The PC will be for general use (internet etc) and for photograph editing. I won't be using it for games. The basis is as follows: Motherboard: Asus P5Q SE2 CPU: Intel E5200 RAM: Buffalo Firestix PC2 8500 (4GB) Power Supply: Nexus Value 430w PSU Graphics Card: Asus EN9400GT Silent CPU Heatsink: Xigm...

The atom has so far come with ancient & very inefficient chipsets (apart from the NVidia). The processor consumes very little power. Presumably Pineview will bring much lower power Atom boards.

Hello, I am looking for a low power CPU + Mobo Combo. DG45FC (you'll probably want an E5200 with this or the next one) http://www.silentpcreview.com/article869-page5.html Zotac GeForce 9300-ITX http://www.silentpcreview.com/article943-page5.html Finally an Ion: maybe this won't have the same perfor...

You may have noticed no processor yet. I had in mind to use Core 2 Duo E7400, but got to reading and, well, you know how that goes… Pentium E5200 caught my eye, with a mild overclock it looks like a real contender at about half the $$. Comments? No need to overclock, especially since you are comi...

But I'm disappointed in the noise coming out of this motherboard. Clearly, Gigabyte's priority is to implement all sorts of new hardware technology in their boards. I should have seen this as a red flag, but now I know better. They probably didn't notice or care that they neglected one of the basic...

Last month I built a new Intel i7 PC for music composition and audio recording. It's more of a gaming system but should work fine for this if it's quiet. analog recordings into this new i7 PC are accompanied by an obnoxious, wide-spectrum buzzing noise centered near 2.5kHz. This electrical noise is...

[quote="LodeHacker]Well current FireWire and USB implementations for Pro Audio suck to say the least. Timing/bandwidth problems being the key to distorted or delayed audio signals. For true Pro Audio you need an RME or similar in PCI Express / ExpressCard[/quote] Sure but the question is does USB 3....

- Hopefully, for better compatibility with newer hardware. - Hopefully, for better security (can Windows and security even be used in the same sentence in positive terms?) - Hopefully, for less mucking around and administering, and more time actually using it for productivity and enjoyment. ...If W...

What's the target market for a case this big? File servers?

Strange choices. Why would you want more than 1 hard drive in an HTPC? 0 is ideal, but if it has to be used for media storage too then 1 hard drive is the right number.

Too ideological, not the right point of view to see economic questions. "Granted a dignity" is nonsense. Granting money does not "grant a dignity" and even if it did how much money is needed to grant dignity is not related to the variables of the economy which should really determine the level of ta...

deruberhanyok wrote:The information comes from this page at Anandtech:

Which also states it's a power problem, which means that a powered USB hub should fix it, although they didn't test this.

Take it easy mate. > Why not just use this checklist: > Does it use an SSD? There are significant reasons someone might choose not to use an SSD. Cost, limited capacity and slow write performance for a start. No: http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531&p=24 http://www.anandtech.com/stor...

1. laptop / netbook reviews - Most current laptops or netbooks reviews don't give useful results for the noise level of the computer. I currently use a 5 year old laptop for remote control of music playback; the fan is bothersome. But there are so many laptops. Why not just use this checklist: Does...

By 16-bit calculations do you mean 16-bit sampling? 16-bit audio won't be a problem for most people. It's pretty much what all MP3s are encoded at. Even DVD-A at 24-bit, you won't notice the difference unless you have an audio card with a high SNR margin and a high-fidelity sound system. No samplin...

LOL I guess you've already tried it? eSATA is great, but they lack power for hard drives, USB 2 in modern chipsets can at least use 2.5" hard drives without an extra power supply. Yeah they're slower, but USB 3 will change that. I like the idea with eSATA though, no extra controllers needed, but it...

it's also used for gaming (high end as you can imagine, eg crysis/stalker etc with settings pretty much maxed)... So my issue is - trying to find a relatively powerful PC that will game the same way, but in some combination with being a media center pc more designed for a living room and running qu...

Case: HIPER HMC-A0-2K53A MoBo: ASUS M3N78-VM (Nvidia 8200) / ASUS M3N78-EM (Nvidia 8300) No good. All previous generation integrated graphics are no good for htpc. CPU: AMD 5050e On the AMD platform wait for the new 45nm dual core processors and get a 780G motherboard. And finally, an Intel alterna...

Well pure HTPC:s might not need the most powerfull cards, just depends what specifically you have planned to do whit it. If it's just playback, a IGP shall do fine. but the image enhancement stuff will need more powerful cards if you want gpu to handle it. but still then lower mid-end and below is ...

it wouldn't surprise me if a different form factor would enter the market: optimized for graphics cards, ideal for HTPC's or compact gaming PC's, even with low profile cases. HTPC doens't need a graphics card; that's been true for over a year. NVidia Ion and Intel hybrid CPU+GPU will allow for smal...

The reality of course is that ATX is here to stay for the foreseeable future, PC's are slowly breaking into 2 market sectors. High performance (graphics) machines that are physically bigger and contain faster higher performance components. Smaller less/ non-upgradable desktops (nettops) for the mas...

madman2003 wrote:Also keep in mind that passively cooled recievers need breathing space for cooling.

The relatively modern ones using class D amplifiers shouldn't use much power at all. Other classes will get hot.

I'm looking for a small, simple HDMI receiver/amp to power 2 speakers for my HTPC. Why are receivers so large nowadays? Most Onkyos are almost as big as my computer case. You could get something simple like a integrated amplifier. Receivers do a lot of things which you don't need if you have one so...

Pecorino wrote:@croddie
Works great... I'm not using MP HC... The MPLayer is the best media player today in Windows environment. For mpeg-2 NVIDIA Pure video decoder is amazing (with hardware acceleration).

I'm sure you're right. I like MPC-HC personally. But these are both players not codecs.

Vista was not better than XP. Vista was, and it is, worse-the so called "new features" in most of the cases are useless features, which make the whole OS more slowly only. Vista for me was a disaster- the teenage toy... . Windows 7 try to make Vista to look better. But the problem is the Vista... ....

I'm about 51% sure that we are directly or indirectly responsible for Climate Change, but at the same time I cannot be certain because there are too many interests involved and many different ideas and sides to the argument. I think a big problem is it's very rare to understand risk. Rational decis...

aristide1 wrote:Wasn't there a UK court decision that Gore's movie could not be used in classrooms? Lacking science and being too politically motivated?

As if science still exists in UK classrooms!

No one on earth even knows if god exists. I do. Being a good person and being religious have nothing to do with each other. Who knows what religion is? A red herring? Do you know that good exists? Why aren't you as skeptical about that as about God? Especially as God:=good:=God by a lot of definiti...

For me, the only thing I've seen that Win 7 will be able to do that XP cant is SSD optimizations out of the box. Some of which you could probably tweak on XP, while a few of the changes will be for win 7 only it seems. Vista does a lot more than XP. Just look up the list of features on wikipedia. I...

Today, wonderful series of free h264 and high definition codecs (with low CPU usage and multithreading) exist. Actually no, assuming you want DXVA. You have to get the codec from MPC-HC, do some hacking, and probably end up without subtitles. They decide to ignore them. They choose to use their (MS...