Recent content by drG

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    1 cdrw, 1 cd, 1 hd, 2 ide channels: which 2 drives on 1 channel?

    I'd say HDD on one channel, opticals on the other. The thing to remember is that a channel is only going to be as fast as its slowest device so if you have a UDMA5 HDD on master & a PIO or UDMA2 optical on slave, the channel is going to run at PIO/UDMA2 speed.
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    Shuttle SN41G2: Power Supply Query

    :) you snuck in while I was in the middle of an edit. Quite a few folks seem to be running 9700's, dual hdds... in their xpcs with no probs though. btw, have you ever tried burning a bin/cue with your samsung combo drive, I'm on my second one now, first went back for vibration probs, & both...
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    Shuttle SN41G2: Power Supply Query

    Hi Fionavar, Here are the results of my fan mod benchmarks, not amd I know but should give you or others an idea anyways of XPC temps. First of all I ran some benchmarks, 3dmark, codecreatures & then 1.5hrs of Prime95 to get an idea of my temps @idle & then @load. Temps taken with MBM5.2.1 I...