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With 500GB hard drive now going for 130U$, it's a tough pill to swallow. The price will drop quickly. Wait a month.

No, it's still proprietary. It is the same width as the case, so there's more room inside for the airflow. From a ventilation point of view, this is a good thing, but of course, in the event that the power supply blows, it is a drawback. High quality power supplies have a far better life...

Well, I did try and the manual is right. The side panel can be removed with the base on. It's not even hard.

AFAIK, you cannot run the SMP client at the same time as the GPU client, so it's an either/or situation. SMP currently pays more than the GPU client. Based on this, my recommendation would be the following : Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 (4x 2.4GHz) LGA775 Thermalright Ultra 120 eXtreme heatsink...

The web site was unaccessible for me for the previous 15-20 minutes at least.

Maybe, but I don't live in Can-uh-duh. I live in Québec. And our climate is quite humid so we tend to run our computer inside our houses here. Inside mine, it is ~22-23C (except when I open the windows in winter where it drops to ~5-10C).

http://www.sapphiretech.com/ca/products/products_overview.php?gpid=169&grp=3 My system always operates with an ambiant temperature of 22-23C.

I have the following system : Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 GigaByte GA-965-DS3 2GB OCZ DDR2 800MHz in dual channel a smallish 20GB hard drive I had left over 16X LG DVD-RW Sapphire Radeon XT 256MB PCI-E All powered by a relatively modest Seasonic S12-380HB power supply. The system is currently...

You can read a fairly detailed review of the Silentium T2 350W (first generation) at SPCR. What has changed in the new T2 Pro from the older model is this : The front audio cable is longer so it will no longer be problematic to connect on motherboards where the front audio panel is located at...

Nope, later today. Comments coming probably this evening.

http://www.arctic-cooling.com/pc_case2.php?idx=118 The first generation of Arctic Cooling Silentium cases received good reviews and praises for its quietness. But it only came with a 350W PSU. Now I can get the T2 Pro model with a 500W power supply. Of course, it has Active Power Factor...

In my case it makes a difference. My organism needs it to work well.

Sorry for the spelling mistakes in my previous post. I hit submit reply instead of preview post. I'm coffee-deprived right now and unlike most of you, I'm a lot better when I PUI.

I'm not in a great mood for posting these days. But since I'm begged for a reply, then I will oblige myself to type a few lines. As stated above, I don't have access to the 940BX, so I cannot commend it. I don't like the color reproduction on the 940B. Maybe I'm confusing this one for...

I'm no freaking TV peddler, but the Sharp LCD TVs I've seen looked better than most other brands. Don't buy a plasma screen. Colors will fade quickly, especially the red.

I'm one one one with the Lite-On optical SHITA drive. I will only buy Pioneer SATA for now. LG released one model too (GSA-H30N IIRC), but it cost me 5$ more than the Pioneer.

That f*ck'N SMP client for Windows is constantly freezing. I've lost at least 21 hours worth of computing AGAIN because the mother f**ker froze when I wasn't there to check it. That machine isn't the cause. It has been folding for months before without errors. I'm en Ostie d'Calice de...

Puking on Vista is a matter of principles. I'm sure disk tools do it by instinct. You would have had a lot of fun trying to make Aero work on a Ti200. With the hardware you listed above, you would have more success just installing WinXP and then adding the Vista theme for XP that is floating...

If you have to add a 149U$ PSU to the kit and still end up with a case with poor heat evacuation, you would be better off with a custom-made system with a good enclosure, like a Antec NSK6500 for instance. Even a SLK3000B with a 550W Seasonic power supply almost fits into the price of the PC...

I tried, but I cannot beat that price with components I trust. In fact, this is lower than my cost. If only you didn't need the OS or the monitor, then maybe I could have worked out something.

I don't have the 940BX on my lists. I can have the 932B, the 931C, the 931BW and 940BW, but not the 940BX. I usually sell LG L1953T to customers looking for a 19" display. It's better than the Acer models of comparable size and better too than the Samsung I mentioned. But it's nothing...

One of my good customers bought me that monitor. I plugged it to be sure there were no dead pixel and to verify that everything was working ok. Talk about creating a need. Now my Dell 2005FPW looks so pathetic. 1920x1200 is great, even compared to a still respectable 1680x1050. And the...

Sounds familiar? Me too. http://www.storageforum.net/forum/showthread.php?t=6322

New article about a methodology change at SPCR : http://www.silentpcreview.com/article734-page8.html I linked the conclusion.

Dear Mr. Lost, please stop fulling your mouth with soda cookies every time you try to speak. I still have no tiny Byte drive on my price lists and my suppliers aren't even talking about it, so it isn't for tomorrow. But with 500 GagaBytes hard drives selling for less than 150$CAN (my cost is...

