Just been looking at stuff on scan.co.uk (thanks for the link for that JamieG , I didn't know about them) and they have a couple of Core2 Quads ending in an S which purport to be 65W rather than 95W. That would mean less heat, right? Could that make a big difference when it comes to cooling with my ...

Some good advice regarding the upgrade path being irrational. Also the heat of the i7 could be an issue. Same goes for the AMD 955 Black Edition. At the moment I'm kind of settling on a Core2 Quad, perhaps the Q9450 OEM which is going on overclockers.co.uk for £150 with tax. Would the Scythe Ninja ...

My motherboard died a few weeks ago. I've considered a new system several times in the last couple of years but affordability has stopped me in my tracks and I've muddled through. Now that my socket 939 motherboard has died, I'm more or less resigned to a new system rather than a replacement 939 mot...

Oh, and I've got three hard drives suspended in my SLK-3000B and have had no problems.

That's probably the motherboard I'm about to buy and I also am wondering about the RAM. I can get 5-5-5-18 PC8500 RAM for £20 more than 5-5-5-18 PC6400, both OCZ brand. I think it's about headroom and I'm tempted to plump for the higher-clocked RAM to give me the headroom for overclocking. If you'r...

Would this qualify as low latency? OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-5400C5 Dual Channel Vista Upgrade Gold Series DDR2 (OCZ2VU6674GK) 667MHz RAM Speed, CAS 5-5-5-15 Timings, 1.8-2.0v VDIMM, Lifetime Warranty with OCZ. It's actually £10 more expensive for that than for the PC6400 RAM. And what about overclocking...

Thanks Steve. It's looking like the following is going to be my choice: Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 LGA775 'Wolfdale' 3.16GHz (1333FSB) - Retail - £160.99 Asus P5Q Pro Intel P45 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard - £105.79 OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C5 Dual Channel Vista Gold Series DDR2 - £39.09 ...

So what are the differences between the 4xxx, 5xxx, 7xxx and 8xxx series on the Intel CPUs? For example, on my vendor of choice's site, the E7300 Wolfdale 2.66GHz (1066FSB) - Retail is the same price as the E4600 Allendale 2.40GHz (800FSB) - Retail

Can anyone enlighten me?

CA_Steve wrote:it might be a little more complex...he was running Vista 64...does Lightroom support quad core under 32-bit XP?

Aha, well spotted that man. I hadn't noticed that. Back to the drawing board then.

Thanks for the helpful replies, folks. Even the 8 series might be something to look at, since you don't state any need for dedicated graphics, and usually that's the other expensive part. Yeah, I don't need integrated graphics. I have a passively cooled Nvidia 8600GT as I needed dual-link to drive m...

Any thoughts on the Asus P5QC? It takes DDR2 or DDR3 and is £90. All other DDR3 boards I can find are more expensive.

Or is there really little point in my selecting DDR3 for my modest needs, bearing in mind my budget?

My main rig is now painfully slow so I'm back on SPCR again looking to my old trusty SPCR colleagues for some advice. My main rig is an AMD 3500+ as is my sig file. Details and the build were documented at the time and I had fun sharing the experience on SPCR. It's now long in the tooth and I'm now ...

I bought two Samsung HD400LDs as they were on promotion at my local supermarket. I bought one for myself and one for a friend who runs a DAW in his attic studio. His is a custom-built PC DAW with 3 HDDs (two SATA drives in RAID configuration (not sure what they are) and one Barracuda IDE drive, all ...

I just ordered a bunch of cables to upgrade my satellite, DVD, A/V amp and TV interconnects. They arrived today and I can't get it to work, and am starting to think that I've misunderstood the difference between component and RGB. 1. My TV has 3 SCART inputs, one of which will take an RGB signal (th...

So I took my time getting around to it but I just ordered one of these: Asus GF8600GT Silent PCI-E 256Mb Now I need to decide whether to spring for a Dell 30, an Apple or wait and see when Apple's next gen screens come out. I've waited this long but now the old monitor is really doing my head in. I'...

You only need HDCP for high-def DVDs though, right? Digital downloads should be okay? I'm not sure I'll use the monitor for watching HD content but it's worth bearing in mind I guess, especially given than we don't yet have an HD TV.

How about the PowerColor ATI Radeon X1950 Pro Extreme SILENT: According to the product description from Overclockers.co.uk: The AC cooling system helps cool the card further by up to 11c over the stock cooling design and operates in silence. Low power consumption (Consumes 60W less than equivalent X...

Thanks for the suggestions everyone. I'll check those out.

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My monitor just bit the dust and I was looking at a Dell or Apple 30" display. It turns out that for that I will need a dual-link DVI-D graphics card that supports 2560 x 1600 resolution. My fanless GeForce 6600 doesn't support that so, if I decide to go big, I'll need to upgrade the graphics card t...

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Incidentally, while the people saying "scrap the Aptiva" have some valid points, you'd be missing out on the satisfaction you can get out of squeezing useful functionality out of a pile of, well, junk, which would otherwise end up in a skip. Obviously it doesn't make sense if you have to spend the ...

I just installed it on my C2D MacBook but can only bear to run it when I'm not in the same room - when the fans ramp up, it is the loudest computer I have *ever* heard. It's so loud it's almost verging on Python-esque humour. I'll run it at nights and annoy the cat!

An interesting project to be sure. I did a similar thing on an aging machine, although it's a bit more modern that yours (P4 1.5GHz, 256MB RAM, Gigabit ethernet card). I set up ClarkConnect Home 3.2 as it came with SlimServer installed. The primary use of the machine is as a server for my Squeezebox...

I have a HDD sitting on foam for months, PCB side down, without any issues. It was actually the foam inserts that came with the foam kit for the Antec 3700BQE case. I think the biggest danger would be overheating so try and have some airflow over the HDD and ensure that the foam isn't too soft of fi...

One thing I think would help would be to post a short article on the SPCR homepage to try to recrute new folders. Judging by the number of views the posts/news on the front page get, it could maybe produce 100 new folders in the worst case scenario. A dramatic title like "SPCR needs your help!" sho...

I'm pleased to have found this article! I logged in to search the forums to see if there were any posts about how quiet the iMacs are, and lo and behold there are two reviews! The flatpanel on my Downstairs PC is on its last legs and, rather than fork out on a screen, I'm considering relegating the ...

I should also have said, that I have another computer on the network, connected through the same modem, and it successfully uploaded a WU today. It has Folding running as a service, whereas the failing one has FAH as a command line window as in the screenshot above.

The latest work unit has finished and the results did not upload successfully. This is a problem. Could it be something to do with my router? I haven't changed anything so don't see how it could be that. On the other hand, as a previous posted suggested, I did installed IE7 and Firefox 2.0, but I'm ...

Looks like they didn't go through. I'll see what happens when the WU that's currently being crunched is done (it's at step 69). If that goes through, I'll write off the three lost ones. If not, I'll need to figure it out.

Thanks so much for the help. I tried the first option and that didn't work, so I tried the second option and, after running the qfix thing, it no longer even flashed up. So I ran it from the command line and it said that the WUs had been submitted. the .dat files are still in my work folder, so I wo...