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Yeah, a Vindicator or a Tuniq Tower would fit. Personally, I'd go with the Vindicator cooler, since it's easy to replace the fan, or swap it with a different one if you're feeling adventurous. The sound damping of the P182 damps some of the noise, but it can't make a noisy CPU or graphics card...

If you like the look of it, then okay, but it's not as feature-rich as the Antec P182 or Cooler Master 690 cases.

Hi, guy. The only thing I think I'd change if I had the opportunity is that I'd reverse the fans on the top radiator so they're sucking air from the radiator and blowing it out the top of the case. I don't know if it would make a difference, but warm air naturally rises, so you'd be drawing...

This is really a fantastic review - and the loads of comparison data make it even better. Way to go, Rob!

I'd also look to the new ATI Radeon 2950 Pro or XT cards. From what I hear, G92 is having issues, not limited to heat and overclockability. By contrast, the Radeon HD2950 cards are based on the new RV670 GPU, which is a 55nm unit that threatens to take the performance crown away from RV600-based...

That's the only beef I have with all the FreeAgent hard drives - they don't open up well. I'm interested to know how you disassembled yours. The hard drive itself should be perfectly fine - I'd say the chances for recovering your data are good. Really, if you had sent the drive to Seagate for...

Thanks for stopping by. I think that for silence, you'd actually be hard-pressed to beat the Antec P182. I know that option wasn't on your list, but it was designed from the ground-up for silence, with input from the gentleman who runs SilentPCReview.com. It's a fantastic case, and very...

Well, we're looking at the second week of October now, and no news is definitely bad news for this hotly anticipated product.

Thanks for writing. I'm already aware of the 5V and 7V mods for slowing down case fans. I actually use an MCubed TBalancer BigNG in my main rig, which is a microprocessor-controlled, software-programmable fan control unit. In my last machine, I ran three 80mm Panaflo low-speed fans at 5 volts by...

Except for the fact that we have a grand total of, uh, ZERO product reviews of Creative products. You'd think if we were buddy-buddy, they could at least pony up a few samples.

Ok, so we figured out what's going on: None of the official Gigabyte BIOS releases available from their web site contain the voltage adjustments, but there is a modified BIOS (based on revision F3A) floating around that adds that functionality. Not like it will matter, however - we were only...

I think the satellite speaker wires are about 15 feet long. Also, the volume control on the speakers only controls what is fed to the internal 'preamp' stage of the speakers' electronics - it's simply configuring the headphone jack as a 'passthrough' when you plug in a set of headphones. This...

I wouldn't say that all my stuff was absolute crap, (for only $150, the Cambridge Soundworks MicroWorks have an incredibly 'hi-fi' sound) but I have considered purchasing a pair of small 'studio monitors' for review purposes. I'm actually working on a design for some 8" two-way speakers using a...

We're looking into this. We used the same methods HardOCP used, but with one of the new AMD Athlon BE-2300 CPUs (65nm, 45W TDP), and we can't see any of these voltage options. We suspect it's because of the CPU being used - the voltage options may not be available for CPUs that request a voltage...

Hey, Buck-o, I really appreciate the compliment, especially coming from you. After my first sound card review (the Razer Barracuda AC-1), I really tried hard to iron out the bugs I encountered the first time around. Re: Bioshock, I'm not too interested in letting it loose on any of my PCs...

What speakers/headphones and electronics were used in the listening tests?

If it isn't a PlaysForSure player, then I'm not interested. Microsoft chose to duplicate the very worst aspect of the iPod by tying the Zune player to the Zune online store.

Hearing the static doesn't mean your speakers are properly connected - noise can also be injected in the electronic section of the speakers themselves. However, it sounds like your problem is worse. I know someone who has had nothing but trouble with that motherboard. The next step is to check...

AMDZone managed to overclock the new Athlon 64 X2 5000+ Black Edition to 3.3GHz on air-cooling, and it smokes both an Athlon 64 X2 6000+ and a FX-62 in testing: See it do it.

Hello, John. When I reviewed the Seagate FreeAgent Pro hard drive, I did not see any easy way of taking apart the drive. I think there may be a single screw on the bottom of the unit that separates the base from the drive enclosure, and this might allow the two halves of the upper shell to be...