Just be aware that a high end CPU will always run hotter than a low end CPU of the same architecture. For Intel....the Quads are certainly going to make more heat than the 4300 or other low end core 2's,likewise with AMD chips. If you skip the OC stuff,and undervolt or try Crystal CPUID,you should g...

I'd mention that besides cards from M Audio,Terratech,Echo,that use versions of the Via Envy 24,there's also cards using the Oxygen chip,with Auzentech and Bluegears good products. Sounds like the Asus Xonar can be outstanding-but I'd want it to establish a rep first.

Besides, creative and m-audio are more or less crap for sound quality. Uhm... M-Audio is far from "crap". Comparing them to Creative is almost an insult :/ djkest: I think you can go digital. I have an M Audio Revolution 5.1 which feeds a very nice NAD 302 power amp and speakers I built to get qual...

Semi-Final , what I will buy in a few days unless you have better stuff to recommend which I can buy (most I can't) : - Armor Junior Black : (really limited here, unless you have a cool and cooled media pc to recommend [soprano was not recommended by a lot of you], I will buy this sh*tty thingie) -...

Also a 500GB Samsung drive is better for silence. Not according to SPCR : "Neither drive clearly has the upper hand, and a choice between the two is likely to come down to the kind of noise that bothers you personally. Heavy users who want to avoid seek noise will probably prefer the Western Digita...

Or there is the 45 watt BE-2350 that I can find locally and cheap. Wonder how that compares to my AMD64 3000+. It looks like either of the EE 3800+ 35 watt or the BE-2350 45 watt coupled with the MSI Neo2 Digital make for very efficient little PC's :) So I wonder what the most energy efficient psu ...

I want to know what temps it hits with a fanless Ninja in an average room outside a case... In the entire universe, how many Ninjas do you think operate outside a case, with absolutely no fan (not just passive, but actually fanless)? If you want to know that, you're gonna have to measure it yoursel...

Not sure how that "45W chip" with the big cache will stack up. The Sempron Sparta will no doubt draw less wattage than a similar 90 nm Manila or Palermo...and those probably sucked less than 45w real world. Obviously....a Dual core and a single core at a similar clock won't suck the same power-and a...

I saw a user review of the new BE- dual core.....fanless HS...Fanless PSU...single Scythe case fan and temps in the mid 30's. Where have you read this review? Luca A newegg user review. Not much detail but does indicate what is possible. As for the Sempron Sparta....that's rather close to the 3000 ...

the first LE Sempron (65nm Sparta core) is already at New Egg and 45.99.
1.9 ghz.....256 l2 cache....should run way cooler than the already very cool Manila 90nm equivalent.

The first Sparta core Sempron---65nm...is now at Newegg for 46 bucks. 1.9 ghz, 256 L2 cache. Figure it significantly more efficient than the Manila core 90 nm chip it replaces....and those often idled in the 20's with the stock HSF. I saw a user review of the new BE- dual core.....fanless HS...Fanle...

What are your requirements for speed? What exactly are these machines doing? How many of them do you need to build, what is your budget? Do you really want LOW power or just low power? The Intel mITX board is really low power and inexpensive. It is pretty slow at 1.2ghz single core. I would suggest...

4Gb some will say is a waste... but I guess it's your money and up to you :P Realistically though if you are only gaming you wont see much difference over 2gb. But like I say it's totally up to you, future proofing is cool too :) I'll be using some other software that I know will be more ram intens...

I was just looking at user reviews at New egg for Intel mobos......and was stunned at all the troubles people were having with many of the current ASUS boards. Take a good look at Gigabyte's P35 mobos.....which appear to have hardly any chronic issues and far fewer defective units too. Be sure to lo...

Sometimes a container like a juice bottle or milk jug or other recyclable plastic food/juice/booze container also can work. The foam board idea ain't bad....looks less ghetto than the Ritz box. It might be cool to go for the ghetto look,use a Kotex box and seal 'er up with some tacky lookin' christm...

