Cases are one area where upgradeitis can really get you, because they are hard to sell. If you have the original box (or at least an acceptable box), I've had pretty good luck selling on ebay, even with high shipping costs. But you'll probably have to settle for a lower sell price. You can specify "...

I own the m350 case and am using a core i3 2100t inside it with the stock heatsink since it is low profile. I also have an intel x-25m 80gb 2.5" ssd that I have placed right above the heatsink. I can tell you now that this is probably not something you would want to do; rather, place the ssd in the...

I just did a quick check. With dual screens, my system was holding steady at 33 Watts AC, mostly idle. Using a Kill-A-Watt. I pulled the HDMI cable from the back of the PC. I watched the Kill-A-Watt for about a minute. It stayed on 31 Watts, occasionally dipping down to 30 briefly. I don't have any ...

xinaes wrote:It's also interesting to read that you are doing this with two digital outputs; I've read some FUD elsewhere that such a setup would require one screen to use VGA.

Last time I checked, that was true for AMD integrated video.

Does anyone have any experience of how much power H67 uses when driving two displays, or thoughts on how this might be with the new chipset? I just built a system with the following specs: CPU - i5-2600K MB - Intel DH67GD RAM - 2 x 4 GB 1333 HD - Intel 320 series 300 GB SSD I drive dual digital mon...

Hello, I got the DH67BL board and the i5-2300 cpu. I downloaded Speedfan 4.42, however, no matter how I change the 3 speed settings, none of the RPM's change at all. Any help on how you got it working? I have the DH67GD, but am experiencing the same thing---neither Speedfan 4.42 nor 4.43 appear to ...

Hello, I got the DH67BL board and the i5-2300 cpu. I downloaded Speedfan 4.42, however, no matter how I change the 3 speed settings, none of the RPM's change at all. Any help on how you got it working? I have the DH67GD, but am experiencing the same thing---neither Speedfan 4.42 nor 4.43 appear to ...

I've been looking at the In Win IW-PE689 . It's a top-mount PSU, but you seem to have relaxed that requirement. I don't know if you consider its appearance "refined and subdued"; I'd call it "plain and utilitarian" (which is my personal preference). I don't have any personal experience with it, but ...

Bottom-mounted PSU : The cats love hitting the power on the top-mounted PSU of my server. It's annoying. If you relax this requirement, you have a lot more options. Unfortunately, it seems cases with bottom-mounted PSUs are still relatively rare. Have you considered other solutions to your cat prob...

Other manufacturers offer nvidia 210-based cards with passive heatsinks. I have one made by MSI in my media PC (also running Linux). My previous setup used the ECS N8800GT, which came with a factory-installed Accelero S1... If you wanted even lower temps, you could remove the Accelero S1 from your o...

netom80 wrote:Hi Matt,

I'm in the Chicago area. I was wondering if that case was still available. I can pickup on weekends or perhaps this Monday as well.

Yes, it's still available, and weekends are best. Please send me a personal message to work out meeting details.

Thank you!
Matt

Bump, price reduced.

Do you drives have the codes WD20EARS-00S8B1 (4 platter) WD20EARS-00J2GB0 (4 platter) or is it WD20EARS-00MVWB0 (3 platter) or do you have another revision? I have 1, 4, and 1 of those model numbers, respectively. So looks like I have only one 3-platter. I have the 00S8B1 in front of me now, with a...

Anyone happen to know if there is a reliable (and easy) way to determine if a WD20EARS has three platters or four? E.g. via firmware revision or serial number or something along those lines? I'm just curious, as I bought six of these drives about a month ago. The article suggested the informal test ...

For a low-power gateway/firewall machine, I use an Alix2d3 board from PCEngines . It's based on the AMD Geode processor. The whole machine uses about 5 watts total, and is about the size of two decks of cards laying next to each other. The hard drive is a compact flash card. I don't know where you a...

Mike, the mini-ITX vendor said, "Spec’ing ECC RAM on your MB really limits your customer base, so not too many companies do it, especially in small form factors." How does adding additional features limit your customer base? You can offer ECC support, but the end-user (or even OEM) can still use non...

I like the build guide. Even if the component choices don't necessarily meet one's requirements (e.g. ECC), it's still an informative article. If you're building a car, you can still learn from someone building a tractor. :) Some random thoughts... I'm in the "you should use ECC" camp. My understand...

I'm selling a gently-used Middle Atlantic ERK-1825 Server Rack. It's 18U tall, and 25 inches deep. Comes with the caster kit and rear rails.

See my Craigslist post.

Thanks,
Matt

Bump.

It is Bios related. From my experience there are manufacturer patterns you can (usually) trust: SuperMicro & Intel always gets this right, you don't even have to ask. The x16 slot(s) will support anything that follows the PCIx specs. Zotac and BioStar seem to consistently get this right too. You mi...

Such a list would indeed be a nice thing to have. It would be a lot of work to establish something like that. You'd probably also have to tag the information to BIOS revision as well, since, technically, a motherboard vendor could change the functionality of the PCIe slot with a BIOS update. I would...

I'm somewhat interested in this, but I am not in the Chicago area. I'm about one state over in St Louis. Is there no way you can ship this? I wouldn't mind shipping it, but I don't have an appropriately sized box. Anyone know where I can find a box that I could use to ship the P182? Most boxes seem...

Bump.

That is amazing... It seems to me that silent computing gets easier every year, so we see fewer and fewer of these crazily ambitious projects. So when we do see someone go to these kinds of lengths, it's that much more of a treat! A lot of that work looks quite tedious---may no one ever question you...

I installed 2 sticks of Kingston 2GB DDR2 ECC http://www.ec.kingston.com/ecom/configurator_new/PartsInfo.asp?LinkBack=&ktcpartno=KVR800D2E5/2GI&root into the TA760G and flashed to latest BIOS. I then setup basic ECC mode in the BIOS and ran memtest86. However, the "ECC : Detect / Correct - Killchip...

MikeC wrote:Looks to me like Socket 1156 Bolt-Thru-Kit should work with the SI-128. You could always email them and find out.

I just emailed Thermalright support... they got back to me in 30 minutes!

They said that both 1156 both-thru-kits work with the SI-128.

Makes my decision easy!

Thanks all.

I'm looking for a "mid-size" 1156 cooler for an Intel Xeon x3440. By "mid-size", I mean less than 5.5 inches / 140mm tall. This requirement unfortunately seems to eliminate most of the 120mm tower coolers. I'm also looking for reasonably low-price, say $35 (US) or less. The CoolerMaster Hyper 212 Pl...

I happened across this Serve The Home site the other day. There's a review of the power consumption of the Supermicro X8SIL-F motherboard with the Xeon X3440 and Core i3-530 CPUs. With a solid state drive, 4 GB of 1333 RAM and a PicoPSU, power consumption at idle was 48 and 40 watts, respectively. I...

Thanks for the quick reply. I want the ES specifically for its straight-through fan arrangement. Decent & inexpensive 80mm straight-through PSUs are getting hard to find, and it would be nice to know that the SS-XXXES series lives up to SPCR standards for noise. The 3-year warranty doesn't bother m...

Bringing this one back from the dead.... @ matt_garman - How's the SS-300ES holding up? I'm looking at the 400W version, and am interested in your opinion - any insight is appreciated. So far so good. In fact, all the hardware has been completely problem-free. Note that Seasonic makes E S and E T m...