hey there. I have a similar setup which to my ears is v quiet. I have the ultra 120 heatsink with only the rear exhaust on (on low) , the top exhaust off, and a 1200rpm scythe fan on the 120. I have a asus 8800gts superclocked and it fits fine in the p182 though it does get close to the hdd cage, th...

I'm pleased to say thanks to this site and its forum users I finally have a pc that is fast and quiet *sigh* I received the silver p182 having ordered the p180. Woo! The cable management around the back of the motherboard is worth it alone. Switches on the outside of the case are a nice touch, but i...

Having installed an oem windows on this machine and found myself on the phone to microsoft for a long time day in and out (wrong type of key believe it or not), I'm getting fed up with xp oem and its activation limits. I had an oem xp on the last machine and that had horrors when i went to SP2. Now,...

I previously had a MS optical mouse where you could tweak the rate that it scanned for motion. I now have a Logitech that refreshes stupidly fast anyway.
I've recently found cheaper optical mice to be poor at tracking on different surfaces.
Was the previous mouse ok?

I'll be putting together a similar system today mate so I'll let you know if the Samsung drive mucks about at all. I've read that some SATA drives are being awkward with certain motherboards, so perhaps it's a BIOS thing, unless it used to be ok? I had a Sony ATA once that did a similar thing, so I ...

True enough point there. There are plenty of crts about that are capable of that. I used to have 2 of em but eek a 60hz refresh
Widescreen's nice. I find it odd working on 4:3 now. Then again if I was working on 4:3 all the time, 16:10 might be odd to my eyes.

I increased the size in windows and firefox. In winxp I used the "accwiz.exe" accessibility wizard, and on firefox the extension "nosquint". Without those two things I using this monitor would be a pita because like that user said, the text is too small. My eyes are between 50-60cm from the screen....

I'll be fitting a Thermalright Ultra120 when I get my q6600 this week. I'll let you know how I get on

I'm gonna order similar RAM in a week or so. Seen plenty of people with similar setup, so you're probably good to go with that RAM. I may go for the Samsung drive too

Those are much better temps. Good work. I wouldn't panic too much about the load temperatures skipping about. Others might, but I'd turn a blind eye and blame... um... the cat. Get a cat if you need one to blame. Or send hate mail to mine ;) Fan-speed wise I find knobs on the front of the machine a ...

been looking into practically the same system, one difference being the ultra 120 i ordered this morning, but things to note... The scythe ninja B apparently has looser pressure on the processor than the previous rev. Although it will always be hot compared to some, the temperature reporting can be ...

I use a program called mozbackup which backs up all the settings and bookmarks whenever you like. Also works for thunderbird and the mozilla suite, so I use it to archive emails regularly. Similarly it backs up the email account settings and such.

Wouldn't that require different motherboard, ram, and thence cooling? Or is it 775 too? Not sure the price difference warrants a "probably". I'd need proof. [edit] Did a little research. The 3220 is the same chip, same price. The one your suggesting is the 3210, lower clock. Ok, but I'd rather not o...

I was considering the thermalright 120 which is coming back into stock soon apparently according to one of the shopping sites i found it on, and also the Zalman 9700, though the LEDs will be somewhat wasted sitting in a case with no window :lol: I think the 9700 bolts on I was almost hoping someone ...

i'd rather get a quad core with 1333mhz FSB... O_o :D Me too but that's sooo much more cash The ultra 120 seems to be unavailable atm, making me wonder if they've been recalled to fix that 775 bracket spcr found awkward... or they're just so popular it's crazy. Either way, I'm not going to modify t...

Just checked it out. It's rev2. Anyhow, according to the scythe site and a few others, the p5ne-sli board needs modifying to get it to fit. Pesky capacitors in the way... So that's either different cooler territory or time to consider a motherboard without tall capacitors next to the socket

Hi all! :D I'm a frustrated cgi type with plans on building a quad core system to replace my ageing XP3200+ affair. My current list of components appears below (handily arranged into a scan basket) Do these things go together happily? I'm especially interested in the 3 hard disc RAID 5 plan I've got...

As a kind of benchmark I have a 3200+ running so much hotter than that it's silly. I took out a case fan a few weeks ago and plonked it in another machine instead. The temperatures didn't flinch. :wink: Definitely take it out. I only have one intake blowing over the hard discs but that's really slow...