I thought I'd see if I could find some more info in the newegg user reviews...and found little on AI Nap......what I did find was a lot of unhappy campers with the recent Asus mobos fore Core 2....and ESPECIALLY if using Vista. It even seemed some graded on a curve or something...gave badly screwed ...

Well..I was looking at New Egg reviews on a P5K Asus...no mention (so far) of AI Nap...but the Bios Update for Vista 64 was burning out the bios chips---a lot. Bummer. Also be sure on ANY recent mobo you have RAM at a voltage the board can use. Some boards won't do RAM thats more than 1.8 v,some are...

The AI Nap feature (also on the M2N-E AM2 mobo,interested me---yet I also have yet to see ANY review or even much detail from Asus. Damn. I agree--it could be real useful. I'd assume it's a case of the mobo running at minimum idle,obviously the HDD involved is operating and some CPU-RAM is in use. I...

If you need a high RPM Delta.....first off....you are on the wrong site. You probably want a site about puters that fly around like helicopters or overclocking a CPU until it's drawing 500 w and can roast a chicken in an hour. Finding a fan that runs at 3000 + rpm and makes the expected noise is rea...

Asus M2N-4 SLI (no fans) X2 3600+ Windsor XFX 7600GS (Passive) Seagate 160GB IDE 1GB DDR2 Kingston Sunbeam Silent Whisper cooler (under brazilian brand) Rosewill RD600N-2DB-SL-BK PSU (under brazilian brand) LG DVD-RW You should try getting a Brisbane rather than a Windsor...cooler running. Big fans...

That side fan is largely unecessary. Look around on here for commonly recommended cases.. (Antec Solo comes to mind). Any half decent case with a bit of effort put into the cooling solution will outpace that... thing :P I should also mention that 220mm is NOT a standard fan size, if it's noisy or b...

No, it not hot cpu. The E6300 runs very cool but there is nothing wrong with little overkill. :wink: Uh.....how about quite a bit of overkill? With 4 case fans (+ PSU) you should not need 2 1200 RPM fans on a high efficiency HS unless the general layout is badly crowded. Overkill happens. Generally...

Decibels are measured in MANY ways. The REALITY is that noise will be related to RPM. Stock....there's just a few 120 mm fans that run under 1000 rpm. Of those,Scythe's has nice quality overall....if a fan running at a lot higher RPM is claiming LESS DB..it's just a claim. Nothing at 1000 rpm + will...

I think just about all current gen CPU's have thermal protection...will throttle down or even shut down rather than melt down. Tom's? It's another site that looks at everything in terms of how much can you overclock to squeeze out a higher frame rate for a vid game. Outside of that context....they p...

I have never seen anything to suggest that for a basic 2 or 4 disc IDE or SATA Raid there's a significant advantage to a separate PCI card. For SCSI Raid,for a heavy duty set up with over 4 disks,hot swap,or something pretty industrial...yeah. The fancy PCI card types that cost more than a good moth...

High performance drives (any) and silence? No way. Not only the SQD fails, but also the advanced homemade enclosures that render drives like Samsung SP absolutely inaudible. Noise levels can be redused from unbearable to tolerable, and that's it. ...which is why I'd do the advanced homemade drive a...

I'm not equipped to do any decent testing at this time-but I'm sure some folks will. For sure---the price is good. For an 80 mm to be a quiet fan contender...at any price...it probably has to work at 1000 rpm...and preferrably less. By the way.....there's quite a supply and demand gap for the Big 25...

I'd start out with a plan based on eSATA using the whole 6 feet of cable (esp with 2 Raptors) I'd construct a housing of noise blocking materials, have the drives inside headsinked and vibration isolated. Would have a 120 mm fan in the bottom at 500-800 rpm. Assuming the HDDs are thus 6' further fro...

---or there's 65 nm Semprons coming soon,which should be very low watt low heat and low $too. On a mobo like the Biostar with 690 chipset you get compact as well.

I don't think there's been a motherboard that's not unified in 10+ years. I do recall seing an old Compac Pent -1 that had 2 seperate parts on either side of a central mobo tray. As the die shrinks move to 65 nm-than 45 nm.....a LOT better thermal efficiency is inevitable.....except we've moved on t...