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I think I will probably go with a Seasonic G-550 (SSR-550RM) instead. It's a bit cheaper, and has a fan. The Lian-Li PC-7FN USB3 case the system is going into only has 2 case fans, a 140mm in the front and a 120mm in the rear and I'm not sure I want a fanless or fan limited power supply...

Well that's pretty darn neat!

I see you caught my reference. :)

But can they go faster than the wind downwind? :-D

Isn't that the AXxxx line? Corsair's page shows the AXxxxi turns on the fan at ~20%.

Seems we don't have a recent power supply thread... What is everyone using / recommending these days? I'm looking for something quiet & efficient in the 400-500W range to power a modestly overclocked Sandy Bridge i7-2600k with a few HDs, optical drives, modest graphics card, SSD, etc. I was...

Notepad++ here.

I found the JetAudio player which can so it.

I'm sure they can find someone worse to take the helm.

The 717 should do what you're after. You'd be paying a lot to get XT32. I guess it depends what you're listening to, how loudly, and how many subs you'll use. I'm a pretty big fan of sealed subs. If properly designed they couple nicely to room gain and give a flat response with minimal EQ...

That doesn't look like any launcher I'd want.

Anyone know of an Android audio playback app that can control playback speed and leave pitch alone? On the PC I use foobar2k with a plugin.

I've been using Avira Free on old PCs, but it's gotten so naggy / bothersome trying to upgrade itself to newer versions that I don't need or want (just give me updated definitions) that I'm hesitant to give them money for the paid version.

FWIW, the TIM is old news. Sandy Bridge was the last one with the IHS soldered to the die.

Yeah, I'm not so sure about that part.

That would certainly be the trend developing. I burned several discs with a drive on the Marvell chipset and had no issues, whereas the drive would drop from the ASMedia controller when I inserted a blank disc.

The Syba / IOCrest card with the Marvell controller seems to be working fine. It's definitely far more functional than the ASMedia chips on the motherboard. I'm burning my first disc with a drive on the controller card as I write this.

I didn't even get an image on the screen with mpeg-2 or H.264 files. I got audio, but no picture with SW or HW decoding. So far MX Player has HW accelerated every H.264 file I've thrown at it. Even full blown Blu-Ray spec video streams and randomly encoded things I've downloaded.

Sorry for your loss Handy. You and your family have deepest sympathies and prayers.

Which one? There are a lot of returned results when you search the Play store for VLC. The "official" beta isn't even one of them.

What media player (video) apps is everyone using on Android? I tried out MX Player and it seems okay, but maybe there's something better...

The sarcasm, it's lost on you.

Not sure I agree with you there. DVI was definitely widespread on products in the marketplace in by 2001-2002. LCD monitors, projectors, graphics cards, etc.

Well, up until this year what hasn't DVI been able to do that it should? For connecting a monitor to a PC it's done very well. 4k resolution at 60Hz is the first thing it hasn't been able to do. Not too bad for a standard created 14 years ago. A simple revision increasing the bandwidth of...

DVI was put together by the DDWG all the way back in 1999. HDMI was developed in 2002. Displayport was cooked up in 2006. You make it sound like a group of rogue companies got together to with the intention of screwing everyone with their shiny new HDMI spec. They wanted an AV version of...

Per the DVI spec, no. Can the DVI connector handle audio? Sure. DVI and HDMI are electrically compatible. You can implement the HDMI spec including audio and use a DVI connector.

Umm... DVI doesn't pull out. I don't understand why everyone compares DP to HDMI instead of DVI.

Well, you can thank Dell and Genesis for the pointless split in the marketplace.

Whoopteedoo... You're comparing the 1.2 spec to whatever HDMI flavor they're up to. I'm talking about the 1.0 spec vs. what DVI/HDMI had at the time. It offered nothing noteworthy other than an equivalent digital connection without the relatively minor royalty. No, I meant exactly what I...

I dislike it because they needlessly created another standard where none was needed because they didn't want to pay the license fee for HDMI/DVI.

Don't they have a find my phone option? The iCraps have that capability.

Well, that explains quite a few things.

Yes, I did. I put a HD on it to test it and it works fine.

The motherboard has 10 SATA ports. I didn't know the extra 4 non-Intel ports didn't support optical drives when I bought it. Apparently making a fully compliant SATA controller is too hard. :bstd:

I'm using the ICH ports for RAID-1 and my SSD. That leaves only one port for optical drives. I wanted to avoid having a RAID card in this system.

FWIW, I've found Chrome to be faster than Firefox on my Nexus 7 (2013). Firefox seems a little sluggish.

The company where I work is all Windows 7 now. We got it in the last year replacing XP.

Anyone using Firefox for Android? I'm giving it a spin right now. It's nice to have proper ad blocking on they tablet.

As always your system is only as secure as you're physical control of the system.

Well, I went ahead and ordered the card from Amazon. If it doesn't work I'll send it back and might get something with a Silicon Image SATA controller. There are numerous reports of their SiI3132 chipset working for optical drives. The reason I didn't buy it first is that it only supports 2...

You've got to keep the baby from overheating somehow!

And which ones are those?

You guys sure are silent on topics relating to storage... :scratch:

The hiss is there with or without anything connected to the inputs. It's not based on input level. I turned down the gain on them as much as possible (which isn't a lot). This reduces it some. I am driving them from my fully balanced headphone amp / DAC. It's not noticeable when you're...

The ASM1061 is the controller on the ASRock board that doesn't play nice with the optical drives. I found many similar complaints online about it. Obviously I want to avoid any cards using it. I'm thinking to try this card. Amazon's generous return policy will come in handy if it doesn't...

They're nice, but they have a faint hiss that I can hear from my seat when the house is very quiet. I'm not really listening to them nearfield.

Oh, I bought them before when they were $669, so I've already got a set.

Does anyone have any suggestions for a PCI-e SATA card compatible with optical drives? Preferably with 4 ports. The extra 4 ports on my Asrock mobo don't play nice with them.

Uh, why? I've never heard of anyone doing that before.

It's not a phone. It's a Nexus 7 (2013).