I'm in the club with an ATI all-in-wonder 9600.
Still a great card for running dual VGA displays, but it's been nearly four years since I built this system and I've been reading quite a bit about PCI-E and might have to jump ship from ATI to nVidia.
I have some old-ass coolermaster LED fans as well... I'm fairly sure they just plain crap out. Some of mine have lasted 2 years, others don't have any LEDs running at all.
c'mon, no PC sound card beats a huge, lumbering, old-school stereo. I know you have 'em. :D
Denon DRA-755 receiver
Yamaha PlayXChange 5 CD Changer
Denon Cassette Deck DR-M20
Denon Quartz "Micro Processor controlled" phonograph
It's all hooked into some 12" JBL speakers with built in...
Well, I love my Antec SX1040BII... but be warned, it is a tank. It's like the Hummer H2 of cases, durable but heavy as hell... no window and the airflow works good stock out of the box.
That's just my digital camera going crazy, catching a weird reflection off whats on the wall there, out of frame... its an X-Wing Collector's CD-ROM holographic box art :D
The A7V8X-X is a budget board, no doubt about it... Great price if you're not overclocking though, the onboard LAN works great but I would reccomend a sound card... you can get a SB Live! for 40 bucks more.
I love those Coolermasters-very bright and amazingly quiet for the amount of air they push. Lucky me got them when they were $5.00 on Newegg, but I should have bought more than 5 :o
Speed control but probably with simple circuitry... I seem to be not remembering all that much... I'd like to have them all on separate circuits... I think. I know how I'd incorporate just on/off capability but would the knob control voltage or resistance?
I got tired of being deaf in one ear and took my 80mm Tornado off my Thermalright SK-7 and put a standard Enermax case fan on it...my temps increased dramatically, from 35 C idle to about 47-49 C. I know a couple degrees are from dust on the heatsink (can of air ran out just as I was starting to...