If you have the time to read through a dozen dozen pages, check out the threads at the AVS forums. I seem to recall reading that there's a setting in Catalyst Control Center that overrides CnQ on the 780 mobos.

If you're gaming, it seems pretty obvious that you'll be heating the case air. You need to move more air. Whether that's a fan on the graphics card, or a faster/additional exhaust fan is up to you. I'd lean toward more case fan, as they tend to be quieter and often enjoy longer lifespans. But YMMV. ...

I'm starting to warm to the silverstone cases.. Anyone have any insights to the differences between LC17 and LC20 in terms of cooling/acoustics? Internally they look *almost* identical, with a slightly different drive bay arrangements. The absence of the LCD display makes for a somewhat larger 'duc...

Its so much better to be after smart... That's why arm chair generals and sofa soldiers are type I can't stand. They think they know what war is like even they have never gone thru any kind of military training or situation and they "know" all the facts and how peoples should act in combat situatio...

Is it an assumption by omission if I didn't say it, and you're making the assumption and ascribing it to me? In that case please do tell. What are your thoughts on the matter? Well, I prefer to place the responsibility for the Iraq war directly on the shoulders of the administration, and not some a...

Neil.... I don't ever remember anyone ever claiming that the government of Iraq was responsible for 9-11. It was a co-ordinated attack by a bunch of people who share a common religion that uses terrorism to advance it's causes. They do not come from a single country...you know that, everybody knows...

It's real easy to look back on a course of action, and criticize what was done, leading to the current state of affairs. The harder thing is to take the perfect course of action at the beginning.......rarely accomplished by anyone. GWB holds the distinction of having the highest voter approval rati...

I recently ran into this problem when my computer tried to come out of hibernate. It wouldn't boot for anything. I removed 2 of the 4 1 gig memory sticks, and it reported the checksum error. It then said that my saved session would be lost if I continued. Big deal I said as I continued. It booted ri...

Aristide, It is your lack of respect for others on here that I am reacting to. Your certainly do not have to agree with myself or Bluefront, but calling people names like you called him supremacist is uncalled for. I have re-read this entire thread. In many places, I see Neil and Bluefront among ot...

It's just a dumb bumper sticker..... advocating an anti-war philosophy that obviously won't work in all situations. I don't know anyone who thinks it would work in all situations. Unfortunately, there are too many who think 'war is the answer' to all too many situations, where it obviously is not. ...

I've had several problems with Speedfan and this board. Lack of fan control is the least of them. When watching SD cable TV with Speedfan running, the video can be unwatchable due to a regular freezing/lurching. Imagine someone hitting your pause button every few seconds for a 1/2 a second. Turning ...

I did 2 things to my L17. I installed 3 drives in a single cage. Then I turned it 90 degrees, set the cage on some soft foam and lashed it to the chassis with stretch magic. That gets you to 3 drives with a decent amount of physical isolation, and room for an HDD fan. I slid a 'floor to ceiling' pie...

I can't speak to that, but my hunch no. From what I've seen out there, Silverstone's LC17 is probably the most broadly accommodating 'HTPC' case. The advantage of this case is it supports full ATX, and the 6 HDD slots are divided into 2 cages. I can't say for sure whether it will fit the card you de...

I'm very happy with the Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD6400AAKS.

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2 platters. It runs cool, quiet and feels very quick. The only downside I can think of is that Newegg's price has gone up $5 in the last couple weeks.

I'm inclined to cut Antec some slack here. I doubt that most people ever give a moment's thought to what kind of fans they are using. The Tri-cools are reasonably quiet on low, and move boatloads of air on high. This covers all possible uses for their product. There's more to a quiet computer than a...

It's more of an obsession than an addiction. But combine the silent obsession with an HTPC obsession and things can get carried away. On the bright side, I now have 2 HTPCs in addition to my everyday desktop. On the brighter side, the 3 of them combined are quieter than any one pc I've owned prior t...

