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The funny thing is that the P190 comes with three separate case fans, and even with all three on low it's still audibly wheezing. But unless you have some really hot and bothersome parts in your case, all you need is one actually running. I disabled the one near the PSU and the one at the back, and left the one at the top running on low. So all in all I have the PSU fan (which either never moves or is totally silent, I don't know), the GPU fan, the CPU fan (which I can control with a dial at the back of the system, I have it on in-audible levels) and the top fan running. I can barely hear my system now! And all the temperatures are as low as ever. Well, I can actually hear it from where I'm sitting, but that's only because I have been thinking about it. Compared with what I had before it's silent as the grave. Now I can hear the radiator from the fridge and other people in my building flushing their toilets, not sure that's an improvement.

Ahh, I guess I have DX issues, it turns out I can hear the dialogue, depending on which way I turn. It's as if some of the audio channels in the directional audio are just missing. From what I've been hearing though, I'm not missing much.

It looks cool, but I have to say, unless you need it, that radiator is just taking up space. I imagine it's a bit of a pain moving the computer as well. I'm quite pleased with my Antec p190 case, after some fiddling around and with the case fans set to low it makes no noise either. You can't even tell on from off unless you put your ears to it. I can't OC it with those fan settings, but that's not what I was going for anyway.

Rather than resort to necro-searching I thought I would start a thread about this strange game. OK, so I mustered the patience to sit through the rest of the tutorials. A few questions for those that have played Assassin's Creed. Whats with the pantomime ?. Is my game broken or is every human interaction basically you standing in an invisible box you can't get out of looking at the subject speaking, with no sound, other than the music. Until the game decides the phantom discussion is over. How do you fast travel, I'm sure it's somewhere in the map functions, can't find it. This reminds me of Oblivion making dropping an item a secret you had to root through the manual to discover. Other observations : Why does my horse veer to the left making me have to correct its direction constantly. Why didn't they stick an icon next to your currently selected mode, high or low profile. The difference seems to be 2

Well a fan cooled system can be noiseless as well. Something I was wondering about though, where does all the tubing go, do you have part of the system hanging out the back of the case ?, that sounds pretty unwieldy. I have heard some reports about the fluid getting moldy over time. If you get a quality brand this shouldn't be a problem though. I'm sure I don't need to mention that if the thing springs a leak, that's all she wrote.

Yes, natural rather than synthetic.

If you do go with water cooling you will need a case that has rubber grommets, and you will be installing outside as well as inside the case, I really can't recommend this for anyone but enthusiasts, or as a way to solve a serious heating problem, but have we even identified that it is that serious yet. For case fans, depending on the case you have there is usually the option to install more, this is a more straightforward solution, the bigger fan the better as a big fan rotates slower and makes less noise. a new CPU cooler may be necessary as well, can't say until we know how hot is 'hot' And yes, house cleaning inside the computer, necessary once in a while, small fans and heatsinks get clogged with dust reducing their efficiency. I just use a fine haired brush, never did find anywhere here that sold those compressed air thingies.

Anyway post temperatures and specs. First quick test is to check the bios and see if there are any warnings. Components monitored by the board sometimes have an auto shutdown temp listed next to them, if this is reached the system will shut down to avoid damage to itself, the temperatures should obviously be a healthy margin from it.

I dunno, I guess the Chinese media will jump at anything, other than the glaring problems at home. They don't need to get the nod from above to rag on other countries.

Also, one can get too used to spellcheckers. Or maybe I'm addressing the asthmatic segment on these boards, you decide.

Heat will cause failures, but they may not be permanent. Poll the temperature of the motherboard and processor by going into the BIOS. 'Hot' is relative, it might be within limits still. This is a Zalman copper heatsink, it's quite asthmatically pleasing, but I don't recommend trying to build one yourself, copper loon.

You're are off by a 1000 years.

Or maybe he's Irish and got a tan.

I watched Beckham kick a ball and get cheered on like a superhero with some Pink Floyd has been. I think that was the wrap up party.

#1 was a terrible movie. I have no idea why they needed #2. What's next? Battlefield Earth 2? Yes, but the slave girls were hotter than in Conan the Barbarian

I have gotten 2 blue screens of death in reference to an ati.something something file. That kind of thing is almost invariably driver or bios related wouldn't you say. I'm going to install vista and run on it a while to see if it re occurs.

The Scorpion King 2#. Wow, that was really horrible, but I guess I knew that going in. Sometimes horrible movies turn out hilarious, like Anaconda, as a forinstance.

How much was your budget? Bearing in mind that we have a very high VAT and import costs it would probably be a lot less in the US, comparisons won't be accurate. I spent somewhere around 1400 USD, a whole lot of that went on the P190 case.

I would have gotten a HD4870 but it cost almost twice as much as my 4580 at the time due to shortages. It's about 20-25% faster, give or take. I still haven't played anything the single 4850 could'nt handle at high, or very high settings.

I have a question though, do ancient PCI cards fit in the new PCI express 2 motherboards, is it just a few slots that are PCI express or are there legacy options. We are about to shift from analog to digital broadcast format, it will happen sometime next year, and there still remains questions about what chip will be needed for reception, I have a PCI card with analog input signal and chips that are in all likelyhood incompatibe with furture broadcast formats. It would be smarter to wait till after the shift to buy a new one.

I tried lavasoft's free firewall, but it failed install. There is currently a zonealarm closed beta for 64 bit I read somewhere. Any thoughts ? Software firewalls really aren't one of the things I can afford to spend money on. I'm almost afraid to go anywhere using the included windows firewall.

I got Assassin's Creed and realized the controls were designed for console. I haven't got a controller, maybe I'll pick it up again when I do. Also the tutorial was needlessly lengthy, although I can't really say anything about the game as I haven't gotten into it.

Prebuilt systems often cut corners somewhere to save on purchase costs, on the other hand those that build them usually know more about the components than your average enthusiast. Just remember that whatever blurb they put next to it, 'media pc', 'gamer rig', etc, it means nothing, look at the specs and then research them a little, ask around.

There are warranties on the components, with some 'unless you's, granted.

Hellboy, the golden army. Pretty straigthforward action thingie. Lots of awesome designs and weird creatures. Suffers a bit from Hellboy looking goofy rather than cool. The dimensions are wrong, how can they be anything else when you try to stick Ron Pearlman in a hellboy suit. Abraham is cool though.