Cheers for the reply. Seems like a much better alternative, as there are cheap MicroATX boards available that undervolt well.

Piccy of the motherboard: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v322/assassinthepredator/motherboard_productimage_ga-m61p-s3.jpg And of the cooler: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v322/assassinthepredator/scsmz1100-main_400.jpg Cheers if anyone can provide any information on this, as I intend to get t...

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Out of interest, couldn't a standard Sempron 64 be underclocked to 1Ghz and then undervolted to produce a close enough value?

Shobai wrote:another interesting newcomer [newcoming?] to the mATX antec family is/will be the mini P180

link: http://techreport.com/onearticle.x/12615.

check out the 3rd and 4th pics, and associated blurbs.

It'd be a nice product if it weren't for the fact it looks so "untidy" at the front.

I have a Gigabyte GA-M61P-S3 board that has this 6150/se chipset and it supported the brisbane with the shipped bios. it also undervolts (haven't tried underclocking). Mine is full size but I think there are new uATX Gigabyte boards with this new chipset. No DVI, however. I'm in need of a replaceme...

I like the look of this mini ninja, I hope it equals a lower price too!

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Mikey wrote:http://www.silentpcreview.com/article307-page1.html

Cheers - I noticed the sample in that review was slightly "beaten up" - did yours arrive in a similar state, or was it in a better condition? Thanks.

Here are a couple of budget options that are low cost and would work well with low power amd chips provided you don't overclock. first is alpine 64. second is Scythe Samurai Z Rev B I have both and the 92mm fans will spin at about half speed unless you are big over clocker. I'm looking for a cheap ...

My motherboard (I think it's that) has recently died, so I'm going to be getting a new motherboard - a Gigabyte Gigabyte GA MA69VM-S2, AMD 690V most likely. I am now looking at this cooler. Reason being the stock AMD heatsink was a pain to put on last time, and I want something really easy to instal...

Nice news!

Mikey wrote:AMD has announced 45w variants of the brisbane core.. makes it interesting..

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=7468

I like the sound of them

The outside looks nicer, the inside looks virtually unchanged?

Might be a beefier power supply, but I don't trust Antec PSU's at the moment - they seem to be going through a bad spell. They could do with making one without the PSU.

Yeah, I would definately add more RAM if you have only 512mb - 1GB should make things feel better by itself, dual channel or not.

My current PC has been crashing alot, and now won't even boot (using the Antec 380watt PSU in the NSK4400 case). I'm hoping it's not the motherboard, and so have gone for one of these Corsair 520watt PSU's - hopefully I'm replacing the right part, but either way, looks like I've picked a decent PSU!...

Steep wrote:
*Get rid of the PS/2 mouse and keyboard inputs. Everything is USB now.

????? Er no.... not quite.

One thing that's annoying about MadShrimps is that they always have such a high ambient noise level :/

Yes, the NSK4000 is the same case as NSK4400 but without the PSU. I've got the NSK4400 myself and I'm very pleased with it in general. It might not have the space of the top end cases, and the hard drive placement could be a problem with a really long graphics card if all three bays are filled (I'm ...

Thanks for the response guys. Sadly prices in UK are a little different than in the US - but dual core AM2 chips do seem to be coming down. I can get a 3600 dual Windsor core now for equivalent of $90 (with HSF) which is almost afforable. But it seems overkill just to run Open Office and Firefox. :...

cbutters wrote:I was just going to post on this.

Hehe, same here, I haven't finished reading yet.

jaganath wrote:

Call me jaded & jaundiced, but I have never seen any proof that when properly used, different types can have more than a couple degrees influence in any direction.

The classic (and hilarious) reference for this stance:

http://www.dansdata.com/goop.htm

Hehe, I love that article!

Thanks for the replies

Fantastic job, very neat and tidy! How are you finding the seagate drive regards noise/vibration? I'm thinking of possibly getting one of them when i run out of space on my current hard drive

Looking very nice!

Yes, it seems likely a faulty sensor if everything is running alright - one would think if it really were that hot it would have had stability issues by now.

Hmm, maybe it is real - maybe it needs some time curing if it's Arctic Silver - did you use that, or generic thermal paste? You could try re-applying it... maybe it isn't seated quite right. If things seem to be stable though it might be ok.

I don't remember CPU ever being more important than GPU for games and I'm going back to the 1980s on this one. If you read reviews on sites like Anandtech, it becomes clear pretty quickly that GPU is far more important than CPU for producing high FPS in games. Having a dual core CPU doesn't even he...

Ooh nice power figures

Sounds interesting..... I'll be waiting for desktop quad cores to become cheap and low power though myself. If they're still able to use DDR2 RAM, I might consider an upgrade this time next year.