The Prolimatech Samuel 17 *MIGHT* work for you. It uses a 120mm fan but it is designed to over hang the ram and other compoents. I've used this heatsink on 4 different ITX motherboards and it fits all of them. Depending on orientation, it will clear the PCIE slot.
Thanks for all the response guys. Even though the in-place upgrade seems relatively trouble free, the little quirks that you guys encountered doesn't quite sit well with me so I am going to do a clean install. Unless you have a 8.1 key you can't do a fresh install, it will only allow you to upgrade ...
For those of you that are using Windows 8.1, did you run the update or did a full install? I usually do a clean install when there is major update to windows. I already downloaded 8.1 and have ISO image made to be put onto my USB stick. Just not sure if I should do a clean install because I'm feelin...
It does makes things a *little* snappier while working but in the end, you are still bottlenecked by CPU, RAM and disk throughput. The biggest performance gain for me was using a SSD raid 0 array for my projects (for cache and assets). Is it worth upgrading from CS5.5 to CS6 for the caching feature ...
they definitely sent you the wrong card. tell newegg to give you a straight refund and have them to pay for the return shipping. the best way is to either call them or do the online chat.
WRT the ISK-300 I looked at that back in the day and thought "after a few iterations Antec will have a really nice design on their hands here." Then they stopped innovating entirely. Still not a bad case, but again only slim optical and cramped enough I might need to replace the 150W PSU ...
Wait. Are most SSD's 9mm? I will be doing a swap soon on a new pseudo ultrabook when I get paid. If it doesn't fit I can remove it from the case and install it? The Samsung's are 7mm. You should watch that 3rd link then. But remember, once you remove the casing, you void the warranty. If you have n...
I followed the youtube videos to install ram and ssd into my UX32VD as well. The screws are really tiny. I usually have a small plastic container for me to drop screws in while taking things apart. Another thing I do that has helped me in the past is get a camera ready and take pictures as you take ...
My respect for Newegg went up after reading this: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/01/how-newegg-crushed-the-shopping-cart-patent-and-saved-online-retail/ I am surprised that so many companies (with the exception of newegg) decided to settle with the patent troll. I can see how small companie...
$44 8 GiB PC3-12800 204-pin SODIMM Crucial CT3340957 (DDR3-1600, CAS 11, 1.35 V) laptop memory $5 or $13 Torx T5 screwdriver +1 that crucial memory is the one I have too. Make sure you get the same one as I tried a GSkill stick that runs in 1.5v results in the laptop running in single channel and a...
Cable internet identifies you via your mac address so they can know who is authorized to use their network. As much as I hate ComCrap, the only MAC address they care about for me is the addy in the modem. That's the way Cox works too. I was a little confused when he said that as I hadn't experience...
One other thing you can try is cloning the MAC address of the computer to the router. There is usually a setting somewhere in the router administration which will let you do this, or at least manually enter it. +1 Cable internet identifies you via your mac address so they can know who is authorized...
I got a Asus UX32VD a month ago. Absolutely love it! What sold me on it was the 1080p IPS screen. I upgraded the ram to 10gb and swap the HDD with SSD in there with a full clean install of windows 8. At stock, the 4gb ram and HDD was just not cutting it. However, with the ram and SSD upgrade, it was...
Considering the things people do with mirrors that don't leave a scratch (drugs, including pretty vigorous use of razor blades against powder and crystalline... substances), to scratch a mirror with a paste that's a suspension of diamond dust would be pretty impressive - either a Gorilla arm or a c...
What are you afraid of? I use IC Diamond in my desktop, PS3, and both laptops, so apparently nothing? I've re-applied it at one point or another in three of the four objects too. I haven't seen any damage other than harmless staining. I've also used the others you list. Albeit I would note that zin...
Tell that to my Thermalright Archon that used to have has a nicely polished, reflective base. Keep in mind, this heatsink went through 3 cpus and had AS5 and MX3 thermal paste at on point or another. I clean it the same way every time where I do horizontal wipes with a paper towel followed by kimtec...
I went with prolimatech pk1 after reading skineelabs reviews. Very easy to work with and easy to clean plus good performance. Stay away from ic diamond !!!!! I fell for the hype and the damn thermal paste scratch the heck out of my CPU heat spreader and the heatsink base. Not to mention it stains a...
I went with prolimatech pk1 after reading skineelabs reviews. Very easy to work with and easy to clean plus good performance. Stay away from ic diamond !!!!! I fell for the hype and the damn thermal paste scratch the heck out of my CPU heat spreader and the heatsink base. Not to mention it stains an...
manufacturers have lost the plot in the ridiculous chase of the thin and light form factor. The only victims are build quality, value for money, and battery life. I 100% agree with you. It also seems they want to capture every "price bracket" and end up with too many products. I can imagi...
Family used to own restaurants and they all used Zwilling J.A. Henckels gear. I love my Zwilling J.A. Henckels knives. But be sure to get the quality ones because they do make some lower end / lower priced models that are not so great.
I recently got a Lenovo Yoga 13" and posted this mini review over at Lenovo's forums. I thought some of you gerbils might be interested in this aswell. I hope a few of you out there will fine this information useful. I got my Yoga 13, Orange, 8gb ram and 256gb SSD on Monday the 17th. I also ord...
I had this same "perpetual spinning up" problem... Hmm well I've had these drives in RAID 1 for over a year with no problems whatsoever. This happened as soon as I upgraded to Windows 8. Exactly same thing happened to my 8x 2TB Samsung F4 RAID 6 Array. Powers down fine for the first year....
Windows 7 and 8 understand SSDs well enough to issue the necessary TRIM commands, so you don't need to worry about it. TRIM lets your SSD controller handle wear leveling and sectors with garbage/stale data. A secure erase operation is effectively like TRIM for the whole SSD, but a little more compr...
I had this same "perpetual spinning up" problem with my 8x 2tb Samsung F4 array as well (this is with areca hardware raid). I solve it by setting "turn off hard disk after" to "never" in the windows control panel -> power options settings. It seems either the F4 have tr...
I was too looking for a laptop at the $800 price range but maybe is my old age, lugging a 5lb laptop is not too comfortable for me. It seems anything at that price range seems to weigh a little too much for my shoulder. The closest candidate on my list was the dell laptops and the Vizio thin an ligh...
Congrats on your purchase! I'm sure your friend will love the monitor. I hopped on the $1049 deal for the U3011 for my sister. Yes there are rumors that the U2413 and a U3013 will come out in March. But i'm sure you won't be seeing the new models with the deals that is going on now. For those that a...
NAS4Free is just a branch from the 7.0 line of FreeNAS. I'm surprised it uses ZFS now because that was the main reason for the split from what I understand. There are a handful of linux/bsd based NAS systems out there - FreeNAS, NAS4Free, Nexenta, OpenFiler, and several others. It might be a good i...