Meh. The p180 is ok for noise, but it isn't nearly as cool as I expected. I got a little cash from a travel award recently ($450), so I'm thinking about a new processor (mightily overclocked pentium d 915 gets the job done, but the older it gets the worse my vDroop is looking) and a transplant and ebaying the old stuff. Thing is, I want to get back into a small(ish) form factor.
Thinking about a silverstone sg03 case:
The layout of the case impresses me. I may not have to break out the dremmel to make her a lubberly lady. Two ports for 120mm fans in the front, another "cross flow fan" option, and the ability to vent some of the hot air from the cpu/vid card directl out through the psu (not ideal, but you go with what works). They give it a good review here, and I'm just about sold (aside from their abysmal cable routing):
And one of the new g33 chipsets, particularly looking at the Asus P5K-VM:
The board doesn't look like much of an overclocker and I couldn't find any reviews, so I'm probably going to pick up an e6400, e6600 (or something there abouts) on ebay. The mobo looks like it will have clearance for my x1950xt and pci soundcard.
Rest of specs: 2x1gb ddr800 (they need 2.1v)
3x samsung hd160hj hd's--going to have to put one in an e-sata enclosure, might try the internal ones in raid0 again, depending
1xoptical
x1950xt
650W antec trio psu
xfi music
I expect my freezer 7 pro is too big for that case, any suggestions for a lower profile cooler? Maybe something like a zally cnps8000:
Thinking about a silverstone sg03 case:
The layout of the case impresses me. I may not have to break out the dremmel to make her a lubberly lady. Two ports for 120mm fans in the front, another "cross flow fan" option, and the ability to vent some of the hot air from the cpu/vid card directl out through the psu (not ideal, but you go with what works). They give it a good review here, and I'm just about sold (aside from their abysmal cable routing):
And one of the new g33 chipsets, particularly looking at the Asus P5K-VM:
The board doesn't look like much of an overclocker and I couldn't find any reviews, so I'm probably going to pick up an e6400, e6600 (or something there abouts) on ebay. The mobo looks like it will have clearance for my x1950xt and pci soundcard.
Rest of specs: 2x1gb ddr800 (they need 2.1v)
3x samsung hd160hj hd's--going to have to put one in an e-sata enclosure, might try the internal ones in raid0 again, depending
1xoptical
x1950xt
650W antec trio psu
xfi music
I expect my freezer 7 pro is too big for that case, any suggestions for a lower profile cooler? Maybe something like a zally cnps8000:
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