dan wrote:

Howard wrote:Get yourself a can of spray paint.

What about LED & 14cm?

Get the kind that glitters and makes things look bigger.

Get yourself a can of spray paint.

Are you ears really that sensitive?

No it's fine...it just it interferes with some components on the motherboard... Someone on this forum had the same problem with the Gigabyte 965p-DS3 so I know how to fix it. The Infinity works without modification on the Gigabyte 965P-S3 and DS3. I think you misunderstand me. Do you know what the ...

The IHS could be concave. No it's fine...it just it interferes with some components on the motherboard... Someone on this forum had the same problem with the Gigabyte 965p-DS3 so I know how to fix it. The Infinity works without modification on the Gigabyte 965P-S3 and DS3. I think you misunderstand...

The IHS could be concave.

mattcoz wrote:Why is the low-end card the filet mignon? Shouldn't that be the high-end card?

From high to low it should be: filet mignon, new york strip, ribeye, sirloin

New York strip over ribeye??

cmthomson wrote:Well, those edits are fair. I was trying to be diplomatic, without naming names WRT fan marketing. Your update is a bit more specific, while avoiding libel...

How can it be libel if it's true?

Yoiks, bad English are al over teh place. My wiki account is 454Casull, if anybody's wondering about the deluge of edits.

What's the budget?

Hmmm, Carbon Fiber panels on an Aluminium frame attached using what appear to be Aluminium fasteners. This could turn out to be be rather amusing :lol: Whilst it's true that in aerospace carbon composites are becoming increasingly common, it is very uncommon to find them attached using Aluminium fa...

If you're going to build when K8L comes out, why not ask then? Any advice given now will most likely be sorely outdated by the time you can actually use it.

Whoah, too much $$$

Could you figure out what the CPU and video card are?

Maybe you should get a new case with 120mm fan mounts? 2 would be enough; 1 for the rear, one in the front to cool the HDs. The rising noise problem is either the video card or the PSU; if it's the former, get an aftermarket cooler like the Thermalright HR-03 or Zalman VF900-Cu. If it's the latter, ...

ahhh hummm, but if it has the pins i would assume the manufacturers sell retail breakout cables somewhere too right? Not sure what you mean about "the manufacturers", but I can tell you that my old-ass video card, the Matrox G400, came with a composite+S-video/HD15 adapter. Here are some others: ht...

LucIyer wrote:quieter? more reliable?

Quieter. No idea about reliability.

The 15-pin VGA-out has pins for composite and component and I think S-Video as well. If you wanted to, you could make your own breakout cable.

Could you throw in a subjective description of the effect of orientation on noise output (motor axis parallel and perpendicular to ground)?

The Antec SLK3000B can be had for ~$50 after shipping and can be made very quiet.

I see you're going the conventional route. Never mind me, then.

Switch out the HD for a WD2500KS or SP2504C.

What resolution do you play games at?

vine-au wrote:

student wrote: I think cooling technologies will develop along with increased heat output and so silent 1KW PSU's will be possible. Some watercooled or heatpipe version probably exists somewhere already...

Zalman already have one available

Unfortunately, it's hardly effective.

Is there something that the P5B Deluxe has that the P5B doesn't AND is something that you want? The only useful thing I can think of is the DTS Connect, and I'm guessing you don't need that.

http://www.free-av.com/ ftw

LucIyer wrote:i'm not really in need of 2gb's of ram.

That's what they all say. sample bench

How do you guys feel about the zalman 9700LED?

I'd wait for more reviews.

Did you just up your budget or something? P180B, E6400, P5B Deluxe, etc. What gives?

C2D E6300 (for a target clock of 2.8GHz) - $100 G.SKILL 2x1GB DDR2-667 1.8V - $200 ASUS P5B - $135 Samsung SP2504C 250GB - $71 Samsung SH-S182D - $30 Shipping from newegg.com - $12-15 for UPS 3 Day ASUS X1950 Pro - $200, free shipping AC Freezer 7 Pro - $16 Antec SLK3000B - $30 Shipping from provant...

It's perfectly fine, unless one happened to have two top-end quad-core CPUs, 8 hard drives, a shitload of fans and pumps, etc.

You sure are hedging your bets, aren't you?