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5.56x45mm NATO From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 5.56mm NATO versus .223 Remington The 5.56 mm NATO and .223 Remington cartridges and chamberings are similar but not identical. Military cases are generally made from thicker brass than commercial cases; this reduces the powder capacity...

"Err...so is it 5.56 or .223? Title says .223 but the engraving says 5.56. (If you have no idea why I'm asking, read up on SAAMI) " 5.56 is in millimeters and .223 is the old USA standard. They are both the same.

I'm building a digital video recorder for a home security system. The capture card is rated at 120 frames per second and runs four 480 tv line color cameras, which can be stored in several different formats. My question is, what's the best processor(s) for this application? Since the system...

Did it let out any of that magic smoke? :Q Once the magic smoke is gone out of any electrical part, it's fried! Just can't find a way to get it back in.:disgust:

Maybe the same problem the P4 crowd sometimes has......Bad power supply? Since the new CPU may ask for more power than the older one, it is possible you are having greater demand than PSU trunks can supply. :Q I have a friend who exchanged processors, unplugged fans, spare drives, ect., only to...

I bought this yesterday and it's not a bad camera. Colors are vivid, pics are sharp. It's an ok camera if you are only going to shoot 4 x 6 pics for the computer album. A big plus is not caring if I loose it or it breaks in a year because the price was right. If I want to do something to...

Check the vendor before you buy and save trouble Reseller Rating All Home Electronics Most recent ratings of which there are 2, are bad! One mentions they are an outfit called sharperdigital.com Reseller Rating for SharperDigital.com Seems like the price is too good to be true.

Wow...You're really borderline in the Watt department. I can only advise you to live in the present but buy for the future. Which is why I have a Antec TruPower 550W unit. My little 2.5Ghz burns 61 watts alone. So if within a couple of years if you think you'll upgrade this server, buy the...

So put an 80mm Panaflo in place of what is currently on your PSU, Tape off the front like Blain stated and rid yourself of that fan. A 120mm stealth fan generates 28db while giving 53 CFM's. Not bad. Rid yourself of that highspeed, whining 60mm fan on the heatsink and replace it with a stealth...

:Q You really think so? Here's a quote from my ASUS P4B533 -E user manual Notice it says minimum! Granted, mikecel79 does not have this board, but he is feeding two CPU's, 2 HD's, A NIC card and a cdrom. Looking to the future, SCSI (another card maybe?) a new CDR or DVD-RW. Sooner or later...

Unplug any fans attached to the Motherboard and run them off the four connectors on the PSU. Too many fans draw an excessive amount of power leading to sporatic reboots. It was a real bear to find it on my system. In my qwest for a cleaner interior, the board mount three pin connetors seemed to...

With a setup like yours, why are you getting just a 400 watt PSU? If you ever upgrade to one of the new feature rich boards, with LAN, RAID, Sound, ect, the minimum requirement for just the board and HD will be 300 watts. You also indicate it'll be on 24/7, have SCSI, an active RAID(2 Drives?)at...

A quiet 120mm blow hole located above the CPU seems to be the best cooling answer. It's tuff to cut a new case, but from a cooling perspective, well worth it.

I agree with Blain. Buy a 120mm quiet fan, use the fan guard as a template, and a sabre saw with a metal cutting blade to create the blow hole. The fan guard can also be used as a template to drill the attachment holes. Blain told you where to place it so go for it!!:D

Oh, by the way, on page 2-29 of the ASUS P4B533-E user guide, it states that a 300 watt PSU is the MINIMUM PSU on a fully configered system.