Whoever took those pictures should sell his camera. Seriously. And never take another picture in his life.

Are those 140mm fans? Looks like it hangs over the northbridge heatsink but so does my Zerotherm BTF-90.

You have 3 fans, two exhaust and two intake? Interesting.... I have one intake that's on full speed 1200 RPM all the time. It's at the very bottom infront of the harddrives and the case is on the floor so it's not that annoying. Then I have one exhaust at the back in the typical spot. That one is vo...

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Nice PSU. Though the only reason to get it over the 430 would be if you're going to throw an HD 5970 and an overclocked i7 at it. Well that would be a reason.

I looked at their site. They have the Nexus Value 430 available. It would be an obvious choice for your system. It doesn't have modular cables though. If you insist on modular, the Seasonic is a bit more expensive and not as quiet but it would still be my choice in that price range of <75 euros.

In your case, the fan in the 650 probably won't start before 300W. You should look at the out of hot box open air results instead of torture chamber results which isn't the scenario in P182. I'm not even sure 750 would stay fanless longer, I doubt it.

Hello, As of now, you GPU reviews are more about power usage (you actually show a comparison chart) than noise so I thought of something today that you guys could probably implement in your future GPU reviews and it has to do with noise and temps. Currently you only state the idle, which is fine, an...

Evident from this thread is that there's a certain amount of sample variance when it comes to buzzing and/or whining. I don't want to say this thread is useless as a result but there's no guarantee that the unit you bought won't make noise if someone in this thread said their unit was free of noise....

Ironically, the fact that they make no noise at all Am I too extreme for SPCR or is SPCR too mainstream for me? I think it's the latter. Someone up there must've forgotten about the Quiet / Noisy Monitor Survey . Monitors make no noise at all... Ha Ha good one :lol: Get one that doesn't make noise?...

The 170W and 180W figures might as well be TDP. It's kinda hard to accept that a 40nm chip, even a powerful one, would draw way more power than its 55nm counterparts. So they should just concentrate on reducing power consumption? I think AMD and Nvidia have quite a different view on it. Die shrink ...

It's not like turbo increases power usage too much since it doesn't increase voltage. The multiplier is locked on the current Lynnfield CPUs so turbo mode can only work by increasing the cpu base frequency which you could call clock speed. You may not agree but by any definition that is overclockin...

I have to disagree about Turbo being overclocking. It the future of CPUs. You have to abandon the thought of 'quadcore' and 'dualcore' concept. They are merely resources. You could turn the tables around with these things. They are fast dual-core chips that can act as a slower quad-core when the app...

I'd say Intel has advantage in cooler running. E6300 is wonderful CPU. But Intel inteds to win in syntehtic benchmarks and take beating in game tests. Besides E6300 should have VT support unlike E7x00 series or E5x00 if I remember correctly. E5x00 are completely beaten in most game tests by X2 2xx ...

I thought it was pretty funny when in the Anandtech review they threw in an HD 4770 for some gaming and G41 with an E6300 was kicking the asses of the best AMD IGP chipsets. I'm not sure what you're talking about here. Using the IGP with both the Intel G41 and AMD 785, AMD "kicked" Intels butt. Wit...

I'd say Intel has advantage in cooler running. E6300 is wonderful CPU. But Intel inteds to win in syntehtic benchmarks and take beating in game tests. Besides E6300 should have VT support unlike E7x00 series or E5x00 if I remember correctly. E5x00 are completely beaten in most game tests by X2 2xx ...

I thought it was pretty funny when in the Anandtech review they threw in an HD 4770 for some gaming and G41 with an E6300 was kicking the asses of the best AMD IGP chipsets.

As a budget enthusiast, overclocking is something I take for granted. Though it feels almost like stealing when you buy a budget CPU and OC it 50% or so when you paid 50% of the price. Well, almost feels like it. :D I'm mostly interested in idle conditions when it comes to noise and power consumptio...

Not until they're dead, do people respect what they've done. MJ received so much crap for the last years, now that he is gone, people realize what he was. He left a legacy.

I can say that I've got "beats" (some mod used this term here) with two HDDs in my CM690. Which is not very nice. Futhermore the sidepanel has a tendency to vibrate with the HDDs at times. If I put my hand on the sidepanel the vibration stops. I have to push the panel tighter on it's place for the v...

I don't think violence in games OR MOVIES has any effect on a mentally stable person regardless of their age. Plain and simple I can give an example of myself. Playing Wolfenstein 3D when I was 8, Duke Nukem & Quake when I was 12 and so on and watching people get shot in movies and I still haven't k...

Anything you have plugged to the wall draws something even if they're turned 'off'.

Like probably mentioned earlier, besides the airflow improvement they are supposed to cool the hard drives.

The 64GB MLC Transcend set me back less than $150 USD shipped to my doorstep. NCIX.com (Vancouver) sells the OCZ Vertex 60GB and it would cost me well over $320 USD after taxes and shipping. If i'm gonna spend the $320 on an OCZ, why not spend the extra $100 and get the Intel 32GB X25-M which is "a...

A dream unit for any single GPU gaming rig. You can pretty much have you SATA DVD on one cable and an SSD on the other connector on that cable lying around wherever. Then have two 2TB sata drives on the other cable. I think that's probably enough for most users' storage needs.

The problem is that while the Ion’s hardware decode engine can handle the video decode just fine, there’s a lot the CPU still has to do. When playing a standard Blu-ray disc there’s a lot of decryption that the CPU must do in addition to simply streaming the data to the GPU. On a modern day p...

Its already been stated that the new westmeres will use the same x58 northbridge, but intel has had a habbit of forcing users to upgrade motherboards when they release new processors. So i wouldnt hold your breath for future compatability. Generally if your going with intel, you need a new motherbo...

Artic cooling Fusion looks good. http://www.anandtech.com/casecoolingpsus/showdoc.aspx?i=3516 I would like to disagree. Only one harness for SATA and one for MOLEX connectors, what a screwup for a 500W PSU. Even if the 90cm might be long enough to route to the HDD at the bottom and the DVD at the t...

That's just the thing. It's not quaranteed that Westmeres will work on any of the current X58 boards.

Did I understand correctly that in the subjective evaluation, you compared the Xonar's analog signal to the HDMI/optical/coaxial while the source was the same and let the Yamaha do the digital to analogue conversion? It would've been nice if some note was made about the Dolby TrueHD etc. HDMI-audio ...

It probably also varies with each monitor. My Viewsonic VP2030 has absolutely horrible VGA picture. With DVI the picture is really sharp with good colors.