That case appears to have a rather atypical layout, which might be contributing to the problem. While rotating the video card to the top of the case might work great for cards with fans, many fanless heat sinks rely on the warm air rising out of their fins to keep cool. Directed upward like that, t...

So how has it a better value for the money ratio? 768 460s are chopped in more ways than VRAM chip count. As well as having reduced memory capacity (and cache, 384 vs 512 kB), they have less ROPs and the memory bus is 192-bit and not the full 256-bit. I just can't justify buying that over the 'prop...

Pointless card is pointless. 8-10% performance difference compared to GTS250, 30% price difference. According to the Tom's Review , it appears to perform worse than the GTS 250 in the couple games they tested both in. It seems to provide comparable performance to AMD's year old HD 5750, while consu...

It's probably difficult to make a home video projector that's 'silent', since they can draw up to a few hundred watts when in use, and have to keep their lamp at a reasonable temperature. Maybe it would be possible to mod an existing projector by replacing the fans and improving airflow, though you ...

If the OP stated that the drives on the recommended list were 'beyond his capacity needs' why would he want to get two 500GB notebook drives for $60 each and two scythe quiet drives for $40 each, when he's only going to use a small fraction of the available space? :|

Techspot posted their Budget SSD Roundup just the other day, benchmarking SSDs in the sub-$150 price range. The highest priced drive was $135, and the least expensive was $83. Their three most recommended drives in this range were the Kingston SNV425-S2 64GB, OCZ Vertex 2 40GB, and Intel X25-V 40GB....

The forum broke your link by including the period at the end. Here's a more clickable link... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150447 Maybe try returning the card, and finding one with a cooler more like that found on your other one? The only problem might be that a second 'e...

You have apparently never used Windows XP defrag on a wide variety of PCs and watched the placement of data. After a few weeks or months of use data spreads out across the drive. XP defrag (and presumably Vista/Win 7 as well) defragments the files but most of the time does not move them to the begi...

Going out of your way to short stroke a drive when only using a small portion of its capacity is kind of pointless though. If you have less than 100GB of data on the drive, it should automatically be located at the outer tracks anyway, whether short stroked or not. Seek times will be just as fast wh...

I have a 160GB Samsung and a 640GB WD in my current desktop, and I'm not experiencing any perceptible 'whine' from the drives. I find them to be rather quiet, actually. Mine are mounted using the soft rubber grommets built into the drive bays of an Antec Sonata case though, so hard mounting might pr...

While I don't own a BD-ROM drive, my suggestion would be to go with one that's relatively slow. A 4x BD-ROM is bound to be a lot quieter than an 8x model. Granted, many drives slow themselves down to varying degrees while streaming video or audio, but a slower drive is almost guaranteed to be quiete...

I read this the other day. It's rather questionable how useful the overall results are for anything though. It basically just tells us that out of these failed drives sent in to this particular data recovery facility, these were the overall trends. I suppose it could help one determine something lik...

That friend could be a spy! Don't trust him!

Yeah, ghosting issues are caused by the response time of the LCD panel being too slow. Basically, it takes a certain amount of time for a pixel on the screen to change from one color to the next. During the short interval between colors, it will appear as a mix of the two. This is most evident with ...

With external drives, you have the option of easily disconnecting them and moving them somewhere else between use, without having to open up your case each time and potentially damage something inside. If you're planning on moving the drive around a lot, a 2.5" notebook drive might be better, simply...

In fact, one reviewer was amazed that so many companies were going with 3rd-party fans, because the stock cooler was so impressive. They're probably going with less expensive alternatives. They might consider the stock cooling overkill, and are installing heat sinks with less metal and higher fan s...

As-of last week, the difference in price was 25%, and the difference in performance was 12% . Saying the difference in performance is 12% is a bit of a misnomer. Even according to that page, it depends a lot on the resolution you'll be running games at. At the highest resolution tested, 2560x1600, ...

If that's a screenshot of your results, I get the impression that HD Tune might just be reading your SMART data wrong. The free version was last updated two and half years ago, before that drive existed, after all. The screenshot you posted shows the write error data value at 51, with the threshold ...

I've heard that the drive has 5 platters , each at 600 GB, spinning at 7200 RPM. So you have 10 read-write heads racing across the surface of five high density platters, balancing precariously on edge, using untested Seagate firmware. Sounds exciting! And probably not all that quiet. I saw another p...

I have a Lite On iHOS104-06 Blu Ray reader and I was shocked, it is very quiet when ripping Blu Rays. However it's a reader only, no burning. I imagine any burner is going to be very loud. I never found a quiet CD or DVD burner. It shouldn't have anything to do with whether the drive can write disc...

From a silencing perspective, the Radeons draw a lot less power, making them easier to cool. The GTX 260's performance is arguably comparable to the HD 5770, though it does outperform the 5770 on some games. On the other hand, the 5770 draws around half as much power as the 260, both under load and ...

as much as I'm not a fan of this drive I'd gladly take the 250GB version and short stroke it down to 10% or 20% of the advertised capacity. It'd be nice to see benchmarks of this drive with a 50GB partition vs the Intel 80GB Gen 2 SSD with a 50GB partition vs a Indilinx Barefoot 64GB drive with a 5...

If he curently has a 9800 GTX+, I'm guessing he probably cares more about 3D performance, and a GT 240 isn't close to being as powerful. For similar performance to his current card, he'd have to move up to a GTS 250, which is just a rebranded 9800 GTX+ and has the same power requirements, which is w...

I have one of the lowest lag IPS monitors made, if not the lowest. most PVA monitors have a lot of input lag. then there's the mouse. It has to be wired and a gaming mouse. logitechs have the least. Then there is just general I/O lag of a tiny amount. add all those up and you will actually be trail...

Most games have ways around playing from the disc.. Am I the only one who is very suspicious of no-CD cracks? I suspect many may have spyware. Even if it passes an antivirus scan I still don't trust it. You could also optionally rip a copy of the disc to your hard disk and load it with something li...

I still want to change the stock fans which run very loudly. Have you tried undervolting the existing fans? If they're currently running at a higher voltage, removing the pin connector and wiring them up to the 5v line of a Molex connector could make them much quieter. I assume they're currently co...

The NIC card seems like a rather dumb idea, since you would need to use a different network adapter if you ever upgrade or replace your video card. Maybe if your motherboard doesn't have gigabit ethernet built in and you're low on expansion slots it could potentially be useful for some people. The '...

Only if you use an obsolete OS, like XP ;) Roughly twice as many people still use XP than Vista and Windows 7 combined, so it's not exactly obsolete. : ) XP is still officially supported by Microsoft for another 4 years, and they are still selling new copies of XP for netbooks, so it continues to b...

Mainstream hybrid drives are overdue, so it's nice to see something finally materialize. There was talk of them a couple years ago, and I figured by now most drives would be getting another level of cache. I'll likely wait to see what manufacturers like WD and Samsung come out with though. A hybrid ...

In about 1997 our family computer had a quad speed CD-ROM drive, and it was extremely quiet - not unlike a home stereo CD player. As soon as they got to 12x etc they started putting fans in them, and the days of quiet optical drives were gone forever. They don't actually use fans. It's just that CD...