I know this is not exactly helpful, but one of the things that popped into my mind when every other topic here became about people's new Sandy Bridge builds, was how "careless" (for lack of a better word) I thought it was to jump on new tech so quickly. There are two elements to this in my mind. 1....

Well my read on this is that memory specs don't really matter for the real world performance. Like they haven't for at least a decade or so, at the detail level at least. This isn't really a surprise, given the overall trends that've been obvious to anyone for the past thirty or more years. All we n...

Well when I watched this movie my thoughts were: 1. This is billed as a action movie in which Stallone, Boots Willis, Arn Schwarz-U-Later and others get together and make a silly action movie. Which is fine. Except ... where the hell were Boots and Arn? Cameo appearances at best. I want my money bac...

Hi, Q1 - Can you let me know how much clearance there is above and below the Thermalright AXP-140 (depth 145mm) so I can work out if the Noctua NH-C14 (depth 166mm) will fit? Between the top of the fan and the base of the PSU there's 18mm clearance. Bear in mind though that the stock fan clips might...

I've offered up my GTX570 to my (old, soon to be retired) Solo and no, it won't fit unless you're willing to break out a Dremel.

Thanks for a really good guide. I was really interested in the Gamer Build V2 and recent reviews on SPCR has thrown up some questions about the Lian Li PC-Q08 case. I'm still playing with my PC-Q08 build, but what I've done is use the Intel DH57JG mobo with a Core i5 750. The PSU is a Seasonic X460...

~El~Jefe~ wrote:Make it black base with white, yellow or red lettering so people with eyes do not have be blinded.

Jesus Christ no. White-on-black as an absolute abomination on an emissive medium. It's bad enough in print.

Hooray! At last we get an 'ignore user' feature!

Surely an increase in mainboard temp. of more than 25% at idle (38C v 30C) and of more than 55% (55C v 35C) under Prime95 is huge? Erm... you do realise that the Centigrade/Celsius temperature scale has a quasi-arbitrary zero-point? You can't sensibly make arguments about percentage rises in temper...

ermi wrote: when do the fans usually spin up automatically: on high CPU load or on high CPU temperature?

Temperature

1. The general argument here seems to be that since the Mini P180 mATX is about the same size as most other ATX cases, that one should instead get an even larger P183 ATX case, even if you don't need it. This makes no logical sense to me, and I am quite sure that Aristotle is rolling over in his gr...

Also, if I understand it correctly, the Northern Ireland conflict is actually less about religion and more your standard fight of an occupied territory against the occupation. Religion, as usual, was only brought in to harden the views and soften the thinking. Yes and no. The occupation, if you wan...

Yes, it is very sad, that people dont talk to their neighbours, and the children arent allowed to play with the kids in the next road, all because they believe in a different Sky Faerie, and have been fighting on and off for hundereds of years over such a small and pathetic little point. It's even ...

Onboard sound bi passes all quality anyone serious about gaming or movies will not stick to crappy onboard sound. If you believe onboard sound sounds good you've never owned quality sound card and speakers. Are you talking analogue or digital? See, because you don't specify, you come across as some...

*shrugs* I dunno I think peoples expectation for socket longevity and general upgadeability of the fundamental bits of PCs (read: mobo and CPU) has got out of perspective. Moreover, BD ain't looking like any great shakes from what we've seen so far so it's too early to tell whether or not it's worth...

Own it, use it, judge it. RMA it if it's noisy? RMA it again if the replacement is noisy? That's assuming the retailer will accept the RMA on the basis of it being noisy which, in the UK rather than the US, they tend not to do. Owned it. Used it. Judged it. Got rid of it. Corsair CX400W isn't worth...

Any idea if it's possible to mount a 120mm fan to the front of the case? It's possible if you're willing to mod the case. Is this a serious question? There are fan cutouts on the inside-front of the case specifically designed to mount fans there. No mod needed! (unless you're talking about the abso...

ficod wrote:Any idea if it's possible to mount a 120mm fan to the front of the case?

It's possible if you're willing to mod the case.

I think the company that does it in europe also has a US operation. If you hunt round on their website there might be a link. [/list]

Please please please, can we have a decent micro-ATX tower, that's not an ATX-tower-in-all-but-name size-wise?

walle wrote:So you acknowledge then that science cannot scientifically explain it, then where's the disagreement.

Generally speaking the disagreement lies in what's inferred from the (current) lack of a scientific explanation for those things.

I seem to be the only person who has noticed this repeated and bizarre trend of referring to "evolution" as "random". No, you're not the only person to notice this. Indeed as far as I can tell it's this trend that underpins the confusion that leads to people concluding that there must be some super...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/markmardell/2010/06/no_wellspring_of_britbashing_i.html Should I be investing in a tin hat and boarding up my home? If I believe everything I read in the British press, it would be a wise move. According to them, there is a wave of anti-British sentiment sweep...

[off-topic]One of my best friends did the bulk of his doctoral work at ESO roughly 6 years ago (his major focus is on star cluster morphology and evolution). He's bounced around as a post doc (UCL, Cambridge and Exeter), With a track-record like that he's probably readily identifiable :D Given the ...

judge56988 wrote:More here.

Heh. From that article:

As of December 2009, 40 per cent of BP’s shares were owned in Britain, but 39 per cent were owned in the US.

It has six British directors and six American, and employs 22,000 Americans against only 10,000 Britons

Bloomberg: BP Needs to Tell Whining Americans to Take a Hike

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid= ... hdg31PUmp8

Sounds like you are more concerned about the nationality of who will get blamed (because British Petroleum is based in your home country, the UK) than you are about the disaster itself. That's a pretty ironic statement given the transparent bias and jingoism in your own posts (your steadfast refusa...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/2010/06/will_bp_be_forced_out_of_the_u.html As I've written here before, it's certainly not ludicrous to assume that the final cost for BP of this mess could wipe out at least an entire year's profit (which for the past three years was just over Â...

Life is extremely costly and unnecessary. It's something we don't need to (and shouldn't) perpetuate. Life perpetuates itself. There is no "we". Life costs an enormously high price. It's very own design (of using pain to direct concern and attention, as well as life eating life) necessitates much s...

if the u.s. government actually does remove the $75 million cap, and make it retro-active, so that bp has to pay for all of the crap it created in the gulf, the other oil companies will not hesitate to pay for the proper safeguards to help prevent this sort of thing from happening in the future. If...