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This case is pretty cool, check it out http://hideapod.com/

Your link is broken but this is a good guide as well and easy to use http://pc.ign.com/articles/747/747606p2.html

If you use boiling water for the tubes, it's generally a VERY tight fit, so no clamps are needed. You just have to cut them off if you want to flush the system at some point in the future.

Even though nobody is interested, my crashing problems were not due to my 8800 but rather to my CPU overclock.

Well, I have cats so the hair gets sucked into the fans some times. I did get 6C lower with some compressed air, but 66C at idle still seems hot. I have a Corsair Nautilus so maybe I'll just add the block to it.

I just sprayed some air through the fan and it lowered to 66C, but still....

I'm getting Crash to Desktop all the time in BF2 with my 8800 GTS suddenly. I've played for hours before, but now, for some reason, it crashes all the time. My idle temp is 71C though, not sure what load is, but that's damn hot. I looked at other reviews and the idle temp was 56C on...

Both should be fine, but I don't think anyone has any experience with the V1 yet.

that is a super-high ambient temp. Most air-coolers are not going to do well in that environment. Even my water cooler gets up to 50c idle when room temperature is over 80F

I was running into some heating issues with my overclock, so I switched to water. As it turns out, all I had to do was lower the voltage :( so rather than pulling the water cooler off, I'm going to stick with it. I don't want to remove the motherboard and all that.

I'll sell you a Zalman 9700 for $50

Well, it was stable for 99% of the time, but Oblivion and BF2 were crashing to desktop occasionally, and I wasn't sure if it was the game or the overclock. Otherwise, it was totally stable. Load temps are 62C on water, so temps are fine. I might lower the Vcore to see how low I can go with...

I was having some games crash, and was not sure why. I thought maybe I didn't have enough Vcore so i raised it just a bit. It's idling at 46C on water now though. What is stock voltage btw? 1.36V or something?

what I want to know is what Vcore reading to trust? What I see in nTune is different from what's in the BIOS. I'm on an E6700 @ 3.4GHz and I think my Vcore is 1.42, but nTunes says 1.39V

Select an AMD motherboard and the AMD cpus appear.

Thanks for dropping by. I'll admit my own ignorance here and say I've never even heard of this application for DVD watching, and I own an NVIDIA card. I didn't even know NVIDIA made such an application. Sorry for the oversight. We'll get it fixed.

As we noted in the review, Puget offers more cases than just that little Antec unit. It also has Lian Li cases, Silverstone TJ07, Antec P180...basically all the "best" cases out there are available. It's nice to see several different vendors offered, rather than just Lian Li, or just Antec, like...

I had it running for weeks and never noticed anything odd. Vista SuperFetch eats up a ton of RAM though, up to 1GB just at bootup for me.

Yes, but you could not shrink or expand volumes.

heh, I actually thought of doing that. We should have posted that on April 1 :o

I have "just" a 24" LCD, but it's perfect. I can totally use two apps at once, and don't hurt my neck always looking around. I used to have two 21"s but prefer a single, widescreen display.

Kyle must have copied my rig or something. I have an E6700 OC'd to 3.4GHz on a Corsair Nautilus with an 8800 as well :D Idle: 41 Load: 61 Same temps as Kyle, and very quiet. I was running a Zalman 9700 on its quietest setting (hate noise) but it was getting up to 73C or thereabouts under...

It's been running for over two days now. Five instances of Prime95. No crashes or any trouble. Here are the final temps.

I don't think a good HSF would be able to maintain decent temps on an overclocked QX6700. We've seen dual-core CPUs overclock okay on air-cooling, but still run rather hot. But the quad-core CPU is a different animal entirely, and gets much hotter when overclocked. I can't recall the exact...

I actually am having so many problems gaming in Vista that I had to re-install XP just to play anything. It's ridiculous. BF2 crashes to desktop, BF2142 crashes as soon as I try to connect to a server, Oblivion crashes every few minutes, Stalker BSODs, etc. Nothing works. Of course, I...

Looks good, but man that's a lot of tubing. Are you cooling everything (ram, NB, et al) with water?

It's a cliche, but we really do everything for the readers. And if the readers have a request, we do what we can to please them/you

Since the [H] readers are the wind beneath our wings, we cleaned up the thermal paste and re-applied some Arctic Ceramique. We considered AS5, but since AS5 requires 200 hours to reach optimal temperature, and we have to ship the system back to Dell pretty soon, we went with the white stuff...

Gah, I should have included the screenshot but it slipped through the cracks. Under Shader Quality there is an option for DX10. The Inquirer wrote a story about CoH receiving DX10 support at the end of March, but there's nothing I can find in the 1.4 patch that mentions it, but it...

Be sure to post pics when it arrives. Congrats on your new PC!

lol, I guess you are not getting much help here, eh? I think everyone goes with what they have. And it seems like every one has had pretty good experiences with their own laptops. On that note, I've had a Toshiba for about six months and it's been rock-solid from day one. not a single...

Hypersonic had to mount the PSU that way because the big, fat bundle of cables that pokes out of the end of the PSU would have gone right where the optical drive is. Look at this picture I'm not defending Hypersonic per se, but flipping the PSU the other way would have not been possible given...

that is one sick PC, no doubt. I hope it works out of the box :D

it's actually quite easy to make a quiet PC. Just use quiet case fans; I prefer Antec Tri-cools, and a silent CPU cooler. You can either go with Zalman units (both water or air), Scythe, or even Arctic Cooling.

What is your budget? I'm totally partial to Canons, and own a 20D. I tried a Nikon D50 and Rebel before I bought the 20D. I find it to be the perfect pro-sumer DSLR that gives you a ton of performance for the money. I've seen some other high-end Nikons though and I think they are very nice...

so what are your thoughts on the machine? Similar to ours or different?

I was talking in the context of framerate, but you are correct it eliminates tearing. I haven't been posting very well today :o

You are right, the white card is the Crossfire edition and the red card is the slave. I don't know why I thought it was the opposite. Now that I look back at the configuration pageI'm surprised they didn't just ship us two X1950 XT cards. It doesn't say anything about different flavors of...

To be honest, I uncheck everything on my home system. I have never run into any problems. If you do, just boot into safe mode, and re-check whatever you unchecked.

With Crossfire, you need one Master and one slave card, though you could certainly run two Master cards, like we saw in our review of the Overdrive PC awhile ago, but running one master and one slave is the preferred way of doing it, and these two cards are essentially the most high-end...