Reviews of the 8600GT spanking the X1650XT and 7600GT : http://www.techreport.com/reviews/2007q2/geforce-8600/index.x?pg=5 http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2970&p=5 http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2975&p=2 And one with the 8600GTS ...

You know a UPS that could power up four modern computers during 9 hours? And at the lattitude I live at, suggesting solar power sounds like a bad joke.

Depressing? If this is only remotely close to what will happen, I'm game over. My market will disappear along with my little income. Imagine computer components costing twice as much as they cost nowadays. No one will buy them. And I don't have the finances to survive another blow. I'm...

Second power outage in two weeks. This time, I only lost some 9 hours worth of computing on my four computers. But the Core 2 Duo only wants to use standard loops because it wasn't properly shut down when the outage occured. Calice. Last week, I lost more than 12 hours of processing for the...

No one knows for sure how the X290XT and X2900XTX will perform compared to their Nvidia siblings. [/NDA] The X2900XT will beat the 8800GTS slightly, but the X2900XTX will barely be faster and will be trounced by the 8800GTX. [NDA] We'll have to wait before we know.

The fan on the 8800GTS is very quiet. You don't want to (well, in fact you simply can't) run a 8800GTS with passive cooling.

Not a joke. It's only that they had one texture for the drums and applied to to all of them.

I included quotes in my last two news submissions and it broke the layout of the front page. Any way to fix this?

Since this web site is called "storageforum", we have to post news about storage. Does anyone have any hope that the latest 15K Ultrastar finally got rid of the recurring heat issue that have always plagued the series in the past? News source

I despise Steve Jobs just as much as Bill Gates (maybe even more). He is a BS factory. He doesn't have a mouth, he has a crap fab. I refuse to buy a computer from a company that is owned by a man who dared to spout that its technologically-retarded systems were 5 times faster than the cream...

The 8600GT beats the 7600GT and X1650XT significantly. But one should look at it purely for the raw performances compared to other cards, not for its DX10 compatibility. It won't be powerful enough to play DX10 games with DX10 effects turned on. Neither will be the 8600GTS. Trying to sell...

Merc would need to steal the seat of a custom motorcycle to feel confortable on a bike. Plus, many bikes' frames are made for riders weighting less than 250lbs. Above this limit, a mecanical fairlure could occur and injure the unfortunate rider. Merc on a bicycle isn't a good idea.

Buy the Lian Li and put it in a wardrobe. You won't hear it. If it's still not good enough, wrap it in mineral wool.

Yeah, that would be my choice too, although I don't have any strong argument to back up my position. Maybe some Acer towers would be barely acceptable too. The used Compaq EVO DS51 I often work with are fine for office systems too. These are small form factor and not ATX towers. Their PSU...

That time is so good and so close to the best time achieved by a man that it's hard to believe. Assuming that runner was clean, she has my admiration. Your time was excellent too Chewy. I never tried running more than 12Km myself and I did it at around 3m30s per Km. That's roughly 5m30s per...

I noticed that our junior California boy has upgraded its home system. Now with a 6000+ Athlon 64 X2 and (yuck!) Windows Vista Ultimate. I vaguely remember Ddrueding mentionning the unfortunate move to Vista, but I missed the CPU upgrade news.

With the devise convertion, I pay less for C2D than you would thru Newegg, but they beat my supplier for the Q6600. It is now 659U$, that's a huge drop. Don't rush to buy one yet though, as it will drop near 500$ qute soon and to the mid-200's $ by September. It's insane the computing power...

I always keep one in the trunk of my car, along with a shovel and garbage bags. Knowing that medecine men cary one too in your part of the world is a little disturbing though. Also, how and why would you fit it inside your computer?

There's something appropriate coming with Vista?

I forgot to tell to rename the picture "Oemlogo.bmp".

You only need a vanilla Windows XP Pro OEM disk, not the one from Lenovo. Bittorrent exists for that. Don't use a Windows XP Pro corporate or retail disk as it won't accept the license glued on the bottom of your laptop. As for the drivers, either auto-detect your laptop at Lenovo's web site...

For all you sensitive girlies out there, there's the Thermaltake MaxOrb that weights just 465g. It certainly isn't as efficient as the Ninja Rev.B, but it respects the weight limit specified by Intel for the land grid array 775. It's probably the best performing heatsink under 500g currently...

I can run 25m alright, but I don't float (not enough body fat) so the only way I'm going to make 25m in water is down and at 25m below the surface, I would be gasping for air.

The way you described your health and overweight issues in the past, I'm very surprise to read that you can actually run...even more so to run 2.5 miles. I thought you were fat like...FAT. Morbid fat. You must not be that bad after all. You certainly didn't look obese in the picture you...

I don't think it'll break my heart if you give it.