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Can anybody confirm if this has a dual link DVI port as mentioned in the first post?

For those of us with HTPCs, closed loop system are good as it effectively removes the need for one fan. I run a HTPC with a H60 with a Notua fan and a single Fractal design case 120mm fan. While playing back HD content the H60 will keep a A8-3870 to about 30c with the fans at about 400 rpm...

Unless you want to do on the fly media steaming (as opposed to just playing a file) then you don't need a very powerful (and hot) system. For my main server I have Asus E350 m/b with 6GB of DDR3 1333mh/z OCZ Vertex3 Max ops 120GB Highpoint 2640 raid 5 SAS/SATA card 4*WD Red 3GB Raid 5...

Mine is also in the queue. Did you have Saturday delivery? I did and presumably they are waiting until Friday to make sure its delivered on Saturday! I sent a note to change it to free delivery.

Some/all Blackgold DVB-T2 cards are low profile. My BG3620 cards are much more reliable that my PCTV 290e usb tuner. You don't metion what software you use but on the assumption that it can record to a network drive I would suggest:- Passive E350/E450 MB+CPU (Asus look good) £88-£129...

The UD5 has three on board controllers Intel, Marvell 6GBs and a gigabyte branded controller. When using a pair of Vertex 3 Max IOPS on my UD5 the best results were from the Intel ports. Although the limited bandwidth hit benchmark scores for sequential read/writes the random scores were much...

Agreed it was dire. 100 bonus points for the concept with the TRADIS getting a body minus 10 million for terrible application. It was incoherent rubbish, but that is not surprising since Neil Gaimen wrote it. I would have thought Moffat would have the balls to say nice concept and some good one...

Given your specification and needs I am wondering why you are going with WHS 2011. To be honest if you need WHS 2011 over v1 and aim to have 6 drives then you will need a decent PCI-E x4 or x8 RAID5 card otherwise the need for active data management balancing the drives will send you mad (WHS...

He was the bosun and one of the bodies on the beds so I assume that the Siren got him but that the scene got cut as the episode was over running. Did anybody see The Hand of Fear on BBC4, not fast paced compared to current TV and the support cast was a bit dodgy but the scenes between the...

The standard Revo should be faster that a V3 on sata2, about the same on sata3 (given the figures above). The Revo x2 is faster than the the V3 R0 figures above. My three V2 50GB drives in R0 scores higher than a pair of V3 120GB and slightly cheaper than a single Vertex 3. I will wait a bit...

There will not be any point updating to WHS 2011 unless you can add solid DE mod. I have no idea what MS was thinking!

Given the response in quite a lot of the posts there is going to a large number of people in 2111 who are going to think their great grand parents were a bit weird or a total Wazzock. :D

I would go for 4 Vertex 2s 60GB - cheaper, as fast and more space than 2 V3 100gb. I currently have 3 V2 in R0 and was thinking of getting a couple of V3s so I could put the V2s as boot drives for my various HTPC. I won't at that price.

At 2560*1600 go 6970; at 1080P go 570. This assumes that the ATI 3D driver will be improved in the 11.1 drivers.

I would guess that lurkio means XP. I have XP running with the nVidia purevideo codec and the picture quality is much better than the same HTPC running W7MC. With Freeview there is no encoding the signal, the TV card just modulates the MPEG steam from the signal. Therefore in W7 I tend to use...

Unless marc has an old ATI card and is handy with a soldering iron then digging up the old 2004 trick of getting an RGB input from a computer to TV is not relevant. A TV without DVI/HDMI/VGA is likely to have component inputs, the only problem is that any the only cards which supported...

S-video and SCART is like DVI and HDMI; the connector is a different shape but the signal is the same. You can get a SCART connector which have a S-video connector, composite input and phono L/R on the back.

Since SCART is limited to PAL TV format 720*576 (plus maybe NTSC or Seacm depending on the TV) it would be hard to tell a good from a bad output. Doesn't your graphics card have a S-video output?

The PCI slot on theUD5 cannot be used when using a x16 xfire set up, only a x8 setup.

Six months ago I would have said go Fressat HD; however, I just got the PCTV DVB-T2 USB tuner (Freeview HD) and it works fine in under WinXP MCE and Win 7 Pro. I haven't tried using it for live broadcasts yet but when used as a timeshifter/recorded the quality is noticeably better than my Virgin...