Try a Seasonic X-750 perhaps?

I think what you mean to ask is, does this indicate that there is incomplete separation of church and state? http://www.dictionary.net/incomplete Defective would be a good alternative word to describe it. If something is incomplete, it is only partial, therefore they are still partly linked and the...

The phrasing, "prove there is no separation of church and state" produces too strong of a question, to which the answer is obviously no.

I think what you mean to ask is, does this indicate that there is incomplete separation of church and state? And yes, it does, but we're getting there.

RAM doesn't really get hot to the touch unless you overvolt and overclock it. We stick a kilogram of copper on the CPU, otherwise it would burn itself to death. Given these facts, how have you come to conclude that RAM is a significant source of heat and noise? Anyway, to answer your question, newer...

Americans definitely pronounce the first syllable of Houston like "you." I have no idea how to interpret the pronunciation symbology (which is how you can tell I'm an American!). The Midwest has been called that since a time when that was a very geographically appropriate title, given the then-borde...

You hold that same view for capitalization and punctuation too? Or is it just beneath you? punctuation and capitalization are a hedonistic socialite excess not congruent with the values of the modest proletariat Technically, punctuation and capitalization are two hedonistic socialite excess es not ...

I think that's more CPU than you really need. You could go with the lowest of the Athlon II X2s and be able to do all of your HTPC tasks with less heat and more money in your pocket.

Mike, the fact that there are a billion ugly "gaming" cases from many brands doesn't make them not ugly. A computer case is essentially a piece of furniture - would you expect to see that thing at Ikea? I disagree. Its primary function is to house the computer components; visuals are entirely secon...

Mike, the fact that there are a billion ugly "gaming" cases from many brands doesn't make them not ugly. A computer case is essentially a piece of furniture - would you expect to see that thing at Ikea?

Plexiglass and Acrylic are indeed the same, PMMA I believe.

Field's metal is a nontoxic eutectic alloy consisting of 32.5% Bi, 51% In, and 16.5% Sn. It melts at 62 °C. I have a crazy idea. If some Field's metal (as a fine powder perhaps) were placed between a heatsink and a CPU, with no other thermal interface material, then the Field's metal could possibly...

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Sassmastersq wrote:got for free (free yay!!) ... took way longer than I thought

Sounds like the most expensive fans you ever got tbh.

The ideal hobby is one that takes little money but lots of time. Computer hardware, rarely fits those criteria, so when it does, we should rejoice!

First of all, a little time spent capitalizing and proofreading would make me much more enthusiastic about helping you. nLite doesn't seem to quite get RAID driver slipstreaming right, so you'll have to make some changes to the installation files yourself. This link is for the ICH10R southbridge, so...

If they were really going for a lower-power system, they'd pick the i3-530. But it's Tom's Hardware, and there's a Clarksdale GPU that's faster than the others, so they used that one, naturally.

I'll bet if you snuck Windows 7 onto there, the only change your wife would notice would be that everything mysteriously... worked.

He has a hard-mounted velociraptor and you guys are suspecting the fans? I disagree. Having two different HDDs in a computer can cause a lot of intermittent resonance as their vibrations sum to form beats. That case is huge, and the HDD trays are removable. If you can't find a way to suspend your dr...

This 1TB has the new "advanced format". It has two platters, is it "best" to make each platter an individual partition? What you describe is not possible. If you make 2 half-TB partitions, the first partition will exist on the outer 50% of each platter and the 2nd on the inner 50%. This is way, way...

Yes, seems that there's no reason for you to go with 7200 RPM. The WD Caviar Green or the Samsung F2 Eco-Green are both good choices. I have a 1.5 TB F2 Eco-Green myself, but it's in an external enclosure and hooked up to a super-noisy laptop, so I can't really comment on how loud it would be suspen...

maalitehdas wrote: I suppose you're right, laser beam is too thin to consume much power. Could be under 1W.

Well under 1W. I suspect the laser in optical drives would consume 10-20 mW to read and 50-100 mW to write.

But that is neither here nor there. I'm looking forward to some pics of your chimney setup!

Cooler Master Centurion 541 - it's micro-atx. I'm sure there are others.

The basic choice to make is between 5400 RPM and 7200 RPM. 7200 is faster, 5400 is quieter and lower power. In my opinion, the point of getting an SSD is that you can store everything you need frequently on it, and pair it with a 5400 RPM for large things you don't need to be fast, like redundant ba...

expatCanuck wrote:Any harm expelling the heat via the EA-430?

Other than the noise coming from the power supply, the only concern would be shortening the life of the PSU by operating it at higher temperatures - but you won't even be close to that kind of hot (and the PSU fan is there to protect it).

Looks like a Scythe Big Shuriken.

As for your question, why not remove the fan and see how your temps end up after an hour or two of CPU load? You may find that the EA-430's fan will speed up because all the CPU heat will be piling up in the top of the case.

Every case is out of the box, stock, 100% completely perfectly silent.

They don't make noise until you put components into them - and then the noise they make depends on the components inside them in a very complicated way.

Welcome to SPCR.

Ohh, so tempting, but 60GB would cramp my style a bit

You don't need 4GB of RAM to playback HD video. 2 GB will save you a nice chunk of money at today's DDR3 prices.

(You don't need a core i3 either...)

b_rubenstein wrote: Little NDA date confusion at SPCR?

Date? Nah, just NDA timezone confusion.

On topic: bring on the stock passive 5570s! In fact, bring on the stock passive 5670s too.

Well, while I'm waiting for it to return, I'll just go ahead and start discussing

I hope we don't have to wait too long to see single-slot passive coolers on HD 5570s. They really don't need a fan, and I would like to have a little performance in reserve, compared to the 5450, just in case.

Maybe the NDA date on the 5570 hasn't come yet (which would explain the lack of 5570 content on other hardware sites).

What are your needs? Either you don't play games and the 5450 is plenty, or you want to play games, and the 5670 is advised (or some other options).