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... One of those with a DDC mount is just so ridiculously RIGHT for this case... I suddenly want to watercool after all!

That is a beautiful build! What kind of pump is that, on the reservoir? A DDC?

Thanks a lot! I've planned on placing my PC in the attic and this makes me a lot less worried. I was reading specs on USB and monitor cables, but couldn't find much info on whether using active cables would create any lag. Will post pics once I get my home office set up!

Very nice, and this is exactly what I am planning on doing! Would you mind sharing a little about the process of making it work properly? Do you have any lag due to the long cables? Are you using active cables? Are you getting full resolution on the monitors?

Make that 3. Can't afford a new build at the moment as we just moved into a new house, but I still just bought an Ncase. Can't imagine anything else really replacing the FT02, so I got the M1 while it was available.

I remember trying to research this a couple of years back. I think I remember concluding that the orientation mattered a lot less than the quality of the heatpipes, in that high quality heatpipes can transfer heat even in most directions. I couldn't tell you definitively, either way, so you'll...

And I am planning on feeding tubes out the back of the case, over the edge of my desk, into a 50mm tube custom-built into the wall that leads up to the attic on the floor above me, and connected to a seriously big radiator in the attic. A bit of a pipe dream, we'll see.;)

A quick google for "pwm splitter" should lead you to them. I think mine was made by Akasa.

a) connect the fan to another header, which has DC control, or b) buy a proper PWM fan. PWM fans have a few advantages: They have a much wider RPM range, meaning they can go much quieter at idle while still being able to move a lot of air at load. You can daisy-chain several PWM fans together...

Did Asus change their approach? The SupremeFX that I had last time was nothing more than a software-enhanced Realtek.

.. and according to Hardware.no, Asus says by email that this is merely the first in a series of short graphics cards.

... did Asus just announce a GTX 670 short enough to leave room for a modular ATX PSU? http://rog.asus.com/214602013/graphics-cards-2/asus-gtx-670-directcu-mini-small-size-full-power/

With your left hand on WASD and your right on the mouse, there is no way you have an actually ergonomically correct arm position with a regular size keyboard and a regular size body. Tenkeyless helps.

I have both the 9HD and the new Corsair MM400. The 9HD was the first ever mouse pad I was 100 % happy with (over S&S, QCK, SX, SP, Ratpadz, Corepad and I forget what else). The Corsair has a rougher surface which makes my G700 (with Teflon feet) glide faster, but also seems to cause more feet...

Maybe I'm just being pedantic - but he is saying "should" and "tricky" in that thar quote. I did see it, and I just thought I'd point out that having the best watercooling option available almost fit would be a shame.

With the H220 this becomes the perfect little quiet gaming box, since it doesn't need the external reservoir and can be expanded to a GPU water block. I'd suggest making very sure it will fit before finalizing the design.

It would be more correct to say that most people using higher quality sound cards won't go near a badly designed front panel. I've always tried to connect the FP audio, always got terrible noise, and always thought it was interference getting through the long internal cable. Then I read that...

Concept 4.1 is just brilliant! I'm just wondering, though: for a gaming system, can you get any decent SFX PSUs besides Silverstone's (I know you can't in my country)? From what I have read, their modular version is very noisy, and the non-modular is, well, non-modular.

Well, my monitor wouldn't turn on at all after sleep - I had to hit reset. Ended up reverting to 12.9.

I think the current 2-radiator version is close to perfect. It offers a great deal of flexibility (water vs air, custom water loops vs all-in-ones, front radiator vs disk cage) with very few drawbacks.

If I'm getting this case it's for the watercooling options. Agree on the need to make sure audio and USB do not share ground wires. I notice that Silverstone fixed this when moving to USB 3.0.

I realize that I'm being a bit naive, but I have to ask: isn't Lian Li at all interested in accepting your superior design and producing it as their own, for sale through their regular distribution network?

You mean such as this?

That's an Asus Xonar Essence STX sound card. With the USB 3.0 upgrade kit for the FT02 Silverstone has finally gotten the wiring right, so you can use the front panel audio with the Xonar without noticeable static.

I could check the exact parts, but I would think you could find everything you want except the huge radiator over at EK Waterblocks. The key parts from EK, in addition to the water blocks themselves, are the dual front reservoir and the SLI/Crossfire bridges. The radiator is a semi-custom...

This is my buddy's FT02: Magicool 3x 180mm radiator 2x GTX 580 in SLI i7 2600K @ 5 GHz EK waterblocks and reservoir .... and the damned thing is as quiet at load as my fully aircooled FT02 (reference 7970 and Noctua NH-D14) is at idle. Neither CPU nor GPU temps ever reach 60 C.

I have had this headset since it first came on the market, as have several of my friends. The PC360s do in fact have the same drivers as the HD595s and sound very similar, which is to say fantastic. Great mic, great sound quality and fairly wide soundstage, light, extremely comfortable - I...

I used to have this problem with my G700 on its default settings. When I unchecked "use OS native drivers for pointer speed and acceleration" and checked "Enable angle snapping" it went away.

I have a PC 360 and an HD 555. The 360 feels slightly tighter, but it is also much newer so it could be down to pad wear on the 555. I do have a rather small head though.

Well, going from 5850 CFX to 6950 CFX doubled my framerate in BFBC2 in 3x1920x1080 Eyefinity.

If you are failing Prime95 then there is definitely something wrong - and not the graphics card. Blend tests many parts of your machine. Which part is failing could be indicated by which size FFTs are running when it gets the rounding errors, I think mine used to throw errors around 1024K when...

I had this exact same problem - and in my case the problem was incompatible RAM. It seems the 1090T's internal memory controller is extremely picky. My first memory sticks were on the motherboard manufacturer's QVL list, but not on the memory manufacturer's recommended list. The machine would...

38-50% ? I went from 2x 5850 to 2x 6950 with a triple 1920x1080 landscape Eyefinity setup, running off a Phenom II X6 1090T. In Bad Company 2 my FPS went up by just about 100 %.

I agree the joystick is worse for precise adjustments (think corners in FPS games), but I actually have better control over my WoW character with this than with keys. The forte of the G13 with MMORPGs is the ability to press all your regular action buttons while still keeping full...

I don't know anything about those graphics cards' audio, but I believe that: - to send 5.1 over digital cable, you need a Dolby or DTS signal - games generally (at least I do not know of a single one) do not produce a Dolby or DTS signal - certain sound cards can take a game's 5.1 sound and...

This thread saved the day. I used to played in fullscreen Eyefinity dx9 (because of CrossfireX apparently not kicking in in windowed) and had to play with reduced settings to avoid wow.exe growing to 2 gigs of memory and crashing. After reading this I switched to dx11 and windowed fullscreen...

I'm using Sennheiser HD 555s with my DG and am pretty happy.

I have the Define R2 (previous model, very minor differences). I also have a P182 to compare with. The front door does not really interfere with the fans. Compared to the Antec P18x the fans are recessed and will draw air through the side vents no matter what you do to the door or the front...

Well, if wireless is very important to you - and you buy from somewhere with a decent return policy - the G930s might be your best bet. Logitech is now aware of the driver issues, and have been working on them. Personally if I were getting a (wired) USB gaming headset in this price range, I'd...

The mics on the G35s I had were fantastic. Audio was also fantastic - when it worked. These were my complaints: 1. First set had a high-pitched whine in the right ear when any program using the microphone was active. 2. Second set worked perfectly on 32-bit XP. On 64-bit 7, however, it...