tonyb wrote:I have a few questions about the D201GLY2:

2. Where in the UK or Europe could I buy a cable to connect a picoPSU to the 4-pin ATX12V power socket?

Maplins, £2.99.

I'm using this one on my D201GLY, 120W PicoPSU, 110W power brick, 3HDD's, no optical drives. So far it all works fine

What about using the ThermalRight HR-05 on the chipset instead of CPU? I was thinking to replace the CPU heatsink with something even larger still. I haven't tried it, and the northbridge is closer to the memory so i think that rules out at least 1 if not 3 orientations (I think the DIMM would be i...

Does anybody knows if Noctua NC-U6 can be fitted instead of CPU, northbridge or both heatsinks? Noctua support answered "they think it's possible" but it didn't sound very confident. The same question about Thermalright HR-05-SLI. I have the thermalright HR-05-SLI on my cpu on the original D201GLY,...

... I removed the battery for 2 hours to clear my old settings... Just checking... did you take the AC power out of the system while doing this? Otherwise that will power the rtc, even when the system is off, and this procedure won't work. Also you don't need to wait 2 hours. A couple of minutes is...

The EPS12V connector I looked at did not have the same pins as a normal molex connector. These things were square instead of round. I had another look and thought maybe I saw a sort of lip on one side at the bottom of the pin, kinda bulging out and locking the whole pin in place, (if that makes sens...

If you are using the EPS12V lead I wouldn't take out any cables from it, as you may risk problems with power supply to the cpu. If you're not using it, then this would be a nice solution, although I have no idea how to remove the pins (just had a close look at them and I can't really tell how it loc...

RAID 5 uses parity calculations for redundancy, which takes up a LOT of processor overhead if done in software/in the CPU, which GREATLY slows read/write times. Good RAID cards can go from $300 to $1000 too. RAID 10, on the other hand, uses mirroring and striping in combination - two drives are mir...

On the principle that on a striped raid like raid 5, all drives can be accessed at the same time, I'd go with as many drives as possible. This would theoretically give the best performance, especially for large sequential files like tv recording/movies would be (provided there are no other bottlenec...

Hi Leifeinar, Sorry to rain on your parade, but the Xeon E5405 is a socket 771 cpu, and will not work in the same mainboard as your xeon 32xx. Only xeon 3xxx fit in desktop boards, for xeon 5xxx you need a dual socket server/workstation board. And I doubt they would have undervolting capabilities. J...

You can contact Intel through this email form . I doubt they would admit to something working that's not officially supported though. Regarding your questions on cpu & memory fsb (they are directly related), check out this wiki article . In general, it is best to have memory run at the same speed as...

Nice review! It would be interesting though to see the temperatures on the card if you add a 2nd 120mm fan (undervolted) to the chassis (intake) and direct (part of) the airflow straight at the graphics card. To my mind, this is a more likely setup for most of us - I for one would not run this card ...

Hi all, I hope you can help me. I've got a pico psu (120W) and a D201GLY (original version). The board needs seperate CPU power (4x4 P4 connector). I have a seperate P4 to molex converter, but (if possible) I'd like to solder this directly onto the pico psu to avoid cable clutter etc. From other pos...

Ask again in about 6 months; it's too early to say at this point. 6 Months for Nehalem? I think you (and maybe the OP?) are referring to Penryn, which is the current Core 2 Architecture at 45nm. Nehalem, which won't arrive till Q4'08, will be a very different architecture, with as main feature a me...

The fact that windows complains it didn't start correctly would point to a problem with the video card: even though you don't see the splash screen, it is somehow getting to windows boot up. If possible try a different graphics card. Also (since windows detects some error), check the windows event l...

according to gigabyte this cpu is not supported on your board... it always pays to check out the supported cpu list!
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Well I guess it is my last resort. Silly thought - sometimes electronic parts make noise! Before buying a new fan you might want to stop the one that is in your PSU to confirm this is what is causing the noise. You can do this by simply holding one of the fan blades if you can reach (or use a penci...

How is it going to fit? With either solution, I would have thought the only way it would fit is if the heatsinks are oriented so that an attached fan would be blowing to the top of the chassis, rather than the back. Best to check with thermalright and noctua though. 2 x Xeon 5355 (stock cooling) Ok...

14 drives Talk about overkill :wink: Seriously though, can you hear the cpu fans over the noise of the drive? And did you realise that both noctua and thermalright ( heatsink , conversion kit ) now cater for xeons? I don't think you could mount two U120's next to eachother unless they're facing upw...

I'm currently in the process of building a 3-disk (1.5TB, HD501LJ drives) nasbox. Like you I will be sleeping at about 3 meters from it. I looked into buying a ready-made NAS system, but all of them hard-mount the drives and have smallish fans. Hence my decision to build a chassis from scratch out o...

First it's because Scandinavians in general speak better English than other people in Europe. Are you forgetting about the people who invented the language? :wink: And then there's the dutch, belgians, and to some extent germans too... Seriously though, a possible theory is that since scandinavia i...

dont know about 400-800Mhz cpu, but you can get an intel D201GLY for $70 from newegg with a 1.3Ghz celeron included. Not sure what type of tv-out you need, but there is a version of this board with s-video out. This would probably be a bit more than the $70 though, but still, find some nice mini itx...

you really don't want to remove that - it is the northbridge heatsink, and the northbridge needs cooling. I don't own a ninja but from the dimensions pic on scythe's website, it would appear there is more than an inch between the base of the heatsink and the lowest fin. Maybe a ninja owner can confi...

Hi, i think it would help if you posted some pics of the parts you intend to use - that woudl make it much easier to see what you are talking about...

[The simple answer - it's hardware dependant. Even with a 64-bit OS, if the hardware you're using can't properly address the 4GB of devices you have in your system, then you're never going to use it. The only thing there is that to be able to install a 64-bit OS, the hardware must support it, which...

The Hauppauge Nova-T-500 is a dual tuner freeview tv card, using a single aerial (although on mine there are two aerial ports which you can use together to get a stronger signal ro something - this requires reflashing the f/w, but haven't tried this yet.) Works fine on my XP system, I can watch one ...

Have a look at this article. Ok, it's a dual core, but it is overclocked, and it is in the chassis you are planning to use. Should give you some inspiration!

Agreed with the last poster. I have a 15" laptop which i lug about on a daily basis. Even though I sometimes wish for higher resolution (mine is 1024x768), I had to use a 17" laptop for a week and got really annoyed with the big size and weight of the thing. Especially if you can get a 1680*1050 15"...

I'd recommend you send a mail to silverstone to ask if there is any kind of list of compatible motherboards for this heatsink in this chassis.

How about silverstone's own NT01 v2 ? Looks like it will fit your case - in fact it almost looks like it was designed for it - although you better check with them first. I've always favoured front-to-back airflow and this heatsink will let you do that. No idea on pricing/availability though, and it ...

considering a keyboard is plastic you probably could get some modellers paint and use that along with a small brush. Have no idea how durable that is though. Or maybe just a fine-tipped permanent marker? What colour are the keys themselves?