage was awful, which I don't understand as I filled in the channels and applied two short lines, as shown at the bottom of this page http://archive.benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=v...

A simple google search for "foam in bag packaging" explains the method referred to above much better than just waiting for people to explain it one bit at a time. I've unboxed several of such computers, shipped from the company that built them for us, coming from another city a couple of hundred ki...