Drudge is the person who exposed Clinton as a fraud, liar, and a sexual pervert, if you remember......before anybody else did. So he does serve a useful purpose. :lol: C'mon. If getting a hummer is a sexual pervert, then the perverts outnumber the 'straights'. And being asked about whether or not h...

Well, the SS440-HT is quite nice (and pretty quiet)...if the ET series is anything like the HT series, then I think you will be happy with it. The only issue I found with the HT was a lack of PCIe power connector, so I rolled my own using the EPS12V connection. This shouldn't be a problem with the E...

XP90 or Ninja will work. I wouldn't call the XP90 'settling' as it is a very good cooler. Alternately, you could get a higher-end Thermalright (Ultima 90, Ultima 120) and buy one of their S478 adapters for about $4.00 (Jab-Tech should have them). That way if you switch to AM2 or 775 down the line, y...

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Gigabyte GeForce 9600GT
Arctic Cooling Accelero S2 Passive VGA Cooler

Any reason to use the S2 versus S1? The latter will fit and will keep your 9600GT that much cooler (a good thing) and should only be about 4 Euros more.

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Enermax Modu82+ 625 Review

Wow.

Enermax finally builds a PSU that isn't a noisy piece of crap. I am duly impressed. Although I still think even this version looks 'pimpy'.

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Again I'll just say your world view is too America-centric. We don't have Timothy McVeighs in Europe, and even if we did have, no one would protest their existence by burning embassies and killing nuns. True, but since the 1970s Europe has had such groups as the Baader-Meinhof Group (a.k.a. "Red Ar...

Or you could always buy an eVGA 8800GT (they have several flavors - I like the Superclocked) and add an Accelero S1. The warranty on eVGA cards allows for heatsink swaps, so you don't have to worry about voiding it.

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I actually like Gutsy Gibbon a lot even though it is somewhat primitive compared to Vista. Plus the hardware requirements are lower than Vista or XP Pro and, best of all, it is free. -D Vista is nothing more but eye candy. Any linux actually is more advanced than Vista when you compeare the OS' use...

And here I thought you were concerned with stealthy Japanese assassins. :wink: I ran (for quite a while) a Ninja in passive mode on an overclocked Opteron 175 running on an NForce 4 Ultra board and had no issues with cooling (in a P150 chassis) nor with interference with chipset cooling or RAM slots...

Um, why would this be useful? Edit: Okay, I admit I'm all for cool gadgets and using technology to improve efficiency. I even like thermodynamics. However, this seems a little pointless. The < 2 watts a CPU fan uses is peanuts. Because this is cool , that's why. This is probably the neatest thing I...

How about magnesium? Works really well in old Porsche and VW motors...of course it can catch fire if it gets too hot.

"Hey, I just hit 5GHz air-cooled on my Opteron!"
<WHOOOSH!>
"Crud"

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Try removing your sound card and video card (including all drivers / utilities) and see if that fixes the problem - note, you may have to enable your onboard video first in the BIOS. A lot of the 'won't wake up' issues in Vista have been traced to bad video card or sound card drivers (NVidia and Cre...

If you are concerned about your kids' ability to get on to inappropriate web sites (you know, like Tom's Hardware), Vista is probably the better choice. I just built a system for my nephew (he's 13, so he's a high-risk bad website candidate) with Vista Home Premium so he can be online (in order to p...

My big concern would be the fact that the case is (most likely) made of 6063 T5 Aluminum Alloy and will therefore be more prone to noise than a equivalent steel chassis. Also, the perforated side vent would short-circuit any airflow over the hard-driver so you'd be pretty much required to put a fan ...

Could you squeeze a Zalman VNF1000 in there? Might be a bit tight above the card, but nothing a ball-peen hammer couldn't rectify.

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Here's a few wacky thoughts: - What if motherboards had daughter cards hosting the CPU / RAM / Northbridge so that you could reuse the motherboard? - What if video cards had removable GPUs? - What if Intel and AMD agreed to not change their socket architecture for 5 years and all revisions of their ...

That's all good 'n' stuff, but you still need to be able to play the latest games. :D On the other hand, the CPU I bought was used on eBay, and I'm reusing several components from my prior system (the old bits were passed down to family members - my nephew now has my old Opteron 175 and ASRock 939DU...

xan_user wrote::?:It looks like the HS on back blocks two of the monitor ports?....

Look at the 5th photo - he's using Crossfire - no need for multiple monitor ports.

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I'm all about the home-made waffles (using my grandma's recipie) from scratch. I don't have it in front of me so I can't remember all the dry ingredient amounts, but it has flour, baking powder, a pinch of salt, a couple of teaspoons of sugar, 2 eggs (separated - beat the whites into a merangue), 2/...

Go for the Sapphire 100235L HD3470 card - it is passively cooled, has 5.1 audio over HDMI and should be more than sufficient for 1080P. The 3850 you referenced is overkill for your purposes and will be hard to cool in that tiny case. Also, I'd go for a single (or pair) of ATI TV Wonder 650 Combo car...

OK...now I get it...3650 is the new 2600 Pro with 55 nm die (i.e. lower power consumption) and supposedly improved AVIVO. So why not go with a 3470? Sounds like the 3470 supports improved post processing (vs. the 3450), full 1080p and is also available in passive versions...what does the 3650 buy y...

OK. One more stupid question: where is the fresh air coming from to the HDD chamber and the PSU chamber? I don't see any intakes, which can't be good for the components (unless it is coming from below, in which case there doesn't appear to be much clearance underneath the chassis).

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i think these taiwanese marketing departments have no CLUE about the culture in north america... what they think is clever, or EXTREME!!!! like the monster trucks and naked silver robots, looks ridiculously cheesy to us... I dunno...naked silver robots in monster trucks might just be the ticket - i...

OK - gotta ask: where on earth did you get that heatsink that sits outside of the chassis? Did you build it yourself or from a kit? I certainly haven't seen anything like that from Thermalright. It's DFI Transpiper . I haven't bothered installing mine as it doesn't do much. Ah. Thanks for the info,...

I think you could probably fit the HIS card in an NSK2480. It uses the Zalman VNF100 and the heatpipes are clamped into a block. You should be able to bring the heatpipes down so they touch the top of the card and that should give you just enough clearance for the lid. This is assuming that the hea...

OK - gotta ask: where on earth did you get that heatsink that sits outside of the chassis? Did you build it yourself or from a kit? I certainly haven't seen anything like that from Thermalright. And I thought I was a Thermalright whore since my desktop has an HR-03 GT, an HR-05 IFX SLI and an XP-90 ...

If you don't mind spending $30 or so, you can get one of the Thermalright HR-05 variants to replace your NB heatsink. I put one in on my i975Xa-YDG and it works great.

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A local NPR station (KUOW) discussion on the (questionable) shutdown of WikiLeaks.org.

Damn. This would be perfect for what I need in my NSK2400 if only the stupid heatpipe / heatsink wrapped around to the back side of the card (need access to the PCIe x1 slot that is unfortunately right next to the PCIe x16 slot - THANKS AOPEN!).

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I'm probably going to be watching high def DVD's on my PC well before I do on my TV...just because of the investment involved for the signal chain...but there is no way that I'm going to invest in Vista just to play DRM'ed DVD's.....is there a player utility that'll work under Ubuntu? I'll dual boo...