Ultimately, although Intel does produce motherboards as pointed out, it's not Intel, nor any of the anciliary hardware manufacturers who control the fate of BTX, it's the end customer. By end customer I mean Dell, HP, and so on. Intel sell processors and motherboards, not PCs. If the real big name b...

Wierd. I received a ZM-400 B a few weeks ago, it had just one grille, facing the CD drive as you state it. I specifically chose the PSU because of this feature, and would have been mighty cheesed off had it had a lower grille. I don't have it front of my right now, but I'm 99% sure it's the B model ...

IMO AMD will stick with ATX, though as has already been suggested some enhancements might be possible (ATX isn't that bad). It's interesting to ponder the parallel between the two companies transition to 64-bits. Intel take the route of trying to force-feed the market a totally new and incompatible ...

sneaker wrote:In any case, the LGA775 CPUs look extremely power hungry.

Whoa! Look at that step function. The reason for the canning of Netbust in one single graph!

ajagodnik wrote:I didn't know that media had SUCH effect on noise?!?!

Yeah, if you get a disc that's slightly asymmetric you'll get all sorts of bad vibrations going on when you spin it at ~10,000 rpm.

jan, i recently set up a system that had 3 options: S1, S1-S3, S3 just like that in the BIOS. I ended choosing S1-S3 and installing the OS. when i ask windows xp to suspend, it works just fine... everything shuts off. and it wakes up just fine too (though wiggling the mouse won't do it... i actuall...

AFAIK hibernate is suspend to disc.

S3(STR) absolutely positivvely rocks! Instant off, instant-on, apps. stay in memory when the machine is "off", only have to touch the power button when I want to move the PC. The business!

Is the 'x' required? Try 'hdparm -E 4 /dev/hdc'.

Can someone let me know of the nForce 2 board with the lowest VCore setting. I have an Asus A7N8X Dx and it only lets me take my XP-M 2500+ as low as 1.575V. Does anyone know the NF2 board with the lowest VCore setting or can you at least tell me the VCore for your board if you have anything differ...

I'm wondering if BTX won't go the way of Intels Netburst-based cores -- a quick bullet in the back of the head. I'd seen the Inq story you linked to, and another earlier one on the same subject, it looks like those responsible for delivering the infrastructure Intel will require (specifically case m...

I've had mixed signals from my GFFX when overheating. When I ran it without a heatsink it started to artifact (sparkly pixel heaven). When it overheated more slowly (fan dropped off the ZM80C), the result was a more progressive development of stuttering, disappearing textures, etc. In neither case d...

I run an 80mm L1A on an SLK-947U cooling an undervolted, underclocked Barton 2800. It runs at a temperature and voltage that I'm happy with.

Yay! Two shoulders, two chips! That's one each!

Handbags, ladies?

The best floppy drive is no floppy drive! I mean that semi-seriously -- do you really need one? My box is floppyless, and I honestly can't say I've missed it. In fact (along with my ISA cards) it was good feeling to wave goodbye to yet another piece of obsolete technology. With writable CDs costing ...

Ugh, that's just too loud in all sorts of ways.

I'm a ZX-81 man myself, then BBC Micro 'B'. Man that thing was built like a tank (the BBC, not the ZX-81 ).

Hello and Welcome to SPCR!!! [/size] :) Has anybody used it on an FX5900 (or equivalent heat card) without the fan? Yes (though not intentionally). does it run dangerously hot because of it? Yes. I have a Zalman fitted to an FX5900Ultra, and the fan fell off just last night whilst gaming and it hit ...

Quad Itanium2, that'll get your power consumption up

Still interested in the nexus 120mm real silent fan that costs much less than the papst 4412 in the UK, would like to know whether 36cfm is it's real airflow, or if that's just exaggerated. Well, I just stuck my head between two fans and my opinion is that the Papst 4412 @ 5V is noticeably quieter ...

If the card is sold as passively cooled, then I can't see that there's a problem, even if it does get very hot. These GPUs are designed to run hot (up to 140C for the NVIDIA GeForceFX), much hotter than CPUs or any other component i your PC. So you need to put away your preconceptions of what's too ...

Have a read around the forum (this one and Cases & Damping), there's lots of discussions about both issues (which way fan should blow, in or out, and how to work out where the noise in your system is coming from). Read the sticky threads too, lots 'o' info.

Quick summary: out, and fingers.

unfortunatly, I ordered the nexus last night :( I wouldn't take my experiences as overly representative of the Nexus, I think I must be unlucky, or incompetent (probably both). Most other folks seem to get on fine with the Nexus. Certainly if I didn't already have other plans or my case I'd mod the...

I personally don't rate 120mm fanned psu's that highly. the rreason I though different was that I though that bigger fan = more air moved = can be run slower. I take it that in PSUs it is not the case. From what I can see from this site there's no right answer to big v. small fans in PSUs; if you r...

You need a little device that you plug into a sockett. You then plug your PC into it. It will then measure your total power draw. I remember a teacher of mine showing me a device like this years ago, he called it a Joule meter. Searching for that, however, has not yielded good results :( http://www...

Technically, SATA I standard supports native tagged command queuing; the issue is that most controllers on the market (some, oh, 90%) do not have this feature yet. Another issue is that the majority of SATA hard drives on the market are merely PATA-based drives with onboard SATA conversions (even W...

Looks rather fun:

http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/akiba/ho ... hanfc.html

So I would say that to conclude that A is better than B you would need more samples, and I seriously doubt you can distinctively tell the difference between the 'flo's @5v... That's a fair enough comment, it's easy to come to the wrong conclusion with small-sample statistics. On the other hand I've...

I'd just like to back up what Ed has said about the Japan v. China Panaflo 80mm L1A's. I ordered two L1A's from Dorothy last week, and they came through as one of each. I did a side-by-side comparison at the low-end of a Zalman Fan-mate (~6V) and there was a noticeable difference in the quality of t...