It is great. It actually stops at times so you need to turn off the fan warning on the CPU. (As frightfull as that is.) Works fine, very quiet.
My ati 9700 is now the loud fan. Might replace that with a zalman.
For the cost of sata to ide adapters you might consider just buying a PCI card to do your raid. And considering the fact that my system is running faster with the SIS648 IDE controller (not raided) than it was with the built in Raid of my last abit I'm not sure Raid is even worthwhile.
Raid...
It was my understanding that when you played a cd it just decoded it, dumped it through the analog port where the sound card mixed it in and dumped it to the speakers. Same thing as if I plugged into my sound card via a front headphone jack.
I wasn't aware that it went through the ide cable...
Well, that's what I'm wondering. If I rip things that is going thru the ide, right? Otherwise it is just a choice between the Audigy's DACs and the CD Rom's (If I'm playing a cd in the drive.), right? I can't come up with anything else.
Okay,
The audigy has internal digital and analog connectors for CD drives. I'm currently using the analog connection cause that is all my previous sound solution supported. What is the advantage of using the digital connection?
Thanks!
I ran the athlon version forever. The P4 version might be even quieter. Tho it does actually STOP sometimes until things get warm. Which is more than a little freaky.
SVC Compucycle is the only place I've found them. $20 shipped. FYI
Okay,
Anyone put one of the fanless Zalman heat pipe coolers on a sapphire 9700? (Not pro.) I've got quiet fans, a quiet power supply and a quiet hsf. I plan to isolate the hard disks and would like to reduce the noise level of my 9700.
Is the zalman a good bet? (I don't over clock my...
Zalmans are supposed to be very good.
I just put an artic cooling super sillent 4 tc into my system. Hard to tell it is running when the case isn't open. (Now my 9700 is the loudest fan in the system. Which sucks because it wasn't making any real noise before.) And it cools just fine...
Depends on the onboard sound.
My MSI 648 Max L's onboard sound wasn't good. My previous Nforce based board's onboard sound was great.
I bought an Audigy 2 ($99 after rebate at compusa) and the sound is wonderful.
Anyone who tried MMJB before the 6 something with a lot of mp3's would not like the product. It has gotten much better over time. But man was it crap for a while.
There are a million of them. What are you looking for? For cheap and basic (with sound and ethernet) I just picked up the MSI 648 Max L from Newegg.com for $80 or so.
Very nice. Very basic. (The sound isn't all that great either but is okay and it is 5.1.) Very cheap.
I like the MSI 648 Max L from Newegg.com for about $79. (Plus shipping.)
I'm not real fond of the sound quality but it isn't bad (and it is 5.1). It has gig ethernet. The only complaint I have is the floppy and hard disk connectors are poorly placed.
Okay,
The built in sound of my new MSI-648 Max L just isn't doing it for me. It isn't horrible. It just isn't good. Muddy as hell actually. (Little hard to tell for sure until I get my WHINY cpu fan swapped out.)
I REALLY liked the sound of my previous nforce board. Easily the best sound...
You can try canon. The heads are not part of the cartridge but they are user replacable. I don't know that anyone knows what they are going to go for. Of course they don't clog nearly so much as the epson clogmaster line.
Lexmark has insanely expensive ink.
When I had 512MB of memory I found that UT2k3 would still cause massive disk swapping. When I added another 256MB it got way better.
No game should bloat like that.
Open My computer. Right click on the partition in question. Select Properties. Select the tools tab. Click check now. Select automatically fix errors. (And scan for bad sectors if you would like.)
If it is your system volume it will probably make you reboot.
A better solution is to use...
What doesn't beat the crap out of real player? If I have to use real player to see/hear it I won't.
As to Windows Media Player 9. Does it still refuse to make mp3s? Cause that's why I didn't care for it for playing music. I love it for video.
For music I prefer music match. Although I am...
Nope. I'll have to mail the sucker somewhere so I'll need a replacement or be down for a while. Once I get a replacement I'll contact intel. (Or newegg or whomever.)
Actually, now that I think about it, I remember having to attach a case fan to the CPU fan spot so I could boot and disable the fan detect option on my last motherboard.
Very irritating. In fact that setting got reset everytime I updated a bios.
Anywho, I just ordered the arctic cooling super...
That arctic cooling hsf is the other one I've been looking at. I had the amd version on the machine I just replaced. It was fine and VERY quiet but my amd ran a bit (20C) warmer than I was used to seeing with my previous hsf.
The one review I read of the arctic cooling hsf mentioned that the...
The stock fan on my 2.4G P4 is whiny as hell. It is actually louder than anything I had on my AMD. (Including that godforsaken Thermaltake mini orb and the somewhat better volcano 7.) But I'm not sure that is normal or if I just have a bad fan. Sounds like it is labouring a bit.
I'm...
Looking at reviews I'm seeing good things about the Thermaltake Spark 7. From what I'm reading if the fan is going full speed it is plenty loud but if you run it slower it is still good.
I think I'm going to load up the temperature monitoring program that came with my mobo, set it to alarm if...
I just checked a review site (frosty something or other) and they list the intel fan as "low noise" which is what I've heard but, man, it is way too loud. And it isn't that it is just loud. It sounds like a fan that is labouring. I think I have a defective fan. Not even my fricken...
I just got one of these and decided to flash the bios on it. I don't recommend it. A 1/2 dozen reboots and I think I hit the proper combination of loading defaults, resetting the bios and properly selected options to have windows boot.
Anyone else have any issues like that?
Just got a retail intel p4 2.4G processer.
Everyone told me the fans are really quiet on these things. This thing is way loud. Is this normal? It doesn't sound like a good fan to me.
Is there a good HSF I should try? I was thinking of ordering the artic cooling super silent 4 tc. I had...
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