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hi there, just a quick query, i have an abit ip35-e board running 4gig of ram (2x 2ig oc modules), a q6600 (overclocked or run at standard speed, this happens with both) and an nvidia 8600gts graphics card. When i first turn on the pc from cold start, the motheboard fires up for a few...

so it would seem i'm not alone with this issue then.. i suppose it serves me right for switching manufacturers... i always use abit or asus board and decided on this occasion to switch to the gigabyte as i'd read some favourable reports regards overclocking... oh well, looks like i'm...

hi there, i've got a wierd problem with my gigabyte ds3r. Its installed with a q6600, 4gig of ram. When i overclock it at all (any settings) it seems to work fine (in fact i have it prime stable @ 3.6ghz with a cpu voltage of 1.45) until i shut it down. Once its been shut down, it won't...

i find the easiest (and cheapest) way to make your hard discs near silent is to use double sided sticky tape and stick em to the bottom of the chassis, you can easily fit 2 in in front of the motherboard so to speak. Just put very small pads of tape on each of the 4 screw holes in the bottom of...

thanks for the comments pulse, yep its a render farm. The 2 main drivers behind the room were to have as little noise as possible (hence the cupboard setup) and to have as few cables on display (again hence the cupboard and the desk design to conceal as many cables as possible).. cheers ian

which one? i'd be interested cos i'm always looking at ways to reduce power and noise, and i thought 2.5inch drives would be a good place to go... i used a 5400 seagate drive and it was pants compared to most 3.5inch drives, of course they were 7200 so i suppose comparisons on my part were a...

thanks folks for all your kind comments. basically the chair came about cos i wanted shot of the traditional office "wheelie" type chair.... yeah its very nice, sometimes the exec. chairs are two "laid back" if you know what i mean... the need for all the PC's.. 3d rendering involves as...

all of my drives in my computers are stuck to the bottom of the chassis with several layers of double sided tape (the foamy type stuff). Absolutely fantastic for noise damping, absolutely crap for heat dissapation. So if you did that, u wouldn't need to worry about fixings or mountings, also...

at the moment i'm a freelance 3d graphic designer. i create 3d animations of proposed architectural projects and also dabble in a bit of the interior design work too from time to time. i am busy creating a new website (the only page thats there is the homepage at the moment and it can be rather...

just took 2 more pictures showing the actually computers in the cupboard and the printer in the top cupboard. there is room for 4 computers in there, there used to be 4 dual core amd 4400 but i've only got 3 quads in there at the moment, i don't know if the airflow would be sufficient...

thanks for your comments.. The speakers work quite well, with the room not being solely for watching movies the speaker setup is always going to be compromised in some way, if the speakers had been put at head height, i find they are too close, personal preference tho. some of the stuff came...

cheers, the benchtop is real wood. the desktop (the whole L sahpe going in between the cupboards, the window sill, and the small table next to the sofa are all made from the same solid wood run. The legs and rails around the sofa and footstool were machined from 2 solid blocks of light oak...

lol.. cheers... it has taken a few attempts to get to a room that i'm happy with, indeed its also taken 3 different rooms in 2 houses! but finally i think i'm there, for now!!! one of the main drivers in the design of the room believe it or not was having near silence, no computer fan...

hi guys, i've always wondered about this... in nymins' post above (the one showing the cpu cooler and the 2 rear exhausts) if you have too many fans "sucking" air from an area, do you not create a vacum which in turn starves each fan of airflow. In this instance, you have the cpu fan, 2x...

the seating for watching movies on the tv...

Hi all, thought i'd post pictures of my computer room / home office / what-ever you want to call it really.. The first picture shows my tv and media setup, the mini mac is serving currently a 2tb media library around the house to a few apple tv units and a macbook, and...

i dont suppose there's a right way and a wrong way, i just like to cover the entire heat spreader with paste as the heatsink contacts the entire heat spreader so i give the heat the best possible chance to transfer from heat spreader to heat sink. thats why i use a blade to scrape across, so...

ever since i started using artic silver, some 6 years ago i think (can't remember) i've always put a blob on the cpu (or heat spreader these days) then "scrape" across the cpu in all directions several times with a stanley knife blade. If done smoothly it leaves a very very thin layer of paste...

howdy all, i have quite a moddest setup (compared to some listed here), but it is nice and compact and fairly bullet proof as far as backup goes. My media server is a mini mac running itunes to serve tv shows, movies, music and iphoto serves all me photos.. i have 2 apple tvs round the...

as long as the pc can run the software you use then its fine, install all your software on it, and run it, if it doesn't restart or freeze in any way then you've cracked it... orthos is good for prooving a system is in fact bullet proof, not for prooving whether you can use it 24/7 with the...