Have you tried contacting Scythe? I'm sure they sell them, and if you ask nicely, they might be willing to ship one to you free of charge. Another option is to use this Thermalright RM and the P4 mounting clips if you still have them. This is how I mounted a Ninja on my AM2+ system. http://www.svc.c...

ECS makes decent products actually. They're just not popular among enthusiasts because they traditionally haven't had a lot of tweaking options to appeal to overclockers, most of their boards are pretty basic and barebones. The Black series are trying to change this perception, though, and are more ...

Recently started noticing an intermittent buzzing from my Dell S2309W. Brightness >=75 seems to stop it, but I can't stand keeping it that high. The buzzing also seems to be getting worse. I've had this monitor for probably close to a year and wasn't having these problems until a month or two ago. N...

Bump with some more changes, decided to go passive on the CPU and GPU.

Wow, that thing is a beast.

Very nice craftsmanship on it as well, can't wait for an update on cooling performance.

TBH kind of wishing I would have gone with MSI for my latest build, their boards seem to be more power efficient. Gigabyte still makes great stuff, though, and they're really good about BIOS updates. They've already added support for the new Phenom II X6 on my 785G board.

More mini-ITX choices is always nice. I noticed Gigabyte had some other mini-ITX boards (I think they were all Atom based), hopefully they will continue to branch out into this market.

Interesting review, and considering it's only 2/3 the price of a P183 it holds up astonishingly well in comparison. Cheers! Agreed. This paragraph sums it up pretty well IMO. It is rare to see a rookie manufacturer come out of nowhere with a well-thought out design right off the bat. Luckily for Fr...

Unfortunately for us, people upgrading their Dell PSU to standard ATX is a lot more common than people trying to fit proprietary Dell PSUs in regular cases.

I've searched as well and the appropriate adapters just don't seem to exist.

Nice little system, good work on the PSU mod.

Would be so much easier if you could just buy adapters for the ATX connector and back plate, though. I bet a lot of SPCR users would be interested in this PSU if it didn't take so much effort to install in an ATX case.

Hmm, I don't know. It sounds like you set things up properly in SpeedFan, so it should work.

A screenshot or two might help. If you don't mind, maybe take some with the drop-down menus for the chip and the PWM mode open so we can see all the choices available here.

Click Configuration in SpeedFan, then the Advanced tab. Select your Super I/O chip from the drop-down menu (it's probably made by ITE) and this will give you access to the PWM modes for the fans. You should be able to change them from BIOS control to software control, and that will allow you to adju...

You can use software like K10stat to adjust multi without breaking CnQ. If you don't want to rely on software for this, though, probably best to get one of these chips.

I'm sure these parts are OEM only, best bet probably is to keep an eye out on eBay for system pulls.

Have a Samsung HD103UJ with 10,300 power on hours for sale. This is the older 333GB/platter model, it doesn't use 500GB platters. Drive works great, but I'm replacing it with a quieter/lower power 2 platter 5400RPM model. Looking for $50 shipped (OBO) within the US.

Heatware is under frostedflakes.

The Silverstone TJ-08 has similar dimensions as well, and build quality is probably better than the Elite 341. But it also costs much more than CM (and Antec): however, I guess that among the Silverstones the SG-03B-F may be better suited than the TJ. Regards, Luca TJ-08 isn't much more expensive t...

The Silverstone TJ-08 has similar dimensions as well, and build quality is probably better than the Elite 341.

Dell also has the DA-1, which is rated for 150w. Can get them pretty cheap on eBay as well, but you'll need to mod the connector.

Yeah that's the problem, rates seem to increase exponentially with size and weight. Shipping smaller items isn't too bad, but anything more than a couple pounds gets expensive really quick.

Shipping it to Belgium probably wouldn't have been very practical.

Yeah, the difference will probably be night and day. I switched from silicone grommets to elastic for my 1TB 7200RPM, and it basically eliminated vibration induced noise.

This has been reposted on a lot of tech sites and has started some really good discussion. Personally ads don't really bother me (except I use Flashblock on my netbook, because those Flash ads can really slow things down), but I can understand the frustration some people have with them. There are qu...

Love the PC-A05N, if I was building a new ATX system right now, that's what I'd get. Only thing I don't like is the airflow, but I could work with it. The aesthetics are wonderful, though.

I've been pretty happy with Arctic Cooling PWM fans (and their fans in general, even the non-PWM models). But just a disclaimer, I'm not nearly as sensitive to noise as some on this site and haven't compared them to other popular models, such as Scythe PWM. Not going to claim they're the best fans o...

I bet 240e+785G would be pretty comparable to the i3-530+H55 in terms of power consumption. i3-530 offers much better performance, though, so if you're looking for max performance per watt and the extra money for the Intel setup isn't a problem, that's what you need to go for.

Looks like they summarize voltage options here. Vcore available is 1V to 2V in 0.0125V increments. http://anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=3753&p=3 This really seems like a fantastic board. I think it's kind of exciting the direction the industry is heading with integrating the GPU and CPU. Can't wai...

AMD's been using strained silicon since 90nm IIRC, and Intel's probably been using it just as long or longer. And MtnHermit is right, I'd worry about actual results and not marketing jargon. AMD hasn't really been able to compete with the performance per watt Intel offers at either 45nm or 65nm. The...

Beta 2 already had acceleration for these cards. GMA500 support is new, though. Unfortunately most netbooks use GMA950. edit: As far as YouTube vids go, 1080p seems to be pretty choppy on my netbook as well. The BCM970012 seems to play back 720p pretty well, though. I mainly got it for playing back ...

Keep in mind that you wouldn't need a lot of airflow. According to the SPCR review the fan is "very quiet" at 9V or 7V, and this should provide more than enough airflow. You could also try mounting the M350 out of the way (behind a monitor, for example) instead of just sitting it on the desk where t...

Figured I'd bump this since I've made quite a few changes since my original post.

Yeah unfortunately I think they're still pretty far behind. IIRC 32nm parts are going to be available late 2010/early 2011.