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Great :) Thanks lizard. Sounds perfect.

Thanks for your reply - I actually am referring to how much the compontents are using (in W) compared to how much is drawn from the mains (in W, not VA) when I talk about efficiency. This is important and not necessarily linked to how stable rails are etc. The reasons it is important are (a) the...

Well not quite - I have the article at home so am not looking at it right now. Note I am not trying to be critical of your magazine - I actually think it's the best new entry to the UK computer mag scene in a long long time. But from memory, in the summary table at the end of the article...

Isn't Custom PC the magazine that reviewed a load of PSUs and confused power factor with efficiency? (rating some PSUs with near 100% efficiency kind of stuck out like a sore thumb...) Perhaps this is learning from the feedback from that! (Should've talked to MikeC at Silent PC Review first :))...

What? Nothing from Matrox? Not interested then :P

Lalala - nothing to see here - please move on. Watch the tumbleweed go by. As MrGaribaldi suggests, the rumour mill is basically empty. Matrox would appear to have all but abandoned the consumer market and is concentrating on a few v. v. v. small niches. Their driver team also seems to have...

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As far as I've seen across the old infraweb, SPCR is the best resource for power supply reviews - and not just that but their regular forum members are generally pretty reliable too. Do a search over there for Taurus - plenty of results, eg...

Try a Seasonic Super Tornado/Silencer (just make sure that you get a "Rev A3" model - check with your supplier) - they are lovely and quiet. See http://www.silentpcreview.com/article28-page3.html I have one of the original A1s and I like it a lot. Seasonic also seem to be the leaders in...

Where's the "I haven't given up and don't intend to" option??? :)

25th May according to The Register, but only in limited quantities until late 2004: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/03/25/amd_socket_939_chip_launch/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/05/amd_90nm/ Gnep

3dLabs P20 multi card/chip solution?

Hey Dave - I was literally just now thinking of posting the exact same question over at MURC :) Would ideally like to build a new system around socket 939 and PCI Express... but if it's going to be > 6 months then might spend some money on the current rig instead. Gnep

Looks like you are talking about marginal cost, not total cost - ie you are not including any recouping of the R&D expenses to get the GPU as far as the fab.

What on earth has webber been eating? :)