I have a small chilli professional aluminum case that I absolutly love. It's hard to work with, but it fits great in my (very) small room and looks absolutly sweet. If I had room for a bigger case, I would have gotten a coolermaster.
Most of the hooey about them being better cooling cases is...
Mostly just more of everything - I know I do a lot of sound editing with sound forge, usually involving files that are about 380 to 650 megs, and having a fast HD is a lifesaver. I'd go with either a WD1200BB (you can get the JB, but for video editing you would use sequential transfer rates and...
I've used regular old 70% isopropal alcohol to clean off my cpus for years now. You shouldn't have any problem with it at all. I suppose you could go the extra mile to get 99%, but I don't think there's any point.
Let everything dry, and you'll be AOK.
I doubt you'd see any difference whatsoever in gaming or 3dmark scores by upgrading to 1.2 gigs of memory. As it is, I don't ever use all 256 megs of my memory gaming, even with other apps running, so I don't see any reason to have 512 unless you're using your PC as a server, running a server...
I would give it back, even if the law did somehow let you keep the chip. Taking something that's not yours is theft; that makes you a thief, irregardless of the "circumstances" before and whether or not they made a mistake. I'm sure if you bring it in, they'll gladly put the right chip in for...
I know that my JB is dead silent for the most part, and the ONLY fans in my system are on my Enermax PS (which is pretty quiet) and an 80mm low speed fan on the CPU. I can only hear it during seeks, and even then it's very quiet.
There is no way I could hear it from my hallway - I'd have a...
Looks fine to me. Rounded cables rock your dome - I'll never go back to the ribbons.
You might consider saving some cash and going with the G4-4200 if you can, since I think the performance is pretty close and you can OC the 4200 easily to 4400 levels. I dunno. Your call.
My WD1200JB is pretty much silent, feels just as fast as my dad's Maxtor Atlas 10k-III (a 10,000 RPM SCSI drive), and has 120 gigs of storage. It also runs very cool - MUCH cooler than my old SCSI drive (a WD 10,000 rpm SCSI drive...) which sounded like someone was blending frozen strawberries...
Oh yeah - I agree with others - ditch the sound card. That thing belongs in a museum. =)
I'd go with a Turtle Beach or a Philips Accoustic Edge. The Audigy is good, but I'm not too keen on the software it comes with and the menus are confusing and largly worthless.
Everything else looks...
Eh....I'm not interested in the via bashing. I'm very happy with the stability of my Soltek (kt266a) and my brother's computer uses a kt133a - and it's a very stable machine. My dad just built a system with the kt333 and it's rock solid, so I don't see what all the fuss is about. I do know...
As a general rule of thumb, it's always best to put the HD on one channel and the CD or DVD on the other...it shouldn't cause any degradation unless (like someone else said) you're using both at the same time.
I'd be wary of buying IBM drives....their last few models (75 and 60GXP) were not the most reliable beasts....if I were you, I'd go with a maxtor, seagate, or western digital.
You're going to have to get an additional IDE controller (a PCI one) to add any more IDE devices to your system. RAID...
DrVos, WHAT VIDEO CARD DO YOU HAVE??? Brand and model?
Damn, I've been looking for nvidia geforce cards with no fans......I'm a "silence" junkie, and I just can't tolerate the fans they're slapping on those things these days....
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