Welcome to S P C R I would suggest starting with the case, get yourself an Antec Solo, you will notice the difference straight away, and even with a 65W CPU you wont need a CPU fan on a Ninja (non-mini). I wouldnt bother getting a 45W CPU as most of the saving in power (heat) is when the CPU is ubd...

I'm going to run this system fanless for the forseeable future. If there are any issues with it I'll let you know :-) I think you mean when . :P Seriously though. What you're doing is not unreasonable IF replacing your mobo, CPU and HHD frequently is part of your equation. If you're hoping to get 3...

... Are you serious? Does an IGP outshine the 2600XT?! Perhaps I've been seduced a bit and overstated a bit, but the 780g chipset is not like anything I've seen. It really handles the Blu Ray duty without blinking. Comparing it to the 2xxx series might be a bit unfair, as it's based on the 3xxx ser...

My set is 740p, so I can only comment that far. The onboard 780g plays Blu Ray without hiccup. The same goes for the AMD 2600XT, but to my eye the 780g has a slightly more appealing picture. I run both with a 45w AMD BE2400 CPU with no issues whatsoever. Well, I did run into a weird problem with my ...

I just put a pr of the 640's into an Antec Fusion media box. They are vaguely audible during boot up, but never enough to be a distraction. After that, the pair is quieter than the Corsair hx 520 PSU - this in the stock fusion mounting scheme, and a brand new install of Vista. I don't have the inter...

Thanks for the fast replies guys! With the PSU, its like a combination buzz/hum - for a very low pitch. So do you have an LC17? Will the mini ninja fit in the case? Can i just replace the fan on my freezer 7 pro for a 120mm one, or do i need a whole new HSF? Are the nexus fans very quiet? I don't t...

My guess is the CPU cooler is your primary culprit. Tightly spaced fins will make more of a whoosh noise than wider spaced ones. I had that cooler a while back and switching to the wider spaced Ninja was noticeable soundwise. Try stopping the CPU fan and see what it sounds like. I use a mini Ninja i...

Need a little help from a PC Guru... I'm currently running one pair of CORSAIR XMS 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR-400 CL 2 in dual channel; Asus A8n32SLI deluxe; Athlon X2 4200+ but Vista is RAM-monger, and I'd like to go to 4gb for a better gaming experience. Anybody know if there are any problems with getting...

JoeWPgh, Please target your shots a little better then. Limbaugh, Hannity, Coulter do not represent all conservatives. I consider myself more conservative than not, and there are many innocent folks that also fall under the catagory of your attacks. I do not like arrogance at all, and I find Hannit...

VanWaGuy wrote:JoeWPgh,

Please explain the physics of how this warmer, less dense water somehow develops the ability to sink below the colder, more dense water?

I do not need to explain it, as it's not my supposition. That's from the scientist Bluefront cited in his original post. I merely quoted his own source.

JoeWPgh, Have you ever been part of a minority and felt discrimination? It is not a pretty thing. Sure I have. But I think you missed my point. My "mindless conservative bashing" was a measured response to the original poster's inflammatory rhetoric, specifically his sig, which seems to serve no pu...

Gore alone has placed himself as the figure-head of this "global-warming"/man-created climate change. Nobody elected him to that position. For whatever reason that view of the changing climate has become PC. For the most part, scientists who have to rely on grant money, have to follow PC, or lose t...

If you have $50 of wiggle room in your budget, look at the BE-2400. It's roughly the same in CPU power, but at a cooler 45 watts (+ $30). This CPU is easily, passively, cooled with a Mini Ninja (+ $20). If money is that tight, I'd skip the Alpine 7 and stick with the stock cooler. The Alpine 7 isn't...

spookmineer.....it's obvious that climate change is an on-going thing. But the "greenhouse" effect that Gore talks about, points directly to a warming effect caused by a decreasing ozone layer. The new NASA data tends to cast more doubt on Gore's theory. Now if you take that as a personal attack......