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Anyone know of a place that sells Noctua fans by the case or in bulk? I need about 16 and it would be nice if I could find somewhere that did a bulk discount.

When doing borosilicate glass tubing for a hard line system, is there any particular reason to buy it from PC specific water cooling manufacturers like alphacool or mayhem? It seems like all the tubing offered by the standard water cooling manufacturers is about 3x as expensive or more as buying...

So I have an Areca 1880-ix-12 raid card with a RAID 6 setup. I was using Hitachi 7k3000 7200 RPM 2TB drives however it seems recently with the Western Digital Acquisition of Hitatchi availability has decreased and price has increased, it appears they they are now marketed as Enterprise level...

I put together a new build and all the parts came (except for the cpu, which ups lists as coming tomorrow) and it dawned on that my chosen heatsink will not fit inside my chosen case. Hence I need help picking out a new heatsink. Build is an intel i7-3930k, Asus Rampage 4, with 16 gigs of...

Has anyone found a good solution for mounting things other then cd/dvd drives in the 5.25 bays on the norco 4216?

So I just ordered a new Silverstone LC13B-E for a media box and saw that silverstone offers Rackmount tabs for most of their htpc cases which would be awesome as I have a rack under my TV. It appears that the cases have the holes for the tabs drilled, but when I was looking at the pictures I...

Was there a stealth patch on Thursday or Friday of last week for Batman AC? My game was working fine until I tried to play it on Friday, now it runs like absolute shit. A friend of mine had the same issue. I can't find any documentation of a patch over steam, however I find it exceedingly...

Last week I was playing Batman:AC in DX9 mode with great FPS. Everything was smooth and ran well with all settings on high (with the exception of the DX11 settings). I booted up the game yesterday and today and now my performance is absolute shit. Instead of getting 50-70fps I get 10-15FPS in...

On my main rig I run 3 monitors (Dell 3008WFP, LG E2241 and an Acer 19" something). These are connected to video cards (an AMD 6870 and a ATI 3650). My usual setup is the 3008WFP is my main display and connected the the 6870 and the other two are connected to the 3650. The Issue I am having...

So I have been trying and failing to install Windows 7 SP1. Every time I try to install it I get the error: The value of an attribute in an identity is not within the legal range. Error: ERROR_SXS_INVALID_IDENTITY_ATTRIBUTE_VALUE(0x8007370a) Microsoft recommends installing the system...

They released a cool trailer and did some promo work promising free Mechwarrior 4 back around 2009, but I have not heard anything since then. Does anyone know what happened to the game?

Looks like the case was resolved in some manner or another, who knows if we will ever find out the details of the settlement. Link

Let me start off by saying I know there are a couple other crysis threads like the "official crysis 2 thread" however as they are focused on entirely on a few issues such as lack of graphics options, lack of prone and lack of directx 11 I thought I would write up a review that actually tried to...

Looks like Geohot has packed his bags and headed for south America. Sony was also able to provide evidence that he did in fact agree to the PSN network agreement though. Article link: here

Does anyone know a good call recording app for the iphone? I have "record" by Retronyms but it requires a 3rd party service with additional cost based on usage. It seems like it should be possible to record everything on the phone side as the phone already has to output the audio to the speaker...

While still a couple years off a least for the consumer market intel is doing research into cloud based solutions for ray traced gaming. I thought it was quite interesting also the fact that they are able to get realtime working at all even if it is only 20-35fps on a workstation as opposed to a...

So my graphics card died and I had to get a new one a little while back but at the time the 6970s and 6950s were not out so I picked up a 6870. I am finding I want a little more umph for running stuff at 2560x1600 so I was wondering how performance would be with 2x 6870s compared to 1x 6970? The...

It seems like a good portion of console games have a "press start" screen prior to the menu screen. I've noticed this on everything from Assassins Creed to Mirror's Edge to Bulletstorm to Crysis 2. Is there a technical reason games need that, it always seemed like an extraneous step to me. the...

So I have 4x 1.5TB drives (all 7200RPM, 32MB cach, mixed manufactuers) That I have plugged in right now. 1 has the operating system on it and some games, the others have various non important data. Would there be any reason to put these into a raid configuration? What kind of speed...

Thread title pretty much says it all. How many displays do you think you could use effectively at home? How many could you use for work? At home I can use 3. I tried hooking up a 4th and it got very little use. At work I wish I had 6. I generally have about 6 different code files open and a...

It used to be fairly generally accepted that lag was network latency related. This makes sense in the context of the definition of the word. Because you have a higher latency there is a delay before things happen for you...you are lagging behind everyone else. As time has progressed and...

So I was thinking about the cost of DLC, specifically activision COD DLC (although it applies elsewhere as well) today and I had an interesting thought. How much would games cost if they had the same pricing scheme as map packs? So I broke it down: Acitivisions last couple map packs have...

What does everyone use these days for monitoring CPU temps? I used to use motherboard monitor back in the day, but that has not been updated in years. I would welcome other suggestions.

I know performance with Areca cards and the hitachi 7k2000 (HDS722020ALA330 ) drives has been discussed to death with general consensus being that they perform great. Has anyone done testing witht he 7k3000 drives (HDS723020BLA642)? My feeling would be that they would just be updated versions of...

So I have my PC plugged into a Receiver (Onkyo SR506) via fiber optic cable from the standard motherboard integrated sound card. My question is why games don't support surround sound over this connection. I understand that some PC games don't have digital encoding for surround sound, but what...

Is it possible to connect a standard 360 hard drive to a 360 slim...without voiding the warranty?

I was going to buy the hard drives for my raid setup today but I ran into a little snag. I was originally looking at the Hitachi 2Tb HDS722020ALA330 owned by many people here but they seem to be out of stock at newegg, amazon and zipzoomfly I thought I would look at my other options. Does...

So I have been looking into getting raid setup for quite a while and spent a good deal of time reading the [H] forums to get an idea of what to get, but I was hoping to get feedback on what I have chosen before I actually buy it. What I am looking at is a Areca 1880ix -12 raid card with 4x...

Selling my XP-M system to fund an upgrade. System is as Follows: Motherboard: Asus A7n8x-e Deluxe CPU: XP-M Barton 2500+ Video Card: BB ATI Radeon 9800 Pro: R350 Core (ATItool Max Speed 425) : Ram Samsung K4D26328E-GC2A (ATItool max speed 385 [one of the better RAM clocks ive seen on stock...