Though the AMD (presumably X2 3800+) is €80 more, it's more than €80-worth faster, especially in games. If your budget isn't that flexible, then I'd pick a single core Athlon 64 over the Pentium D - most games still don't use dual cores effectively anyway. And the Athlon 64 would run a lot cool...

Wow, Devon you take no prisoners. Enermax got bitchslapped in this review. Most other sites would balance it by talking about how great the gold coloured fan grills are or something. Nice review btw. Enermax has been very far off the price/performance curve in PSUs and cases for a while.

I like your build. Thumbs up. *boo* *hiss* for the wma lossless.

Linux support for video decoding is a bit tricky to set up and incomplete. I don't believe most of purevideo's features are available using xvmc. ATI recently started supporting AVIVO under linux, but I have no indication as to what features are supported. Google Avivo Linux and Purevideo linux for ...

Looking at the P-D price drops is anyone tempted to get a P-D 915 or 925 in mid July instead? They are supposed to drop down all the way below $150. Looks like it might make a good server box while you wait for Conroe MB/Chipsets etc to mature into early next year. Maybe its better to get a $200 con...

I had a 2x866 P3 fileserver with 2x200, 1x320 and 1x250 GB HDDs in a closet in an old house. The closet door didnt shut properly :D and left a 2" gap at the most open point. The size of the door was a normal interior door size. The closet was 2'x3'x7' (dxwxh). Everything ran fine. If you leave a sma...

Hothardware have a review which shows nForce 590 SLI consuming ~40W more than CrossFire Xpress 3200. It’s hard to know if any of the difference is down to VRM efficiency differences between the two motherboards, but that’s still a hell of a big difference. You know I noticed that and thought th...

The main thing I want to note though, basically every power comparison so far has compared the Nforce 590 SLI against ATI's chipsets. It's seems pretty apparent that their 2 chip architecture is very power inefficient not to mention it seems likely the voltages are higher for the built-in overclock...

That carpet

Interesting ideas for the build, but I'm with the posters calling for the P180's head.

and Intel's transition to BTX

Sure this isnt a typo? The much vaunted transition seems to have stalled in a big way I thought. But then again I havent looked at Dell or HP/Q machines lately.

Not bad for a $25 HSF tho.

*sigh* Nforce 5 series is interesting, but it runs hotter than the ATI chipset. Wonder if the new to nforce5 features work stably. The chips are boring other than the low power ones. Intel's choice to leave the MC off chip now seems well advised. All this hoopla about merely changing the memory cont...

I thought one of the most pertinent points in considering this case was mentioned in the conclusion of the review where it was pointed out that a case like this is almost out of place in this day and age with lowered thermals being an important consideration for newer chips. Its not clear whether th...

royalbusiness.com has Tucano bags among others. Reasonably priced, and they dont look like the ugly black targus bags *ugh*.

two thumbs up! I am going to use these from now on. Cardboard is way2ghetto!

This is a very nice setup with a pleasing overall shape. I do have a couple of criticisms/concerns. 1. Why not move the CD/PSU cables to the back of the case (would require relocating HDD/psu etc). The "front" of your case looks unsightly. 2. Figure out a way to neatly route cables. If you've gone t...

Nice build as usual bluefront. I love the padded ducts and the low cost high effectiveness solutions. Here are questions to both you and Isaac. - Due you think you get an advantage from using a small case when you are going with single fan systems? (for low powered systems) - Can someone with a 80wa...

Is this for a personal or client application? I have exactly such a server set up except it is also a file server. A quick run-down of my server: Dual P3-866, Via chipset(boo!!), 4 HDD, 300W Fortron PSU, PCI video. Performance is great although large PHP scripts that do lots of SQL are slowish. WRT ...

Your upgrade choices are good. I would upgrade the video card cooling, suspend drives, PSU, and finally/optionally case in that order. If you do keep the case get a flow through PSU with duct like the NeoHE and I suggest Leo's dual athlon MP article. His mods are simple and very effective. Getting a...

Couple of questions : Why are you interested in a 32 lane PCIe board when less will suffice? Why dont you run without a video card altogether? Judging by what you are doing you should be able to run linux w/o a video card. Nforce4 is 130nm while the 6100 is 90nm so it should be better especially if ...

Thanks for the informative posts, I have updated the list.

Fourthed'd. Bogus science sucks!

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An oldie but goodie. This post by MikeC talks about using multiple 80mm fans for his wifes machine after I had done some incorrect :D calculations as to the noise level each fan adds. Post . So for lower power machines (sempron, core solo etc) i still think multiple 80mm can be quieter. For machines...

[IsaacKuo - please do not post further in this forum as neither myself nor other users are gaining anything from your contribution. Your suggestions are heavily outweighed by the rest that comes with them. I apologise for questioning that an 80mm fan might not be quieter than a 120mm. At higher vol...

Extending Tibors' idea further, why not get yourself a fileserver and move all the storage to it? I was checking out quad xeon boxes on egay with 2x1200W PSU's. Should do the trick no? Or better yet, buy 500 GB drives, and sell your old ones. Upgrading drives is a good way to put off impending HDD f...

hey thanks for the reply. I had looked at that evercase, but in ATX flavour and forgot about it completely. I dont mind how it looks and the 120mm is nice. I also like the side vents because I can close/open them on my heat/noise requirements. I am going to add it to the list. WRT the inwins, I look...

I am considering a uATX case for 2 boxes : Box 1 : Sempron 2800 (max OC at default Vcore), integrated everything, 1 HDD, 1 CDRW, S12-330. Box 2 : Pentium D 820 (dont laugh), 7600GS (about 55W), 2GB DDR2, 1 HDD, DVDRW, S12-430 likely. Looking for suggestions on the following or other suggested cases....

*bleh*

Craaap. I was just about to build a system with a CM Centurion uATX, S-12 330 and Biostar T-Force s754 sempron. Even though I like the Centurion, I am intrigued by rustys comments about the little NSX.

Can i wait a month..........

That card is a dog, but still much better than an X1300. Unless all you're buying it for is light gaming (low res) and video playback.

Also the passive cards are too expensive. Just buy a cheap card, replace the cooler. If you need it for warranty, put the old cooler back and ship it to em.