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I'm about to get a bit of scholarship money, and it's probably long past the time that I retired my poor Q6600, so I'm looking at replacing it with a i7 2600k, along with a new mobo, RAM (8Gb Corsair...

I had a play around with it on my laptop last night, and my impression is: Why? DEAR GOD WHY?!

On a tablet, the Metro UI would be awesome, but on a laptop with a keyboard and mouse (worse, a...

Hmm I wonder what they could do on a lower-end 880G chipset, eg Gigabyte GA-880GM-UD2H.

How easy are they to clock to 3.5 Ghz? And what board/chipset are you using?

Out of curiosity, how well do the X6 1055T's run compared to say an i7 2600k or i5 2500k, in terms of points/$$$ and points/watt? It's starting to cool down a little over here in Aust and I'm...

My Q6600 G0 has been sitting on 3.6 Ghz with 1.55v in BIOS (About 1.5v loaded) for the past 2 or so years, part of that being loaded 100% 24/7 crunching, and it's still going fine. Admittedly it's...

Yeah, I haven't been able to find a C300 drive, only SandForce SSDs.

I ended up pulling the trigger on a Vertex 2, so hopefully that'll get here soon.

My desktop's OS drive just died, so I'm using it as an excuse to upgrade the OS drive to an SSD.

The SSD is only going to be holding the OS and programs, with games and all the other assorted crap...

Most of the ITX M55 boards should be able to take a quad, but the Zantec board I'm using doesn't have a whole lot of OC'ing options. Then again, I'm after a low heat, low draw server/HTPC, so...

The Scythe Big Shuriken or their other low-profile top-down heatsink is what I'm looking at, depending on room, just wanted to check that there would be enough room for airflow :p:

Chip will be an...

I'm looking at building an ITX file server/HTPC using one of these cases, but I can't for the life of me find out how much room the case has for a CPU heatsink. Eye-ballling the back of the case, it...

Couple of reasons, really:
i3 530 has a much lower power consumption than say an X2 550 while having faster performance. The closest AMD CPU, performance wise, is an X4 630, which is priced fairly...

Anandtech's review of the i3 530 seem to agree with you, WhiteFireDragon. Not to mention hopefully being able to OC the GPU a bit.

It is a little more expensive, but not by a whole lot. The...

People still use WiMo? I thought everyone had moved on to Android by now :p:

Eller

Friendly bump to see if anyone has had any experience playing back HD movies on either platform?

Eller

+1x10^99999999999999

I would love to be able to log onto XS through a Tapatalk app, makes pressing those tiny, tiny buttons that much easier, and handles formatting for the small screens, too.
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I'm moving out of home (some may say finally :p), and I'm wanting to take my desktop and file server/torrent box with me. At the moment, the server is running a Q6600 B3 with a little bit of an...

I agree for #2. I'm assuming that this isn't going to be a main or benching PC, but a 24/7 cruncher. Given that, I doubt you're going to be running it close to it's max clock, in which case the lower...

Geek Pride! :up:

I agree, not much feels better than bringing formerly dead hardware back to life. Bonus points if replacing said hardware would have cost a bit, too.

Eller

Soldering and de-soldering caps shouldn't be a problem. I'd probably suggest the 40 watt iron, as I believe most computers use Silver (or lead-free) solder now, which needs more heat than the normal...

Oh sweet! I've still got my DreamSpark subscription, so it looks like I might be running S2k8 R2 on the desktop, and use my free Win7 Business key for the laptop. Yay for not having to pay for legit...

Just got an email from Alex, he's still waiting to hear back from some people about warranty. Edit: ninja'd by Alex :p:

The white ceramic ball looks pretty much as good as new. The part in the...

I don't see how an aftermarket top would fix the issue, since the impeller isn't hitting the top, but rather the stainless steel pump housing near the bottom of the spindle (as you can see by the...

I got home from work a few days ago to find my desktop off and a note from my dad saying that the hard drive (he thought) was making some really bad noises. Turned it on briefly to find the pump...

Thanks for the offer, Emu, although I probably won't take you up on it. I need a to buy a couple of D5's anyway for a mass water cooler, so this'll just be an early start :p: I'm waiting to hear back...