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Recent content by eu_phorix

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    Painting the inside of Lanbox black?

    I doubt you'd see any measurable performance difference just by painting the interior. I don't think there's any "infrared" type heat, so the color black isn't going to be soaking up heat from the components in the case. The roughness of the paint could impact airflow, but again, likely an...
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    TT Lanbox PSU question

    A lot of good info already posted. Here's the link to my old build thread, where I am using an XP-120 with a 120mm scythe fan blowing up into the PSU, and PSU exhausting out back for best cooling. (Tried PSU both ways): http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1166883&page=2
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    Portable and lightest LAN computer

    If you're going to go SFF (mATX) then the current rage is a SG-03: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811163082 I have a lanbox (aluminum) and like it a lot, but I'd get an SG-03 if I were building right now.
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    GA-G33M-DS2R

    Congrats dude! :p
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    Thermaltake Lanbox HT VF5001BNS

    Well, the SG03 doesn't have a handle attached, that's true...but honestly I think that's what I like about it. (I own an aluminum lanbox actually, but really dig the SG03 aesthetics). However, Silverstone sells a pretty nice carrying bag for the SUGO kits that would probably be a better overall...
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    GA-G33M-DS2R

    Sorry...don't have the board myself, so not familiar with the BIOS settings. You're right, that's a pretty mild overclock, and is totally doable. It looks like a lot of folks use the "Easytune" application to get their clocks (or maybe just to find the sweet spots). You can try using that...
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    Thermaltake Lanbox HT VF5001BNS

    This is a lanbox case with different venting and front face, the dimensions and innards appear exactly the same. There have been tons of builds with lanbox now as well as reviews...so should be plenty of data out there for you. Personal opinion is that the SG03 deserves all the hype it is...
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    GA-G33M-DS2R

    Carefuly not to confuse FSB and total bus speed....I'm not totally up to snuff on this board, but I doubt it'll go over about 480FSB. That said, you should be able to jump the FSB on your 6400 from 266 to 333, but you may need to introduce a RAM divider and up the voltage a bit on your CPU...
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    new sff build

    You might do some searches here. I remember seeing someone that had the NT06 in a lanbox, and actually put a fan UNDER the heatsink (like between the CPU and heatsink fins). I can't recall the specifics, sounded slightly custom as far as attaching the fans, but looked like a good setup...
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    new sff build

    I like the XP-120 in my lanbox build. See the end of my build thread for some temp tests and info: http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1166883 What are your temps? How close is the heatsink to the power supply fan? How much thermal grease did you use (I've found big difference...
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    recommendation on new SFF build

    Haven't looked at the details on your build, but a couple of things stood out: (1) Video card...if watching movies is a priority, I'd strongly recommend an 8600 nvidia card with the nvidia decoders as a minimum..(gonna bump your price, but they've got the best decoders, and the match with...
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    Another SFF critique thread

    Are you goint to be running VMware or something? Unless you're virtualizing, I'd recommend going with a good dual core rather than the quad (you won't see any usable improvement from a quad versus a dual core in games yet). XP will see all the cores just fine, as far as I'm aware. looks like...
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    Your thoughts on my SFF build.

    Hopefully you meant XP-120 and not Ultra 120 (only have about 100mm of clearance for heatsink, not sure an ultra would fit at all)...I have an XP-120 and scythe fan on top, and it fits under powersupply, but pretty close. If you get any funky problems with the motherboard, send it back asap...
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    Thermaltake VF1000 (lanbox) build questions

    just my .02: you should be able to get good performance with the 8800GTS 320MB..(have the 640MB), but I think they're really close, even if you go 1920x1080, I don't know that the extra 320MB helps that much (likely specific to the game) (All the stock fans are very quiet. (In my system...
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    Lanbox Q6600 8800GTX build

    Just wanted to let you know that a XP-120 will fit, with a fan, and there's still a little room. You're correct that using a fan is best (power supply can't pull enough), and reverse orientation so Fan will blow air up into powersupply, and powersupply will exhaust. (Might search for the...
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